Evan Thomas

Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on 24-month all-cause hospital readmissions: A prospective cohort study

Emma Thomas, Mojtaba Lotfaliany, Sherry L Grace, Brian Oldenburg, C Barr Taylor, David L Hare, WP Thanuja Rangani, DS Anoja F Dheerasinghe, Dominique A Cadilhac, Adrienne O'Neil

Journal article  |  2019  |  EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING

BACKGROUND: Ageing populations and increasing survival following acute coronary syndrome has resulted in large numbers of people l..

Machine learning-XGBoost analysis of language networks to classify patients with epilepsy.

L Torlay, M Perrone-Bertolotti, E Thomas, M Baciu

Journal article  |  2017  |  Brain Inform

Our goal was to apply a statistical approach to allow the identification of atypical language patterns and to differentiate patien..

A detailed, conductance-based computer model of intrinsic sensory neurons of the gastrointestinal tract

Jordan D Chambers, Joel C Bornstein, Rachel M Gwynne, Katerina Koussoulas, Evan A Thomas

Journal article  |  2014  |  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY

Intrinsic sensory neurons (ISNs) of the enteric nervous system respond to stimuli such as muscle tension, muscle length, distortio..

Physiological and genetic analysis of multiple sodium channel variants in a model of genetic absence epilepsy

MK Oliva, TC McGarr, BJ Beyer, E Gazina, DI Kaplan, L Cordeiro, E Thomas, SD Dib-Hajj, SG Waxman, WN Frankel, S Petrou

Journal article  |  2014  |  NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

In excitatory neurons, SCN2A (NaV1.2) and SCN8A (NaV1.6) sodium channels are enriched at the axon initial segment. NaV1.6 is impli..

Mathematical modelling of enteric neural motor patterns

Jordan D Chambers, Evan A Thomas, Joel C Bornstein

Journal article  |  2014  |  CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY

1. The enteric nervous system modulates intestinal behaviours, such as motor patterns and secretion. Although much is known about ..

High spatial and temporal resolution wide-field imaging of neuron activity using quantum NV-diamond

LT Hall, GCG Beart, EA Thomas, DA Simpson, LP McGuinness, JH Cole, JH Manton, RE Scholten, F Jelezko, Joerg Wrachtrup, S Petrou, LCL Hollenberg

Journal article  |  2012  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

A quantitative understanding of the dynamics of biological neural networks is fundamental to gaining insight into information proc..

Multiple Neural Oscillators and Muscle Feedback Are Required for the Intestinal Fed State Motor Program

Jordan D Chambers, Joel C Bornstein, Evan A Thomas

Journal article  |  2011  |  PLOS ONE

After a meal, the gastrointestinal tract exhibits a set of behaviours known as the fed state. A major feature of the fed state is ..

Augmented Currents of an HCN2 Variant in Patients with Febrile Seizure Syndromes

Leanne M Dibbens, Christopher A Reid, Bree Hodgson, Evan A Thomas, Alison M Phillips, Elena Gazina, Brett A Cromer, Alison L Clarke, Tallie Z Baram, Ingrid E Scheffer, Samuel F Berkovic, Steven Petrou

Journal article  |  2010  |  ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

The genetic architecture of common epilepsies is largely unknown. HCNs are excellent epilepsy candidate genes because of their fun..

DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF EXON 5 SPLICE VARIANTS OF SODIUM CHANNEL alpha SUBUNIT mRNAs IN THE DEVELOPING MOUSE BRAIN

EV Gazina, KL Richards, MBC Mokhtar, EA Thomas, CA Reid, S Petrou

Journal article  |  2010  |  NEUROSCIENCE

Sodium channel alpha subunit genes expressed in the human brain, SCN1A, SCN2A, SCN3A and SCN8A, are subject to alternative splicin..

Mossy fiber sprouting interacts with sodium channel mutations to increase dentate gyrus excitability

Evan A Thomas, Christopher A Reid, Steven Petrou

Journal article  |  2010  |  EPILEPSIA

PURPOSE: Idiopathic epilepsy is caused by the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors. The purpose of this study ..