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Overview

David B. Rye is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly work primarily revolves around cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, epidemiology, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their research focuses on several specific topics including:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

David B. Rye has published numerous papers in reputable venues, with notable recent publications including:

  • "A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Large genome-wide association study identifies three novel risk variants for restless legs syndrome," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "Kleine-Levin syndrome is associated with birth difficulties and genetic variants in the TRANK1 gene loci," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genome-wide meta-analyses of restless legs syndrome yield insights into genetic architecture, disease biology and risk prediction," 2024, Nature Genetics
  • "The Psychomotor Vigilance Test as a measure of alertness and sleep inertia in people with central disorders of hypersomnolence," 2022, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine

Their research is frequently published in journals such as SLEEP, Communications Biology, Sleep Medicine, The American Journal of Cardiology, and Nature Genetics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David B. Rye include:

  • Lynn Marie Trotti
  • Prabhjyot Saini
  • Hreinn Stefánsson
  • Donald L. Bliwise
  • Ole Birger Pedersen

This extensive collaboration network highlights a multidisciplinary approach within the fields of sleep research, neurology, and cognitive neuroscience. Their contributions encompass epidemiological studies, genetic association analyses, and investigations into neurophysiological measures related to sleep disorders.

Best Publications

  • The metric properties of a novel non-motor symptoms scale for Parkinson's disease: Results from an international pilot study.

    Kallol Ray Chaudhuri;Pablo Martinez-Martin;Richard G. Brown;Kapil Sethi

  • Cortical projections arising from the basal forebrain: a study of cholinergic and noncholinergic components employing combined retrograde tracing and immunohistochemical localization of choline acetyltransferase.

    D.B. Rye;B.H. Wainer;M.-M. Mesulam;E.J. Mufson

  • Nuclear and Neuropil Aggregates in Huntington’s Disease: Relationship to Neuropathology

    Claire-Anne Gutekunst;Shi-Hua Li;Hong Yi;James S. Mulroy

  • Localization of D1 and D2 dopamine receptors in brain with subtype-specific antibodies.

    Allan I. Levey;Steven M. Hersch;David B. Rye;Roger K. Sunahara

  • Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus of the rat: cytoarchitecture, cytochemistry, and some extrapyramidal connections of the mesopontine tegmentum.

    David B. Rye;Clifford B. Saper;Henry J. Lee;Bruce H. Wainer

  • A genetic risk factor for periodic limb movements in sleep

    Hreinn Stefansson;David B. Rye;Andrew Hicks;Hjorvar Petursson

  • Prevalence of nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease in an international setting; Study using nonmotor symptoms questionnaire in 545 patients

    Pablo Martinez-Martin;Anthony H.V. Schapira;Fabrizio Stocchi;Kapil Sethi

  • The origins of cholinergic and other subcortical afferents to the thalamus in the rat.

    Ann E. Hallanger;Allan I. Levey;Henry J. Lee;David B. Rye

  • Restless legs syndrome: revisiting the dopamine hypothesis from the spinal cord perspective.

    Stefan Clemens;David Rye;Shawn Hochman

  • Review of the relationship of restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements in sleep to hypertension, heart disease, and stroke.

    Arthur S. Walters;David B. Rye

  • Characteristics of idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder and that associated with MSA and PD

    A. Iranzo;J. Santamaría;D. B. Rye;F. Valldeoriola

  • Medullary and spinal efferents of the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and adjacent mesopontine tegmentum in the rat.

    David B. Rye;Henry J. Lee;Clifford B. Saper;Bruce H. Wainer

  • Contributions of the Pedunculopontine Region to Normal and Altered REM Sleep

    David B. Rye

  • Cholinergic and non-cholinergic septohippocampal pathways**

    Bruce H. Wainer;Allan I. Levey;David B. Rye;M.-Marsel Mesulam

  • An Algorithm for the Management of Restless Legs Syndrome

    Michael H. Silber;Bruce L. Ehrenberg;Richard P. Allen;Mark J. Buchfuhrer

  • Microelectrode-guided pallidotomy: technical approach and its application in medically intractable Parkinson's disease

    Jerrold L. Vitek;Roy A. E. Bakay;Takao Hashimoto;Yoshiki Kaneoke

  • Afferent projections to the cholinergic pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and adjacent midbrain extrapyramidal area in the albino rat. I. Retrograde tracing studies.

    Teresa L. Steininger;David B. Rye;Bruce H. Wainer

  • Diagnostic standards for dopaminergic augmentation of restless legs syndrome: report from a World Association of Sleep Medicine-International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group consensus conference at the Max Planck Institute.

    Diego García-Borreguero;Richard P. Allen;Ralf Kohnen;Birgit Högl

  • Identification and characterization of antidepressant-sensitive serotonin transporter proteins using site-specific antibodies

    Yan Qian;H. E. Melikian;D. B. Rye;A. I. Levey

  • Daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease

    David B. Rye;Donald L. Bliwise;Bhupesh Dihenia;Paul Gurecki

  • Dopamine D(5) receptor immunolocalization in rat and monkey brain.

    Brian J. Ciliax;Norm Nash;Craig Heilman;Roger Sunahara

  • Emerging views of dopamine in modulating sleep/wake state from an unlikely source: PD

    David B. Rye;Joseph Jankovic

  • Immunochemical analysis of vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) protein in Parkinson's disease.

    Gary W. Miller;Jeffrey D. Erickson;Jeffrey T. Perez;Shannon N. Penland

Frequent Co-Authors

Birgit Högl
Birgit Högl Innsbruck Medical University
Allan I. Levey
Allan I. Levey Emory University
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Anthony H.V. Schapira
Anthony H.V. Schapira University College London
Per Odin
Per Odin Lund University
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Hreinn Stefansson
Hreinn Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Isabelle Arnulf
Isabelle Arnulf Sorbonne University
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge

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