Full-bandwidth electrophysiology of seizures and epileptiform activity enabled by flexible graphene microtransistor depth neural probes

…, C Guger, R Villa, K Kostarelos, RC Wykes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mapping the entire frequency bandwidth of brain electrophysiological signals is of paramount
importance for understanding physiological and pathological states. The ability to record …

Optogenetic and potassium channel gene therapy in a rodent model of focal neocortical epilepsy

RC Wykes, JH Heeroma, L Mantoan, K Zheng… - Science translational …, 2012 - science.org
Neocortical epilepsy is frequently drug-resistant. Surgery to remove the epileptogenic zone
is only feasible in a minority of cases, leaving many patients without an effective treatment. …

Optogenetic approaches to treat epilepsy

RC Wykes, DM Kullmann, I Pavlov… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Robert C. … (C) Illumination of the brain slice with 10 s of
blue light results in robust AP firing (detected electrophysiologically from the patched neuron). …

Epilepsy gene therapy using an engineered potassium channel

A Snowball, E Chabrol, RC Wykes… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Refractory focal epilepsy is a devastating disease for which there is frequently no effective
treatment. Gene therapy represents a promising alternative, but treating epilepsy in this way …

Gene therapy in epilepsy—is it time for clinical trials?

…, S Schorge, MC Walker, RC Wykes - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Epilepsy represents a major burden to society, not least because approximately 25% of
patients do not respond satisfactorily to antiepileptic medication, and only a minority with …

[HTML][HTML] Focal cortical seizures start as standing waves and propagate respecting homotopic connectivity

LF Rossi, RC Wykes, DM Kullmann… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Focal epilepsy involves excessive cortical activity that propagates both locally and distally.
Does this propagation follow the same routes as normal cortical activity? We …

[HTML][HTML] Converging mechanisms of epileptogenesis and their insight in glioblastoma

KE Hills, K Kostarelos, RC Wykes - Frontiers in molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and advanced form of primary malignant tumour
occurring in the adult central nervous system, and it is frequently associated with epilepsy, a …

[HTML][HTML] Adiabatic dynamic causal modelling

A Jafarian, P Zeidman, RC Wykes, M Walker, KJ Friston - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
This technical note introduces adiabatic dynamic causal modelling, a method for inferring
slow changes in biophysical parameters that control fluctuations of fast neuronal states. The …

Indirect effects of halorhodopsin activation: potassium redistribution, nonspecific inhibition, and spreading depolarization

…, A Călin, H Alfonsa, RC Wykes… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
The movement of ions in and out of neurons can exert significant effects on neighboring
cells. Here we report several experimentally important consequences of activation of the …

Seizures and disturbed brain potassium dynamics in the leukodystrophy megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts

…, H Koch, MHP Kole, U Boschert, RC Wykes… - Annals of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Loss of function of the astrocyte‐specific protein MLC1 leads to the childhood‐onset
leukodystrophy “megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts” (MLC). …