Adjunct Professor, Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. Youssef G. Comair, MD
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Youssef G. Comair works in the field of Neurosurgery. He studied medicine at St Joseph's University Medical School. He over the years received 1 awards: "Most Compassionate Doctor". Youssef Comair is also a published MD. He has 65 paper published. The most recent paper is: Seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents.
Publications
- Sub-second dopamine detection in human striatum.
- Surgical outcome for focal cortical dysplasia: an analysis of recent surgical series.
- Intracarotid propofol testing: a comparative study with amobarbital.
- Functional recovery following resection of an epileptogenic focus in the motor hand area.
- Normalization of quality of life three years after temporal lobectomy: a controlled study.
- Pattern-induced partial seizures with repetitive affectionate kissing: an unusual manifestation of right temporal lobe epilepsy.
- Spontaneous subdural haematoma in anabolic steroids dependent weight lifters: reports of two cases and review of literature.
- Pseudallescheria boydii cranial osteomyelitis and subdural empyema successfully treated with voriconazole: a case report and literature review.
- Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population.
- Seizure outcome after functional hemispherectomy for malformations of cortical development.
- Seizure outcome after surgery for epilepsy due to malformation of cortical development.
- Epilepsy surgery in children with pervasive developmental disorder.
- Surgical management of pediatric tumor-associated epilepsy.
- Seizure outcome after epilepsy surgery in children and adolescents.
- Histopathological correlates of epileptogenicity as expressed by electrocorticographic spiking and seizure frequency.
- Neuropsychological effect of temporal lobe resection in preadolescent children with epilepsy.
- Increased densities of AMPA GluR1 subunit proteins and presynaptic mossy fiber sprouting in the fascia dentata of human hippocampal epilepsy.
- Induced expression of NMDAR2 proteins and differential expression of NMDAR1 splice variants in dysplastic neurons of human epileptic neocortex.
- Ganglioglioma and intractable epilepsy: clinical and neurophysiologic features and predictors of outcome after surgery.
- MRS metabolic markers of seizures and seizure-induced neuronal damage.
- The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes.
- Epilepsy surgery outcome: comprehensive assessment in children.
- Temporal changes in proton MRS metabolites after kainic acid-induced seizures in rat brain.
- Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 11 tumors including MIB1 immunoreactivity.
- Specific repression of the preproendothelin-1 gene in intracranial arteriovenous malformations.
- Recovery of function following lesions of eloquent brain areas.
- Cortical electrical stimulation in humans. The negative motor areas.
- Postictal alteration of sodium content and apparent diffusion coefficient in epileptic rat brain induced by kainic acid.
- Subdural recording of ictal DC shifts in neocortical seizures in humans.
- Epilepsy surgery in infants.
- Epilepsy surgery in the setting of periventricular leukomalacia and focal cortical dysplasia.
- Invasive investigation and surgery of the supplementary motor area. The Cleveland Clinic experience.
- Surgical ablations of the mesial frontal lobe in humans.
- The prevention of oxyhemoglobin-induced endothelial and smooth muscle cytoskeletal injury by deferoxamine.
- Temporal lobe epilepsy in early childhood.
- Surgery for intractable infantile spasms: neuroimaging perspectives.
- Temporal lobe epilepsy: presurgical localization with proton chemical shift imaging.
- Language dominance in patients with early childhood tumors near left hemisphere language areas.
- Supplementary sensorimotor area seizures in children and adolescents.
- Childhood ganglioglioma and medically intractable epilepsy. A clinicopathological study of 15 patients and a review of the literature.
- [Temporal lobectomy: indications and role in the surgery of epilepsy].
- Cortical architectural abnormalities and MIB1 immunoreactivity in gangliogliomas: a study of 60 patients with intracranial tumors.
- Phenoxybenzamine in the treatment of causalgia. Report of 40 cases.
- Cerebral and systemic vascular effects of naloxone in pentobarbital-anesthetized normal dogs.
- Time-dependent changes in cerebral and cardiovascular parameters in isoflurane-nitrous oxide-anesthetized dogs.
- Effects of naloxone during high dose barbiturate anesthesia.
- High dose naloxone produces cerebral vasodilation.
- Effects of naloxone on cerebral blood flow and metabolism in isoflurane/nitrous oxide-anesthetized dogs.
- Pharmacological action of FPL 55712 on canine cerebral arterial segments.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
- A rapid and modifiable technique for regional exposure in cerebral surgery. Technical note.
- Less than severe head injury--an overview.
- Neurosurgical treatment of refractory status epilepticus.
- Neuropathologic findings in cortical resections (including hemispherectomies) performed for the treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy.
- Intractable seizures, compulsions, and coprolalia: a pediatric case study.
- Temporal and extended temporal resections for the treatment of intractable seizures in early childhood.
- Morphological substrates of infantile spasms: studies based on surgically resected cerebral tissue.
- Predictors of outcome after temporal lobectomy for the treatment of intractable epilepsy.
- Exacerbation of vocal tics after temporal lobectomy.
- Deep brain stimulation as a mode of treatment of early onset pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.
- Periosteal osteoblastoma of the calvaria mimicking a meningioma.
- Marked benefits in physical activity and well-being, but not in functioning domains, 2 years after successful epilepsy surgery in children.
- Quality of life after surgery for intractable partial epilepsy in children: a cohort study with controls.
- Quality of life after vagal nerve stimulator insertion.
Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Most Compassionate Doctor
Education
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St Joseph's University Medical School
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