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Erik Taubøll is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on epilepsy and related neurological disorders, encompassing detailed work in broader fields such as medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in Taubøll's research include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders

Their subfields of study reveal an interdisciplinary approach combining psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Recent publications by Erik Taubøll demonstrate an ongoing commitment to epilepsy research and associated clinical applications:

  • Prediction of Long-term Survival After Status Epilepticus Using the ACD Score, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Identification of novel genomic risk loci shared between common epilepsies and psychiatric disorders, 2023, Brain
  • Prevention of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: current status and future perspectives, 2020, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
  • Interleukin 18 (IL-18) and its binding protein (IL-18BP) are increased in patients with epilepsy suggesting low-grade systemic inflammation, 2020, Seizure
  • Source-level EEG and graph theory reveal widespread functional network alterations in focal epilepsy, 2021, Clinical Neurophysiology

Their most frequent co-authors include Kjell Heuser, Line Bédos Ulvin, Ketil Berg Olsen, Morten Andreas Horn, and Ole A. Andreassen, indicating collaboration within a specialized and consistent scientific network.

Taubøll's studies have been published extensively in venues known for neurology and epilepsy research. The most common journals include:

  • Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
  • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
  • Seizure
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Epilepsy & Behavior

Best Publications

  • Comparative risk of major congenital malformations with eight different antiepileptic drugs: a prospective cohort study of the EURAP registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;Torbjörn Tomson;Dina Battino;Erminio Bonizzoni;John Craig

  • Seizure control and treatment in pregnancy: Observations from the EURAP epilepsy pregnancy registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;D. Battino;E. Bonizzoni;J. Craig

  • Effect of antiepileptic drugs on reproductive endocrine function in individuals with epilepsy.

    Jouko I. T. Isojärvi;Erik Taubøll;Andrew G. Herzog

  • New SCN5A mutation in a SUDEP victim with idiopathic epilepsy.

    Dag Aurlien;Trond P. Leren;Erik Taubøll;Leif Gjerstad

  • Altered ovarian function and cardiovascular risk factors in valproate-treated women

    Jouko I.T Isojärvi;Erik Taubøll;Arto J Pakarinen;Johan van Parys

  • Interactions between antiepileptic drugs and hormones

    Sigrid Svalheim;Line Sveberg;Monika Mochol;Erik Taubøll

  • Reproductive dysfunction in women with epilepsy: recommendations for evaluation and management

    Juergen Bauer;J. I T Isojärvi;A. G. Herzog;M. Reuber

  • Psychiatric comorbidity and hostility in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures compared with somatoform disorders and healthy controls.

    Kjell Mökleby;Svein Blomhoff;Ulrik Fr. Malt;Astri Dahlström

  • Interactions between hormones and epilepsy.

    Erik Taubøll;Erik Taubøll;Line Sveberg;Sigrid Svalheim

  • Temporal distribution of seizures in epilepsy

    Erik Taubøll;Arvid Lundervold;Leif Gjerstad

  • Loss of Perivascular Kir4.1 Potassium Channels in the Sclerotic Hippocampus of Patients With Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Kjell Heuser;Tore Eid;Fredrik Lauritzen;Fredrik Lauritzen;Anna E. Thoren

  • Levetiracetam, phenytoin, and valproate act differently on rat bone mass, structure, and metabolism.

    Lise Sofie H. Nissen-Meyer;Sigrid Svalheim;Erik Taubøll;Erik Taubøll;Sjur Reppe

  • Up-regulation of hippocampal glutamate transport during chronic treatment with sodium valproate.

    Bjørnar Hassel;Evy Grini Iversen;Leif Gjerstad;Erik Taubøll

  • Effects of chronic valproate treatment on reproductive endocrine hormones in female and male Wistar rats

    Line Sveberg Røste;Erik Taubøll;Jouko I.T. Isojärvi;Arto J. Pakarinen

  • Variants of the genes encoding AQP4 and Kir4.1 are associated with subgroups of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Kjell Heuser;Erlend A. Nagelhus;Erik Taubøll;Ulf Indahl

  • Alterations in semen parameters in men with epilepsy treated with valproate or carbamazepine monotherapy

    L S Røste;E Taubøll;T B Haugen;T Bjørnenak

  • The impact of seizures on pregnancy and delivery

    Line Sveberg;Sigrid Svalheim;Erik Taubøll;Erik Taubøll

  • Antiepileptic drugs alter reproductive endocrine hormones in men with epilepsy

    L S Røste;E Taubøll;L Mørkrid;T Bjørnenak

  • Increased risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in females using lamotrigine: a nested, case-control study.

    Dag Aurlien;Jan Petter Larsen;Leif Gjerstad;Leif Gjerstad;Erik Taubøll;Erik Taubøll

  • Midbrain tremor and hypertrophic olivary degeneration after pontine hemorrhage

    Gordon M. G. Shepherd;Erik Tauböll;Sören Jacob Bakke;Rolf Nyberg-Hansen

  • Bone loss associated with use of antiepileptic drugs

    Karl O Nakken;Erik Taubøll

Frequent Co-Authors

Leif Gjerstad
Leif Gjerstad Oslo University Hospital
Erlend A. Nagelhus
Erlend A. Nagelhus University of Oslo
Jouko I. T. Isojärvi
Jouko I. T. Isojärvi University of Oulu
Ole Petter Ottersen
Ole Petter Ottersen University of Oslo
Fernando Maestú
Fernando Maestú Complutense University of Madrid
Espen Dietrichs
Espen Dietrichs Oslo University Hospital
Vidar Jensen
Vidar Jensen University of Oslo
Torbjørn Elvsåshagen
Torbjørn Elvsåshagen University of Oslo
Stein Andersson
Stein Andersson University of Oslo
Sigbjørn Lien
Sigbjørn Lien Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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