George K. Aghajanian

Research.com Recognitions

• 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Best Publications

• mTOR-Dependent Synapse Formation Underlies the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of NMDA Antagonists

  Nanxin Li;Boyoung Lee;Rongjian Liu;Mounira Banasr

  3152
  Citations

• Molecular and Cellular Basis of Addiction

  Eric J. Nestler;George K. Aghajanian

  1906
  Citations

• Synaptic plasticity and depression: new insights from stress and rapid-acting antidepressants

  Ronald S Duman;George K Aghajanian;Gerard Sanacora;John H Krystal

  1738
  Citations

• DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS: EFFECT OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS AND AMPHETAMINE ON SINGLE CELL ACTIVITY

  Benjamin S. Bunney;Judith R. Walters;Robert H. Roth;George K. Aghajanian

  1694
  Citations

• Synaptic Dysfunction in Depression: Potential Therapeutic Targets

  Ronald S. Duman;George K. Aghajanian

  1649
  Citations

• Inhibition of both noradrenergic and serotonergic neurons in brain by the alpha-adrenergic agonist clonidine.

  T.H. Svensson;B.S. Bunney;G.K. Aghajanian

  1355
  Citations

• Serotonin Function and the Mechanism of Antidepressant Action: Reversal of Antidepressant-Induced Remission by Rapid Depletion of Plasma Tryptophan

  Pedro L. Delgado;Dennis S. Charney;Lawrence H. Price;George K. Aghajanian

  1278
  Citations

• Electrophysiological responses of serotoninergic dorsal raphe neurons to 5-HT1A and 5-HT1B agonists.

  Jeffrey S. Sprouse;George K. Aghajanian

  1276
  Citations

• Glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists rapidly reverse behavioral and synaptic deficits caused by chronic stress exposure.

  Nanxin Li;Rong-Jian Liu;Jason M. Dwyer;Mounira Banasr

  1228
  Citations

• Tolerance of locus coeruleus neurones to morphine and suppression of withdrawal response by clonidine.

  George K. Aghajanian

  1167
  Citations

• The formation of synaptic junctions in developing rat brain: A quantitative electron microscopic study

  G.K. Aghajanian;F.E. Bloom

  945
  Citations

• Dopamine"autoreceptors": pharmacological characterization by microiontophoretic single cell recording studies.

  G. K. Aghajanian;B. S. Bunney

  817
  Citations

• Electrophysiological and pharmacological characterization of serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons recorded extracellularly and intracellularly in rat brain slices

  C.P. Vandermaelen;G.K. Aghajanian

  719
  Citations

• Afferent projections to the rat locus coeruleus as determined by a retrograde tracing technique.

  Jesse M. Cedarbaum;George K. Aghajanian

  692
  Citations

• Tricyclic antidepressants: long-term treatment increases responsivity of rat forebrain neurons to serotonin

  C de Montigny;GK Aghajanian

  686
  Citations

• Catecholamine receptors on locus coeruleus neurons: pharmacological characterization.

  Jesse M. Cedarbaum;George K. Aghajanian

  668
  Citations

• Suppression of firing activity of 5-HT neurons in the dorsal raphe by alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists

  J.M. Baraban;G.K. Aghajanian

  653
  Citations

• Serotonergic facilitation of facial motoneuron excitation.

  Robert B. McCall;George K. Aghajanian

  652
  Citations

• Intracellular studies in the facial nucleus illustrating a simple new method for obtaining viable motoneurons in adult rat brain slices

  George K. Aghajanian;Kurt Rasmussen

  646
  Citations

• Opiate withdrawal and the rat locus coeruleus: behavioral, electrophysiological, and biochemical correlates

  Kurt Rasmussen;Dana B. Beitner-Johnson;John H. Krystal;George K. Aghajanian

  642
  Citations