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Dennis McGinty is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with notable work in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, endocrine and autonomic systems, developmental neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics cover areas such as sleep and wakefulness research, sleep and related disorders, circadian rhythm and melatonin, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, as well as stress responses and cortisol.

McGinty has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications. Notable papers include:

  • Adult hypothalamic neurogenesis and sleep-wake dysfunction in aging, 2020, published in SLEEP
  • Activation of the Ventrolateral Preoptic Neurons Projecting to the Perifornical-Hypothalamic Area Promotes Sleep: DREADD Activation in Wild-Type Rats, 2022, published in Cells
  • 109 Chemogenetic silencing of corticotropin releasing factor neurons in the paraventricular nucleus: the effect on post-stress sleep, 2021, published in SLEEP

The frequent co-authors collaborating with McGinty include А. А. Костин, Aftab Alam, Md. Noor Alam, Anton Saevskiy, and Irma Gvilia.

  • SLEEP (2 publications)
  • Cells (1 publication)

Their main fields of study are:

  • Neuroscience (7 publications)
  • Psychology (3 publications)

More specifically, their subfields of study comprise:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience (3 publications)
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (3 publications)
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (2 publications)
  • Developmental Neuroscience (1 publication)
  • Behavioral Neuroscience (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Dorsal raphe neurons: depression of firing during sleep in cats.

    Dennis J. McGinty;Ronald M. Harper

  • Sleep-waking discharge patterns of ventrolateral preoptic/anterior hypothalamic neurons in rats.

    Ronald Szymusiak;Noor Alam;Teresa L Steininger;Dennis McGinty

  • Sleep suppression after basal forebrain lesions in the cat.

    Dennis J. McGinty;Maurice B. Sterman

  • Keeping cool: a hypothesis about the mechanisms and functions of slow-wave sleep

    Dennis McGinty;Dennis McGinty;Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak

  • New neurons in the adult brain: The role of sleep and consequences of sleep loss

    Peter Meerlo;Ralph E. Mistlberger;Barry L. Jacobs;H. Craig Heller

  • Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and arousal

    Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak;Dennis McGinty;Dennis McGinty

  • Sleep-related neuronal discharge in the basal forebrain of cats

    Ronald Szymusiak;Dennis McGinty

  • Sleep-waking discharge of neurons in the posterior lateral hypothalamus of the albino rat

    Teresa L. Steininger;Md.Noor Alam;Md.Noor Alam;Hui Gong;Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak

  • Subregional organization of preoptic area/anterior hypothalamic projections to arousal-related monoaminergic cell groups.

    Teresa L. Steininger;Hui Gong;Dennis Mcginty;Dennis Mcginty;Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak

  • Activation of c‐fos in GABAergic neurones in the preoptic area during sleep and in response to sleep deprivation

    Hui Gong;Dennis McGinty;Ruben Guzman-Marin;Keng-Tee Chew

  • Sleep deprivation reduces proliferation of cells in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in rats

    Ruben Guzmán-Marín;Natalia Suntsova;Natalia Suntsova;Darya R. Stewart;Hui Gong

  • Sleep-waking discharge patterns of median preoptic nucleus neurons in rats

    Natalia Suntsova;Ronald Szymusiak;Noor Md. Alam;Ruben Guzman-Marin

  • Sleep deprivation suppresses neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus of rats.

    Ruben Guzman-Marin;Natalia Suntsova;Natalia Suntsova;Melvi Methippara;Richard Greiffenstein

  • Suppression of hippocampal plasticity-related gene expression by sleep deprivation in rats.

    Ruben Guzman-Marin;Zhe Ying;Natalia Suntsova;Melvi Methippara

  • Sleep-waking discharge patterns of neurons recorded in the rat perifornical lateral hypothalamic area

    Md. Noor Alam;Hui Gong;Tarannum Alam;Rajesh Jaganath

  • Pontine reticular formation neurons: relationship of discharge to motor activity

    Jerome M. Siegel;Dennis J. McGinty

  • Hypothalamic control of sleep.

    Ronald Szymusiak;Irma Gvilia;Irma Gvilia;Dennis McGinty

  • Adenosinergic modulation of rat basal forebrain neurons during sleep and waking: neuronal recording with microdialysis

    Md. Noor Alam;Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak;Hui Gong;Janice King

  • Hypothalamic regulation of sleep and arousal.

    Dennis McGinty;Ronald Szymusiak

  • Sleep and waking activity of pontine gigantocellular field neurons

    Jerome M. Siegel;Jerome M. Siegel;Dennis J. McGinty;Dennis J. McGinty;Stephen M. Breedlove;Stephen M. Breedlove

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald Szymusiak
Ronald Szymusiak University of California, Los Angeles
Jerome M. Siegel
Jerome M. Siegel University of California, Los Angeles
René Drucker-Colín
René Drucker-Colín National Autonomous University of Mexico
Michele Ferrara
Michele Ferrara University of L'Aquila
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Sonia Ancoli-Israel University of California, San Diego
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
Bruce F. O'Hara
Bruce F. O'Hara University of Kentucky
Richard R. Bootzin
Richard R. Bootzin University of Arizona
Raymond Cluydts
Raymond Cluydts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Maria Concetta Pellicciari
Maria Concetta Pellicciari Foundation Saint Lucia

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