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Orrin Devinsky

New York University
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Contributions of anterior cingulate cortex to behaviour

O Devinsky, MJ Morrell, BA Vogt - Brain, 1995 - academic.oup.com
Assessments of anterior cingulate cortex in experimental animals and humans have led to
unifying theories of its structural organization and contributions to mammalian behaviour. The …

Cannabidiol: pharmacology and potential therapeutic role in epilepsy and other neuropsychiatric disorders

O Devinsky, MR Cilio, H Cross, J Fernandez‐Ruiz… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… Dr Devinsky is involved in assessing the safety and tolerability, and is involved in planning
randomized controlled trials of CBD supplied by GW Pharmaceuticals in patients with epilepsy…

Glia and epilepsy: excitability and inflammation

O Devinsky, A Vezzani, S Najjar, NC De Lanerolle… - Trends in …, 2013 - cell.com
Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent spontaneous seizures due to hyperexcitability and
hypersynchrony of brain neurons. Current theories of pathophysiology stress neuronal …

[HTML][HTML] Trial of cannabidiol for drug-resistant seizures in the Dravet syndrome

O Devinsky, JH Cross, L Laux, E Marsh… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The Dravet syndrome is a complex childhood epilepsy disorder that is associated
with drug-resistant seizures and a high mortality rate. We studied cannabidiol for the …

Depression but not seizure frequency predicts quality of life in treatment-resistant epilepsy

…, DL Labovitz, SC Jackson, K Starner, O Devinsky - Neurology, 2004 - AAN Enterprises
Background: The two-thirds of patients with epilepsy who become seizure-free have a quality
of life (QOL) similar to the general population. The major treatment challenge is patients …

Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial

O Devinsky, E Marsh, D Friedman, E Thiele… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background Almost a third of patients with epilepsy have a treatment-resistant form, which is
associated with severe morbidity and increased mortality. Cannabis-based treatments for …

[HTML][HTML] Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models

…, M Brenner, Y Matias, KA Norman, O Devinsky… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Departing from traditional linguistic models, advances in deep learning have resulted in a
new type of predictive (autoregressive) deep language models (DLMs). Using a self-…

[HTML][HTML] Effect of cannabidiol on drop seizures in the Lennox–Gastaut syndrome

O Devinsky, AD Patel, JH Cross… - … England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Cannabidiol has been used for treatment-resistant seizures in patients with
severe early-onset epilepsy. We investigated the efficacy and safety of cannabidiol added to a …

Development and cross‐cultural translations of a 31‐item quality of life in epilepsy inventory

JA Cramer, K Perrine, O Devinsky… - …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: We report the development of a questionnaire to assess health‐related quality of‐life
(HRQOL) in people with epilepsy and the process of cross‐cultural translations of the …

NeuroGrid: recording action potentials from the surface of the brain

…, JN Gelinas, T Thesen, W Doyle, O Devinsky… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Recording from neural networks at the resolution of action potentials is critical for
understanding how information is processed in the brain. Here, we address this challenge by …