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Vernon Leo Towle

Concepts (282)

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Name Number of Publications Most Recent Publication Publications by All Authors Concept Score Why?
Electroencephalography
40
2025
797
3.320
Why?
Visual Prosthesis
4
2025
6
2.430
Why?
Visual Cortex
9
2025
246
2.230
Why?
Brain Mapping
22
2024
569
1.970
Why?
Epilepsy
18
2024
434
1.560
Why?
Cerebral Cortex
12
2020
578
1.530
Why?
Electrodes, Implanted
13
2025
198
1.230
Why?
Evoked Potentials, Visual
14
2025
90
1.100
Why?
Blindness
2
2025
39
1.090
Why?
Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
9
2022
142
1.090
Why?
Seizures
6
2025
311
1.010
Why?
Language
2
2020
158
0.840
Why?
Nerve Net
4
2020
394
0.800
Why?
Brain
18
2024
2391
0.780
Why?
Electrocorticography
6
2024
46
0.700
Why?
Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
9
2010
30
0.600
Why?
Scalp
7
2025
70
0.520
Why?
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
14
2020
3476
0.490
Why?
National Socialism
1
2016
3
0.490
Why?
Subdural Space
3
2024
17
0.480
Why?
Visual Perception
9
2022
334
0.450
Why?
Auditory Cortex
3
2022
66
0.450
Why?
Neurology
1
2016
83
0.440
Why?
Speech Perception
2
2021
73
0.440
Why?
Electric Stimulation
6
2023
344
0.440
Why?
Temporal Lobe
5
2022
188
0.430
Why?
Occipital Lobe
4
2023
24
0.390
Why?
Phosphenes
3
2021
4
0.390
Why?
Electrodes
9
2024
97
0.380
Why?
Humans
78
2025
93515
0.370
Why?
Microelectrodes
4
2025
87
0.350
Why?
Pattern Recognition, Visual
4
2003
158
0.340
Why?
Child
18
2020
7355
0.330
Why?
Auditory Perception
4
2022
104
0.320
Why?
Male
45
2025
44557
0.310
Why?
Adolescent
19
2020
9606
0.310
Why?
Speech
2
2021
90
0.310
Why?
Hippocampus
4
2022
452
0.310
Why?
Frontal Lobe
2
2008
126
0.290
Why?
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
2
2007
337
0.270
Why?
Adult
34
2020
27918
0.270
Why?
Drug Resistant Epilepsy
2
2018
58
0.260
Why?
Models, Animal
3
2020
282
0.250
Why?
Vision Disorders
3
2021
71
0.250
Why?
Middle Aged
23
2025
27573
0.250
Why?
Female
43
2020
48702
0.240
Why?
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
5
2010
196
0.230
Why?
Evoked Potentials, Auditory
2
2019
39
0.220
Why?
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
2
2007
608
0.220
Why?
Implants, Experimental
1
2003
16
0.200
Why?
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
1
2003
6
0.200
Why?
Prosopagnosia
1
2003
1
0.200
Why?
Dominance, Cerebral
2
2000
60
0.200
Why?
Imagination
1
2003
44
0.200
Why?
Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem
3
1998
17
0.190
Why?
Sleep
4
2022
448
0.190
Why?
Memory Consolidation
1
2022
15
0.190
Why?
Monitoring, Intraoperative
1
2003
114
0.190
Why?
Face
1
2003
109
0.190
Why?
Young Adult
7
2020
6930
0.180
Why?
Parietal Lobe
1
2003
115
0.180
Why?
Stereotaxic Techniques
2
2024
83
0.180
Why?
Space Perception
1
2003
112
0.180
Why?
Somatosensory Cortex
3
2000
116
0.180
Why?
Spinal Cord Injuries
1
2023
109
0.180
Why?
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
2
2016
2585
0.170
Why?
Equipment Design
2
2016
416
0.170
Why?
Health Personnel
1
2003
234
0.170
Why?
Reflex, Righting
1
2020
2
0.170
Why?
Motor Activity
3
2016
323
0.160
Why?
Models, Neurological
7
2010
408
0.160
Why?
Brain Damage, Chronic
1
2000
23
0.160
Why?
Electrophysiology
5
2012
390
0.160
Why?
Deep Brain Stimulation
2
2015
89
0.160
Why?
Isoflurane
1
2020
68
0.160
Why?
Movement
2
2023
304
0.160
Why?
Nerve Regeneration
1
2000
34
0.160
Why?
Theta Rhythm
1
2020
38
0.160
Why?
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
5
2016
1261
0.160
Why?
Posture
2
2017
123
0.160
Why?
Acoustic Stimulation
5
2022
130
0.160
Why?
Algorithms
7
2010
1953
0.160
Why?
Anesthetics, Inhalation
1
2020
102
0.150
Why?
Time Factors
9
2019
5410
0.150
Why?
Caffeine
1
2020
85
0.150
Why?
Motor Cortex
3
2016
209
0.150
Why?
Entropy
2
2010
42
0.150
Why?
Hand
1
2000
143
0.150
Why?
Brain Waves
1
2019
35
0.140
Why?
Visual Acuity
7
1997
209
0.140
Why?
Functional Laterality
8
2019
203
0.140
Why?
Implantable Neurostimulators
1
2018
12
0.140
Why?
Evoked Potentials
10
2003
194
0.140
Why?
Limbic Encephalitis
1
2018
11
0.140
Why?
Glutamate Decarboxylase
1
2018
34
0.140
Why?
Sclerosis
1
2017
31
0.130
Why?
Neuronal Plasticity
1
2000
194
0.130
Why?
Encephalitis
1
2018
47
0.130
Why?
Sensation
1
1998
48
0.130
Why?
Cognitive Dysfunction
1
2020
190
0.130
Why?
Death, Sudden
1
2017
43
0.130
Why?
Prone Position
1
2017
61
0.130
Why?
Computer Simulation
6
2010
1118
0.130
Why?
Otolithic Membrane
1
1997
13
0.130
Why?
Saccule and Utricle
1
1997
20
0.130
Why?
Cats
1
1997
285
0.120
Why?
Brain Diseases
1
1998
172
0.120
Why?
Wireless Technology
1
2016
21
0.120
Why?
Antibodies
1
2018
348
0.120
Why?
Laser Therapy
1
2017
151
0.120
Why?
Dyskinesia, Drug-Induced
1
2015
20
0.110
Why?
Subthalamic Nucleus
1
2015
23
0.110
Why?
Aged
10
2025
20434
0.110
Why?
Muscle, Skeletal
1
2017
474
0.100
Why?
Video Recording
2
2020
212
0.100
Why?
Multiple Sclerosis
2
1996
261
0.100
Why?
Memory
3
2004
227
0.100
Why?
Parkinson Disease
1
2015
175
0.100
Why?
Hypogastric Plexus
1
2012
3
0.100
Why?
Urinary Retention
1
2012
44
0.090
Why?
Replantation
1
2012
35
0.090
Why?
Software
2
2007
670
0.090
Why?
Ureter
1
2012
92
0.090
Why?
Visual Pathways
2
2003
152
0.090
Why?
Neurons
1
1999
1582
0.080
Why?
Reaction Time
7
1992
317
0.080
Why?
Macaca
2
2016
85
0.080
Why?
Photic Stimulation
4
2019
509
0.080
Why?
Robotics
1
2012
269
0.080
Why?
Quadriplegia
1
1989
31
0.080
Why?
Skull
3
2010
270
0.080
Why?
Orientation
2
1980
111
0.080
Why?
Brain Stem
1
1989
163
0.070
Why?
Wakefulness
2
2020
131
0.070
Why?
Animals
9
2023
28155
0.070
Why?
Language Tests
1
2008
37
0.070
Why?
Anesthesia, General
2
2020
128
0.070
Why?
Oscillometry
1
2007
25
0.070
Why?
Visual Fields
4
2004
100
0.060
Why?
Spectrum Analysis
1
2007
119
0.060
Why?
Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
1
2006
10
0.060
Why?
Holography
1
2006
4
0.060
Why?
Electromyography
2
2017
198
0.060
Why?
Laparoscopy
1
2012
782
0.060
Why?
Cell Physiological Phenomena
1
2006
25
0.060
Why?
ROC Curve
1
2008
775
0.060
Why?
Sensitivity and Specificity
2
2007
1922
0.060
Why?
Vision Tests
2
1983
20
0.060
Why?
Age Factors
5
1998
1906
0.060
Why?
Communication
1
2008
434
0.060
Why?
Treatment Outcome
5
2018
9099
0.050
Why?
Brain Neoplasms
3
1999
813
0.050
Why?
Child, Preschool
4
2012
3829
0.050
Why?
Epilepsy, Absence
1
2003
9
0.050
Why?
Credentialing
1
2003
15
0.050
Why?
Tomography, Emission-Computed
1
2003
104
0.050
Why?
Ocular Hypertension
1
1983
9
0.050
Why?
Models, Biological
2
2006
1768
0.050
Why?
Size Perception
2
1980
6
0.050
Why?
Eye Diseases
1
1983
58
0.050
Why?
Hemiplegia
2
2000
11
0.050
Why?
Spatial Memory
1
2022
28
0.050
Why?
Glaucoma
1
1983
36
0.050
Why?
Sound
1
2022
24
0.050
Why?
Patient Care
1
2003
97
0.050
Why?
Spinal Cord
1
2023
241
0.040
Why?
Spine
1
2023
150
0.040
Why?
Swine
1
2023
588
0.040
Why?
Infant
4
2000
3220
0.040
Why?
Neuropsychological Tests
3
2017
543
0.040
Why?
Mental Recall
1
2022
173
0.040
Why?
Anesthesia Recovery Period
1
2020
55
0.040
Why?
Respiratory Rate
1
2020
25
0.040
Why?
Hypoglycemia
2
1992
113
0.040
Why?
Afferent Pathways
1
2000
63
0.040
Why?
Neurologic Examination
1
2000
120
0.040
Why?
Cross-Over Studies
1
2020
390
0.040
Why?
Aphasia
1
1999
16
0.040
Why?
Reproducibility of Results
2
2003
2715
0.040
Why?
Heart Rate
2
2020
505
0.040
Why?
Feasibility Studies
2
2012
756
0.040
Why?
Hearing Disorders
1
1998
8
0.030
Why?
Auditory Threshold
1
1998
16
0.030
Why?
Carboxy-Lyases
1
2018
20
0.030
Why?
Guinea Pigs
1
1998
163
0.030
Why?
Ocular Physiological Phenomena
1
1977
11
0.030
Why?
Immunoglobulins, Intravenous
1
2018
68
0.030
Why?
Nonlinear Dynamics
2
2010
68
0.030
Why?
Multimodal Imaging
1
2017
109
0.030
Why?
Videotape Recording
1
1997
49
0.030
Why?
Infant, Newborn
2
2000
2479
0.030
Why?
Autoantibodies
1
2018
277
0.030
Why?
Gestational Age
1
1997
333
0.030
Why?
Personality
1
2018
140
0.030
Why?
Hallucinations
1
1996
29
0.030
Why?
Arm
1
2017
97
0.030
Why?
Interferon-beta
1
1996
127
0.030
Why?
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
1
2017
152
0.030
Why?
Levodopa
1
2015
36
0.030
Why?
Signal Transduction
1
2006
3502
0.030
Why?
Biomarkers
2
2018
1910
0.030
Why?
Rats
1
2020
4072
0.030
Why?
Dementia
1
1996
214
0.030
Why?
Mathematics
2
1991
180
0.030
Why?
Reference Values
4
1994
608
0.030
Why?
Aging
1
1998
727
0.020
Why?
Follow-Up Studies
1
2000
3830
0.020
Why?
Vesico-Ureteral Reflux
1
2012
22
0.020
Why?
Brain Injuries
1
1994
164
0.020
Why?
Optic Neuritis
1
1991
10
0.020
Why?
Methods
1
1991
139
0.020
Why?
Urinary Bladder
1
2012
260
0.020
Why?
United States
1
2003
7622
0.020
Why?
Preoperative Period
1
2010
96
0.020
Why?
Dura Mater
1
2010
45
0.020
Why?
Pilot Projects
1
2012
917
0.020
Why?
Median Nerve
1
1989
12
0.020
Why?
Biomechanical Phenomena
1
1991
489
0.020
Why?
Regression Analysis
2
2003
579
0.020
Why?
Postoperative Period
1
2010
315
0.020
Why?
Cluster Analysis
1
2010
391
0.020
Why?
Electric Conductivity
2
2005
142
0.020
Why?
Prospective Studies
1
2017
4560
0.020
Why?
Predictive Value of Tests
2
2003
1713
0.020
Why?
Insulin
2
1992
1185
0.020
Why?
Retrospective Studies
2
2020
10164
0.020
Why?
Cognition Disorders
1
1990
236
0.020
Why?
Cognition
1
1992
627
0.020
Why?
Risk Factors
1
2017
5899
0.020
Why?
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
1
1992
589
0.020
Why?
Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases
1
1986
2
0.020
Why?
Imidazolidines
1
1986
3
0.020
Why?
Aldehyde Reductase
1
1986
10
0.020
Why?
Endarterectomy
1
1986
23
0.020
Why?
Autonomic Nervous System Diseases
1
1986
24
0.010
Why?
Diabetic Neuropathies
1
1986
42
0.010
Why?
Imidazoles
1
1986
138
0.010
Why?
Carotid Artery Diseases
1
1986
100
0.010
Why?
Malingering
1
1985
5
0.010
Why?
Saccades
1
2004
75
0.010
Why?
Staining and Labeling
1
2004
158
0.010
Why?
Finite Element Analysis
1
2003
75
0.010
Why?
Amblyopia
1
1983
7
0.010
Why?
Depth Perception
1
1983
19
0.010
Why?
Strabismus
1
1983
9
0.010
Why?
Pupil
1
1983
20
0.010
Why?
Clinical Trials as Topic
2
1986
1103
0.010
Why?
Optic Disk
1
1983
14
0.010
Why?
Statistics, Nonparametric
1
2003
302
0.010
Why?
Glaucoma, Open-Angle
1
1983
19
0.010
Why?
Child Behavior
1
1983
45
0.010
Why?
Intraoperative Period
2
1997
94
0.010
Why?
Macaca mulatta
1
2004
448
0.010
Why?
Postoperative Complications
1
2012
2562
0.010
Why?
Glucose Clamp Technique
2
1992
42
0.010
Why?
Behavior, Animal
1
2004
390
0.010
Why?
Diagnosis, Differential
1
2003
1546
0.010
Why?
Cohort Studies
1
2006
3054
0.010
Why?
Vision, Binocular
1
1997
21
0.010
Why?
Vision, Ocular
1
1977
73
0.010
Why?
Blood Glucose
2
1992
867
0.010
Why?
Child Development
1
1997
166
0.010
Why?
Form Perception
1
1976
36
0.010
Why?
Infant, Premature
1
1997
297
0.010
Why?
Syndrome
1
1996
437
0.010
Why?
Age of Onset
1
1994
342
0.010
Why?
Cerebrovascular Disorders
1
1994
140
0.010
Why?
Case-Control Studies
1
1996
1931
0.010
Why?
Glucagon
1
1992
114
0.010
Why?
Growth Hormone
1
1992
97
0.010
Why?
Epinephrine
1
1992
92
0.010
Why?
Self Care
1
1992
167
0.010
Why?
Hydrocortisone
1
1992
296
0.010
Why?
Peroneal Nerve
1
1986
9
0.000
Why?
Neural Conduction
1
1986
71
0.000
Why?
Carotid Artery, Internal
1
1986
69
0.000
Why?
Random Allocation
1
1986
307
0.000
Why?
Aged, 80 and over
1
1996
7061
0.000
Why?
Respiration
1
1986
269
0.000
Why?
Double-Blind Method
1
1986
1729
0.000
Why?
Neural Inhibition
1
1977
105
0.000
Why?
Light
1
1977
288
0.000
Why?
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