Souhel Najjar MD Professor and Chairman, Neurology

PubMed

• Clinico-pathological correlation in unilateral cortical encephalitis treated with tocilizumab after first-line treatment failure.
  Samir Alkabie, Samer Ali, Saeed Asiry, Ana M Franceschi, Derek Chong
  Journal of Neuroimmunology. 2025-12-15
• Muscle Hypermetabolism and Pruritus in Amphiphysin-IgG-Positive Stiff-Person Syndrome.
  Samir Alkabie, Janet Yeh, Sabina Hajiyeva, Souhel Najjar
  Annals of Neurology. 2025-05-01
• Influenza A-associated acute necrotising encephalopathy.
  Hawraman Ramadan, Ibrahim Hassan, Reham Elgafy, Souhel Najjar
  Practical Neurology. 2025-01-16

Journal Articles

• Meta-analysis of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorders  
  Pearlman D, Najjar S, Schizophr Res, 1/2/2014
• Association between neuroinflammation and white matter pathology in schizophrenia: a systematic review Invited review for special issue on "white matter pathology in s...  
  Najjar S, Pearlman D, Schizophr Res, 1/1/2014
• Brain biopsy findings link major depressive disorder to neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and neurovascular dysfunction: a case report  
  Najjar S, Pearlman D, Hirsch S, Friedman K, Strange J, Reidy J, Khoukaz M, Ferrell R, Devinsky O, Najjar A, Zagzag D, Biol Psychiatry, 1/1/2014

Books/Book Chapters

• The Blood-Brain Barrier in Brain Tumors 
  Chapter: The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease. 
  Shroff S, Jain R, Najjar S, Zagzag DScience Publishers2014
• Managing Epilepsy and Co-Existing Disorders 
  Chapter: Procedures in epilepsy patients. 
  Page 499 - 514Najjar S, Devinsky O, Rosenberg A, Nordli D, Ettinger AEditors: Ettinger AB and Devinsky O.Butterworth, Heinemann, Woburn, MA2002
• Rickets: causes and differential diagnosis 
  Najjar SDamascus Medical School1983

Abstracts/Posters

• Glial and white matter abnormalities in schizophrenia: systematic review.
  Pearlman D, Najjar S, 15th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research; Schizophr Res, Colorado Springs, CO, 1/1/2015
• Major depressive disorder and neurovascular unit dysfunction with blood - brain barrier hyperpermeability: A critical analysis of human and experimental data.
  Najjar S, Pearlman D, Devinsky O, Najjar A, Zagzag D, 12th Annual Psychoimmunology Expert Meeting; Neurol Psychiatry Brain Res, Germany, 1/1/2014
• Circulating N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies in neurological and psychiatric illnesses.
  Steiner J, Ehrenreich H, Najjar S, The 4th Biennial Conference, Schizophr Res, Florence, Italy, 1/1/2014

Lectures

• Clinical and Pathological Features of Autoimmune Encephalitis. 
  Manhasset, NY - 1/1/2014
• Neuropsychiatric Manifestations of Autoimmunity & Malignancy. 
  Manhasset, NY - 1/1/2014
• Circulating N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies in neurological and psychiatric illnesses. 
  Florence, Italy - 1/1/2014