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Gerhard Kluger is affiliated with Paracelsus Medical University in Austria, with a primary focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their academic work spans several subfields including psychiatry and mental health, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, molecular biology, and neurology.

Kluger's research topics concentrate on epilepsy research and treatment, genomics and rare diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, metabolism and genetic disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and infectious encephalopathies and encephalitis.

They have published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Neuropediatrics
  • Epilepsia
  • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Clinical Epileptology

Among Kluger's recent publications are:

  • Sub-genic intolerance, ClinVar, and the epilepsies: A whole-exome sequencing study of 29,165 individuals, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Real-world data on cannabidiol treatment of various epilepsy subtypes: A retrospective, multicenter study, 2023, Epilepsia Open
  • Endocrine and Growth Abnormalities in 4H Leukodystrophy Caused by Variants in POLR3A, POLR3B, and POLR1C, 2020, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • The Phenotypic Spectrum of PRRT2-Associated Paroxysmal Neurologic Disorders in Childhood, 2020, Biomedicines
  • Efficacy, tolerability, and retention of fenfluramine for the treatment of seizures in patients with Dravet syndrome: Compassionate use program in Germany, 2021, Epilepsia

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, notably:

  • Patrick May
  • Gerhard Kurlemann
  • Pasquale Striano
  • Susanne Schubert-Bast
  • Thomas Bast

Best Publications

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

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

  • Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a consensus approach on diagnosis, assessment, management, and trial methodology

    Alexis Arzimanoglou;Jacqueline French;Warren T. Blume;J. Helen Cross

  • Mutations in GRIN2A cause idiopathic focal epilepsy with rolandic spikes

    Johannes R Lemke;Dennis Lal;Eva M Reinthaler;Isabelle Steiner

  • Rufinamide for generalized seizures associated with Lennox–Gastaut syndrome

    T. Glauser;G. Kluger;R. Sachdeo;G. Krauss

  • Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES): pathogenesis, treatment, and outcome: a multicenter study on 77 children.

    Uri Kramer;Ching Shiang Chi;Kuang Lin Lin;Nicola Specchio

  • STXBP1 encephalopathy A neurodevelopmental disorder including epilepsy

    Hannah Stamberger;Marina Nikanorova;Marjolein H. Willemsen;Patrizia Accorsi

  • The phenotypic spectrum of SCN8A encephalopathy

    Jan Larsen;Gemma L Carvill;Elena Gardella;Gerhard Kluger

  • Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES): a nonencephalitic encephalopathy in childhood.

    Andreas Van Baalen;Martin Häusler;Rainer Boor;Axel Rohr

  • De Novo Loss-of-Function Mutations in CHD2 Cause a Fever-Sensitive Myoclonic Epileptic Encephalopathy Sharing Features with Dravet Syndrome

    Arvid Suls;Johanna A. Jaehn;Angela Kecskés;Yvonne Weber

  • Genetic and neurodevelopmental spectrum of SYNGAP1-associated intellectual disability and epilepsy

    Cyril Mignot;Celina von Stülpnagel;Caroline Nava;Dorothée Ville

  • Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome: Clinical Review and Hypotheses of Epileptogenesis.

    Andreas van Baalen;Annamaria Vezzani;Martin Häusler;Gerhard Kluger

  • Adjunctive rufinamide in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a long-term, open-label extension study.

    G. Kluger;T. Glauser;G. Krauss;R. Seeruthun

  • Neurologic phenotypes associated with COL4A1/2 mutations: Expanding the spectrum of disease.

    Sara Zagaglia;Sara Zagaglia;Christina Selch;Jelena Radic Nisevic;Davide Mei

  • DEPDC5 mutations in genetic focal epilepsies of childhood

    Dennis Lal;Eva M. Reinthaler;Julian Schubert;Hiltrud Muhle

  • Mutations in GABRB3: From febrile seizures to epileptic encephalopathies

    Rikke S Møller;Thomas V Wuttke;Ingo Helbig;Carla Marini

  • Effectiveness and Tolerability of Perampanel in Children and Adolescents with Refractory Epilepsies: First Experiences

    Anna Biró;Ulrich Stephani;Tiziana Tarallo;Thomas Bast

  • Valproic acid-induced hepatopathy: nine new fatalities in Germany from 1994 to 2003.

    Stephan A. Koenig;Deike Buesing;Elke Longin;Randi Oehring

  • 47 patients with FLNA associated periventricular nodular heterotopia

    Max Lange;Burkhard Kasper;Axel Bohring;Frank Rutsch

  • Heterotopic ossification in childhood and adolescence.

    Gerhard Kluger;Andreas Kochs;Hans Holthausen

  • Co-occurring malformations of cortical development and SCN1A gene mutations

    Carmen Barba;Elena Parrini;Roland Coras;Anna Galuppi

  • Genetic and phenotypic dissection of 1q43q44 microdeletion syndrome and neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with mutations in ZBTB18 and HNRNPU

    Christel Depienne;Caroline Nava;Boris Keren;Solveig Heide

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Staudt
Martin Staudt University Children’s Hospital Basel
Hans Holthausen
Hans Holthausen Bethel University
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa
Thomas Bast
Thomas Bast Kork Epilepsy Center, Kehl-Kork
Ulrich Stephani
Ulrich Stephani Kiel University
Rikke S. Møller
Rikke S. Møller University of Southern Denmark
Ingo Helbig
Ingo Helbig Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Yvonne G. Weber
Yvonne G. Weber University of Tübingen
Renzo Guerrini
Renzo Guerrini University of Florence
Karl Martin Klein
Karl Martin Klein University of Calgary

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