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Fereshteh Motamedi is affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Their research spans multiple disciplines focusing on medicine, neuroscience, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Much of their work intersects with molecular biology and physiology, with notable contributions to cellular and molecular neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, stress responses and cortisol, histone deacetylase inhibitors research, mitochondrial function and pathology, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Fariba Khodagholi, Hamid Gholami Pourbadie, Shahrbanoo Rafiei, Soudabeh Naderi, and Mahyar Janahmadi.

The preferred venues for publishing their work are Physiology and Pharmacology, Brain Research Bulletin, Experimental Gerontology, Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Key recent papers by Fereshteh Motamedi are:

  • Measuring the Frequency-Specific Functional Connectivity Using Wavelet Coherence Analysis in Stroke Rats Based on Intrinsic Signals, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Mitochondrial plasticity and synaptic plasticity crosstalk; in health and Alzheimer's disease, 2024, CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics
  • Role of amyloid beta (25−35) neurotoxicity in the ferroptosis and necroptosis as modalities of regulated cell death in Alzheimer's disease, 2022, NeuroToxicology
  • Individual Subnuclei of the Rat Anterior Thalamic Nuclei Differently affect Spatial Memory and Passive Avoidance Tasks, 2020, Neuroscience
  • Oxytocin Prevents the Development of 3-NP-Induced Anxiety and Depression in Male and Female Rats: Possible Interaction of OXTR and mGluR2, 2020, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Best Publications

  • Functional inactivation of orexin 1 receptors in CA1 region impairs acquisition, consolidation and retrieval in Morris water maze task

    Esmaeil Akbari;Nasser Naghdi;Fereshteh Motamedi

  • The selective orexin 1 receptor antagonist SB-334867-A impairs acquisition and consolidation but not retrieval of spatial memory in Morris water maze

    Esmaeil Akbari;Nasser Naghdi;Fereshteh Motamedi

  • The effect of antagonization of orexin 1 receptors in CA1 and dentate gyrus regions on memory processing in passive avoidance task

    Esmaeil Akbari;Fereshteh Motamedi;Nasser Naghdi;Maryam Noorbakhshnia

  • Interaction between cannabinoid compounds and diazepam on anxiety-like behaviour of mice.

    Nima Naderi;Abbas Haghparast;Ali Saber-Tehrani;Neguine Rezaii

  • CB1 cannabinoid receptor activation rescues amyloid β-induced alterations in behaviour and intrinsic electrophysiological properties of rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurones.

    Masoud Haghani;Mohammad Shabani;Mohammad Javan;Fereshteh Motamedi

  • Behavioral and electrophysiological studies of chronic oral administration of L-type calcium channel blocker verapamil on learning and memory in rats

    Reza Lashgari;Fereshteh Motamedi;Saleh Zahedi Asl;Siamak Shahidi

  • Inhibition of JNK phosphorylation reverses memory deficit induced by β-amyloid (1-42) associated with decrease of apoptotic factors.

    Mahmoudreza Ramin;Pegah Azizi;Fereshteh Motamedi;Abbas Haghparast

  • The role of potassium BK channels in anticonvulsant effect of cannabidiol in pentylenetetrazole and maximal electroshock models of seizure in mice

    Zahra Shirazi-zand;Leila Ahmad-Molaei;Fereshteh Motamedi;Nima Naderi

  • Ventral tegmental area inactivation suppresses the expression of CA1 long term potentiation in anesthetized rat.

    Elham Ghanbarian;Fereshteh Motamedi

  • Orexin-1 receptor mediates long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus area of freely moving rats.

    Esmaeil Akbari;Fereshteh Motamedi;Farzaneh Ghiafeh Davoodi;Maryam Noorbakhshnia

  • Effect of reversible inactivation of locus ceruleus on spatial reference and working memory.

    B. Khakpour-Taleghani;R. Lashgari;F. Motamedi;N. Naghdi

  • Effect of reversible inactivation of the reuniens nucleus on spatial learning and memory in rats using Morris water maze task.

    Farzaneh Ghiafeh Davoodi;Fereshteh Motamedi;Nasser Naghdi;Esmaeil Akbari

  • ERK and p38 inhibitors attenuate memory deficits and increase CREB phosphorylation and PGC-1α levels in Aβ-injected rats.

    Ghorbangol Ashabi;Mahmoudreza Ramin;Pegah Azizi;Zahra Taslimi

  • Evaluation of interactions between cannabinoid compounds and diazepam in electroshock-induced seizure model in mice.

    Nima Naderi;Farzad Aziz Ahari;Bijan Shafaghi;Azadeh Hosseini Najarkolaei

  • Effects of reversible inactivations of the medial septal area on reference and working memory versions of the Morris water maze.

    A. Rashidy-Pour;A. Rashidy-Pour;F. Motamedi;Z. Motahed-Larijani;Z. Motahed-Larijani

  • Augmentation of LTP induced by Primed–Bursts tetanic stimulation in hippocampal CA1 area of morphine dependent rats

    F.A Mansouri;F Motamedi;Y Fathollahi;N Atapour

  • Effect of reversible inactivation of the supramammillary nucleus on spatial learning and memory in rats

    Siamak Shahidi;Fereshteh Motamedi;Nasser Naghdi

  • Effect of parental morphine addiction on hippocampal long-term potentiation in rats offspring

    Alireza Sarkaki;Raheleh Assaei;Fereshteh Motamedi;Mohammad Badavi

  • Examination of persistent effects of repeated administration of pentylenetrazol on rat hippocampal CA1: evidence from in vitro study on hippocampal slices

    Y. Fathollahi;F. Motamedi;S. Semnanian;M. Zardoshti

  • Chronic in vivo morphine administration facilitates primed-bursts-induced long-term potentiation of Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses in hippocampal slices in vitro.

    Farshad Alizadeh Mansouri;Fereshteh Motamedi;Yaghoub Fathollahi

  • Early minor stimulation of microglial TLR2 and TLR4 receptors attenuates Alzheimer's disease-related cognitive deficit in rats: behavioral, molecular, and electrophysiological evidence.

    Hamid Gholami Pourbadie;Mohammad Sayyah;Baharak Khoshkholgh-Sima;Samira Choopani

Frequent Co-Authors

Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar
Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar Pasteur Institute of Iran
Noriyuki Koibuchi
Noriyuki Koibuchi Gunma University
Albert Gjedde
Albert Gjedde University of Copenhagen
Paul Cumming
Paul Cumming Queensland University of Technology

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