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Overview

Neil G. Harris is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, covering 61 and 20 publications respectively. Within these broad fields, their subfields of study include neurology, epidemiology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and emergency medicine.

Their work concentrates on key topics such as:

  • Traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances
  • Traumatic brain injury research
  • Advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications
  • Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced MRI techniques and applications

Neil G. Harris has frequently published in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Epilepsia, Neurotrauma Reports, Epilepsy Research, and Journal of Neurotrauma. These reflect the scientist's engagement with topics spanning neurotrauma, epilepsy, and brain imaging.

Frequent coauthors who have contributed collaboratively with Harris include Richard J. Staba, Cesar Santana-Gomez, Olli Gröhn, Riikka Immonen, and David Wright.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Oxytocin normalizes altered circuit connectivity for social rescue of the Cntnap2 knockout mouse," 2021, Neuron
  • "Pre-Clinical Common Data Elements for Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Progress and Use Cases," 2020, Journal of Neurotrauma
  • "Topographical reorganization of brain functional connectivity during an early period of epileptogenesis," 2021, Epilepsia
  • "The BDNF mimetic R-13 attenuates TBI pathogenesis using TrkB-related pathways and bioenergetics," 2023, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease
  • "Successful harmonization in EpiBioS4Rx biomarker study on post-traumatic epilepsy paves the way towards powered preclinical multicenter studies," 2023, Epilepsy Research

Best Publications

  • Time course of cellular pathology after controlled cortical impact injury.

    S Chen;J D Pickard;N G Harris

  • Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and Cerebral Blood Flow: A PET Study of Baseline Values:

    Brian K Owler;Brian K Owler;Shahan Momjian;Zofia Czosnyka;Marek Czosnyka

  • Upregulation of Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Preservation of Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Flux after Experimental Brain Injury

    Brenda L. Bartnik;Richard L. Sutton;Masamichi Fukushima;Neil G. Harris

  • MRI uncovers disrupted hippocampal microstructure that underlies memory impairments after early-life adversity.

    Jenny Molet;Pamela M Maras;Eli Kinney-Lang;Eli Kinney-Lang;Neil G Harris

  • Ketogenic diet prevents alterations in brain metabolism in young but not adult rats after traumatic brain injury.

    Ying Deng-Bryant;Mayumi L. Prins;David A. Hovda;Neil G. Harris

  • Oxytocin normalizes altered circuit connectivity for social rescue of the Cntnap2 knockout mouse

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  • Disconnection and hyper-connectivity underlie reorganization after TBI: A rodent functional connectomic analysis.

    N.G. Harris;D.R. Verley;B.A. Gutman;P.M. Thompson

  • Hitting a moving target: Basic mechanisms of recovery from acquired developmental brain injury.

    Christopher C. Giza;Bryan Kolb;Neil G. Harris;Robert F. Asarnow

  • Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow during Cerebrospinal Fluid Pressure Manipulation in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: A Methodological Study:

    Brian K Owler;Brian K Owler;Alonso Pena;Shahan Momjian;Zofia Czosnyka

  • Communicating hydrocephalus: the biomechanics of progressive ventricular enlargement revisited.

    A. Peña;N. G. Harris;M. D. Bolton;M. Czosnyka

  • Positron emission tomography using 18F‐labelled endothelin‐1 reveals prevention of binding to cardiac receptors owing to tissue‐specific clearance by ETB receptors in vivo

    Peter Johnström;Tim D Fryer;Hugh K Richards;Neil G Harris

  • Pericontusion axon sprouting is spatially and temporally consistent with a growth-permissive environment after traumatic brain injury.

    Neil G. Harris;Yevgeniya A. Mironova;David A. Hovda;Richard L. Sutton

  • Inosine promotes recovery of skilled motor function in a model of focal brain injury.

    Justin M. Smith;Precious Lunga;David Story;Neil Harris

  • Bi-directional changes in fractional anisotropy after experiment TBI: Disorganization and reorganization?

    Neil G. Harris;D. R. Verley;Boris A. Gutman;R. L. Sutton

  • Traumatic brain injury results in disparate regions of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan expression that are temporally limited.

    N.G. Harris;S.T. Carmichael;D.A. Hovda;R.L. Sutton

  • The cerebral cortex in congenital hydrocephalus in the H-Tx rat: a quantitative light microscopy study.

    H. C. Jones;R. M. Bucknall;N. G. Harris

  • Relationship between flow-metabolism uncoupling and evolving axonal injury after experimental traumatic brain injury.

    Szu-Fu Chen;Hugh K Richards;Piotr Smielewski;Peter Johnström

  • Chondroitinase ABC enhances pericontusion axonal sprouting but does not confer robust improvements in behavioral recovery.

    Neil G. Harris;Yevgeniya A. Mironova;David A. Hovda;Richard L. Sutton

  • MRI measurement of blood-brain barrier permeability following spontaneous reperfusion in the starch microsphere model of ischemia

    Neil G Harris;Victoria Gauden;Paul A Fraser;Stephen R Williams

  • CO2 cerebrovascular reactivity as a function of perfusion pressure — a modelling study

    M. Czosnyka;M. Czosnyka;N. G. Harris;J. D. Pickard;S. Piechnik

  • Neuroimaging of animal models of brain disease.

    Mark F Lythgoe;Nicola R Sibson;Neil G Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim D. Fryer
Tim D. Fryer University of Cambridge
Jonathan Lifshitz
Jonathan Lifshitz University of Arizona
C. Edward Dixon
C. Edward Dixon University of Pittsburgh
Olli Gröhn
Olli Gröhn University of Eastern Finland
Leigh A. Johnston
Leigh A. Johnston University of Melbourne
Anatol Bragin
Anatol Bragin University of California, Los Angeles
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California
Asla Pitkänen
Asla Pitkänen University of Eastern Finland
Nicola R. Sibson
Nicola R. Sibson University of Oxford
Robert F. Asarnow
Robert F. Asarnow University of California, Los Angeles

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