Physician

Neurosurgery

Richard Morawetz practices Neurosurgery. He graduated from University of Alabama Medical Center. University of Alabama Medical Center has a rank of 37 in research and a 17 in primary care He received awards:"Fellow (FACS)". Richard Morawetz has written publications. He has 49 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Rasmussen's encephalitis with concomitant cortical dysplasia: the role of GluR3.'

Publications

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• Significance of fornix atrophy in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery outcome.
• Temporal lobectomy in congenital porencephaly associated with hippocampal sclerosis.
• Risk to verbal memory following anterior temporal lobectomy in patients with severe left-sided hippocampal sclerosis.
• Magnetic source imaging versus intracranial electroencephalogram in epilepsy surgery: a prospective study.
• Confirmatory factor analysis of the california verbal learning test in patients with epilepsy: relationship to clinical and neuropathological markers of temporal lobe ...
• Bilateral hippocampal atrophy: consequences to verbal memory following temporal lobectomy.
• Wisconsin Card Sorting performance in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical and neuroanatomical correlates.
• Investigation of executive function change following anterior temporal lobectomy: selective normalization of verbal fluency.
• Rasmussen's encephalitis with concomitant cortical dysplasia: the role of GluR3.
• Individual memory change after anterior temporal lobectomy: a base rate analysis using regression-based outcome methodology.
• Phase II study of intracarotid or selective intracerebral infusion of cisplatin for treatment of recurrent anaplastic gliomas.
• Normalization of contralateral metabolic function following temporal lobectomy demonstrated by 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging.
• Dialysis-associated spondylarthropathy. Report of 10 cases.
• Concentration of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid in ventricular and lumbar cerebrospinal fluid.
• Thresholds of focal cerebral ischemia in awake monkeys.
• Clinical observations on brain oxygen availability.
• Some clinical aspects of superficial temporal-middle cerebral artery bypass surgery.
• Experience with superficial temporal-middle cerebral artery bypass surgery for stroke.
• Differential regional vulnerability in transient focal cerebral ischemia.
• Pneumocephalus secondary to spontaneous bronchial-subarachnoid fistula.
• The hemodynamic effect of STA-MCA bypass.
• Evolution and resolution of intracranial bacterial (mycotic) aneurysms.
• Correlation of cerebral blood flow and EEG during carotid occlusion for endarterectomy (without shunting) and neurologic outcome.
• Indirect injury of the optic nerve.
• Factors and their influence on regional cerebral blood flow during nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Experience with brain biopsy for suspected herpes encephalitis: a review of forty consecutive cases.
• Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the external carotid artery: preliminary report.
• Neurosarcoidosis causing ventricular loculation, hydrocephalus, and death.
• Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: three patients diagnosed by brain biopsy, with prolonged survival in two.
• A prospective analysis of 142 carotid endarterectomies for occlusive vascular disease, 1979-1985.
• Focal glial differentiation and oncocytic transformation in choroid plexus papilloma.
• Brain biopsy for encephalitis.
• The use of lasers in neurosurgery.
• Symptomatic spinal epidural lipomatosis as a complication of steroid immunosuppression in cardiac transplant patients. Report of two cases.
• Blood velocity in the middle cerebral artery and regional cerebral blood flow during carotid endarterectomy.
• Brain abscess after esophageal dilation for caustic stricture: report of three cases.
• Multiple complications from an intracranial epidermoid cyst: case report and literature review.
• Reconstruction of cranial defects with porous hydroxylapatite blocks.
• Cortical dysplasia in temporal lobe epilepsy: magnetic resonance imaging correlations.
• The importance of cerebral ischemia during carotid endarterectomy.
• Preradiation intracarotid cisplatin treatment of newly diagnosed anaplastic gliomas. The CNS Cancer Consortium.
• The anterior communicating artery has significant branches.
• Obliteration of an internal carotid-internal jugular fistula using a prolo catheter.
• Vascular tissue adhesives.
• Cerebral blood flow determined by hydrogen clearance during middle cerebral artery occlusion in unanesthetized monkeys.
• Regional cerebral blood flow during temporary middle cerebral artery occlusion in waking monkeys.
• Computed tomographic evaluation of hemorrhage secondary to intracranial aneurysm.
• Regional cerebral blood flow thresholds during cerebral ischemia.

Schools

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• Duke University

• University of Utah

• University Ala

• Massachusetts General Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Neurosurgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Massachusetts General Hospital
• University of Alabama Medical Center
• University of Utah
• Duke University School of Medicine

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