Esper A. Cavalheiro

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award
• 2002 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Limbic seizures produced by pilocarpine in rats: behavioural, electroencephalographic and neuropathological study

  Waldemar A. Turski;Esper A. Cavalheiro;Michael Schwarz;Stanisław J. Czuczwar

  1330
  Citations

• Review: Cholinergic mechanisms and epileptogenesis. The seizures induced by pilocarpine: A novel experimental model of intractable epilepsy

  Lechoslaw Turski;Chrysanthy Ikonomidou;Waldemar A. Turski;Zuner A. Bortolotto

  917
  Citations

• Circuit Mechanisms of Seizures in the Pilocarpine Model of Chronic Epilepsy: Cell Loss and Mossy Fiber Sprouting

  Luiz E. A. M. Mello;Esper A. Cavalheiro;Aiko M. Tan;William R. Kupfer

  824
  Citations

• Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures.

  E. A. Cavalheiro;J. P. Leite;Z. A. Bortolotto;W. A. Turski

  789
  Citations

• Seizures produced by pilocarpine in mice: A behavioral, electroencephalographic and morphological analysis

  Waldemar A. Turski;Esper A. Cavalheiro;Zuner A. Bortolotto;Luiz M. Mello

  443
  Citations

• The pilocarpine model of epilepsy

  E. A. Cavalheiro

  399
  Citations

• Long-term effects of intrahippocampal kainic acid injection in rats: A method for inducing spontaneous recurrent seizures☆

  E.A Cavalheiro;D.A Riche

  360
  Citations

• New insights from the use of pilocarpine and kainate models

  João Pereira Leite;Norberto Garcia-Cairasco;E. A. Cavalheiro

  343
  Citations

• The susceptibility of rats to pilocarpine-induced seizures is age-dependent.

  Esper A. Cavalheiro;Delrio F. Silva;Waldemar A. Turski;Lineu S. Calderazzo-Filho

  334
  Citations

• Spontaneous recurrent seizures in rats: an experimental model of partial epilepsy.

  J.P. Leite;Z.A. Bortolotto;E.A. Cavalheiro

  328
  Citations

• Spontaneous recurrent seizures in rats: amino acid and monoamine determination in the hippocampus.

  E. A. Cavalheiro;M. J. Fernandes;L. Turski;M. G. Naffah-Mazzacoratti

  270
  Citations

• The pilocarpine model of epilepsy in mice.

  E. A. Cavalheiro;N. F. Santos;M. R. Priel

  264
  Citations

• Increased sensitivity to seizures in mice lacking cellular prion protein.

  Roger Walz;Olavo B. Amaral;Isabel C. Rockenbach;Rafael Roesler

  249
  Citations

• Suppression of pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus and the late development of epilepsy in rats.

  Tadeu Lemos;Esper A. Cavalheiro

  242
  Citations

• The pilocarpine model of epilepsy: what have we learned?

  Fulvio A Scorza;Ricardo M Arida;Maria da Graça Naffah-Mazzacoratti;Débora A Scerni

  242
  Citations

• Effect of physical exercise on seizure occurrence in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy in rats.

  Ricardo Mario Arida;Fulvio Alexandre Scorza;Neide Ferreira dos Santos;Clovisde Araujo Peres

  209
  Citations

• Excitatory neurotransmission within substantia nigra pars reticulata regulates threshold for seizures produced by pilocarpine in rats: effects of intranigral 2-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoate and N-methyl-D-aspartate.

  L. Turski;E.A. Cavalheiro;W.A. Turski;B.S. Meldrum

  206
  Citations

• Stimulus and Potassium-Induced Epileptiform Activity in the Human Dentate Gyrus from Patients with and without Hippocampal Sclerosis

  Siegrun Gabriel;Marleisje Njunting;Joern K. Pomper;Martin Merschhemke

  199
  Citations

• Superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase activities and the hydroperoxide concentration are modified in the hippocampus of epileptic rats.

  Maria I. Bellissimo;Débora Amado;Dulcinéia Saes Parra Abdalla;Edmar Cid Ferreira

  198
  Citations

• Developmental aspects of the pilocarpine model of epilepsy

  Margareth Rose Priel;Neide Ferreira dos Santos;Esper A. Cavalheiro

  191
  Citations

• Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology and biological psychiatry Re.: omega-3 fatty acids and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: what does the evidence tell us?

  Fulvio A. Scorza;Roberta M. Cysneiros;Ricardo M. Arida;Marly de Albuquerque

  187
  Citations