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Sang Kun Lee is affiliated with Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans 232 publications in medicine and 73 in neuroscience, highlighting a broad engagement with clinical and neurological sciences.

Their main areas of study include neurology, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience. These subfields underscore a multidisciplinary approach, linking neurological disorders with mental health and developmental conditions.

The topics covered in their work reflect a focus on neurological disorders and treatments. Key areas include epilepsy research and treatment, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, autoimmune neurological disorders and their treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, and pharmaceutical studies and practices.

The scientist has published notably in journals and venues such as encephalitis, Scientific Reports, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Epilia Epilepsy and Community, and Neurology. These frequent publication venues indicate a consistent focus on neurological and clinical research topics.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Randomized phase 2 study of adjunctive cenobamate in patients with uncontrolled focal seizures, 2020, Neurology
  • Teratoma Removal, Steroid, IVIG, Rituximab and Tocilizumab (T-SIRT) in Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis, 2020, Neurotherapeutics
  • Seronegative autoimmune encephalitis: clinical characteristics and factors associated with outcomes, 2022, Brain
  • Predicting Parkinson's disease using gradient boosting decision tree models with electroencephalography signals, 2022, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • Altered resting-state thalamo-occipital functional connectivity is associated with cognition in isolated rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, 2020, Sleep Medicine

Their frequent co-authors include Kon Chu, Soon-Tae Lee, Kyung-Il Park, Jangsup Moon, and Keun-Hwa Jung, indicating collaborative work across various domains in neuroscience and neurology.

Best Publications

  • Anti-inflammatory mechanism of intravascular neural stem cell transplantation in haemorrhagic stroke.

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kunhwa Jung;Se Jeong Kim

  • Cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor, celecoxib, inhibits the altered hippocampal neurogenesis with attenuation of spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus

    Keun Hwa Jung;Kon Chu;Soon Tae Lee;Juhyun Kim

  • miR-206 regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Alzheimer disease model

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Jin Hee Kim

  • Altered microRNA regulation in Huntington's disease models

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Woo-Seok Im;Hye-Jin Yoon

  • VGKC-complex/LGI1-antibody encephalitis: Clinical manifestations and response to immunotherapy

    Yong-Won Shin;Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Jung-Won Shin;Jung-Won Shin;Jangsup Moon;Jangsup Moon

  • Tocilizumab in Autoimmune Encephalitis Refractory to Rituximab: An Institutional Cohort Study

    Woo Jin Lee;Woo Jin Lee;Soon Tae Lee;Soon Tae Lee;Jangsup Moon;Jangsup Moon;Jun Sang Sunwoo;Jun Sang Sunwoo

  • Treatment strategies for autoimmune encephalitis

    Yong Won Shin;Soon-Tae Lee;Kyung Il Park;Kunhwa Jung

  • Predictors of surgical outcome and pathologic considerations in focal cortical dysplasia.

    D. W. Kim;S. K. Lee;K. Chu;K. I. Park

  • Continuous cytosine-b-D-arabinofuranoside infusion reduces ectopic granule cells in adult rat hippocampus with attenuation of spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus.

    Keun-Hwa Jung;Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Sang-Wuk Jeong

  • Decreased number and function of endothelial progenitor cells in patients with migraine

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kunhwa Jung;D. H. Kim

  • Systemic transplantation of human adipose stem cells attenuated cerebral inflammation and degeneration in a hemorrhagic stroke model.

    Jeong-Min Kim;Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung

  • Pharmacological Induction of Ischemic Tolerance by Glutamate Transporter-1 (EAAT2) Upregulation

    Kon Chu;Soon-Tae Lee;Dong In Sinn;Song Yi Ko

  • Focal Lesion in the Splenium of the Corpus Callosum in Epileptic Patients: Antiepileptic Drug Toxicity?

    Sam Soo Kim;Kee-Hyun Chang;Sung Tae Kim;Dae Chul Suh

  • Valproic acid-mediated neuroprotection in intracerebral hemorrhage via histone deacetylase inhibition and transcriptional activation

    Dong In Sinn;Se Jeong Kim;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Keun Hwa Jung;Keun Hwa Jung;Keun Hwa Jung

  • Comparison of MR imaging with PET and ictal SPECT in 118 patients with intractable epilepsy.

    Hyung Jin Won;Kee-Hyun Chang;Jung-Eun Cheon;Hong Dae Kim

  • Development of the clinical assessment scale in autoimmune encephalitis

    Jung Ah Lim;Jung Ah Lim;Soon Tae Lee;Jangsup Moon;Jin Sun Jun;Jin Sun Jun

  • Rituximab treatment for autoimmune limbic encephalitis in an institutional cohort

    Woo Jin Lee;Soon Tae Lee;Jung Ick Byun;Jun Sang Sunwoo

  • Tocilizumab treatment for new onset refractory status epilepticus.

    Jin Sun Jun;Soon Tae Lee;Ryul Kim;Kon Chu

  • Human neural stem cell transplantation reduces spontaneous recurrent seizures following pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in adult rats.

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Manho Kim;Keun Hwa Jung;Keun Hwa Jung;Daejong Jeon;Daejong Jeon

  • Anti-LGI1 encephalitis is associated with unique HLA subtypes.

    Tae Joon Kim;Soon Tae Lee;Jangsup Moon;Jun Sang Sunwoo

  • Prognostic factors for the surgery for mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: longitudinal analysis.

    Sang-Wuk Jeong;Sang Kun Lee;Keun-Sik Hong;Kwang-Ki Kim

  • (18)F-FDG PET in localization of frontal lobe epilepsy: comparison of visual and SPM analysis.

    Yu Kyeong Kim;Dong Soo Lee;Sang Kun Lee;Chun Kee Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Kon Chu
Kon Chu Seoul National University Hospital
Soon-Tae Lee
Soon-Tae Lee Seoul National University Hospital
Keun-Hwa Jung
Keun-Hwa Jung Seoul National University Hospital
Jung Ah Lim
Jung Ah Lim Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Daejong Jeon
Daejong Jeon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Seung Bong Hong
Seung Bong Hong Sungkyunkwan University
Byung In Lee
Byung In Lee Inje University
Seung U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Donghyun Kim
Donghyun Kim Yonsei University

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