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Jeffrey G. Tasker

Jeffrey G. Tasker

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
10247
World Ranking
6152
National Ranking
2687

Overview

Jeffrey G. Tasker is affiliated with Tulane University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, contributing to both fields through numerous publications. Tasker's work primarily focuses on neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, with additional interests in stress responses and cortisol, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, circadian rhythm and melatonin, memory and neural mechanisms, and the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

Tasker has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequently publishing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), they have also contributed to the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, Nature, Nature Communications, and Cell Reports. Their work is well represented across these platforms, indicating an active engagement with both preprints and peer-reviewed journals.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Tasker include:

  • "Somato-dendritic vasopressin and oxytocin secretion in endocrine and autonomic regulation" (2020, Journal of Neuroendocrinology)
  • "Top-down control of flight by a non-canonical cortico-amygdala pathway" (2024, Nature)
  • "Gq neuromodulation of BLA parvalbumin interneurons induces burst firing and mediates fear-associated network and behavioral state transition in mice" (2022, Nature Communications)
  • "Advances in the neurophysiology of magnocellular neuroendocrine cells" (2020, Journal of Neuroendocrinology)
  • "The interplay between glutamatergic circuits and oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus and its relevance to neurodevelopmental disorders" (2021, Journal of Neuroendocrinology)

Tasker's frequent collaborators include Claire E. Stelly, Xin Fu, Jonathan P. Fadok, Мария Дорофейкова, and Samhita Basavanhalli, reflecting a diverse team of researchers engaged in related fields and studies.

Tasker's research contributions cover several subfields within neuroscience and psychology such as social psychology, behavioral neuroscience, endocrine and autonomic systems, cognitive neuroscience, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. These subfields highlight the multidisciplinary nature of their scientific inquiries.

Best Publications

  • Nongenomic Glucocorticoid Inhibition via Endocannabinoid Release in the Hypothalamus: A Fast Feedback Mechanism

    Shi Di;Renato Malcher-Lopes;Katalin Cs. Halmos;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Minireview: rapid glucocorticoid signaling via membrane-associated receptors.

    Jeffrey G. Tasker;Shi Di;Renato Malcher-Lopes

  • Physiological Mapping of Local Inhibitory Inputs to the Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus

    Cherif Boudaba;Kriszta Szabó;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Fast feedback inhibition of the HPA axis by glucocorticoids is mediated by endocannabinoid signaling.

    Nathan K. Evanson;Jeffrey G. Tasker;Matthew N. Hill;Matthew N. Hill;Cecilia J. Hillard

  • Endocannabinoid signaling, glucocorticoid-mediated negative feedback, and regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

    M.N. Hill;J.G. Tasker

  • Local circuit regulation of paraventricular nucleus stress integration Glutamate: GABA connections

    James P. Herman;Jeffrey G. Tasker;Dana R. Ziegler;William E. Cullinan

  • Mechanisms of rapid glucocorticoid feedback inhibition of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis

    Jeffrey G Tasker;James P Herman

  • Rapid Glucocorticoid-Mediated Endocannabinoid Release and Opposing Regulation of Glutamate and γ-Aminobutyric Acid Inputs to Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons

    Shi Di;Renato Malcher-Lopes;Victor L. Marcheselli;Nicolas G. Bazan

  • Opposing Crosstalk between Leptin and Glucocorticoids Rapidly Modulates Synaptic Excitation via Endocannabinoid Release

    Renato Malcher-Lopes;Shi Di;Victor S. Marcheselli;Feng-Ju Weng

  • Functional Interactions between Stress and the Endocannabinoid System: From Synaptic Signaling to Behavioral Output

    Matthew N. Hill;Sachin Patel;Patrizia Campolongo;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Electrophysiological properties of neurones in the region of the paraventricular nucleus in slices of rat hypothalamus.

    J G Tasker;F E Dudek

  • Glucocorticoids Regulate Glutamate and GABA Synapse-Specific Retrograde Transmission via Divergent Nongenomic Signaling Pathways

    Shi Di;Marc M. Maxson;Alier Franco;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • OSMOLALITY-INDUCED CHANGES IN EXTRACELLULAR VOLUME ALTER EPILEPTIFORM BURSTS INDEPENDENT OF CHEMICAL SYNAPSES IN THE RAT : IMPORTANCE OF NON-SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS IN HIPPOCAMPAL EPILEPTOGENESIS

    F.Edward Dudek;Andre Obenaus;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Paraventricular Hypothalamic Mechanisms of Chronic Stress Adaptation.

    James P. Herman;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Role of the paraventricular nucleus microenvironment in stress integration.

    James P. Herman;William E. Cullinan;Dana R. Ziegler;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Physiological Evidence for Local Excitatory Synaptic Circuits in the Rat Hypothalamus

    Cherif Boudaba;Laura A. Schrader;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Voltage‐gated currents distinguish parvocellular from magnocellular neurones in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

    Jason A. Luther;Jeffrey G. Tasker

  • Chronic stress-induced neurotransmitter plasticity in the PVN.

    Jonathan N. Flak;Michelle M. Ostrander;Jeffrey G. Tasker;James P. Herman

  • Presynaptic Modulation by Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Inputs to Hypothalamic Magnocellular Neurons

    L. A. Schrader;J. G. Tasker

  • Noradrenergic Excitation of Magnocellular Neurons in the Rat Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus via Intranuclear Glutamatergic Circuits

    Shabrine S. Daftary;Cherif Boudaba;Kriszta Szabó;Jeffrey G. Tasker

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Herman
James P. Herman University of Cincinnati
F. Edward Dudek
F. Edward Dudek University of Utah
Warwick J. Peacock
Warwick J. Peacock University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew N. Hill
Matthew N. Hill University of Calgary
Nicolas G. Bazan
Nicolas G. Bazan Louisiana State University
Mike Ludwig
Mike Ludwig University of Edinburgh
William E. Cullinan
William E. Cullinan Marquette University
Dominique A. Poulain
Dominique A. Poulain Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Yoichi Ueta
Yoichi Ueta University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan
Dionysia T. Theodosis
Dionysia T. Theodosis Grenoble Alpes University

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