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Robert Jech is affiliated with the Czech Education and Scientific Network in the Czech Republic. Their research spans several interconnected fields including Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience with a particular emphasis on Neurology, Genetics, and Molecular Biology subfields.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics such as neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's Disease mechanisms and treatments, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, genomics and rare diseases, functional brain connectivity studies, and botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Jech include:

  • Michael Zech
  • Juliane Winkelmann
  • Matěj Škorvánek
  • Ján Necpál
  • Evžen Růžička

Robert Jech has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Movement Disorders
  • Movement Disorders Clinical Practice
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Neurology

Notable recent publications include:

  • JuSpace: A tool for spatial correlation analyses of magnetic resonance imaging data with nuclear imaging derived neurotransmitter maps (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Monogenic variants in dystonia: an exome-wide sequencing study (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • De novo variants in neurodevelopmental disorders-experiences from a tertiary care center (2021, Clinical Genetics)
  • Loss-of-Function Variants in HOPS Complex Genes VPS16 and VPS41 Cause Early Onset Dystonia Associated with Lysosomal Abnormalities (2020, Annals of Neurology)
  • Pathogenic SPTBN1 variants cause an autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental syndrome (2021, Nature Genetics)

Best Publications

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation during Positron Emission Tomography: A New Method for Studying Connectivity of the Human Cerebral Cortex

    Tomáš Paus;Robert Jech;Christopher J. Thompson;Roch Comeau

  • JuSpace: A tool for spatial correlation analyses of magnetic resonance imaging data with nuclear imaging derived neurotransmitter maps

    Juergen Dukart;Stefan Holiga;Michael Rullmann;Rupert Lanzenberger

  • Dose-dependent reduction of cerebral blood flow during rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human sensorimotor cortex.

    Tomáš Paus;Robert Jech;Christopher J. Thompson;Roch Comeau

  • Safety and efficacy of abobotulinumtoxinA for hemiparesis in adults with upper limb spasticity after stroke or traumatic brain injury: a double-blind randomised controlled trial

    Jean-Michel Gracies;Allison Brashear;Robert Jech;Peter McAllister

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging during deep brain stimulation: a pilot study in four patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Robert Jech;Dušan Urgošík;Jaroslav Tintěra;Antonín Nebuželský

  • Levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel in advanced Parkinson's: Final results of the GLORIA registry.

    Angelo Antonini;Werner Poewe;K. Ray Chaudhuri;Robert Jech

  • Dystonia in neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: outcome of bilateral pallidal stimulation

    L. Timmermann;K. A. M. Pauls;K. Wieland;R. Jech

  • Monogenic variants in dystonia: an exome-wide sequencing study.

    Michael Zech;Robert Jech;Sylvia Boesch;Matej Škorvánek

  • Retrospective evaluation of the dose of dysport and BOTOX in the management of cervical dystonia and blepharospasm: The REAL DOSE study

    Albert Marchetti;Raf Magar;Leslie Findley;Jan P. Larsen

  • Sleep disturbances and hypocretin deficiency in Niemann-Pick disease type C

    Jitka Vankova;Iva Stepanova;Robert Jech;Milan Elleder

  • Investigation of non-linear properties of multichannel EEG in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

    Laurent Pezard;Robert Jech;Evžen Růžička

  • Efficacy and safety of a standardised 500 unit dose of Dysport (clostridium botulinum toxin type A haemaglutinin complex) in a heterogeneous cervical dystonia population: results of a prospective, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study.

    J. Wissel;P. Kanovsky;E. Ruzicka;M. Bares

  • De novo variants in neurodevelopmental disorders-experiences from a tertiary care center.

    Theresa Brunet;Robert Jech;Melanie Brugger;Melanie Brugger;Reka Kovacs

  • Efficacy and safety of abobotulinumtoxinA in spastic lower limb: Randomized trial and extension.

    Jean-Michel Gracies;Alberto Esquenazi;Allison Brashear;Marta Banach

  • Repetitive TMS of the somatosensory cortex improves writer's cramp and enhances cortical activity.

    Petra Havrankova;Robert Jech;Nolan D Walker;Grégory Operto

  • Loss-of-function variants in HOPS complex genes VPS16 and VPS41 cause early-onset dystonia associated with lysosomal abnormalities

    Dora Steel;Dora Steel;Michael Zech;Chen Zhao;Katy E. S. Barwick

  • Pathogenic SPTBN1 variants cause an autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental syndrome

    Margot A Cousin;Blake A Creighton;Keith A Breau;Rebecca C Spillmann

  • Performance comparison of extracellular spike sorting algorithms for single-channel recordings.

    Jiri Wild;Zoltan Prekopcsak;Tomas Sieger;Tomas Sieger;Daniel Novak

  • Validity of primary motor area localization with fMRI versus electric cortical stimulation: A comparative study

    Robert Bartoš;Robert Jech;Josef Vymazal;Pavel Petrovický

  • Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of refractory chronic tinnitus: a randomized, placebo controlled study.

    Martin Anders;Jana Dvorakova;Lucie Rathova;Petra Havrankova

  • Paroxysmal exercise‐induced dystonia within the phenotypic spectrum of ECHS1 deficiency

    Simone Olgiati;Matej Skorvanek;Marialuisa Quadri;Michelle Minneboo

  • Pallidal stimulation in siblings with pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration: Four-year follow-up†

    Miriam Adamovicová;Robert Jech;Dušan Urgošík;Nataša Špacková

Frequent Co-Authors

Evžen Růžička
Evžen Růžička Charles University
Karsten Mueller
Karsten Mueller Max Planck Society
Matthias L. Schroeter
Matthias L. Schroeter Max Planck Society
Martin Bareš
Martin Bareš Masaryk University
Irena Rektorová
Irena Rektorová Masaryk University
Ivan Rektor
Ivan Rektor Masaryk University
Tim M. Strom
Tim M. Strom Technical University of Munich
Bernhard Haslinger
Bernhard Haslinger Technical University of Munich
Jan Kassubek
Jan Kassubek University of Ulm
Klaus Fassbender
Klaus Fassbender Saarland University

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