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Simon Shorvon is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The scientist's work includes contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as well.

The main topics covered in Shorvon's research include epilepsy research and treatment, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments, and neurology with historical studies. Additional areas of investigation involve EEG and brain-computer interfaces, electroconvulsive therapy studies, and takotsubo cardiomyopathy and associated phenomena.

Simon Shorvon has authored multiple papers in various academic journals. Recent publications are:

  • Diagnosis and management of status epilepticus: improving the status quo, 2024, The Lancet Neurology
  • Catatonia and epilepsy: An underappreciated relationship, 2024, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Kohlschütter-Tönz Syndrome: Mutations in ROGDI and Evidence of Genetic Heterogeneity, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • The enigmatic figure of Leon Pierce Clark and his contribution to epilepsy, 2022, Epilepsia Open
  • Is NORSE a meaningful clinical entity?, 2023, Epilepsy & Behavior

Frequent co-authors in Shorvon's body of work include Jennifer V. Gettings, Fatemeh Mohammad Alizadeh Chafjiri, Archana A. Patel, Howard P. Goodkin, and Tobias Loddenkemper.

Shorvon's research outputs have appeared notably in the following publication venues:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Brain
  • The Lancet Neurology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Epilepsia Open

In addition to journal articles, Simon Shorvon has contributed to book publications. Noteworthy is a title published by Cambridge University Press named The Idea of Epilepsy (2023).

Best Publications

  • A Definition and Classification of Status epilepticus--Report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus

    Eugen Trinka;Hannah Cock;Dale Hesdorffer;Andrea O. Rossetti

  • The incidence and lifetime prevalence of neurological disorders in a prospective community-based study in the UK

    B. K. MacDonald;O. C. Cockerell;J. W. A. S. Sander;S. D. Shorvon

  • Epidemiology of the epilepsies.

    J. W. A. S. Sander;S. D. Shorvon

  • The treatment of super-refractory status epilepticus: a critical review of available therapies and a clinical treatment protocol

    Simon Shorvon;Monica Ferlisi

  • Abnormalities of gyration, heterotopias, tuberous sclerosis, focal cortical dysplasia, microdysgenesis, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour and dysgenesis of the archicortex in epilepsy: Clinical, EEG and neuroimaging features in 100 adult patients

    A. A. Raymond;D. R. Fish;S. M. Sisodiya;N. Alsanjari

  • The treatment of epilepsy

    Simon Shorvon;Emilio Perucca;Jerome Engel

  • Multicenter Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Levetiracetam as Add-On Therapy in Patients with Refractory Partial Seizures

    Simon D. Shorvon;Armand Löwenthal;Dieter Janz;Edith Bielen

  • Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy

    Simon Shorvon;Torbjorn Tomson;Torbjorn Tomson

  • Hippocampal volumetric and morphometric studies in frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy

    M. J. Cook;D. R. Fish;S. D. Shorvon;K. Straughan

  • EFNS Guideline on the Management of Status Epilepticus in Adults

    H Meierkord;Paul Boon;B Engelsen;B Engelsen;K Gocke

  • NATIONAL GENERAL-PRACTICE STUDY OF EPILEPSY - NEWLY DIAGNOSED EPILEPTIC SEIZURES IN A GENERAL-POPULATION

    J. W. A. S. Sander;Y. M. Hart;A. L. Johnson;S. D. Shorvon

  • Age-specific incidence and prevalence rates of treated epilepsy in an unselected population of 2 052 922 and age-specific fertility rates of women with epilepsy

    H Wallace;S Shorvon;R Tallis

  • Status Epilepticus: Its Clinical Features and Treatment in Children and Adults

    Simon Shorvon

  • The outcome of therapies in refractory and super-refractory convulsive status epilepticus and recommendations for therapy.

    Simon Shorvon;Monica Ferlisi

  • MORTALITY FROM EPILEPSY - RESULTS FROM A PROSPECTIVE POPULATION-BASED STUDY

    O.C Cockerell;Y.M Hart;J.W.A.S Sander;D.M.G Goodridge

  • Remission of epilepsy: results from the National General Practice Study of Epilepsy

    O.C. Cockerell;J.W.A.S. Sander;Y.M. Hart;S.D. Shorvon

  • Apnoea and bradycardia during epileptic seizures: relation to sudden death in epilepsy.

    L. Nashef;F. Walker;P. Allen;J. W. A. S. Sander

  • The clinical features and prognosis of pseudoseizures diagnosed using video‐EEG telemetry

    H Meierkord;B Will;D Fish;S Shorvon

  • Results of treatment changes in patients with apparently drug-resistant chronic epilepsy

    Anna L. Luciano;Simon D. Shorvon

  • Genetic predictors of the maximum doses patients receive during clinical use of the anti-epileptic drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin

    Sarah K. Tate;Chantal Depondt;Sanjay M. Sisodiya;Gianpiero L. Cavalleri

Frequent Co-Authors

Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander University College London
David R. Fish
David R. Fish University College London
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Samantha L. Free
Samantha L. Free University College London
Matthew C. Walker
Matthew C. Walker University College London
Steven C. Schachter
Steven C. Schachter Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sanjay M. Sisodiya
Sanjay M. Sisodiya University College London
Gail S. Bell
Gail S. Bell University College London
Eugen Trinka
Eugen Trinka Paracelsus Medical University
Mark J. Cook
Mark J. Cook University of Melbourne

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