Myriam Abdennadher, MD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Abdennadher received an MD from the Medical School of Tunis in Tunisia in 2008 and completed neurosurgery residency in Tunisia and France in 2010. Then she moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked on a study about cardiorespiratory changes in patients at higher risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University in 2011. Following her passion for treating epilepsy and improving health in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (uncontrolled seizures), she completed a neurology residency at the University of Texas at Dell Medical School in Austin in 2017, then fellowships in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health in 2019. She became an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University Medical Center in 2019.

Dr. Abdennadher is a board certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist, expert in treating patients with epilepsy, with a focus on drug-resistant epilepsy and uncontrolled seizures, neuroimaging of epilepsy, seizure focus localization and epilepsy surgery. Her research focuses on neurophysiologic and brain imaging methods to localize seizure focus in drug-resistant focal epilepsy and to improve biomarkers of epileptogenicity. She was the recipient of the Grinspoon Award for a study about perfusion MRI to localize seizure foci during presurgical evaluation (2020), the BU CTSI Translational Research Award for a study about blood-brain barrier exchanges in epilepsy using (noncontrast) arterial-spin labeling (ASL) MRI (2022), and the BU ADRC pilot grant to investigate epilepsy contribution to Alzheimer's disease progression (2024).

Publications

  • Published 7/1/2026

    Patel S, Grewal P, He A, Shah S, Alexander HB, Rodrigues K, Shah N, Fiecas MB, Ayub N, Alick-Lindstrom S, Nobleza CO, Kung D, Frost N, Nagpal S, Durica S, Yoshii-Contreras J, Zarroli K, Sudhakar P, Zhao C, De Jesus S, Bradshaw D, Brescia N, Foldvary-Schaefer N, Tormoehlen L, Mantri S, Gutmann L, Yang A, Zheng C, Howard V, Silver J, Westring A, Allendorfer JB, Abdennadher M. The Interplay of Parental Leave, Career Achievement, and Burnout in Academic Neurologists: A Multicenter Study. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2026 Jul 01; 15409996261461419. PMID: 42387354.

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  • Published 4/30/2026

    Hua N, Václavu L, Sisto J, Farris C, Sakai O, Barrett J, Stefanidou M, Al-Faraj A, Belisle M, Qureshi MM, Guermazi A, Goldstein L, Inati SK, Juttukonda M, Rosen B, Theodore W, van Osch MJ, Abdennadher M. Reliability of TRUST ASL for measuring cerebral blood flow and blood-brain barrier water exchange: a scan-rescan pilot study in healthy subjects and patients with epilepsy. medRxiv. 2026 Apr 30. PMID: 42094134.

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  • Published 3/14/2026

    Abdennadher M, Václavu L, Sisto J, Patel S, Petitclerc L, Juttukonda MR, Qureshi MM, Al-Faraj A, Stefanidou M, Barrett J, Alagar I, Jacobellis S, Farris C, Sakai O, Goldstein LE, Guermazi A, Inati SK, Theodore WH, Rosen B, van Osch MJP, Hua N. Arterial spin labeling MRI with multiple post-labeling delays reveals interictal hypo- and hyper-perfusion patterns in epilepsy: A proof of concept. J Neuroradiol. 2026 May; 53(3):101548. PMID: 41839232.

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  • Published 2/25/2026

    Abdennadher M, Douglass L, Sarkis R, Sainju RK, Jonas R, Hua N, Ng M, Pavlova MK. Sleep in Epilepsy Special Interest Group | Brain Flow Dynamics and Sleep Alterations Effect on EpilepsyFrom Babies to Late Adults and Breathing to Cognition: The Impact of Sleep on Seizures and Cognitive Function in Epilepsy Through the Lens of Water Exchange Dynamics. Epilepsy Curr. 2026 Feb 25; 15357597261418772. PMID: 41768594.

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  • Published 11/18/2025

    Cocoli K, Curley J, Rohatgi P, Abdennadher M. Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy for Epilepsy: Mechanisms of Action and Therapeutic Approaches. Brain Sci. 2025 Nov 18; 15(11). PMID: 41300243.

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Education

  • University of Tunis, MD

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