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Kostopoulos Georgios, Emeritus Professor of Physiology

Kostopoulos Georgios

Period: 1981-2016

Knowledge Subject: Neuroscience, Cellular and System Neurophysiology, Experimental Epileptology, Neuroinformatics, Sleep Physiology,

Research Area: George Kostopoulos' long term research interests concern cellular and system neuroscience and, although rather diverse, they all relate mostly to the basic mechanisms underlying brain rhyhmical activities in both physiology (sleep) and disease (epilepsy). Methodologically, they have gradually developed from experimental studies at the neuronal and synaptic transmission level to that of several animal models and in the last 2 decades to the level of human EEG and MEG. The particular research topics include mechanisms of Hyperexcitability underlying Epilepsy, absence seizures, Adenosine as endogenous antiepileptic, Age-related changes in hippocampal excitability, Neuronal Plasticity and memory mechanisms, Mathematical models of synaptic transmission and of epileptogenesis, differentiation within Hippocampus, Brain rhythmogenesis, EEG source localization, Sleep Physiology, Bioethics and Neuroethics and Theoretical Neuroscience

Preclinical Functions Building, Medical School, University of Patras, B7, 2nd floor, West Wing

2610969157, +30-6934805192 gkkostop@upatras.gr

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George Kostopoulos MD, PhD is currently Professor Emeritus with the University of Patras, where until 1/9/2016 he was professor and Chairman of Physiology. In the past he has also taught as assistant professor of Neurology and Physiology at McGill University, Canada  He has received research training in basic neurophysiology, EEG and experimental epileptology. He has been using methods of in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology in experimental animals and human studies. His research interests gradually shifted from the level of single neuron excitability and synaptic transmission to that of thalamocortical and hippocampal circuits plasticity and finally to that of sleep physiology and epileptology research (in 1983 he received the Michael Price for Epileptology and in 2010 he organized the 9th European Congress of Epileptology). His lab's research is currently supported by the EU project FP7-ICT-2011-7. He has published >100 original research articles, which received >4.500 citations, H-index=37, see  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KFxgz5EAAAAJ&hl=en , Full CV available at https://www.med.upatras.gr/index.php?r=faculty/view_emeritus&id=91&lang=en 

George Kostopoulos' long term research interests concern cellular and system neuroscience and, although rather diverse, they all relate mostly to the basic mechanisms underlying brain rhyhmical activities in both physiology (sleep) and disease (epilepsy). Methodologically, they have gradually developed from experimental studies at the neuronal and synaptic transmission level to that of several animal models and in the last 2 decades to the level of human EEG and MEG. The particular research topics include mechanisms of Hyperexcitability underlying Epilepsy, absence seizures, Adenosine as endogenous antiepileptic, Age-related changes in hippocampal excitability, Neuronal Plasticity and memory mechanisms, Mathematical models of synaptic transmission and of epileptogenesis, differentiation within Hippocampus, Brain rhythmogenesis, EEG source localization, Sleep Physiology, Bioethics and Neuroethics and Theoretical Neuroscience

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Kostopoulos was Invited Speaker on subjects like:

  • "History of Neuroscience in Greece: From Alcmeon to Austerity" at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Featured Regional Meeting, "Nourishing Neuroscience at the Cradle of Culture",  Thessaloniki 7-10/10/2015
  • "Long term multimodal monitoring of epileptic patients at home:  The experience of FP7-ICT project ARMOR (2011-2014)", MICHAEL FORUM, October 9th-12th, 2014, Bonn, Germany.
  • "EEG and MEG Dynamics of Sound and Safe Sleep" 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism, August 24-28, 2014, Halifax, Canada.
  • «Pierre Gloor: Epilepsy is a network disease”.Special Symposium: The pioneers at the Montreal Neurological Institute: early concepts in today’s practice. 30th International Epilepsy Congress, Montreal, 23-27 June 2013.
  • “Neural correlates of losing consciousness in sleep and epilepsy” Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 25 April 2013“EEG and MEG studies indicating cognitive processes during sleep”, Universite de Montreal, Dep de Psychologie, 11 April 2013l
  • “Glimpses into consciousness from the ways we lose it”. Montreal Neurological Institute, Brain Imaging Center and Cognitive Neuroscience group, McGill University, Canada, 25 March 2013
  • “Understanding sleep mechanisms contributes to a redefinition of the term “generalized” of absence seizures.” Michael Stiftung for Epileptology, 50th Anniversary Berlin October 5-6, 2012
  • "Sleep's macro-, micro- and dynamic structure", "Society for Applied Neuroscience" meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2011
  • "Recent Advances in Sleep Physiology of Interest to Psychoanalysis", International Fedration of Psychoanalytic Societies, Athens, October, 2010
  • "Frontal lobe and epileptic seizures: Basic mechanisms". Teaching section, 9th European Congress of Epileptology, Rhodes June 2010.

 

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PhDs supervised: C. Psarropoulou, 1990; G. Antoniades, 1995; C. Papatheodoropoulos, 1996; A. Badea, 2003; O. Zainea, 2005; P. Georgopoulos, 2008; T. Petrides, 2008; I. Nikita, 2009, V. Kokkinos, 2010 and 2016, A. Koupparis 2016; D. Sakellariou 2016.