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Pavel Krsek is affiliated with the Czech Technical University in Prague in the Czech Republic. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, particularly in the intersecting fields of neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their body of work encompasses a range of subfields including psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics and child health, cognitive neuroscience, genetics, and physiology.

The main topics covered in Pavel Krsek's research work include epilepsy research and treatment, tuberous sclerosis complex research, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, as well as neonatal and fetal brain pathology.

They have published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
  • Epilepsia Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Epilepsia
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Pavel Krsek include:

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Prevention of Epilepsy in Infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex in the EPISTOP Trial, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • TSC2 pathogenic variants are predictive of severe clinical manifestations in TSC infants: results of the EPISTOP study, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Early epileptiform EEG activity in infants with tuberous sclerosis complex predicts epilepsy and neurodevelopmental outcomes, 2021, Epilepsia
  • Is autism driven by epilepsy in infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex?, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

Pavel Krsek collaborates frequently with a consistent group of co-authors, among the most prominent being Martin Kudr, Eleonora Aronica, Floor E. Jansen, Anežka Bělohlávková, and Radek Janča, indicating a sustained research network.

Best Publications

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Incomplete resection of focal cortical dysplasia is the main predictor of poor postsurgical outcome.

    P. Krsek;B. Maton;P. Jayakar;P. Dean

  • Different features of histopathological subtypes of pediatric focal cortical dysplasia.

    Pavel Krsek;Bruno Maton;Brandon Korman;Esperanza Pacheco-Jacome

  • Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study

    Herm J Lamberink;Willem M Otte;Ingmar Blümcke;Kees P J Braun

  • Diagnostic utility of invasive EEG for epilepsy surgery: Indications, modalities, and techniques

    Prasanna Jayakar;Jean Gotman;A. Simon Harvey;André Palmini

  • Different presurgical characteristics and seizure outcomes in children with focal cortical dysplasia type I or II

    Pavel Krsek;Tom Pieper;Anja Karlmeier;Michelle Hildebrandt

  • Prevention of Epilepsy in Infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex in the EPISTOP Trial.

    Katarzyna Kotulska;David J Kwiatkowski;Paolo Curatolo;Bernhard Weschke

  • Diagnostic methods and treatment options for focal cortical dysplasia.

    Renzo Guerrini;Michael Duchowny;Prasanna Jayakar;Pavel Krsek

  • The landscape of epilepsy-related GATOR1 variants

    Sara Baldassari;Fabienne Picard;Nienke E. Verbeek;Marjan van Kempen

  • International recommendation for a comprehensive neuropathologic workup of epilepsy surgery brain tissue: A consensus Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

    Ingmar Blümcke;Ingmar Blümcke;Eleonora Aronica;Hajime Miyata;Harvey B. Sarnat

  • Detection of interictal epileptiform discharges using signal envelope distribution modelling: application to epileptic and non-epileptic intracranial recordings.

    Radek Janca;Petr Jezdik;Roman Cmejla;Martin Tomasek

  • European trends in epilepsy surgery

    Maxime Olivier Baud;Thomas Perneger;Attila Rácz;Max C. Pensel

  • Current use of imaging and electromagnetic source localization procedures in epilepsy surgery centers across Europe.

    Brian E. Mouthaan;Matea Rados;Péter Barsi;Paul Boon

  • Novel Histopathological Patterns in Cortical Tubers of Epilepsy Surgery Patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

    Angelika Mühlebner;Jackelien van Scheppingen;Hanna M. Hulshof;Theresa Scholl

  • Current practices in long-term video-EEG monitoring services: A survey among partners of the E-PILEPSY pilot network of reference for refractory epilepsy and epilepsy surgery.

    Teia Kobulashvili;Julia Höfler;Judith Dobesberger;Florian Ernst

  • Long-term behavioral and morphological consequences of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in rats

    Pavel Kršek;Anna Mikulecká;Rastislav Druga;Hana Kubová

  • TSC2 pathogenic variants are predictive of severe clinical manifestations in TSC infants: results of the EPISTOP study.

    Barbara Ogórek;Lana Hamieh;Hanna M. Hulshof;Kathryn Lasseter

  • Expression of microRNAs miR21, miR146a, and miR155 in tuberous sclerosis complex cortical tubers and their regulation in human astrocytes and SEGA-derived cell cultures

    J. van Scheppingen;A. M. Iyer;A. S. Prabowo;A. Mühlebner;A. Mühlebner

  • Medically intractable epilepsy in Sturge-Weber syndrome is associated with cortical malformation: implications for surgical therapy.

    Bruno Maton;Pavel Kršek;Prasanna Jayakar;Trevor Resnick;Trevor Resnick

  • Early Clinical Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Results from the EPISTOP Study.

    Romina Moavero;Romina Moavero;Arianna Benvenuto;Leonardo Emberti Gialloreti;Martina Siracusano;Martina Siracusano

  • Localizing value of ictal SPECT is comparable to MRI and EEG in children with focal cortical dysplasia

    Pavel Krsek;Martin Kudr;Alena Jahodova;Vladimir Komarek

Frequent Co-Authors

Floor E. Jansen
Floor E. Jansen Utrecht University
Eleonora Aronica
Eleonora Aronica University of Amsterdam
Martha Feucht
Martha Feucht Medical University of Vienna
Lieven Lagae
Lieven Lagae KU Leuven
Paolo Curatolo
Paolo Curatolo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kees P.J. Braun
Kees P.J. Braun Utrecht University
Prasanna Jayakar
Prasanna Jayakar Boston Children's Hospital
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
Andreas Schulze-Bonhage University of Freiburg
Rima Nabbout
Rima Nabbout Université Paris Cité
Renzo Guerrini
Renzo Guerrini University of Florence

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