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Overview

W. Allen Hauser is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and focuses primarily on research in the field of medicine. Within this broad domain, their work spans several subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, pathology and forensic medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, and infectious diseases.

Their research topics include epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, parasitic infections in humans and animals, pregnancy and medication impact, infectious encephalopathies and encephalitis, parasites and host interactions, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Hauser has been published in a number of scientific journals with a concentration in a few key venues. Frequent publication venues include Seizure, Neurology, Epilepsia, Parasitology, and Frontiers in Neurology.

Their recent papers of note include:

  • New understanding about the relationship among neurocysticercosis, seizures, and epilepsy (2021, Seizure)
  • Post-stroke seizures, epilepsy, and mortality in a prospective hospital-based study (2023, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • Post-stroke epilepsy: From clinical predictors to possible mechanisms (2023, Epilepsy Research)
  • Ascertainment of malformations in pregnancy registries: Lessons learned in the North American AED Pregnancy Registry (2023, Birth Defects Research)
  • A multistate joint model for interval-censored event-history data subject to within-unit clustering and informative missingness, with application to neurocysticercosis research (2020, Statistics in Medicine)

Hauser regularly collaborates with several frequent co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary and collaborative research efforts. These include Arturo Carpio, Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Flora Rider, Alla Guekht, and Hongbin Zhang.

Best Publications

  • Definition of drug resistant epilepsy: consensus proposal by the ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies.

    Patrick Kwan;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Anne T. Berg;Martin J. Brodie

  • Epileptic seizures and epilepsy : Definitions proposed by the international league against epilepsy (ILAE) and the international bureau for epilepsy (IBE)

    Ettore Beghi;Anne Berg;Arturo Carpio;Lars Forsgren

  • Incidence of Epilepsy and Unprovoked Seizures in Rochester, Minnesota: 1935–1984

    W A Hauser;J F Annegers;L T Kurland

  • The epidemiology of traumatic brain injury: a review.

    John Bruns;John Bruns;W. Allen Hauser

  • A prospective, population-based epidemiologic study of status epilepticus in Richmond, Virginia

    R.J. DeLorenzo;W. A. Hauser;A. R. Towne;J. G. Boggs

  • Prevalence of epilepsy in Rochester, Minnesota: 1940-1980.

    W. Allen Hauser;John F. Annegers;Leonard T. Kurland

  • The descriptive epidemiology of epilepsy-a review.

    Poonam Nina Banerjee;David Filippi;W. Allen Hauser

  • Standards for epidemiologic studies and surveillance of epilepsy

    David J. Thurman;Ettore Beghi;Charles E. Begley;Anne T. Berg;Anne T. Berg

  • Recommendation for a definition of acute symptomatic seizure

    Ettore Beghi;Arturo Carpio;Lars Forsgren;Dale C. Hesdorffer

  • Epilepsy: Frequency Causes and Consequences

    W. Allen Hauser;Dale C. Hesdorffer

  • Epidemiology of the epilepsies.

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

  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Epilepsy: Contributions of Population-Based Studies From Rochester, Minnesota

    W A Hauser;J F Annegers;W A Rocca

  • Factors Prognostic of Unprovoked Seizures after Febrile Convulsions

    J F Annegers;W A Hauser;S B Shirts;L T Kurland

  • Remission of seizures and relapse in patients with epilepsy.

    John F. Annegers;W. Allen Hauser;Lila R. Elveback

  • The Protective Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption on Ischemic Stroke

    Sacco Rl;Elkind M;Boden-Albala B;Lin If

  • Mutations in LGI1 cause autosomal-dominant partial epilepsy with auditory features.

    Sergey Kalachikov;Oleg Evgrafov;Barbara Ross;Melodie Winawer

  • Comparative safety of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy

    S. Hernández-Díaz;C.R. Smith;A. Shen;R. Mittendorf

  • Incidence and predictors of seizures in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

    Joan C. Amatniek;W. Allen Hauser;Carrie DelCastillo-Castaneda;Diane M. Jacobs

  • Depression and suicide attempt as risk factors for incident unprovoked seizures.

    Dale C. Hesdorffer;W. Allen Hauser;Elias Olafsson;Petur Ludvigsson

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

    Selim R. Benbadis;W. Allen Hauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale C. Hesdorffer
Dale C. Hesdorffer Columbia University
Ruth Ottman
Ruth Ottman Columbia University
John F. Annegers
John F. Annegers The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
David J. Thurman
David J. Thurman Emory University
Anne T. Berg
Anne T. Berg Northwestern University
Howard Andrews
Howard Andrews Columbia University
Timothy A. Pedley
Timothy A. Pedley Columbia University
Ettore Beghi
Ettore Beghi Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Shlomo Shinnar
Shlomo Shinnar Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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