Thyagarajan Subramanian MD

PubMed

• Rigorous validation of paw preference using three complementary behavioral assays in Sprague Dawley rats.
  Dipesh Pokharel, Khoi Le, Dilshan Beligala, Thyagarajan Subramanian, Kala Venkiteswaran
  Behavioural Brain Research. 2026-10-02
• Effects of chronic levodopa in the paraquat and lectin rat model of the "body-first" subtype of Parkinson's disease.
  Caroline Swain, Dipesh Pokharel, Vaibhavi Peshattiwar, Khoi Le, Isabel Kennedy
  Neuroscience Letters. 2026-05-30
• Paraquat-induced rodent models of Parkinson's disease: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Caroline C Swain, Stephen Prevoznik, Julia A Kalbus, Dipesh Pokharel, Dilshan Beligala
  Neurotoxicology. 2026-05-01

Journal Articles

• Type 2 Diabetes Presenting With Persistent Chorea  
  Chalia M, Subramanian T, JAMA Neurol, 1/21/2018
• Ingestion of subthreshold doses of environmental toxins induces ascending Parkinsonism in the rat  
  Anselmi L, Bove C, Coleman FH, Le K, Subramanian MP, Venkiteswaran K, Subramanian T, Travagli RA, Parkinson's Disease, 1/1/2018
• Commentary on - Human Embryonic Retinal Pigment Epithelial (RPE) Cell Transplants for Chronic Refractory Cocaine Addiction  
  Venkiteswaran K, Subramanian T, Sue-Grigson P, Health Care: Current Reviews, 1/1/2016

Books/Book Chapters

• Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disorders 
  Chapter: Secondary Parkinsonism 
  Thyagarajan Subramanian, Kala Venkiteswaran and Elisabeth LucassenEditors: Sangam Kanekar.Thieme Publishers2015
• Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disorders 
  Chapter: Advances in the treatment of Dementia 
  Madhav Thambisetty, Nestor Galvez-Jimenez, and Thyagarajan SubramanianEditors: Sangam Kanekar.Thieme Publishers2015
• Signal Processing Applications to Electrophysiology of Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation Therapy in Preclinical Parkinson�s Disease Models 
  Gilmour, TP. (Thesis co-supervised by Jenkins, KW. and Subramanian, T.)PSU Press2012

Abstracts/Posters

• Chronic high exposure to cocaine results in degeneration of VTA dopaminergic neurons
  K. VENKITESWARAN, M. SUBRAMANIAN, T. CAYTON, A. KIM, P. S. GRIGSON, T. SUBRAMANIAN, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2018
• Deficits in mental rotation test (mrt-a) may be correlated to higher Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores in early onset idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
  B. MULLEN, S. RAVI, M. P. SUBRAMANIAN, K. VENKITESWARAN, T. SUBRAMANIAN, P. ESLINGER, D. WAGNER, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2018
• Promoting neuroscience awareness among Central Pennsylvania youth leads to career selection in the neurosciences
  K. VENKITESWARAN, S. RAVI, A. R. WHITE, E. BLANKE, E. MADAR, Y. KIM, A. BARBER, T. SUBRAMANIAN, Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2018

Lectures

• Chorea and dyskinesias 
  Penn State College of Medicine - 1/12/2018
• GRAFT-HOST SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY CAN BE OPTOGENETICALLY OR CHEMOGENETICALLY INHIBITED TO ELIMINATE GRAFT-INDUCED DYSKINESIAS (GID) WITHOUT LOSING ANTI-PARKINSONIAN BEN... 
  Clearwater Beach, FL - 1/7/2018
• Graft induced dyskinesias (GID) can be eliminated using optogenetic or chemogenetic inhibition of graft-host synapses without losing anti-parkinsonian benefits 
  Port Douglas, QD, Australia - 1/13/2017