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Piero Perucca is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research focus primarily in medicine, with extensive publications related to epilepsy. Their work spans a range of subfields including psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of Perucca's research include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • Pregnancy and medication impact
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Genomics and rare diseases
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Perucca include:

  • The Genetics of Epilepsy, published in 2020 in Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics
  • Drug resistance in epilepsy, published in 2023 in The Lancet Neurology
  • Progress report on new antiepileptic drugs: A summary of the Fifteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XV). I. Drugs in preclinical and early clinical development, published in 2020 in Epilepsia
  • Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, published in 2020 in Neurology
  • Risk Factors and Prognosis of Early Posttraumatic Seizures in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, published in 2022 in JAMA Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Perucca include:

  • Terence J. O'Brien
  • Patrick Kwan
  • Frank Vajda
  • Samuel F. Berkovic
  • Janet Graham

The primary venues for publishing Perucca's research are:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Epilepsia
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Neurology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Epilepsy

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  • Adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs

    Piero Perucca;Frank G Gilliam

  • Intracranial electroencephalographic seizure-onset patterns: effect of underlying pathology.

    Piero Perucca;François Dubeau;Jean Gotman

  • Minimally invasive endovascular stent-electrode array for high-fidelity, chronic recordings of cortical neural activity

    Thomas J Oxley;Nicholas L Opie;Sam E John;Gil S Rind;Gil S Rind

  • Adverse antiepileptic drug effects : Toward a clinically and neurobiologically relevant taxonomy

    Piero Perucca;Jewell Carter;Victoria Vahle;Frank G. Gilliam

  • The management of epilepsy in children and adults

    Piero Perucca;Piero Perucca;Ingrid E Scheffer;Michelle Kiley

  • The adverse event profile of pregabalin: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials

    Gaetano Zaccara;Pierfranco Gangemi;Piero Perucca;Luigi Specchio

  • Drug resistance in epilepsy

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  • High-frequency oscillations, extent of surgical resection, and surgical outcome in drug-resistant focal epilepsy

    Claire Haegelen;Piero Perucca;Claude Edouard Châtillon;Luciana Andrade-Valença

  • The Genetics of Epilepsy.

    Piero Perucca;Piero Perucca;Melanie Bahlo;Melanie Bahlo;Samuel F Berkovic

  • Removing high-frequency oscillations: A prospective multicenter study on seizure outcome

    Julia Jacobs;Joyce Y. Wu;Piero Cesare Perucca;Rina Zelmann

  • Progress report on new antiepileptic drugs: A summary of the Fifteenth Eilat Conference on New Antiepileptic Drugs and Devices (EILAT XV). I. Drugs in preclinical and early clinical development.

    Meir Bialer;Svein I. Johannessen;Matthias J. Koepp;René H. Levy

  • Antiepileptic drug effects on mood and behavior: molecular targets.

    Piero Perucca;Marco Mula

  • Adverse antiepileptic drug effects in new-onset seizures: A case-control study

    P. Perucca;A. Jacoby;A.G. Marson;G.A. Baker

  • Identifying mutations in epilepsy genes: Impact on treatment selection.

    Piero Perucca;Emilio Perucca

  • Mortality in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

    Russell Nightscales;Lara McCartney;Clarissa Auvrez;Gerard Tao

  • Real-world utility of whole exome sequencing with targeted gene analysis for focal epilepsy

    Piero Perucca;Ingrid E. Scheffer;Ingrid E. Scheffer;A. Simon Harvey;Paul A. James

  • Heart rate variability measurement in epilepsy: How can we move from research to clinical practice?

    Kenneth A. Myers;Shobi Sivathamboo;Piero Perucca

  • The adverse event profile of lacosamide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    Gaetano Zaccara;Piero Perucca;Giulia Loiacono;Fabio Giovannelli

  • Size of cortical generators of epileptic interictal events and visibility on scalp EEG.

    Nicolás von Ellenrieder;Nicolás von Ellenrieder;Leandro Beltrachini;Piero Perucca;Jean Gotman

  • Migralepsy: a call for a revision of the definition.

    Grazia Sances;Elena Guaschino;Piero Perucca;Marta Allena

  • Pathologic substrates of focal epilepsy influence the generation of high‐frequency oscillations

    Taissa Ferrari-Marinho;Piero Perucca;Kelvin Mok;Andre Olivier

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Kwan
Patrick Kwan Monash University
Samuel F. Berkovic
Samuel F. Berkovic University of Melbourne
Jean Gotman
Jean Gotman Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Frank Gilliam
Frank Gilliam The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
François Dubeau
François Dubeau McGill University
Nigel C. Jones
Nigel C. Jones Monash University
Norman Delanty
Norman Delanty Beaumont Hospital
Chantal Depondt
Chantal Depondt Université Libre de Bruxelles
Melanie Bahlo
Melanie Bahlo Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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