User profiles for M. D. Smyth

Matthew D. Smyth

Professor of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University
Verified email at jhmi.edu
Cited by 9925

The surgical treatment of spasticity

MD Smyth, WJ Peacock - Muscle & Nerve: Official Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Many neurosurgical procedures have been designed for or applied to the treatment of spasticity
arising from different disorders, including cerebral palsy; traumatic, ischemic, or hypoxic …

Electrophysiological correlates of the brain's intrinsic large-scale functional architecture

…, AZ Snyder, JM Zempel, MD Smyth… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Spontaneous fluctuations in the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signals demonstrate
consistent temporal correlations within large-scale brain networks associated with different …

Two-dimensional movement control using electrocorticographic signals in humans

…, NR Anderson, JA Wilson, MD Smyth… - Journal of neural …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We show here that a brain–computer interface (BCI) using electrocorticographic activity (ECoG)
and imagined or overt motor tasks enables humans to control a computer cursor in two …

Outcome methods used in clinical studies of Chiari malformation Type I: a systematic review

…, CK Yarbrough, K Lipsey, JF Piccirillo, MD Smyth… - Journal of …, 2015 - thejns.org
OBJECT Chiari malformation Type I (CM-I) is a common and often debilitating neurological
disease. Efforts to improve treatment of CM-I are impeded by inconsistent and limited …

Loss of resting interhemispheric functional connectivity after complete section of the corpus callosum

JM Johnston, SN Vaishnavi, MD Smyth… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Slow (<0.1 Hz), spontaneous fluctuations in the functional magnetic resonance imaging
blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal have been shown to exhibit phase coherence …

Preoperative sensorimotor mapping in brain tumor patients using spontaneous fluctuations in neuronal activity imaged with functional magnetic resonance imaging …

…, RL Grubb, MR Chicoine, MD Smyth… - Operative …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To describe initial experience with resting-state correlation mapping as a
potential aid for presurgical planning of brain tumor resection. METHODS: Resting-state blood …

Corpus callosotomy—Open and endoscopic surgical techniques

MD Smyth, AK Vellimana, E Asano, S Sood - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Corpus callosotomy is a palliative surgical procedure for patients with refractory epilepsy. It
can be performed through an open approach via a standard craniotomy and the aid of an …

On the role of the corpus callosum in interhemispheric functional connectivity in humans

…, DD Limbrick, ME Raichle, MD Smyth… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Resting state functional connectivity is defined in terms of temporal correlations between
physiologic signals, most commonly studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging. …

Endoscopically assisted versus open repair of sagittal craniosynostosis: the St. Louis Children's Hospital experience

…, JD Petersen, AS Woo, SD Naidoo, MD Smyth - Journal of …, 2011 - thejns.org
Object This study investigated the differences in effectiveness and morbidity between
endoscopically assisted wide-vertex strip craniectomy with barrel-stave osteotomies and …

Complications of chronic vagus nerve stimulation for epilepsy in children

MD Smyth, RS Tubbs, EM Bebin, PA Grabb… - Journal of …, 2003 - thejns.org
Object. The aim of this study was to define better the incidence of surgical complications and
untoward side effects of chronic vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in a population of children …