Publications

• Epilepsy surgery education and practice around the globe: An ILAE taskforce report.Nico Enslin JM, Muh CR, Wang X, von Hertwig Fernandes de Olivera T, McKhann GM, Damisah E, Al-Otaibi F, Rydenhag B, Ali RP, Dorfer C, Englot DJ, Cukiert A. Epilepsia. 2024 Dec 5; 2024 Dec 5. PMID: 39636690.
• Combined neuromodulation and resection for functional cortex epilepsy: a case series.Merenzon MA, Sivaraju A, Herlopian A, Gerrard JL, Quraishi IH, Hirsch LJ, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. J Neurosurg. 2024 Dec 1; 2024 Jun 7. PMID: 38848588.
• The human claustrum tracks slow waves during sleep.Lamsam L, Gu B, Liang M, Sun G, Khan KJ, Sheth KN, Hirsch LJ, Pittenger C, Kaye AP, Krystal JH, Damisah EC. Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 17; 2024 Oct 17. PMID: 39419999.
• Seizing Control: Primary Visual Cortex Epilepsy Treated With Resection and Responsive Neurostimulation: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.Merenzon MA, Lamsam L, McGrath H, Sivaraju A, Hirsch LJ, Cukiert A, Zibly Z, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2024 Aug 1; 2024 Mar 7. PMID: 39007609.
• Systematic 1 Hz direct electrical stimulation for seizure induction: A reliable method for localizing seizure onset zone and predicting seizure freedom.Sivaraju A, Quraishi I, Collins E, McGrath H, Ramos A, Turk-Browne NB, Zaveri H, Damisah E, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ. Brain Stimul. 2024 Mar-Apr; 2024 Mar 13. PMID: 38490472.
• Statistical learning in epilepsy: Behavioral and anatomical mechanisms in the human brain.Aljishi A, Sherman BE, Huberdeau DM, Obaid S, Khan K, Lamsam L, Zibly Z, Sivaraju A, Turk-Browne NB, Damisah EC. Epilepsia. 2024 Mar; 2024 Jan 3. PMID: 38116686.
• The human claustrum tracks slow waves during sleep.Lamsam L, Liang M, Gu B, Sun G, Hirsch LJ, Pittenger C, Kaye AP, Krystal JH, Damisah EC. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 30; 2024 Jan 30. PMID: 38352615.
• Responsive neurostimulation as a treatment for super-refractory focal status epilepticus: a systematic review and case series.Ernst LD, Raslan AM, Wabulya A, Shin HW, Cash SS, Yang JC, Sagi V, King-Stephens D, Damisah EC, Ramos A, Hussain B, Toprani S, Brandman DM, Shahlaie K, Kanth K, Arain A, Peters A, Rolston JD, Berns M, Patel SI, Uysal U. J Neurosurg. 2024 Jan 1; 2023 Jun 9. PMID: 37329518.
• Intracranial Entrainment Reveals Statistical Learning across Levels of Abstraction.Sherman BE, Aljishi A, Graves KN, Quraishi IH, Sivaraju A, Damisah EC, Turk-Browne NB. J Cogn Neurosci. 2023 Aug 1. PMID: 37262357.
• Contribution of Somatic Ras/Raf/Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Variants in the Hippocampus in Drug-Resistant Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.Khoshkhoo S, Wang Y, Chahine Y, Erson-Omay EZ, Robert SM, Kiziltug E, Damisah EC, Nelson-Williams C, Zhu G, Kong W, Huang AY, Stronge E, Phillips HW, Chhouk BH, Bizzotto S, Chen MH, Adikari TN, Ye Z, Witkowski T, Lai D, Lee N, Lokan J, Scheffer IE, Berkovic SF, Haider S, Hildebrand MS, Yang E, Gunel M, Lifton RP, Richardson RM, Blümcke I, Alexandrescu S, Huttner A, Heinzen EL, Zhu J, Poduri A, DeLanerolle N, Spencer DD, Lee EA, Walsh CA, Kahle KT. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jun 1. PMID: 37126322.
• Transfrontal Approach to the Amygdala for Ablation With Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy: An Epilepsy Case Report.Lamsam L, Brigido MM, Sivaraju A, Hirsch LJ, Spencer DD, Chiang V, Damisah E. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2023 May 1; 2023 Jan 2. PMID: 36715982.
• Statistical learning in epilepsy: Behavioral, anatomical, and causal mechanisms in the human brain.Aljishi A, Sherman BE, Huberdeau DM, Obaid S, Sivaraju A, Turk-Browne NB, Damisah EC. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 28; 2023 Apr 28. PMID: 37162937.
• Recent advances in epilepsy surgery.Medina-Pizarro M, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Curr Opin Neurol. 2023 Apr 1; 2023 Jan 31. PMID: 36762633.
• TREM2 and APOE do not modulate phagocytic clearance of dying cells in the live mammalian brain.Damisah EC, Rai A, Hill RA, Tong L, Grutzendler J. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 23; 2023 Mar 23. PMID: 36993245.
• Temporal Dynamics of Competition between Statistical Learning and Episodic Memory in Intracranial Recordings of Human Visual Cortex.Sherman BE, Graves KN, Huberdeau DM, Quraishi IH, Damisah EC, Turk-Browne NB. J Neurosci. 2022 Nov 30; 2022 Nov 7. PMID: 36344264.
• Remembering the pattern: A longitudinal case study on statistical learning in spatial navigation and memory consolidation.Graves KN, Sherman BE, Huberdeau D, Damisah E, Quraishi IH, Turk-Browne NB. Neuropsychologia. 2022 Sep 9; 2022 Aug 9. PMID: 35961387.
• Child Neurology: Functional Reorganization Mediating Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome Recovery in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum.Obaid S, Qureshi HM, Aljishi A, Shaikh N, Kundishora AJ, Bronen RA, DiLuna M, Damisah EC. Neurology. 2022 Jul 25; 2022 Jul 25. PMID: 35618432.
• Factors Predicting Outcome After Intracranial EEG Evaluation in Patients With Medically Refractory Epilepsy.Sivaraju A, Hirsch L, Gaspard N, Farooque P, Gerrard J, Xu Y, Deng Y, Damisah E, Blumenfeld H, Spencer DD. Neurology. 2022 Jul 5; 2022 May 4. PMID: 35508395.
• Optimizing the surgical management of MRI-negative epilepsy in the neuromodulation era.McGrath H, Mandel M, Sandhu MRS, Lamsam L, Adenu-Mensah N, Farooque P, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Epilepsia Open. 2022 Mar; 2022 Feb 1. PMID: 35038792.
• Management of patients with medically intractable epilepsy and anterior temporal lobe encephaloceles.Sandhu MRS, Mandel M, McGrath H, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Bronen RA, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. J Neurosurg. 2022 Mar 1; 2021 Sep 10. PMID: 34507290.
• Imaging of Neuromodulation and Surgical Interventions for Epilepsy.Adin ME, Spencer DD, Damisah E, Herlopian A, Gerrard JL, Bronen RA. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2021 Oct; 2021 Aug 5. PMID: 34353787.
• Gerstmann Syndrome Deconstructed by Cortical Stimulation.Vaddiparti A, McGrath H, Benjamin CFA, Sivaraju A, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ, Damisah E, Quraishi IH. Neurology. 2021 Aug 31; 2021 Jun 29. PMID: 34187861.
• Depth Electrode Guided Anterior Insulectomy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.Mandel M, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Spencer D, Damisah E. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2021 Jul 15. PMID: 33885821.
• Increased branched-chain amino acids at baseline and hours before a spontaneous seizure in the human epileptic brain.Ong C, Damisah EC, Gruenbaum SE, Dhaher R, Deng Y, Sandhu MRS, Zaveri HP, Spencer DD, Eid T. Epilepsia. 2021 Jun; 2021 May 5. PMID: 33949690.
• Imaging and optogenetic modulation of vascular mural cells in the live brain.Tong L, Hill RA, Damisah EC, Murray KN, Yuan P, Bordey A, Grutzendler J. Nat Protoc. 2021 Jan; 2020 Dec 9. PMID: 33299155.
• Case Report: Suprasellar Pituitary Adenoma Presenting With Temporal Lobe Seizures.Hong CS, Gorrepati R, Kundishora AJ, Elsamadicy AA, Peter PR, Damisah EC, Manes RP, Omay SB. Front Surg. 2020; 2020 Dec 1. PMID: 33335912.
• Astrocytes and microglia play orchestrated roles and respect phagocytic territories during neuronal corpse removal in vivo.Damisah EC, Hill RA, Rai A, Chen F, Rothlin CV, Ghosh S, Grutzendler J. Sci Adv. 2020 Jun; 2020 Jun 26. PMID: 32637606.
• Inflammation in acquired hydrocephalus: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic targets.Karimy JK, Reeves BC, Damisah E, Duy PQ, Antwi P, David W, Wang K, Schiff SJ, Limbrick DD Jr, Alper SL, Warf BC, Nedergaard M, Simard JM, Kahle KT. Nat Rev Neurol. 2020 May; 2020 Mar 9. PMID: 32152460.
• TREM2: Modulator of Lipid Metabolism in Microglia.Damisah EC, Rai A, Grutzendler J. Neuron. 2020 Mar 4. PMID: 32135085.
• Cerebrospinal fluid untargeted metabolomic profiling of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: an exploratory study.Lu AY, Damisah EC, Winkler EA, Grant RA, Eid T, Bulsara KR. Br J Neurosurg. 2018 Dec; 2018 Dec 26. PMID: 30585503.
• Novel biomarker identification using metabolomic profiling to differentiate radiation necrosis and recurrent tumor following Gamma Knife radiosurgery.Lu AY, Turban JL, Damisah EC, Li J, Alomari AK, Eid T, Vortmeyer AO, Chiang VL. J Neurosurg. 2017 Aug; 2016 Nov 25. PMID: 27885954.
• A fluoro-Nissl dye identifies pericytes as distinct vascular mural cells during in vivo brain imaging.Damisah EC, Hill RA, Tong L, Murray KN, Grutzendler J. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Jul; 2017 May 15. PMID: 28504673.
• Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo.Hill RA, Damisah EC, Chen F, Kwan AC, Grutzendler J. Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 16; 2017 Jun 16. PMID: 28621306.
• Craniopharyngioma arising in a Rathke's cleft cyst: case report.Alomari AK, Kelley BJ, Damisah E, Marks A, Hui P, DiLuna M, Vortmeyer A. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015 Mar; 2015 Jan 2. PMID: 25555112.
• 5-aminovaleric acid suppresses the development of severe seizures in the methionine sulfoximine model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.Dhaher R, Damisah EC, Wang H, Gruenbaum SE, Ong C, Zaveri HP, Gruenbaum BF, Eid T. Neurobiol Dis. 2014 Jul; 2014 Mar 14. PMID: 24632421.
• Intra-arterial treatment of acute ischemic stroke: the continued evolution.Lu AY, Ansari SA, Nyström KV, Damisah EC, Amin HP, Matouk CC, Pashankar RD, Bulsara KR. Curr Treat Options Cardiovasc Med. 2014 Feb. PMID: 24398801.
• Linking of bone morphogenetic protein-2 to resorbable fracture plates for enhancing bone healing.Shibuya TY, Wadhwa A, Nguyen KH, Panossian AM, Kim S, Wong H, Feinberg S, Damisah EC, Camilon PR, Bang H. Laryngoscope. 2005 Dec. PMID: 16369172.