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Carsten T. Wotjak

Carsten T. Wotjak

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Neuroscience

D-Index
83
Citations
24370
World Ranking
1450
National Ranking
126

Overview

Carsten T. Wotjak is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields of study, with primary focuses in Neuroscience and Medicine. Within these areas, Wotjak has contributed extensively to subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Wotjak's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

They have been published multiple times in a variety of scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Pharmacological Research
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Selected recent papers by Carsten T. Wotjak include:

  • "cAMP-dependent regulation of HCN4 controls the tonic entrainment process in sinoatrial node pacemaker cells," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Crosstalk between the transcriptional regulation of dopamine D2 and cannabinoid CB1 receptors in schizophrenia: Analyses in patients and in perinatal Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol-exposed rats," 2020, Pharmacological Research
  • "Exploratory drive, fear, and anxiety are dissociable and independent components in foraging mice," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Altered dopamine D3 receptor gene expression in MAM model of schizophrenia is reversed by peripubertal cannabidiol treatment," 2020, Biochemical Pharmacology
  • "Phytocannabinoids and schizophrenia: Focus on adolescence as a critical window of enhanced vulnerability and opportunity for treatment," 2021, Pharmacological Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wotjak include:

  • Daniel E. Heinz
  • Tibor Štark
  • Filippo Drago
  • Vincenzo Micale
  • Tim Ebert

Best Publications

  • The endogenous cannabinoid system controls extinction of aversive memories

    Giovanni Marsicano;Carsten T. Wotjak;Shahnaz C. Azad;Shahnaz C. Azad;Tiziana Bisogno

  • Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress

    Chris Murgatroyd;Alexandre V Patchev;Yonghe Wu;Vincenzo Micale

  • The endocannabinoid system controls key epileptogenic circuits in the hippocampus.

    Krisztina Monory;Federico Massa;Federico Massa;Michaela Egertová;Matthias Eder

  • Absence epilepsy and sinus dysrhythmia in mice lacking the pacemaker channel HCN2

    Andreas Ludwig;Thomas Budde;Juliane Stieber;Sven Moosmang

  • The hypothalamic-neurohypophysial system regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis under stress: an old concept revisited.

    Mario Engelmann;Rainer Landgraf;Carsten T. Wotjak

  • V1 vasopressin receptor antisense oligodeoxynucleotide into septum reduces vasopressin binding, social discrimination abilities, and anxiety-related behavior in rats

    Rainer Landgraf;Riidiger Gerstberger;Alexandra Montkowski;Joseph C. Probst

  • Dissociated central and peripheral release of vasopressin, but not oxytocin, in response to repeated swim stress: New insights into the secretory capacities of peptidergic neurons

    C.T. Wotjak;J. Ganster;G. Kohl;F. Holsboer

  • Reduced Anxiety, Conditioned Fear, and Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Receptor-Deficient Mice

    Rudolph Marsch;Elisabeth Foeller;Gerhard Rammes;Mirjam Bunck

  • The Role of m6A/m-RNA Methylation in Stress Response Regulation

    Mareen Engel;Carola Eggert;Paul M. Kaplick;Matthias Eder

  • Social discrimination procedure: an alternative method to investigate juvenile recognition abilities in rats

    Mario Engelmann;Carsten T. Wotjak;Rainer Landgraf

  • Glutamatergic and Dopaminergic Neurons Mediate Anxiogenic and Anxiolytic Effects of CRHR1

    Damian Refojo;Martin Schweizer;Claudia Kuehne;Stefanie Ehrenberg

  • Behavioral consequences of intracerebral vasopressin and oxytocin : Focus on learning and memory

    Mario Engelmann;Carsten T Wotjak;Inga Neumann;Mike Ludwig

  • A mouse model of posttraumatic stress disorder that distinguishes between conditioned and sensitised fear

    Anja Siegmund;Carsten T. Wotjak

  • Release of vasopressin within the rat paraventricular nucleus in response to emotional stress: a novel mechanism of regulating adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion?

    Carsten T. Wotjak;Masaharu Kubota;Gudrun Liebsch;Alexandra Montkowski

  • A hitchhiker's guide to behavioral analysis in laboratory rodents

    Nuno Sousa;O. F. X. Almeida;C. T. Wotjak

  • Chronic infusion of a CRH1 receptor antisense oligodeoxynucleotide into the central nucleus of the amygdala reduced anxiety-related behavior in socially defeated rats.

    G. Liebsch;R. Landgraf;R. Gerstberger;J. C. Probst

  • Functional Interactions between Stress and the Endocannabinoid System: From Synaptic Signaling to Behavioral Output

    Matthew N. Hill;Sachin Patel;Patrizia Campolongo;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Genetic Dissection of Behavioural and Autonomic Effects of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in Mice

    Krisztina Monory;Heike Blaudzun;Federico Massa;Federico Massa;Nadine Kaiser

  • Cannabinoid Receptor Type 1 Located on Presynaptic Terminals of Principal Neurons in the Forebrain Controls Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission

    Maria R. Domenici;Shahnaz C. Azad;Giovanni Marsicano;Anja Schierloh

  • Nonassociative learning processes determine expression and extinction of conditioned fear in mice.

    Kornelia Kamprath;Carsten T. Wotjak

Frequent Co-Authors

Mario Engelmann
Mario Engelmann Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Jan M. Deussing
Jan M. Deussing Max Planck Society
Giovanni Marsicano
Giovanni Marsicano University of Bordeaux
Beat Lutz
Beat Lutz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Michael Czisch
Michael Czisch Max Planck Society
Matthias Eder
Matthias Eder Max Planck Society
Alon Chen
Alon Chen Weizmann Institute of Science
Gerhard Rammes
Gerhard Rammes Technical University of Munich
Nicolas Singewald
Nicolas Singewald University of Innsbruck
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society

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