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Robert J. DeLorenzo is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a specific concentration in subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and plant science.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Pharmacological effects and toxicity studies
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Pesticide exposure and toxicity
  • Environmental toxicology and ecotoxicology
  • Cholinesterase and neurodegenerative diseases
  • Autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments

Recent publications by Robert J. DeLorenzo include:

  • "Super-Refractory Status Epilepticus: Prognosis and Recent Advances in Management," 2021, Aging and Disease
  • "Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy resulting in treatment-refractory flaccid paralysis," 2020, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
  • "Chronic Epilepsy and Mossy Fiber Sprouting Following Organophosphate-Induced Status Epilepticus in Rats," 2023, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
  • "Neuronal-Specific Inhibition of Endoplasmic Reticulum Mg2+/Ca2+ ATPase Ca2+ Uptake in a Mixed Primary Hippocampal Culture Model of Status Epilepticus," 2020, Brain Sciences
  • "Intramuscular atenolol and levetiracetam reduce mortality in a rat model of paraoxon-induced status epilepticus," 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators include Laxmikant S. Deshpande, Robert E. Blair, Elisa Hawkins, Batool Kirmani, and Katherine Au. They have published several papers together, reflecting ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Robert J. DeLorenzo has contributed to journals such as Aging and Disease, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, Brain Sciences, and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, indicating a broad engagement across different medical and neuroscience-focused publication venues.

Best Publications

  • A prospective, population-based epidemiologic study of status epilepticus in Richmond, Virginia

    R.J. DeLorenzo;W. A. Hauser;A. R. Towne;J. G. Boggs

  • Prevalence of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in comatose patients.

    A.R. Towne;E.J. Waterhouse;J.G. Boggs;L.K. Garnett

  • Determinants of Mortality in Status Epilepticus

    Alan R. Towne;John M. Pellock;Daijin Ko;Robert J. DeLorenzo

  • Persistent Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus After the Control of Convulsive Status Epilepticus

    R. J. DeLorenzo;E. J. Waterhouse;A. R. Towne;J. G. Boggs

  • Epidemiology of status epilepticus.

    Robert J. DeLorenzo;John M. Pellock;Alan R. Towne;Jane G. Boggs

  • Stimulation of Ca2+-dependent neurotransmitter release and presynaptic nerve terminal protein phosphorylation by calmodulin and a calmodulin-like protein isolated from synaptic vesicles.

    Robert J. Delorenzo;Steven D. Freedman;Wendy B. Yohe;Steven C. Maurer

  • The Endogenous Cannabinoid System Regulates Seizure Frequency and Duration in a Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

    Melisa J. Wallace;Robert E. Blair;Katherine W. Falenski;Billy R. Martin

  • Cellular Actions of Topiramate: Blockade of Kainate-Evoked Inward Currents in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons

    John W. Gibbs;Sompong Sombati;Robert J. DeLorenzo;Douglas A. Coulter

  • Purification and characterization of a calmodulin-dependent kinase from rat brain cytosol able to phosphorylate tubulin and microtubule-associated proteins.

    J R Goldenring;B Gonzalez;J S McGuire;R J DeLorenzo

  • Status Epilepticus in Children, Adults, and the Elderly

    Robert J. DeLorenzo;Alan R. Towne;John M. Pellock;Daijin Ko

  • Cellular mechanisms underlying acquired epilepsy: the calcium hypothesis of the induction and maintainance of epilepsy.

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  • Comparison of status epilepticus with prolonged seizure episodes lasting from 10 to 29 minutes.

    R. J. DeLorenzo;L. K. Garnett;A. R. Towne;E. J. Waterhouse

  • Recurrent spontaneous seizure activity in hippocampal neuronal networks in culture

    Sompong Sombati;R. J. Delorenzo

  • Assessment of the role of CB1 receptors in cannabinoid anticonvulsant effects.

    Melisa J Wallace;Jenny L Wiley;Billy R Martin;Robert J DeLorenzo

  • Identification of the major postsynaptic density protein as homologous with the major calmodulin-binding subunit of a calmodulin-dependent protein kinase.

    James R. Goldenring;Joseph S. McGuire;Robert J. DeLorenzo

  • Evidence for a physiological role of endocannabinoids in the modulation of seizure threshold and severity.

    Melisa J Wallace;Billy R Martin;Robert J DeLorenzo

  • NMDA receptor activation during status epilepticus is required for the development of epilepsy

    Ann C Rice;Robert J DeLorenzo

  • In Whom Does Status Epilepticus Occur: Age‐Related Differences in Children

    Shlomo Shinnar;John M. Pellock;Solomon L. Moshé;Joseph Maytal

  • The use of topiramate in refractory status epilepticus

    A.R. Towne;L.K. Garnett;E.J. Waterhouse;L.D. Morton

  • Calcium/ganglioside-dependent protein kinase activity in rat brain membrane.

    James R. Goldenring;Laura C. Otis;Robert K. Yu;Robert J. DeLorenzo

  • Effects of Topiramate on Sustained Repetitive Firing and Spontaneous Recurrent Seizure Discharges in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons

    Robert J. DeLorenzo;Sompong Sombati;Douglas A. Coulter

Frequent Co-Authors

Sompong Sombati
Sompong Sombati Virginia Commonwealth University
John M. Pellock
John M. Pellock Virginia Commonwealth University
Douglas A. Coulter
Douglas A. Coulter Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Solomon L. Moshé
Solomon L. Moshé Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Daniel L. Alkon
Daniel L. Alkon West Virginia University
Jaideep Kapur
Jaideep Kapur University of Virginia
Bruce G. Lyeth
Bruce G. Lyeth University of California, Davis
Eric W. Lothman
Eric W. Lothman University of Virginia

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