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Thomas P. Sutula is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work mainly addresses epilepsy research and treatment, with significant contributions in neuroscience and neuropharmacology research. Additionally, they have explored diet and metabolism studies, metabolism and genetic disorders, amino acid enzymes and metabolism, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, and ion channel regulation and function.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Thomas P. Sutula include Nathan B. Fountain, Robert J. Kotloski, Paul Rutecki, Susan Osting, and Lauren Reoma.

Their research is published in several venues, notably:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Epilepsy Research
  • Epiliepsy currents/Epilepsy currents
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas P. Sutula include:

  • "2DG and glycolysis as therapeutic targets for status epilepticus," 2023, Epilepsy & Behavior
  • "2-Deoxy-D-glucose administration after seizures has disease-modifying effects on kindling progression," 2023, Epilepsy Research
  • "Genetic Background Influences Acute Response to TBI in Kindling-Susceptible, Kindling-Resistant, and Outbred Rats," 2020, Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Do Seizures Damage the Brain?-Cumulative Effects of Seizures and Epilepsy: A 2025 Perspective," 2025, Epiliepsy currents/Epilepsy currents
  • "Diffusion Tensor Orientation as a Microstructural MRI Marker of Mossy Fiber Sprouting After TBI in Rats," 2021, Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology

Thomas P. Sutula's work integrates clinical biochemistry and molecular neuroscience, with subfields also encompassing psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and molecular biology. This multidisciplinary approach underlines their involvement in studying complex brain disorders, especially focused on epilepsy and traumatic brain injury outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Mossy fiber synaptic reorganization in the epileptic human temporal lobe.

    Thomas Sutula;Gregory Cascino;Jose Cavazos;Isabel Parada

  • Synaptic reorganization in the hippocampus induced by abnormal functional activity.

    Thomas Sutula;Xiao-Xian He;Jose Cavazos;Grayson Scott

  • Is epilepsy a progressive disorder? Prospects for new therapeutic approaches in temporal-lobe epilepsy

    Asla Pitkänen;Thomas P Sutula

  • Mossy fiber synaptic reorganization induced by kindling: Time course of development, progression, and permanence

    Jose E. Cavazos;Golijeh Golarai;Thomas P. Sutula

  • Neuronal loss induced in limbic pathways by kindling: evidence for induction of hippocampal sclerosis by repeated brief seizures

    Jose E. Cavazos;Indranil Das;Thomas P. Sutula

  • Progressive neuronal loss induced by kindling: a possible mechanism for mossy fiber synaptic reorganization and hippocampal sclerosis

    Jose´E. Cavazos;Thomas P. Sutula

  • 2-Deoxy-D-glucose reduces epilepsy progression by NRSF-CtBP–dependent metabolic regulation of chromatin structure

    Mireia Garriga-Canut;Barry Schoenike;Romena Qazi;Karen Bergendahl

  • Epileptogenesis in the dentate gyrus: a critical perspective.

    F. Edward Dudek;Thomas P. Sutula

  • Narp regulates homeostatic scaling of excitatory synapses on parvalbumin-expressing interneurons.

    Michael C Chang;Joo Min Park;Kenneth A Pelkey;Heidi L Grabenstatter

  • Unmasking recurrent excitation generated by mossy fiber sprouting in the epileptic dentate gyrus: an emergent property of a complex system

    Thomas P. Sutula;F. Edward Dudek

  • Do epileptic seizures damage the brain

    Thomas P Sutula;Joshua Hagen;Asla Pitkänen

  • Repeated brief seizures induce progressive hippocampal neuron loss and memory deficits.

    Robert Kotloski;Michael Lynch;Suzanne Lauersdorf;Thomas Sutula

  • Long‐term consequences of early postnatal seizures on hippocampal learning and plasticity

    Michael Lynch;Ümit Sayin;Jonathan Bownds;Sridevi Janumpalli

  • Recurrent excitatory connectivity in the dentate gyrus of kindled and kainic acid-treated rats.

    Michael Lynch;Thomas Sutula

  • Seizures in the developing brain cause adverse long-term effects on spatial learning and anxiety

    Umit Sayin;Thomas P. Sutula;Carl E. Stafstrom

  • Felbamate monotherapy for partial‐onset seizures An active‐control trial

    Edward Faught;R. C. Sachdeo;M. P. Remler;S. Chayasirisobhon

  • Spontaneous Seizures and Loss of Axo-Axonic and Axo-Somatic Inhibition Induced by Repeated Brief Seizures in Kindled Rats

    Umit Sayin;Susan Osting;Joshua Hagen;Paul Rutecki;Paul Rutecki

  • Mechanisms of epilepsy progression: current theories and perspectives from neuroplasticity in adulthood and development

    Thomas P. Sutula

  • NMDA Receptor Dependence of Kindling and Mossy Fiber Sprouting: Evidence that the NMDA Receptor Regulates Patterning of Hippocampal Circuits in the Adult Brain

    T. Sutula;J. Koch;G. Golarai;Y. Watanabe

  • Experimental models of temporal lobe epilepsy: new insights from the study of kindling and synaptic reorganization.

    Thomas P. Sutula

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl E. Stafstrom
Carl E. Stafstrom Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Asla Pitkänen
Asla Pitkänen University of Eastern Finland
Paul Rutecki
Paul Rutecki University of Wisconsin–Madison
Oswald Steward
Oswald Steward University of California, Irvine
F. Edward Dudek
F. Edward Dudek University of Utah
Bruce P. Hermann
Bruce P. Hermann University of Wisconsin–Madison
William W. Lytton
William W. Lytton SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Kenneth A. Pelkey
Kenneth A. Pelkey National Institutes of Health
Andrew L. Alexander
Andrew L. Alexander University of Wisconsin–Madison

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