Dana F Boatman

Summary

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A pilot study transitioning children onto levetiracetam monotherapy to improve language dysfunction associated with benign rolandic epilepsy
    Eric H Kossoff
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 11:514-7. 2007
  2. ncbi Auditory processing studied prospectively in two hemidecorticectomy patients
    Dana Boatman
    Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Child Neurol 18:228-32. 2003
  3. ncbi Variability in cortical representations of speech sound perception
    Dana F Boatman
    Departments of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Clin Linguist Phon 21:901-7. 2007
  4. ncbi How accurate are bedside hearing tests?
    D F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Neurology 68:1311-4. 2007
  5. ncbi Speech recognition impairments in patients with intractable right temporal lobe epilepsy
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    Epilepsia 47:1397-401. 2006
  6. ncbi Cortical auditory systems: speech and other complex sounds
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 8:494-503. 2006
  7. ncbi Cortical sites critical for speech discrimination in normal and impaired listeners
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Neurosci 25:5475-80. 2005
  8. ncbi Cortical bases of speech perception: evidence from functional lesion studies
    Dana Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Cognition 92:47-65. 2004
  9. ncbi Cortical auditory dysfunction in benign rolandic epilepsy
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 21287, USA
    Epilepsia 49:1018-26. 2008
  10. ncbi Landau-Kleffner syndrome responsive to levetiracetam
    Eric H Kossoff
    Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jefferson 128, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287 1000, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 4:571-5. 2003

Research Grants

  1. Complex Sound Processing in the Human Temporal Lobe
    Dana Boatman; Fiscal Year: 2007
  2. Assessment of right hemisphere auditory speech function
    Dana Boatman; Fiscal Year: 2006

Detail Information

Publications13

  1. ncbi A pilot study transitioning children onto levetiracetam monotherapy to improve language dysfunction associated with benign rolandic epilepsy
    Eric H Kossoff
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 11:514-7. 2007
    ..08). Seizures improved in five, decreasing from 2.7 to 1.0 seizure per 6 months (P=0.11). Results from this pilot study suggest that levetiracetam may have a beneficial effect on language in children with BRE...
  2. ncbi Auditory processing studied prospectively in two hemidecorticectomy patients
    Dana Boatman
    Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Child Neurol 18:228-32. 2003
    ..Hemispheric contributions to processing speech in noise appear to differ, with the left hemisphere compensating for loss of phonologic information and the right hemisphere compensating for increased attention demands...
  3. ncbi Variability in cortical representations of speech sound perception
    Dana F Boatman
    Departments of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Clin Linguist Phon 21:901-7. 2007
    ..The clinical implications of these findings are discussed as they relate to current understanding of how individual differences in listening abilities are reflected in the underlying cortical representations...
  4. ncbi How accurate are bedside hearing tests?
    D F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Neurology 68:1311-4. 2007
    ..Sensitivity improved when bedside tests were combined with case history. The diagnostic utility of bedside tests routinely administered by neurologists to detect hearing loss in adults requires further study...
  5. ncbi Speech recognition impairments in patients with intractable right temporal lobe epilepsy
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    Epilepsia 47:1397-401. 2006
    ..To evaluate speech recognition in patients with focal intractable epilepsy and surgical resections in the nondominant (right) hemisphere...
  6. ncbi Cortical auditory systems: speech and other complex sounds
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 8:494-503. 2006
    ..An integrated approach is proposed for future research on the neural bases of complex sound processing...
  7. ncbi Cortical sites critical for speech discrimination in normal and impaired listeners
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
    J Neurosci 25:5475-80. 2005
    ..These results demonstrate that individual differences in speech recognition abilities are reflected in the underlying cortical representations...
  8. ncbi Cortical bases of speech perception: evidence from functional lesion studies
    Dana Boatman
    Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
    Cognition 92:47-65. 2004
    ..Implications for recent developments in neuroimaging studies of speech perception will be discussed. This discussion will provide the framework for a developing model of the cortical circuitry critical for speech perception...
  9. ncbi Cortical auditory dysfunction in benign rolandic epilepsy
    Dana F Boatman
    Department of Neurology, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore 21287, USA
    Epilepsia 49:1018-26. 2008
    ..To evaluate cortical auditory function, including speech recognition, in children with benign rolandic epilepsy (BRE)...
  10. ncbi Landau-Kleffner syndrome responsive to levetiracetam
    Eric H Kossoff
    Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jefferson 128, 600 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287 1000, USA
    Epilepsy Behav 4:571-5. 2003
    ..Levetiracetam should be considered as therapy for Landau-Kleffner syndrome...
  11. ncbi Electrocorticographic high gamma activity versus electrical cortical stimulation mapping of naming
    Alon Sinai
    Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Brain 128:1556-70. 2005
    ..We discuss the relative merits of these two functional mapping techniques...
  12. ncbi Human ECoG analysis during speech perception using matching pursuit: a comparison between stochastic and dyadic dictionaries
    Supratim Ray
    Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles Street, 338 Krieger Hall, Room 253, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
    IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 50:1371-3. 2003
    ..5%) to the one generated by the stochastic MP. However, the dyadic MP is computationally much faster than the stochastic MP...
  13. ncbi 'Auditory verbal impairment in a child with Rasmussen encephalopathy and recurrent seizures'
    John Freeman
    Dev Med Child Neurol 49:717-8. 2007

Research Grants10

  1. Complex Sound Processing in the Human Temporal Lobe
    Dana Boatman; Fiscal Year: 2007
    ..Clinical implications include elucidating the relationship between temporal lobe representations of complex sound processing and individual auditory processing abilities. ..
  2. Assessment of right hemisphere auditory speech function
    Dana Boatman; Fiscal Year: 2006
    ..Completion of this initial research project will provide the basis for future investigations. ..