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Overview

Max B. Kelz is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within neuroscience and medicine, focusing particularly on cognitive and cellular neuroscience, anesthesiology, and developmental neuroscience.

Their recent publications include several notable papers:

  • QSIPrep: an integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI data, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Recovery of consciousness and cognition after general anesthesia in humans, 2021, eLife
  • Ketamine triggers a switch in excitatory neuronal activity across neocortex, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Visual evoked feedforward-feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Connected consciousness after tracheal intubation in young adults: an international multicentre cohort study, 2022, British Journal of Anaesthesia

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including Andrzej Z. Wasilczuk, George A. Mashour, Alex Proekt, Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu, and Michael S. Avidan.

Publication venues where Max B. Kelz's work regularly appears include:

  • British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Anesthesiology
  • ASA Monitor
  • Nature Communications

Kelz's research is mainly concentrated in the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a significant number of publications in specialized subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  • Developmental Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology

Their topical research focus covers areas including:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
  • Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Best Publications

  • Expression of the transcription factor ΔFosB in the brain controls sensitivity to cocaine

    Max B. Kelz;Jingshan Chen;William A. Carlezon;William A. Carlezon;Kim Whisler

  • Induction of a long-lasting AP-1 complex composed of altered Fos-like proteins in brain by chronic cocaine and other chronic treatments

    Bruce T. Hope;Heather E. Nye;Max B. Kelz;David W. Self

  • Chronic Fos-Related Antigens: Stable Variants of ΔFosB Induced in Brain by Chronic Treatments

    Jingshan Chen;Max B. Kelz;Bruce T. Hope;Yusaku Nakabeppu

  • Overexpression of DeltaFosB transcription factor(s) increases bone formation and inhibits adipogenesis.

    G Sabatakos;N A Sims;J Chen;K Aoki

  • An essential role for orexins in emergence from general anesthesia

    Max B. Kelz;Yi Sun;Jingqiu Chen;Qing Cheng Meng

  • An essential role for DeltaFosB in the nucleus accumbens in morphine action.

    Venetia Zachariou;Carlos A Bolanos;Carlos A Bolanos;Dana E Selley;David Theobald

  • DeltaFosB: a molecular mediator of long-term neural and behavioral plasticity.

    Eric J. Nestler;Max B. Kelz;Jingshan Chen

  • QSIPrep: an integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI data.

    Matthew Cieslak;Philip A. Cook;Xiaosong He;Fang Cheng Yeh

  • An fMRI study of the human cortical motor system response to increasing functional demands

    Bruce E. Wexler;Robert K. Fulbright;Cheryl M. Lacadie;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Pharmacological studies of the regulation of chronic FOS-related antigen induction by cocaine in the striatum and nucleus accumbens.

    H E Nye;B T Hope;M B Kelz;M Iadarola

  • Transgenic animals with inducible, targeted gene expression in brain.

    Jingshan Chen;Max B. Kelz;Guoqi Zeng;Norio Sakai

  • Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Anesthetic Mechanisms of Action: A Decade of Discovery

    Hugh C. Hemmings;Paul M. Riegelhaupt;Max B. Kelz;Ken Solt

  • A conserved behavioral state barrier impedes transitions between anesthetic-induced unconsciousness and wakefulness: evidence for neural inertia.

    Eliot B. Friedman;Yi Sun;Jason T. Moore;Hsiao-Tung Hung

  • Chronic electroconvulsive seizure (ECS) treatment results in expression of a long-lasting AP-1 complex in brain with altered composition and characteristics

    Bruce T. Hope;Max B. Kelz;Ronald S. Duman;Eric J. Nestler

  • Selective Loss of Catecholaminergic Wake–Active Neurons in a Murine Sleep Apnea Model

    Yan Zhu;Polina Fenik;Guanxia Zhan;Emilio Mazza

  • Regulation of delta FosB and FosB-like proteins by electroconvulsive seizure and cocaine treatments.

    Jingshan Chen;H. E. Nye;M. B. Kelz;N. Hiroi

  • Direct activation of sleep-promoting VLPO neurons by volatile anesthetics contributes to anesthetic hypnosis.

    Jason T. Moore;Jingqiu Chen;Bo Han;Qing Cheng Meng

  • Induction of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5 in the Hippocampus by Chronic Electroconvulsive Seizures: Role of ΔFosB

    Jingshan Chen;Yajun Zhang;Max B. Kelz;Cathy Steffen

  • The Biology of General Anesthesia from Paramecium to Primate

    Max B. Kelz;George A. Mashour

  • deltaFosB: a molecular switch underlying long-term neural plasticity.

    Max B. Kelz;Eric J. Nestler

  • Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

    Andrew R. McKinstry-Wu;Max B. Kelz

Frequent Co-Authors

George A. Mashour
George A. Mashour University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ronald S. Duman
Ronald S. Duman Yale University
Bruce T. Hope
Bruce T. Hope National Institute on Drug Abuse
Diego Contreras
Diego Contreras University of Pennsylvania
Damien A. Fair
Damien A. Fair University of Minnesota
Amita Sehgal
Amita Sehgal University of Pennsylvania
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Richard F. Betzel
Richard F. Betzel Indiana University

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