Sándor Kántor

Title: PhD
Gender: M
Year of Birth: 1971
Place of Birth (Country): Romania
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Doctoral Studies
Year of Doctoral Defence (PhD / CSc): 2005
Discipline: Clinical Medicine
Title of Thesis: Role of serotonin-2 (5-HT-2) receptors in regulation of anxiety and sleep
Issuing Institution: Semmelweis University

MA Studies
Year of Obtaining the MA Degree: 1997
Discipline(s): Psychology
Issuing Institution: Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Humanities, Cluj, Romania

Further Studies and Qualifications

Institution	Qualification	Year of Obtaining the Qualification

Employment
Current Employer: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
Institute: Institute of Psychology
Department: Department of Personality and Clinical Psychology
Current Position(s): Associate Professor

Previous Employer: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Behavioral Anatomy and Stress Research Group
Previous Position Held: Research Associate

Other Previous Employers: Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Neurology Department, Boston, MA, USA
Other Previous Positions Held: postdoctoral fellow

Areas of Research and Teaching

Neurobiology, Neuroanatomy, Sleep disorders, regulation of sleep, depression and anxiety

Membership in Research Groups and Projects

Educational Functions, Curriculum Development and Other
Teaching-Related Activities

Period	Function or Activity

Language Skills

Language	Level and Kind of Proficiency
English	B2
Romanian	C1

Honours, Distinctions, and Prizes

Name of Distinction	Issuing Institution	Year of Issuing
Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellowship

Membership in Academic Societies

Name of Organization	Function (if any)
2003- European Sleep Research Society (ESRS)	member
2005- Sleep Research Society (SRS), USA	member
2007- Society for Neuroscience (SFN), USA	member

Guest Professorships and Research Fellowships in Foreign
Institutions

Period	Institution	Activities

Promotorship in Doctoral Studies

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Research Topic / Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence (if applicable)

Opponentship in Doctoral Defences

Name of Doctoral Student, Institution	Title of Dissertation	Year of Defence

List of Publications

Monographs

Edited Books and Journals

Chapters in Books

Articles in Academic Reviews (Printed and Electronic)

Kantor S, Szabo L, Varga J, Cuesta M, Morton AJ (2013), “Progressive sleep and electroencephalogram changes in mice carrying the Huntington's disease mutation.” Brain 136(Pt 7):2147-58

Haller J, Aliczki M, Pelczer KG, Spitzer K, Balogh Z, Kantor S (2014), “Effects of the fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor URB597 on coping behavior under challenging conditions in mice.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 231(3):593-601

Kantor S, Mochizuki T, Lops SN, Ko B, Clain E, Clark E, Yamamoto M, Scammell TE (2013), “Orexin gene therapy restores the timing and maintenance of wakefulness in narcoleptic mice.” Sleep 36(8):1129-38

Kantor S, Mochizuki T, Janisiewicz AM, Clark E, Nishino S, Scammell TE (2009), “Orexin neurons are necessary for the circadian control of REM sleep.” Sleep 32(9):1127-34

Gyongyosi N, Balogh B, Kirilly E, Kitka T, Kantor S, Bagdy G (2008), “MDMA treatment 6 months earlier attenuates the effects of CP-94,253, a 5-HT1B receptor agonist, on motor control but not sleep inhibition.” Brain Res 1231:34-46

Kirilly E, Molnar E, Balogh B, Kantor S, Hansson SR, Palkovits M, Bagdy G (2008), “Decrease in REM latency and changes in sleep quality parallel serotonergic damage and recovery after MDMA: a longitudinal study over 180 days.” Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 11(6):795-809

Kantor S, Jakus R, Molnar E, Gyongyosi N, Toth A, Detari L, Bagdy G (2005), “Despite similar anxiolytic potential, the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C receptor antagonist SB-242084 [6-chloro-5-methyl-1-[2-(2-methylpyrid-3-yloxy)-pyrid-5-yl carbamoyl] indoline] and chlordiazepoxide produced differential effects on electroencephalogram power spectra.” J Pharmacol Exp Ther 315(2):921-30

Kantor, S., Jakus, R., Balogh, B., Benko, A. & Bagdy, G.(2004): Increased wakefulness, motor activity and decreased theta activity after blockade of the 5-HT2B receptor by the subtype-selective antagonist SB-

Balogh B, Molnar E, Jakus R, Quate L, Olverman HJ, Kelly PA, Kantor S, Bagdy G (2004), “Effects of a single dose of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine on circadian patterns, motor activity and sleep in drug-naive rats and rats previously exposed to MDMA.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 173(3-4):296-309

Graf M, Jakus R, Kantor S, Levay G, Bagdy G (2004), “Selective 5-HT1A and 5-HT7 antagonists decrease epileptic activity in the WAG/Rij rat model of absence epilepsy.” Neurosci Lett 359(1-2):45-8

Jakus R, Graf M, Ando RD, Balogh B, Gacsalyi I, Levay G, Kantor S, Bagdy G (2004), “Effect of two noncompetitive AMPA receptor antagonists GYKI 52466 and GYKI 53405 on vigilance, behavior and spike-wave discharges in a genetic rat model of absence epilepsy.” Brain Res 1008(2):236-44

Kantor S, Jakus R, Balogh B, Benko A, Bagdy G (2004), “Increased wakefulness, motor activity and decreased theta activity after blockade of the 5-HT2B receptor by the subtype-selective antagonist SB-215505.” Br J Pharmacol 142(8):1332-42

Graf M, Kantor S, Anheuer ZE, Modos EA, Bagdy G (2003), “m-CPP-induced self-grooming is mediated by 5-HT2C receptors.” Behav Brain Res 142(1-2):175-9

Kantor S, Jakus R, Bodizs R, Halasz P, Bagdy G (2002), “Acute and long-term effects of the 5-HT2 receptor antagonist ritanserin on EEG power spectra, motor activity, and sleep: changes at the light-dark phase shift.” Brain Res 943(1):105-11

Bagdy G, Graf M, Anheuer ZE, Modos EA, Kantor S (2001), “Anxiety-like effects induced by acute fluoxetine, sertraline or m-CPP treatment are reversed by pretreatment with the 5-HT2C receptor antagonist SB-242084 but not the 5-HT1A receptor antagonist WAY-100635.” Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 4(4):399-408

Bódizs R, Kántor S, Szabó G, Szûcs A, Erõss L, Halász P (2001), “Rhythmic hippocampal slow oscillation characterizes REM sleep in humans.” Hippocampus 11(6):747-53

Filakovszky J, Kantor S, Halasz P, Bagdy G (2001), “8-OH-DPAT and MK-801 affect epileptic activity independently of vigilance.” Neurochem Int 38(7):551-6

Kantor S, Graf M, Anheuer ZE, Bagdy G (2001), “Rapid desensitization of 5-HT(1A) receptors in Fawn-Hooded rats after chronic fluoxetine treatment.” Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 11(1):15-24

Kantor S, Anheuer ZE, Bagdy G (2000), “High social anxiety and low aggression in Fawn-Hooded rats.” Physiol Behav 71(5):551-7