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Overview

Juha Voipio is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a significant focus on the subfields of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, as well as Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Juha Voipio include Kai Kaila, Tommi Ala-Kurikka, Samu Kurki, Alexey S. Pospelov, and R. Ryley Parrish.

Juha Voipio has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Epilepsia, PLoS ONE, Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica, and Cell Reports.

Recent papers published by Juha Voipio include:

  • Endogenous brain-sparing responses in brain pH and PO 2 in a rodent model of birth asphyxia, 2020, Acta Physiologica
  • A physiologically validated rat model of term birth asphyxia with seizure generation after, not during, brain hypoxia, 2020, Epilepsia
  • Indirect Effects of Halorhodopsin Activation: Potassium Redistribution, Nonspecific Inhibition, and Spreading Depolarization, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Acute neuroinflammation leads to disruption of neuronal chloride regulation and consequent hyperexcitability in the dentate gyrus, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Brain interstitial pH changes in the subacute phase of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in newborn pigs, 2020, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • The K+/Cl- co-transporter KCC2 renders GABA hyperpolarizing during neuronal maturation.

    Claudio Rivera;Juha Voipio;John A. Payne;Eva Ruusuvuori

  • Graph theoretical analysis of magnetoencephalographic functional connectivity in Alzheimer's disease.

    C. J. Stam;W. de Haan;A. Daffertshofer;B. F. Jones

  • Cation–chloride co-transporters in neuronal communication, development and trauma

    John A Payne;Claudio Rivera;Juha Voipio;Kai Kaila

  • Cation-chloride cotransporters in neuronal development, plasticity and disease

    Kai Kaila;Theodore J. Price;John A. Payne;Martin Puskarjov

  • BDNF-induced TrkB activation down-regulates the K+–Cl− cotransporter KCC2 and impairs neuronal Cl− extrusion

    Claudio Rivera;Hong Li;Judith Thomas-Crusells;Hannele Lahtinen

  • Mechanism of Activity-Dependent Downregulation of the Neuron-Specific K-Cl Cotransporter KCC2

    Claudio Rivera;Juha Voipio;Judith Thomas-Crusells;Hong Li

  • Infraslow oscillations modulate excitability and interictal epileptic activity in the human cortex during sleep

    S. Vanhatalo;J. M. Palva;M. D. Holmes;J. W. Miller

  • Very Slow EEG Fluctuations Predict the Dynamics of Stimulus Detection and Oscillation Amplitudes in Humans

    Simo Monto;Satu Palva;Juha Voipio;J. Matias Palva

  • Long-Lasting GABA-Mediated Depolarization Evoked by High-Frequency Stimulation in Pyramidal Neurons of Rat Hippocampal Slice Is Attributable to a Network-Driven, Bicarbonate-Dependent K+ Transient

    Kai Kaila;Karri Lamsa;Sergei Smirnov;Tomi Taira

  • Two developmental switches in GABAergic signalling: the K+–Cl− cotransporter KCC2 and carbonic anhydrase CAVII

    Claudio Rivera;Juha Voipio;Kai Kaila

  • Evaluation of commercially available electrodes and gels for recording of slow EEG potentials.

    P. Tallgren;S. Vanhatalo;K. Kaila;J. Voipio

  • Experimental febrile seizures are precipitated by a hyperthermia-induced respiratory alkalosis.

    Sebastian Schuchmann;Dietmar Schmitz;Claudio Rivera;Sampsa Vanhatalo

  • The role of bicarbonate in GABAA receptor-mediated IPSPs of rat neocortical neurones.

    K Kaila;J Voipio;P Paalasmaa;M Pasternack

  • GABAergic depolarization of the axon initial segment in cortical principal neurons is caused by the Na-K-2Cl cotransporter NKCC1

    Stanislav Khirug;Junko Yamada;Ramil Afzalov;Juha Voipio

  • The K+–Cl− cotransporter KCC2 promotes GABAergic excitation in the mature rat hippocampus

    Tero Viitanen;Eva Ruusuvuori;Kai Kaila;Juha Voipio

  • Slow endogenous activity transients and developmental expression of K + -Cl ) cotransporter 2 in the immature human cortex

    Sampsa Vanhatalo;J. Matias Palva;Sture Andersson;Claudio Rivera

  • Contributions of the Na+/K+‐ATPase, NKCC1, and Kir4.1 to hippocampal K+ clearance and volume responses

    Brian Roland Larsen;Mette Assentoft;Maria L. Cotrina;Susan Z. Hua

  • Depolarizing GABA acts on intrinsically bursting pyramidal neurons to drive giant depolarizing potentials in the immature hippocampus.

    Sampsa T. Sipilä;Kristiina Huttu;Ivan Soltesz;Juha Voipio

  • GABA actions and ionic plasticity in epilepsy.

    Kai Kaila;Eva Ruusuvuori;Patricia Seja;Juha Voipio

  • Full-band EEG (FbEEG): an emerging standard in electroencephalography

    Sampsa Vanhatalo;Juha Voipio;Kai Kaila

  • Dopamine and performance in a reinforcement learning task: evidence from Parkinson's disease.

    Tamara Shiner;Ben Seymour;Klaus Wunderlich;Ciaran Hill

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Kaila
Kai Kaila University of Helsinki
Sampsa Vanhatalo
Sampsa Vanhatalo University of Helsinki
Claudio Rivera
Claudio Rivera University of Helsinki
Tomi Taira
Tomi Taira University of Helsinki
John W. Miller
John W. Miller University of Washington
Mart Saarma
Mart Saarma University of Helsinki
J. Matias Palva
J. Matias Palva Aalto University
Mark D. Holmes
Mark D. Holmes University of Washington
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Patrick O. Kanold
Patrick O. Kanold Johns Hopkins University

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