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Adam Kirton is a researcher affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work primarily focuses on fields related to Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to subfields such as Neurology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Epidemiology.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Blood Coagulation and Thrombosis Mechanisms
  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management

Adam Kirton has published in several frequent venues, notably:

  • Neurology
  • Stroke
  • Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kirton include:

  • Perinatal stroke: mapping and modulating developmental plasticity, 2021, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Guidelines for TMS/tES clinical services and research through the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Brain stimulation
  • Population Based Birth Prevalence of Disease-Specific Perinatal Stroke, 2020, PEDIATRICS
  • Spectrum of cerebral arteriopathies in children with arterial ischemic stroke, 2020, Neurology
  • Bilateral transcranial magnetic stimulation of the supplementary motor area in children with Tourette syndrome, 2021, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Their frequent collaborators include Helen L. Carlson, Ephrem Zewdie, Maryam Oskoui, John Andersen, and Mary Dunbar, who have contributed alongside Kirton in various research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Safety of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Evidence Based Update 2016.

    Marom Bikson;Pnina Grossman;Chris Thomas;Adantchede Louis Zannou

  • Canadian stroke best practice recommendations: Stroke rehabilitation practice guidelines, update 2015

    Debbie Hebert;M Patrice Lindsay;M Patrice Lindsay;Amanda McIntyre;Adam Kirton

  • Epidemiology and Outcomes of Arterial Ischemic Stroke in Children: The Canadian Pediatric Ischemic Stroke Registry.

    Gabrielle A. deVeber;Adam Kirton;Frances A. Booth;Jerome Y. Yager

  • Symptomatic Neonatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke: The International Pediatric Stroke Study

    Adam Kirton;Jennifer Armstrong-Wells;Taeun Chang;Gabrielle Deveber

  • Contralesional repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for chronic hemiparesis in subcortical paediatric stroke: a randomised trial

    Adam Kirton;Robert Chen;Sharon Friefeld;Carolyn Gunraj

  • Presumed perinatal ischemic stroke: vascular classification predicts outcomes.

    Adam Kirton;Gabrielle DeVeber;Ann‐Marie Pontigon;Daune Macgregor

  • Thrombolysis in Pediatric Stroke Study

    Michael J. Rivkin;Gabrielle deVeber;Rebecca N. Ichord;Adam Kirton

  • Quantified Corticospinal Tract Diffusion Restriction Predicts Neonatal Stroke Outcome

    Adam Kirton;Manohar Shroff;Tharshini Visvanathan;Gabrielle deVeber

  • Interrater Reliability of the Pediatric National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (PedNIHSS) in a Multicenter Study

    Rebecca N. Ichord;Rachel Bastian;Lisa Abraham;Rand Askalan

  • Towards a Consensus-Based Classification of Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke

    Timothy J. Bernard;Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson;Warren Lo;Mark T. MacKay

  • Use of alteplase in childhood arterial ischaemic stroke: a multicentre, observational, cohort study.

    Catherine Amlie-Lefond;Gabrielle deVeber;Anthony K. Chan;Susan Benedict

  • Perinatal stroke: mechanisms, management, and outcomes of early cerebrovascular brain injury.

    Mary Dunbar;Adam Kirton

  • Arteriopathy diagnosis in childhood arterial ischemic stroke: results of the vascular effects of infection in pediatric stroke study.

    Max Wintermark;Nancy K. Hills;Gabrielle A. deVeber;A. James Barkovich

  • Acute Corticospinal Tract Wallerian Degeneration Is Associated With Stroke Outcome

    Giselle DeVetten;Shelagh B. Coutts;Michael D. Hill;Mayank Goyal

  • Clinical Characteristics, Risk Factors, and Outcomes Associated With Neonatal Hemorrhagic Stroke: A Population-Based Case-Control Study.

    Lauran Cole;Deborah Dewey;Nicole Letourneau;Bonnie J. Kaplan

  • Advances in Perinatal Ischemic Stroke

    Adam Kirton;Gabrielle deVeber

  • Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations: Mood, Cognition and Fatigue following Stroke Practice Guidelines, Update 2015:

    Gail A. Eskes;Krista L. Lanctôt;Krista L. Lanctôt;Nathan Herrmann;Nathan Herrmann;Patrice Lindsay;Patrice Lindsay

  • Clinical and imaging characteristics of arteriopathy subtypes in children with arterial ischemic stroke: Results of the vips study

    M. Wintermark;N.K. Hills;G.A. DeVeber;A.J. Barkovich

  • Brain stimulation and constraint for perinatal stroke hemiparesis: The PLASTIC CHAMPS Trial.

    Adam Kirton;John Andersen;Mia Herrero;Alberto Nettel-Aguirre

  • Emergence of the Primary Pediatric Stroke Center Impact of the Thrombolysis in Pediatric Stroke Trial

    Timothy J. Bernard;Michael J. Rivkin;Kelley Scholz;Gabrielle De Veber

  • NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION IN CHILDREN: APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

    Thilinie Rajapakse;Adam Kirton

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P. Dukelow
Sean P. Dukelow University of Calgary
Brian L. Brooks
Brian L. Brooks Alberta Children's Hospital
Robert Chen
Robert Chen University Health Network
Giuseppe Iaria
Giuseppe Iaria University of Calgary
Catherine Lebel
Catherine Lebel University of Calgary
Carolyn Gunraj
Carolyn Gunraj University of Toronto
Gustavo Saposnik
Gustavo Saposnik University of Toronto
Keith Owen Yeates
Keith Owen Yeates University of Calgary
Deborah Dewey
Deborah Dewey University of Calgary

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