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B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao is affiliated with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in India. Their research spans various topics within neuroscience, focusing significantly on behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to studies involving biological psychiatry and the endocrine and autonomic systems.

The main fields of study in their work include neuroscience with a total of 36 publications. Key subfields covered are:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems

Research topics frequently addressed by Rao include:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research

The scientist has published in several journals, with notable publication venues featuring multiple papers:

  • Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Neurochemistry International
  • Molecular Neurobiology
  • ShodhKosh Journal of Visual and Performing Arts

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Rao include:

  • Mechanisms underlying remediation of depression-associated anxiety by chronic N-acetyl cysteine treatment, 2020, Psychopharmacology
  • Short photoperiod restores ventral subicular lesion-induced deficits in affective and socio-cognitive behavior in male Wistar rats, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • Neuroepigenetic Changes in DNA Methylation Affecting Diabetes-Induced Cognitive Impairment, 2022, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
  • Enriched environment ameliorates chronic temporal lobe epilepsy-induced behavioral hyperexcitability and restores synaptic plasticity in CA3-CA1 synapses in male Wistar rats, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • Remediation of chronic immobilization stress-induced negative affective behaviors and altered metabolism of monoamines in the prefrontal cortex by inactivation of basolateral amygdala, 2020, Neurochemistry International

Rao has collaborated frequently with several researchers. The most common coauthors include:

  • Bettadapura N. Srikumar
  • Bindu M. Kutty
  • Kala P. Nair
  • Duttagupta Subhadeep
  • Suwarna Chakraborty

Best Publications

  • Chronic stress induces contrasting patterns of dendritic remodeling in hippocampal and amygdaloid neurons.

    Ajai Vyas;Rupshi Mitra;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Sumantra Chattarji

  • Correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

    Gül Dölen;Emily Osterweil;B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Gordon B. Smith

  • Loss of Presenilin Function Causes Impairments of Memory and Synaptic Plasticity Followed by Age-Dependent Neurodegeneration

    Carlos A. Saura;Se Young Choi;Vassilios Beglopoulos;Seema Malkani

  • Transgenic brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression causes both anxiogenic and antidepressant effects

    Arvind Govindarajan;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Deepti Nair;Mimi Trinh

  • Altered Cortical Synaptic Morphology and Impaired Memory Consolidation in Forebrain- Specific Dominant-Negative PAK Transgenic Mice

    Mansuo L. Hayashi;Se Young Choi;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Hae Yoon Jung

  • Inhibition of p21-activated kinase rescues symptoms of fragile X syndrome in mice

    Mansuo L. Hayashi;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Jin-Soo Seo;Han-Saem Choi

  • Rescue of fragile X syndrome phenotypes in Fmr1 KO mice by the small-molecule PAK inhibitor FRAX486.

    Bridget M. Dolan;Sergio G. Duron;David A. Campbell;Benedikt Vollrath

  • Tissue plasminogen activator and plasminogen mediate stress-induced decline of neuronal and cognitive functions in the mouse hippocampus

    Robert Pawlak;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;Jerry P. Melchor;Sumantra Chattarji

  • Exposure to enriched environment restores the survival and differentiation of new born cells in the hippocampus and ameliorates depressive symptoms in chronically stressed rats.

    J. Veena;B.N. Srikumar;T.R. Raju;B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao

  • Hypobaric hypoxia-induced dendritic atrophy of hippocampal neurons is associated with cognitive impairment in adult rats.

    A.D.J. Titus;B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao;H.N. Harsha;K. Ramkumar

  • Enriched Environment Restores Hippocampal Cell Proliferation and Ameliorates Cognitive Deficits in Chronically Stressed Rats

    J. Veena;B. N. Srikumar;K. Mahati;V. Bhagya

  • Stress-induced spine loss in the medial amygdala is mediated by tissue-plasminogen activator.

    S. Bennur;B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao;R. Pawlak;S. Strickland

  • Neuropsychological deficits in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 clade C-seropositive adults from South India

    Jayashree Das Gupta;P Satishchandra;Kumarpillai Gopukumar;Frances Wilkie

  • Restraint stress-induced alterations in the levels of biogenic amines, amino acids, and AChE activity in the hippocampus.

    Sunanda;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;T. R. Raju

  • Environmental enrichment ameliorates chronic immobilisation stress-induced spatial learning deficits and restores the expression of BDNF, VEGF, GFAP and glucocorticoid receptors

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  • The involvement of cholinergic and noradrenergic systems in behavioral recovery following oxotremorine treatment to chronically stressed rats

    B.N. Srikumar;T.R. Raju;B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao

  • Short‐term exposure to enriched environment rescues chronic stress‐induced impaired hippocampal synaptic plasticity, anxiety, and memory deficits

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  • Chronic restraint stress impairs acquisition and retention of spatial memory task in rats

    Sunanda;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;T. R. Raju

  • Enriched environment ameliorates depression-induced cognitive deficits and restores abnormal hippocampal synaptic plasticity.

    K. Mahati;V. Bhagya;T. Christofer;A. Sneha

  • Chronic escitalopram treatment restores spatial learning, monoamine levels, and hippocampal long-term potentiation in an animal model of depression

    V. Bhagya;B. N. Srikumar;B. N. Srikumar;T. R. Raju;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao

  • Euphorbia hirta reverses chronic stress-induced anxiety and mediates its action through the GABA(A) receptor benzodiazepine receptor-Cl(-) channel complex.

    H. Anuradha;B. N. Srikumar;B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;M. Lakshmana

  • Neuronal plasticity induced by self-stimulation rewarding experience in rats — a study on alteration in dendritic branching in pyramidal neurons of hippocampus and motor cortex

    B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao;T. Desiraju;T.R. Raju

  • Self-stimulation of lateral hypothalamus and ventral tegmentum increases the levels of noradrenaline, dopamine, glutamate, and AChE activity, but not 5-hydroxytryptamine and GABA levels in hippocampus and motor cortex

    B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao;T. R. Raju;B. L. Meti

Frequent Co-Authors

Trichur R. Raju
Trichur R. Raju National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences

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