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William Owen Pickrell

Swansea Bay University Health Board ·
Area of research
Psychiatry and Mental health · Genetics
Research interest
Research interests include Epilepsy research and treatment, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
h-index
24
citations
2,345
works
96
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Evaluation of metformin for epilepsy prevention or seizure control in people without evidence of diabetes: retrospective cohort study
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2026cited by 1position: middledoi
P16-2 Quantifying the proportion of incident epilepsy that is potentially preventable – a Welsh cohort study
2026cited by 0position: lastdoi
P16-1 Determining the association between individual-level socioeconomic factors and incident epilepsy: a welsh population cohort study of 2.9 million people
2026cited by 0position: middledoi
Paediatric Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in Wales: A Retrospective Observational Study
Journal of Child Neurology 2026cited by 0position: lastdoi
Pathogenic ultra-rare variants in <i>SLC6A1, SLC6A11, GAD1 and GAD2</i> are new &amp; recurrent GABAergic loci for GGE syndromes
medRxiv 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
A synonymous <i>SLC2A1</i> variant causes familial epilepsy and paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia by creating aberrant mosaic splicing patterns
medRxiv 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Rare Cholesterol Related Disorders – A Sterolomic Library for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Diseases
medRxiv 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Pathogenic Ultra-Rare Variants in SLC6A1, SLC6A11, GAD1 and GAD2 are New &amp;amp; Recurrent GABAergic Loci for Genetic Generalised Epilepsy
SSRN Electronic Journal 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Educational attainment of children with self-limited epilepsy with CentroTemporal spikes (SELECTS), other epilepsies, and without epilepsy: A retrospective cohort study
Seizure 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Developing and validating a clinical prediction model to predict epilepsy-related emergency department attendance, hospital admission, or death: A cohort study protocol
PLoS ONE 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Capability, opportunity and motivation for shared decision‐making about valproate as an antiseizure medication treatment for epilepsy in women with pregnancy potential: A qualitative study of patient perspectives
British Journal of Health Psychology 2025cited by 0position: middledoi
Assessing the extent and determinants of socioeconomic inequalities in epilepsy in the UK: a systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence
The Lancet Public Health 2024cited by 16position: middledoi
Natural language processing to automate a web-based model of care and modernize skin cancer multidisciplinary team meetings
British journal of surgery 2024cited by 9position: middledoi
Epidemiology of self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS): A population study using primary care records
Seizure 2024cited by 8position: middledoi
Epilepsy and the risk of <scp>COVID</scp>‐19‐related hospitalization and death: A population study
Epilepsia 2024cited by 6position: lastdoi
Health care utilization and mortality for people with epilepsy during <scp>COVID</scp>‐19: A population study
Epilepsia 2024cited by 3position: lastdoi
Annotation of epilepsy clinic letters for natural language processing
Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2024cited by 3position: middledoi
Improving surveillance of emergency department activity through natural language processing
International Journal for Population Data Science 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Prevalence and temporal relationship of clinical co-morbidities in idiopathic dystonia: a UK linkage-based study
Journal of Neurology 2024cited by 0position: middledoi
Comparing the Pathology, Clinical, and Demographic Characteristics of Younger and Older‐Onset Multiple Sclerosis
Annals of Neurology 2023cited by 31position: middledoi
Validating a novel natural language processing pathway for automated quality assurance in surgical oncology: incomplete excision rates of 34 955 basal cell carcinomas
British journal of surgery 2023cited by 10position: middledoi
Revisiting basal cell carcinoma clinical margins: Leveraging natural language processing and multivariate analysis with updated Royal College of Pathologists histological reporting standards
Journal of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery 2023cited by 7position: middledoi
COVID-19 vaccination uptake in people with epilepsy in wales
Seizure 2023cited by 6position: lastdoi
Epilepsy genetics: a practical guide for adult neurologists
Practical Neurology 2023cited by 4position: firstdoi
Genetic influences on epilepsy outcomes: A whole‐exome sequencing and health care records data linkage study
Epilepsia 2023cited by 2position: middledoi
Developing and validating a clinical prediction model to predict epilepsy-related hospital admission or death within the next year using administrative healthcare data: a population-based cohort study protocol
medRxiv 2023cited by 1position: middledoi
Gold standard annotation of epilepsy clinic letters for the development of information extraction tools
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2023cited by 0position: middledoi
Gold standard annotation of epilepsy clinic letters for the development of information extraction tools
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2023cited by 0position: middledoi
Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between motor and psychiatric symptoms in idiopathic dystonia
European Journal of Neurology 2022cited by 16position: middledoi
Development and validation of an automated basal cell carcinoma histopathology information extraction system using natural language processing
Frontiers in Surgery 2022cited by 14position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Arron Lacey · Swansea University32 papers (2012–2026)Mark I. Rees · Swansea University24 papers (2012–2025)Beata Fonferko‐Shadrach · Swansea University23 papers (2017–2026)Huw Strafford · Swansea University20 papers (2020–2026)Robert Powell · Shirley Ryan AbilityLab15 papers (2017–2024)Ashley Akbari · Swansea University14 papers (2019–2024)Rhys H. Thomas · University of Antwerp13 papers (2012–2026)Ronan A Lyons · Swansea University13 papers (2013–2024)Joe Hollinghurst · Swansea University9 papers (2020–2024)Phil E M Smith · Swansea University9 papers (2012–2025)I. M. S. Sawhney · Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust9 papers (2017–2024)Richard Chin · University of Edinburgh8 papers (2021–2025)Seo‐Kyung Chung · Swansea University7 papers (2012–2025)Michael Kerr · Cardiff University7 papers (2014–2024)Fatemeh Torabi · Health Data Research UK6 papers (2020–2024)Carys Jones · University of Manchester5 papers (2021–2024)Iain S. Whitaker · Swansea University4 papers (2022–2024)Stephen R Ali · Swansea University4 papers (2022–2024)Simon Thompson · University of Birmingham4 papers (2019–2023)Hayley Hutchings · Swansea University4 papers (2022–2024)