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Overview

Astrid Nehlig is affiliated with Inserm: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale in France. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with a focus on subfields including psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, oncology, and physiology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas such as epilepsy research and treatment, lipid membrane structure and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, coffee research and impacts, diet and metabolism studies, and pharmacological effects and toxicity studies.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Effects of Coffee on the Gastro-Intestinal Tract: A Narrative Review and Literature Update, 2022, published in Nutrients
  • The Coffee-Acrylamide Apparent Paradox: An Example of Why the Health Impact of a Specific Compound in a Complex Mixture Should Not Be Evaluated in Isolation, 2020, published in Nutrients
  • Coffee consumption and breast cancer risk: a narrative review in the general population and in different subtypes of breast cancer, 2021, published in European Journal of Nutrition
  • Thank you to our Reviewers, 2021, published in Epilepsia

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Epilepsia (12 publications)
  • Nutrients (2 publications)
  • European Journal of Nutrition (1 publication)
  • Epilepsia Open (1 publication)
  • Revista Neurociências (1 publication)

Frequent co-authors include Michael R. Sperling, Damir Janigro, Nicola Marchi, Rodrigo A. Cunha, and Nathalie Reix.

Astrid Nehlig has also contributed to book publications, including a chapter in Progress in Inflammation Research titled Inflammation and Epilepsy: New Vistas, published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Actions of Caffeine in the Brain with Special Reference to Factors That Contribute to Its Widespread Use

    Bertil B. Fredholm;Karl Bättig;Janet Holmén;Astrid Nehlig

  • Caffeine and the central nervous system: mechanisms of action, biochemical, metabolic and psychostimulant effects.

    Astrid Nehlig;Jean-Luc Daval;Gérard Debry

  • Interindividual Differences in Caffeine Metabolism and Factors Driving Caffeine Consumption

    Astrid Nehlig

  • Recurrent seizures and hippocampal sclerosis following intrahippocampal kainate injection in adult mice: electroencephalography, histopathology and synaptic reorganization similar to mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.

    V Bouilleret;V Bouilleret;V Ridoux;A Depaulis;C Marescaux

  • Are we dependent upon coffee and caffeine? A review on human and animal data.

    Astrid Nehlig

  • Is caffeine a cognitive enhancer

    Astrid Nehlig

  • Glucose and ketone body utilization by the brain of neonatal rats

    Astrid Nehlig;Anne Pereira de Vasconcelos

  • Epilepsy biomarkers - eScholarship

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

  • The neuroprotective effects of cocoa flavanol and its influence on cognitive performance.

    Astrid Nehlig

  • Alterations of hippocampal GABAergic system contribute to development of spontaneous recurrent seizures in the rat lithium-pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

    Véronique André;Christian Marescaux;Astrid Nehlig;Jean Marc Fritschy

  • Quantitative autoradiographic measurement of local cerebral glucose utilization in freely moving rats during postnatal development

    A Nehlig;AP de Vasconcelos;S Boyet

  • Brain uptake and metabolism of ketone bodies in animal models.

    Astrid Nehlig

  • Magnetic resonance imaging in the study of the lithium-pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy in adult rats

    Catherine Roch;Claire Leroy;Astrid Nehlig;Izzie J. Namer

  • Physiological and pharmacological properties of adenosine: therapeutic implications.

    Jean-Luc Daval;Astrid Nehlig;Frédéric Nicolas

  • Temporal patterns of the cerebral inflammatory response in the rat lithium-pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy

    Brigitte Voutsinos-Porche;Estelle Koning;Hervé Kaplan;Arielle Ferrandon

  • Neuronal-glial interactions in rats fed a ketogenic diet.

    Torun Margareta Melø;Astrid Nehlig;Ursula Sonnewald

  • Potential teratogenic and neurodevelopmental consequences of coffee and caffeine exposure: A review on human and animal data

    Astrid Nehlig;Gérard Debry

  • Mapping of neuronal networks underlying generalized seizures induced by increasing doses of pentylenetetrazol in the immature and adult rat: a c-Fos immunohistochemical study.

    Véronique André;Nicolas Pineau;Jacques E. Motte;Christian Marescaux

  • A 5-month period of epilepsy impairs spatial memory, decreases anxiety, but spares object recognition in the lithium-pilocarpine model in adult rats

    Julien Detour;Henri Schroeder;Didier Desor;Astrid Nehlig

  • Relationship between neuronal loss and interictal glucose metabolism during the chronic phase of the lithium-pilocarpine model of epilepsy in the immature and adult rat.

    Céline Dubé;Sylvette Boyet;Christian Marescaux;Astrid Nehlig

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Marescaux
Christian Marescaux Grenoble Alpes University
Gary W. Mathern
Gary W. Mathern University of California, Los Angeles
Véronique M. André
Véronique M. André UCB Pharma (Belgium)
Céline Dubé
Céline Dubé University of California, Irvine
Edouard Hirsch
Edouard Hirsch University of Strasbourg
Jean-Luc Daval
Jean-Luc Daval University of Lorraine
Jean-Christophe Cassel
Jean-Christophe Cassel University of Strasbourg
Claude G. Wasterlain
Claude G. Wasterlain University of California, Los Angeles
Marguerite Vergnes
Marguerite Vergnes Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Louis Sokoloff
Louis Sokoloff National Institutes of Health

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