Souhel Najjar
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Syrian American doctor
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Souhel Najjar's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine Damascus University
- PhD Neurology Johns Hopkins University
Why Is Souhel Najjar Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Souhel Najjar is a Syrian-American neurologist whose story with Susannah Cahalan turned into an American drama film. He is considered an expert in the field of encephalopathy, specifically the treatment of encephalitis.
Souhel Najjar's Published Works
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Published Works
- Glia and epilepsy: excitability and inflammation (2013) (612)
- Neuroinflammation and psychiatric illness (2013) (533)
- Neuroinflammation and white matter pathology in schizophrenia: systematic review (2015) (242)
- Autoimmune psychosis: an international consensus on an approach to the diagnosis and management of psychosis of suspected autoimmune origin. (2019) (187)
- Neurovascular unit dysfunction with blood-brain barrier hyperpermeability contributes to major depressive disorder: a review of clinical and experimental evidence (2013) (181)
- Central nervous system complications associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection: integrative concepts of pathophysiology and case reports (2020) (162)
- Neurovascular Unit Dysfunction and Blood–Brain Barrier Hyperpermeability Contribute to Schizophrenia Neurobiology: A Theoretical Integration of Clinical and Experimental Evidence (2017) (115)
- Meta-analysis of the association between N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antibodies and schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder (2014) (112)
- Cerebrovascular Complications of COVID-19 (2020) (89)
- Epilepsy Associated with Systemic Autoimmune Disorders (2013) (87)
- Evidence against the existence of a temporal lobe epilepsy personality syndrome. (1999) (83)
- Epilepsy Surgery in Tuberous Sclerosis: Multistage Procedures With Bilateral or Multilobar Foci (2002) (69)
- A clinical approach to new-onset psychosis associated with immune dysregulation: the concept of autoimmune psychosis (2018) (65)
- Pediatric Language Mapping: Sensitivity of Neurostimulation and Wada Testing in Epilepsy Surgery (2007) (60)
- Refractory Epilepsy Associated With Microglial Activation (2011) (51)
- Anti-basal ganglia antibodies in primary obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis. (2014) (47)
- Spontaneously Resolving Seronegative Autoimmune Limbic Encephalitis (2011) (47)
- Neuropsychiatric Autoimmune Encephalitis without VGKC-Complex, NMDAR, and GAD Autoantibodies: Case Report and Literature Review (2013) (39)
- Bilateral Resective Epilepsy Surgery in a Child with Tuberous Sclerosis: Case Report (2001) (38)
- Pediatric language mapping: sensitivity of neurostimulation and Wada testing in epilepsy surgery. (2006) (34)
- Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase Autoantibody Syndrome Presenting as Schizophrenia (2012) (28)
- Targeting DEC-205−DCIR2+ dendritic cells promotes immunological tolerance in proteolipid protein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (2018) (24)
- Extralimbic autoimmune encephalitis associated with glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies: An underdiagnosed entity? (2011) (24)
- Adult-onset epilepsy in focal cortical dysplasia of Taylor type (2005) (23)
- Immunology and epilepsy. (2008) (23)
- Crosstalk between the immune system and neural pathways in interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. (2018) (21)
- Advancing drug delivery systems for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (2015) (21)
- Brain Biopsy Findings Link Major Depressive Disorder to Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Neurovascular Dysfunction: A Case Report (2014) (21)
- Retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukoencephalopathy (RVCL) (2018) (16)
- The role of B cells in multiple sclerosis: more than antibodies. (2016) (16)
- Blood Levels of S-100 Calcium-Binding Protein B, High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein, and Interleukin-6 for Changes in Depressive Symptom Severity after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Prospective Cohort Nested within a Randomized, Controlled Trial (2014) (16)
- Acute Seizures Occurring in Association With SARS-CoV-2 (2020) (9)
- Editorial: Recent Advances in Psychiatry From Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Research: Autoimmune Encephalitis, Autoimmune Encephalopathy, and Mild Encephalitis (2019) (8)
- EEG Abnormalities and Their Radiographic Correlates in a COVID-19 Inpatient Cohort. (2021) (7)
- A Single-Health System Case Series of New-Onset CNS Inflammatory Disorders Temporally Associated With mRNA-Based SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines (2022) (6)
- Immune cell profiles of patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (2022) (6)
- Dietary factors in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis: A comprehensive review (2020) (5)
- Erratum to: Advancing drug delivery systems for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (2016) (4)
- Classifying Seizures and Epilepsies: Limits of Science and Semantics (2011) (4)
- Defining the role of T lymphocytes in the immunopathogenesis of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. (2020) (3)
- Autoimmune psychosis - Authors' reply. (2020) (2)
- POTENTIAL ROLE OF NMDA-RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: OVERLAP AND DISTINCTION FROM NMDA-RECEPTOR ENCEPHALITIS (2014) (2)
- Neurovascular Dysfunction With BBB Hyperpermeability Related to the Pathophysiology of Major Depressive Disorder (2018) (1)
- Case Report: HSV-2 Encephalitis Presenting With Chorea; Effects of Infection Alone or Combination of Infection and Autoimmunity? (2021) (1)
- Neurovascular unit dysfunction with blood-brain barrier hyperpermeability contributes to major depressive disorder: a review of clinical and experimental evidence (2013) (1)
- Autoimmune Encephalitis: A Physician’s Guide to the Clinical Spectrum Diagnosis and Management (2022) (1)
- Neuroinflammation versus decreased Zif268 mRNA expression as causal mediators of decreased GAD67 mRNA expression within dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in schizophrenia. (2014) (1)
- Role of glial activation and BBB disruption in the pathophysiology of depression (2016) (1)
- Nanotherapeutics for Multiple Sclerosis (2017) (0)
- Targeting DEC-205−DCIR2+ dendritic cells promotes immunological tolerance in proteolipid protein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (2018) (0)
- Case report: Bilateral globus pallidus lesions and delayed progressive leukoencephalopathy in COVID-19: Effects of hypoxia alone or combination of hypoxia and inflammation? (2023) (0)
- Retinal Vasculopathy with Cerebral Leukoencephalopathy (RVCL): A Rare Familial Mimic of Tumefactive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (P2.372) (2018) (0)
- New concepts in the pathophysiology and diagnosis of seronegative autoimmune psychosis; proposed multi-modal diagnostic approach and classification (2018) (0)
- Major depressive disorder and neurovascular unit dysfunction with blood–brain barrier hyperpermeability: A critical analysis of human and experimental data (2014) (0)
- PD08-01 B-CELL CLONOTYPE IN PATIENTS WITH INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS/BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME PRESENTING WITH HUNNER LESIONS (2022) (0)
- Bridging the Gap between the Bench and the Clinic (2017) (0)
- A clinical approach to new-onset psychosis associated with immune dysregulation: the concept of autoimmune psychosis (2018) (0)
- A single-health system retrospective case series of electroconvulsive therapy for catatonic syndrome associated with anti-NMDAR encephalitis and new-onset psychosis of suspected immune origin (2023) (0)
- Reader Response: Clinical, Neuroimmunologic, and CSF Investigations in First Episode Psychosis (2021) (0)
- Response to Steiner and Bogerts on N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor autoantibodies in schizophrenia and affective disorders (2015) (0)
- Rare variants and HLA haplotypes associated in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (2022) (0)
- Development of Resistance to B-Cell Depletion Following Ten Years of Effective Rituximab Treatment in a Patient with Neuromyelitis Optica (P1.2-008) (2019) (0)
- A shared B-cell clonotype in patients with Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome presenting with Hunner lesions (2022) (0)
- Neuroinflammation and psychiatric illness (2013) (0)
- A REVIEW OF SELECTED RECENT SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS, BLADDER PAIN SYNDROME, HUNNER LESION, HYPERSENSITIVE BLADDER, CHRONIC (PELVIC) PAIN, KETAMINE CYSTITIS, URINARY TRACT INFECTION AND ASSOCIATED DISORDERS (2022) (0)
- Advancing drug delivery systems for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (2015) (0)
- The Blood-Brain-Barrier in Brain Tumors (2015) (0)
- Central nervous system complications associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection: integrative concepts of pathophysiology and case reports (2020) (0)
- Erratum to: Advancing drug delivery systems for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (2016) (0)
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