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Alexander Kraskov is a researcher affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing on the study of neurological function and disorders.

The main fields of study associated with their research include Medicine and Neuroscience. Within these, specific subfields are prominent such as Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Kraskov's research covers several key topics: Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Action Observation and Synchronization, Motor Control and Adaptation, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Their recent published papers include the following:

  • Classification of Cortical Neurons by Spike Shape and the Identification of Pyramidal Neurons (2021, Cerebral Cortex)
  • Pattern of Paresis in ALS Is Consistent with the Physiology of the Corticomotoneuronal Projections to Different Muscle Groups (2020, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry)
  • Movement Initiation and Grasp Representation in Premotor and Primary Motor Cortex Mirror Neurons (2020, eLife)
  • Lack of Somatotopy Among Corticospinal Tract Fibers Passing Through the Primate Craniovertebral Junction and Cervical Spinal Cord: Pathoanatomical Substrate of Central Cord Syndrome and Cruciate Paralysis (2021, Journal of Neurosurgery)
  • A Novel Method to Assess Motor Planning Deficits in Patients with Parkinson's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment (2024, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kraskov include Natalie J. Maffitt, Demetris S. Soteropoulos, Roger Lemon, Stuart N. Baker, and Steven Jack Jerjian.

Their research is often published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, eLife, and Journal of Neurosurgery. BioRxiv stands out as a frequent publication platform for their work.

Best Publications

  • Estimating mutual information.

    Alexander Kraskov;Harald Stögbauer;Peter Grassberger

  • Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals

    R. Quian Quiroga;A. Kraskov;T. Kreuz;T. Kreuz;P. Grassberger

  • On the predictability of epileptic seizures.

    Florian Mormann;Thomas Kreuz;Christoph Rieke;Ralph G. Andrzejak

  • Object Selectivity of Local Field Potentials and Spikes in the Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex

    Gabriel Kreiman;Chou P. Hung;Chou P. Hung;Alexander Kraskov;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

  • Corticospinal Neurons in Macaque Ventral Premotor Cortex with Mirror Properties: A Potential Mechanism for Action Suppression?

    Alexander Kraskov;Numa Dancause;Marsha M. Quallo;Samantha Shepherd

  • Latency and Selectivity of Single Neurons Indicate Hierarchical Processing in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

    Florian Mormann;Simon Kornblith;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Alexander Kraskov;Alexander Kraskov

  • Explicit Encoding of Multimodal Percepts by Single Neurons in the Human Brain

    Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Alexander Kraskov;Alexander Kraskov;Christof Koch;Itzhak Fried;Itzhak Fried

  • Measuring synchronization in coupled model systems: A comparison of different approaches

    Thomas Kreuz;Florian Mormann;Florian Mormann;Ralph G. Andrzejak;Alexander Kraskov

  • Interactions between areas of the cortical grasping network.

    Marco Davare;Alexander Kraskov;John C Rothwell;Roger N Lemon

  • M1 Corticospinal Mirror Neurons and Their Role in Movement Suppression during Action Observation

    Ganesh Vigneswaran;Roland Philipp;Roger N. Lemon;Alexander Kraskov

  • Sparse Representation in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

    Stephen Waydo;Alexander Kraskov;Rodrigo Quian Quiroga;Itzhak Fried

  • On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons

    Moran Cerf;Nikhil Thiruvengadam;Nikhil Thiruvengadam;Florian Mormann;Florian Mormann;Alexander Kraskov

  • A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala

    Florian Mormann;Florian Mormann;Florian Mormann;Julien Dubois;Simon Kornblith;Milica Milosavljevic

  • Large Identified Pyramidal Cells in Macaque Motor and Premotor Cortex Exhibit “Thin Spikes”: Implications for Cell Type Classification

    Ganesh Vigneswaran;Alexander Kraskov;Roger N. Lemon

  • Testing the null hypothesis of the nonexistence of a preseizure state

    Ralph G. Andrzejak;Florian Mormann;Thomas Kreuz;Thomas Kreuz;Christoph Rieke

  • Bivariate surrogate techniques: necessity, strengths, and caveats.

    Ralph G. Andrzejak;Alexander Kraskov;Harald Stögbauer;Florian Mormann

  • Selectivity for grasp in local field potential and single neuron activity recorded simultaneously from M1 and F5 in the awake macaque monkey.

    R. L. Spinks;A. Kraskov;T. Brochier;M. A. Umilta

  • Measure profile surrogates: A method to validate the performance of epileptic seizure prediction algorithms

    Thomas Kreuz;Thomas Kreuz;Ralph G. Andrzejak;Florian Mormann;Alexander Kraskov

  • Axon diameters and conduction velocities in the macaque pyramidal tract.

    L. Firmin;P. Field;M. A. Maier;A. Kraskov

  • Influence of spiking activity on cortical local field potentials

    Stephan Waldert;Roger N. Lemon;Alexander Kraskov

  • Reply to ``Comment on `Performance of different synchronization measures in real data: A case study on electroencephalographic signals' ''

    R. Quian Quiroga;A. Kraskov;P. Grassberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Grassberger
Peter Grassberger Forschungszentrum Jülich
Roger N. Lemon
Roger N. Lemon University College London
Florian Mormann
Florian Mormann University of Bonn
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga University of Leicester
Itzhak Fried
Itzhak Fried University of California, Los Angeles
Christof Koch
Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science
Klaus Lehnertz
Klaus Lehnertz University of Bonn
Stuart N. Baker
Stuart N. Baker Newcastle University
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn

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