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Cenk Ayata is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, focusing their research on medicine and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, and molecular biology. These areas reflect their broad engagement with both clinical and basic science aspects of neurological disorders.

The scientist has concentrated on several main topics throughout their career, such as migraine and headache studies, acute ischemic stroke management, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage research, and neurological disease mechanisms and treatments. This diverse portfolio indicates a comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing complex neurological conditions.

Cenk Ayata has published extensively in well-recognized journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Stroke
  • The Journal of Headache and Pain
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Migraine," 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Anti-migraine Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Receptor Antagonists Worsen Cerebral Ischemic Outcome in Mice," 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • "Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Transient Focal Neurologic Episodes," 2021, Neurology
  • "The Critical Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Early Brain Injury: Consensus and Contention," 2022, Neurocritical Care
  • "Spreading depression as an innate antiseizure mechanism," 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Andreia Morais
  • David Y. Chung
  • Sava Sakadžić
  • Takahiko Imai
  • Kazutaka Sugimoto

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of interleukin 1beta converting enzyme family proteases reduces ischemic and excitotoxic neuronal damage.

    Hideaki Hara;Robert M. Friedlander;Valeria Gagliardini;Cenk Ayata

  • Enlarged Infarcts in Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Knockout Mice Are Attenuated by Nitro-l-Arginine

    Zhihong Huang;Paul L. Huang;Jianya Ma;Wei Meng

  • Suppression of cortical spreading depression in migraine prophylaxis

    Cenk Ayata;Hongwei Jin;Chiho Kudo;Turgay Dalkara

  • Evidence of a cerebrovascular postarteriole windkessel with delayed compliance.

    Joseph B. Mandeville;John J. A. Marota;C. Ayata;Greg Zaharchuk

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  • A Computerized Algorithm for Etiologic Classification of Ischemic Stroke: The Causative Classification of Stroke System

    Hakan Ay;Thomas Benner;E. Murat Arsava;Karen L. Furie

  • Spreading Depression, Spreading Depolarizations, and the Cerebral Vasculature

    Cenk Ayata;Martin Lauritzen

  • Emerging concepts in sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

    Andreas Charidimou;Gregoire Boulouis;M. Edip Gurol;Cenk Ayata

  • Migraine pathophysiology: lessons from mouse models and human genetics

    Michel D Ferrari;Roselin R Klever;Gisela M Terwindt;Cenk Ayata

  • Vasoconstrictive neurovascular coupling during focal ischemic depolarizations.

    Hwa Kyoung Shin;Andrew K Dunn;Phillip B Jones;David A Boas

  • The continuum of spreading depolarizations in acute cortical lesion development: Examining Leão's legacy

    Jed A Hartings;C William Shuttleworth;Sergei A Kirov;Cenk Ayata

  • Ischaemic brain oedema.

    Cenk Ayata;Allan H. Ropper

  • Recording, analysis, and interpretation of spreading depolarizations in neurointensive care: Review and recommendations of the COSBID research group

    Jens P. Dreier;Martin Fabricius;Cenk Ayata;Oliver W. Sakowitz

  • Microemboli may link spreading depression, migraine aura, and patent foramen ovale.

    Ala Nozari;Ergin Dilekoz;Inna Sukhotinsky;Thor Stein

  • Neuroanatomic correlates of stroke-related myocardial injury

    H. Ay;W. J. Koroshetz;T. Benner;M. G. Vangel

  • Laser Speckle Flowmetry for the Study of Cerebrovascular Physiology in Normal and Ischemic Mouse Cortex

    Cenk Ayata;Andrew K. Dunn;Yasemin Gursoy-Özdemir;Zhihong Huang

  • Genetic and hormonal factors modulate spreading depression and transient hemiparesis in mouse models of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1

    Katharina Eikermann-Haerter;Ergin Dileköz;Chiho Kudo;Sean I. Savitz

  • MRI measurement of the temporal evolution of relative CMRO2 during rat forepaw stimulation

    Joseph B. Mandeville;John J.A. Marota;C. Ayata;Michael A. Moskowitz

  • Timing of neurologic deterioration in massive middle cerebral artery infarction: a multicenter review.

    Adnan I Qureshi;Jose I. Suarez;Abutaher M. Yahia;Yousef Mohammad

  • Mechanisms of Reduced Striatal NMDA Excitotoxicity in Type I Nitric Oxide Synthase Knock-Out Mice

    C Ayata;G Ayata;H Hara;R T Matthews

  • Mapping optogenetically-driven single-vessel fMRI with concurrent neuronal calcium recordings in the rat hippocampus.

    Xuming Chen;Xuming Chen;Xuming Chen;Filip Sobczak;Filip Sobczak;Yi Chen;Yi Chen;Yuanyuan Jiang;Yuanyuan Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Moskowitz
Michael A. Moskowitz Harvard University
David A. Boas
David A. Boas Boston University
Eng H. Lo
Eng H. Lo Harvard University
Michel D. Ferrari
Michel D. Ferrari Leiden University Medical Center
Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg
Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg Leiden University Medical Center
Anna Devor
Anna Devor Boston University
Joseph B. Mandeville
Joseph B. Mandeville Harvard University
Messoud Ashina
Messoud Ashina University of Copenhagen
Jens P. Dreier
Jens P. Dreier Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Robert M. Weisskoff
Robert M. Weisskoff Harvard University

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