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2026

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Neuroscience

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73
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21039
World Ranking
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73
Citations
21058
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Soon-Tae Lee is affiliated with Seoul National University Hospital in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant concentration in neurology. Their contributions cover several subfields including neurology, genetics, psychiatry and mental health, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics, such as:

  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Frequent publication venues for Soon-Tae Lee include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Clinical Neurology
  • Neurology
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • encephalitis

They have collaborated extensively with several co-authors, with notable frequent collaborators being:

  • Kon Chu
  • Sang Kun Lee
  • Keun-Hwa Jung
  • Kyung-Il Park
  • Jangsup Moon

Noteworthy recent publications by Soon-Tae Lee include:

  • "Autoimmune encephalitis: proposed best practice recommendations for diagnosis and acute management" (2021), Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "Soft implantable drug delivery device integrated wirelessly with wearable devices to treat fatal seizures" (2021), Science Advances
  • "Autoimmune encephalitis: proposed recommendations for symptomatic and long-term management" (2021), Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • "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

Best Publications

  • Stretchable silicon nanoribbon electronics for skin prosthesis

    Jaemin Kim;Mincheol Lee;Hyung Joon Shim;Roozbeh Ghaffari

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

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

  • Autoimmune encephalitis: proposed best practice recommendations for diagnosis and acute management.

    Hesham Abboud;John C. Probasco;Sarosh Irani;Beau Ances

  • 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

  • Human neural stem cells improve sensorimotor deficits in the adult rat brain with experimental focal ischemia.

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Kyung-Il Park;Sang-Wuk Jeong

  • Altered microRNA regulation in Huntington's disease models

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

  • Early Intravenous Infusion of Sodium Nitrite Protects Brain Against In Vivo Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

    Kunhwa Jung;Kon Chu;Song Yi Ko;Soon-Tae Lee

  • Panax ginseng enhances cognitive performance in Alzheimer disease.

    Soon Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Ji Young Sim;Jae Hyeok Heo

  • 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

  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor enhances angiogenesis after focal cerebral ischemia.

    Soon-Tae Lee;Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Keun-Hwa Jung;Song-Yi Ko

  • MicroRNAs Induced During Ischemic Preconditioning

    Soon-Tae Lee;Kon Chu;Keun-Hwa Jung;Hye-Jin Yoon

  • 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

  • Flexible, sticky, and biodegradable wireless device for drug delivery to brain tumors.

    Jongha Lee;Hye Rim Cho;Hye Rim Cho;Gi Doo Cha;Hyunseon Seo;Hyunseon Seo

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

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

  • HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitor, Atorvastatin, Promotes Sensorimotor Recovery, Suppressing Acute Inflammatory Reaction After Experimental Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Keun-Hwa Jung;Kon Chu;Sang-Wuk Jeong;So-Young Han

  • Research report Human neural stem cells improve sensorimotor deficits in the adult rat brain with experimental focal ischemia

    Kon Chu;Manho Kim;Kyung-Il Park;Sang-Wuk Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Kon Chu
Kon Chu Seoul National University Hospital
Manho Kim
Manho Kim Seoul National University Hospital
Sang Kun Lee
Sang Kun 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 U. Kim
Seung U. Kim University of British Columbia
Se-Hoon Lee
Se-Hoon Lee Sungkyunkwan University
Donghyun Kim
Donghyun Kim Yonsei University
Dae-Hyeong Kim
Dae-Hyeong Kim Seoul National University

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