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Overview

Gary W. Mathern is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to subfields such as molecular biology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, genetics, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, genomics and rare diseases, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, hedgehog signaling pathway studies, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, as well as neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

They have contributed to numerous publications in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Epilepsia
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Some of the recent papers involving this scientist include:

  • The landscape of somatic mutation in cerebral cortex of autistic and neurotypical individuals revealed by ultra-deep whole-genome sequencing, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Analysis of somatic mutations in 131 human brains reveals aging-associated hypermutability, 2022, Science
  • Somatic mosaicism reveals clonal distributions of neocortical development, 2022, Nature
  • Hemispherectomy Outcome Prediction Scale: Development and validation of a seizure freedom prediction tool, 2021, Epilepsia

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers, including Yanmei Dou, Aria Fallah, Alexej Abyzov, Alissa M. D'Gama, and Taejeong Bae.

Best Publications

  • ILAE Official Report: A practical clinical definition of epilepsy

    Robert S. Fisher;Carlos Acevedo;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Alicia Bogacz

  • Revised Terminology and Concepts for Organization of Seizures and Epilepsies: Report of the ILAE Commission on Classification and Terminology, 2005-2009

    Anne T. Berg;Anne T. Berg;Samuel F. Berkovic;Martin J. Brodie;Jeffrey Buchhalter

  • ILAE classification of the epilepsies: Position paper of the ILAE Commission for Classification and Terminology.

    Ingrid E. Scheffer;Samuel Berkovic;Giuseppe Capovilla;Mary B. Connolly

  • Definition of drug resistant epilepsy: consensus proposal by the ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies.

    Patrick Kwan;Alexis Arzimanoglou;Anne T. Berg;Martin J. Brodie

  • The clinicopathologic spectrum of focal cortical dysplasias: A consensus classification proposed by an ad hoc Task Force of the ILAE Diagnostic Methods Commission

    Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

  • Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults

    Shawn F. Sorrells;Mercedes F. Paredes;Arantxa Cebrian-Silla;Kadellyn Sandoval

  • International consensus classification of hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy: A Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

    Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

  • Hippocampal and Entorhinal Cortex High-Frequency Oscillations (100-500 Hz) in Human Epileptic Brain and in Kainic Acid-Treated Rats with Chronic Seizures

    Anatol Bragin;Jerome Engel;Charles L. Wilson;Itzhak Fried

  • De novo somatic mutations in components of the PI3K-AKT3-mTOR pathway cause hemimegalencephaly

    Jeong Ho Lee;My Huynh;Jennifer L Silhavy;Jennifer L Silhavy;Sangwoo Kim

  • Erratum: Definition of drug resistant epilepsy. Consensus proposal by the ad hoc task force of the ILAE commission on therapeutic strategies (Epilepsia (2010) 51 (1069-77))

    P. Kwan;A. Arzimanoglou;A. T. Berg;M. J. Brodie

  • Defining the spectrum of international practice in pediatric epilepsy surgery patients

    A. Simon Harvey;A. Simon Harvey;J. Helen Cross;Shlomo Shinnar;Gary W. Mathern

  • Rasmussen's encephalitis: clinical features, pathobiology, and treatment advances

    Sophia Varadkar;Christian G Bien;Carol A Kruse;Frances E Jensen

  • Assessment and surgical outcomes for mild type I and severe type II cortical dysplasia: a critical review and the UCLA experience.

    Jason T. Lerner;Noriko Salamon;Jason S. Hauptman;Tonicarlo R. Velasco

  • The clinical-pathogenic mechanisms of hippocampal neuron loss and surgical outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Gary W. Mathern;Thomas L. Babb;Barbara G. Vickrey;Maria Melendez

  • Proposed Criteria for Referral and Evaluation of Children for Epilepsy Surgery: Recommendations of the Subcommission for Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

    J. Helen Cross;Prasanna Jayakar;Doug Nordli;Olivier Delalande

  • Cerebral hemispherectomy: Hospital course, seizure, developmental, language, and motor outcomes

    R. Jonas;S. Nguyen;B. Hu;R. F. Asarnow

  • FDG-PET/MRI coregistration improves detection of cortical dysplasia in patients with epilepsy

    N. Salamon;J. Kung;S. J. Shaw;J. Koo

  • Removing interictal fast ripples on electrocorticography linked with seizure freedom in children

    J.Y. Wu;R. Sankar;J.T. Lerner;J.H. Matsumoto

  • Hippocampal neuron damage in human epilepsy: Meyer's hypothesis revisited.

    Gary W. Mathern;P. David Adelson;Leslie D. Cahan;João Pereira Leite

  • Hippocampal GABA and glutamate transporter immunoreactivity in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

    G.W. Mathern;D. Mendoza;A. Lozada;J.K. Pretorius

  • Laboratory Research Hippocampal and Entorhinal Cortex High-Frequency Oscillations (100-500 Hz) in Human Epileptic Brain and in Kainic Acid-Treated Rats with Chronic Seizures

    Jerome Engel;Charles L. Wilson;Itzhak Fried;Gary W. Mathern

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry V. Vinters
Harry V. Vinters University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos Cepeda
Carlos Cepeda University of California, Los Angeles
João Pereira Leite
João Pereira Leite Universidade de São Paulo
Michael S. Levine
Michael S. Levine Princeton University
Thomas L. Babb
Thomas L. Babb Wayne State University
Astrid Nehlig
Astrid Nehlig Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Véronique M. André
Véronique M. André UCB Pharma (Belgium)
Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Raman Sankar
Raman Sankar University of California, Los Angeles
Jerome Engel
Jerome Engel University of California, Los Angeles

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