BarbaraESwartzMDPhD, FAAN, FANA

PubMed

• 8 citations
  Heterogeneity of anatomic regions by MR volumetry in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
  B. E. Swartz, J. Spitz, A. L. Vu, M. Mandelkern, M. L. Su
  Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 2016-01-06
• 15 citations
  The Effects of Guanfacine on Working Memory Performance in Patients With Localization-Related Epilepsy and Healthy Controls
  B. E. Swartz, Carrie R. McDonald, Ashok Patel, Denise Torgersen
  Clinical Neuropharmacology. 2008-09-01
• 29 citations
  The relationship of regional frontal hypometabolism to executive function: a resting fluorodeoxyglucose PET study of patients with epilepsy and healthy controls.
  Carrie R. McDonald, B. E. Swartz, Eric Halgren, Ashok Patell, Richard Daimes
  Epilepsy & Behavior. 2006-08-01

Journal Articles

• Functional characterization of a periventricular heterotopic nodule 1 associated with epileptogenic activity.  
  1. Nolan RL, Brandmeir N, Swartz B, Tucker E, Lewis JW., Epilepsy and Behavior. Mar, 2018., 3/2018
• The Effect of Guanfacine on Working Memory Performance in Patients with Localization-Related Epilepsy and Healthy Controls  
  Swartz BE, MacDonald C, Patell A, Torgersen D, J Clinical Pharmacology, 10/1/2008
• Optimal Evaluation of Digital Electroenchephalography  
  Rodin, E, Constantino T, van Orman C, Funke M, Devinsky O, Wong, P, McIntyre H, Swartz BE, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 1/1/2006
• The relationship of glucose metabolism to executive dysfunction in epilepsy and controls  
  MacDonald C, Swartz BE, Halgren E, Patell A, Daimes RMandelkern MA, Epilepsy and Behavior, 1/1/2006
• Hippocampal Sclerosis in Post-Traumatic Intractable Epilepsy  
  Swartz BE, Houser, C, Tomiyasu U, Walsh GO, Rich JR, DeSalles A, Delgado-Escueta AV, Epilepsia, 1/1/2006
• Occipital hypometabolism demonstrated by PET following temporal lobectomy for refractory epilepsy  
  Wong FCL, Swartz BE, Mintz L, Gee M, Mandelkern M, J Neuroopth, 1/1/2004
• Body Part Assymetry in Partial Seizures  
  Fong GCY, Mak YF, Swartz BE, Walsh GO, Delgado-Escueta AV, Epilepsia, 1/1/2004
• Pathogenesis of clinical signs in recessive ataxia with saccadic intrusions  
  Swartz BE, Li S, Bespalova I, Burmeister M, Dulaney E, Robinson FR,Leigh JR, Annals Neurology, 1/1/2003
• A New Form of Inherited Cerebellar Ataxia with Saccadic Intrusions, Sensorimotor Neuropathy and Myoclonus  
  Swartz BE, Burmeister, M, Sommers, J, Rotach K, Bespalavo I, Leigh RJ, Annals, NY Acad Sci, 4/1/2002
• The use of 18-FDG (PET) positron emission tomography in the routine diagnosis of epilepsy  
  Swartz BE. Patell A, Thomas K, Khonsari A, Torgersen D, Brown C, Delgado-Escueta AV, Walsh GO, Mandelkern MA, J Molecular Imaging and Biology, 1/1/2002
• The effects of an alpha-2-agonist, guanfacine on rCBF in normal humans and subjects with focal pathology  
  Swartz BE Torgersen D, Kovalik E, Thomas K, Brown C, Mandelkern MA, J Neuropsychopharmacol, 1/1/2000
• Functional Imaging in the Epilepsies (Book Review)  
  Swartz BE, Adv In Neurology, 1/1/2000
• Rapid quantitative analysis of individual FDG-PET scans  
  Swartz BE, Thomas K, Simpkins F, Kovalik E, Mandelkern MA, J Clinical Positron Imaging, 1/1/1999
• Timeline of the history of EEG and associated fields  
  Swartz BE, Goldenshon E, Electoenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 1/1/1998
• Surgical Outcomes in Pure Frontal Epilepsies and Foci that Mimic Them  
  Swartz BE, Delgado-Escueta AV, Walsh GO, Rich JR, DeSalles, A, Kauffman M, Epilepsy Research, 1/1/1998
• Dynamic FDG-PET and hypometabolic zones in seizures: Reduced capillary influx  
  Cornford EM, Gee MN, Swartz BE, et al, Annals, Neurology, 1/1/1998
• The advantages of digital over analog recording techniques In: B Swartz, Z Koles (eds) EEG, Past Present and Futures  
  Swartz BE, Electoenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 1/1/1998
• Presence of Herpes Simplex DNA in Surgical Tissue from Human Epileptic Seizure Foci Detected by Polymerase Chain Reaction  
  Sander VJ, Felisan SL, Waddell A, Conrad AJ, Schmid P, Swartz BE, et a, Arch Neurol, 1/1/1997
• Primary or working memory in frontal lobe epilepsy: An 18FDG-PET study of dysfunctional zones  
  Swartz BE, Halgren, Simpkins F, Fuster J, Mandelkern M, Krisdakumtorn T, Brown C, Ropchan J, Blahd WH, Neurology, 1/1/1996
• Studies of working memory using 18FDG-positron emission tomography in normal controls and subjects with epilepsy  
  Swartz BE, Halgren E, Simpkins F, Mandelkern M, Life Sciences, 1/1/1996
• Improved sensitivity of 18FDG-PET scans in frontal and "frontal-plus" epilepsy  
  Swartz BE, Khonsari A, Brown C, Mandelkern M, Simpkins F, Krisdakumtorn T, Epilepsia, 1/1/1995
• Cortical metabolic activation in humans during a visual memory task  
  Swartz BE, Halgren E, Fuster JM, Simpkins F, Gee M, Mandelkern M, Cerebral Cortex, 1/1/1995
• Safety and efficacy of chronic subdural electrodes in intractable epilepsy  
  Swartz BE, Rich JR, Dwan P, DeSalles AAF, Kaufman M, Walsh GO, Delgado-Escueta AV, Surg Neurology, 1/1/1995
• Subdural recording and electrical stimulation for cortical mapping and induction of usual seizures  
  DeSalles AAF, Swartz BE, Lee T, Delgado-Escueta AV, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1/1/1994
• An 18FDG-PET study of cortical activation During a short-term visual memory task in humans  
  Swartz BE, Halgren E, Fuster J, Mandelkern M, NeuroReport, 1/1/1994
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Books/Book Chapters

• Neuromodulation 
  Chapter: Responsive Neurostimulation 
  David E Burdette and Barbara E SwartzEditors: Vickram Rao.2023
• First International Text Book of Neurology 
  Chapter: Epilepsy 
  Swartz BE (Section Editor)Editors: Lisak, Truong.2009
• Imitators of Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Seizures that don’t look like seizures 
  Goyal M, Zarkowski P, Swartz BEEditors: PW Kaplan, RS Fisher.Demos Publications2003
• Jasper’s Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies 
  Chapter: Positron Emission Tomography: The contribution of cognitive activation paradigms to the understanding of epilepsies 
  Swartz BEEditors: AV Delgado-Escueta, W. Wilson, R. Olsen, RJ Porters.Lippincott-Williams & Wilkins, New York, NY2000
• Current Therapy in Internal Medicine 
  Chapter: Complex partial seizures 
  Swartz BEEditors: JP Kassirer, HL Greene II.Mosby-Year Book, Inc., Philadelphia, PA1997
• Current Therapy in Neurological Diseases 
  Chapter: Complex partial seizures 
  Page 55 - 61Swartz BEEditors: JW Griffin, RT Johnson.Mosby-Year Book, Inc., Philadelphia, PA1996
• Funny Spells; Seminars in Neurology 
  Chapter: Unusual seizure types 
  Swartz BEEditors: R. Evans.Thieme Publishing1995
• Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Frontal Lobe 
  Chapter: Positron emission tomography in frontal lobe epilepsy 
  Page 223 - 241Engel JE, Henry JR, Swartz BEEditors: HH Jasper, S. Riggio and PS Goldman-Rakic.Raven Press Ltd., NY1995
• Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Clinical and CCTV-EEG evaluation in presurgical work-up of temporal and frontal lobe epilepsies 
  Delgado-Escueta AV, Swartz BE, Chauvel P, Bancaud J, Walsh GO, Halgren E, Rich JR, Dwan PEditors: WH Theodore, M Elsevier.Epilepsy Res1992
• Neurobehavioral Problems In Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Frontal lobe seizures and epilepsies in neurobehavioral disorders 
  Page 317 - 334Delgado-Escueta AV, Swartz BE, Walsh GO, Chauvel P, Bancaud J, Broglin DEditors: D. Smith, DM Treiman, and M Trimble.Raven Press Ltd., NY1991
• Neurobehavioral Problems in Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Memory dysfunction in epileptics as a derangement of normal physiology 
  Page 385 - 411Halgren E, Stapleton J, Domalski P, Swartz BE, Delgado-Escueta AV, Treiman DM, Walsh GO, Mandelkern MD, Blahd W, Ropchan JEditors: D Smith, DM Treiman and M Trimble.Raven Press Ltd., NY1991
• Frontal Lobe Seizures and Epilepsies 
  Chapter: Differentiating frontal from temporal lobe seizures 
  Page 267 - 286Wieser HG, Swartz BE, Delgado-Escueta AV, Bancaud J, Walsh GO, Maldonado H.St. Hilaire JMEditors: P Chauvel, AV Delgado-Escueta, E Halgren, J Bancaud.Raven Press Ltd., NY1991
• Comprehensive Epileptology 
  Chapter: Status epilepticus 
  Page 251 - 270Delgado-Escueta AV, Swartz BE, Abad-Herrera PEditors: M Dam, L Gram.Raven Press Ltd., NY1990
• Presurgical Evaluation of Epileptics 
  Chapter: Complex partial seizures of frontal lobe origin 
  Page 267 - 297Delgado-Escueta AV, Swartz BE, Maldonado HM, Walsh GO, Rand RWEditors: HG Wieser and CE Elger.Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg1987
• Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Management of status epilepticus 
  Page 417 - 442Swartz BE, Delgado-Escueta AVEditors: Anthony Hopkins.Oxford University Press1987
• Current Problems in Epilepsy 
  Chapter: Complex partial seizures of extratemporal origin: the evidence for 
  Page 137 - 144Swartz BE, Delgado-Escueta AVEditors: HG Wieser, EJ Speckmann, J Engel.John Libbey, London, England; Paris, France1987
• Intensive Neurodiagnostic Monitoring 
  Chapter: Closed-circuit television videotaping and electroencephalography biotelemetry (video/EEG) in primary generalized epilepsies 
  Page 27 - 28Lee AG, Delgado-Escueta AV, Maldonado HM, Swartz BE, Walsh GOEditors: RJ Gummit.Raven Press Ltd., NY1986
• Current Trends in Morphological Techniques 
  Chapter: Pressure injection for the purposes of cell identification and subsequent ultramicroscopic analysis 
  Page 219 - 240Woody CD, Ribak CE, Sakai M, Sakai H, Swartz BEEditors: JE John, RC Adelman, GS Roth.CRC Press, FL1982
• Advances in Neurology 
  Chapter: Positron emission and single photon coputed tomography –A multicentered survey 
  Page 487 - 497Swartz BE, Theodore WH, Sanabria E, Fisher RSEditors: P Chauvel, AV Delgado-Escueta, J Bancaud.Raven Press Ltd., NY
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Abstracts/Posters

• Do Brain Volumes in JME differ from normal controls?
  Sptiz Jon, Swartz BE, ANA meeting, 10/1/2011
• Abnormal Metabolic ans Structural Changes in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy using MRI Volumetry and 1H MR Spectroscopy
  Hyeon-Man Baik, Swartz B, Vu L, Liu H, Orhan nalcioglu, Min-Yang Su, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2007
• Voxel Based Morphometry and Statistical Parametric Mapping of Positron Emission Tomography (SPM-PET) in Patients with Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Compared to Normal Controls
  Vu L, Swartz BE, Madelken M, Nalcioglu O, SY M-Y, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2007
• Metabolic Changes in Juvenile Myoclonic and Frontal Lobe Epilepsy by 1H MR Spectroscopy
  Hyeon-Man Baik, B Swartz, L Vu, H Liu, Orhan nalcioglu, Min-Yang Su, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2006
• Voxel Based Morphometry and Manual Volumetric Analysis of the Cingulate Gyrus in Patients with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy and Frontal Lobe Epilepsy Compared to Normal...
  Vu L, Swartz BE, et al, Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med, 1/1/2006
• When should surgery be performed for status epileticus (SE)?
  Swartz BE, Robinson S, Goyal M, Scher M, Maciunas M, AES Meeting, 1/1/2002
• The possible relationship of levitiracetam to hemorrhagic complications in epilepsy surgery
  Eccher M, Swartz BE, Werz ME, Robinson S, Maciunas R, AES Meeting, 1/1/2002
• A prospective oupatient study of quality of life in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and Muvenile Myoclonic epilepsy (JME)
  Yerukhimovich M, Lang PA, Swartz BE, AES Meeting, 1/1/2002
• Functional mapping in children with grids
  Robinson S, Scher M, Goyal, M, Swartz BE, Pediatric section of American Assoc of Neurosurgeons, 11/1/2001
• Extraoperative imagining and surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy
  Swartz BE, Metzger A, Robinson S, Werz MA, Goyal M, Lewin J, Maciunas R, Epilepsia, 1/1/2001
• Mesial temporal sclerosis in three patients with acute childhood leukemias
  Goyal M, Wiznitzer M, Swartz B, Scher MS, Epilepsia, 1/1/2001
• Potentiation of seizures by ciprofloxacin and imipenem
  Eccher M, Werz MA, Cowan R, Bush W, Swartz BE, Epilepsia, 1/1/2001
• Tigababine Induced Spike-Wave Stupor in Patients With Partial Epilepsy
  Santillan C, Werz MA, Avery J, Swartz BE, Epilepsia, 1/1/2000
• Mandelkern, M. The effects of an Alpha-2 adrenergic agonist, guanfacine, on rCBF in human cortex in normal controls and subjects with epilepsy
  Swartz BE, Kovalik K, Thomas K, Torgersen D, Neuropsychopharmacology, 1/1/2000
• Neurochemical changes in non-lesional frontal and primary generalized epilepsy
  Swartz BE, Chang L, Ernst T, Mandelkern MA, Neurology, 4/1/1999
• Use of statistical parametric mapping in the evaluation of 18FDG-PET Scans ordered for clinical work-up of neuropsychiatric syndromes
  Ottowitz, WE, Kovalik E, Mandelkern MA, Brown C, Swartz BE, ANPA/BNS Society Meeting, 1/1/1999
• The relationship of interictal EEG findings to hypo-metabolism in surgical and nonsurgical epilepsy
  Swartz BE, Patell A, Mandelkern MA, EEG Clin Neurophysiol, 1/1/1999
• Cognitive reorganization of verbal recent memory networks in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)
  Kovalik E, Mandelkern MA, Baxter CF, Swartz BE, Soc Neurosci Abstr, 1/1/1998
• A New, semi-automated technique for analysis of individual 18FDG-PET
  Swartz BE, Mandelkern M, Thomas K, Simpkins F, Brown C, Neurology, 1/1/1998
• Cingulate gyrus epilepsy: A distinct form of frontal lobe epilepsy
  Machado J, Fong C, Delgado-Escueta AV, Swartz BE, et al, Epilepsia, 1/1/1998
• Can head trauma produce hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE)?
  Swartz BE, Houser C, Tomiyasu U, DeSalles A, Rich JR, Walsh GO, Escueta AV, Epilepsia, 1/1/1998
• Altered brain glucose transporter activity in seizures: interictal downregulation and ictal upregulation
  Cornford EM, Hyman S, Nguyen EV, Gee MN, Swartz BE, et al, Epilepsia, 1/1/1998
• "Frontal" neurocognitive tests and regional glucose uptake
  Swartz BE, Halgren E, Ashok TV, Torgersen D, Simpkins F, Mandelkern MA, Epilepsia, 1/1/1998
• Sensitivity of FDG-PET in an unselected epilepsy population
  Swartz BE, Khonsary A, Delgado-Escueta AV, Mandelkern M, Epilepsia, 1/1/1997
• Neuromodualtory agents, working memory and focal epilepsy
  Swartz BE, Mandelkern M, Torgersen D, Thomas K, Epilepsia, 1/1/1997
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Lectures

• Women’s Issues in Epilepsy (Invited Speaker) 
  1/1/2006
• Improvement Strategies for Increasing Access to Specialty Care for Children/Youth with Epilepsy 
  Orange County, CA - 1/1/2006
• The Treatment of epilepsy in Women-special Considerations 
  Irvine, CA - 1/1/2004
• Epilepsy in the Adolescent 
  1/1/2003
• Neuroscience lecture series 
  Cleveland, OH - 1/1/2002
• Status Epilepticus 
  Wyndham Hotel - 4/18/2000
• 2000 Anti-epileptic Drug Use in Elderly Patients 
  George S. Dively Building - 2/17/2000
• Problems in Epilepsy Management 
  Lyndhurst, OH - 1/1/2000
• Relationship of trauma to hippocampal sclerosis 
  Los Angeles, CA - 4/1/1999
• Cognitive activation studies in Epilepsy 
  Los Angeles, CA - 3/1/1999
• Neurosurgical Approaches to the Patient with Epilepsy 
  1/1/1999
• Gender Issues in Epilepsy – Epilepsy 
  Los Angeles, CA - 9/1/1998
• New Ideas on the Management of Epilepsy 
  Cleveland, OH - 1/1/1998
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Other

• Effects of 3’5’ cyclic-guanosine monophosphate at central nervous system synapses (Graduate Thesis) 
  Swartz BE, University of California, Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, CA - 1/1/1979