Michael C. Smith, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. Tailored temporal lobectomy for medically intractable epilepsy: evaluation of pathology and predictors of outcome.
   Falowski SM, Wallace D, Kanner A, Smith M, Rossi M, Balabanov A, Ouyang B, Byrne RW.
   Neurosurgery.
   2012 Sep
   71(3):703-9; discussion 709. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318262161d.
   
2. Temporal lobe gangliogliomas associated with chronic epilepsy: Long-term surgical outcomes.
   Wallace D, Ruban D, Kanner A, Smith M, Pitelka L, Stein J, Vannemreddy PS, Whisler WW, Byrne RW.
   Clin Neurol Neurosurg.
   2012 Jun 21. [Epub ahead of print]
   
3. Medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy in patients with normal MRI: surgical outcome in twenty-one consecutive patients.
   Smith AP, Sani S, Kanner AM, Stoub T, Morrin M, Palac S, Bergen DC, Balabanov A, Smith M, Whisler WW, Byrne RW.
   Seizure.
   2011 Jul
   20(6):475-9
   
4. Predicting white matter targets for direct neurostimulation therapy
   Rossi MA, Stebbins G, Murphy C, Greene D, Brinker S, Sarcu D, Tenharmsel A, Stoub T, Stein MA, Hoeppner TJ, Byrne RW, Moseley ME, Bammer RA, Bild S, Dennis J, Arnett N, Balabanov A, Bergen D, Kanner AM, Smith MC
   Epilepsy Res
   2010 Oct
   91(2-3):176-86
   
5. Chronic epilepsy associated with temporal tumors: long-term surgical outcome
   Ruban D, Byrne RW, Kanner A, Smith M, Cochran EJ, Roh D, Whisler WW
   Neurosurg Focus
   2009 Aug
   27(2):E6
   
6. Epidural cylinder electrodes for presurgical evaluation of intractable epilepsy: technical note
   Byrne RW, Jobe KW, Smith MC, Kanner A, Bergen DC, Palac SM, Balabanov AJ, Ajiboye NA, Takagi I, Whisler WW
   Surg Neurol
   2008 Aug
   70(2):160-4; discussion 164
   

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• Epilepsy is a pretty common illness. About one percent of the population has epilepsy. And so there’s a lot of people with uncontrolled epilepsy that we try to make better. We try to get their seizures stopped so that they can have a full and normal life.

  Epilepsy is both a disease — that is the seizures themselves — and also all the psychosocial stigmata that go with the illness. And so frankly people are scared to death of epilepsy. And if your child had a seizure, you’d think the child is dying. And it’s a very emotional, wrenching time. And so education is a very important thing. A lot of the times, it’s just teaching the parents and the loved ones that things can be ok.