Representative Publications

 

Testa-Silva, G., Rosier, M., Honnuraiah, S., Guzulaitis, R., Megias, A. M., French, C., King, J., Drummond, K., Palmer, L. M., & Stuart, G. J. (2022). High synaptic threshold for dendritic NMDA spike generation in human layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons. Cell reports, 41(11), 111787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111787

Habibollahi, F., Kagan, B. J., Duc, D., Burkitt, A. N., & French, C. (2022). Critical dynamics arise during structured information presentation: Analysis of embodiedin vitroneuronal networks. doi:10.1101/2022.11.03.514955

French C. R. (2022). Exciting insights into tumour-associated epilepsy with electrophysiological and optical recording. Brain : a journal of neurology, 145(10), 3345–3346. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac351

Javaid, M. S., Antonic-Baker, A., Pitsillou, E., Liang, J., French, C., Hung, A., O'Brien, T. J., Kwan, P., Karagiannis, T. C., & Anderson, A. (2022). Alpha-lipoic acid analogues in the regulation of redox balance in epilepsy: A molecular docking and simulation study. Journal of molecular graphics & modelling, 112, 108116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.108116

Sivathamboo, S., Liu, Z., Sutherland, F., Minato, E., Casillas-Espinosa, P., Jones, N. C., Todaro, M., Seneviratne, U., Cahill, V., Yerra, R., French, C., Nicolo, J. P., Perucca, P., Kwan, P., Sparks, P., & O'Brien, T. J. (2022). Serious Cardiac Arrhythmias Detected by Subcutaneous Long-term Cardiac Monitors in Patients With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy. Neurology, 98(19), e1923–e1932. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200173

Sun, D., Kermani, M., Hudson, M., He, X., Unnithan, R. R., & French, C. (2021). Effects of antipsychotic drugs and potassium channel modulators on spectral properties of local field potentials in mouse hippocampus and pre-frontal cortex. Neuropharmacology, 191, 108572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108572

Olteanu, C., Habibollahi, F., & French, C. (2021). Effects of Several Classes of Voltage-Gated Ion Channel Conductances on Gamma and Theta Oscillations in a Hippocampal Microcircuit Model. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 15, 630271. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2021.630271

Sun, D., Unnithan, R. R., & French, C. (2021). Scopolamine Impairs Spatial Information Recorded With "Miniscope" Calcium Imaging in Hippocampal Place Cells. Frontiers in neuroscience, 15, 640350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.640350

Chen, Z., Grayden, D. B., Burkitt, A. N., Seneviratne, U., D'Souza, W. J., French, C., Karoly, P. J., Dell, K., Leyde, K., Cook, M. J., & Maturana, M. I. (2021). Spatiotemporal Patterns of High-Frequency Activity (80-170 Hz) in Long-Term Intracranial EEG. Neurology, 96(7), e1070–e1081. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000011408

Sivathamboo, S., Farrand, S., Chen, Z., White, E. J., Pattichis, A. A., Hollis, C., Carino, J., Roberts, C. J., Minogue, T., Jones, N. C., Yerra, R., French, C., Perucca, P., Kwan, P., Velakoulis, D., O'Brien, T. J., & Goldin, J. (2019). Sleep-disordered breathing among patients admitted for inpatient video-EEG monitoring. Neurology, 92(3), e194–e204. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000006776

Kermani, M., Fatahi, Z., Sun, D., Haghparast, A., & French, C. (2018). Operant Protocols for Assessing the Cost-benefit Analysis During Reinforced Decision Making by Rodents. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, (139), 57907. https://doi.org/10.3791/57907

Ali, I., Gandrathi, A., Zheng, T., Morris, M. J., O'Brien, T. J., & French, C. (2018). Neuropeptide Y affects thalamic reticular nucleus neuronal firing and network synchronization associated with suppression of spike-wave discharges. Epilepsia, 59(7), 1444–1454. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.14451

Taing, K. D., O'Brien, T. J., Williams, D. A., & French, C. R. (2017). Anti-Epileptic Drug Combination Efficacy in an In Vitro Seizure Model - Phenytoin and Valproate, Lamotrigine and Valproate. PloS one, 12(1), e0169974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169974

Zeng, Z., Hill-Yardin, E. L., Williams, D., O'Brien, T., Serelis, A., & French, C. R. (2016). Effect of phenytoin on sodium conductances in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Journal of neurophysiology, 116(4), 1924–1936. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01060.2015

Petty, S. J., Milligan, C. J., Todaro, M., Richards, K. L., Kularathna, P. K., Pagel, C. N., French, C. R., Hill-Yardin, E. L., O'Brien, T. J., Wark, J. D., Mackie, E. J., & Petrou, S. (2016). The antiepileptic medications carbamazepine and phenytoin inhibit native sodium currents in murine osteoblasts. Epilepsia, 57(9), 1398–1405. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.13474

Oxley, T. J., Opie, N. L., John, S. E., Rind, G. S., Ronayne, S. M., Wheeler, T. L., Judy, J. W., McDonald, A. J., Dornom, A., Lovell, T. J., Steward, C., Garrett, D. J., Moffat, B. A., Lui, E. H., Yassi, N., Campbell, B. C., Wong, Y. T., Fox, K. E., Nurse, E. S., Bennett, I. E., … O'Brien, T. J. (2016). Minimally invasive endovascular stent-electrode array for high-fidelity, chronic recordings of cortical neural activity. Nature biotechnology, 34(3), 320–327. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3428

Bennett, M. H., French, C., Schnabel, A., Wasiak, J., Kranke, P., & Weibel, S. (2015). Normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the treatment and prevention of migraine and cluster headache. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2015(12), CD005219. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005219.pub3

French, C. R., Zeng, Z., Williams, D. A., Hill-Yardin, E. L., & O'Brien, T. J. (2016). Properties of an intermediate-duration inactivation process of the voltage-gated sodium conductance in rat hippocampal CA1 neurons. Journal of neurophysiology, 115(2), 790–802. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.01000.2014

Bennett, M. H., Weibel, S., Wasiak, J., Schnabel, A., French, C., & Kranke, P. (2014). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for acute ischaemic stroke. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, (11), CD004954. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004954.pub3

Boiteux, C., Vorobyov, I., French, R. J., French, C., Yarov-Yarovoy, V., & Allen, T. W. (2014). Local anesthetic and antiepileptic drug access and binding to a bacterial voltage-gated sodium channel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(36), 13057–13062. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1408710111

Funding

Australian Brain Foundation

RMH Neuroscience

RMH Grant in Aid

RACP

UCB

NHMRC

ARC