Ahmet Arac, M.D.
AArac@mednet.ucla.edu
Faculty Member
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology
David Geffen School of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Publications
- Cottarelli A, Jamoul D, Tuohy MC, Shahriar S, Glendinning M, Prochilo G, Edinger AL, Arac A, Agalliu D. Rab7a is required to degrade select blood-brain barrier junctional proteins after ischemic stroke.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
- Dorian CC, Taxidis J, Arac A, Golshani P. Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus creates non-spatial representations during learning and is modulated by entorhinal inputs.. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025.
- Avni I, Arac A, Binyamin-Netser R, Kramer S, Krakauer JW, Shmuelof L. The Kinematics of 3D Arm Movements in Sub-Acute Stroke: Impaired Inter-Joint Coordination is Attributable to Both Weakness and Flexor Synergy Intrusion.. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair, 2024.
- Mason XL, Cross KA, Arac A, Bordelon Y, Wu AD. Vim-Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Cervical Dystonia and Upper-Limb Tremor: Quantification by Markerless-3D Kinematics and Accelerometry.. Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2022.
- Arac A. Machine Learning for 3D Kinematic Analysis of Movements in Neurorehabilitation.. Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2020.
- Shukla S, Arac A. A Step-by-Step Implementation of DeepBehavior, Deep Learning Toolbox for Automated Behavior Analysis.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2020.
- Arac A, Zhao P, Dobkin BH, Carmichael ST, Golshani P. DeepBehavior: A Deep Learning Toolbox for Automated Analysis of Animal and Human Behavior Imaging Data.. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2019.
- Arac A, Grimbaldeston MA, Galli SJ, Bliss TM, Steinberg GK. Meningeal Mast Cells as Key Effectors of Stroke Pathology.. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019.
- Ho VM, Arac A, Shieh PB. Hearing and Vision Loss in an Older Man.. JAMA neurology, 2018.
- Arac A, Grimbaldeston MA, Nepomuceno AR, Olayiwola O, Pereira MP, Nishiyama Y, Tsykin A, Goodall GJ, Schlecht U, Vogel H, Tsai M, Galli SJ, Bliss TM, Steinberg GK. Evidence that meningeal mast cells can worsen stroke pathology in mice.. The American journal of pathology, 2014.
- Cheng MY, Wang EH, Woodson WJ, Wang S, Sun G, Lee AG, Arac A, Fenno LE, Deisseroth K, Steinberg GK. Optogenetic neuronal stimulation promotes functional recovery after stroke.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014.
- Knowland D, Arac A, Sekiguchi KJ, Hsu M, Lutz SE, Perrino J, Steinberg GK, Barres BA, Nimmerjahn A, Agalliu D. Stepwise recruitment of transcellular and paracellular pathways underlies blood-brain barrier breakdown in stroke.. Neuron, 2014.
- Garris CS, Wu L, Acharya S, Arac A, Blaho VA, Huang Y, Moon BS, Axtell RC, Ho PP, Steinberg GK, Lewis DB, Sobel RA, Han DK, Steinman L, Snyder MP, Hla T, Han MH. Defective sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P1) phosphorylation exacerbates TH17-mediated autoimmune neuroinflammation.. Nature immunology, 2013.
- Arac A, Brownell SE, Rothbard JB, Chen C, Ko RM, Pereira MP, Albers GW, Steinman L, Steinberg GK. Systemic augmentation of alphaB-crystallin provides therapeutic benefit twelve hours post-stroke onset via immune modulation.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011.
- Daadi MM, Davis AS, Arac A, Li Z, Maag AL, Bhatnagar R, Jiang K, Sun G, Wu JC, Steinberg GK. Human neural stem cell grafts modify microglial response and enhance axonal sprouting in neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.. Stroke, 2010.
- Arac A, Lee M, Steinberg GK, Marcellus M, Marks MP. Efficacy of endovascular stenting in dural venous sinus stenosis for the treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.. Neurosurgical focus, 2009.
- Arac A, Blanchard V, Lee M, Steinberg GK. Assessment of outcome following decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction in patients older than 60 years of age.. Neurosurgical focus, 2009.
- Daadi MM, Li Z, Arac A, Grueter BA, Sofilos M, Malenka RC, Wu JC, Steinberg GK. Molecular and magnetic resonance imaging of human embryonic stem cell-derived neural stem cell grafts in ischemic rat brain.. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2009.
- Daadi MM, Lee SH, Arac A, Grueter BA, Bhatnagar R, Maag AL, Schaar B, Malenka RC, Palmer TD, Steinberg GK. Functional engraftment of the medial ganglionic eminence cells in experimental stroke model.. Cell transplantation, 2009.