Dennis D. Spencer

27.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
312 papers, 20.3k citations indexed

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Dennis D. Spencer is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Dennis D. Spencer has authored 312 papers receiving a total of 20.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 133 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 81 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Dennis D. Spencer's work include Epilepsy research and treatment (162 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (110 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Dennis D. Spencer is often cited by papers focused on Epilepsy research and treatment (162 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (110 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Dennis D. Spencer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Canada. Dennis D. Spencer's co-authors include Susan S. Spencer, Pétér D. Williamson, Richard H. Mattson, Nihal C. de Lanerolle, M J During, Robert A. Novelly, J. H. Kim, Anne Williamson, Ognen A. C. Petroff and Richard J. Robbins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dennis D. Spencer

308 papers receiving 19.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Extracellular hippocampal glutamate and spontaneous seizure in the conscious human brain

1993 737 citations Dennis D. Spencer et al. profile →
Hippocampal interneuron loss and plasticity in human temporal lobe epilepsy

1989 736 citations Richard J. Robbins, Dennis D. Spencer et al. profile →
Characteristics of medial temporal lobe epilepsy: I. Results of history and physical examination

1993 649 citations Jacqueline A. French, Pétér D. Williamson et al. profile →
Practice parameter: Temporal lobe and localized neocortical resections for epilepsy

2003 615 citations Jacqueline A. French, Michael R. Sperling et al. Neurology profile →
Imaging synaptic density in the living human brain

2016 361 citations Tore Eid, Roni Dhaher et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dennis D. Spencer United States	76	10.1k	10.0k	5.9k	3.7k	3.4k	312	20.3k
Gary W. Mathern United States	63	9.5k 0.9×	16.8k 1.7×	5.0k 0.8×	9.6k 2.6×	4.2k 1.2×	189	25.8k
Frédérick Andermann Canada	83	7.8k 0.8×	12.7k 1.3×	4.0k 0.7×	6.9k 1.9×	3.6k 1.0×	348	21.1k
Imad Najm United States	61	5.7k 0.6×	8.4k 0.8×	4.1k 0.7×	4.1k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	287	13.2k
Asla Pitkänen Finland	72	9.9k 1.0×	6.7k 0.7×	4.6k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	4.8k 1.4×	338	18.6k
André Olivier Canada	67	6.1k 0.6×	8.2k 0.8×	4.5k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	274	14.6k
Fernando Cendes Brazil	65	6.4k 0.6×	9.2k 0.9×	4.2k 0.7×	4.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	553	17.7k
Michel Baulac France	64	5.6k 0.6×	6.5k 0.6×	6.4k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	262	15.5k
Ruben Kuzniecky United States	73	4.7k 0.5×	9.4k 0.9×	4.5k 0.8×	5.6k 1.5×	1.5k 0.4×	286	15.6k
Graeme D. Jackson Australia	70	4.7k 0.5×	9.1k 0.9×	6.4k 1.1×	4.7k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	342	17.8k
Hans O. Lüders United States	81	6.7k 0.7×	11.7k 1.2×	10.4k 1.8×	4.8k 1.3×	1.2k 0.3×	322	22.1k

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Sivaraju, Adithya, Lawrence J. Hirsch, Arthur Cukiert, et al.. (2024). Seizing Control: Primary Visual Cortex Epilepsy Treated With Resection and Responsive Neurostimulation: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Operative Neurosurgery. 27(2). 262–263. 1 indexed citations

Ballal, Sonia, Lori R. Newman, Dennis D. Spencer, et al.. (2024). From Bystander-to-Upstander: A Novel Intervention Framework to Address Microaggressions in a Pediatric Academic Medical Center. Academic Pediatrics. 25(7). 102630–102630. 1 indexed citations

Spencer, Dennis D., et al.. (2023). Recent advances in epilepsy surgery. Current Opinion in Neurology. 36(2). 95–101. 3 indexed citations

Dhaher, Roni, Richard A. Bronen, Linda Spencer, et al.. (2022). Dorsal bed nucleus of stria terminalis in depressed and nondepressed temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Epilepsia. 63(10). 2561–2570. 1 indexed citations

Dhaher, Roni, Shaun E. Gruenbaum, Nathan Tu, et al.. (2021). Network-Related Changes in Neurotransmitters and Seizure Propagation During Rodent Epileptogenesis. Neurology. 96(18). e2261–e2271. 18 indexed citations

Hsieh, Lawrence S., et al.. (2020). Ectopic HCN4 expression drives mTOR-dependent epilepsy in mice. Science Translational Medicine. 12(570). 39 indexed citations

Li, Jiajia, Sharif I. Kronemer, Hunki Kwon, et al.. (2019). Default mode and visual network activity in an attention task: Direct measurement with intracranial EEG. NeuroImage. 201. 116003–116003. 16 indexed citations

Shen, Yang, Marilia Barros, D. Travis Gallagher, et al.. (2016). A bacteriophage endolysin that eliminates intracellular streptococci. eLife. 5. 58 indexed citations

Çavuş, Idil, et al.. (2016). 50 Hz hippocampal stimulation in refractory epilepsy: Higher level of basal glutamate predicts greater release of glutamate. Epilepsia. 57(2). 288–297. 10 indexed citations

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Lee, Hyang Woon, Jagriti Arora, Xenophon Papademetris, et al.. (2014). Altered functional connectivity in seizure onset zones revealed by fMRI intrinsic connectivity. Neurology. 83(24). 2269–2277. 68 indexed citations

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Jehi, Lara, Diane Friedman, Chad Carlson, et al.. (2013). A CRITICAL REVIEW OF EPILEPSY SURGERY ACROSS TWO DECADES. Epilepsia. 54. 1 indexed citations

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Meltzer, Jed A., Hitten P. Zaveri, Irina I. Goncharova, et al.. (2007). Effects of Working Memory Load on Oscillatory Power in Human Intracranial EEG. Cerebral Cortex. 18(8). 1843–1855. 160 indexed citations

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DeLorenzo, Christine, Xenophon Papademetris, Kun Wu, et al.. (2006). Nonrigid 3D Brain Registration Using Intensity/Feature Information. Lecture notes in computer science. 9(Pt 1). 932–939. 15 indexed citations

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Cohen‐Gadol, Aaron, et al.. (2004). Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study and a histopathological analysis. Journal of neurosurgery. 101(4). 613–620. 52 indexed citations

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Cohen‐Gadol, Aaron, et al.. (2003). Emerging surgical and radiotherapeutic techniques for treating epilepsy. Current Opinion in Neurology. 16(2). 213–219. 11 indexed citations

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Cohen‐Gadol, Aaron, et al.. (2003). Emerging surgical and radiotherapeutic techniques for treating epilepsy. Current Opinion in Neurology. 16(2). 213–219. 9 indexed citations

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Redmond, D. Eugene, Robert H. Roth, Dennis D. Spencer, et al.. (1993). Neural Transplantation for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Past, Present, and Future^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 695(1). 258–266. 11 indexed citations

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Robbins, Richard J., Ignacio Torres‐Alemán, Csaba Léránth, et al.. (1990). Cryopreservation of human brain tissue. Experimental Neurology. 107(3). 208–213. 38 indexed citations

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Ariyan, Stephan, Clarence T. Sasaki, & Dennis D. Spencer. (1981). Radical en bloc resection of the temporal bone. The American Journal of Surgery. 142(4). 443–447. 23 indexed citations

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Spencer, Susan S., Dennis D. Spencer, Pétér D. Williamson, & Richard H. Mattson. (1981). Ictal Effects of Anticonvulsant Medication Withdrawal in Epileptic Patients. Epilepsia. 22(3). 297–307. 62 indexed citations

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