Honors and
Awards
1996 Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Department
of Psychology/Neuroscience
1991 Graduate
Opportunity Fellowship University of California,
Riverside
1991 Magna
cum laude Valparaiso University
Professional
Memberships
Society
for Neuroscience
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
International
Society for Neuroethology
Professional
Service & Activities
3/7/2006 Invited Speaker at UCI’s Annual EpiCenter Symposium
to present “Predictors of Differential Vulnerability to Anxiety and Depression
in Epilepsy: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study”.
11/1/2005 Co-Investigator for Pilot study funded by UCI’s GCRC
entitled “Effects of Seizures on White Matter Tracts and Behavior”.
PI: Jack J. Lin, MD
03/15/2005 Principal
Investigator and Lead Researcher for a Pilot Study funded by UCI’s GCRC
entitled, “Brain MRI & MRS Findings in ADHD Children”.
07/19/2004 Represented
CHOC/UCI Collaborative as an invited member of the Evaluation
09/22/2004 Review
Committee, Children and Families Commission of Orange County.
05/24/2004 - Invited
participant to Trans-NIH Workshop entitled, “Pediatric
05/26/2004
Neuroimaging” held in Bethesda, MD.
11/20/2003 – Invited
speaker at Dopamine Network Meeting in New
York, NY. Talk
11/21/2003 entitled, “Pediatric
Neuroimaging in ADHD Preschoolers”.
10/31/2003 Invited
speaker (Research Symposium) at 15th Annual CHADD International
Conference (Denver, CO) – 1 hr presentation entitled “Advances in Pediatric Neuroimaging”.
10/22/2003- Co-Investigator
(WOS) for Pilot study funded by UCI’s GCRC entitled,
07/01/2006 “The Effects of Antenatal Betamethasone on
Brain Development”.
PI: Elysia Davis, PhD, Women and Children's Health and Well-being Project, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, UCI.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
J1 Metzner
W, Juranek J (1997) A sensory brain
map for each behavior? Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences,
USA
94:14798-14803.
J2 Metzner
W, Juranek J (1997) A method to
biotinylate and histochemically visualize ibotenic acid for pharmacological
inactivation studies. Journal of
Neuroscience Methods 76:143-50.
J3 Juranek J, Metzner W (1997) Cellular
characterization of synaptic modulations of a neuronal oscillator in electric
fish. Journal of Comparative
Physiology A 181:393-414.
J4 Juranek J, Metzner W (1998) Segregation of
behavior-specific synaptic inputs to a vertebrate neuronal oscillator. Journal of Neuroscience
18(21):9010-9019.
J5 Juranek J, Currie SN (2000) Electrically evoked
fictive swimming in the low-spinal immobilized turtle. Journal of Neurophysiology 83:146-155.
J6 Filipek
PA, Juranek J, Gargus JJ, Smith M, Ramos ER, Mays LZ, Bocian M,
Masser-Frye D, Laulhere TM, Modahl CM, Spence MA (2003). Evidence of mitochondrial
dysfunction in autistic patients with 15q inverted duplication. Annals of
Neurology 53:801-804.
J7 Filipek
PA, Juranek J, Nguyen M, Cummings C, Gargus JJ (2004). Relative
carnitine deficiency in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
34(6):615-623.
J8 Cramer SC, Shah R, Juranek J, Crafton KR, Le V (2006). Activity in the Peri-infarct
rim in relation to recovery from stroke. Stroke, 37:111-115.
J9 Juranek
J, Filipek PA, Berenji GR, Modahl C, Osann K, Spence MA (2006). Correlation
between amygdala volume and anxiety level: An aMRI study in autistic children.
In PRESS, Journal of Child Neurology.
Book Chapters
C1 Juranek J,
Filipek PA. Neuroimaging in the Developmental Disorders. [In] Boller F, Grafman
J (eds). Handbook of Neuropsychology Second Edition. Rapin I, Segalowitz S
(topic eds). Volume 8, Part 1: Child Neuropsychology, Part 1, Chapter 7, pp
175-194. Amsterdam:
Elsevier Science Publishers, 2002.
Abstracts
A1 Metzner
W, Juranek J. Behavioral significance of multiple sensory maps in the
electrosensory lateral line lobe (ELL) of the weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia.
Society for Neuroscience 1996; 179.3
A2 Juranek J,
Metzner W. Cellular effects of different premotor circuitry on the pacemaker
nucleus in two species of weakly electric fish. Society for Neuroscience 1996;
179.5
A3 Metzner
W, Juranek J. Visualization of pharmacological lesions made with
biotinylated ibotenic acid. Society for Neuroscience 1997; 883.4
A4 Juranek J,
Metzner W. Changes in apparent input resistance in pacemaker cell types with
different synaptic inputs, in vivo. Society for Neuroscience 1997;
101.14
A5 Juranek J,
Currie SN. Fictive swimming elicited by electrical stimulation of the turtle
spinal cord: Interactions with scratch reflex. Society for Neuroscience 1998;
654.22
A6 Filipek
PA, Juranek J, Gargus JJ, Smith M, Ramos ER, Mays LZ, Bocian M, Laulhere
TM, Modahl C, Spence MA. Evidence of
mitochondrial dysfunction in autistic patients with 15q inverted duplication.
International Meeting for Autism Research 2001; 7.02
A7 Filipek
PA, Juranek J, Nguyen M, Cummings C, Gargus JJ. Relative Carnitine
Deficiency in Autism. Annals of Neurology 52(3S):S125-126; Child Neurologist
Society, October 2002.
A8 Juranek J, Filipek PA, Taylor HG, Bangert B, Minich N, Hack M. Anomalous
Brain Development in Adolescent Survivors of Very Low Birthweight: A Structural
Imaging Study. Child Neurologist Society, October 2005.
A9 Lin
J, Juranek J, Franklin DL, Drescher
A, Maguire GA, Cramer SC. Vulnerability of
Frontal-Temporal Connections in Early Onset Focal Epilepsy. American Epilepsy
Society, December 2006.
A10 Hasan KM, Fletcher JM,
Ewing-Cobbs L, Sankar A, Eluvathingal TJ, Kramer LA, Ashtari A, Juranek J, Sarkari S, Papanicolaou AC.
A Multi-Scale Whole-Brain Optimized Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Dyslexics at
3.0T. ISMRM May 2007.
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