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D-Index
54
Citations
11622
World Ranking
4893
National Ranking
2201

Overview

W. Donald Shields is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. They are an active researcher in academia with a focus on their areas of expertise.

Information regarding their recent papers, including titles, years of publication, and venues, is not listed. Similarly, data on frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields and subfields of study, and main research topics are not available for this scientist. No awards are recorded in the provided data for W. Donald Shields.

Despite the absence of detailed publication or research topic data, the association with a major research institution such as UCLA suggests involvement in scholarly activity consistent with academic standards there.

Best Publications

  • Infantile spasms. I, PET identifies focal cortical dysgenesis in cryptogenic cases for surgical treatment

    H T Chugani;W D Shields;D A Shewmon;D M Olson

  • Infantile spasms: A U.S. consensus report

    John M. Pellock;Richard Hrachovy;Shlomo Shinnar;Tallie Z. Baram

  • Efficacy of felbamate in childhood epileptic encephalopathy (Lennox-Gastaut syndrome)

    Frank J. Ritter;Iio E. Leppik;Fritz E. Dreifuss;Ihor Rak

  • Assessment and surgical outcomes for mild type I and severe type II cortical dysplasia: a critical review and the UCLA experience.

    Jason T. Lerner;Noriko Salamon;Jason S. Hauptman;Tonicarlo R. Velasco

  • Childhood absence epilepsy: behavioral, cognitive, and linguistic comorbidities.

    Rochelle Caplan;Prabha Siddarth;Lesley Stahl;Erin Lanphier

  • Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Pediatric Epilepsy

    Rochelle Caplan;Prabha Siddarth;Suresh Gurbani;Rebecca Hanson

  • Cerebral hemispherectomy: Hospital course, seizure, developmental, language, and motor outcomes

    R. Jonas;S. Nguyen;B. Hu;R. F. Asarnow

  • FDG-PET/MRI coregistration improves detection of cortical dysplasia in patients with epilepsy

    N. Salamon;J. Kung;S. J. Shaw;J. Koo

  • Surgery for intractable infantile spasms: neuroimaging perspectives.

    H. T. Chugani;D. A. Shewmon;W. D. Shields;Raman Sankar

  • Behavioral disorders in pediatric epilepsy: unmet psychiatric need.

    Derek Ott;Prabha Siddarth;Suresh Gurbani;Susan Koh

  • Cerebral hemispherectomy in pediatric patients with epilepsy: comparison of three techniques by pathological substrate in 115 patients.

    Shon W Cook;Snow T Nguyen;Bin Hu;Sue Yudovin

  • Vigabatrin: 2008 update.

    L. James Willmore;Mark B. Abelson;Elinor Ben-Menachem;John M. Pellock

  • Hemispherectomy for intractable seizures in children: a report of 58 cases

    Warwick J. Peacock;Monica C. Wehby-Grant;W. Donald Shields;D. Alan Shewmon

  • L-Carnitine supplementation in childhood epilepsy: Current perspectives

    Darryl C. De Vivo;Timothy P. Bohan;David L. Coulter;Fritz E. Dreifuss

  • Developmental outcomes in children receiving resection surgery for medically intractable infantile spasms.

    Robert F Asarnow;Christine LoPresti;Donald Guthrie;Teresa Elliott

  • Postoperative seizure control and antiepileptic drug use in pediatric epilepsy surgery patients: the UCLA experience, 1986-1997

    G W Mathern;C C Giza;S Yudovin;H V Vinters

  • Surgery for symptomatic infant-onset epileptic encephalopathy with and without infantile spasms.

    R. Jonas;R. F. Asarnow;C. LoPresti;S. Yudovin

  • Pharmacokinetic study of levetiracetam in children.

    John M. Pellock;Tracy A. Glauser;E. Martina Bebin;Nathan B. Fountain

  • Efficacy and safety of levetiracetam in children with partial seizures: an open-label trial.

    Tracy A. Glauser;John M. Pellock;E. Martina Bebin;Nathan B. Fountain

  • Children with ESES: Variability in the Syndrome

    Michele Van Hirtum-Das;Eliot A. Licht;Susan Koh;Joyce Y. Wu

  • Surgical treatment of intractable neonatal‐onset seizures: The role of positron emission tomography

    H. T. Chugani;D. A. Shewmon;W. J. Peacock;W. D. Shields

  • Randomized trial of vigabatrin in patients with infantile spasms

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Frequent Co-Authors

Prabha Siddarth
Prabha Siddarth University of California, Los Angeles
Raman Sankar
Raman Sankar University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer G. Levitt
Jennifer G. Levitt University of California, Los Angeles
Donald Guthrie
Donald Guthrie University of California, Los Angeles
John M. Pellock
John M. Pellock Virginia Commonwealth University
Warwick J. Peacock
Warwick J. Peacock University of California, Los Angeles
Harry T. Chugani
Harry T. Chugani New York University
Gary W. Mathern
Gary W. Mathern University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Gregory Krauss
Gregory Krauss Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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