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Gerhard Rammes is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with significant contributions to subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Physiology, Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Developmental Neuroscience. The body of their work reflects a focus on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials, and Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Rammes has published frequently in a range of scientific journals. Among these, the most recurrent publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Neuropharmacology
  • Nature Communications
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Long-term diazepam treatment enhances microglial spine engulfment and impairs cognitive performance via the mitochondrial 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Memantine: Updating a rare success story in pro-cognitive therapeutics, 2023, Neuropharmacology
  • Designed peptides as nanomolar cross-amyloid inhibitors acting via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Neurosteroids and translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) in depression: implications for synaptic plasticity, cognition, and treatment options, 2022, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Seizure protein 6 controls glycosylation and trafficking of kainate receptor subunits GluK2 and GluK3, 2020, The EMBO Journal

Their research collaborations feature several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Markus Ballmann (11 joint publications)
  • Arpit Kumar Pradhan (8 joint publications)
  • Rainer Rupprecht (7 joint publications)
  • Chris G. Parsons (5 joint publications)
  • Martin Schlegel (5 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • The endogenous cannabinoid system controls extinction of aversive memories

    Giovanni Marsicano;Carsten T. Wotjak;Shahnaz C. Azad;Shahnaz C. Azad;Tiziana Bisogno

  • Translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a therapeutic target for neurological and psychiatric disorders

    Rainer Rupprecht;Vassilios Papadopoulos;Gerhard Rammes;Thomas C. Baghai

  • Reduced Anxiety, Conditioned Fear, and Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Receptor-Deficient Mice

    Rudolph Marsch;Elisabeth Foeller;Gerhard Rammes;Mirjam Bunck

  • Translocator Protein (18 kD) as Target for Anxiolytics Without Benzodiazepine-Like Side Effects

    Rainer Rupprecht;Rainer Rupprecht;Gerhard Rammes;Gerhard Rammes;Daniela Eser;Thomas C. Baghai

  • Circuitry for Associative Plasticity in the Amygdala Involves Endocannabinoid Signaling

    Shahnaz C. Azad;Krisztina Monory;Giovanni Marsicano;Benjamin F. Cravatt

  • Activation of the cannabinoid receptor type 1 decreases glutamatergic and GABAergic synaptic transmission in the lateral amygdala of the mouse

    Shahnaz Christina Azad;Matthias Eder;Giovanni Marsicano;Beat Lutz

  • Enhanced and Delayed Stress-Induced Alcohol Drinking in Mice Lacking Functional CRH1 Receptors

    Inge Sillaber;Gerhard Rammes;Stephan Zimmermann;Beatrice Mahal

  • The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor channel blockers memantine, MRZ 2/579 and other amino-alkyl-cyclohexanes antagonise 5-HT3 receptor currents in cultured HEK-293 and N1E-115 cell systems in a non-competitive manner

    G Rammes;R Rupprecht;U Ferrari;W Zieglgänsberger

  • Cannabinoid Receptor Type 1 Located on Presynaptic Terminals of Principal Neurons in the Forebrain Controls Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission

    Maria R. Domenici;Shahnaz C. Azad;Giovanni Marsicano;Anja Schierloh

  • Memantine Improves Cognition and Reduces Alzheimer’s-Like Neuropathology in Transgenic Mice

    Hilda Martinez-Coria;Kim N. Green;Lauren M. Billings;Masashi Kitazawa

  • Pharmacodynamics of Memantine: An Update

    G. Rammes;W. Danysz;C. G. Parsons

  • The anti-craving compound acamprosate acts as a weak NMDA-receptor antagonist, but modulates NMDA-receptor subunit expression similar to memantine and MK-801.

    G Rammes;B Mahal;J Putzke;C Parsons

  • Therapeutic significance of NR2B-containing NMDA receptors and mGluR5 metabotropic glutamate receptors in mediating the synaptotoxic effects of β-amyloid oligomers on long-term potentiation (LTP) in murine hippocampal slices

    Gerhard Rammes;Anne Hasenjäger;Kamila Sroka-Saidi;Jan M. Deussing

  • Synaptic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala in transgenic mice expressing dominant-negative cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) in forebrain

    G. Rammes;T. Steckler;A. Kresse;Günther Schütz

  • Forebrain CRF₁ modulates early-life stress-programmed cognitive deficits.

    Xiao-Dong Wang;Gerhard Rammes;Igor Kraev;Miriam Wolf

  • Antidepressants are functional antagonists at the serotonin type 3 (5-HT3) receptor

    B. Eisensamer;G. Rammes;G. Gimpl;M. Shapa

  • Isoflurane blocks synaptic plasticity in the mouse hippocampus.

    Wanda Simon;Gerhard Hapfelmeier;Eberhard Kochs;Walter Zieglgänsberger

  • Cross-disorder risk gene CACNA1C differentially modulates susceptibility to psychiatric disorders during development and adulthood

    N Dedic;M L Pöhlmann;J S Richter;D Mehta

  • Functional Antagonism of Gonadal Steroids at the 5-Hydroxytryptamine Type 3 Receptor

    Christian H. R. Wetzel;Bettina Hermann;Christian Behl;Elmar Pestel

  • Chronic Social Stress During Adolescence Induces Cognitive Impairment in Aged Mice

    Vera Sterlemann;Gerhard Rammes;Miriam Wolf;Claudia Liebl

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter Zieglgänsberger
Walter Zieglgänsberger Max Planck Society
Matthias Eder
Matthias Eder Max Planck Society
Carsten T. Wotjak
Carsten T. Wotjak Max Planck Society
Beat Lutz
Beat Lutz Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Jan M. Deussing
Jan M. Deussing Max Planck Society
Giovanni Marsicano
Giovanni Marsicano University of Bordeaux
Marianne B. Müller
Marianne B. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society

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