Asla Pitkänen

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Organization of intra-amygdaloid circuitries in the rat: An emerging framework for understanding functions of the amygdala

  Asla Pitkänen;Vesa Savander;Joseph E. LeDoux

  1238
  Citations

• Reciprocal Connections between the Amygdala and the Hippocampal Formation, Perirhinal Cortex, and Postrhinal Cortex in Rat: A Review

  Asla Pitkänen;Maria Pikkarainen;Nina Nurminen;Aarne Ylinen

  1175
  Citations

• MR volumetric analysis of the human entorhinal, perirhinal, and temporopolar cortices.

  R Insausti;K Juottonen;H Soininen;A M Insausti

  970
  Citations

• Is epilepsy a progressive disorder? Prospects for new therapeutic approaches in temporal-lobe epilepsy

  Asla Pitkänen;Thomas P Sutula

  816
  Citations

• Amyloid β-Induced Neuronal Hyperexcitability Triggers Progressive Epilepsy

  Rimante Minkeviciene;Sylvain Rheims;Marton B Dobszay;Misha Zilberter

  778
  Citations

• Mechanisms of epileptogenesis and potential treatment targets.

  Asla Pitkänen;Katarzyna Lukasiuk

  701
  Citations

• Intrinsic connections of the rat amygdaloid complex: Projections originating in the accessory basal nucleus

  Asla Pitkänen;Lisa Stefanacci;Claudia R. Farb;G.-Genevieve Go

  629
  Citations

• Projections from the lateral, basal, and accessory basal nuclei of the amygdala to the hippocampal formation in rat.

  Maria Pikkarainen;Seppo Rönkkö;Vesa Savander;Ricardo Insausti

  539
  Citations

• Experimental models of traumatic brain injury: do we really need to build a better mousetrap?

  D M Morales;N Marklund;D Lebold;H J Thompson

  467
  Citations

• Models of Seizures and Epilepsy

  Asla Pitkanen;Philip A Schwartzkroin;Solomon Moshe

  437
  Citations

• A model of posttraumatic epilepsy induced by lateral fluid-percussion brain injury in rats

  I. Kharatishvili;J.P. Nissinen;T.K. McIntosh;A. Pitkänen

  412
  Citations

• Molecular and cellular basis of epileptogenesis in symptomatic epilepsy.

  Asla Pitkänen;Katarzyna Lukasiuk

  402
  Citations

• Volumetric MRI analysis of the amygdala and the hippocampus in subjects with age‐associated memory impairment Correlation to visual and verbal memory

  H. S. Soininen;K. Partanen;A. Pitkänen;P. Vainio

  358
  Citations

• Advances in the development of biomarkers for epilepsy

  Asla Pitkänen;Wolfgang Löscher;Annamaria Vezzani;Albert J Becker

  357
  Citations

• Epilepsy biomarkers - eScholarship

  Jerome Engel;Asla Pitkänen;Jeffrey A. Loeb;F. Edward Dudek

  336
  Citations

• Volumes of the Entorhinal and Perirhinal Cortices in Alzheimer’s Disease

  K Juottonen;M.P Laakso;R Insausti;M Lehtovirta

  335
  Citations

• A new model of chronic temporal lobe epilepsy induced by electrical stimulation of the amygdala in rat.

  Jari Nissinen;Toivo Halonen;Esa Koivisto;Asla Pitkänen

  318
  Citations

• Distribution of parvalbumin, calretinin, and calbindin-D(28k) immunoreactivity in the rat amygdaloid complex and colocalization with gamma-aminobutyric acid.

  Samuli Kemppainen;Asla Pitkänen

  312
  Citations

• Intrinsic connections of the rat amygdaloid complex: Projections originating in the lateral nucleus: INTRINSIC CONNECTIONS OF THE RAT AMYGDALA

  Asla Pitkänen;Lisa Stefanacci;Claudia R. Farb;G.-Genevieve Go

  308
  Citations

• Past and present definitions of epileptogenesis and its biomarkers.

  Asla Pitkänen;Jerome Engel

  304
  Citations

• Amygdala damage in experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy.

  Asla Pitkänen;Jarkko Tuunanen;Reetta Kälviäinen;Kaarina Partanen

  300
  Citations