Publications

  • Monsoor T, Kanai S, Daida A, Kuroda N, Sinha P, Oana S, Zhang Y, Liu L, Singh G, Duan C, Sim MS, Fallah A, Speier W, Asano E, Roychowdhury V, Nariai H. "Mini-Seizures: Novel Interictal iEEG Biomarker Capturing Synchronization Network Dynamics at the Epileptogenic Zone." medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Feb 2:2025.01.31.25321482. doi: 10.1101/2025.01.31.25321482. PMID: 39974054
  • Daida A, Panchavati S, Oana S, Kanai S, Zhang Y, Ding Y, Rajsekar RR, Salamon N, Sankar R, Fallah A, Hussain SA, Roychowdhury V, Speier W, Nariai H. "Evidence of thalamocortical network activation during epileptic spasms: A thalamic stereotactic EEG study." Epilepsia. 2025 Mar 7. doi: 10.1111/epi.18349. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40053323
  • Daida A, Ding Y, Zhang Y, Oana S, Panchavati S, Edmonds BD, Ahn SS, Salamon N, Sankar R, Fallah A, Staba RJ, Engel J Jr, Speier W, Roychowdhury V, Nariai H. "Fast ripple band high-frequency activity associated with thalamic sleep spindles in pediatric epilepsy." Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 May;173:241-251. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2025.01.011. Epub 2025 Jan 30. PMID: 39915224 
  • Daida A, Oana S, Nadkarni D, Espiritu BL, Edmonds BD, Stanecki C, Samuel AS, Rao LM, Rajaraman RR, Hussain SA, Matsumoto JH, Sankar R, Hannauer PS, and Nariai H. 2023. "Overnight Electroencephalogram to Forecast Epilepsy Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders." J Pediatr. 2024 Jul 27;274:114217. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114217. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39074735.
  • Zhang Y, Daida A, Liu L, Kuroda N, Ding Y, Oana S, Monsoor T, Hussain SA, Qiao JX, Salamon N, Fallah A, Sim MS, Sankar R, Staba RJ, Engel J Jr, Asano E, Roychowdhury V, and Nariai H. “Discovering Neurophysiological Characteristics of Pathological High-Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy with an Explainable Deep Generative Model” medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jul 11:2024.07.10.24310189. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.10.24310189. PMID: 39040207
  • Ahn S, Edmonds B, Rajaraman RR, Rao LM, Hussain SA, Matsumoto JH, Sankar R, Salamon N, Fallah A, and Nariai H. “Bilateral centromedian nucleus of thalamus responsive neurostimulation for pediatric-onset drug-resistant epilepsy.”Epilepsia. 2024 Aug;65(8):2238-2247. doi: 10.1111/epi.18028. Epub 2024 Jun 3. PMID: 38829313
  • Wagstyl K, Kobow K, Casillas-Espinosa PM, Cole AJ, Jiménez-Jiménez D, Nariai H, Baulac S, O'Brien T, Henshall DC, Akman O, Sankar R, Galanopoulou AS, Auvin S.“WONOEP 2022: Neurotechnology for the diagnosis of epilepsy.”Epilepsia. 2024 Aug;65(8):e131-e140. doi: 10.1111/epi.18031. Epub 2024 Jun 7. PMID: 38845459
  • Zhang Y, Liu L, Ding Y, Chen X, Monsoor T, Daida A, Oana S, Hussain S, Sankar R, Fallah A, Santana-Gomez C, Engel J, Staba RJ, Speier W, Zhang J, Nariai H, Roychowdhury V.“PyHFO: lightweight deep learning-powered end-to-end high-frequency oscillations analysis application.”J Neural Eng. 2024 May 28;21(3):036023. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad4916. PMID: 38722308
  • Panchavati S, Daida A, Edmonds B, Miyakoshi M, Oana S, Ahn SS, Arnold C, Salamon N, Sankar R, Fallah A, Speier W, Nariai H. “Uncovering spatiotemporal dynamics of the corticothalamic network at ictal onset.”Epilepsia. 2024 Jul;65(7):1989-2003. doi: 10.1111/epi.17990. Epub 2024 Apr 25. PMID: 38662128
  • Lu M, Zhang Y, Diada A, Oana S, Rajaraman RR, Nariai H, Roychowdhury V, Hussain SA. 2023. "Application of an EEG-based deep learning model to discriminate children with epileptic spasms from normal controls" medRxiv: 2023.06.30.23292096.
  • Monsoor T, Zhang Y, Daida A, Oana S, Lu Q, Hussain SA, Fallah A, Sankar R, Staba RJ, Speier W, Roychowdhury V, and Nariai H. “Optimizing Detection and Deep Learning-based Classification of Pathological High-Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy” Clin Neurophysiol. 2023 Oct;154:129-140. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.07.012. Epub 2023 Aug 9. PMID: 37603979
  • Edmonds B, Miyakoshi M, Remore LG, Ahn S, Phillips W, Daida A, Salmon N, Bari A, Sankar R, Matsumoto JH, Fallah A, and Nariai H. “Characteristics of ictal thalamic EEG in pediatric-onset neocortical focal epilepsy” medRxiv. 2023 Jun29:2023.06.22.23291714. doi: 10.1101/2023.06.22.23291714. Preprint. PMID: 37425697
  • Zhang Y, Lu Q, Monsoor T, Hussain SA, Qiao JX, Salamon N, Fallah A, Sim MS, Asano E, Sankar R, Staba RJ, Engel J, Speier W, Roychowdhury V, and Nariai H. “Refining epileptogenic high-frequency oscillations using deep learning: a reverse engineering approach.” Brain Commun. 2021 Nov 3;4(1):fcab267. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcab267. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35169696
  • Mazumder R, Lagoro DK, Nariai H, Danieli A, Eliashiv D, Engel J Jr, Dalla Bernardina B, Kegele J, Lerche H, Sejvar J, Matuja W, Schmutzhard E, Bonanni P, De Polo G, Wagner T, Winkler AS. “Ictal Electroencephalographic Characteristics of Nodding Syndrome: A Comparative Case-Series from South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda” Ann Neurol. 2022 Apr 19. doi: 10.1002/ana.26377. PMID: 3543820
  • Zhang Y, Chung H, Ngo JP, Monsoor T, Hussain SA, Matsumoto JH, Walshaw PD, Fallah A, Sim MS, Asano E, Sankar R, Staba RJ, Engel J, Speier W, Roychowdhury V and Nariai H. "Characterizing physiological high-frequency oscillations using deep learning" J Neural Eng. 2022. (19)066027. DOI 10.1088/1741-2552/aca4fa. PMID: 36541546
  • Kuroda N, Sonoda M, Miyakoshi M, Nariai H, Jeong JW, Motoi H, Luat AG, Sood S, Asano E. “High-frequency oscillation and phase-amplitude coupling comparably improve the prediction of epilepsy surgery outcome.” Brain Commun. 2021 Mar 14;3(2):fcab042. PMID: 33959709
  • Nagahama Y, Zervos T, Murata K, Holman L, Karsonovich T, Parker JJ, Chen JS, Phillips W, Fajardo M, Nariai H, Hussain S, Porter B, Grant GA, Ragheb J, Wang S, O’Neill BR, Alexander A, Bollo RJ, Fallah A. “Real-world preliminary experience with responsive neurostimulation in pediatric epilepsy: a multi-center retrospective observational study” Neurosurgery. 2021 Nov 18;89(6):997-1004. PMID: 34528103
  • Miyakoshi M, Nariai H, Rajaraman RR, Bernardo D, Shrey DW, Lopour B, Sim MS, Staba RJ, Hussain SA. “An automated pipeline for preprocessing scalp-recorded awake EEG data for phase-amplitude coupling analysis: application to infantile spasms.” Epilepsy Res. 2021 Dec;178:106809. doi: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2021.106809. Epub 2021 Nov 7. PMID: 34823159
  • Cepeda C, Levinson S, Nariai H, Yazon VW, Tran C, Barry J, Oikonomou K, Vinters HV, Fallah A, Mathern GW, Levine MS, Wu JY. “Pathological High-Frequency Oscillations Associate with Increased Spontaneous GABA Synaptic Activity in Pediatric Epilepsy” Neurobiol Dis. 2020 Feb;134:104618. PMID: 31629890
  • Bernardo D, Nariai H, Hussain SA, Sankar R, Wu JY. “Interictal scalp fast ripple occurrence and high frequency oscillation slow wave coupling in epileptic spasms.” Clin Neurophysiol. 2020 Jul;131(7):1433-1443. PMID: 32387963
  • Nariai H, Hussain SA, Bernardo D, Motoi H, Sonoda M, Kuroda N, Asano E, Nguyen J, Elashoff D, Sankar R, Bragin A, Staba RJ, Wu JY. Scalp EEG interictal high frequency oscillations as an objective biomarker of infantile spasms. Clin Neurophysiol. 2020 Sep 3;131(11):2527-2536. PMID: 32927206
  • Cao D, Chena Y, Liaoa J, Nariai H, Lie L, Zhua Y, Zhaoa X, Hua Y, Wena F, Zhai Q. “Scalp EEG High Frequency Oscillations as a Biomarker of Treatment Response in Epileptic Encephalopathy with Continuous Spike-and-Wave during Sleep (CSWS)” Seizure. 2019 Oct;71:151-157. PMID: 31351306
  • Nariai H, Hussain SA, Bernardo D, Fallah A, Murata KK, Nguyen JC, Rajaraman R, Rao LM, Matsumoto JH, Lerner JT, Salamon N, Elashoff D, Sankar R, Wu JY. “Prospective Cohort Study: Fast Ripple Localization Delineates the Epileptogenic Zone.” Clinical Neurophysiology. 2019 Nov;130(11):2144-2152. PMID: 31569042
  • .Bernardo D, Nariai H, Hussain S, Sankar R, Salamon N, Krugger D, Sahin M, Northup H, Bebin EM, Wu JY; UCLA Pediatric Epilepsy Group; TACERN Study Group. “Visual and semi-automatic non-invasive detection of interictal fast ripples: A potential biomarker of epilepsy in children with tuberous sclerosis complex.” Clinical Neurophysiology. 2018 Jul;129(7):1458-1466. PMID: 29673547
  • Nariai H, Bernardo D, Sankar R, Fallah A, Wu JY Hussain S. “Inter-rater reliability in visual identification of high frequency oscillations on electrocorticography and scalp EEG.” Epilepsia Open. 2018;3:127-132. PMID: 30564771