Anna W. Byars

10.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Anna W. Byars is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna W. Byars has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health and 24 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Anna W. Byars's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (40 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (24 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (22 papers). Anna W. Byars is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (40 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (24 papers) and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (22 papers). Anna W. Byars collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Anna W. Byars's co-authors include Scott K. Holland, Elena Plante, Vincent J. Schmithorst, Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Vince Schmithorst, Richard H. Strawsburg, Darcy A. Krueger, Ton J. deGrauw, David Neal Franz and Katherine Holland and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Anna W. Byars

87 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anna W. Byars United States	34	2.2k	1.4k	959	939	773	88	4.8k
Vincent J. Schmithorst United States	42	3.2k 1.5×	571 0.4×	836 0.9×	928 1.0×	906 1.2×	91	6.6k
Isabelle Jambaqué France	33	1.0k 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	605 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	364 0.5×	88	4.2k
Michael E. Behen United States	35	2.4k 1.1×	915 0.6×	311 0.3×	721 0.8×	409 0.5×	89	4.7k
Csaba Juhász United States	49	2.4k 1.1×	2.6k 1.9×	677 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	201 0.3×	221	7.7k
Shelli R. Kesler United States	45	1.4k 0.6×	990 0.7×	181 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	260 0.3×	96	5.8k
Margaret B. Pulsifer United States	34	557 0.3×	615 0.4×	674 0.7×	862 0.9×	201 0.3×	87	3.7k
Michele D. Poe United States	35	3.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	503 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	71	6.1k
Paulina Due‐Tønnessen Norway	38	2.0k 0.9×	808 0.6×	364 0.4×	820 0.9×	176 0.2×	80	5.1k
Ingeborg Krägeloh‐Mann Germany	42	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	831 0.9×	2.2k 2.3×	356 0.5×	178	6.1k
Sophie Dupont France	36	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	119 0.1×	778 0.8×	302 0.4×	145	4.1k

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Morales, Knashawn H., Danielle Harvey, David Dunn, et al.. (2025). Stratifying cognitive and behavioral comorbidities in children with new-onset seizures – The influence of sociodemographic disadvantage. Epilepsy & Behavior. 165. 110267–110267. 1 indexed citations

Harvey, Danielle, David Dunn, Jana E. Jones, et al.. (2024). Long-term characterization of cognitive phenotypes in children with seizures over 36 months. Epilepsy & Behavior. 154. 109742–109742. 4 indexed citations

Harvey, Danielle, Jana E. Jones, Anna W. Byars, et al.. (2023). Impact of sociodemographic disadvantage on neurobehavioral outcomes in children with newly diagnosed seizures and their unaffected siblings over 36 months. Epilepsia. 64(8). 2172–2185. 5 indexed citations

Harvey, Danielle, David Dunn, Jana E. Jones, et al.. (2022). Characterizing Sleep Phenotypes in Children With Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy. Pediatric Neurology. 137. 34–40. 5 indexed citations

Taylor, J. Michael, Kasiani C. Myers, Thomas Andrew Burrow, et al.. (2021). Case Report: Cerebral Revascularization in a Child With Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I. Frontiers in Pediatrics. 9. 606905–606905. 1 indexed citations

Byars, Anna W., Paul S. Horn, Hansel M. Greiner, et al.. (2020). Neuropsychological outcomes after pediatric epilepsy surgery: Role of electrical stimulation language mapping. Seizure. 80. 183–191. 6 indexed citations

Williams, Marian E., Deborah A. Pearson, Jamie K. Capal, et al.. (2019). Impacting development in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex: Multidisciplinary research collaboration.. American Psychologist. 74(3). 356–367. 10 indexed citations

Vannest, Jennifer, Thomas Maloney, Jeffrey R. Tenney, et al.. (2017). Changes in functional organization and functional connectivity during story listening in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes. Brain and Language. 193. 10–17. 14 indexed citations

Vera, Alonso Zea, Paul S. Horn, Anna W. Byars, et al.. (2017). After-discharges and seizures during pediatric extra-operative electrical cortical stimulation functional brain mapping: Incidence, thresholds, and determinants. Clinical Neurophysiology. 128(10). 2078–2086. 33 indexed citations

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Arya, Ravindra, James Leach, Paul S. Horn, et al.. (2016). Clinical factors predict surgical outcomes in pediatric MRI-negative drug-resistant epilepsy. Seizure. 41. 56–61. 19 indexed citations

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Vannest, Jennifer, et al.. (2014). Relationship between receptive vocabulary and the neural substrates for story processing in preschoolers. Brain Imaging and Behavior. 9(1). 43–55. 21 indexed citations

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Byars, Anna W., Ton J. deGrauw, Cynthia S. Johnson, et al.. (2014). Language and social functioning in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior. 31. 167–171. 14 indexed citations

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Rajagopal, Amirtham, et al.. (2014). Success Rates for Functional MR Imaging in Children. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 35(12). 2319–2325. 22 indexed citations

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Arya, Ravindra, J. Adam Wilson, Jennifer Vannest, et al.. (2014). Electrocorticographic language mapping in children by high-gamma synchronization during spontaneous conversation: Comparison with conventional electrical cortical stimulation. Epilepsy Research. 110. 78–87. 23 indexed citations

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Greiner, Hansel M., Yong D. Park, Katherine Holland, et al.. (2011). Scalp EEG does not predict hemispherectomy outcome. Seizure. 20(10). 758–763. 25 indexed citations

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Vannest, Jennifer, Jerod M. Rasmussen, Kenneth Eaton, et al.. (2010). fMRI Activation in Language Areas Correlates with Verb Generation Performance in Children. Neuropediatrics. 41(5). 235–239. 15 indexed citations

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Byars, Anna W., Ton J. deGrauw, Cynthia S. Johnson, et al.. (2007). The Association of MRI Findings and Neuropsychological Functioning after the First Recognized Seizure. Epilepsia. 48(6). 1067–1074. 36 indexed citations

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Yuan, Weihong, Jerzy P. Szaflarski, Vincent J. Schmithorst, et al.. (2006). fMRI Shows Atypical Language Lateralization in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients. Epilepsia. 47(3). 593–600. 99 indexed citations

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Schapiro, Mark B., Vince Schmithorst, Marko Wilke, et al.. (2004). BOLD fMRI signal increases with age in selected brain regions in children. Neuroreport. 15(17). 2575–2578. 65 indexed citations

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Wilke, Marko, Jin‐Hun Sohn, Anna W. Byars, & Scott K. Holland. (2003). Bright spots: correlations of gray matter volume with IQ in a normal pediatric population. NeuroImage. 20(1). 202–215. 145 indexed citations

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