Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School
Faculty Profile
Edward Barry Bromfield, MD
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Associate Neurologist, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Administrative Title(s)
Chief, Division of EEG, Epilepsy, and Sleep Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Other Affiliation(s)
Faulkner Hospital
Address
75 Francis StDept. of Neurology
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Inter-office Mail Address
EEG Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s HospitalPhone 617-732-7547
Email ebromfield@partners.org
Society Memberships
American Epilepsy Society (Sleep Special Interest Group)American Academy of Neurology
Research Unit(s)
Department of Neurology EEG Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Trainees
Brendan Lucey, MD 2007-Present
Sebastian Espinosa, MD 2007-Present
Rohit Das, MD, 2007-Present
Ellen Bubrick, MD 2006-2007
Autumn Klein, MD, PhD 2005-2007
Jong Woo Lee, MD, PhD 2005-2006
Tracey Milligan, MD 2003-2005
David C. McCarthy, MD, PhD 2003-2005
K. Mortati, MD 2003-2005
Olga E. Golub, MD 2002-2004
Milena Pavlova, MD 2002-2003
F. Siddiqui, MD 2001-2003
M. Idrees Zahoor, MD 1999-2000
Sebastian Espinosa, MD 2007-Present
Rohit Das, MD, 2007-Present
Ellen Bubrick, MD 2006-2007
Autumn Klein, MD, PhD 2005-2007
Jong Woo Lee, MD, PhD 2005-2006
Tracey Milligan, MD 2003-2005
David C. McCarthy, MD, PhD 2003-2005
K. Mortati, MD 2003-2005
Olga E. Golub, MD 2002-2004
Milena Pavlova, MD 2002-2003
F. Siddiqui, MD 2001-2003
M. Idrees Zahoor, MD 1999-2000
Selected Publications
Bubrick E, Pavlova M, Bromfield E. Polysomnography with Full EEG Recording ? Who Benefits?
Epilepsia, in press. American Epilepsy Society 2007 Annual Meeting, P2.161.
Dehghani N, Cash SS, Devinsky O, Doyle WK, Rossetti A, Bromfield EB, Madsen JR, Dale AM, Huang MX, Halgren E. Distribution and phase of sleep spindles across the human cortex: MEG and intracranial EEG.
Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster 791.1/K1.
Cash SS, Deghani N, Ulbert I, Thesen T, Devinsky O, Doyle W, Wang C, Bromfield E, Rossetti A, Madsen JR, Halgren E; Neural generators of sleep spindles in humans inferred from microelectrode array recordings.
Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster 791.7/K7.
Rossetti AO, Hurwitz S, Logroscino G, Bromfield EB. Prognosis of status epilepticus: role of aetiology, age, and consciousness impairment at presentation.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2006 May;77(5):611-5. [PMID: 16614020]
Knake S, Halgren E, Shiraishi H, Hara K, Hamer HM, Grant PE, Carr VA, Foxe D, Camposano S, Busa E, Witzel T, Hamalainen MS, Ahlfors SP, Bromfield EB, Black PM, Bourgeois BF, Cole AJ, Cosgrove GR, Dworetzky BA, Madsen JR, Larsson PG, Schomer DL, Thiele EA, Dale AM, Rosen BR, Stufflebeam SM. The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients.
Epilepsy Res. 2006 Apr;69(1):80-6. Epub 2006 Mar 3. [PMID: 16516443]
Pal DK, Durner M, Klotz I, Dicker E, Shinnar S, Resor S, Cohen J, Harden C, Moshe SL, Ballaban-Gill K, Bromfield EB, Greenberg DA. Complex inheritance and parent-of-origin effect in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Brain Dev. 2006 Mar;28(2):92-8. Epub 2006 Jan 18. [PMID: 16414227]
Rossetti AO, Logroscino G, Bromfield EB. Refractory status epilepticus: effect of treatment aggressiveness on prognosis.
Arch Neurol. 2005 Nov;62(11):1698-702. [PMID: 16286542]
Herzog AG, Drislane FW, Schomer DL, Pennell PB, Bromfield EB, Dworetzky BA, Farina EL, Frye CA. Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on sexual function and hormones in men with epilepsy.
Neurology. 2005 Oct 11;65(7):1016-20. [PMID: 16217052]
Dworetzky BA, Strahonja-Packard A, Shanahan CW, Paz J, Schauble B, Bromfield EB. Characteristics of male veterans with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
Epilepsia. 2005 Sep;46(9):1418-22. [PMID: 16146437]
Rossetti AO, Bromfield EB. Levetiracetam in the treatment of status epilepticus in adults: a study of 13 episodes.
Eur Neurol. 2005;54(1):34-8. Epub 2005 Aug 10. [PMID: 16103676]
Rossetti AO, Bromfield EB. Efficacy of rapid IV administration of valproic acid for status epilepticus.
Neurology. 2005 Aug 9;65(3):500-1; author reply 500-1. No abstract available. [PMID: 16087935]
Rossetti AO, Dworetzky BA, Madsen JR, Golub O, Beckman JA, Bromfield EB. Ictal asystole with convulsive syncope mimicking secondary generalisation: a depth electrode study.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;76(6):885-7. [PMID: 15897520]
Rossetti AO, Mortati KA, Black PM, Bromfield EB. Simple partial seizures with hemisensory phenomena and dysgeusia: an insular pattern.
Epilepsia. 2005 Apr;46(4):590-1. [PMID: 15816958]
Greenberg DA, Cayanis E, Strug L, Marathe S, Durner M, Pal DK, Alvin GB, Klotz I, Dicker E, Shinnar S, Bromfield EB, Resor S, Cohen J, Moshe SL, Harden C, Kang H. Malic enzyme 2 may underlie susceptibility to adolescent-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Jan;76(1):139-46. Epub 2004 Nov 5. [PMID: 15532013]
Bromfield EB. Epilepsy in patients with brain tumors and other cancers.
Rev Neurol Dis. 2004;1 Suppl 1:S27-33. Review. [PMID: 16400292]
Herzog AG, Drislane FW, Schomer DL, Pennell PB, Bromfield EB, Kelly KM, Farina EL, Frye CA. Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on sexual function and reproductive hormones in men with epilepsy: interim analysis of a comparison between lamotrigine and enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs.
Epilepsia. 2004 Jul;45(7):764-8. [PMID: 15230699]
Silvestri R, Bromfield E. Recurrent nightmares and disorders of arousal in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Brain Res Bull. 2004 Jun 30;63(5):369-76. [PMID: 15245763]
Pavlova MK, Shea SA, Bromfield EB. Day/night patterns of focal seizures.
Epilepsy Behav. 2004 Feb;5(1):44-9. [PMID: 14751206]
Bromfield EB. Clinical use of anticonvulsants: a neurologist's perspective.
Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2003 Sep-Oct;11(5):257-68. Review. [PMID: 14555426]
Rizzuto DS, Madsen JR, Bromfield EB, Schulze-Bonhage A, Seelig D, Aschenbrenner-Scheibe R, Kahana MJ. Reset of human neocortical oscillations during a working memory task.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jun 24;100(13):7931-6. Epub 2003 Jun 5. [PMID: 12792019]
Walker DG, Talos F, Bromfield EB, Black PM. Intraoperative magnetic resonance for the surgical treatment of lesions producing seizures.
J Clin Neurosci. 2002 Sep;9(5):515-20. [PMID: 12383406]
Cramer JA, Arrigo C, Van Hammee G, Bromfield EB. Comparison between the QOLIE-31 and derived QOLIE-10 in a clinical trial of levetiracetam.
Epilepsy Res. 2000 Aug;41(1):29-38. [PMID: 10924866]
Dworetzky BA, Hoch DB, Wagner AK, Salmanson E, Shanahan CW, Bromfield EB. The impact of a single seizure on health status and health care utilization.
Epilepsia. 2000 Feb;41(2):170-6. [PMID: 10691113]
Pavlova M, Bromfield E. Delayed sleep onset in patients with temporal vs. extratemporal epilepsy.
Epilepsia 2000;41(Suppl.7):172.
Silvestri RC, Bromfield EB, Khoshbin S. Clozapine-induced seizures and EEG abnormalities in ambulatory psychiatric patients.
Ann Pharmacother. 1998 Nov;32(11):1147-51. [PMID: 9825078]
Bromfield E, Richardson G, Nugent W, Robertson-Thompson A, Dworetzky B. Sleep studies in adults undergoing epilepsy monitoring.
EEG and Clin Neurophysiol; 1996;99:10P.
Epilepsia, in press. American Epilepsy Society 2007 Annual Meeting, P2.161.
Dehghani N, Cash SS, Devinsky O, Doyle WK, Rossetti A, Bromfield EB, Madsen JR, Dale AM, Huang MX, Halgren E. Distribution and phase of sleep spindles across the human cortex: MEG and intracranial EEG.
Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster 791.1/K1.
Cash SS, Deghani N, Ulbert I, Thesen T, Devinsky O, Doyle W, Wang C, Bromfield E, Rossetti A, Madsen JR, Halgren E; Neural generators of sleep spindles in humans inferred from microelectrode array recordings.
Society for Neuroscience 2007 Annual Meeting, Poster 791.7/K7.
Rossetti AO, Hurwitz S, Logroscino G, Bromfield EB. Prognosis of status epilepticus: role of aetiology, age, and consciousness impairment at presentation.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2006 May;77(5):611-5. [PMID: 16614020]
Knake S, Halgren E, Shiraishi H, Hara K, Hamer HM, Grant PE, Carr VA, Foxe D, Camposano S, Busa E, Witzel T, Hamalainen MS, Ahlfors SP, Bromfield EB, Black PM, Bourgeois BF, Cole AJ, Cosgrove GR, Dworetzky BA, Madsen JR, Larsson PG, Schomer DL, Thiele EA, Dale AM, Rosen BR, Stufflebeam SM. The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients.
Epilepsy Res. 2006 Apr;69(1):80-6. Epub 2006 Mar 3. [PMID: 16516443]
Pal DK, Durner M, Klotz I, Dicker E, Shinnar S, Resor S, Cohen J, Harden C, Moshe SL, Ballaban-Gill K, Bromfield EB, Greenberg DA. Complex inheritance and parent-of-origin effect in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Brain Dev. 2006 Mar;28(2):92-8. Epub 2006 Jan 18. [PMID: 16414227]
Rossetti AO, Logroscino G, Bromfield EB. Refractory status epilepticus: effect of treatment aggressiveness on prognosis.
Arch Neurol. 2005 Nov;62(11):1698-702. [PMID: 16286542]
Herzog AG, Drislane FW, Schomer DL, Pennell PB, Bromfield EB, Dworetzky BA, Farina EL, Frye CA. Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on sexual function and hormones in men with epilepsy.
Neurology. 2005 Oct 11;65(7):1016-20. [PMID: 16217052]
Dworetzky BA, Strahonja-Packard A, Shanahan CW, Paz J, Schauble B, Bromfield EB. Characteristics of male veterans with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures.
Epilepsia. 2005 Sep;46(9):1418-22. [PMID: 16146437]
Rossetti AO, Bromfield EB. Levetiracetam in the treatment of status epilepticus in adults: a study of 13 episodes.
Eur Neurol. 2005;54(1):34-8. Epub 2005 Aug 10. [PMID: 16103676]
Rossetti AO, Bromfield EB. Efficacy of rapid IV administration of valproic acid for status epilepticus.
Neurology. 2005 Aug 9;65(3):500-1; author reply 500-1. No abstract available. [PMID: 16087935]
Rossetti AO, Dworetzky BA, Madsen JR, Golub O, Beckman JA, Bromfield EB. Ictal asystole with convulsive syncope mimicking secondary generalisation: a depth electrode study.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005 Jun;76(6):885-7. [PMID: 15897520]
Rossetti AO, Mortati KA, Black PM, Bromfield EB. Simple partial seizures with hemisensory phenomena and dysgeusia: an insular pattern.
Epilepsia. 2005 Apr;46(4):590-1. [PMID: 15816958]
Greenberg DA, Cayanis E, Strug L, Marathe S, Durner M, Pal DK, Alvin GB, Klotz I, Dicker E, Shinnar S, Bromfield EB, Resor S, Cohen J, Moshe SL, Harden C, Kang H. Malic enzyme 2 may underlie susceptibility to adolescent-onset idiopathic generalized epilepsy.
Am J Hum Genet. 2005 Jan;76(1):139-46. Epub 2004 Nov 5. [PMID: 15532013]
Bromfield EB. Epilepsy in patients with brain tumors and other cancers.
Rev Neurol Dis. 2004;1 Suppl 1:S27-33. Review. [PMID: 16400292]
Herzog AG, Drislane FW, Schomer DL, Pennell PB, Bromfield EB, Kelly KM, Farina EL, Frye CA. Differential effects of antiepileptic drugs on sexual function and reproductive hormones in men with epilepsy: interim analysis of a comparison between lamotrigine and enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs.
Epilepsia. 2004 Jul;45(7):764-8. [PMID: 15230699]
Silvestri R, Bromfield E. Recurrent nightmares and disorders of arousal in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Brain Res Bull. 2004 Jun 30;63(5):369-76. [PMID: 15245763]
Pavlova MK, Shea SA, Bromfield EB. Day/night patterns of focal seizures.
Epilepsy Behav. 2004 Feb;5(1):44-9. [PMID: 14751206]
Bromfield EB. Clinical use of anticonvulsants: a neurologist's perspective.
Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2003 Sep-Oct;11(5):257-68. Review. [PMID: 14555426]
Rizzuto DS, Madsen JR, Bromfield EB, Schulze-Bonhage A, Seelig D, Aschenbrenner-Scheibe R, Kahana MJ. Reset of human neocortical oscillations during a working memory task.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Jun 24;100(13):7931-6. Epub 2003 Jun 5. [PMID: 12792019]
Walker DG, Talos F, Bromfield EB, Black PM. Intraoperative magnetic resonance for the surgical treatment of lesions producing seizures.
J Clin Neurosci. 2002 Sep;9(5):515-20. [PMID: 12383406]
Cramer JA, Arrigo C, Van Hammee G, Bromfield EB. Comparison between the QOLIE-31 and derived QOLIE-10 in a clinical trial of levetiracetam.
Epilepsy Res. 2000 Aug;41(1):29-38. [PMID: 10924866]
Dworetzky BA, Hoch DB, Wagner AK, Salmanson E, Shanahan CW, Bromfield EB. The impact of a single seizure on health status and health care utilization.
Epilepsia. 2000 Feb;41(2):170-6. [PMID: 10691113]
Pavlova M, Bromfield E. Delayed sleep onset in patients with temporal vs. extratemporal epilepsy.
Epilepsia 2000;41(Suppl.7):172.
Silvestri RC, Bromfield EB, Khoshbin S. Clozapine-induced seizures and EEG abnormalities in ambulatory psychiatric patients.
Ann Pharmacother. 1998 Nov;32(11):1147-51. [PMID: 9825078]
Bromfield E, Richardson G, Nugent W, Robertson-Thompson A, Dworetzky B. Sleep studies in adults undergoing epilepsy monitoring.
EEG and Clin Neurophysiol; 1996;99:10P.
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