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Kenji Sugai

Kenji Sugai

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
5550
World Ranking
8995
National Ranking
330

Overview

Kenji Sugai is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and specializes in research intersecting medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work focuses significantly on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health, with additional contributions to psychiatry and mental health, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology.

The scientist's scholarly output spans various topics, including epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, functional brain connectivity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Kenji Sugai has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Brain and Development
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Recent papers by Sugai encompass:

  • Epilepsy surgery in children under 3 years of age: surgical and developmental outcomes, 2021, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • Cognitive and developmental outcomes after pediatric insular epilepsy surgery for focal cortical dysplasia, 2020, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics
  • Medical treatment in infants and young children with epilepsy: Off-label use of antiseizure medications. Survey Report of ILAE Task Force Medical Therapies in Children, 2022, Epilepsia Open
  • Variant in the neuronal vesicular SNARE VAMP2 (synaptobrevin-2): First report in Japan, 2020, Brain and Development
  • KCNT1-positive epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures successfully treated with nonnarcotic antitussive drugs after treatment failure with quinidine: A case report, 2020, Brain and Development

Collaboration is an integral part of Sugai's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Masayuki Sasaki
  • Masaki Iwasaki
  • Eiji Nakagawa
  • Takashi Saito
  • Yuko Shimizu-Motohashi

Best Publications

  • De novo mutations in the autophagy gene WDR45 cause static encephalopathy of childhood with neurodegeneration in adulthood

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Taki Nishimura;Taki Nishimura;Kazuhiro Muramatsu;Hirofumi Kodera

  • Clinical spectrum of early onset epileptic encephalopathies caused by KCNQ2 mutation.

    Mitsuhiro Kato;Takanori Yamagata;Masaya Kubota;Hiroshi Arai

  • Acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures (AERRPS): a peculiar form of childhood encephalitis.

    H. Sakuma;Y. Awaya;M. Shiomi;H. Yamanouchi

  • Impaired neuronal KCC2 function by biallelic SLC12A5 mutations in migrating focal seizures and severe developmental delay.

    Hirotomo Saitsu;Miho Watanabe;Tenpei Akita;Chihiro Ohba

  • Efficacy of Intravenous Midazolam for Status Epilepticus in Childhood

    Kitami Hayashi;Makiko Osawa;Masao Aihara;Tatsuro Izumi

  • Complex behavioral automatism arising from insular cortex

    Takanobu Kaido;Taisuke Otsuki;Hideyuki Nakama;Yuu Kaneko

  • Long-term developmental outcome after early hemispherotomy for hemimegalencephaly in infants with epileptic encephalopathy

    Unknown

  • Single-photon emission computed tomography of the brain in autism: effect of the developmental level.

    Toshiaki Hashimoto;Masayuki Sasaki;Michio Fukumizu;Shigeru Hanaoka

  • New guidelines for management of febrile seizures in Japan

    Jun Natsume;Shin ichiro Hamano;Kuniaki Iyoda;Hideaki Kanemura

  • Paroxysmal discharges on EEG in young autistic patients are frequent in frontal regions

    Toshiaki Hashimoto;Masayuki Sasaki;Kenji Sugai;Shigeru Hanaoka

  • Current management of febrile seizures in Japan: An overview

    Kenji Sugai

  • Tremor and seizures associated with chronic manganese intoxication

    Hirofumi Komaki;Shun-ichi Maisawa;Kenji Sugai;Yu-ichi Kobayashi

  • Clinical aspects of hemimegalencephaly by means of a nationwide survey.

    Masayuki Sasaki;Toshiaki Hashimoto;Wakana Furushima;Mari Okada

  • Surgical Treatment of a Case of Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy with Suppression-Bursts Associated with Focal Cortical Dysplasia

    Hirofumi Komaki;Kenji Sugai;Masayuki Sasaki;Toshiaki Hashimoto

  • Clobazam as a new antiepileptic drug and clorazepate dipotassium as an alternative antiepileptic drug in Japan.

    Kenji Sugai

  • Immunomodulatory therapy versus surgery for Rasmussen syndrome in early childhood.

    Yukitoshi Takahashi;Etsuko Yamazaki;Jun Mine;Yuko Kubota

  • Periaxin mutation in Japanese patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

    Unknown

  • A de novo missense mutation in SLC12A5 found in a compound heterozygote patient with epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

    T. Saito;A. Ishii;K. Sugai;M. Sasaki

  • Evolution of hemiplegic attacks and epileptic seizures in alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Unknown

  • Muscle glycogen storage disease 0 presenting recurrent syncope with weakness and myalgia

    Sayuri Sukigara;Wen-Chen Liang;Hirofumi Komaki;Tokiko Fukuda

  • A family of distal arthrogryposis type 5 due to a novel PIEZO2 mutation

    Mariko Okubo;Atsushi Fujita;Yoshiaki Saito;Hirofumi Komaki

  • Hemimegalencephaly: a study of abnormalities occurring outside the involved hemisphere.

    N. Sato;A. Yagishita;H. Oba;Y. Miki

  • Decreased resting energy expenditure in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

    Mami Shimizu-Fujiwara;Hirofumi Komaki;Eiji Nakagawa;Madoka Mori-Yoshimura

  • Electrophysiological evidence of cerebral dysfunction in childhood opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome

    Hiroshi Sakuma;Yuko Shimizu;Yoshiaki Saito;Kenji Sugai

Frequent Co-Authors

Noriko Sato
Noriko Sato Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Yu-ichi Goto
Yu-ichi Goto University of Tsukuba
Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Sachio Takashima
Sachio Takashima Tottori University
Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto Yokohama City University
Hirotomo Saitsu
Hirotomo Saitsu Hamamatsu University
Noriko Miyake
Noriko Miyake Yokohama City University
Akiyoshi Kakita
Akiyoshi Kakita Niigata University
Yushi Inoue
Yushi Inoue RMIT University
Mitsuhiro Kato
Mitsuhiro Kato Showa University

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