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Research
Latest papers
Influence of the estrous cycle on seizure activity in a model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Experimental neurology · 2026 · senior author
Theta oscillations, epileptogenesis, and focal seizures in rodent models of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Epilepsia · 2026 · senior author
High Theta (4-10 Hz) power as a biomarker of inhibition during epileptogenesis in an animal model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Experimental neurology · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $749,700
Reducing Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity: A New Antiepileptogenic Approach to Cure Focal Epilepsy
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
- $424,575
Optogenetic identification of the role of specific neurotransmitter receptor signaling in epileptogenesis
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
- $2,291,930
Electrical and metabolic manifestations of human focal epilepsy
CIHR · 2014 · Co-investigator
123 publications.
Influence of the estrous cycle on seizure activity in a model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Li FR, Lévesque M, Wang S, Avoli M
Theta oscillations, epileptogenesis, and focal seizures in rodent models of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Lévesque M, Avoli M
High Theta (4-10 Hz) power as a biomarker of inhibition during epileptogenesis in an animal model of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Lévesque M, Li FR, Wang S, Avoli M
Spreading depolarization and its influence on epileptiform activity.
Lévesque M, Köhling R, Avoli M
Interneurons, GABAA signaling and their presumptive role in catamenial epilepsy.
Li FR, Wang S, Suarez CF, Lévesque M, Avoli M
Fast activity chirp patterns in focal seizures from patients and animal models.
Lévesque M, Gnatkovsky V, Li FR, Scalmani P, Uva L, Avoli M, de Curtis M
Modulation of in vitro Network Activity by Optogenetic Stimulation of Parvalbumin-positive Interneurons During Estrous Cycle.
Li FR, Lévesque M, Wang S, Gemayel M, Avoli M
Low concentration dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) modulates epileptiform synchronization in the 4-aminopyridine in vitro model.
Li FR, Gemayel M, Lévesque M, Wang S, Suarez CF, Avoli M
Frequency-dependent seizure-suppressing effects of optogenetic activation of septal inhibitory cells in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.
Lévesque M, Li FR, Wang S, Avoli M
Loss of symmetric cell division of apical neural progenitors drives DENND5A-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy.
Banks E, Francis V, Lin SJ, Kharfallah F, Fonov V, Lévesque M, Han C, Kulasekaran G, Tuznik M, Bayati A, Al-Khater R, Alkuraya FS, Argyriou L, Babaei M, Bahlo M, Bakhshoodeh B, Barr E, Bartik L, Bassiony M, Bertrand M, Braun D, Buchert R, Budetta M, Cadieux-Dion M, Calame DG, Cope H, Cushing D, Efthymiou S, Elmaksoud MA, El Said HG, Froukh T, Gill HK, Gleeson JG, Gogoll L, Goh ES, Gowda VK, Haack TB, Hashem MO, Hauser S, Hoffman TL, Hogue JS, Hosokawa A, Houlden H, Huang K, Huynh S, Karimiani EG, Kaulfuß S, Korenke GC, Kritzer A, Lee H, Lupski JR, Marco EJ, McWalter K, Minassian A, Minassian BA, Murphy D, Neira-Fresneda J, Northrup H, Nyaga DM, Oehl-Jaschkowitz B, Osmond M, Person R, Pehlivan D, Petree C, Sadleir LG, Saunders C, Schoels L, Shashi V, Spillmann RC, Srinivasan VM, Torbati PN, Tos T, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Zaki MS, Zhou D, Zweier C, Trempe JF, Durcan TM, Gan-Or Z, Avoli M, Alves C, Varshney GK, Maroofian R, Rudko DA, McPherson PS
Reducing Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity: A New Antiepileptogenic Approach to Cure Focal Epilepsy
Principal investigators: Avoli, Massimo
Keywords: Eeg Recordings In Vivo; Epileptogenesis; Field/Whole Cell In Vitro Recordings; Hippocampus; Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity; Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy; Mice; Optogenetic Stimulation; Pilocarpine; Principal Cells
Optogenetic identification of the role of specific neurotransmitter receptor signaling in epileptogenesis
Principal investigators: Avoli, Massimo
Keywords: Entorhinal Cortex; Epileptogenesis; Gaba Type A Receptor Signaling; Hippocampus; Interneurons; Mice; Optogenetic Stimulation; Pilocarpine; Principal Cells; Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Electrical and metabolic manifestations of human focal epilepsy
Principal investigators: Gotman, Jean
Keywords: Epilepsy; Imaging; Neurophysiology
High frequency oscillations and seizure initiation in temporal lobe epilepsy
Principal investigators: Avoli, Massimo
Keywords: Animal Models; Epileptic Disorders; High Frequency Oscillations; Seizures; Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Adaptive stimulation strategies for the treatment of epileptic syndromes in vivo
Principal investigators: Pineau, Joelle
Keywords: Adaptive Treatment Design; Epilepsy; Neural Systems Modeling; Therapeutic Stimulation
High Frequency EEG Oscillations in Epilepsy
Principal investigators: Gotman, Jean
Keywords: Detection; Eeg (Electroencephalography); Epilepsy; Localization; Prediction; Seizure
Adaptive stimulation design for the treatment of epilepsy
Principal investigators: Pineau, Joelle
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jean Gotman and Jean Gotman: 221 shared papers
- Birgit Frauscher and Birgit Frauscher: 114 shared papers
- Jean Gotman and Birgit Frauscher: 54 shared papers
- Jean Gotman and Birgit Frauscher: 54 shared papers
- Birgit Frauscher and Jean Gotman: 54 shared papers
- Birgit Frauscher and Jean Gotman: 54 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Arkady Khoutorsky: 39 shared papers
- Nathalie Lamarche-Vane and Nathalie Lamarche-Vane: 29 shared papers
- Masha Prager-Khoutorsky and Arkady Khoutorsky: 15 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Jean Gotman: 13 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Jean Gotman: 13 shared papers
- Karim Nader and Nahum Sonenberg: 11 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky: 8 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Sylvain Williams: 8 shared papers
- Karim Nader and Arkady Khoutorsky: 7 shared papers
- Karim Nader and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky: 3 shared papers
- Nahum Sonenberg and Massimo Avoli: 2 shared papers
- Graziella Di Cristo and Massimo Avoli: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Arkady Khoutorsky: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Joelle Pineau: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Birgit Frauscher: 2 shared papers
- Massimo Avoli and Birgit Frauscher: 2 shared papers
- Jean Gotman and Sylvain Baillet: 2 shared papers
- Sylvain Baillet and Jean Gotman: 2 shared papers
- Karim Nader and Massimo Avoli: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Pia Wintermark: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Nathalie Lamarche-Vane: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Sylvain Baillet: 1 shared paper
- Massimo Avoli and Nathalie Lamarche-Vane: 1 shared paper
- Jean Gotman and Sylvain Williams: 1 shared paper
- Sylvain Williams and Jean Gotman: 1 shared paper
- Pia Wintermark and Sylvain Baillet: 1 shared paper
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Psychiatry
- Anesthesia
- Neurology
- Neurosciences
- Medicine
- Biochemistry
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jean Gotman
Neurology and Neurosurgery
13 shared papers, latest 2019
Jean Gotman
Faculty
13 shared papers, latest 2019
Sylvain Williams
Psychiatry
8 shared papers, latest 2023
Arkady Khoutorsky
Anesthesia
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Joelle Pineau
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Birgit Frauscher
Neurology
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Birgit Frauscher
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Nahum Sonenberg
Biochemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2023
Graziella Di Cristo
Neurosciences
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Nathalie Lamarche-Vane
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Pia Wintermark
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Nathalie Lamarche-Vane
Anatomy and Cell Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Sylvain Baillet
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Masha Prager-Khoutorsky
Physiology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Karim Nader
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2023
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