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Overview

Elda Arrigoni is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States and specializes in the field of neuroscience, with a particular focus on sleep and circadian rhythms.

Their research covers several main topics including:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Arrigoni has contributed to various subfields of study within neuroscience such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Physiology

Frequent collaborators in Arrigoni's work include:

  • Roberto De Luca
  • Patrick M. Fuller
  • Sathyajit S. Bandaru
  • Anne Venner
  • Thomas E. Scammell

Their research has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SLEEP
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Notable recent papers by Elda Arrigoni include:

  • "Suprachiasmatic VIP neurons are required for normal circadian rhythmicity and comprised of molecularly distinct subpopulations," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Orexin neurons inhibit sleep to promote arousal," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Role of serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons in hypercapnia-induced arousals," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The Sleep-Promoting Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus: What Have We Learned over the Past 25 Years?", 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "A spatially-resolved transcriptional atlas of the murine dorsal pons at single-cell resolution," 2024, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Neural Circuitry of Wakefulness and Sleep

    Thomas E. Scammell;Thomas E. Scammell;Elda Arrigoni;Jonathan O. Lipton

  • The GABAergic parafacial zone is a medullary slow wave sleep-promoting center

    Christelle Anaclet;Loris Ferrari;Elda Arrigoni;Caroline E Bass

  • Basal forebrain control of wakefulness and cortical rhythms

    Christelle Anaclet;Nigel P. Pedersen;Loris L. Ferrari;Anne Venner

  • Galanin Neurons in the Ventrolateral Preoptic Area Promote Sleep and Heat Loss in Mice

    Daniel Kroeger;Gianna Absi;Celia Gagliardi;Sathyajit S. Bandaru

  • Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial learning are impaired in a rat model of sleep fragmentation

    Jaime L. Tartar;Christopher P. Ward;Christopher P. Ward;James T. McKenna;Mahesh Thakkar

  • Cholinergic, Glutamatergic, and GABAergic Neurons of the Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus Have Distinct Effects on Sleep/Wake Behavior in Mice.

    Daniel Kroeger;Loris L. Ferrari;Gaetan Petit;Gaetan Petit;Carrie E. Mahoney

  • Supramammillary glutamate neurons are a key node of the arousal system

    Nigel P. Pedersen;Loris Ferrari;Loris Ferrari;Anne Venner;Anne Venner;Joshua L. Wang

  • Orexin receptor 2 expression in the posterior hypothalamus rescues sleepiness in narcoleptic mice

    Takatoshi Mochizuki;Elda Arrigoni;Jacob N. Marcus;Jacob N. Marcus;Erika L. Clark

  • A Genetically Defined Circuit for Arousal from Sleep during Hypercapnia.

    Satvinder Kaur;Joshua L. Wang;Loris Ferrari;Stephen Thankachan

  • Effects of adenosine on gabaergic synaptic inputs to identified ventrolateral preoptic neurons

    N. L. Chamberlin;E. Arrigoni;T. C. Chou;T. E. Scammell

  • Adenosine inhibits basal forebrain cholinergic and noncholinergic neurons in vitro.

    E. Arrigoni;N.L. Chamberlin;C.B. Saper;R.W. McCarley

  • Suprachiasmatic VIP neurons are required for normal circadian rhythmicity and comprised of molecularly distinct subpopulations.

    William D. Todd;Anne Venner;Christelle Anaclet;Rebecca Y. Broadhurst

  • Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Neurons Release Glutamate for Feedforward Inhibition of the Lateral Septum

    Melissa J.S. Chee;Elda Arrigoni;Eleftheria Maratos-Flier

  • Activation of the basal forebrain by the orexin/hypocretin neurones.

    Elda Arrigoni;Takatoshi Mochizuki;Thomas E. Scammell

  • To eat or to sleep: That is a lateral hypothalamic question

    Elda Arrigoni;Melissa J.S. Chee;Patrick M. Fuller

  • Optogenetic-mediated release of histamine reveals distal and autoregulatory mechanisms for controlling arousal.

    Rhîannan H. Williams;Melissa J.S. Chee;Daniel Kroeger;Loris L. Ferrari

  • Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Cataplexy

    Yo Oishi;Rhiannan H. Williams;Lindsay Agostinelli;Elda Arrigoni

  • Focal Deletion of the Adenosine A1 Receptor in Adult Mice Using an Adeno-Associated Viral Vector

    Thomas E. Scammell;Elda Arrigoni;Margaret A. Thompson;Patrick J. Ronan

  • Orexin neurons inhibit sleep to promote arousal

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  • Melanin-concentrating hormone neurons specifically promote rapid eye movement sleep in mice

    Ramalingam Vetrivelan;Dong Kong;Loris L. Ferrari;Elda Arrigoni

  • Adenosine-Mediated Presynaptic Modulation of Glutamatergic Transmission in the Laterodorsal Tegmentum

    Elda Arrigoni;Donald G. Rainnie;Donald G. Rainnie;Robert W. McCarley;Robert W. Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick M. Fuller
Patrick M. Fuller Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Clifford B. Saper
Clifford B. Saper Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Thomas E. Scammell
Thomas E. Scammell Harvard Medical School
Jun Lu
Jun Lu Zhejiang University
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Robert W. Greene
Robert W. Greene The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Takatoshi Mochizuki
Takatoshi Mochizuki Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael Lazarus
Michael Lazarus University of Tsukuba
Ritchie E. Brown
Ritchie E. Brown Harvard University

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