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Nathan B. Fountain
Neurologist | Neurology
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Nathan B. Fountain, M.D. is Professor of Neurology and since 1998 has been Director of the F.E. Dreifuss Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he comple ...
Education and Training
Univ Of Ia Coll Of Med- Iowa City Ia 1989
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Clinical Neurophysiology
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- 1995
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Clinical correlation of occipital intermittent rhythmic delta activity.
- Epilepsy.
- Assessment of acute morbidity and mortality in nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
- Epilepsy in football players and other land-based contact or collision sport athletes: when can they participate, and is there an increased risk?
- Standardized mental status testing for nonconvulsive status epilepticus.
- Prospective assessment of levetiracetam pharmacokinetics during dose escalation in 4- to 12-year-old children with partial-onset seizures on concomitant carbamazepine or valproate.
- Intravenous lacosamide as replacement for oral lacosamide in patients with partial-onset seizures.
- Is it time for routine EEG monitoring after intracerebral hemorrhage?
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation and sleep deprivation as experimental tools: when sleep deprivation is too exciting.
- Evidence for functional impairment but not structural disease in benign rolandic epilepsy.
- A frontal assault on the generalized nature of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
- A pregnant pause to consider teratogenicity of topiramate.
- Should levetiracetam replace phenytoin for seizure prophylaxis after neurosurgery?
- Pharmacologic treatment of epilepsy.
- Examining the clinical utility of lacosamide: pooled analyses of three phase II/III clinical trials.
Fellowships
- Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA 1994
- Epilepsy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia USA 1996
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