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Jana Velíšková is affiliated with New York Medical College in the United States. Their research primarily spans across Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Genetics, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's main topics of work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Connexins and Lens Biology, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, and Metabolism and Genetic Disorders.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jana Velíšková are Libor Velíšek, Chian-Ru Chern, Antonia Schonwald, Price Obot, and Eliana Scemes.

Publications by Velíšková have appeared repeatedly in medical and neuroscience journals. The most frequent publication venues include Epilepsia, ASN NEURO, Epilepsy Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Neuron.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Jana Velíšková are:

  • Early onset epilepsy and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy with cardiac arrhythmia in mice carrying the early infantile epileptic encephalopathy 47 gain-of-function FHF1(FGF12) missense mutation, 2021, Epilepsia
  • Human cortical interneurons optimized for grafting specifically integrate, abort seizures, and display prolonged efficacy without over-inhibition, 2023, Neuron
  • Modeling epileptic spasms during infancy: Are we heading for the treatment yet?, 2020, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Astrocyte and Neuronal Panx1 Support Long-Term Reference Memory in Mice, 2023, ASN NEURO
  • Developmental decrease in parvalbumin-positive neurons precedes increase in flurothyl-induced seizure susceptibility in the Brd2+/− mouse model of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, 2020, Epilepsia

Best Publications

  • Pramipexole and pergolide in the treatment of depression in Parkinson's disease: a national multicentre prospective randomized study.

    I. Rektorová;I. Rektor;M. Bareš;V. Dostál

  • Glia activation and cytokine increase in rat hippocampus by kainic acid-induced status epilepticus during postnatal development.

    Massimo Rizzi;Carlo Perego;Marisa Aliprandi;Cristina Richichi

  • Susceptibility of immature and adult brains to seizure effects.

    Sheryl R Haut;Jana Veliškova;Solomon L Moshé

  • Inflammatory response and glia activation in developing rat hippocampus after status epilepticus.

    Teresa Ravizza;Massimo Rizzi;Carlo Perego;Cristina Richichi

  • Neuroprotective effects of estrogens on hippocampal cells in adult female rats after status epilepticus.

    Jana Velíšková;Libor Velíšek;Aristea S. Galanopoulou;Ellen F. Sperber

  • Targeting Pannexin1 Improves Seizure Outcome

    Marcelo F. Santiago;Jana Veliskova;Naman K. Patel;Sarah E. Lutz

  • Model of infantile spasms induced by N-methyl-D-aspartic acid in prenatally impaired brain.

    Libor Velísek;Kamran Jehle;Samantha Asche;Jana Velísková

  • Correlation between extracellular glucose and seizure susceptibility in adult rats

    Evan M Schwechter;Jana Velísková;Libor Velísek

  • Sexual dimorphism and developmental regulation of substantia nigra function.

    Jana Velíšková;Solomon L. Moshé

  • Low-frequency stimulation of the kindling focus delays basolateral amygdala kindling in immature rats.

    Libor Velı́šek;Jana Velı́šková;Patric K. Stanton

  • Sex and hormonal influences on seizures and epilepsy

    Jana Velíšková;Kara A. DeSantis

  • The role of estrogens in seizures and epilepsy: the bad guys or the good guys?

    J. Velíšková

  • Electrical stimulation of substantia nigra pars reticulata is anticonvulsant in adult and young male rats

    Libor Velı́šek;Libor Velı́šek;Jana Velı́šková;Jana Velı́šková;Solomon L. Moshé

  • Update on the Role of Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata in the Regulation of Seizures

    Jana Velíšková;Solomon L. Moshé

  • Subthalamic nucleus: a new anticonvulsant site in the brain.

    Jana Velíšková;Libor Velšek;Libor Velšek;Solomon L. Moshé

  • Estrogens and Epilepsy: Why Are We So Excited?

    Jana Velísková

  • Ketamine suppresses both bicuculline- and picrotoxin-induced generalized tonic-clonic seizures during ontogenesis

    J. Velíšková;L. Velíšek;L. Velíšek;P. Mareš;P. Mareš;R. Rokyta

  • GABAergic neuron deficit as an idiopathic generalized epilepsy mechanism: the role of BRD2 haploinsufficiency in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

    Libor Velíšek;Enyuan Shang;Jana Velíšková;Tamar Chachua;Tamar Chachua

  • Maturation and segregation of brain networks that modify seizures.

    Solomon L. Moshé;Lucy L. Brown;Hana Kubová;Jana Velíšková

  • Effects of ropinirole on nonmotor symptoms of Parkinson disease: a prospective multicenter study.

    Irena Rektorova;Marek Balaz;Jindra Svatova;Katerina Zarubova

Frequent Co-Authors

Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Aristea S. Galanopoulou
Aristea S. Galanopoulou Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Filippo Sean Giorgi
Filippo Sean Giorgi University of Pisa
David A. Greenberg
David A. Greenberg Nationwide Children's Hospital
Patric K. Stanton
Patric K. Stanton New York Medical College
Teresa Ravizza
Teresa Ravizza Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Lucy L. Brown
Lucy L. Brown Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Annamaria Vezzani
Annamaria Vezzani Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Debra J. Wolgemuth
Debra J. Wolgemuth Columbia University Medical Center

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