Patrick Kwan

Practical considerations of dietary therapies for epilepsy in adults

Neha Kaul, John-Paul Nicolo, Terence J O’Brien, Patrick Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Acta Epileptologica

Abstract Despite the increasing number of anti-seizure medications becoming available, the proportion of patients ..

Practical Considerations for Ketogenic Diet in Adults With Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus

Neha Kaul, Joshua Laing, John-Paul Nicolo, Judy Nation, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O'Brien

Journal article  |  2021  |  Neurology: Clinical Practice

Purpose of ReviewKetogenic diet therapy can be used as an adjuvant treatment of super-refractory status epilepticus (SRSE). Howeve..

Machine learning models for decision support in epilepsy management: A critical review

Eliot D Smolyansky, Haris Hakeem, Zongyuan Ge, Zhibin Chen, Patrick Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

PURPOSE: There remain major challenges for the clinician in managing patients with epilepsy effectively. Choosing anti-seizure med..

Meander thin-film biosensor fabrication to investigate the influence of structural parameters on the magneto-impedance effect

A Sayad, SM Uddin, J Chan, E Skafidas, P Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Sensors

Thin-film magneto-impedance (MI) biosensors have attracted significant attention due to their high sensitivity and easy miniaturiz..

Low prevalence of amyloid and tau pathology in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy

Juliana C Silva, Lucy Vivash, Charles B Malpas, Yong Hao, Catriona McLean, Zhibin Chen, Terence J O'Brien, Nigel C Jones, Patrick Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPILEPSIA

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive impairment is common in patients with chronic drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Hyperphosphorylate..

A systems-level analysis highlights microglial activation as a modifying factor in common epilepsies

Andre Altmann, Mina Ryten, Martina Di Nunzio, Teresa Ravizza, Daniele Tolomeo, Regina H Reynolds, Alyma Somani, Marco Bacigaluppi, Valentina Iori, Edoardo Micotti, Rossella Di Sapia, Milica Cerovic, Eleonora Palma, Gabriele Ruffolo, Juan A Botia, Julie Absil, Saud Alhusaini, Marina KM Alvim, Pia Auvinen, Nuria Bargallo, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY

AIMS: The causes of distinct patterns of reduced cortical thickness in the common human epilepsies, detectable on neuroimaging and..

019 Differentiating status epilepticus from prolonged psychogenic non-epileptic seizures – can peripheral cell ratios help?

Tracie HL Tan, Piero Perucca, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O’Brien, Mastura Monif

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Oral abstracts

One step closer towards personalized epilepsy management.

Zhibin Chen, Alison Anderson, Zongyuan Ge, Patrick Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  Brain

This scientific commentary refers to ‘Towards realizing the vision of precision medicine: AI based prediction of clinical drug res..

An ultra-portable, self-contained point-of-care nucleic acid amplification test for diagnosis of active COVID-19 infection

Hao Deng, Asanka Jayawardena, Jianxiong Chan, Sher Maine Tan, Tuncay Alan, Patrick Kwan

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

There is currently a high level of demand for rapid COVID-19 tests, that can detect the onset of the disease at point of care sett..

Psychiatric and cognitive characteristics of older adults admitted to a Video-EEG monitoring (VEM) unit

Anthony Hew, Michael Lloyd, Genevieve Rayner, Alice Matson, Maria Rychkova, Rashida Ali, Toby Winton-Brown, Piero Perucca, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O'Brien, Dennis Velakoulis, Charles B Malpas, Samantha M Loi

Journal article  |  2021  |  EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

OBJECTIVE: To compare the clinical, psychiatric, and cognitive characteristics of older with younger patients presenting to a vide..