Steven Schiff
Director of the Center for Neural Engineering; Brush Chair Professor of Engineering; Professor of Neurosurgery; Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
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Neural engineering, neurosurgery, epilepsy, Parkinsons Disease, wave mechanics, brain machine interfaces, EEG, electrical fields, and control theory.
Publication Tags
Brain Seizures Hydrocephalus Therapeutics Epilepsy Neurons Infection Control Theory Africa South Of The Sahara Oxygen Parkinson Disease Depolarization Magnetic Resonance Imaging Seizure Ventriculostomy Uganda Economics Choroid Plexus Cautery Swelling Controllers Membranes Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Membrane Cells
Most Recent Papers
The Incidence of Postoperative Seizures Following Treatment of Postinfectious Hydrocephalus in Ugandan Infants
Maria Punchak, Edith Mbabazi Kabachelor, Michael Ogwal, Esther Nalule, Joyce Nalwoga, Peter Ssenyonga, John Mugamba, Abbas Rattani, Michael C. Dewan, Abhaya V. Kulkarni, Steven J. Schiff, Benjamin Warf, 2019, Clinical Neurosurgery on p. E714-E721
Design of a sustainable prepolarizing magnetic resonance imaging system for infant hydrocephalus
Johnes Obungoloch, Joshua R. Harper, Steven Consevage, Igor M. Savukov, Thomas Neuberger, Srinivas Tadigadapa, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine on p. 665-676
A brain–heart biomarker for epileptogenesis
Fatemeh Bahari, Paddy Ssentongo, Steven J. Schiff, Bruce J. Gluckman, 2018, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 8473-8483
Normative human brain volume growth
Mallory Peterson, Benjamin C. Warf, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on p. 478-485
Economic burden of neonatal sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa
Sylvia L. Ranjeva, Benjamin C. Warf, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, BMJ Global Health
Endoscopic Treatment versus Shunting for Infant Hydrocephalus in Uganda
Abhaya V. Kulkarni, Steven J. Schiff, Edith Mbabazi-Kabachelor, John Mugamba, Peter Ssenyonga, Ruth Donnelly, Jody Levenbach, Vishal Monga, Mallory Peterson, Michael MacDonald, Venkateswararao Cherukuri, Benjamin C. Warf, 2017, New England Journal of Medicine on p. 2456-2464
Expansion of C9ORF72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis correlates with brain-computer interface performance
Andrew Geronimo, Kathryn E. Sheldon, James R. Broach, Zachary Simmons, Steven J. Schiff, 2017, Scientific reports
A Murine Model to Study Epilepsy and SUDEP Induced by Malaria Infection
Paddy Ssentongo, Anna E. Robuccio, Godfrey Thuku, Derek G. Sim, Ali Nabi, Fatemeh Bahari, Balaji Shanmugasundaram, Myles W. Billard, Andrew Geronimo, Kurt W. Short, Patrick J. Drew, Jennifer Baccon, Steven L. Weinstein, Frank G. Gilliam, José A. Stoute, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Andrew F. Read, Bruce J. Gluckman, Steven J. Schiff, 2017, Scientific reports
Prevalence and correlates of MRSA and MSSA nasal carriage at a Ugandan regional referral hospital
Lisa M. Bebell, Arnold Ayebare, Yap Boum, Mark J. Siedner, Joel Bazira, Steven J. Schiff, Joshua P. Metlay, David R. Bangsberg, Stephen Ttendo, Paul G. Firth, 2017, The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy on p. 888-892
Design of a mobile, homogeneous, and efficient electromagnet with a large field of view for neonatal low-field MRI
Steffen Lother, Steven J. Schiff, Thomas Neuberger, Peter M. Jakob, Florian Fidler, 2016, Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine on p. 691-698
Recent Most-Cited Papers
Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa
Benjamin C. Warf, Blake C. Alkire, Salman Bhai, Christopher Hughes, Steven Schiff, Jeffrey R. Vincent, John G. Meara, 2011, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on p. 509-521
Towards model-based control of parkinson's disease
Steven Schiff, 2010, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences on p. 2269-2308
Observability and controllability of nonlinear networks
Andrew J. Whalen, Sean N. Brennan, Timothy D. Sauer, Steven J. Schiff, 2015, Physical Review X
Unification of neuronal spikes, seizures, and spreading depression
Yina Wei, Ghanim Ullah, Steven J. Schiff, 2014, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 11733-11743
Assimilating seizure dynamics
Ghanim Ullah, Steven J. Schiff, 2010, PLoS computational biology on p. 1-12
Controversies in epilepsy
Mark G. Frei, Hitten P. Zaveri, Susan Arthurs, Gregory K. Bergey, Christophe C. Jouny, Klaus Lehnertz, Jean Gotman, Ivan Osorio, Theoden I. Netoff, Walter J. Freeman, John Jefferys, Gregory Worrell, Michel Le Van Quyen, Steven J. Schiff, Florian Mormann, 2010, Epilepsy and Behavior on p. 4-16
Seizures as imbalanced up states
Jokubas Žiburkus, John R. Cressman, Steven J. Schiff, 2013, Journal of neurophysiology on p. 1296-1306
Five-year survival and outcome of treatment for postinfectious hydrocephalus in Ugandan infants
Benjamin C. Warf, Ariella R. Dagi, Brian Nsubuga Kaaya, Steven J. Schiff, 2011, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on p. 502-508
Model-based rational feedback controller design for closed-loop deep brain stimulation of Parkinson's disease
P. Gorzelic, Steven Schiff, Alok Sinha, 2013, Journal of neural engineering
The Role of Cell Volume in the Dynamics of Seizure, Spreading Depression, and Anoxic Depolarization
Ghanim Ullah, Yina Wei, Markus A. Dahlem, Martin Wechselberger, Steven J. Schiff, 2015, PLoS computational biology