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Overview

Kamran Khodakhah is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a strong emphasis on neurology and cellular and molecular neuroscience. The scientist's work also encompasses molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, and studies related to the endocrine and autonomic systems.

The main topics explored in Khodakhah's research include genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurological disorders and treatments, vestibular and auditory disorders, sleep and wakefulness research, mitochondrial function and pathology, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Khodakhah has contributed to several recent scientific papers, which illustrate the scope of their research interests and collaborations:

  • Cerebellar Contributions to the Basal Ganglia Influence Motor Coordination, Reward Processing, and Movement Vigor, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience
  • The cerebellum directly modulates the substantia nigra dopaminergic activity, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • Chromatin architecture at susceptible gene loci in cerebellar Purkinje cells characterizes DNA damage-induced neurodegeneration, 2021, Science Advances
  • Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Reward, 2024, The Cerebellum
  • Mechanism of stress-induced attacks in an episodic neurologic disorder, 2022, Science Advances

Khodakhah's frequent co-authors include:

  • Joanna Krzyspiak
  • Ramakrishnan Bhuvanasundaram
  • Jean M. Hébert
  • Junichi Yoshida
  • Maritza Oñate

The scientist often publishes in several key venues related to their fields of interest. Notably, these include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Science Advances
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Neuron

The breadth of Kamran Khodakhah's work intersects multiple sub-disciplines of neuroscience and medicine, contributing to an improved understanding of neurological systems at both molecular and systemic levels.

Best Publications

  • Decreases in the precision of Purkinje cell pacemaking cause cerebellar dysfunction and ataxia.

    Joy T Walter;Karina Alviña;Mary D Womack;Carolyn Chevez

  • Cerebellar modulation of the reward circuitry and social behavior

    Ilaria Carta;Christopher H. Chen;Amanda L. Schott;Schnaude Dorizan

  • The neural substrates of rapid-onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism

    D Paola Calderon;Rachel Fremont;Franca Kraenzlin;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Short latency cerebellar modulation of the basal ganglia

    Christopher H Chen;Rachel Fremont;Eduardo E Arteaga-Bracho;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Active contribution of dendrites to the tonic and trimodal patterns of activity in cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Mary Womack;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels Are Selectively Coupled to P/Q-Type Calcium Channels in Cerebellar Purkinje Neurons

    Mary D. Womack;Carolyn Chevez;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Functional Heterogeneity of Calcium Release by Inositol Trisphosphate in Single Purkinje Neurones, Cultured Cerebellar Astrocytes, and Peripheral Tissues

    Kamran Khodakhah;David Ogden

  • Somatic and dendritic small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels regulate the output of cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Mary D. Womack;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Current Opinions and Areas of Consensus on the Role of the Cerebellum in Dystonia

    Vikram G. Shakkottai;Amit Batla;Kailash Bhatia;William T. Dauer

  • The therapeutic mode of action of 4-aminopyridine in cerebellar ataxia.

    Karina Alviña;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Dendritic Control of Spontaneous Bursting in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells

    Mary D. Womack;Kamran Khodakhah

  • PRESENCE AND PHOSPHORYLATION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN DEVELOPING DENDRITES

    Peter Crino;Kamran Khodakhah;Kevin Becker;Stephen Ginsberg

  • Two intracellular pathways mediate metabotropic glutamate receptor-induced Ca2+ mobilization in dopamine neurons.

    Hitoshi Morikawa;Kamran Khodakhah;John T. Williams

  • Characterization of large conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels in cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Mary D. Womack;Kamran Khodakhah

  • KCa Channels as Therapeutic Targets in Episodic Ataxia Type-2

    Karina Alviña;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Abnormal High-Frequency Burst Firing of Cerebellar Neurons in Rapid-Onset Dystonia-Parkinsonism

    Rachel Fremont;D. Paola Calderon;Sara Maleki;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Induction of long-term depression and rebound potentiation by inositol trisphosphate in cerebellar Purkinje neurons.

    Kamran Khodakhah;Clay M. Armstrong

  • Selective expression of mutant huntingtin during development recapitulates characteristic features of Huntington's disease.

    Aldrin E. Molero;Eduardo E. Arteaga-Bracho;Christopher H. Chen;Maria Gulinello

  • The Linear Computational Algorithm of Cerebellar Purkinje Cells

    Joy T. Walter;Kamran Khodakhah

  • Questioning the role of rebound firing in the cerebellum

    Karina Alviña;Karina Alviña;Joy T Walter;Adam Kohn;Graham Ellis-Davies

  • The Role of Interneurons in Shaping Purkinje Cell Responses in the Cerebellar Cortex

    Maria Johanna Dizon;Kamran Khodakhah

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Detlef H. Heck
Detlef H. Heck University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Dieter Jaeger
Dieter Jaeger Emory University
Pablo E. Castillo
Pablo E. Castillo Albert Einstein College of Medicine
André A. Fenton
André A. Fenton New York University
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies
Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Laurie J. Ozelius
Laurie J. Ozelius Harvard University
Isabel Llano
Isabel Llano Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Hyder A. Jinnah
Hyder A. Jinnah Emory University
Vikram G. Shakkottai
Vikram G. Shakkottai The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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