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Kirk Nylen

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Adjunct LecturerDepartment of Pharmacology and ToxicologyUniversity of Toronto

Kirk Nylen

Adjunct Lecturer

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Adjunct, part-time and visiting faculty usually co-supervise alongside a core faculty member.
2 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.

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Research

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Latest papers

Improving Epilepsy Care in Ontario, Canada: The Impact of a Provincial Strategy for Epilepsy Care
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques · 2025
FAIR in action: Brain-CODE - A neuroscience data sharing platform to accelerate brain research
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics · 2023
Identifying Children and Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Electronic Medical Records: Examining Health System Utilization and Comorbidities.
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2021

All 13 publications

13 publications.

Improving Epilepsy Care in Ontario, Canada: The Impact of a Provincial Strategy for Epilepsy Care

Tresah C. Antaya, Brooke Carter, Salimah Z. Shariff, Lysa Boissé Lomax, Elizabeth J Donner, Kirk Nylen, O. Carter Snead, Jorge G. Burneo

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques20251 citations

DOI: 10.1017/cjn.2025.14 PMID: 39885808

FAIR in action: Brain-CODE - A neuroscience data sharing platform to accelerate brain research

Brendan Behan, Francis Jeanson, Heena Cheema, Derek Eng, Fatema Khimji, Anthony L. Vaccarino, Tom Gee, Susan Gilbert Evans, F. Chris MacPhee, Fan Dong, Shahab Shahnazari, Alana Sparks, Emily Martens, Bianca Lasalandra, Stephen R. Arnott, Stephen C. Strother, Mojib Javadi, Moyez Dharsee, Kenneth Evans, Kirk Nylen, Tom Mikkelsen

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics202311 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2023.1158378 PMID: 37274750

Identifying Children and Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Electronic Medical Records: Examining Health System Utilization and Comorbidities.

Brooks JD, Bronskill SE, Fu L, Saxena FE, Arneja J, Pinzaru VB, Anagnostou E, Nylen K, McLaughlin J, Tu K

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research202130 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/aur.2419 PMID: 33098262

Assessing the validity of administrative health data for the identification of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder in Ontario.

Brooks JD, Arneja J, Fu L, Saxena FE, Tu K, Pinzaru VB, Anagnostou E, Nylen K, Saunders NR, Lu H, McLaughlin J, Bronskill SE

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research202121 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1002/aur.2491 PMID: 33694293

Experiments in evaluation capacity building: Enhancing brain disorders research impact in Ontario.

Nylen K, Sridharan S

Evaluation and program planning2020First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.003 PMID: 28578855

The theory of change of the evaluation support program: Enhancing the role of community organizations in providing an ecology of care for neurological disorders.

Arasanz C, Nylen K

Evaluation and program planning2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.012 PMID: 28571607

The ketogenic diet: proposed mechanisms of action.

Nylen K, Likhodii S, Burnham WM

Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics2009First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2009.01.021 PMID: 19332336

A ketogenic diet rescues the murine succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficient phenotype.

Nylen K, Velazquez JL, Likhodii SS, Cortez MA, Shen L, Leshchenko Y, Adeli K, Gibson KM, Burnham WM, Snead OC

Experimental neurology200862 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.11.015 PMID: 18199435

Acetone as an anticonvulsant.

Likhodii S, Nylen K, Burnham WM

Epilepsia2008

DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2008.01844.x PMID: 19049597

Lack of benefit of linoleic and α-linolenic polyunsaturated fatty acids on seizure latency, duration, severity or incidence in rats

Ameer Y. Taha, Bogdan M. Baghiu, Richard Lui, Kirk Nylen, David W.L., W. McIntyre Burnham

Epilepsy Research200628 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2006.05.011 PMID: 16787740

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Kirk Nylen

Research

Latest papers

Improving Epilepsy Care in Ontario, Canada: The Impact of a Provincial Strategy for Epilepsy Care

FAIR in action: Brain-CODE - A neuroscience data sharing platform to accelerate brain research

Identifying Children and Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Electronic Medical Records: Examining Health System Utilization and Comorbidities.

Assessing the validity of administrative health data for the identification of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder in Ontario.

Experiments in evaluation capacity building: Enhancing brain disorders research impact in Ontario.

The theory of change of the evaluation support program: Enhancing the role of community organizations in providing an ecology of care for neurological disorders.

The ketogenic diet: proposed mechanisms of action.

A ketogenic diet rescues the murine succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficient phenotype.

Acetone as an anticonvulsant.

Lack of benefit of linoleic and α-linolenic polyunsaturated fatty acids on seizure latency, duration, severity or incidence in rats

Frequent collaborators

Jennifer Brooks

Evdokia Anagnostou

Karen Tu

Susan Bronskill

Jorge Burneo

Salimah Shariff

Stephen Strother

Elizabeth Donner

David Ma

Khosrow Adeli

Jose Perez Velazquez