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Selim R. Benbadis is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on epilepsy research and treatment, with additional work in EEG and brain-computer interfaces, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, and neurological disorders and treatments.

They have published a significant number of papers in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Neurology
  • Epilepsy & Behavior Reports
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Epileptic Disorders

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Selim R. Benbadis are:

  • "Assessment of the Predictive Value of Outpatient Smartphone Videos for Diagnosis of Epileptic Seizures," 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • "The role of EEG in patients with suspected epilepsy," 2020, Epileptic Disorders
  • "Value of smartphone videos for diagnosis of seizures: Everyone owns half an epilepsy monitoring unit," 2021, Epilepsia
  • "Normal variants and artifacts: Importance in EEG interpretation," 2023, Epileptic Disorders
  • "Efficacy and Safety of XEN1101, a Novel Potassium Channel Opener, in Adults With Focal Epilepsy," 2023, JAMA Neurology

Selim R. Benbadis collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ushtar Amin
  • William O. Tatum
  • Fábio A. Nascimento
  • Sándor Beniczky
  • M. Brandon Westover

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within subfields, their work spans:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Neurology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Determination of language dominance using functional MRI A comparison with the Wada test

    J. R. Binder;S. J. Swanson;T. A. Hammeke;G. L. Morris

  • Cannabidiol in patients with seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (GWPCARE4): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial

    Elizabeth A Thiele;Eric D Marsh;Jacqueline A French;Maria Mazurkiewicz-Beldzinska

  • Semiological Seizure Classification

    H. Lüders;Jayant Acharya;C. Baumgartner;S. Benbadis

  • The consequences of refractory epilepsy and its treatment

    Kenneth D. Laxer;Eugen Trinka;Lawrence J. Hirsch;Fernando Cendes

  • An estimate of the prevalence of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

    Selim R. Benbadis;W. Allen Hauser

  • How many patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures also have epilepsy

    Selim R. Benbadis;Vikas Agrawal;William O. Tatum

  • Outcome of prolonged video-EEG monitoring at a typical referral epilepsy center.

    Selim R. Benbadis;Edward O'Neill;William O. Tatum;Leanne Heriaud

  • Overintepretation of EEGs and misdiagnosis of epilepsy.

    Selim R Benbadis;William O Tatum

  • Association between the Epworth sleepiness scale and the multiple sleep latency test in a clinical population.

    Selim R. Benbadis;Selim R. Benbadis;Edward J. Mascha;Michael C. Perry;Barbara R. Wolgamuth

  • Handbook of EEG Interpretation

    Peter W. Kaplan;Selim Benbadis;Aatif Husain;William O. Tatum

  • Epileptic seizures and syndromes.

    Selim R. Benbadis

  • Psychiatric features of children and adolescents with pseudoseizures.

    Elaine Wyllie;John P. Glazer;Selim Benbadis;Prakash Kotagal

  • Interrater reliability of EEG-video monitoring

    S. R. Benbadis;W. C. LaFrance;G. D. Papandonatos;K. Korabathina

  • Errors in EEG Interpretation and Misdiagnosis of Epilepsy

    Selim R. Benbadis;Kaiwen Lin

  • Outpatient seizure identification: results of 502 patients using computer-assisted ambulatory EEG.

    William O. Tatum;Lara Winters;Maria Gieron;Erasmo A. Passaro

  • Laser ablation therapy: An alternative treatment for medically resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy after age 50.

    Hena Waseem;Katie E. Osborn;Mike R. Schoenberg;Valerie Kelley

  • Avoiding the costs of unrecognized psychological nonepileptic seizures

    W. Curt LaFrance;Selim R. Benbadis

  • The differential diagnosis of epilepsy: a critical review.

    S. Benbadis

  • Automatic Vagus Nerve Stimulation Triggered by Ictal Tachycardia: Clinical Outcomes and Device Performance - The U.S. E-37 Trial

    Robert S. Fisher;Pegah Afra;Micheal Macken;Daniela N. Minecan

  • Value of Tongue Biting in the Diagnosis of Seizures

    Selim R. Benbadis;Barbara R. Wolgamuth;Hershel Goren;Sorin Brener

  • Vagus nerve stimulation and drug reduction

    William O. Tatum;K. D. Johnson;S. Goff;J. A. Ferreira

  • How many patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures also have epilepsy? Author's reply

    W. Curt Lafrance;Selim R. Benbadis

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando L. Vale
Fernando L. Vale Augusta University
William O. Tatum
William O. Tatum Mayo Clinic
Hans Lüders
Hans Lüders Case Western Reserve University
Dudley S. Dinner
Dudley S. Dinner Cleveland Clinic
W. Curt LaFrance
W. Curt LaFrance Brown University
Felix Rosenow
Felix Rosenow Goethe University Frankfurt
Soheyl Noachtar
Soheyl Noachtar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hajo M. Hamer
Hajo M. Hamer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hans Holthausen
Hans Holthausen Bethel University
Andrew Bleasel
Andrew Bleasel University of Sydney

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