Publications

This is a reverse chronological list of our prior research projects and publications. We have used the following equivalent terms in the past: functional seizures, dissociative seizures, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures. Categories:

  1. Clinical Data: Functional Seizures & Epilepsy
  2. Neurodiagnostic Data: Functional Seizures & Epilepsy
  3. Statistical Methods

Clinical Data: Functional Seizures and Epilepsy

Factors associated with delay to video-EEG in dissociative seizures

Kerr WT, Zhang X, Hill CE, Janio EA, Chau AM, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Allas CH, Karimi AH, Dubey I, Sreenivasan SS, Gallardo N, Bauirjan J, Hwang ES, Davis EC, D’Ambrosio SR, Al Banna M, Cho AY, Dewar SR, Engel J, Jr., Feusner JD, Stern JM.

Seizure 2021.

Epilepsy, dissociative seizures and mixed: associatiosn with time to video-EEG

Kerr WT, Zhang X, Hill CE, Janio EA, Chau AM, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Allas CH, Karimi AH, Dubey I, Sreenivasan SS, Gallardo N, Bauirjan J, Hwang ES, Davis EC, D’Ambrosio SR, Al Banna M, Cho AY, Dewar SR, Engel J, Jr., Feusner JD, Stern JM.

Seizure 2021.

Validation of a predictive calculator to distinguish between patients presenting with dissociative versus epileptic seizures

Lenio S, Kerr WT, Watson M, Baker S, Bush C, Rajic A, Strom L.

Epilepsy & Behavior 2021.

Reliability of additional reported seizure manifestations to identify dissociative seizures

Kerr WT, Zhang X, Janio EA, Karimi AH, Allas CH, Dubey I, Sreenivasan SS, Bauirjan J, D’Ambrosio SR, Al Banna M, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Feusner JD, Stern JM.

Epilepsy & Behavior 2021.

Objective score from initial interview identifies patients with probable dissociative seizures

Kerr WT, Janio EA, Chau AM, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Gallardo NL, Allas CH, Karimi AH, Dubey I, Sreenivasan SS, Bauirjan J, Hwang ES, Davis EC, D’Ambrosio, SR, Al Banna M, Mazumder R, Wu T, DeCant ZA, Gibbs MG, Chang E, Zhang X, Cho AY, Beimer NJ, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM

Epilepsy & Behavior 2020.

Reliability of reported peri-ictal behavior to identify psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.

Kerr WT, Chau AM, Janio EA, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Gallardo NL, Bauirjan J, Allas CH, Karimi AH, Hwang ES, Davis EC, Buchard A, Torres-Barba D, D’Ambrosio S, Al Banna M, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM.

Seizure 2019. Mendeley Data & Code Online Calculator

An objective score to identify psychogenic seizures based on age of onset and history

Kerr WT, Janio EA, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Gallardo NL, Bauirjan J, Chau AM, Hwang ES, Davis EC, Buchard A, Torres-Barba D, D’Ambrosio S, Al Banna, M, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM.

Epilepsy & Behavior 2018. Mendeley Data & Code Online Calculator

Identifying psychogenic seizures through comorbidities and medication history

Kerr WT, Janio EA, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Gallardo NL, Bauirjan J, D’Ambrosio SR, Chau AM, Hwang ES, Davis EC, Buchard A, Torres-Barba D, Al Banna M, Barritt SE, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM.

Epilepsia 2017. Mendeley Data & Code Online Calculator

Diagnostic implications of review-of-systems questionnaires to differentiate epileptic seizures from psychogenic seizures

Kerr WT, Janio EA, Braesch CT, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Barritt SE, Gallardo NL, Bauirjan J, Chau AM, Hwang ES, Davis EC, Torres-Barba D, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM.

Epilepsy & Behavior 2017. Mendeley Data & Code.

Diagnostic delay in psychogenic seizures and the association with anti-seizure medication trials

Kerr WT, Janio EA, Le JM, Hori JM, Patel AB, Gallardo NL, Bauirjan J, Chau AM, D’Ambrosio SR, Cho AY, Engel J, Jr., Cohen MS, Stern JM.

Seizure 2016

Neurodiagnostic Data: Functional Seizures and Epilepsy

Reduced left amygdala volume in patients with dissociative seizures (psychogenic nonepileptic seizures)

Tatekawa H, Kerr WT, Savic I, Engel J, Jr., Salamon N.

Seizure 2020.

Computer aided diagnosis and localization of lateralized temporal lobe epilepsy using interictal FDG-PET

Kerr WT, Nguyen ST, Cho AY, Lau EP, Silverman DH, Douglas PK, Reddy NM, Anderson A, Bramen J, Salamon N, Stern JM, Cohen MS

Frontiers in Neurology 2013

Automated diagnosis of epilepsy using EEG power spectrum

Kerr WT, Anderson A, Lau EP, Cho AY, Xia H, Bramen J, Douglas PK, Braun ES, Stern JM, Cohen MS

Epilepsia 2012

Statistical Methods

Multimodal diagnosis of epilepsy using conditional dependence and multiple imputation

Kerr WT, Hwang ES, Raman KR, Barritt SE, Patel AB, Le JM, Hori JM, Davis EC, Braesch CT, Janio EA, Lau EP, Cho AY, Anderson A, Silverman DHS, Salamon N, Engel J, Jr., Stern JM, Cohen MS.

4th International Workshop Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging. 2014.

The utility of data-driven feature selection: Re: Chu et al.

Kerr WT, Douglas PK, Anderson A, Cohen MS
‡: co-first authors

Neuroimage 2014

Balancing clinical and pathologic relevance in the machine learning diagnosis of epilepsy

Kerr WT, Cho AY, Anderson A, Douglas PK, Nguyen SY, Reddy NM, Lau EP, Hwang E, Raman K, Trefler A, Silverman DH, Cohen MS

3rd International Workshop Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging. 2013.

Poisson noise obscures hypometabolic lesions in PET

Kerr WT & Lau EP

Yale J Biology & Medicine 2012

The future of medical diagnostics: large digitized databases

Kerr WT, Lau EP, Owens GE, Trefler A.

Yale J Biology & Medicine 2012.

Parameter selection in mutual information-based feature selection in automated diagnosis of multiple epilepsies using scalp EEG

Kerr WT, Anderson A, Xia H, Braun ES, Lau EP, Cho AY, Cohen MS

2nd International Workshop Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging 2012.

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