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Overview

Emma R. Wood is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span multiple fields within neuroscience and related biological sciences.

The scientist's main fields of study include Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. These areas reflect a focus on understanding the molecular and cellular foundations of neural function and development.

Subfields of particular interest in their work are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Genetics
  • Cell Biology
  • Social Psychology

Emma R. Wood's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Cellular transport and secretion

Their publication record features papers in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Autism, Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, Nature Neuroscience, and Cell Reports. Notably, bioRxiv accounts for eight of their publications.

Recent papers include:

  • Improved Performance of ChatGPT-4 on the OKAP Examination: A Comparative Study with ChatGPT-3.5 (2023) in Journal of Academic Ophthalmology
  • Improved Performance of ChatGPT-4 on the OKAP Exam: A Comparative Study with ChatGPT-3.5 (2023) in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bidirectional control of infant rat social behavior via dopaminergic innervation of the basolateral amygdala (2021) in Neuron
  • Lateral entorhinal cortex lesions impair odor-context associative memory in male rats (2022) in Journal of Neuroscience Research
  • Local origin of excitatory-inhibitory tuning equivalence in a cortical network (2024) in Nature Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in Emma R. Wood's research include:

  • Peter C. Kind
  • Daisy Arkell
  • Oliver Hardt
  • Owen Dando
  • Paul A. Dudchenko

Best Publications

  • Schemas and memory consolidation

    Dorothy Tse;Rosamund F. Langston;Masaki Kakeyama;Ingrid Bethus

  • The Hippocampus, Memory, and Place Cells: Is It Spatial Memory or a Memory Space?

    Howard Eichenbaum;Paul Dudchenko;Emma Wood;Matthew Shapiro

  • Hippocampal neurons encode information about different types of memory episodes occurring in the same location.

    Emma R. Wood;Paul A. Dudchenko;R.Jonathan Robitsek;Howard Eichenbaum

  • The global record of memory in hippocampal neuronal activity.

    Emma R. Wood;Paul A. Dudchenko;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Effects of fluoxetine on functional outcomes after acute stroke (FOCUS): a pragmatic, double-blind, randomised, controlled trial

    Martin Dennis;Gillian Mead;John Forbes;Catriona Graham

  • Object-recognition memory is only mildly impaired in rats with lesions of the hippocampus and amygdala

    Dave G. Mumby;Emma R. Wood;John P. J. Pinel

  • Associative recognition and the hippocampus: differential effects of hippocampal lesions on object-place, object-context and object-place-context memory.

    Rosamund F. Langston;Emma R. Wood

  • Neurotoxic Hippocampal Lesions Have No Effect on Odor Span and Little Effect on Odor Recognition Memory But Produce Significant Impairments on Spatial Span, Recognition, and Alternation

    Paul A. Dudchenko;Emma R. Wood;Howard Eichenbaum

  • Exploring the role of context-dependent hippocampal activity in spatial alternation behavior.

    James A. Ainge;Matthijs A.A. van der Meer;Rosamund F. Langston;Emma R. Wood

  • Impaired object recognition memory in rats following ischemia-induced damage to the hippocampus

    Emma R. Wood;Dave G. Mumby;John P. Pinel;Anthony G. Phillips

  • Nonrecurring-items delayed nonmatching-to-sample in rats: A new paradigm for testing nonspatial working memory

    Dave G. Mumby;John P. J. Pinel;Emma R. Wood

  • The role of hippocampal subregions in memory for stimulus associations.

    Rosamund F. Langston;Cassie H. Stevenson;Claire L. Wilson;Ian Saunders

  • The role of the hippocampus in object recognition in rats: examination of the influence of task parameters and lesion size.

    James A Ainge;Claire Heron-Maxwell;Panos Theofilas;Paul Wright

  • Ischemia-induced object-recognition deficits in rats are attenuated by hippocampal ablation before or soon after ischemia

    David G. Mumby;Emma R. Wood;Christopher A. Duva;Tom J. Kornecook

  • Rapid Disruption of Axon–Glial Integrity in Response to Mild Cerebral Hypoperfusion

    Michell Mario Reimer;Jamie McQueen;Luke Searcy;Gillian Scullion

  • Place cells on a maze encode routes rather than destinations

    Roddy M Grieves;Roddy M Grieves;Emma R Wood;Paul A Dudchenko;Paul A Dudchenko

  • Conserved hippocampal cellular pathophysiology but distinct behavioural deficits in a new rat model of FXS

    Sally M. Till;Antonis Asiminas;Adam D. Jackson;Danai Katsanevaki

  • Gliovascular disruption and cognitive deficits in a mouse model with features of small vessel disease

    Philip R Holland;James L Searcy;Natalia Salvadores;Gillian Scullion

  • Expectancies in decision making, reinforcement learning, and ventral striatum.

    Matthijs A. A. van der Meer;A. David Redish

  • Place field repetition and spatial learning in a multicompartment environment

    Roddy M. Grieves;Roddy M. Grieves;Bryan W. Jenkins;Bruce C. Harland;Bruce C. Harland;Emma R. Wood

  • Selective white matter pathology induces a specific impairment in spatial working memory

    Robin Coltman;Aisling Spain;Yanina Tsenkina;Jill H. Fowler

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Dudchenko
Paul A. Dudchenko University of Stirling
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Peter C. Kind
Peter C. Kind University of Edinburgh
Sumantra Chattarji
Sumantra Chattarji National Centre for Biological Sciences
Anthony G. Phillips
Anthony G. Phillips University of British Columbia
John P. J. Pinel
John P. J. Pinel University of British Columbia
Karen Horsburgh
Karen Horsburgh University of Edinburgh
David J. A. Wyllie
David J. A. Wyllie University of Edinburgh
Masafumi Ihara
Masafumi Ihara Kyoto University
Jeremy Hall
Jeremy Hall Cardiff University

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