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Hajo M. Hamer is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a notable emphasis on Psychiatry and Mental health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of key topics including epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include Johannes Lang, Stephanie Gollwitzer, Caroline Reindl, Sebastian Brandner, and Jenny Stritzelberger. Their work appears often in recognized academic journals such as Epilepsy & Behavior, Epilepsia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Seizure, and Clinical Neurophysiology.

Notable recent papers by Hajo M. Hamer include:

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Risk of Major Congenital Malformations and Exposure to Antiseizure Medication Monotherapy, 2024, JAMA Neurology
  • The genomic landscape across 474 surgically accessible epileptogenic human brain lesions, 2022, Brain
  • Theta rhythmicity governs human behavior and hippocampal signals during memory-dependent tasks, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Hippocampal neurons code individual episodic memories in humans, 2023, Nature Human Behaviour

Best Publications

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Incidence of status epilepticus in adults in Germany: a prospective, population-based study.

    Susanne Knake;Felix Rosenow;Mathias Vescovi;Wolfgang H. Oertel

  • Recurrent microdeletions at 15q11.2 and 16p13.11 predispose to idiopathic generalized epilepsies

    Carolien G F De Kovel;Holger Trucks;Ingo Helbig;Heather C. Mefford

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

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

  • Complications of invasive video-EEG monitoring with subdural grid electrodes.

    H.M. Hamer;H.H. Morris;E.J. Mascha;M.T. Karafa

  • Cytokines and epilepsy.

    Gang Li;Sebastian Bauer;Mareike Nowak;Braxton Norwood

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

    Herm J Lamberink;Willem M Otte;Ingmar Blümcke;Kees P J Braun

  • A guideline for head volume conductor modeling in EEG and MEG.

    Johannes Vorwerk;Jae-Hyun Cho;Stefan Rampp;Hajo Hamer

  • Cost of epilepsy: a systematic review.

    Adam Strzelczyk;Jens Peter Reese;Richard Dodel;Hajo M Hamer

  • MicroRNAs in epilepsy: pathophysiology and clinical utility

    David C Henshall;Hajo M Hamer;R Jeroen Pasterkamp;David B Goldstein

  • Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation (tVNS) for Treatment of Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: A Randomized, Double-Blind Clinical Trial (cMPsE02).

    S. Bauer;S. Bauer;H. Baier;C. Baumgartner;K. Bohlmann

  • Differential influence of hippocampal subfields to memory formation: insights from patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Roland Coras;Elisabeth Pauli;Jinmei Li;Jinmei Li;Michael Schwarz

  • Men and women are different: diffusion tensor imaging reveals sexual dimorphism in the microstructure of the thalamus, corpus callosum and cingulum.

    K. Menzler;M. Belke;E. Wehrmann;K. Krakow

  • Valproate-induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy in the presence of topiramate.

    H. M. Hamer;S. Knake;U. Schomburg;F. Rosenow

  • Intravenous levetiracetam in the treatment of benzodiazepine refractory status epilepticus

    S Knake;J Gruener;K Hattemer;K M Klein

  • A prospective, multicenter study of cardiac-based seizure detection to activate vagus nerve stimulation

    Paul Boon;Kristl Vonck;Kenou van Rijckevorsel;Riem El Tahry

  • Cavernoma-related epilepsy: review and recommendations for management--report of the Surgical Task Force of the ILAE Commission on Therapeutic Strategies

    Felix Rosenow;Mario A Alonso-Vanegas;Christoph Baumgartner;Ingmar Blümcke

  • Epilepsy, hippocampal sclerosis and febrile seizures linked by common genetic variation around SCN1A

    Dalia Kasperavičiūtė;Claudia B. Catarino;Claudia B. Catarino;Mar Matarin;Costin Leu

  • The value of multichannel MEG and EEG in the presurgical evaluation of 70 epilepsy patients.

    S. Knake;S. Knake;E. Halgren;H. Shiraishi;K. Hara

  • The epidemiology of convulsive and nonconvulsive status epilepticus

    Felix Rosenow;Hajo M. Hamer;Susanne Knake

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Rosenow
Felix Rosenow Goethe University Frankfurt
Susanne Knake
Susanne Knake Philipp University of Marburg
Adam Strzelczyk
Adam Strzelczyk Goethe University Frankfurt
Bernhard J. Steinhoff
Bernhard J. Steinhoff University of Göttingen
Hermann Stefan
Hermann Stefan University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Soheyl Noachtar
Soheyl Noachtar Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Karl Martin Klein
Karl Martin Klein University of Calgary
Hans Lüders
Hans Lüders Case Western Reserve University
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage University of Freiburg
Stefan Schwab
Stefan Schwab University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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