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Sylvain Rheims publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sylvain Rheims sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 200 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sylvain Rheims D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sylvain Rheims sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sylvain Rheims is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research portfolio includes a significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Neurology.

The main areas of study addressed in Rheims' work involve Epilepsy research and treatment, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Frequently publishing in scientific journals, Rheims has multiple papers in these venues:

  • Epilepsia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Revue Neurologique
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Neurology

Some of Rheims' recent significant papers include:

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Neural mechanisms resolving exploitation-exploration dilemmas in the medial prefrontal cortex (2020, Science)
  • Four core properties of the human brain valuation system demonstrated in intracranial signals (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies: recognition and approaches to care (2021, Epileptic Disorders)
  • Clinical Management of Drug Resistant Epilepsy: A Review on Current Strategies (2021, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment)

Collaborations with other researchers form a notable part of Rheims' scholarly activity. Frequent co-authors include Philippe Ryvlin, Hélène Catenoix, Philippe Kahane, Fabricē Bartolomei, and Marc Guénot, with multiple joint publications reflecting their interconnected research efforts.

Rheims' work displays a strong interdisciplinary approach, combining various subfields of neuroscience and medicine to address complex neurological disorders, particularly epilepsy. This comprehensive focus encompasses both clinical and basic science perspectives, analyzing neural mechanisms and treatment outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Incidence and mechanisms of cardiorespiratory arrests in epilepsy monitoring units (MORTEMUS): A retrospective study

    Philippe Ryvlin;Lina Nashef;Samden D Lhatoo;Lisa M Bateman

  • Amyloid β-Induced Neuronal Hyperexcitability Triggers Progressive Epilepsy

    Rimante Minkeviciene;Sylvain Rheims;Marton B Dobszay;Misha Zilberter

  • Epilepsy surgery in children and adults

    Philippe Ryvlin;Philippe Ryvlin;Philippe Ryvlin;J Helen Cross;Sylvain Rheims;Sylvain Rheims

  • Risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in patients given adjunctive antiepileptic treatment for refractory seizures: a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomised trials

    Philippe Ryvlin;Michel Cucherat;Sylvain Rheims

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

    Herm J Lamberink;Willem M Otte;Ingmar Blümcke;Kees P J Braun

  • Nocturnal Hypermotor Seizures, Suggesting Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Can Originate in the Insula

    Philippe Ryvlin;Lorella Minotti;Geneviève Demarquay;Edouard Hirsch

  • Neuromodulation in epilepsy: state-of-the-art approved therapies.

    Philippe Ryvlin;Sylvain Rheims;Lawrence J Hirsch;Arseny Sokolov

  • Temporal plus epilepsy is a major determinant of temporal lobe surgery failures

    Carmen Barba;Sylvain Rheims;Sylvain Rheims;Lorella Minotti;Marc Guénot

  • Factors determining response to antiepileptic drugs in randomized controlled trials. A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Sylvain Rheims;Emilio Perucca;Michel Cucherat;Philippe Ryvlin

  • Greater response to placebo in children than in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis in drug-resistant partial epilepsy.

    Sylvain Rheims;Sylvain Rheims;Michel Cucherat;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Philippe Ryvlin;Philippe Ryvlin

  • Stereo electroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (SEEG-guided RF-TC) in drug-resistant focal epilepsy: Results from a 10-year experience.

    Pierre Bourdillon;Jean Isnard;Hélène Catenoix;Alexandra Montavont

  • Analysis of clinical patterns and underlying epileptogenic zones of hypermotor seizures

    Sylvain Rheims;Philippe Ryvlin;Philippe Ryvlin;Clarisse Scherer;Lorella Minotti

  • European trends in epilepsy surgery

    Maxime Olivier Baud;Thomas Perneger;Attila Rácz;Max C. Pensel

  • Neural mechanisms resolving exploitation-exploration dilemmas in the medial prefrontal cortex

    Philippe Domenech;Philippe Domenech;Philippe Domenech;Sylvain Rheims;Sylvain Rheims;Etienne Koechlin;Etienne Koechlin;Etienne Koechlin

  • Probabilistic functional tractography of the human cortex revisited.

    Lena Trebaul;Pierre Deman;Viateur Tuyisenge;Maciej Jedynak

  • Excitatory GABA in Rodent Developing Neocortex In Vitro

    Sylvain Rheims;Marat Minlebaev;Anton Ivanov;Alfonso Represa

  • Postnatal changes in somatic gamma-aminobutyric acid signalling in the rat hippocampus.

    Roman Tyzio;Marat Minlebaev;Sylvain Rheims;Anton Ivanov

  • How the insula speaks to the heart: Cardiac responses to insular stimulation in humans.

    Florian Chouchou;François Mauguière;Ophélie Vallayer;Hélène Catenoix

  • Clinical Management of Drug Resistant Epilepsy: A Review on Current Strategies.

    Deborah Guery;Sylvain Rheims

  • Risk factors of postictal generalized EEG suppression in generalized convulsive seizures.

    Veriano Alexandre;Blanca Mercedes;Luc Valton;Louis Maillard

  • GABA action in immature neocortical neurons directly depends on the availability of ketone bodies.

    Sylvain Rheims;Carl D. Holmgren;Genevieve Chazal;Jan Mulder

  • Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

    Philippe Ryvlin;Sylvain Rheims;Gail Risse

  • Author response: fMRI reveals neural activity overlap between adult and infant pain

    Sezgi Goksan;Caroline Hartley;Faith Emery;Naomi Cockrill

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Ryvlin
Philippe Ryvlin University Hospital of Lausanne
Marc Guénot
Marc Guénot Hôpital Édouard-Herriot
Jean Isnard
Jean Isnard Hospices Civils de Lyon
François Mauguière
François Mauguière Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Philippe Kahane
Philippe Kahane Grenoble Alpes University
Fabrice Bartolomei
Fabrice Bartolomei Aix-Marseille University
Alexis Arzimanoglou
Alexis Arzimanoglou Hospital San Juan de Dios
Louis Maillard
Louis Maillard University of Lorraine
Edouard Hirsch
Edouard Hirsch University of Strasbourg

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