João Pereira Leite

Overview

Best Publications

• Long-term effects of pilocarpine in rats: structural damage of the brain triggers kindling and spontaneous recurrent seizures.

  E. A. Cavalheiro;J. P. Leite;Z. A. Bortolotto;W. A. Turski

  789
  Citations

• Animal models of epilepsy: use and limitations

  Ludmyla Kandratavicius;Priscila Alves Balista;Cleiton Lopes-Aguiar;Rafael Naime Ruggiero

  540
  Citations

• Validation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, modified Rankin Scale and Barthel Index in Brazil: the role of cultural adaptation and structured interviewing.

  Carolina Cincura;Octavio M. Pontes-Neto;Iuri S. Neville;Henrique F. Mendes

  387
  Citations

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

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

  356
  Citations

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

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

  352
  Citations

• Reactive synaptogenesis and neuron densities for neuropeptide Y, somatostatin, and glutamate decarboxylase immunoreactivity in the epileptogenic human fascia dentata

  GW Mathern;TL Babb;JK Pretorius;JP Leite

  345
  Citations

• New insights from the use of pilocarpine and kainate models

  João Pereira Leite;Norberto Garcia-Cairasco;E. A. Cavalheiro

  343
  Citations

• Spontaneous recurrent seizures in rats: an experimental model of partial epilepsy.

  J.P. Leite;Z.A. Bortolotto;E.A. Cavalheiro

  328
  Citations

• The pathogenic and progressive features of chronic human hippocampal epilepsy

  Gary W. Mathern;Thomas L. Babb;Joao P. Leite;James K. Pretorius

  304
  Citations

• Stroke awareness in Brazil: alarming results in a community-based study.

  Octávio Marques Pontes-Neto;Gisele Sampaio Silva;Marley Ribeiro Feitosa;Nathalie Lôbo de Figueiredo

  302
  Citations

• Hippocampal EEG excitability and chronic spontaneous seizures are associated with aberrant synaptic reorganization in the rat intrahippocampal kainate model.

  Gary W. Mathern;Fredi Cifuentes;Joao P. Leite;James K. Pretorius

  180
  Citations

• Effects of conventional antiepileptic drugs in a model of spontaneous recurrent seizures in rats

  J.P. Leite;E.A. Cavalheiro

  177
  Citations

• Human hippocampal AMPA and NMDA mRNA levels in temporal lobe epilepsy patients.

  G. W. Mathern;J. K. Pretorius;H. I. Kornblum;D. Mendoza

  154
  Citations

• Neuron loss, mossy fiber sprouting, and interictal spikes after intrahippocampal kainate in developing rats

  João P. Leite;João P. Leite;Thomas L. Babb;James K. Pretorius;Paula A. Kuhlman

  145
  Citations

• Childhood generalized and mesial temporal epilepsies demonstrate different amounts and patterns of hippocampal neuron loss and mossy fibre synaptic reorganization

  Gary W. Mathern;Thomas L. Babb;Paul S. Mischel;Harry V. Vinters

  145
  Citations

• Plasticity, synaptic strength, and epilepsy: what can we learn from ultrastructural data?

  João Pereira Leite;Luciano Neder;Gabriel Maisonnave Arisi;Carlos Gilberto Carlotti

  139
  Citations

• Contralateral hemimicrencephaly and clinical-pathological correlations in children with hemimegalencephaly.

  Noriko Salamon;Marissa Andres;Dennis J. Chute;Snow Nguyen

  137
  Citations

• Seizures decrease postnatal neurogenesis and granule cell development in the human fascia dentata.

  Gary W. Mathern;James L. Leiphart;Adelaine De Vera;P. David Adelson

  131
  Citations

• Hippocampal AMPA and NMDA mRNA levels and subunit immunoreactivity in human temporal lobe epilepsy patients and a rodent model of chronic mesial limbic epilepsy

  Gary W Mathern;Gary W Mathern;James K Pretorius;Joao P Leite;Harley I Kornblum

  121
  Citations

• Children with severe epilepsy: evidence of hippocampal neuron losses and aberrant mossy fiber sprouting during postnatal granule cell migration and differentiation.

  Gary W. Mathern;Joao P. Leite;James K. Pretorius;Bruce Quinn

  120
  Citations