Positions
- Associate Professor
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Neurology and Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Addresses
- Department of Neurology (Office)
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Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center
McNair Campus
Houston, TX 77030
United States
- Baylor St. Lukes Medical Center (Clinic)
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7200 Cambridge St., 9th Floor
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 566-3600
- Ben Taub Hospital (Clinic)
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1504 Taub Loop
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 566-3600
Education
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas United States
- Clinical Neurophysiology, Epilepsy
- Residency at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Neurology
- Internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Boston, Massachusetts United States
- Internal Medicine
- MD from Baylor College Of Medicine
- 05/2006 - Houston, TX United States
- BA from Rice University
- 05/2002 - Houston, Texas United States
Certifications
- Neurology
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Clinical Neurophysiology
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Epilepsy
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Professional Statement
As a physician scientist in the field of epilepsy, Dr. Maheshwari treats patients with epilepsy and also researches the circuits that underlie brain dysfunction. Under the mentorship of Jeffrey Noebels, MD, PhD, he initially worked with mouse models of epilepsy to identify the role of certain types of neurons in developing epilepsy, generating abnormal brain oscillations, and response to anti-epileptic drugs. More recently, he has been studying how brain oscillations abnormally develop in both epilepsy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This research aids in his overall goal of treating both epilepsy and its related comorbidities.Websites
Comprehensive list of publications and presentations
VIICTR Research Database
Selected Publications
- Chen DK, Maheshwari A, Franks R, Trolley GC, Robinson JS, Hrachovy RA "Brief group psychoeducation for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures: A neurologist-initiated program in an epilepsy center." Epilepsia. 2014 Jan;55(1):156-66. Pubmed PMID: 24446955
- Maheshwari A, Noebels JL "Monogenic models of absence epilepsy: windows into the complex balance between inhibition and excitation in thalamocortical microcircuits." Prog Brain Res. 2014;213:223-52. Pubmed PMID: 25194492
- Olivetti PR, Maheshwari A, Noebels JL "Neonatal estradiol stimulation prevents epilepsy in Arx model of X-linked infantile spasms syndrome." Sci Transl Med. 2014 Jan 22;6(220):220ra12. Pubmed PMID: 24452264
- Maheshwari A, Nahm WK, Noebels JL "Paradoxical proepileptic response to NMDA receptor blockade linked to cortical interneuron defect in stargazer mice." Front Cell Neurosci. 2013 Sep 18;7:156. Pubmed PMID: 24065886
- Wray SH, Martinez-Hernandez E, Dalmau J, Maheshwari A, Chen A, King S, et al "Paraneoplastic upbeat nystagmus." Neurology. 2011 Aug 16;77(7):691-3. Pubmed PMID: 21813784
- Wuthrich C, Dang X, Westmoreland S, McKay J, Maheshwari A, Anderson MP "Fulminant JC virus encephalopathy with productive infection of cortical pyramidal neurons." Ann Neurol. 2009 Jun;65(6):742-8. Pubmed PMID: 19557867
- Swint-Kruse L, Zhan H, Fairbanks BM, Maheshwari A, Matthews KS "Perturbation from a distance: mutations that alter LacI function through long-range effects." Biochemistry. 2003 Dec 2;42(47):14004-16. Pubmed PMID: 14636069
- Nascimento FA, Maheshwari A, Chu J, Gavvala JR. "EEG education in neurology residency: background knowledge and focal challenges." Epileptic Disord. 2020 Dec 1;22(6):769-774. Pubmed PMID: 33399093
- Maheshwari A. "Rodent EEG: Expanding the Spectrum of Analysis." Epilepsy Curr. 2020 May;20(3):149-53. Pubmed PMID: 32354231
- Dunbar C, Lee M, Maheshwari A. "High Yield of Screening for ADHD in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.." J Atten Disord. 2021 Jun;25(8):1120-28. Pubmed PMID: 31707913
- Soh H, Park S, Ryan K, Springer K, Maheshwari A, Tzingounis AV. "Deletion of KCNQ2/3 potassium channels from PV+ interneurons leads to homeostatic potentiation of excitatory transmission.." Elife. 2018 Nov 1; Pubmed PMID: 30382937
- Meyer J, Maheshwari A, Noebels J, Smirnakis S. "Asynchronous suppression of visual cortex during absence seizures in stargazer mice.." Nat Commun. 2018 May 16;9(1) Pubmed PMID: 29769525
- Pohlen MS, Jin J, Tobias RS, Maheshwari A "Pharmacoresistance with newer anti-epileptic drugs in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis.." Epilepsy Res. 2017 Nov;137:56-60. Pubmed PMID: 28941835
- Maheshwari A, Akbar A, Wang M, Marks RL, Yu K, Park S, Foster BL, Noebels JL. "Persistent aberrant cortical phase-amplitude coupling following seizure treatment in absence epilepsy models.." J Physiol. 2017 Dec 1;595(23):7249-60. Pubmed PMID: 28901011
- Maheshwari A, Marks RL, Yu KM, Noebels JL. "Shift in interictal relative gamma power as a novel biomarker for drug response in two mouse models of absence epilepsy.." Epilepsia. 2016 Jan;57(1):79-88. Pubmed PMID: 26663261
- Maheshwari A, Fischer M, Gambetti P, Parker A, Ram A, Soto C, Concha-Marambio L, Cohen Y, Belay ED, Maddox RA, Mead S, Goodman C, Kass JS, Schonberger LB, Hussein HM. "Recent US Case of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease-Global Implications.." Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 May;21(5):750-59. Pubmed PMID: 25897712
- Fábio A Nascimento, Jennifer Chu, Steven Fussner, Vaishnav Krishnan, Atul Maheshwari, Jay R Gavvala "Neurostimulation EEG artifacts: VNS, RNS, and DBS." Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2021 Aug;79(8):752-53. Pubmed PMID: 34133495
- Hannawi Y, Satpute SS, Maheshwari A "Mystery case: eyelid myoclonia with absences in an adult patient." Neurology. 2014 Feb 25;82(8):e63-4. Pubmed PMID: 24566229
- Jaramillo MA, Pham T, Kamrudin S, Khanna R, Maheshwari A. "Seizure exacerbation with anti-seizure medications in adult patients with epilepsy." 2022 Feb 15; Pubmed PMID: 35202904
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