M Brandon Westover

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Revising the "Rule of Three" for inferring seizure freedom
    M Brandon Westover
    Neurology Department, Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Epilepsia 53:368-76. 2012
  2. ncbi Significance testing as perverse probabilistic reasoning
    M Brandon Westover
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Med 9:20. 2011
  3. ncbi Absence of early epileptiform abnormalities predicts lack of seizures on continuous EEG
    Mouhsin M Shafi
    Epilepsy Service, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 79:1796-801. 2012
  4. ncbi Inferring seizure frequency from brief EEG recordings
    M Brandon Westover
    MGH Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U S A Sleep Division, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U S A King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, and Department of Internal Medicine, Paget, Bermuda
    J Clin Neurophysiol 30:174-7. 2013
  5. ncbi Information theoretic quantification of diagnostic uncertainty
    M Brandon Westover
    Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wang 720, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Open Med Inform J 6:36-50. 2012
  6. ncbi The impact of body posture and sleep stages on sleep apnea severity in adults
    Nathaniel A Eiseman
    Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Clin Sleep Med 8:655-66A. 2012
  7. ncbi Propagation of uncertainty in Bayesian diagnostic test interpretation
    Preethi Srinivasan
    Bioinformatics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    South Med J 105:452-9. 2012
  8. ncbi Calculating the risk benefit equation for aggressive treatment of non-convulsive status epilepticus
    Matthew Ferguson
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurocrit Care 18:216-27. 2013
  9. ncbi Exploration and modulation of brain network interactions with noninvasive brain stimulation in combination with neuroimaging
    Mouhsin M Shafi
    Berenson Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 35:805-25. 2012
  10. ncbi Should risky treatments be reserved for secondary prevention? Theoretical considerations regarding risk-benefit tradeoffs
    M Brandon Westover
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 65:877-86. 2012

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Publications11

  1. ncbi Revising the "Rule of Three" for inferring seizure freedom
    M Brandon Westover
    Neurology Department, Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    Epilepsia 53:368-76. 2012
    ..Therefore, we set out to determine whether an alternative approach to the Rule of Three might be possible, and under what conditions the rule may be expected to hold or would need to be extended...
  2. ncbi Significance testing as perverse probabilistic reasoning
    M Brandon Westover
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    BMC Med 9:20. 2011
    ..This essay provides a technically sound review of these concepts that is accessible to a medical audience. We also briefly review the debate in the cognitive sciences regarding physicians' aptitude for probabilistic inference...
  3. ncbi Absence of early epileptiform abnormalities predicts lack of seizures on continuous EEG
    Mouhsin M Shafi
    Epilepsy Service, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurology 79:1796-801. 2012
    ..To determine whether the absence of early epileptiform abnormalities predicts absence of later seizures on continuous EEG monitoring of hospitalized patients...
  4. ncbi Inferring seizure frequency from brief EEG recordings
    M Brandon Westover
    MGH Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U S A Sleep Division, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, U S A King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, and Department of Internal Medicine, Paget, Bermuda
    J Clin Neurophysiol 30:174-7. 2013
    ..This framework should aid the clinician in applying a more principled approach toward decision making in the setting of a single seizure on a routine EEG...
  5. ncbi Information theoretic quantification of diagnostic uncertainty
    M Brandon Westover
    Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Wang 720, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    Open Med Inform J 6:36-50. 2012
    ..Finally, we illustrate how, in information theoretic terms, one can understand the effect on diagnostic uncertainty of considering ranges instead of simple point estimates of pre-test probability...
  6. ncbi The impact of body posture and sleep stages on sleep apnea severity in adults
    Nathaniel A Eiseman
    Neurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Clin Sleep Med 8:655-66A. 2012
    ..Making this determination presents a diagnostic challenge, given that summary metrics do not consider certain factors that influence severity, such as body position and the composition of sleep stages...
  7. ncbi Propagation of uncertainty in Bayesian diagnostic test interpretation
    Preethi Srinivasan
    Bioinformatics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    South Med J 105:452-9. 2012
    ..We thus sought to demonstrate how uncertainty in sensitivity, specificity, and disease pretest probability can be accommodated in Bayesian interpretation of diagnostic testing...
  8. ncbi Calculating the risk benefit equation for aggressive treatment of non-convulsive status epilepticus
    Matthew Ferguson
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Neurocrit Care 18:216-27. 2013
    ..To address the question: does non-convulsive status epilepticus warrant the same aggressive treatment as convulsive status epilepticus?..
  9. ncbi Exploration and modulation of brain network interactions with noninvasive brain stimulation in combination with neuroimaging
    Mouhsin M Shafi
    Berenson Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Eur J Neurosci 35:805-25. 2012
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  10. ncbi Should risky treatments be reserved for secondary prevention? Theoretical considerations regarding risk-benefit tradeoffs
    M Brandon Westover
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
    J Clin Epidemiol 65:877-86. 2012
    ..However, under certain conditions treatment benefits may be greater in primary prevention, even when the treatment carries harmful adverse effect potential...
  11. ncbi Emergence of stable functional networks in long-term human electroencephalography
    Catherine J Chu
    Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    J Neurosci 32:2703-13. 2012
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