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Nicole R. Villemarette-Pittman, PhD
Gratis Faculty, LSUHSC-NO Department of Neurology
Managing Editor, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Board Member, Louisiana Epilepsy Foundation
Gratis Faculty, LSUHSC-NO Department of Neurology
Managing Editor, Journal of the Neurological Sciences
Board Member, Louisiana Epilepsy Foundation
Email: nville@lsuhsc.edu
www.epilepsycenter.info
Degrees
BS Psychology - 1998
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
MS Applied Biopsychology - 2000
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
PhD Applied Biopsychology - 2003
University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Bio
Nicole R. Villemarette-Pittman, PhD, served as an Associate Professor of Research in Neurology until January, 2022. She continues to collaborate with Epilepsy Center and Department of Neurology faculty, as well as teach in the research and evidence-based medicine lecture series for Neurology Residents, Clinical Neurophysiology Fellows, and Epilepsy Fellows.
Dr. Villemarette-Pittman serves as Managing Editor for an international neurology journal, the Journal of the Neurological Sciences (JNS), which promotes global neurology, best practices, clinical outcomes, and basic and translational science. In 2019, the impact factor increased by 17.5% and rose again in 2020. JNS has had a record number of submissions each year for the past several years and has a 5-year impact factor of 3.402.
Dr. Villemarette-Pittman earned her degrees at the University of New Orleans where she specialized in personality, neuropsychological and psychophysiological research in aggressive populations. Her research interests at LSUHSC included long-term surgical outcomes in standard epilepsy surgery, the assessment and treatment of persons experiencing psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), and the efficacy of RNS system in persons with epilepsy.
Selected Publications
Chachkhiani, D., Isakadze, M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Devier, D.J., & Lovera, J.F. (
2021). Altered Mental Status Predicts Length of Stay But Not Death in a Community-based Cohort of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 210, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clineuro.2021.106977
Frohman, E.M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Rodriguez, A., Glanzman, R., Rugheimer, S., Komogortsev, O., Zamvil, S.S., Cruz, R.A., Varkey, T.C., Frohman, A.N., Frohman, A.R., Parsons, M.S., Konkle, E., & Frohman, T.C. (2021). Home Treatment Mild/Moderate COVID-19: To Prevent Severe Disease: Imagine? Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 426, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2021.117463
Varma-Doyle, A., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., & Copeland, B. (2021). Hemi-Parkinsonism and Return of Essential Tremors After MRgFUS Thalamotomy: Case Report and Review of Procedural Complications Affecting Ventral Thalamic Nuclei. eNeurologicalSci, 23, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensci.2021.100339
El-Abbasi, R., Soliman, M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & England, J. (2021). CNS Whipple’s Disease. In R. Hasbun, K.C. Bloch & A. Bhimraj (Eds.), Neurological Complications of Infectious Disease (pp. 351-364). Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56084-3_17
Chachkhiani, D., Soliman, M.Y., Barua, D., Isakadze, M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Devier, D.J., & Lovera, J.F. (2020). Neurological complications in a predominantly African American sample of COVID-19 predict worse outcomes during hospitalization. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, 197,1-4. 106173
Dileep R Nair, Kenneth D Laxer, Peter B Weber, Anthony M Murro, Yong D Park, Gregory L Barkley, Brien J Smith, Ryder P Gwinn, Michael J Doherty, Katherine H Noe, Richard S Zimmerman, Gregory K Bergey, William S Anderson, Christianne Heck, Charles Y Liu, Ricky W Lee, Toni Sadler, Robert B Duckrow, Lawrence J Hirsch, Robert E Wharen, William Tatum, Shraddha Srinivasan, Guy M McKhann, Mark A Agostini, Andreas V Alexopoulos, Barbara C Jobst, David W Roberts, Vicenta Salanova, Thomas C Witt, Sydney S Cash, Andrew J Cole, Gregory A Worrell, Brian N Lundstrom, Jonathan C Edwards, Jonathan J Halford, David C Spencer, Lia Ernst, Christopher T Skidmore, Michael R Sperling, Ian Miller, Eric B Geller, Michel J Berg, A James Fessler, Paul Rutecki, Alica M Goldman, Eli M Mizrahi, Robert E Gross, Donald C Shields, Theodore H Schwartz, Douglas R Labar, Nathan B Fountain, W Jeff Elias, Piotr W Olejniczak, Nicole R Villemarette-Pittman, Stephan Eisenschenk, Steven N Roper, Jane G Boggs, Tracy A Courtney, Felice T Sun, Cairn G Seale, Kathy L Miller, Tara L Skarpaas, and Martha J Morrell. (2020). Nine-year prospective efficacy and safety of brain-responsive neurostimulation for focal epilepsy. Neurology, Jul, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000010154. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010154
Frohman, E.M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Cruz, R.A., Longmuir, R., Rowe, V., Rowe, E.S., Varkey, T.C., Steinman, L., Zamvil, S.S., & Frohman, T.C. (2020). Part II. High-dose methotrexate with leucovorin rescue for severe COVID-19: An Immune Stabilization Strategy for SARS-CoV-2 induced ‘PANIC’ Attack. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 415, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.116935
Frohman, E.M., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Melamed, E., Cruz, R.A., Longmuir, R., Varkey, T.C., Steinman, L., Zamvil, S.S., & Frohman, T.C. (2020). Part I. SARS-CoV-2 triggered ‘PANIC’ Attack in severe COVID-19. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 415, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.116936
El-Abassi, R., Soliman, M.Y., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & England, J.D. (2019). SPS: Understanding the complexity. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 404C, 137-149.
Ramos, A.B., Cruz, R.A., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Olejniczak, P.W. & Mader Jr., E.C. (2019). Dexamethasone as abortive treatment for refractory seizures of status epilepticus in the inpatient setting. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, Jan-Dec (7)
Varma-Doyle, A.V., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & Copeland, B. (2019). Does Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA) Influence Care Discussions in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)? Oral Presentation given at the Neurology in Training Clinical Elective (NITCE) ethics meeting at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Philadelphia, PA.
Cruz, R., Ramos, A., Rathore, S., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & Copeland, B. (2019). Smart Phrases Dramatically Increase Insurance Approval Rates for Botulinum Toxin Injections for the Prevention of Chronic Migraines. Oral Presentation given at the 7th Annual LSU School of Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Forum. LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Cruz, A., Rathore, S., Ramos, A., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & Copeland, B. (2018). One-on-one Case Simulation Workshop of Neurological Emergencies for First-Year Neurology Residents. Poster presented at the 6th Annual LSU School of Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Forum. LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, New Orleans, LA **First Place Awarded
Ramos, A.B., Cruz, R.A., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Lovera, J.F., Olejniczak, P.W., & Mader, E.C. Jr. (2018). Effective Treatment of Refractory Seizures with Dexamethasone Implicates Inflammation in Drug-Resistant Seizures. Poster and Oral Presentation at American Federation of Medical Research Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Varma, A., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Gutierrez, A. & Ehrensing, E.M. (2016). Exploring Cognitive Decline Vs. Motor Decline in ALS Patients. Poster presented at 15th Annual Meeting of the Northeast Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (NEALS) Consortium, Clearwater Beach, FL.
Lovera, J. & Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. (2014). Tumefactive lesions and increased disease activity associated with Fingolimod. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 344(1), 1-2.
Mader Jr., E.C., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Rogers, C.T., Torres-Delgado, F., Olejniczak, P.W. & England, J.D. (2014). Unihemispheric burst suppression. Neurology International, 6:5487, 53-55.
Peterson, B.W., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. & Olejniczak, P.W. Quality Improvement in Epilepsy Clinic. Poster presented at LSU School of Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Forum. LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, May, 2013.
Edwards, C., Lalan, S., Oganisyan, G., Baras, G. & Villemarette-Pittman, N.R. Does Prior Aspirin Therapy Affect Stroke Severity, Morbidity or Mortality as Measured by Death and Duration of Hospitalization? Poster presented at LSU School of Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Forum. LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, May, 2013.
Mader Jr., E.C., El-Abassi, R., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Santana-Gould, L., Olejniczak, P.W. & England, J.D. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with focal findings: Caveats to current diagnostic criteria. Neurology International, 5:e1, 1-5, 2013.
Juarbe, R., Olejniczak, P., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Mader Jr., E.C. & Richter, E. Focal left inferior parietal and frontal premotor epileptic encephalopathy associated with right arm apraxia. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, October, 2012.
Martin, T., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Mader Jr., E.C. & Friday, K. Risk factors for the severity of sleep apnea. Poster presented at the Medical Student Research Day. LSU Health Sciences Center - New Orleans, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, October, 2012.
Mader Jr., E.C., Villemarette-Pittman, N.R., Kashirny, S.V., Santana-Gould, L. and Olejniczak, P.W. Typical spike-and-wave activity in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and its implications for classifying nonconvulsive status epilepticus. Clinical Medical Insights: Case Reports, 5, 99-106, 2012.
Mader Jr., EC, Fisch BJ, Villemarette-Pittman NR, Olejniczak PW and Carey ME. Botulinum toxin injections for simple partial motor seizures associated with pain. Case Reports in Medicine, Epub 2012 May 31, Article ID 295251, 2012.
Devier DJ, Villemarette-Pittman NR, Brown P, Pelton G, Stern Y, Sano M. and Devanand DP. Predictive utility of type and duration of symptoms at initial presentation in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 30, 238-244, 2010.
Villemarette-Pittman NR, Richter E, Olejniczak P, Boudreaux B, Fisch B, Carey M and Mader Jr EC. Pet has minimal influence on the decision to perform invasive monitoring prior to temporal lobectomy. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Seattle, WA, December, 2008.
Villemarette-Pittman NR, Olejniczak P, Richter E, Fisch B, Carey M, Padin J and Mader Jr EC. 18-month Postoperative Seizure Frequency Predicts Long Term Outcome after Temporal Lobectomy While Presurgical Localizing Factors Do Not. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2008.
Fisch B, Carey M, Villemarette-Pittman NR, Padin J, Olejniczak P, Mader Jr. EC and Sommers C. The extent of neocortical resection and outcomes in temporal lobectomy. Poster presented at the 61st annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Philadelphia, PA, December, 2007.
Dash PD and Villemarette-Pittman NR. Alzheimer's Disease. St. Paul, Minnesota: AAN Press, 2005.
Mader Jr. EC, Fisch BJ, Carey ME and Villemarette-Pittman NR. Ictal onset slow potential shifts recorded with hippocampal depth electrodes. Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology 4, 1-11, 2005.
Villemarette-Pittman NR, Stanford MS, Houston RJ, Greve KW and Mathias CW, Obsessive compulsive personality disorder and behavioral disinhibition. Journal of Psychology 138, 5-22, 2004.
Villemarette-Pittman NR, Stanford MS and Greve KW. Language and executive function in impulsive aggressive college students. Personality and Individual Differences 34, 1533-1544, 2003.