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Berten Ceulemans

Berten Ceulemans

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
12981
World Ranking
3409
National Ranking
36

Overview

Berten Ceulemans is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium, where they conduct research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research focuses extensively on topics such as epilepsy research and treatment, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, genomics and rare diseases, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and ion channel regulation and function.

Ceulemans has contributed to numerous recent publications, including:

  • Efficacy and Safety of Fenfluramine for the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (2022, JAMA Neurology)
  • KCNT1-related epilepsies and epileptic encephalopathies: phenotypic and mutational spectrum (2021, Brain)
  • Impact of fenfluramine on the expected SUDEP mortality rates in patients with Dravet syndrome (2021, Seizure)
  • Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Early Diagnosis of SCN1A -Related Epilepsies (2022, Neurology)
  • Variants in the SK2 channel gene (KCNN2) lead to dominant neurodevelopmental movement disorders (2020, Brain)

Their frequent co-authors include Sarah Weckhuysen, An-Sofie Schoonjans, Rima Nabbout, Renzo Guerrini, and António Gil-Nagel.

Berten Ceulemans has published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Epilepsia
  • Neurology
  • Gait & Posture
  • Neuropediatrics
  • Brain

Best Publications

  • De novo mutations in the sodium-channel gene SCN1A cause severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.

    Lieve Claes;Jurgen Del-Favero;Berten Ceulemans;Lieven Lagae

  • KCNQ2 encephalopathy: emerging phenotype of a neonatal epileptic encephalopathy.

    Sarah Weckhuysen;Simone Mandelstam;Arvid Suls;Dominique Audenaert;Dominique Audenaert

  • Genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity suggest therapeutic implications in SCN2A-related disorders.

    Markus Wolff;Katrine M Johannesen;Ulrike B S Hedrich;Silvia Masnada

  • Fenfluramine hydrochloride for the treatment of seizures in Dravet syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

    L Lagae;J Sullivan;K Knupp;L Laux

  • Early-onset absence epilepsy caused by mutations in the glucose transporter GLUT1.

    Arvid Suls;Saul A. Mullen;Yvonne G. Weber;Kristien Verhaert

  • Successful use of fenfluramine as an add-on treatment for Dravet syndrome

    Berten Ceulemans;Marc Boel;Katrien Leyssens;Carolin Van Rossem

  • De novo SCN1A mutations are a major cause of severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy

    Lieve Claes;Berten Ceulemans;Dominique Audenaert;Katrien Smets

  • Extending the KCNQ2 encephalopathy spectrum Clinical and neuroimaging findings in 17 patients

    S Weckhuysen;Ivanovic;R Hendrickx;Van, Coster, R

  • Fourteen new cases contribute to the characterization of the 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome

    Nathalie Van der Aa;Liesbeth Rooms;Geert Vandeweyer;Jenneke van den Ende

  • A deletion in SCN1B is associated with febrile seizures and early-onset absence epilepsy

    D. Audenaert;L. Claes;B. Ceulemans;A. Löfgren

  • REEP1 mutation spectrum and genotype/phenotype correlation in hereditary spastic paraplegia type 31.

    Christian Beetz;Rebecca Schüle;Tine Deconinck;Khanh Nhat Tran-Viet

  • Epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex: Findings from the TOSCA Study.

    Rima Nabbout;Elena Belousova;Mirjana P. Benedik;Tom Carter

  • Vagus nerve stimulation for refractory epilepsy: a Belgian multicenter study.

    Veerle De Herdt;Paul Boon;Berten Ceulemans;Henri Hauman

  • Clinical spectrum of early-onset epileptic encephalopathies associated with STXBP1 mutations

    Liesbet Deprez;Sarah Weckhuysen;Philip Holmgren;Arvid Suls

  • Clinical correlations of mutations in the SCN1A gene: from febrile seizures to severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy

    Berten P.G.M Ceulemans;Lieve R.F Claes;Lieven G Lagae

  • Genetic spectrum of hereditary neuropathies with onset in the first year of life

    Jonathan Baets;Tine Deconinck;Els De Vriendt;Magdalena Zimoń

  • TSC-associated neuropsychiatric disorders (TAND): findings from the TOSCA natural history study

    Petrus J de Vries;Elena Belousova;Mirjana P Benedik;Tom Carter

  • Five-year extended follow-up status of 10 patients with Dravet syndrome treated with fenfluramine.

    Berten Ceulemans;An‐Sofie Schoonjans;Fabienne Marchau;Bernard P. Paelinck

  • Microdeletions involving the SCN1A gene may be common in SCN1A-mutation-negative SMEI patients†

    Arvid Suls;Kristl G. Claeys;Dirk Goossens;Boris Harding

  • Efficacy and Safety of Fenfluramine for the Treatment of Seizures Associated With Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome

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  • Subtelomeric deletions detected in patients with idiopathic mental retardation using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA).

    Liesbeth Rooms;Edwin Reyniers;Rob van Luijk;Stefaan Scheers

  • Pharmacological Characterization of an Antisense Knockdown Zebrafish Model of Dravet Syndrome: Inhibition of Epileptic Seizures by the Serotonin Agonist Fenfluramine

    Yifan Zhang;Angéla Kecskés;Daniëlle Copmans;Mélanie Langlois

Frequent Co-Authors

Lieven Lagae
Lieven Lagae KU Leuven
Sarah Weckhuysen
Sarah Weckhuysen University of Antwerp
Peter De Jonghe
Peter De Jonghe University of Antwerp
Christel Depienne
Christel Depienne Essen University Hospital
R. Frank Kooy
R. Frank Kooy University of Antwerp
Ingo Helbig
Ingo Helbig Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Paul Boon
Paul Boon Ghent University
Rikke S. Møller
Rikke S. Møller University of Southern Denmark
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne

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