Associate Professor Brian Owler

Associate Professor
Medicine, Children's Hospital, Westmead

C24 - Westmead Hospital
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

2012

Understanding the mechanisms of development and treatment in hydrocephalus.
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NHMRC Project Grant ($382,500 over 3 years)

* Grants administered through the University of Sydney

Nervous system diseases; Spinal cord injury; Neurosurgery; Brain tumours

Publications

Ahmed, R., Wilkinson, M., Parker, G., Thurtell, M., Macdonald, J., McCluskey, P., Allan, R., Dunne, V., Hanlon, M., Owler, B., Halmagyi, G. (2011), Transverse Sinus Stenting for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: A Review of 52 Patients and of Model Predictions. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology. 32(8), 1408-14. [Abstract]
Czosnyka, Z., Owler, B., Keong, N., Santarius, T., Baledent, O., Pickard, J., Czosnyka, M. (2011), Impact of duration of symptoms on CSF dynamics in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Acta neurologica Scandinavica. 123, 414-8. [Abstract]
Wang, D., Owler, B. (2011), Expression of AQP1 and AQP4 in paediatric brain tumours. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 18(1), 122-7. [Abstract]
Wang, D., Nykanen, M., Yang, N., Winlaw, D., North, K., Verkman, A., Owler, B. (2011), Altered cellular localisation of aquaporin-1 in experimental hydrocephalus in mice and reduced ventriculomegaly in aquaporin-1 deficiency. Molecular and cellular neurosciences. 46(4), 318-24. [Abstract]

Chung, K., Charlton, A., Arbuckle, S., Chaseling, R., Owler, B. (2010), Metachronous multifocal desmoid-type fibromatoses along the neuraxis with adenomatous polyposis syndrome. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 6(4), 372-376. [Abstract]
Owler, B., Pitham, T., Wang, D. (2010), Aquaporins: relevance to cerebrospinal fluid physiology and therapeutic potential in hydrocephalus. Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. 7, 15. [Abstract]
Murali, R., Scheithauer, B., Chaseling, R., Owler, B., Ng, T. (2010), Papillary tumour of the pineal region: cytological features and implications for intraoperative diagnosis. Pathology. 42(5), 474-479. [Abstract]

Khong, P., Pitham, T., Owler, B. (2008), Isolated neurolymphomatosis of the cauda equina and filum terminale: case report. Spine. 33(21), E807-11. [Abstract]
Hansen, M., da Cruz, M., Owler, B. (2008), Endoscopic transnasal decompression for management of basilar invagination in osteogenesis imperfecta. Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 9(4), 354-357. [Abstract]
Czosnyka, Z., Keong, N., Kim, D., Radolovich, D., Smielewski, P., Lavinio, A., Schmidt, E., Momjian, S., Owler, B., Pickard, J., Czosnyka, M. (2008), Pulse amplitude of intracranial pressure waveform in hydrocephalus. Acta neurochirurgica. Supplement. 102, 137-40. [Abstract]

Owler, B. (2007), CONTROVERSIES IN NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY: NEUROVASCULAR DISEASE. EDITED BY MICHAEL T. LAWTON, DARRYL GRESS AND RANDALL T. HIGASHIDA. ANZ journal of surgery. 77(11), 1024. [Abstract]
DeVito, E., Salmond, C., Owler, B., Sahakian, B., Pickard, J. (2007), Caudate structural abnormalities in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Acta neurologica Scandinavica. 116(5), 328-32. [Abstract]
Morris, J., Owler, B., Hely, M., Fung, V. (2007), Hydrocephalus and structural lesions. In: Handbook of Clinical Neuroscience: Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders, Part II. (pp.459-478).Netherlands: Elsevier BV.
Johnston, I., Owler, B., Pickard, J. (2007), The Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. United States: Cambridge University Press.
Czosnyka, M., Czosnyka, Z., Keong, N., Lavinio, A., Smielewski, P., Momjian, S., Schmidt, E., Petrella, G., Owler, B., Pickard, J. (2007), Pulse pressure waveform in hydrocephalus: what it is and what it isn't. Neurosurgical focus. 22(4), E2. [Abstract]