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Miguel A. Cortez publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel A. Cortez sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 100 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Miguel A. Cortez D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Miguel A. Cortez sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Miguel A. Cortez is affiliated with the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada. Their research spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and genetics.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topics including neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, epilepsy research and treatment, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, memory and neural mechanisms, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and bacterial infections and vaccines.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Miguel A. Cortez include Fiona James, Thomas Parmentier, Luís Gaitero, Andrea Fischer, and Hannes Lohi.

They have contributed to multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Cortez include:

  • "Neuroligin 2 regulates absence seizures and behavioral arrests through GABAergic transmission within the thalamocortical circuitry" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Seizure frequency discrepancy between subjective and objective ictal electroencephalography data in dogs" (2021, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine)
  • "Effect of prior general anesthesia or sedation and antiseizure drugs on the diagnostic utility of wireless video electroencephalography in dogs" (2020, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine)
  • "Electroencephalography: electrode arrays in dogs" (2024, Frontiers in Veterinary Science)
  • "Early transient dysautonomia predicts the risk of infantile epileptic spasm syndrome onset: A prospective cohort study" (2022, Frontiers in Neurology)

Best Publications

  • Medical treatment of Rasmussen's syndrome (chronic encephalitis and epilepsy) : effect of high-dose steroids or immunoglobulins in 19 patients

    Y. M. Hart;M. Cortez;F. Andermann;P. Hwang

  • Anticonvulsant properties of acetone, a brain ketone elevated by the ketogenic diet.

    Sergei S. Likhodii;Irina Serbanescu;Miguel A. Cortez;Patricia Murphy

  • Neto1 is a novel CUB-domain NMDA receptor-interacting protein required for synaptic plasticity and learning.

    David Ng;Graham M Pitcher;Graham M Pitcher;Rachel K Szilard;Andréa Sertié

  • Mutation I810N in the α3 isoform of Na+,K+-ATPase causes impairments in the sodium pump and hyperexcitability in the CNS

    Steven J. Clapcote;Steven Duffy;Gang Xie;Greer Kirshenbaum

  • Mania-like behavior induced by genetic dysfunction of the neuron-specific Na+,K+-ATPase α3 sodium pump

    Greer S. Kirshenbaum;Steven J. Clapcote;Steven Duffy;Christian R. Burgess

  • PTG depletion removes Lafora bodies and rescues the fatal epilepsy of Lafora disease.

    Julie Turnbull;Anna A. DePaoli-Roach;Xiaochu Zhao;Miguel A. Cortez

  • Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency: lessons from mice and men

    P. L. Pearl;P. L. Pearl;P. L. Pearl;K. M. Gibson;M. A. Cortez;Y. Wu

  • Chronic encephalitis and epilepsy (Rasmussen's encephalitis): Detection of cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex virus 1 by the polymerase chain reaction and in situ hybridization

    V. Jay;L. E. Becker;H. Otsubo;M. Cortez

  • Nonconvulsive Seizures in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Etiology, EEG, and Brain Imaging Findings

    Montri Saengpattrachai;Rohit Sharma;Amrita Hunjan;Manohar Shroff

  • A model of atypical absence seizures: EEG, pharmacology, and developmental characterization.

    Miguel A. Cortez;Colin McKerlie;O. Carter Snead

  • Laforin preferentially binds the neurotoxic starch-like polyglucosans, which form in its absence in progressive myoclonus epilepsy

    Elayne M. Chan;Cameron A. Ackerley;Hannes Lohi;Leonarda Ianzano

  • Type I Diabetes and Multiple Sclerosis Patients Target Islet Plus Central Nervous System Autoantigens; Nonimmunized Nonobese Diabetic Mice Can Develop Autoimmune Encephalitis

    Shawn Winer;Igor Astsaturov;Roy K. Cheung;Lakshman Gunaratnam

  • Infantile Spasms and Down Syndrome: A New Animal Model

    Miguel A. Cortez;Liqing Shen;Ying Wu;Ilyas S. Aleem

  • LIMK1 Regulates Long-Term Memory and Synaptic Plasticity via the Transcriptional Factor CREB

    Zarko Todorovski;Suhail Asrar;Jackie Liu;Ner Mu Nar Saw

  • Absence seizures in succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficient mice: a model of juvenile absence epilepsy.

    M.A. Cortez;Y. Wu;K.M. Gibson;O.C. Snead

  • Antiabsence Effects of Safranal in Acute Experimental Seizure Models: EEG and Autoradiography

    Hamid R. Sadeghnia;Miguel A. Cortez;Dick Liu;Hossein Hosseinzadeh

  • Activation of Entorhinal Cortical Projections to the Dentate Gyrus Underlies Social Memory Retrieval

    Celeste Leung;Feng Cao;Robin Nguyen;Krutika Joshi

  • Learning and memory impairment in rats with chronic atypical absence seizures.

    Katherine F.Y. Chan;Zhengping Jia;Patricia A. Murphy;W. McIntyre Burnham

  • Treatment of infantile spasms: emerging insights from clinical and basic science perspectives.

    Carl E. Stafstrom;Barry G. W. Arnason;Tallie Z. Baram;Anna Catania

  • A ketogenic diet rescues the murine succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficient phenotype.

    Kirk Nylen;Jose Luis Perez Velazquez;Sergei S. Likhodii;Miguel A. Cortez

  • Dynamical regimes underlying epileptiform events: role of instabilities and bifurcations in brain activity

    Jose L Perez Velazquez;Miguel A Cortez;O.Carter Snead;Richard Wennberg

  • Status epilepticus in mice deficient for succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase: GABAA receptor-mediated mechanisms.

    Ying Wu;Andrea Buzzi;Marina Frantseva;Jose Perez L. Velazquez

Frequent Co-Authors

O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead University of Toronto
Hannes Lohi
Hannes Lohi University of Helsinki
James H. Eubanks
James H. Eubanks University Health Network
John C. Roder
John C. Roder University of Toronto
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez
Jose Luis Perez Velazquez University of Toronto
Colin McKerlie
Colin McKerlie Hospital for Sick Children
Cameron Ackerley
Cameron Ackerley University of Toronto
Hiroshi Otsubo
Hiroshi Otsubo University of Toronto
W. McIntyre Burnham
W. McIntyre Burnham University of Toronto
Berge A. Minassian
Berge A. Minassian The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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