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2026

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81
Citations
27538
World Ranking
1557
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Reetta Kälviäinen is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work intersects various specialized subfields, including psychiatry and mental health, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist has made significant contributions to topics such as epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, functional brain connectivity studies, glycogen storage diseases and myoclonus, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and genomics and rare diseases.

Frequent coauthors of Reetta Kälviäinen include:

  • Valtteri Julkunen
  • Renzo Guerrini
  • Heiko Runz
  • Terence J. O'Brien
  • Jaakko Kaprio

Common publication venues for Kälviäinen's research output consist of:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Epilepsia Open
  • Brain
  • Epilepsia

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Kälviäinen include:

  • "FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population" (2023, Nature)
  • "FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data" (2022, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • "Seizure outcome and use of antiepileptic drugs after epilepsy surgery according to histopathological diagnosis: a retrospective multicentre cohort study" (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Network-based atrophy modeling in the common epilepsies: A worldwide ENIGMA study" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Inherited myeloproliferative neoplasm risk affects haematopoietic stem cells" (2020, Nature)

Best Publications

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • ILAE treatment guidelines: evidence-based analysis of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes.

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Updated ILAE evidence review of antiepileptic drug efficacy and effectiveness as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes

    Tracy Glauser;Elinor Ben-Menachem;Blaise Bourgeois;Avital Cnaan

  • Comparative risk of major congenital malformations with eight different antiepileptic drugs: a prospective cohort study of the EURAP registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;Torbjörn Tomson;Dina Battino;Erminio Bonizzoni;John Craig

  • Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study.

    Christopher D Whelan;Christopher D Whelan;Andre Altmann;Juan A Botía;Neda Jahanshad

  • Genome-wide mega-analysis identifies 16 loci and highlights diverse biological mechanisms in the common epilepsies

    Bassel Abou-Khalil;Pauls Auce;Andreja Avbersek;Melanie Bahlo

  • Adjunctive lacosamide for partial-onset seizures: Efficacy and safety results from a randomized controlled trial.

    Péter Halász;Reetta Kälviäinen;Maria Mazurkiewicz-Beldzińska;Felix Rosenow

  • Seizure control and treatment in pregnancy: Observations from the EURAP epilepsy pregnancy registry

    Torbjörn Tomson;D. Battino;E. Bonizzoni;J. Craig

  • 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

  • Rare deletions at 16p13.11 predispose to a diverse spectrum of sporadic epilepsy syndromes.

    Erin L. Heinzen;Rodney A. Radtke;Thomas J. Urban;Gianpiero L. Cavalleri

  • Amygdala damage in experimental and human temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Asla Pitkänen;Jarkko Tuunanen;Reetta Kälviäinen;Kaarina Partanen

  • Recurrent seizures may cause hippocambal damage in temporal lobe epilepsy

    R. Kälviäinen;T. Salmenperä;K. Partanen;P. Vainio

  • Valproate in the treatment of epilepsy in girls and women of childbearing potential

    Torbjörn Tomson;Anthony Marson;Anthony Marson;Paul Boon;Maria Paola Canevini

  • Genetic determinants of common epilepsies: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Richard Anney;A. Avbersek;D. Balding;L. Baum

  • Vigabatrin, a gabaergic antiepileptic drug, causes concentric visual field defects

    R. Kälviäinen;I. Nousiainen;M. Mäntyjärvi;E. Nikoskelainen

  • 25 years of advances in the definition, classification and treatment of status epilepticus.

    Eugen Trinka;Reetta Kälviäinen

  • Clinical picture of EPM1-Unverricht-Lundborg disease.

    Reetta Kälviäinen;Jelena Khyuppenen;Päivi Koskenkorva;Kai Eriksson

  • Multicentre search for genetic susceptibility loci in sporadic epilepsy syndrome and seizure types: a case-control study

    Gianpiero L. Cavalleri;Michael E. Weale;Kevin V. Shianna;Rinki Singh

  • Vigabatrin vs carbamazepine monotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy : a randomized, controlled study

    Reetta Kälviäinen;Marja Äikiä;Anna Maija Saukkonen;Esa Mervaala

  • Remodeling of neuronal circuitries in human temporal lobe epilepsy: increased expression of highly polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex.

    Mia Mikkonen;Hilkka Soininen;Reetta Kälviäinen;Tero Tapiola

  • Double‐Blind Study of Gabapentin in the Treatment of Partial Seizures

    Juhani Sivenius;Reetta Kälviäinen;Aarne Ylinen;Paavo Riekkinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Esa Mervaala
Esa Mervaala University of Eastern Finland
Norman Delanty
Norman Delanty Beaumont Hospital
Gianpiero L. Cavalleri
Gianpiero L. Cavalleri Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Mervi Könönen
Mervi Könönen University of Eastern Finland
Anna-Elina Lehesjoki
Anna-Elina Lehesjoki University of Helsinki
Chantal Depondt
Chantal Depondt Université Libre de Bruxelles
Eugen Trinka
Eugen Trinka Paracelsus Medical University
Asla Pitkänen
Asla Pitkänen University of Eastern Finland
Bernhard J. Steinhoff
Bernhard J. Steinhoff University of Göttingen
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa

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