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Ingmar Blümcke is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research output spans primarily the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, they have contributed notably to subfields including Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses largely on epilepsy research and treatment, glioma diagnosis and treatment, and fetal and pediatric neurological disorders. Additional topics include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and genomics and rare diseases.

Prominent frequent co-authors collaborating with Ingmar Blümcke are Roland Coras, Imad Najm, Katja Kobow, Hajo M. Hamer, and Stephen E. Jones.

Publication venues where Ingmar Blümcke has commonly published their research include Epilepsia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Epileptic Disorders, Acta Neuropathologica Communications, and Neuro-Oncology.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission, 2022, Epilepsia
  • Adult epilepsy, 2023, The Lancet
  • Low-grade developmental and epilepsy associated brain tumors: a critical update 2020, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • LifeTime and improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine, 2020, Nature

Best Publications

  • DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours

    David Capper;David Capper;David Capper;David T. W. Jones;Martin Sill;Volker Hovestadt

  • 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

  • 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

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Calcium-binding proteins: selective markers of nerve cells.

    Christian Andressen;Ingmar Blümcke;Marco R. Celio

  • Immunopathology of autoantibody-associated encephalitides: clues for pathogenesis

    Christian G Bien;Angela Vincent;Michael H Barnett;Albert J Becker

  • NeuN: a useful neuronal marker for diagnostic histopathology.:

    H K Wolf;R Buslei;R Schmidt-Kastner;P K Schmidt-Kastner

  • Infections, inflammation and epilepsy

    Annamaria Vezzani;Robert S. Fujinami;H. Steve White;Pierre Marie Preux

  • The Spectrum of Long-term Epilepsy-associated Tumors : Long-term Seizure and Tumor Outcome and Neurosurgical Aspects

    Cordelia Luyken;Ingmar Blümcke;Rolf Fimmers;Horst Urbach

  • Valproic acid increases the SMN2 protein level: a well-known drug as a potential therapy for spinal muscular atrophy

    L. Brichta;Y. Hofmann;E. Hahnen;F. A. Siebzehnrubl

  • Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study.

    Christopher D Whelan;Christopher D Whelan;Andre Altmann;Juan A Botía;Neda Jahanshad

  • Perineuronal nets — a specialized form of extracellular matrix in the adult nervous system

    Marco R. Celio;Ingmar Blumcke

  • Ammon's Horn Sclerosis: A Maldevelopmental Disorder Associated with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Otmar D Wiestler

  • Recommendations for the use of structural magnetic resonance imaging in the care of patients with epilepsy: A consensus report from the International League Against Epilepsy Neuroimaging Task Force.

    Andrea Bernasconi;Fernando Cendes;William H. Theodore;Ravnoor S. Gill

  • A new clinico-pathological classification system for mesial temporal sclerosis

    Ingmar Blümcke;Elisabeth Pauli;Hans Clusmann;Johannes Schramm

  • Gangliogliomas: an intriguing tumor entity associated with focal epilepsies.

    Ingmar Blümcke;Otmar D. Wiestler

  • Supratentorial gangliogliomas: Histopathologic grading and tumor recurrence in 184 patients with a median follow-up of 8 years

    Cordelia Luyken;Ingmar Blümcke;Rolf Fimmers;Horst Urbach

  • Astrocytes in the hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy display changes in potassium conductances

    Stefan Hinterkeuser;Wolfgang Schröder;Gerhard Hager;Gerald Seifert

  • Focal cortical dysplasia of Taylor's balloon cell type: a clinicopathological entity with characteristic neuroimaging and histopathological features, and favorable postsurgical outcome.

    Horst Urbach;Björn Scheffler;Thomas Heinrichsmeier;Joachim Von Oertzen

  • Somatic Mutations Activating the mTOR Pathway in Dorsal Telencephalic Progenitors Cause a Continuum of Cortical Dysplasias

    Alissa M. D’Gama;Alissa M. D’Gama;Alissa M. D’Gama;Mollie B. Woodworth;Mollie B. Woodworth;Mollie B. Woodworth;Amer A. Hossain;Amer A. Hossain;Amer A. Hossain;Sara Bizzotto;Sara Bizzotto;Sara Bizzotto

Frequent Co-Authors

Otmar D. Wiestler
Otmar D. Wiestler German Cancer Research Center
Christian E. Elger
Christian E. Elger University Hospital Bonn
Johannes Schramm
Johannes Schramm University of Bonn
Michael Buchfelder
Michael Buchfelder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hermann Stefan
Hermann Stefan University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Albert J. Becker
Albert J. Becker University Hospital Bonn
Hajo M. Hamer
Hajo M. Hamer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Eleonora Aronica
Eleonora Aronica University of Amsterdam
Heinz Beck
Heinz Beck University of Bonn
Maria Thom
Maria Thom University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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