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Sanjay M. Sisodiya is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed to a significant body of research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields, including Genetics, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main areas of research focus include epilepsy research and treatment, genomics and rare diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, functional brain connectivity studies, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and climate change and health impacts.

Sisodiya has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Epilepsia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Brain Communications

Frequent coauthors with whom Sisodiya has collaborated on numerous occasions include:

  • Simona Balestrini
  • Renzo Guerrini
  • Pasquale Striano
  • Terence J. O'Brien
  • Gianpiero L. Cavalleri

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Sisodiya feature a range of topics related to epilepsy and neuroimaging. These include:

  • Drug Resistance in Epilepsy: Clinical Impact, Potential Mechanisms, and New Innovative Treatment Options (2020) published in Pharmacological Reviews
  • The ENIGMA Toolbox: multiscale neural contextualization of multisite neuroimaging datasets (2021) published in Nature Methods
  • White matter abnormalities across different epilepsy syndromes in adults: an ENIGMA-Epilepsy study (2020) published in Brain
  • Network-based atrophy modeling in the common epilepsies: A worldwide ENIGMA study (2020) published in Science Advances
  • Structural brain imaging studies offer clues about the effects of the shared genetic etiology among neuropsychiatric disorders (2021) published in Molecular Psychiatry

The research output of Sisodiya is reflected across complex neurological disorders and neurogenetic studies, often utilizing neuroimaging techniques and genomic analysis. Their contributions provide insights into the mechanisms underlying epilepsy and related neuropsychiatric conditions.

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

  • International consensus classification of hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy: A Task Force report from the ILAE Commission on Diagnostic Methods

    Ingmar Blümcke;Maria Thom;Eleonora Aronica;Dawna D. Armstrong

  • HLA-A*3101 and carbamazepine-induced hypersensitivity reactions in Europeans

    Mark McCormack;Ana Alfirevic;Stephane Bourgeois;John J. Farrell

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

    Sebastian Köhler;Sandra C. Doelken;Christopher J. Mungall;Sebastian Bauer

  • Histopathological Findings in Brain Tissue Obtained during Epilepsy Surgery.

    Blumcke I;Spreafico R;Haaker G;Coras R

  • Association of multidrug resistance in epilepsy with a polymorphism in the drug-transporter gene ABCB1.

    Asra Siddiqui;Reinhold Kerb;Michael E. Weale;Ulrich Brinkmann

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Comorbidities of epilepsy: current concepts and future perspectives.

    Mark R Keezer;Mark R Keezer;Sanjay M Sisodiya;Sanjay M Sisodiya;Josemir W Sander;Josemir W Sander

  • Drug Resistance in Epilepsy: Clinical Impact, Potential Mechanisms, and New Innovative Treatment Options.

    Wolfgang Löscher;Heidrun Potschka;Sanjay M. Sisodiya;Annamaria Vezzani

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

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  • Drug resistance in epilepsy: expression of drug resistance proteins in common causes of refractory epilepsy

    S. M. Sisodiya;W.‐R. Lin;B. N. Harding;M. V. Squier

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • 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

  • De novo mutations in ATP1A3 cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood

    Erin L Heinzen;Kathryn J Swoboda;Yuki Hitomi;Fiorella Gurrieri

  • Pharmacogenetics goes genomic

    David B. Goldstein;Sarah K. Tate;Sanjay M. Sisodiya

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • Genetic predictors of the maximum doses patients receive during clinical use of the anti-epileptic drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin

    Sarah K. Tate;Chantal Depondt;Sanjay M. Sisodiya;Gianpiero L. Cavalleri

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Thom
Maria Thom University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Josemir W. Sander
Josemir W. Sander University College London
Gianpiero L. Cavalleri
Gianpiero L. Cavalleri Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Ingrid E. Scheffer
Ingrid E. Scheffer University of Melbourne
Norman Delanty
Norman Delanty Beaumont Hospital
Chantal Depondt
Chantal Depondt Université Libre de Bruxelles
John S. Duncan
John S. Duncan University College London
Pasquale Striano
Pasquale Striano University of Genoa
J. Helen Cross
J. Helen Cross Great Ormond Street Hospital
David Goldstein
David Goldstein University of New South Wales

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