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Christian Lüscher

Christian Lüscher

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Neuroscience

D-Index
72
Citations
23803
World Ranking
2271
National Ranking
50

Overview

Christian Lüscher is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as molecular biology. The scope of their work also extends into cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics including neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neural dynamics and brain function, neurological disorders and treatments, treatment of major depression, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Frequent co-authors of Christian Lüscher include Jérôme Flakowski, Vincent Pascoli, Agnès Hiver, Yue Li, and Linda D. Simmler. Their collaborative work appears in various scientific venues with repeated publications in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Neuron, and Neuropsychopharmacology.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Lüscher are as follows:

  • The transition to compulsion in addiction, 2020, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Consolidating the Circuit Model for Addiction, 2021, Annual Review of Neuroscience

Other significant publications within the same timeframe include "Optogenetics for light control of biological systems" (2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers), "Synaptic mechanism underlying serotonin modulation of transition to cocaine addiction" (2021, Science), and "Dual action of ketamine confines addiction liability" (2022, Nature), although these latter papers involved other lead authors.

Best Publications

  • NMDA Receptor-Dependent Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression (LTP/LTD)

    Christian Lüscher;Robert C. Malenka

  • Drug-Evoked Synaptic Plasticity in Addiction: From Molecular Changes to Circuit Remodeling

    Christian Lüscher;Robert C. Malenka

  • G Protein-Coupled Inwardly Rectifying K+ Channels (GIRKs) Mediate Postsynaptic but Not Presynaptic Transmitter Actions in Hippocampal Neurons

    Christian Lüscher;Lily Y Jan;Markus Stoffel;Robert C Malenka

  • Role of AMPA receptor cycling in synaptic transmission and plasticity.

    Christian Lüscher;Houhui Xia;Eric C Beattie;Reed C Carroll

  • Synaptic plasticity and dynamic modulation of the postsynaptic membrane

    C. Lüscher;R. A. Nicoll;R. C. Malenka;D. Muller

  • GABA neurons of the VTA drive conditioned place aversion.

    Kelly R. Tan;Cédric Yvon;Marc Turiault;Julie J. Mirzabekov

  • Emerging roles for G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels in health and disease

    Christian Lüscher;Paul A. Slesinger

  • Group 1 mGluR-Dependent Synaptic Long-Term Depression: Mechanisms and Implications for Circuitry and Disease

    Christian Lüscher;Kimberly M. Huber

  • Epilepsy, hyperalgesia, impaired memory, and loss of pre- and postsynaptic GABA(B) responses in mice lacking GABA(B(1))

    Valérie Schuler;Christian Lüscher;Christophe Blanchet;Norman Klix

  • Dynamin-dependent endocytosis of ionotropic glutamate receptors

    Reed C. Carroll;Eric C. Beattie;Houhui Xia;Christian Lüscher

  • Cocaine triggered AMPA receptor redistribution is reversed in vivo by mGluR-dependent long-term depression.

    Camilla Bellone;Christian Lüscher

  • Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

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  • Neural bases for addictive properties of benzodiazepines

    Kelly R. Tan;Matthew Brown;Gwenaël Labouébe;Cédric Yvon

  • The transition to compulsion in addiction.

    Christian Lüscher;Christian Lüscher;Trevor W. Robbins;Barry J. Everitt

  • Hooked on benzodiazepines: GABAA receptor subtypes and addiction

    Kelly R. Tan;Uwe Rudolph;Christian Lüscher;Christian Lüscher

  • Ventral tegmental area GABA projections pause accumbal cholinergic interneurons to enhance associative learning

    Matthew T. C. Brown;Kelly R. Tan;Eoin C. O’Connor;Irina Nikonenko

  • Bi-directional effects of GABA B receptor agonists on the mesolimbic dopamine system

    Hans G Cruz;Tatiana Ivanova;Marie-Louise Lunn;Markus Stoffel

  • Reversal of cocaine-evoked synaptic potentiation resets drug-induced adaptive behaviour

    Vincent Pascoli;Marc Turiault;Christian Lüscher;Christian Lüscher

  • Contrasting forms of cocaine-evoked plasticity control components of relapse

    Vincent Jean Pascoli;Jean Terrier;Julie Espallergues;Emmanuel Valjent

  • Cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity: persistence in the VTA triggers adaptations in the NAc

    Manuel Mameli;Briac Halbout;Cyril Creton;David Engblom

  • Cocaine disinhibits dopamine neurons by potentiation of GABA transmission in the ventral tegmental area

    Christina Bocklisch;Vincent Pascoli;Jovi C. Y. Wong;David R. C. House

Frequent Co-Authors

Camilla Bellone
Camilla Bellone University of Geneva
Paul Krack
Paul Krack University of Bern
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka Stanford University
Paul A. Slesinger
Paul A. Slesinger Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Manuel Mameli
Manuel Mameli University of Lausanne
Rafael Luján
Rafael Luján University of Castilla-La Mancha
Denis Jabaudon
Denis Jabaudon University of Geneva
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Emmanuel Valjent
Emmanuel Valjent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Botond Roska
Botond Roska University of Basel

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