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PROF MARK COOK



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Organization: Medicine - St Vincent's Hospital
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Homepage: www.medstv.unimelb.edu.au
Work: 03 9288 3340
Fax: 03 9288 2581
Level: 05
Building: Daly Wing
Campus: St Vincents Hospital

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Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Mappying the epileptogenic zone using dipole source modelling of surface electroencephalography in focal epilepsy Principal Supervisor NHMRC Medical & Dental Postgraduate Scholarships 01/01/2005
Clinical and Molecular Characterisation of Primary and Secondary Calpain Disorders In Humans Principal Supervisor NHMRC Medical & Dental Postgraduate Scholarships 01/01/2006
INVESTIGATING THE PATHOGENESIS, PROGRESSION AND SURGICAL OUTCOMES OF SUBTYPES OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY USING ADVANCED MR IMAGING TECHNIQUES Principal Supervisor NHMRC Medical & Dental Postgraduate Scholarships 01/01/2007
BIOMEDICAL - A BIOPOLYMER BASED METHOD OF SEIZURE TREATMENT IN RAT MODELS OF EPILEPSY Principal Supervisor NHMRC Scholarships 01/01/2008
IMAGING ANALYSIS USING DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY TO DELINEATE OPTIC RADIATION AND WHITE MATTER TRACTS CONNECTIVITY IN SUBTYPES OF TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY Principal Supervisor NHMRC Travelling Award for Research Training 01/01/2009
COMMON SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES UNDERLYING THE IDIOPATHIC GENERALIZED EPILEPSIES (IGE) ? A GENOME-WIDE SCANNING APPROACH Principal Supervisor NHMRC Australia Fellowship 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Association of the MELAS m.3243A>G mutation with myositis and the superiority of urine over muscle, blood and hair for mutation detection
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1223-5
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • "A twist in the tale" of a surgeon and his patient: An Australian first in seizure localization


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 33-45
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  • Validation of linear cerebral atrophy markers in multiple sclerosis


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 130-137
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  • A low symptomatic form of neurodegeneration in younger carriers of the FMR1 premutation, manifesting typical radiological changes
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Medical Genetics
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 179-181
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  • Equivalence of a measurement model of cognitive abilities in US standardization and Australian neuroscience samples


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Assessment
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 132-44
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  • Hippocampal deformation mapping in MRI-negative PET-positive temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 636-40
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  • Rhinal cortex asymmetries in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 234-46
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  • Sinus node arrest secondary to HSV encephalitis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1053-6
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  • Teaching NeuroImage: Open-ring imaging sign in a case of tumefactive cerebral demyelination
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 71
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: e73
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  • The Cost-Effective Use of 18F-FDG PET in the Presurgical Evaluation of Medically Refractory Focal Epilepsy
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Nuclear Medicine
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 931-937
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • "Magnetic resonance imaging negative positron emission tomography positive" temporal lobe epilepsy: FDG-PET pattern differs from mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Molecular Imaging and Biology
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 32-42
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  • Clinical utility of current-generation dipole modelling of scalp EEG
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Clinical Neurophysiology
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 2344-61
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  • Effective detection of corrected dystrophin loci in mdx mouse myogenic precursors
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Human Mutation
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 816-23
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  • Evaluation of Sca-1 and c-Kit as selective markers for muscle remodelling by nonhemopoietic bone marrow cells
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Stem Cells
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1364-74
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  • MRI-negative PET-positive temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and mesial TLE differ with quantitative MRI and PET: a case control study.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: BMC Neurology
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 16
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  • The Tasmanian Epilepsy Register - a community-based cohort. Background and methodology for patient recruitment from the Australian national prescription database
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Neuroepidemiology
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3-4
    Page numbers: 255-63
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  • Toothbrushing-induced epilepsy with structural lesions in the primary somatosensory area
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 769-771
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  • Tremor/ataxia syndrome and fragile X premutation: diagnostic caveats
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 245-8
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Depression in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery patients: an FDG-PET study.


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 2125-2130
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  • Cerebral cortex: An MRI-based study of volume and variance with age and sex
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 60-72
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  • Equality of the psychological model underlying depressive symptoms in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy versus heterogeneous neurological disorders
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 1257-1271
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  • Functional dentate gyrus neurogenesis in a rapid kindling seizure model
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 3195-3203
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  • Short-term effects of methylprednisolone on cerebral volume in multiple sclerosis relapses.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 636-638
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A brightness-area-product-based protocol for the quantitative assessment of antigen abundance in fluorescent immunohistochemistry
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Brain Research Protocols
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-29
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • DNA electroporation in vivo targets mature fibres in dystrophic mdx muscle
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuromuscular Disorders
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 630-641
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Magnetic resonance imaging study in older fragile X premutation male carriers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of Neurology
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 326-330
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Seizures, not hippocampal neuronal death, provoke neurogenesis in a mouse rapid electrical amygdala kindling model of seizures
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 136
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 405-415
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurosurgery
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 768-769
    Publisher: American Association of Neurological Surgeons(Virginia)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A computer-generated stereotactic "virtual subdural grid" to guide resective epilepsy surgery
    Year: 2004
    Journal: American Journal of Neuroradiology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 77-83
    Publisher: American Society of Neuroradiology
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  • Australian pregnancy registry of women taking antiepileptic drugs
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 1466
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Critical relationship between sodium valproate dose and human teratogenicity: results of the Australian register of anti-epileptic drugs in pregnancy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 854-858
    Publisher: Churchill Livingstone(Leith Walkedinburgh)
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  • Epilepsy surgery for pathologically proven hippocampal sclerosis provides long-term seizure control and improved quality of life
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 237-242
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  • Evaluating the utility of inpatient video-EEG monitoring
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Epilepsia
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 928-932
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • MRI-negative PET-positive temporal lobe epilepsy: a distinct surgically remediable syndrome
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Brain
    Volume: 127
    Page numbers: 2276-2285
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Measurement invarience of core cognitive abilities in heterogeneous neurological and community samples
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Intelligence
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 363-389
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Multimodality image-guided surgery for the treatment of medically refractory epilepsy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neurosurgery
    Volume: 100
    Page numbers: 452-462
    Publisher: American Association of Neurological Surgeons(Virginia)
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  • Serial MRI in multiple sclerosis: a prospective pilot study of lesion load, whole brain volume and thalamic atrophy
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 153-158
    Publisher: Churchill Livingstone(Leith Walkedinburgh)
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  • The influence of gender on the aggravation of absence seizures by carbamazepine in the low-dose pentylenetetrazol rat model
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Seizure - European Journal of Epilepsy
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 208-216
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  • Visual disturbances representing occipital lobe epilepsy in patients with cerebral calcifications and coeliac disease: a case series
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 75
    Page numbers: 1623-1625
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Amygdala volumetry in "imaging-negative" temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
    Volume: 74
    Page numbers: 1245-1249
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Neuropsychological correlates of hippocampal and rhinal cortex volumes in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Hippocampus
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 892-904
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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  • Preoperative evaluation for temporal lobe surgery
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 10
    Page numbers: 535-539
    Publisher: Churchill Livingstone(Leith Walkedinburgh)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Clinical, EEG, and quantitative MRI differences in pediatric frontal and temporal lobe epilepsy
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Neurology
    Volume: 58
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 723-729
    Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins(Pennsylvania)
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  • Insertion of depth electrodes with or without subdural grids using frameless stereotactic guidance systems - technique and outcome
    Year: 2002
    Journal: British Journal of Neurosurgery
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 119-125
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstoke)
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