Michael R. Sperling

44.5k citations

495 papers · 23.3k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.01%
- Epilepsy research and treatment
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health top 0.01%
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Papers in

Psychiatry and Mental health 318
- Epilepsy research and treatment 313
Cognitive Neuroscience 177
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces 96
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 61
- Neural dynamics and brain function 50
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 32

Co-authors: Ashwini Sharan William Berman Ali A. Asadi‐Pooya Michael J. O’Connor Maromi Nei Jacqueline A. French Joyce Liporace Joseph I. Tracy
Journals: Epilepsia (135 papers)Neurology (62 papers)Epilepsy & Behavior (30 papers)Epilepsy Research (17 papers)Annals of Neurology (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Sperling

477 papers receiving 22.5k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

The SANTÉ study at 10 years of follow‐up: Effectiveness, safety, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy 2021 · 176 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Epilepsia
2017 Epilepsia
2012 Neurocritical Care
2003 Neurology
2001 Epilepsia
1994 Guilford Press eBooks

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1	Real‐world use of cenobamate in adults: Efficacy and predictors of treatment response Epilepsia ·Itai Loushy, Lilach Goldstein, Kathryn N. Devlin, Anna Volski, Elizabeth W. Fletman, Juan Luis Alcalá-Zermeño, Louis Porreca, Michael R. Sperling	2025	4
2	Edge‐wise analysis reveals white matter connectivity associated with focal to bilateral tonic–clonic seizures Epilepsia ·Sam S. Javidi, Xiaosong He, Ankeeta Ankeeta, Qirui Zhang, Salvatore Citro, Michael R. Sperling, Joseph I. Tracy	2024	4
3	Direct brain recordings suggest a causal subsequent-memory effect Cerebral Cortex ·Daniel Rubinstein, Christoph T. Weidemann, Michael R. Sperling, Michael J. Kahana	2023	3
4	Stimulation better targets fast‐ripple generating networks in super responders to the responsive neurostimulator system Epilepsia ·Shennan A. Weiss, Dawn Eliashiv, John M. Stern, Daniel Rubinstein, Itzhak Fried, Chengyuan Wu, Ashwini Sharan, Jerome Engel, Richard J. Staba, Michael R. Sperling	2023	5
5	Pathological neurons generate ripples at the UP‐DOWN transition disrupting information transfer Epilepsia ·Shennan A. Weiss, Itzhak Fried, Jerome Engel, Anatol Bragin, Shuang Wang, Michael R. Sperling, Robert K. S. Wong, Yuval Nir, Richard J. Staba	2023	4
6	Graph theoretical measures of fast ripple networks improve the accuracy of post-operative seizure outcome prediction Scientific Reports ·Shennan A. Weiss, Itzhak Fried, Chengyuan Wu, Ashwini Sharan, Daniel Rubinstein, Jerome Engel, Michael R. Sperling, Richard J. Staba	2023	9
7	Proposal for an updated seizure classification framework in clinical trials Epilepsia ·Claude Steriade, Michael R. Sperling, Bree DiVentura, Meryl Lozano, Renée A. Shellhaas, Sudha Kilaru Kessler, Dennis Dlugos, Jacqueline A. French	2022	15
8	Graph theoretical measures of fast ripples support the epileptic network hypothesis Brain Communications ·Shennan A. Weiss, Tomás Pastore, Iren Orosz, Daniel Rubinstein, Richard Gorniak, Zachary Waldman, Itzhak Fried, Chengyuan Wu, Ashwini Sharan, Diego Fernández Slezak, Gregory A. Worrell, Jerome Engel, Michael R. Sperling, Richard J. Staba	2022	16
9	Use of second doses of Valtoco® (diazepam nasal spray) across 24 hours after the initial dose for out‐of‐hospital seizure clusters: Results from a phase 3, open‐label, repeat‐dose safety study Epilepsia ·Michael R. Sperling, James W. Wheless, R. Edward Hogan, Dennis Dlugos, Gregory D. Cascino, Kore Liow, Adrián L. Rabinowicz, Enrique Carrazana, (unknown)	2022	18
10	Protocol for multicentre comparison of interictal high-frequency oscillations as a predictor of seizure freedom Brain Communications ·Vasileios Dimakopoulos, Jean Gotman, William C. Stacey, Nicolás von Ellenrieder, Julia Jacobs, Christos Papadelis, Jan Cimbálník, Gregory A. Worrell, Michael R. Sperling, Maike Zijlmans, Lucas Imbach, Birgit Frauscher, Johannes Sarnthein	2022	11
11	Computational support, not primacy, distinguishes compensatory memory reorganization in epilepsy Brain Communications ·Joseph I. Tracy, Kapil Chaudhary, Shilpi Modi, Andrew J. D. Crow, Ashith Kumar, David Weinstein, Michael R. Sperling	2021	5
12	A web‐based algorithm to rapidly classify seizures for the purpose of drug selection Epilepsia ·Sándor Beniczky, Ali A. Asadi‐Pooya, Emilio Perucca, Guido Rubboli, Elena Tartara, Pirgit Meritam Larsen, Saqar Ebrahimi, Somayeh Farzinmehr, Stefan Rampp, Michael R. Sperling	2021	6
13	Time cells in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex support episodic memory Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gray Umbach, Pranish A. Kantak, Joshua Jacobs, Michael J. Kahana, Brad E. Pfeiffer, Michael R. Sperling, Bradley Lega	2020	113
14	Optimal choice of antiseizure medication: Agreement among experts and validation of a web‐based decision support application Epilepsia ·Sándor Beniczky, Stefan Rampp, Ali A. Asadi‐Pooya, Guido Rubboli, Emilio Perucca, Michael R. Sperling	2020	16
15	Cenobamate (YKP3089) as adjunctive treatment for uncontrolled focal seizures in a large, phase 3, multicenter, open‐label safety study Epilepsia ·Michael R. Sperling, Pavel Klein, Sami Aboumatar, Michael Gelfand, Jonathan J. Halford, Gregory L. Krauss, William E. Rosenfeld, David G. Vossler, Robert Wechsler, Leona D. Borchert, Marc Kamin	2020	142
16	Hippocampal theta codes for distances in semantic and temporal spaces Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ethan A. Solomon, Bradley Lega, Michael R. Sperling, Michael J. Kahana	2019	97
17	Detection of generalized tonic–clonic seizures using surface electromyographic monitoring Epilepsia ·Jonathan J. Halford, Michael R. Sperling, Dileep Nair, Dennis Dlugos, William O. Tatum, Jay Harvey, Jacqueline A. French, John R. Pollard, Edward Faught, Katherine H. Noe, Thomas R. Henry, Gina M. Jetter, Octavian V. Lie, Lola Morgan, Michael Girouard, Damon Cardenas, Luke Whitmire, José E Cavazos	2017	80
18	Presurgical thalamic “hubness” predicts surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy Neurology ·Xiaosong He, Gaëlle E. Doucet, Dorian Pustina, Michael R. Sperling, Ashwini Sharan, Joseph I. Tracy	2017	132
19	Attachment in adults: Clinical and developmental perspectives. Guilford Press eBooks ·Michael R. Sperling, William Berman Hit paper breakdown →	1994	714
20	Mesial Temporal Spikes: A Simultaneous Comparison of Sphenoidal, Nasopharyngeal, and Ear Electrodes Epilepsia ·Michael R. Sperling, J. Richard Mendius, Jerome Engel	1986	56

About Michael R. Sperling

Michael R. Sperling is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology, having authored 495 papers that have together received 23.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epilepsy research and treatment (313 papers), Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (156 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (126 papers), EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (96 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (61 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (50 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (39 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Psychiatry and Mental health (15.1k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (8.7k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (8.0k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (7.7k citations) and Neurology (2.6k citations). Michael R. Sperling has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Ashwini Sharan, William Berman, Ali A. Asadi‐Pooya, Michael J. O’Connor, Maromi Nei, Jacqueline A. French, Joyce Liporace, Joseph I. Tracy, Michael J. Kahana and Jerome Engel. Their work appears in journals such as Epilepsia, Neurology, Epilepsy & Behavior, Epilepsy Research and Annals of Neurology.

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