JSCN2019

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[ISS-LS] 20th ISS Luncheon Seminar
Reconsideration of Epileptogenesis - From the viewpoint of E/I balance -

Fri. May 31, 2019 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM Room 7 (Conference Room 431+432, 3F, Bldg. 4)

Chair: Akihisa Okumura (Department of Pediatrics, Aichi Medical University, Japan)

Sponsored: Eisai Co., Ltd.

[L-07] Pathophysiological characteristics associated with epileptogenesis: imaging of human brain slices

Akiyoshi KAKITA (Department of Pathology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata Univerity, Japan)

EDUCATION
NIIGATA UNIVERSITY POST-GRADUATE COURSE
Pathology (Neuropathology), Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan
Doctor of Medical Science (Ph.D.), 1993

NIIGATA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Doctor of Medicine (MD), 1989

TRAINING AND RESEARCH
 BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, NIIGATA UNIVERSITY, Niigata, Japan
・Deputy Director 2017-present
・Professor of Pathology 2011-present
 Department of Pathology and The Resource Branch for Brain Disease Research CBBR
・Associate Professor of Pathology 2000-2011
 Department of Pathology Neuroscience, Resource Branch for Brain Disease Research CBBR
・Research Assistant 1995-2000
 Department of Pathology
・Postdoctoral Fellow 1993-1995
 Department of Pathology

 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 1997-1999
 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, New York, NY, USA
・Postdoctoral Fellow
 Department of Pathology

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1. Tainaka K, et al. Chemical landscape for tissue clearing based on hydrophilic reagents. Cell Rep 2018; 38: 428-432.
2. Ishiura H, et al. Intronic TTTCA and TTTTA repeat expansions in benign adult familial myoclonic epilepsy. Nat Genet 2018; 38: 428-432.
3. Kitaura H, et al. Pathophysiological characteristics of the subiculum associated with epileptogenesis in human hippocampal sclerosis. EBioMedicine 2018; 29: 38-46.
4. Mutoh H, et al. Biallelic variants in CNPY3, which encodes an endoplasmic reticulum chaperone, cause early-onset epileptic encephalaopathy. Am J Hum Genet 2018; 102: 321-329.
5. Kitaura H, et al. Ca2+-permiable AMPA receptors associated with epileptogenesis of hypothalamic hamartoma. Epilepsia 2017; 58: e59-e63.
6. Miyake N, et al. Biallelic TBCD Mutations Cause Early-Onset Progressing Multiple System Neurodegeneration. Am J Hum Genet 2016; 99: 950-61.
7. Tada M, et al. Characteristic microglial features in patients with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids. Ann Neurol 2016; 80: 554-65.
8. Nakashima M, et al. Somatic mutations in the MTOR gene cause focal cortical dysplasia type IIb. Ann Neurol 2015; 78: 375-86.

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