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Overview

André A. Fenton is affiliated with New York University in the United States, with a research focus centered on neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Among recent publications, some of the notable papers are:

  • Cognitive control persistently enhances hippocampal information processing, 2021, Nature
  • Dentate spikes and external control of hippocampal function, 2021, Cell Reports
  • A manifold neural population code for space in hippocampal coactivity dynamics independent of place fields, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Remapping revisited: how the hippocampus represents different spaces, 2024, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Persistent increases of PKMζ in memory-activated neurons trace LTP maintenance during spatial long-term memory storage, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators include Eunhye Park, Simon Segura-Carrillo, Alejandro Grau-Perales, Claudia Jou, and Todd Charlton Sacktor.

Publication venues where André A. Fenton has contributed multiple works include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Reports
  • eLife
  • Nature
  • Nature reviews. Neuroscience

Their scientific output is primarily focused on advancing understanding of neural mechanisms related to memory and hippocampal function, with detailed investigations into the molecular and cellular dynamics underlying these processes. The research spans from molecular signaling to systems-level neural population coding and control mechanisms in the brain.

Best Publications

  • Increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve pattern separation.

    Amar Sahay;Kimberly N. Scobie;Alexis S. Hill;Colin M. O'Carroll

  • Storage of Spatial Information by the Maintenance Mechanism of LTP

    Eva Pastalkova;Peter Serrano;Deana Pinkhasova;Emma Wallace

  • Differential Control of Learning and Anxiety along the Dorsoventral Axis of the Dentate Gyrus

    Mazen A. Kheirbek;Liam J. Drew;Nesha S. Burghardt;Daniel O. Costantini

  • Place cell discharge is extremely variable during individual passes of the rat through the firing field.

    André A. Fenton;Robert U. Muller

  • PKMζ Maintains Spatial, Instrumental, and Classically Conditioned Long-Term Memories

    Peter Serrano;Eugenia L Friedman;Jana Kenney;Stephen M Taubenfeld

  • Adult-Born Hippocampal Neurons Promote Cognitive Flexibility in Mice

    Nesha S. Burghardt;Eun Hye Park;Eun Hye Park;René Hen;André A. Fenton;André A. Fenton

  • Unmasking the CA1 Ensemble Place Code by Exposures to Small and Large Environments: More Place Cells and Multiple, Irregularly Arranged, and Expanded Place Fields in the Larger Space

    André A. Fenton;Hsin Yi Kao;Samuel A. Neymotin;Andrey Olypher

  • Inactivating one hippocampus impairs avoidance of a stable room-defined place during dissociation of arena cues from room cues by rotation of the arena.

    J. M. Cimadevilla;M. Wesierska;A. A. Fenton;J. Bures

  • Beyond Memory, Navigation, and Inhibition: Behavioral Evidence for Hippocampus-Dependent Cognitive Coordination in the Rat

    Malgorzata Wesierska;Colleen Dockery;André A. Fenton

  • Dynamic Grouping of Hippocampal Neural Activity During Cognitive Control of Two Spatial Frames

    Eduard Kelemen;André A. Fenton;André A. Fenton

  • A Critical Role for α4βδ GABAA Receptors in Shaping Learning Deficits at Puberty in Mice

    Hui Shen;Nicole Sabaliauskas;Ang Sherpa;Ang Sherpa;André A. Fenton

  • Compensation for PKMζ in long-term potentiation and spatial long-term memory in mutant mice.

    Panayiotis Tsokas;Changchi Hsieh;Yudong Yao;Edith Lesburguères

  • Attention-Like Modulation of Hippocampus Place Cell Discharge

    André A. Fenton;William W. Lytton;Jeremy M. Barry;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini;Pierre Pascal Lenck-Santini

  • Place cells and place navigation

    J. Bures;A. A. Fenton;Yu. Kaminsky;L. Zinyuk

  • Anisotropic encoding of three-dimensional space by place cells and grid cells.

    Robin Hayman;Madeleine A Verriotis;Aleksandar Jovalekic;Aleksandar Jovalekic;André A Fenton;André A Fenton

  • Adult-born hippocampal neurons bidirectionally modulate entorhinal inputs into the dentate gyrus

    Victor M. Luna;Christoph Anacker;Nesha S. Burghardt;Hameda Khandaker

  • Toward a proper estimation of phase-amplitude coupling in neural oscillations.

    Dino Dvorak;André A. Fenton;André A. Fenton

  • Ensemble Place Codes in Hippocampus: CA1, CA3, and Dentate Gyrus Place Cells Have Multiple Place Fields in Large Environments

    Eun Hye Park;Eun Hye Park;Dino Dvorak;André A. Fenton;André A. Fenton

  • On How the Dentate Gyrus Contributes to Memory Discrimination.

    Milenna Tamara van Dijk;Milenna Tamara van Dijk;André Antonio Fenton;André Antonio Fenton;André Antonio Fenton

  • Both here and there: Simultaneous expression of autonomous spatial memories in rats

    A. A. Fenton;M. Wesierska;Yu Kaminsky;J. Bures

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Bures
Jan Bures Czech Academy of Sciences
Todd Charlton Sacktor
Todd Charlton Sacktor SUNY Downstate Medical Center
William W. Lytton
William W. Lytton SUNY Downstate Medical Center
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
René Hen
René Hen Columbia University
Bruno Poucet
Bruno Poucet Aix-Marseille University
Akira Sawa
Akira Sawa Johns Hopkins University
Patricio O'Donnell
Patricio O'Donnell Alto Neuroscience
Jay A. Gingrich
Jay A. Gingrich Columbia University

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