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.
Most Recent Papers
Control of Spreading Depression with Electrical Fields
Andrew J. Whalen, Ying Xiao, Herve Kadji, Markus A. Dahlem, Bruce J. Gluckman, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, Scientific Reports
Changes in Ugandan Climate Rainfall at the Village and Forest Level
Paddy Ssentongo, Abraham J.B. Muwanguzi, Uri Eden, Timothy Sauer, George Bwanga, Geoffrey Kateregga, Lawrence Aribo, Moses Ojara, Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, Scientific Reports
Learning based segmentation of CT brain images
Venkateswararao Cherukuri, Peter Ssenyonga, Benjamin C. Warf, Abhaya V. Kulkarni, Vishal Monga, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering on p. 1871-1884
Chip-scale high Q-factor glassblown microspherical shells for magnetic sensing
Eugene Freeman, Cheng Yu Wang, Vedant Sumaria, Steven J. Schiff, Zhiwen Liu, Srinivas Tadigadapa, 2018, AIP Advances
Normative human brain volume growth
Mallory Peterson, Benjamin C. Warf, Steven J. Schiff, 2018, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on p. 478-485
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 High-Impact Papers
The influence of sodium and potassium dynamics on excitability, seizures, and the stability of persistent states
John R. Cressman, Ghanim Ullah, Jokubas Ziburkus, Steven J. Schiff, Ernest Barreto, 2009, Journal of Computational Neuroscience on p. 159-170
The influence of sodium and potassium dynamics on excitability, seizures, and the stability of persistent states
Ghanim Ullah, John R. Cressman, Ernest Barreto, Steven J. Schiff, 2009, Journal of Computational Neuroscience on p. 171-183
Towards model-based control of parkinson's disease
Steven J. Schiff, 2010, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences on p. 2269-2308
Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa
Benjamin C. Warf, Blake C. Alkire, Salman Bhai, Christopher Hughes, Steven J. Schiff, Jeffrey R. Vincent, John G. Meara, 2011, Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on p. 509-521
Tracking and control of neuronal Hodgkin-Huxley dynamics
Ghanim Ullah, Steven J. Schiff, 2009, Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Unification of neuronal spikes, seizures, and spreading depression
Yina Wei, Ghanim Ullah, Steven J. Schiff, 2014, Journal of Neuroscience on p. 11733-11743
Observability and controllability of nonlinear networks
Andrew J. Whalen, Sean N. Brennan, Timothy D. Sauer, Steven J. Schiff, 2015, Physical Review X
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
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