Reetta Kälviäinen

Professor in Clinical Epileptology
Kuopio Epilepsy Center / Neurocenter
University of Eastern Finland
Finland

Professor Psychiatry
Biography

Professor of Clinical Epileptology and  Director of Kuopio Epilepsy Center, University of Eastern Finland

Research Intrest

The Kuopio Epilepsy Center at Kuopio University Hospital is a Finnish national tertiary center dedicated to the diagnostic evaluation, therapy and surgery of difficult epilepsy. Epilepsy research functions as an umbrella of basic and applied Neuroscience at UEF campus, utilizing the Unique Window to the Living Brain that modern epileptology and epilepsy surgery provide.

List of Publications
Thickened skull, scoliosis and other skeletal findings in Unverricht-Lundborg disease link cystatin B to bone metabolism. Suoranta S, Manninen H, Koskenkorva P, Könönen M, Laitinen R, Lehesjoki AE, Kälviäinen R., Vanninen R. Bone. Dec. 51 (6): 1016-24.
Updated ILAE evidence of antiepileptic drug efficacy and efficacy as initial monotherapy for epileptic seizures and syndromes. Glauser T, Ben-Menachem E, Bourgeois B, Cnaan A, Guerrero C, Kälviäinen R, Mattson R, French JA, Perucca E, Tomson T; ILAE Subcommission on AED Guidelines. Epilepsy. 2013 Mar; 54 (3): 551-63
Infertility treatment and umbilical cord length-novel markers of childhood epilepsy? Räisänen S, Sokka A, Georgiadis L, Harju M, Gissler M, Central Nisula L, Kälviäinen R, Heinonen S. PLoS One. 2013; 8 (2): e55394.
TMS-EEG reveals impaired intracortical interactions and coherence in Unverricht-Lundborg type progressive myoclonus epilepsy (EPM1). Julkunen P, Säisänen L, Könönen M, Vanninen R, Kälviäinen R, Mervaala E. Epilepsy Res. 2013 Apr 30. doi: pii: S0920-1211 (13) 00103-4.