Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD
Neurosurgery, Epilepsy & Seizures, Pediatric Epilepsy
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Child, Adult
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Biography
Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD is an assistant professor of neurosurgery.
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Education & Training
- Neurosurgery ResidentYale new haven Hospital (2018)
- MDYale School of Medicine (2011)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Scholar: Alzheimers Disease Research Center (2020)
- Spector Award: (2020)
- Academy Award: American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (2017)
- NREF : Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (2014)
- Swebilius Award: Swebilius Foundation (2014)
Publications
- Sherman B, Graves K, Huberdeau D, Quraishi I, Damisah E, Turk-Browne N. Temporal Dynamics of Competition between Statistical Learning and Episodic Memory in Intracranial Recordings of Human Visual Cortex. Journal Of Neuroscience 2022, jn-rm-0708-22. PMID: 36344264, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0708-22.2022.
- Graves KN, Sherman BE, Huberdeau D, Damisah E, Quraishi IH, Turk-Browne NB. Remembering the pattern: A longitudinal case study on statistical learning in spatial navigation and memory consolidation Neuropsychologia 2022, 174: 108341. PMID: 35961387, PMCID: PMC9578695, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108341.
- Obaid S, Qureshi HM, Aljishi A, Shaikh N, Kundishora AJ, Bronen RA, DiLuna M, Damisah E. Child Neurology: Functional Reorganization Mediating Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome Recovery in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Neurology 2022, 99: 161-165. PMID: 35618432, PMCID: PMC9421776, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000200772.
- Sivaraju A, Hirsch L, Gaspard N, Farooque P, Gerrard J, Xu Y, Deng Y, Damisah E, Blumenfeld H, Spencer DD. Factors Predicting Outcome After Intracranial EEG Evaluation in Patients With Medically Refractory Epilepsy Neurology 2022, 99: e1-e10. PMID: 35508395, PMCID: PMC9259091, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000200569.
- P143. Intracranial Electrophysiology of Amygdala-Insula Interactions in AnxietyAljishi A, Sandhu M, Shaikh N, Wise T, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. P143. Intracranial Electrophysiology of Amygdala-Insula Interactions in Anxiety Biological Psychiatry 2022, 91: s144-s145. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.377.
- P142. Neural Correlates of Bodily Feedback During Spatial Threat AvoidanceShaikh N, Sandhu M, Aljishi A, Obaid S, Gu B, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. P142. Neural Correlates of Bodily Feedback During Spatial Threat Avoidance Biological Psychiatry 2022, 91: s144. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.376.
- McGrath H, Mandel M, Sandhu MRS, Lamsam L, Adenu‐Mensah N, Farooque P, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Optimizing the surgical management of MRI‐negative epilepsy in the neuromodulation era Epilepsia Open 2022, 7: 151-159. PMID: 35038792, PMCID: PMC8886105, DOI: 10.1002/epi4.12578.
- Dynamics of category-level statistical learning from intracranial recordings in visual cortexSherman B, Graves K, Huberdeau D, Benjamin C, Quraishi I, Damisah E, Turk-Browne N. Dynamics of category-level statistical learning from intracranial recordings in visual cortex Journal Of Vision 2021, 21: 2255. DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.9.2255.
- Sandhu MRS, Mandel M, McGrath H, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Bronen RA, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Management of patients with medically intractable epilepsy and anterior temporal lobe encephaloceles. Journal Of Neurosurgery 2021, 136: 709-716. PMID: 34507290, DOI: 10.3171/2021.3.jns21133.
- Adin ME, Spencer DD, Damisah E, Herlopian A, Gerrard JL, Bronen RA. Imaging of Neuromodulation and Surgical Interventions for Epilepsy American Journal Of Neuroradiology 2021, 42: 1742-1750. PMID: 34353787, PMCID: PMC8562735, DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a7222.
- Vaddiparti A, McGrath H, Benjamin C, Sivaraju A, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ, Damisah E, Quraishi IH. Gerstmann Syndrome Deconstructed by Cortical Stimulation. Neurology 2021, 97: 420-422. PMID: 34187861, PMCID: PMC9246017, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000012441.
- Ong C, Damisah EC, Gruenbaum SE, Dhaher R, Deng Y, Sandhu MRS, Zaveri HP, Spencer DD, Eid T. Increased branched‐chain amino acids at baseline and hours before a spontaneous seizure in the human epileptic brain Epilepsia 2021, 62: e88-e97. PMID: 33949690, DOI: 10.1111/epi.16920.
- Human iEEG Characterization of Threat and Anxiety Oscillations Across Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Frontal CortexMcClurkin M, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. Human iEEG Characterization of Threat and Anxiety Oscillations Across Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Frontal Cortex Biological Psychiatry 2021, 89: s255. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.638.
- Mandel M, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Spencer D, Damisah E. Depth Electrode Guided Anterior Insulectomy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Operative Neurosurgery 2021, 21: e121. PMID: 33885821, PMCID: PMC8493659, DOI: 10.1093/ons/opab112.
- Tong L, Hill RA, Damisah EC, Murray KN, Yuan P, Bordey A, Grutzendler J. Imaging and optogenetic modulation of vascular mural cells in the live brain Nature Protocols 2020, 16: 472-496. PMID: 33299155, DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-00425-w.
- Hong CS, Gorrepati R, Kundishora AJ, Elsamadicy AA, Peter PR, Damisah EC, Manes RP, Omay SB. Case Report: Suprasellar Pituitary Adenoma Presenting With Temporal Lobe Seizures Frontiers In Surgery 2020, 7: 598138. PMID: 33335912, PMCID: PMC7736041, DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2020.598138.
- Damisah EC, Hill RA, Rai A, Chen F, Rothlin CV, Ghosh S, Grutzendler J. Astrocytes and microglia play orchestrated roles and respect phagocytic territories during neuronal corpse removal in vivo Science Advances 2020, 6: eaba3239. PMID: 32637606, PMCID: PMC7319765, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3239.
- Karimy JK, Reeves BC, Damisah E, Duy PQ, Antwi P, David W, Wang K, Schiff SJ, Limbrick DD, Alper SL, Warf BC, Nedergaard M, Simard JM, Kahle KT. Inflammation in acquired hydrocephalus: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic targets Nature Reviews Neurology 2020, 16: 285-296. PMID: 32152460, PMCID: PMC7375440, DOI: 10.1038/s41582-020-0321-y.
- Damisah EC, Rai A, Grutzendler J. TREM2: Modulator of Lipid Metabolism in Microglia Neuron 2020, 105: 759-761. PMID: 32135085, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.008.
- Lu AY, Damisah EC, Winkler EA, Grant RA, Eid T, Bulsara KR. Cerebrospinal fluid untargeted metabolomic profiling of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: an exploratory study British Journal Of Neurosurgery 2018, 32: 637-641. PMID: 30585503, DOI: 10.1080/02688697.2018.1519107.
- (Invited) Conjoint Measurement of Brain Electrophysiology and NeurochemistryZaveri H, Ganesh N, Goncharova I, Damisah E, Ong C, Perez E, Staib L, Hirsch L, Petroff O, Spencer D, Eid T. (Invited) Conjoint Measurement of Brain Electrophysiology and Neurochemistry ECS Meeting Abstracts 2017, MA2017-02: 2329-2329. DOI: 10.1149/ma2017-02/55/2329.
- Hill RA, Damisah EC, Chen F, Kwan AC, Grutzendler J. Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo Nature Communications 2017, 8: 15837. PMID: 28621306, PMCID: PMC5501159, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15837.
- Damisah EC, Hill RA, Tong L, Murray KN, Grutzendler J. A fluoro-Nissl dye identifies pericytes as distinct vascular mural cells during in vivo brain imaging Nature Neuroscience 2017, 20: 1023-1032. PMID: 28504673, PMCID: PMC5550770, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4564.
- Dhaher R, Damisah EC, Wang H, Gruenbaum SE, Ong C, Zaveri HP, Gruenbaum BF, Eid T. 5-Aminovaleric acid suppresses the development of severe seizures in the methionine sulfoximine model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiology Of Disease 2014, 67: 18-23. PMID: 24632421, PMCID: PMC4035438, DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.03.006.
- Lu AY, Ansari SA, Nyström KV, Damisah EC, Amin HP, Matouk CC, Pashankar RD, Bulsara KR. Intra-Arterial Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke: The Continued Evolution Current Treatment Options In Cardiovascular Medicine 2014, 16: 281. PMID: 24398801, DOI: 10.1007/s11936-013-0281-2.
- 139 Brain Extracellular Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Medically Refractory Localization-Related EpilepsyOng C, Damisah E, Haldeman C, Eid T, Spencer D. 139 Brain Extracellular Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Medically Refractory Localization-Related Epilepsy Neurosurgery 2013, 60: 166. DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000432730.18532.a2.
- Shibuya TY, Wadhwa A, Nguyen KH, Panossian AM, Kim S, Wong H, Feinberg S, Damisah EC, Camilon PR, Bang H. Linking of Bone Morphogenetic Protein‐2 To Resorbable Fracture Plates for Enhancing Bone Healing The Laryngoscope 2005, 115: 2232-2237. PMID: 16369172, DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000183692.27532.5b.
Patient Care Organizations
Biography
Eyiyemisi Damisah, MD is an assistant professor of neurosurgery.
Titles
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Education & Training
- Neurosurgery ResidentYale new haven Hospital (2018)
- MDYale School of Medicine (2011)
Additional Information
Honors & Recognitions
- Scholar: Alzheimers Disease Research Center (2020)
- Spector Award: (2020)
- Academy Award: American Academy of Neurological Surgeons (2017)
- NREF : Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation (2014)
- Swebilius Award: Swebilius Foundation (2014)
Publications
- Sherman B, Graves K, Huberdeau D, Quraishi I, Damisah E, Turk-Browne N. Temporal Dynamics of Competition between Statistical Learning and Episodic Memory in Intracranial Recordings of Human Visual Cortex. Journal Of Neuroscience 2022, jn-rm-0708-22. PMID: 36344264, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0708-22.2022.
- Graves KN, Sherman BE, Huberdeau D, Damisah E, Quraishi IH, Turk-Browne NB. Remembering the pattern: A longitudinal case study on statistical learning in spatial navigation and memory consolidation Neuropsychologia 2022, 174: 108341. PMID: 35961387, PMCID: PMC9578695, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108341.
- Obaid S, Qureshi HM, Aljishi A, Shaikh N, Kundishora AJ, Bronen RA, DiLuna M, Damisah E. Child Neurology: Functional Reorganization Mediating Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome Recovery in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum Neurology 2022, 99: 161-165. PMID: 35618432, PMCID: PMC9421776, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000200772.
- Sivaraju A, Hirsch L, Gaspard N, Farooque P, Gerrard J, Xu Y, Deng Y, Damisah E, Blumenfeld H, Spencer DD. Factors Predicting Outcome After Intracranial EEG Evaluation in Patients With Medically Refractory Epilepsy Neurology 2022, 99: e1-e10. PMID: 35508395, PMCID: PMC9259091, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000200569.
- P143. Intracranial Electrophysiology of Amygdala-Insula Interactions in AnxietyAljishi A, Sandhu M, Shaikh N, Wise T, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. P143. Intracranial Electrophysiology of Amygdala-Insula Interactions in Anxiety Biological Psychiatry 2022, 91: s144-s145. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.377.
- P142. Neural Correlates of Bodily Feedback During Spatial Threat AvoidanceShaikh N, Sandhu M, Aljishi A, Obaid S, Gu B, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. P142. Neural Correlates of Bodily Feedback During Spatial Threat Avoidance Biological Psychiatry 2022, 91: s144. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2022.02.376.
- McGrath H, Mandel M, Sandhu MRS, Lamsam L, Adenu‐Mensah N, Farooque P, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Optimizing the surgical management of MRI‐negative epilepsy in the neuromodulation era Epilepsia Open 2022, 7: 151-159. PMID: 35038792, PMCID: PMC8886105, DOI: 10.1002/epi4.12578.
- Dynamics of category-level statistical learning from intracranial recordings in visual cortexSherman B, Graves K, Huberdeau D, Benjamin C, Quraishi I, Damisah E, Turk-Browne N. Dynamics of category-level statistical learning from intracranial recordings in visual cortex Journal Of Vision 2021, 21: 2255. DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.9.2255.
- Sandhu MRS, Mandel M, McGrath H, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Bronen RA, Spencer DD, Damisah EC. Management of patients with medically intractable epilepsy and anterior temporal lobe encephaloceles. Journal Of Neurosurgery 2021, 136: 709-716. PMID: 34507290, DOI: 10.3171/2021.3.jns21133.
- Adin ME, Spencer DD, Damisah E, Herlopian A, Gerrard JL, Bronen RA. Imaging of Neuromodulation and Surgical Interventions for Epilepsy American Journal Of Neuroradiology 2021, 42: 1742-1750. PMID: 34353787, PMCID: PMC8562735, DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a7222.
- Vaddiparti A, McGrath H, Benjamin C, Sivaraju A, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ, Damisah E, Quraishi IH. Gerstmann Syndrome Deconstructed by Cortical Stimulation. Neurology 2021, 97: 420-422. PMID: 34187861, PMCID: PMC9246017, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000012441.
- Ong C, Damisah EC, Gruenbaum SE, Dhaher R, Deng Y, Sandhu MRS, Zaveri HP, Spencer DD, Eid T. Increased branched‐chain amino acids at baseline and hours before a spontaneous seizure in the human epileptic brain Epilepsia 2021, 62: e88-e97. PMID: 33949690, DOI: 10.1111/epi.16920.
- Human iEEG Characterization of Threat and Anxiety Oscillations Across Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Frontal CortexMcClurkin M, Krystal J, Kaye A, Damisah E. Human iEEG Characterization of Threat and Anxiety Oscillations Across Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Frontal Cortex Biological Psychiatry 2021, 89: s255. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.638.
- Mandel M, Lamsam L, Farooque P, Spencer D, Damisah E. Depth Electrode Guided Anterior Insulectomy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. Operative Neurosurgery 2021, 21: e121. PMID: 33885821, PMCID: PMC8493659, DOI: 10.1093/ons/opab112.
- Tong L, Hill RA, Damisah EC, Murray KN, Yuan P, Bordey A, Grutzendler J. Imaging and optogenetic modulation of vascular mural cells in the live brain Nature Protocols 2020, 16: 472-496. PMID: 33299155, DOI: 10.1038/s41596-020-00425-w.
- Hong CS, Gorrepati R, Kundishora AJ, Elsamadicy AA, Peter PR, Damisah EC, Manes RP, Omay SB. Case Report: Suprasellar Pituitary Adenoma Presenting With Temporal Lobe Seizures Frontiers In Surgery 2020, 7: 598138. PMID: 33335912, PMCID: PMC7736041, DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2020.598138.
- Damisah EC, Hill RA, Rai A, Chen F, Rothlin CV, Ghosh S, Grutzendler J. Astrocytes and microglia play orchestrated roles and respect phagocytic territories during neuronal corpse removal in vivo Science Advances 2020, 6: eaba3239. PMID: 32637606, PMCID: PMC7319765, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3239.
- Karimy JK, Reeves BC, Damisah E, Duy PQ, Antwi P, David W, Wang K, Schiff SJ, Limbrick DD, Alper SL, Warf BC, Nedergaard M, Simard JM, Kahle KT. Inflammation in acquired hydrocephalus: pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic targets Nature Reviews Neurology 2020, 16: 285-296. PMID: 32152460, PMCID: PMC7375440, DOI: 10.1038/s41582-020-0321-y.
- Damisah EC, Rai A, Grutzendler J. TREM2: Modulator of Lipid Metabolism in Microglia Neuron 2020, 105: 759-761. PMID: 32135085, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.008.
- Lu AY, Damisah EC, Winkler EA, Grant RA, Eid T, Bulsara KR. Cerebrospinal fluid untargeted metabolomic profiling of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: an exploratory study British Journal Of Neurosurgery 2018, 32: 637-641. PMID: 30585503, DOI: 10.1080/02688697.2018.1519107.
- (Invited) Conjoint Measurement of Brain Electrophysiology and NeurochemistryZaveri H, Ganesh N, Goncharova I, Damisah E, Ong C, Perez E, Staib L, Hirsch L, Petroff O, Spencer D, Eid T. (Invited) Conjoint Measurement of Brain Electrophysiology and Neurochemistry ECS Meeting Abstracts 2017, MA2017-02: 2329-2329. DOI: 10.1149/ma2017-02/55/2329.
- Hill RA, Damisah EC, Chen F, Kwan AC, Grutzendler J. Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo Nature Communications 2017, 8: 15837. PMID: 28621306, PMCID: PMC5501159, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15837.
- Damisah EC, Hill RA, Tong L, Murray KN, Grutzendler J. A fluoro-Nissl dye identifies pericytes as distinct vascular mural cells during in vivo brain imaging Nature Neuroscience 2017, 20: 1023-1032. PMID: 28504673, PMCID: PMC5550770, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4564.
- Dhaher R, Damisah EC, Wang H, Gruenbaum SE, Ong C, Zaveri HP, Gruenbaum BF, Eid T. 5-Aminovaleric acid suppresses the development of severe seizures in the methionine sulfoximine model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Neurobiology Of Disease 2014, 67: 18-23. PMID: 24632421, PMCID: PMC4035438, DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2014.03.006.
- Lu AY, Ansari SA, Nyström KV, Damisah EC, Amin HP, Matouk CC, Pashankar RD, Bulsara KR. Intra-Arterial Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke: The Continued Evolution Current Treatment Options In Cardiovascular Medicine 2014, 16: 281. PMID: 24398801, DOI: 10.1007/s11936-013-0281-2.
- 139 Brain Extracellular Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Medically Refractory Localization-Related EpilepsyOng C, Damisah E, Haldeman C, Eid T, Spencer D. 139 Brain Extracellular Branched-Chain Amino Acids in Medically Refractory Localization-Related Epilepsy Neurosurgery 2013, 60: 166. DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000432730.18532.a2.
- Shibuya TY, Wadhwa A, Nguyen KH, Panossian AM, Kim S, Wong H, Feinberg S, Damisah EC, Camilon PR, Bang H. Linking of Bone Morphogenetic Protein‐2 To Resorbable Fracture Plates for Enhancing Bone Healing The Laryngoscope 2005, 115: 2232-2237. PMID: 16369172, DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000183692.27532.5b.
Patient Care Organizations