1. E.M. Bednraczyk, D.S. Wack, M.Y. Kassab, K. Burch, K. Trinidad, M. Haka, J. Gona. “Brain
blood flow in the nitroglycerin model of migraine: measurement using positron emission
tomography and transcranial Doppler”. Cephalalgia 2002; 22(9):749-757

2. D.T.Chen, B.B.Worrall, R.D.Brown Jr, and the SWISS Investigators
“The impact of privacy protections on recruitment in a multicenter stroke genetics study”
Neurology 2005;64:721-724

3. James F. Meschia, Thomas G. Brott, and the SWISS investigators
“Phosphodiesterase 4D and 5-Lipoxygenase Activating Protein in Ischemic Stroke” Annals of
Neurology 2005;58(3): 351 – 361
4. Bradford B. Worrall, Donna T. Chen, Robert D. Brown, Jr, Thomas G. Brott, James F. Meschia,
for the SWISS investigators.
“A Survey of the SWISS Researchers on the Impact of Sibling Privacy Protections on Pedigree
Recruitment”
Neuroepidemiology 2005;25(1):32-41
5. James F. Meschia, Brett M. Kissela, Thomas G. Brott, Robert D. Brown, Jr, Bradford B. Worrall,
Jeanne Beck, Alexa N. Skarp, and the SWISS investigators.
“The Siblings with Ischemic Stroke (SWISS): A Progress Report”
Clinical Medicine and Research 2006;4(1):12-21
6. Kassab MY, Majid A. Farooq MU. Azhary H. Hershey LA. Bednarczyk EM, Graybeal DF.
Johnson MD. “Transcranial Doppler: An introduction for primary care physicians”
J Am Board Fam Med 2007;20(1):65-71
7. Rajanikant GK. Zemke D. Kassab M. Majid A
“The therapeutic potential of statins in neurological disorders”
Current Medicinal Chemistry;2007,14:103-112
8. Farooq MY. Naravetla B. Majid A. Gupta R. Pysh JJ. Kassab MY.
“IV Levetiracetam in the Management of Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus”
Neurocritical care, 2007;7(1):36-39
9. Farooq MU. Majid A. Pysh JJ. Kassab MY.
“Possible role of intravenous Levetiracetam in status migrainosus”
Journal of headache and pain, 2007 April;8(2):143-4
10. Kassab MY. Majid A. Bakhtar O. Farrooq MU. Patel K. Bednarczyk EM.
“Transcranial Doppler Measurments in Migraine and Nitrglycerin Headache”
Journal of headache and pain, 2007 Oct;8(5):289-93
11. Bhatt A, Farooq MU, Kassab M, Gupta R, Majid A.
“Clivus Chordoma: An interesting clinical presentation”
The Internet Journal of Neurology. 2007; 8(1)
12. Zemke D, Farooq MU, Kassab M, Reeves M, Majid A.
“The Effect of Anticonvulsant Drugs on the Fibrinolytic Activity of Tissue Plasminogen
Activator”. Cerebrovascular Dis. 2007 Dec 6;25(1-2):107-110
13. Kassab MY, Farooq MU, Diaz-Arrastia R, Van Ness PC.
“The Clinical Significance of EEG Cyclic Alternating Pattern During Coma”.
Journal of Clinical neurophysiology. 24(6):425-428, December 2007
14. Farooq MU, Naravetla B, Moore PW, Majid A, Gupta R, Kassab MY
“Role of Sildenafil in neurological disorder”.
Clinical Neuro-Pharmacology. 2008 Nov-Dec; 31(6):353-62
15. Rishi Gupta MD, Archit Bhatt MD, Mounzer Kassab MD, Arshad Majid MD. “Intravascular
Ultrasound to Assess Extracranial Vertebral Artery Restenosis”.
Journal of Neuroimaging, July 2008 18(3):336-339
16. Archit Bhatt, Muhammad U Farooq, Shaila Bhatt, Arshad Majid, Mounzer Y Kassab.
“Periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges: an initial electrographic pattern in reversible
posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome”.
Neurol Neurochir Pol.2008 ;42 (1):55-59
17. Farooq MU, Naravetla B, Bhatt A, Masih A, Macfalda B, Kassab MY.
“Possible Iatrogenic Bilateral Cerebral Ischemic Infarcts in a Woman with Vasculitis”.
J Headache Pain. 2008 Jun;9(3):189-90
18. Mounzer Kassab, Omid Bakhtar, David Wack, Edward Bednarczyk.
“Resting Brain Glucose Uptake in Headache-Free Migraineurs”
Headache. Jan 2009;49(1):90-97
19. M. U. Farooq, P. W. Moore, A. Bhatt, R. Aburashed, M. Y. Kassab.
“Therapeutic Role of Zonisamide in Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 2008;8(10):968-975
20. Archit Bhatt, Bharat Naravetla, Arshad Majid, Mounzer Kassab, Rishi Gupta
Treatment of basilar artery occlusion with intra-arterial thrombolysis in a 3-year old
girl. Neurocritical Care. 2008 Dec; 9(3):357-360
21. Jiangyong Min, Marie-Claude Senut, Krishnamurthy Rajanikant, Eric Greenberg, Ram Bandagi,
Daniel Zemke, Ahmad Mousa, Mounzer Kassab, Muhammad U. Farooq, Rishi Gupta, Arshad
Majid. “Differential neuroprotective effects of carnosine, anserine, and N-acetyl carnosine
against permanent focal ischemia” Journal of Neuroscience Research;86(13):2984-2991, 2008
22. Bhatt, Archit; Vora, Nirav A; Thomas, Ajith J; Majid, Arshad; Kassab, Mounzer; Hammer,
Maxim D; Uchino, Ken; Wechsler, Lawrence; Jovin, Tudor G; Gupta, Rishi. “Lower
Pretreatment Cerebral Blood Volume Affects Hemorrhageic Risks After Intra-arterial
Revascularization in Acute Stroke”. Neurosurgery. 63(5):874-879, 2008
23. Gupta. R, Bhatt. A, Kassab. M, Majid. A. “Elevated Levels of Pre-Procedural High-Sensitivity
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C-Reactive Protein Is Associated with Midterm Restenosis after Extra- and Intracranial
Stenting”. Journal of Neuroimaging, October 22nd, 2008
24. Bhatt, A. Majid. A, Kassab. M, Gupta. R. “Chronic Total Symptomatic Carotid Artery
Occlusion Treated Successfully with Stenting and Angioplasty”.
Journal of Neuroimaging, September 17th, 2008.
25. Farooq UM, Khasnis A, Maid A, Kassab MY. “The Role of Optical Coherence Tomography in
Vascular Medicine”. Vascular Medicine 2009;14:63-71
26. Archit Bhatt, Muhammad U. Farooq, Arshad Majid, Mounzer Kassab. “Chimotherapy-related
Posterior Reversible Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome”.
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology, March 2009;5(3):163-169
27. Archit Bhatt, Muhammad U Farooq, Rany Aburashed, Mounzer Y Kassab, Arshad Majid,
Shaila Bhatt, Bharath Naravetla, Gurmail Dhaliwal. “Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to
Pressure Palsies and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”.Neurolo Sci. June 2009;30(3):241-245
28. Farooq MU, Bhatt A, Majid A, Gupta R, Khasnis A, Kassab MY. “Levetiracetam for managing
neurologic and psychiatric disorders”.
Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009 Mar 15;66(6):541-61
29. Archit Bhatt, Amit Masih, Heather F Grothous, Mounzer Kassab. “Diffusion Weighted
Imaging: “Not All That Glitters Is Gold”.
Southern Medical Journal 2009 May;
30. Rajanikant G. Krishnamurthy, Marie-Claude Senut, Daniel Zemke, Jiangyong Min, Mark B.
Frenkel, Eric J. Greenberg, Seong-Woon Yu, Nick Ahn, John Goudreau, Mounzer Kassab,
Kiran S. Panickar, Arshad Majid. “Asiatic acid, a pentacyclic triterpene from Centella asiatica is
neuroprotective in a mouse model of focal cerebral ischemia”.
Journal of Neuroscience Research; 2009
31. MY. Kassab, R. Gupta, A. Majid, MU. Farooq, B. Giles, M. Johnson, DF. Graybeal, G.
Rappard. “The Extent of Intra-arterial Calcification on Head CT is Predictive of the Degree of
Intracranial Atherosclerosis on Digital Subtraction Angiography”.
Cerebrovascular Diseases 2009;28(1):45-8
32. J Min, MU Farooq, E Greenberg, f Aloka, A Bhatt, M Kassab, J Morgan, A majid. “Cardiac
Dysfunction after Left Permanent Cerebral Focal Ischemia. The Brain and Heart
connection”. Stroke. 2009;40:2560-2563
33. Mounzer Y Kassab, Inna Lobeck, Arshad Majid, Yan Xie, Muhammad U Farooq. “Blood
Pressure Changes after Intravenous Fosphenytoin and Levetiracetam in Patients with Acute
Cerebral Symptoms” Epilepsy Research 2009;87(2-3):268-271
34. Mukerji S, Aloka F, Farooq MU, Kassab MY, Abela GS.
“Cardiovascular complications of the Guillain-Barré syndrome”.
Am J Cardiol. 2009 Nov 15;104(10):1452-5
35. Hend Azhary, Minal Bhanushali; Muhammad U. Farooq, Arshad Majid, Mounzer
Y.Kassab. “Peripheral Neuropathy, Etiology, Diagnosis and Management”.
American Family Physician 4/2010.
36. Archit Bhatt, Arshad Majid, Anmar Razak, Mounzer Kassab, Syed Hussain, Adnan Safdar
“Predictors of Occult Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Cryptogenic Strokes Detected by LongTerm Noninvasive Cardiac Monitoring”
Stroke Research and Treatment. Volume 2011, Article ID 172074
37. Archit Bhatt, Muhammad U. Farooq, Sailaja Enduri, Clement Pillainayagam, Bharath Naravetla,
Anmar Razak, Adnan Safdar, Syed Hussain, Mounzer Kassab, and Arshad Majid
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“Clinical Significance of Serum Zinc Levels in Cerebral Ischemia”
Stroke Research and Treatment. Volume 2011, Article ID 245715
38. Anmar Razak, David Clark, Mohammad U Farooq, Mounzer Kassab
“Wallenberg’s syndrome with extradural-extracranial origin of the posterior inferior cerebellar
artery”. Neurol Sci (2011) 32:711-713
39. Bhatt, Archit, Muhammad U. Farooq, Sailaja Enduri, Clement Pillainayagam, Bharath
Naravetla, Anmar Razak, Adnan Safdar, Syed Hussain, Mounzer Kassab, and Arshad
Majid. “Clinical significance of serum zinc levels in cerebral ischemia.” Stroke research
and treatment 2010 (2011).
40. Ok-Nam Bae, Krishnamurthy Rajanikant, Jiangyong Min, Jeremy Smith, Seung-Hoon Baek,
Kelsey Serfozo, Siamak Hejabian, Ki Yong Lee, Mounzer Kassab, Arshad Majid.
Lymphocyte Cell Kinase Activation Mediates Neuroprotection during Ischemic Preconditioning
The Journal of Neuroscience, 23 May 2012, 32(21): 7278-7286
41. Ki Yong Lee, Ok-Nam Bae, Kelsey Serfozo, Siamk Hejabian, Ahmad Moussa, Mathew Reeves,
Wilson Rumbeiha, Scott D. Fitzgerald, Gary Stein, Seung-Hoon Baek, John Goudreau, Mounzer
Kassab, Arshad Majid.
“Asiatic Acid Attenuates Infarct Volume, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Matrix
Metalloproteinase-9 Induction after Focal Cerebral Ischemia”.Stroke. 2012; 43: 1632-1638
42. Farooq MU, Bhatt A, Safdar A, Kassab MY, Majid A.
Stroke symptoms and risk factor awareness in high school children in Pakistan.
International Journal of Stroke. 2012, 7(8):E15
43. Bhatt Archit, Kassab Mounzer et al. “ABCD2 Score and Large-Artery Atherosclerosis.
“The Neurohospitalist 2.1 (2012): 12-17.
44. Bhatt A, Safdar A, Chaudhari D, Clark D, Pollak A, Majid A, Kassab M.
“Medicolegal Considerations with Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Stroke: A
Systematic Review.” Stroke research and treatment. Vol. 2013. Article ID 562564, 6 pages
45. Ki Yong Lee, Ok-Nam Bae, Shelley Weinstock, Mounzer Kassab, and Arshad Majid
“Neuroprotective Effect of Asiatic Acid in Rat Model of Focal Embolic Stroke”
Biol. Pharm. Bull. 37(8) 1397–1401 (2014)
46. Saqib Chaudhry, Adnan Safdar, Mounzer Kassab, Syed Hussain, Adnan Qureshi
Rates of Adverse Events and Outcomes among Stroke Patients Admitted to Primary
Stroke Centers
Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 25(8):1960-1965, August 2016
47. Burghardt, T. , Sachdeva, G. , Rao, M. , Chaudhry, S. , Schulte, A. and Yassin-Kassab, M.
Hyperacute cEEG Attenuation in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 5, 165-169. (2016)