Research

CNP fellows participate in ongoing independent research and become proficient in the critical assessment of the medical literature pertinent to Epilepsy and Neuromuscular disease. To advance fellow’s professional development and research experience, dedicated research faculty members provide additional support and expertise. To advance fellow’s professional development and research experience, dedicated research faculty members will provide additional support and expertise. Current faculty research interests include medical education, quality improvement, cardiac arrest, psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis.

Statistical support is also available through the department of research and innovation at St. Luke’s University Hospital.

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1. Goel H, Raheja D, Nadar SK. Evidence-based medicine or statistically manipulated medicine? Are we slaves to the P-value? Postgrad Med J. 2024 Jun 28;100(1185):451-460. doi: 10.1093/postmj/qgae012. PMID: 38330498.
2. Abidi, N., Abidi, Z., Hanrahan, B., Parampreet Kaur, M., Kerego, Y., Ng Pellegrino, A., & Thulasi, V. (2024). Perspective Chapter: Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Medical Subspecialties – Dermatology and Neurology. IntechOpen. doi: 10.5772/intechopen.115279.
3. Ryan JM, Wagner KT, Yerram S, Concannon C, Lin JX, Rooney P, Hanrahan B, Titoff V, Connolly NL, Cranmer R, DeMaria N, Xia X, Mykins B, Erickson S, Couderc JP, Schifitto G, Hughes I, Wang D, Erba G, Auerbach DS. Heart rate and autonomic biomarkers distinguish convulsive epileptic vs. functional or dissociative seizures. Seizure. 2023 Oct;111:178-186. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2023.08.015. Epub 2023 Aug 25. PMID: 37660533.
4. Albert DVF, Hanrahan BJ, Felker MV, et al. Creating a New Set of Milestones for the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2022;39(4):265-270. doi:10.1097/WNP.0000000000000932.
5. Hanrahan B, Carson RP. Ethosuximide. 2021 Dec 6. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 31334964.
6. Hanrahan B, Gross RA, Wychowski T, Erba G, Birbeck GL, Liu L. Improved ictal assessment performance in the epilepsy monitoring unit via standardization. Epilepsy Behav. 2021 Sep;122:108067. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108067. Epub 2021 Jun 17. PMID: 34147022.
7. Ming X, Prasad N, Thulasi V, Elkins K, Shivamurthy VKN. Possible contribution of cerebellar disinhibition in epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2021 May;118:107944. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.107944. Epub 2021 Apr 20. PMID: 33887658.
8. Patel P, Undavia A, Choudry R, Zhang Y, Prabhu AM. COVID-19 Associated With Concomitant Varicella Zoster Viral Encephalitis. Neurol Clin Pract. 2021 Apr;11(2):e219-e221. doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000902. PMID: 33842100; PMCID: PMC8032442.
9. Hanrahan B, Lee C, Jozefowicz R, Schloemer F, Helms A, Bradshaw D, Ojha A, Biswas S, Carlson C. You never forget your first? Impact of interview timing on institutional rank order. Med Educ. 2021 Jul;55(7):850-856. doi: 10.1111/medu.14535. Epub 2021 Apr 18. PMID: 33794035.
10. Hanrahan B, Carson RP. Felbamate. 2021 Aug 25. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 30969621.
11. Hanrahan B, Tatum WO 4th. Teaching NeuroImages: Texting rhythm: A common EEG finding in the era of smartphone use. Neurology. 2020 Dec 15;95(24):e3454-e3455. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010757. Epub 2020 Sep 4. PMID: 32887773.
12. S Neuwirth C, Braun N, Claeys KG, Bucelli R, Fournier C, Bromberg M, Petri S, Goedee S, Lenglet T, Leppanen R, Canosa A, Goodman I, Al-Lozi M, Ohkubo T, Hübers A, Atassi N, Abrahao A, Funke A, Appelfeller M, Tümmler A, Finegan E, Glass JD, Babu S, Ladha SS, Kwast-Rabben O, Juntas-Morales R, Coffey A, Chaudhry V, Vu T, Saephanh C, Newhard C, Zakrzewski M, Rosier E, Hamel N, Raheja D, Raaijman J, Ferguson T, Weber M. Implementing Motor Unit Number Index (MUNIX) in a large clinical trial: Real world experience from 27 centres. Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 Aug;129(8):1756-1762. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.04.614. Epub 2018 May 3. PMID: 29803404.
13. Talos DM, Jacobs LM, Gourmaud S, Coto CA, Sun H, Lim KC, Lucas TH, Davis KA, Martinez-Lage M, Jensen FE. Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 and 2 in human temporal lobe epilepsy. Ann Neurol. 2018 Feb;83(2):311-327. doi: 10.1002/ana.25149. Epub 2018 Feb 15. PMID: 29331082; PMCID: PMC5821556.
14. Aravindhan A, Veerapandiyan A, Earley C, Thulasi V, Kresge C, Kornitzer J. Child Neurology: Type 1 sialidosis due to a novel mutation in NEU1 gene. Neurology. 2018 Mar 27;90(13):622-624. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005209. PMID: 29581327.
15. Hanrahan B, Ghearing G, Urban A, Plummer C, Pan J, Hendrickson R, Bagic A, Antony A. Diagnostic accuracy of paroxysmal spells: Clinical history versus observation. Epilepsy Behav. 2018 Jan;78:73-77. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2017.09.001. Epub 2017 Nov 23. PMID: 29175694.
16. Veerapandiyan A, Enner S, Thulasi V, Ming X. A Rare Syndrome of GRID2 Deletion in 2 Siblings. Child Neurol Open. 2017 Aug 22;4:2329048X17726168. doi: 10.1177/2329048X17726168. PMID: 28856174; PMCID: PMC5570108.
17. Stephens HE, Lehman E, Raheja D, Yang C, Walsh S, Simmons Z. The role of mental health and self-efficacy in the pain experience of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2016;17(3-4):206-12. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1131832. Epub 2016 Feb 15. PMID: 26878392.
18. Simmons Z, Raheja D. Muscle & nerve joins the "App World". Muscle Nerve. 2016 Jan;53(1):1-2. doi: 10.1002/mus.24973. Epub 2015 Nov 26. PMID: 26565563.
19. Reid D, Zinger Y, Raheja D. Sensory Neuronopathy in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Case Presentation. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis. 2016 Sep;18(1):44-6. doi: 10.1097/CND.0000000000000124. PMID: 27552391.
20. Kaur D, Raheja D. A case of encephalomyeloradiculopathy in a non-carcinomatous patient associated with P/Q type voltage gated calcium channel antibodies. J Clin Neurosci. 2016 Nov;33:232-233. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2016.04.014. Epub 2016 Jul 27. PMID: 27475316.
21. Briglia H, Kohler S, Langer JE. Clinical Reasoning: A 62-year-old woman with bizarre behavior and recurrent episodes of behavioral arrest. Neurology. 2016 Feb 16;86(7):e62-5. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002367. PMID: 26880814.
22. Raheja D, Stephens HE, Lehman E, Walsh S, Yang C, Simmons Z. Patient-reported problematic symptoms in an ALS treatment trial. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2016;17(3-4):198-205. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1131831. Epub 2016 Jan 29. PMID: 26824413; PMCID: PMC4979603.
23. Stephens HE, Lehman E, Raheja D, Yang C, Walsh S, Mcarthur DB, Simmons Z. Pain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Patient and physician perspectives and practices. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2015;17(1-2):21-9. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1074701. Epub 2015 Oct 29. PMID: 26513301.
24. Talamo G, Mir MA, Pandey MK, Sivik JK, Raheja D. IgM MGUS associated with anti-MAG neuropathy: a single institution experience. Ann Hematol. 2015 Jun;94(6):1011-6. doi: 10.1007/s00277-014-2294-7. Epub 2015 Jan 10. PMID: 25572169.
25. Raheja D, Specht C, Simmons Z. Paraproteinemic neuropathies. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Jan;51(1):1-13. doi: 10.1002/mus.24471. Epub 2014 Nov 22. PMID: 25288371.
26. Patel UH, Mir MA, Sivik JK, Raheja D, Pandey MK, Talamo G. Central neurotoxicity of immunomodulatory drugs in multiple myeloma. Hematol Rep. 2015 Mar 3;7(1):5704. doi: 10.4081/hr.2015.5704. PMID: 25852850; PMCID: PMC4378207.
27. Ranjan S, Kohler S, Harrison MB, Quigg M. Nocturnal Post-arousal Chorea and Repetitive Ballistic Movement in Huntington's Disease. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2015 Nov 27;3(2):200-202. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.12258. PMID: 30363612; PMCID: PMC6178736.
28. Lim ST, Lim KC, Giuliano RE, Federoff HJ. Temporal and spatial localization of nectin-1 and l-afadin during synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons. J Comp Neurol. 2008 Mar 10;507(2):1228-44. doi: 10.1002/cne.21608. PMID: 18181141.
29. Lim KC, Tyler CM, Lim ST, Giuliano R, Federoff HJ. Proteolytic processing of proNGF is necessary for mature NGF regulated secretion from neurons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Sep 28;361(3):599-604. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.039. Epub 2007 Jul 20. PMID: 17673176.
30. Lim KC, Tyler CM, Lim ST, Giuliano R, Federoff HJ. Proteolytic processing of proNGF is necessary for mature NGF regulated secretion from neurons. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2007 Sep 28;361(3):599-604. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.039. Epub 2007 Jul 20. PMID: 17673176.
31. Lim ST, Lim KC, Giuliano RE, Federoff HJ. Temporal and spatial localization of nectin-1 and l-afadin during synaptogenesis in hippocampal neurons. J Comp Neurol. 2008 Mar 10;507(2):1228-44. doi: 10.1002/cne.21608. PMID: 18181141.
32. Talos DM, Jacobs LM, Gourmaud S, Coto CA, Sun H, Lim KC, Lucas TH, Davis KA, Martinez-Lage M, Jensen FE. Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 and 2 in human temporal lobe epilepsy. Ann Neurol. 2018 Feb;83(2):311-327. doi: 10.1002/ana.25149. Epub 2018 Feb 15. PMID: 29331082; PMCID: PMC5821556.
33. Hanrahan B, Carson RP. Ethosuximide. 2021 Dec 6. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 31334964.
34. Hanrahan B, Carson RP. Felbamate. 2021 Aug 25. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 30969621.
35. Hanrahan B, Gross RA, Wychowski T, Erba G, Birbeck GL, Liu L. Improved ictal assessment performance in the epilepsy monitoring unit via standardization. Epilepsy Behav. 2021 Sep;122:108067. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2021.108067. Epub 2021 Jun 17. PMID: 34147022.
36. Hanrahan B, Lee C, Jozefowicz R, Schloemer F, Helms A, Bradshaw D, Ojha A, Biswas S, Carlson C. You never forget your first? Impact of interview timing on institutional rank order. Med Educ. 2021 Jul;55(7):850-856. doi: 10.1111/medu.14535. Epub 2021 Apr 18. PMID: 33794035.
37. Hanrahan B, Ghearing G, Urban A, Plummer C, Pan J, Hendrickson R, Bagic A, Antony A. Diagnostic accuracy of paroxysmal spells: Clinical history versus observation. Epilepsy Behav. 2018 Jan;78:73-77. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2017.09.001. Epub 2017 Nov 23. PMID: 29175694.
38. Albert DVF, Hanrahan BJ, Felker MV, Nguyen TP, Jones LK, Freedman DA, Pawar GV, Danner N, Singhal D, McLean SM, Edgar LA. Creating a New Set of Milestones for the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Mar 2. doi: 10.1097/WNP.0000000000000932. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35239552.
39. Hanrahan B, Tatum WO 4th. Teaching NeuroImages: Texting rhythm: A common EEG finding in the era of smartphone use. Neurology. 2020 Dec 15;95(24):e3454-e3455. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010757. Epub 2020 Sep 4. PMID: 32887773.
40. Ranjan S, Kohler S, Harrison MB, Quigg M. Nocturnal Post-arousal Chorea and Repetitive Ballistic Movement in Huntington's Disease. Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2015 Nov 27;3(2):200-202. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.12258. PMID: 30363612; PMCID: PMC6178736.
41. Briglia H, Kohler S, Langer JE. Clinical Reasoning: A 62-year-old woman with bizarre behavior and recurrent episodes of behavioral arrest. Neurology. 2016 Feb 16;86(7):e62-5. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000002367. PMID: 26880814.
42. Raheja D, Specht C, Simmons Z. Paraproteinemic neuropathies. Muscle Nerve. 2015 Jan;51(1):1-13. doi: 10.1002/mus.24471. Epub 2014 Nov 22. PMID: 25288371.
43. Raheja D, Stephens HE, Lehman E, Walsh S, Yang C, Simmons Z. Patient-reported problematic symptoms in an ALS treatment trial. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2016;17(3-4):198-205. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1131831. Epub 2016 Jan 29. PMID: 26824413; PMCID: PMC4979603.
44. Simmons Z, Raheja D. Muscle & nerve joins the "App World". Muscle Nerve. 2016 Jan;53(1):1-2. doi: 10.1002/mus.24973. Epub 2015 Nov 26. PMID: 26565563.
45. S Neuwirth C, Braun N, Claeys KG, Bucelli R, Fournier C, Bromberg M, Petri S, Goedee S, Lenglet T, Leppanen R, Canosa A, Goodman I, Al-Lozi M, Ohkubo T, Hübers A, Atassi N, Abrahao A, Funke A, Appelfeller M, Tümmler A, Finegan E, Glass JD, Babu S, Ladha SS, Kwast-Rabben O, Juntas-Morales R, Coffey A, Chaudhry V, Vu T, Saephanh C, Newhard C, Zakrzewski M, Rosier E, Hamel N, Raheja D, Raaijman J, Ferguson T, Weber M. Implementing Motor Unit Number Index (MUNIX) in a large clinical trial: Real world experience from 27 centres. Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 Aug;129(8):1756-1762. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.04.614. Epub 2018 May 3. PMID: 29803404.
46. Stephens HE, Lehman E, Raheja D, Yang C, Walsh S, Mcarthur DB, Simmons Z. Pain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Patient and physician perspectives and practices. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2015;17(1-2):21-9. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1074701. Epub 2015 Oct 29. PMID: 26513301.
47. Patel UH, Mir MA, Sivik JK, Raheja D, Pandey MK, Talamo G. Central neurotoxicity of immunomodulatory drugs in multiple myeloma. Hematol Rep. 2015 Mar 3;7(1):5704. doi: 10.4081/hr.2015.5704. PMID: 25852850; PMCID: PMC4378207.
48. Reid D, Zinger Y, Raheja D. Sensory Neuronopathy in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: A Case Presentation. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis. 2016 Sep;18(1):44-6. doi: 10.1097/CND.0000000000000124. PMID: 27552391.
49. Stephens HE, Lehman E, Raheja D, Yang C, Walsh S, Simmons Z. The role of mental health and self-efficacy in the pain experience of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener. 2016;17(3-4):206-12. doi: 10.3109/21678421.2015.1131832. Epub 2016 Feb 15. PMID: 26878392.
50. Talamo G, Mir MA, Pandey MK, Sivik JK, Raheja D. IgM MGUS associated with anti-MAG neuropathy: a single institution experience. Ann Hematol. 2015 Jun;94(6):1011-6. doi: 10.1007/s00277-014-2294-7. Epub 2015 Jan 10. PMID: 25572169.
51. Kaur D, Raheja D. A case of encephalomyeloradiculopathy in a non-carcinomatous patient associated with P/Q type voltage gated calcium channel antibodies. J Clin Neurosci. 2016 Nov;33:232-233. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2016.04.014. Epub 2016 Jul 27. PMID: 27475316.