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Denise Manahan-Vaughan

Denise Manahan-Vaughan

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Neuroscience

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62
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12924
World Ranking
3548
National Ranking
306

Overview

Denise Manahan-Vaughan is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Additional areas of study include neurology, sensory systems, and molecular biology.

Their work explores various topics within neuroscience, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Denise Manahan-Vaughan has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers including:

  • "Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot" (2020) in Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • "The Intriguing Contribution of Hippocampal Long-Term Depression to Spatial Learning and Long-Term Memory" (2022) in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • "Mechanistic flexibility of the retrosplenial cortex enables its contribution to spatial cognition" (2022) in Trends in Neurosciences
  • "Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity, Spatial Memory, and Neurotransmitter Receptor Expression Are Profoundly Altered by Gradual Loss of Hearing Ability" (2020) in Cerebral Cortex
  • "Interplay of hippocampal long-term potentiation and long-term depression in enabling memory representations" (2024) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Hippocampus
  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Scientific Reports

Collaborative efforts are often made with several co-authors who have contributed multiple times alongside Denise Manahan-Vaughan. Notable frequent co-authors include Marta Méndez-Couz, Olena Shchyglo, Hardy Hagena, Thu-Huong Hoang, and Christina Strauch.

Best Publications

  • Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot.

    Gina R. Poe;Stephen Foote;Oxana Eschenko;Joshua P. Johansen

  • Hippocampal long-term depression and long-term potentiation encode different aspects of novelty acquisition.

    Anne Kemp;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Dopamine D1/D5 Receptors Gate the Acquisition of Novel Information through Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression

    Neal Lemon;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Hippocampal long-term depression: master or minion in declarative memory processes?

    Anne Kemp;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Novelty acquisition is associated with induction of hippocampal long-term depression

    Denise Manahan-Vaughan;Karl-Heinz Braunewell

  • Group 1 and 2 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Play Differential Roles in Hippocampal Long-Term Depression and Long-Term Potentiation in Freely Moving Rats

    Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Long-Term Depression: A Cellular Basis for Learning?

    Karl-Heinz Braunewell;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • BDNF contributes to the facilitation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and learning enabled by environmental enrichment

    Tanja Novkovic;Thomas Mittmann;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Regulation by Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 of LTP in the Dentate Gyrus of Freely Moving Rats: Relevance for Learning and Memory Formation

    Katja Naie;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Dopamine D1/D5 Receptors Mediate Informational Saliency that Promotes Persistent Hippocampal Long-Term Plasticity

    Niels Hansen;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Activity-dependent switch of GABAergic inhibition into glutamatergic excitation in astrocyte-neuron networks

    Gertrudis Perea;Ricardo Gómez;Sara Mederos;Ana Covelo

  • A single application of MK801 causes symptoms of acute psychosis, deficits in spatial memory, and impairment of synaptic plasticity in rats.

    Denise Manahan-Vaughan;Dorothea von Haebler;Christine Winter;Georg Juckel;Georg Juckel

  • The hippocampal CA1 region and dentate gyrus differentiate between environmental and spatial feature encoding through long-term depression.

    Anne Kemp;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Requirement of Translation But Not Transcription for the Maintenance of Long-Term Depression in the CA1 Region of Freely Moving Rats

    Manahan-Vaughan D;Kulla A;Frey Ju

  • Metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1) and 5 (mGluR5) regulate late phases of LTP and LTD in the hippocampal CA1 region in vitro

    Sergey Neyman;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Brain Endothelial- and Epithelial-Specific Interferon Receptor Chain 1 Drives Virus-Induced Sickness Behavior and Cognitive Impairment.

    Thomas Blank;Claudia N. Detje;Alena Spieß;Nora Hagemeyer

  • A Specific Role for Group I mGluRs in Hippocampal LTP and Hippocampus-Dependent Spatial Learning

    Detlef Balschun;Denise Manahan-Vaughan;Thomas Wagner;Thomas Behnisch

  • β-Adrenergic Control of Hippocampal Function: Subserving the Choreography of Synaptic Information Storage and Memory

    Hardy Hagena;Niels Hansen;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor, mGluR5, is a Key Determinant of Good and Bad Spatial Learning Performance and Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity

    Denise Manahan-Vaughan;Karl-Heinz Braunewell

  • Role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in persistent forms of hippocampal plasticity and learning.

    Sreedeep Mukherjee;Denise Manahan-Vaughan

  • Regulation of depotentiation and long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats by dopamine D2-like receptors

    Denise Manahan-Vaughan;Alexander Kulla

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus G. Reymann
Klaus G. Reymann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Michael J. Rowan
Michael J. Rowan Trinity College Dublin
Uwe Heinemann
Uwe Heinemann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Stefan Herlitze
Stefan Herlitze Ruhr University Bochum
Eduardo D. Martín
Eduardo D. Martín Yale School of Medicine
Gertrudis Perea
Gertrudis Perea Spanish National Research Council
Andreas Faissner
Andreas Faissner Ruhr University Bochum
Frank Kirchhoff
Frank Kirchhoff University of Ulm
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum

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