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W. Curt LaFrance

W. Curt LaFrance

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
13027
World Ranking
4152
National Ranking
1880

Overview

W. Curt LaFrance is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has a significant body of research primarily focused on medicine, with a specialization in psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health and psychiatry, epilepsy research and treatment, as well as traumatic brain injury research. Other research interests include neurology and historical studies, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and functional brain connectivity studies.

LaFrance's recent published papers include the following:

  • Neuroimaging in Functional Neurological Disorder: State of the Field and Research Agenda (2021), published in NeuroImage Clinical
  • Outcome measurement in functional neurological disorder: a systematic review and recommendations (2020), published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Assessment of the Predictive Value of Outpatient Smartphone Videos for Diagnosis of Epileptic Seizures (2020), published in JAMA Neurology
  • Decade of progress in motor functional neurological disorder: continuing the momentum (2021), published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • A Review and Expert Opinion on the Neuropsychiatric Assessment of Motor Functional Neurological Disorders (2020), published in Journal of Neuropsychiatry

The frequent co-authors collaborating with LaFrance include Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Adam M. Goodman, Jane B. Allendorfer, Stephen Correia, and David L. Perez.

The scientist's work has been published predominantly in the following journals:

  • Epilepsia
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Neuropsychiatry
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

W. Curt LaFrance's research primarily contributes to advancing understanding in psychiatry, neurology, and related medical fields through both clinical and neuropsychiatric approaches. The interdisciplinary focus includes functional neurological disorders, neural imaging, seizure diagnosis, and the neuropsychiatric aspects of motor function disorders.

Best Publications

  • Executive control function: a review of its promise and challenges for clinical research. A report from the Committee on Research of the American Neuropsychiatric Association.

    Donald R. Royall;Edward C. Lauterbach;Jeffrey L. Cummings;Allison Reeve

  • Minimum requirements for the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: a staged approach: a report from the International League Against Epilepsy Nonepileptic Seizures Task Force.

    W. Curt LaFrance;W. Curt LaFrance;Gus A. Baker;Rod Duncan;Laura H. Goldstein

  • Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment of Functional Neurological Disorders.

    Alberto J. Espay;Selma Aybek;Alan Carson;Mark J. Edwards

  • Multicenter Pilot Treatment Trial for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    W. Curt LaFrance;W. Curt LaFrance;Grayson L. Baird;Grayson L. Baird;Grayson L. Baird;John J. Barry;Andrew S. Blum

  • Executive Control Function

    Donald R. Royall;Edward C. Lauterbach;Jeffrey L. Cummings;Allison Reeve

  • International consensus clinical practice statements for the treatment of neuropsychiatric conditions associated with epilepsy.

    Michael Patrick Kerr;Seth Mensah;Frank Besag;Bertrand de Toffol

  • Emotional stimuli and motor conversion disorder

    Valerie Voon;Valerie Voon;Christina Brezing;Cecile Gallea;Rezvan Ameli

  • Management of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

    W. Curt LaFrance;Markus Reuber;Laura H. Goldstein

  • Can semiology predict psychogenic nonepileptic seizures? a prospective study

    Tanvir U. Syed;W. Curt Lafrance;Emine S. Kahriman;Saba N. Hasan

  • Chapter 20 Psychiatric Comorbidities in Epilepsy

    W. Curt LaFrance;Andres M. Kanner;Bruce Hermann

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

    W. Curt LaFrance;Ivan W. Miller;Christine E. Ryan;Andrew S. Blum

  • Differentiating between nonepileptic and epileptic seizures.

    Orrin Devinsky;Deana Gazzola;W. Curt LaFrance

  • Conversion Disorder: Current problems and potential solutions for DSM-5

    Jon Stone;W. Curt LaFrance;Richard Brown;David Spiegel

  • Multicenter clinical assessment of improved wearable multimodal convulsive seizure detectors.

    Francesco Onorati;Giulia Regalia;Chiara Caborni;Matteo Migliorini

  • The Treatment of Nonepileptic Seizures: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

    W. Curt LaFrance;Orrin Devinsky

  • Nonepileptic seizures: an updated review.

    David L. Perez;W. Curt LaFrance

  • Neuroimaging in Functional Neurological Disorder: State of the Field and Research Agenda.

    David L Perez;Timothy R Nicholson;Ali A Asadi-Pooya;Indrit Bègue

  • Avoiding the costs of unrecognized psychological nonepileptic seizures

    W. Curt LaFrance;Selim R. Benbadis

  • The aetiology of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures: risk factors and comorbidities.

    Stoyan Popkirov;Ali A. Asadi-Pooya;Roderick Duncan;David Gigineishvili

  • PNES around the world: where we are now and how we can close the diagnosis and treatment gaps. An ILAE PNES Task Force report

    Kousuke Kanemoto;W. Curt LaFrance;Roderick Duncan;David Gigineishvili

  • Functional Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorders (Conversion Disorder)

    Valerie Voon;Valerie Voon;Andrea E. Cavanna;Kerry Coburn;Shirlene Sampson

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

    W. Curt Lafrance;Selim R. Benbadis

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Reuber
Markus Reuber University of Sheffield
Jerzy P. Szaflarski
Jerzy P. Szaflarski University of Alabama at Birmingham
Laura H. Goldstein
Laura H. Goldstein King's College London
Jon Stone
Jon Stone University of Edinburgh
Selim R. Benbadis
Selim R. Benbadis University of South Florida
Jennifer D. Davis
Jennifer D. Davis Brown University
Valerie Voon
Valerie Voon University of Cambridge
Bradford C. Dickerson
Bradford C. Dickerson Harvard Medical School
Ali A. Asadi-Pooya
Ali A. Asadi-Pooya Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Geoffrey Tremont
Geoffrey Tremont Brown University

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