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Neurology

Florian Thomas  Florian P Thomas, M.D., MA, Ph.D., M.S.

  Chair of Neurology

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Department of Neurology Faculty Publications (By Year)

  • Arnold, P. M., Owens, L., Heary, R. F., Webb, A. G., Whiting, M. D., Vaccaro, A. R., . . . Harrop, J. S. (2021). Lumbar spine surgery and what we lost in the era of the coronavirus pandemic: A survey of the lumbar spine research society. Clinical Spine Surgery, doi:10.1097/BSD.0000000000001235
  • Arnold, P. M., Vaccaro, A. R., Sasso, R. C., Goulet, B., Fehlings, M. G., Heary, R. F., . . . Kopjar, B. (2021). Two-year clinical and radiological outcomes in patients with diabetes undergoing single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Global Spine Journal, 11(4), 458-464. doi:10.1177/2192568220914880
  • Bhattarai, S., Akella, A., Gandhi, A., & Dharap, A. (2021). Modulation of brain pathology by enhancer RNAs in cerebral ischemia. Molecular Neurobiology, 58(4), 1482-1490. doi:10.1007/s12035-020-02194-9
  • Bhowmick, S., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2021). PTEN blocking stimulates corticospinal and raphespinal axonal regeneration and promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 80(2), 169-181. doi:10.1093/jnen/nlaa147
  • Bhowmick, S., Malat, A., Caruso, D., Ponery, N., D’mello, V., Finn, C., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2021). Intercellular adhesion molecule-1-induced posttraumatic brain injury neuropathology in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus leads to sensorimotor function deficits and psychological stress. ENeuro, 8(4) doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0242-21.2021
  • Cambiaghi, M., Cherchi, L., Masin, L., Infortuna, C., Briski, N., Caviasco, C., . . . Battaglia, F. (2021). High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation enhances layer II/III morphological dendritic plasticity in mouse primary motor cortex. Behavioural Brain Research, 410 doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113352
  • Concerto, C., Rodolico, A., Avanzato, C., Fusar-Poli, L., Signorelli, M. S., Battaglia, F., & Aguglia, E. (2021). Autistic traits and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms predict the severity of internet gaming disorder in an italian adult population. Brain Sciences, 11(6) doi:10.3390/brainsci11060774
  • de Dios, E., Heary, R. F., Lindhagen, L., & MacDowall, A. (2021). Laminectomy alone versus laminectomy with fusion for degenerative cervical myelopathy: A long-term study of a national cohort. European Spine Journal, doi:10.1007/s00586-021-07067-w
  • Han, Z., Battaglia, F., & Terlecky, S. R. (2021). Discharged COVID-19 patients testing positive again for SARS-CoV-2 RNA: A minireview of published studies from china. Journal of Medical Virology, 93(1), 262-274. doi:10.1002/jmv.26250
  • Infortuna, C., Battaglia, F., Freedberg, D., Mento, C., Zoccali, R. A., Muscatello, M. R. A., & Bruno, A. (2021). The inner muses: How affective temperament traits, gender and age predict film genre preference. Personality and Individual Differences, 178 doi:10.1016/j.paid.2021.110877
  • Infortuna, C., Mineo, L., Buffer, S., Thomas, F. P., Muscatello, M. R. A., Aguglia, E., . . . Battaglia, F. (2021). Acute social and somatic stress alters cortical metaplasticity probed with non-invasive brain stimulation in humans. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 170, 1-5. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.09.004
  • Li, L., Acioglu, C., Heary, R. F., & Elkabes, S. (2021). Role of astroglial toll-like receptors (TLRs) in central nervous system infections, injury and neurodegenerative diseases. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 91, 740-755. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2020.10.007
  • Ruiz, D., Bhattarai, S., & Dharap, A. (2021). Sex-based eRNA expression and function in ischemic stroke. Neurochemistry International, 150 doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2021.105149
  • Sanganahalli, B. G., Chitturi, J., Herman, P., Elkabes, S., Heary, R., Hyder, F., & Kannurpatti, S. S. (2021). Supraspinal sensorimotor and pain-related reorganization after a hemicontusion rat cervical spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurotrauma, 38(24), 3393-3405. doi:10.1089/neu.2021.0190
  • Agarwal, N., Agarwal, P., Taylor, T. M., Mortimer, A. R., Stacy, J. D., Spatola, M., . . . Heary, R. F. (2020). Contributions to the neurosurgery political action committee (NeurosurgeryPAC): A historical perspective. World Neurosurgery, 135, 273-279. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2019.12.082
  • Agarwal, N., Luy, D. D., Bonaminio, J. M., Philips, C. A., Dattomo, K. A., Heary, R. F., . . . Haid, R. W. (2020). Chronicling the philanthropic arm of neurological surgery: A review of the growth and development of the neurosurgery research and education foundation. Journal of Neurosurgery, 133(6), 1905-1912. doi:10.3171/2020.5.JNS201474
  • Cambiaghi, M., Crupi, R., Bautista, E. L., Elsamadisi, A., Malik, W., Pozdniakova, H., . . . Battaglia, F. (2020). The effects of 1-hz rTMS on emotional behavior and dendritic complexity of mature and newly generated dentate gyrus neurons in male mice. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(11), 1-11. doi:10.3390/ijerph17114074
  • Corse, T., Dayan, L., Kersten, S., Battaglia, F., Terlecky, S. R., & Han, Z. (2020). Clinical outcomes of COVID-19 patients with pre-existing, compromised immune systems: A review of case reports. International Journal of Medical Sciences, 17(18), 2974-2986. doi:10.7150/ijms.50537
  • Heary, R. F. (2020). Commentary: Implementation of a standardized multimodal postoperative analgesia protocol improves pain control, reduces opioid consumption, and shortens length of hospital stay after posterior lumbar spinal fusion. Neurosurgery, 87(1), E14-E15. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyz382
  • Heary, R. F., Agarwal, N., Parvathreddy, N. K., Hansberry, D. R., & Ferrara, L. A. (2020). Kinematics following 3-screw integrated interbody spacers in the lumbar spine. Operative Neurosurgery, 18(2), 175-182. doi:10.1093/ons/opz102
  • Heary, R. F., & Babu, M. A. (2020). Commentary: Dissecting the financial relationship between industry and academic neurosurgery. Neurosurgery, 87(6), E619-E620. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyaa291
  • Heary, R. F., Majmundar, N., & Nagurka, R. (2020). Is youth football safe? an analysis of youth football head impact data. Neurosurgery, 87(2), 377-382. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyz563
  • Infortuna, C., Gratteri, F., Benotakeia, A., Patel, S., Fleischman, A., Anna Muscatello, M. R., . . . Battaglia, F. (2020). Exploring the gender difference and predictors of perceived stress among students enrolled in different medical programs: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), 1-8. doi:10.3390/ijerph17186647
  • Infortuna, C., Silvestro, S., Crenshaw, K., Muscatello, M. R. A., Bruno, A., Zoccali, R. A., . . . Battaglia, F. (2020). Affective temperament traits and age-predicted recreational cannabis use in medical students: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(13), 1-7. doi:10.3390/ijerph17134836
  • Li, L., Ni, L., Heary, R. F., & Elkabes, S. (2020). Astroglial TLR9 antagonism promotes chemotaxis and alternative activation of macrophages via modulation of astrocyte-derived signals: Implications for spinal cord injury. Journal of Neuroinflammation, 17(1) doi:10.1186/s12974-020-01748-x
  • MacDowall, A., Heary, R. F., Holy, M., Lindhagen, L., & Olerud, C. (2020). Posterior foraminotomy versus anterior decompression and fusion in patients with cervical degenerative disc disease with radiculopathy: Up to 5 years of outcome from the national swedish spine register. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 32(3), 344-352. doi:10.3171/2019.9.SPINE19787
  • Menger, R., Esfahani, D. R., Heary, R., Ziu, M., Catharine A.Mazzola, LeFever, D., . . . Taylor, S. (2020). Contract negotiation for neurosurgeons: A practical guide. Neurosurgery, 87(4), 614-619. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyaa042
  • Akella, A., Bhattarai, S., & Dharap, A. (2019). Long noncoding RNAs in the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke. NeuroMolecular Medicine, 21(4), 474-483. doi:10.1007/s12017-019-08542-w
  • Azmi, H., Gibbons, M., DeVito, M. C., Schlesinger, M., Kreitner, J., Freguletti, T., . . . Roth, P. (2019). The interventional magnetic resonance imaging suite: Experience in the design, development, and implementation in a pre-existing radiology space and review of concepts. Surgical Neurology International, 10 doi:10.25259/SNI-209-2019
  • Bhattarai, S., Aly, A., Garcia, K., Ruiz, D., Pontarelli, F., & Dharap, A. (2019). Deep sequencing reveals uncharted isoform heterogeneity of the protein-coding transcriptome in cerebral ischemia. Molecular Neurobiology, 56(2), 1035-1043. doi:10.1007/s12035-018-1147-0
  • Bhowmick, S., D’Mello, V., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2019). Synergistic inhibition of ERK1/2 and JNK, not p38, phosphorylation ameliorates neuronal damages after traumatic brain injury. Molecular Neurobiology, 56(2), 1124-1136. doi:10.1007/s12035-018-1132-7
  • Bhowmick, S., D’Mello, V., Caruso, D., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2019). Traumatic brain injury-induced downregulation of Nrf2 activates inflammatory response and apoptotic cell death. Journal of Molecular Medicine, 97(12), 1627-1641. doi:10.1007/s00109-019-01851-4
  • Bhowmick, S., D'Mello, V., Caruso, D., Wallerstein, A., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2019). Impairment of pericyte-endothelium crosstalk leads to blood-brain barrier dysfunction following traumatic brain injury. Experimental Neurology, 317, 260-270. doi:10.1016/j.expneurol.2019.03.014
  • Bruno, A., Pandolfo, G., Crucitti, M., Troili, G. M., Battaglia, F., Zoccali, R. A., & Muscatello, M. R. A. (2019). Effect of red yeast rice on cognitive functioning in schizophrenia: Data from a pilot study. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 39(3), 210-213. doi:10.1097/JCP.0000000000001025
  • Heary, R. (2019). Use of fixation/fusion to treat lumbar spinal stenosis. Neurosurgical Focus, 46(5) doi:10.3171/2019.2.FOCUS19139
  • Heary, R. F., Agarwal, N., Agarwal, P., & Goldstein, I. M. (2019). Surgical treatment with thoracic pedicle screw fixation of vertebral osteomyelitis with long-term follow-up. Operative Neurosurgery, 17(5), 443-451. doi:10.1093/ons/opy398
  • Heary, R. F., Anderson, P. A., & Arnold, P. M. (2019). Lumbar spinal stenosis. Neurosurgical Focus, 46(5) doi:10.3171/2019.2.FOCUS19151
  • Heary, R. F., MacDowall, A., & Agarwal, N. (2019). Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: A two decade experience. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 42(4), 407-415. doi:10.1080/10790268.2018.1471780
  • Infortuna, C., Milisits, T. F., Shaju, S., Desai, J. K., Patel, S. P., Sheikh, A. M., . . . Battaglia, F. (2019). Effects of taurine acute intake on cortical excitability and post-exercise facilitation: A TMS study. Behavioural Brain Research, 359, 719-722. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2018.09.014
  • Li, L., Ni, L., Eugenin, E. A., Heary, R. F., & Elkabes, S. (2019). Toll-like receptor 9 antagonism modulates astrocyte function and preserves proximal axons following spinal cord injury. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 80, 328-343. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2019.04.010
  • Mirabelli, E., Ni, L., Li, L., Acioglu, C., Heary, R. F., & Elkabes, S. (2019). Pathological pain processing in mouse models of multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury: Contribution of plasma membrane calcium ATPase 2 (PMCA2). Journal of Neuroinflammation, 16(1) doi:10.1186/s12974-019-1585-2
  • Nouri, A., Patel, K., Evans, H., Saleh, M., Kotter, M. R. N., Heary, R. F., . . . Cheng, J. S. (2019). Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with klippel-feil syndrome: Analysis of a global patient-reported registry. European Spine Journal, 28(10), 2257-2265. doi:10.1007/s00586-019-06084-0
  • Abdul-Muneer, P. M., Alikunju, S., Schuetz, H., Szlachetka, A. M., Ma, X., & Haorah, J. (2018). Impairment of thiamine transport at the GUT-BBB-AXIS contributes to Wernicke’s encephalopathy. Molecular Neurobiology, 55(7), 5937-5950. doi:10.1007/s12035-017-0811-0
  • Abdul-Muneer, P. M., Bhowmick, S., & Briski, N. (2018). Angiotensin II causes neuronal damage in stretch-injured neurons: Protective effects of losartan, an angiotensin T1 receptor blocker. Molecular Neurobiology, 55(7), 5901-5912. doi:10.1007/s12035-017-0812-z
  • Agarwal, N., Heary, R. F., & Agarwal, P. (2018). Adjacent-segment disease after thoracic pedicle screw fixation. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 28(3), 280-286. doi:10.3171/2017.6.SPINE1492
  • Arnold, P. M., Sasso, R. C., Janssen, M. E., Fehlings, M. G., Heary, R. F., Vaccaro, A. R., & Kopjar, B. (2018). I-factor™ bone graft vs autograft in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: 2-year follow-up of the randomized single-blinded food and drug administration investigational device exemption study. Clinical Neurosurgery, 83(3), 377-384. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyx432
  • Babu, M. A., Nahed, B. V., & Heary, R. F. (2018). Commentary: Prescription drug monitoring programs and the neurosurgeon: Impact on workflow and overall perceptions. Neurosurgery, 83(4), E169-E176. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyy314
  • Bhowmick, S., D‘Mello, V., Ponery, N., & Abdul-Muneer, P. M. (2018). Neurodegeneration and sensorimotor deficits in the mouse model of traumatic brain injury. Brain Sciences, 8(1) doi:10.3390/brainsci8010011
  • Concerto, C., Boo, H., Hu, C., Sandilya, P., Krish, A., Chusid, E., . . . Battaglia, F. (2018). Hypericum perforatum extract modulates cortical plasticity in humans. Psychopharmacology, 235(1), 145-153. doi:10.1007/s00213-017-4751-1
  • Concerto, C., Infortuna, C., Muscatello, M. R. A., Bruno, A., Zoccali, R., Chusid, E., . . . Battaglia, F. (2018). Exploring the effect of adaptogenic rhodiola rosea extract on neuroplasticity in humans. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 41, 141-146. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2018.09.013
  • Heary, R. F., & Agarwal, N. (2018). Occipitocervical stabilization. Degenerative cervical myelopathy and radiculopathy: Treatment approaches and options (pp. 351-360) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97952-6_29
  • Heary, R. F., Agarwal, N., Ghogawala, Z., & Amankulor, N. (2018). Spondylotic and myelopathic myelopathies. Spinal cord medicine: Third edition (pp. 635-644)
  • Heary, R. F., Anderson, P. A., & Arnold, P. M. (2018). Spondylolisthesis. Neurosurgical Focus, 44(1) doi:10.3171/2017.10.FOCUS17652
  • Heary, R. F., & Iqbal, M. O. (2018). Spinal fracture complications.(pp. 362-371) doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-50961-9.00061-X
  • Mineo, L., Concerto, C., Patel, D., Mayorga, T., Chusid, E., Infortuna, C., . . . Battaglia, F. (2018). Modulation of sensorimotor circuits during retrieval of negative autobiographical memories: Exploring the impact of personality dimensions. Neuropsychologia, 110, 190-196. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.016
  • Mineo, L., Fetterman, A., Concerto, C., Warren, M., Infortuna, C., Freedberg, D., . . . Battaglia, F. (2018). Motor facilitation during observation of implied motion: Evidence for a role of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 128, 47-51. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.04.004
  • Mineo, L., Sarraf, Y., Ingram, C., Hanauer, S., Infortuna, C., Chusid, E., . . . Battaglia, F. (2018). Affective temperaments and stimulant medications misuse for neuroenhancement in graduate students. Journal of Substance use, 23(2), 124-129. doi:10.1080/14659891.2017.1364307
  • Saini, N., Zaidi, M., Barry, M. T., & Heary, R. F. (2018). Previously unreported complications associated with integrated cage screws following anterior lumbar interbody fusion: Report of 2 cases. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, 28(3), 311-316. doi:10.3171/2017.6.SPINE161443
  • Ward, M., Mammis, A., Barry, M. T., & Heary, R. F. (2018). Novel association between intrathecal drug administration and arachnoiditis ossificans. World Neurosurgery, 115, 400-406. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2018.04.196
  • Yanni, D. S., Cruz, A. S., Halim, A. Y., Gill, A. S., Muhonen, M. G., Heary, R. F., & Goldstein, I. M. (2018). Sublaminar fixation for traumatic lumbar fracture subluxation with lateral listhesis in a 2-year-old patient. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, 22(2), 200-206. doi:10.3171/2018.1.PEDS1648