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Overview

Jerome M. Siegel is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable contributions to subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Epidemiology.

The main topics covered in Siegel's research include:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Restless Legs Syndrome Research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Some of the recent papers by Jerome M. Siegel are:

  • Sleep function: an evolutionary perspective (2022), published in The Lancet Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Siegel include:

  • Oleg I. Lyamin
  • R. L. McGregor
  • Thomas C. Thannickal
  • E. A. Nazarenko
  • John W. Winkelman

Siegel's publications often appear in venues such as:

  • SLEEP
  • Doklady Biological Sciences
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Revue Neurologique

Best Publications

  • Reduced number of hypocretin neurons in human narcolepsy.

    Thomas C. Thannickal;Robert Y. Moore;Robert Nienhuis;Lalini Ramanathan

  • Clues to the functions of mammalian sleep

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Behavioral correlates of activity in identified hypocretin/orexin neurons

    Boris Y. Mileykovskiy;Boris Y. Mileykovskiy;Lyudmila I. Kiyashchenko;Lyudmila I. Kiyashchenko;Jerome M. Siegel;Jerome M. Siegel

  • The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Hypocretin (orexin) cell loss in Parkinson's disease

    Thomas C. Thannickal;Yuan Yang Lai;Jerome M. Siegel

  • Sleep viewed as a state of adaptive inactivity.

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Do all animals sleep

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Release of Hypocretin (Orexin) during Waking and Sleep States

    Lyudmila I. Kiyashchenko;Boris Y. Mileykovskiy;Boris Y. Mileykovskiy;Boris Y. Mileykovskiy;Nigel Maidment;Hoa A. Lam

  • Natural sleep and its seasonal variations in three pre-industrial societies.

    Gandhi Yetish;Hillard Kaplan;Michael Gurven;Brian M. Wood

  • Unearthing the Phylogenetic Roots of Sleep

    Ravi Allada;Jerome M. Siegel

  • Behavioral functions of the reticular formation.

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Locus coeruleus neurons : cessation of activity during cataplexy

    M.-F Wu;S.A Gulyani;E Yau;E Mignot

  • Cetacean sleep: an unusual form of mammalian sleep.

    Oleg I. Lyamin;Paul R. Manger;Sam H. Ridgway;Lev M. Mukhametov

  • Sleep deprivation decreases superoxide dismutase activity in rat hippocampus and brainstem.

    Lalini Ramanathan;Seema Gulyani;Robert Nienhuis;Jerome M. Siegel

  • Hypocretin (orexin): role in normal behavior and neuropathology.

    Jerome M. Siegel

  • Localized loss of hypocretin (orexin) cells in narcolepsy without cataplexy

    Thomas C. Thannickal;Robert Nienhuis;Jerome M. Siegel;Jerome M. Siegel

  • Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: Devising controlled active treatment studies for symptomatic and neuroprotective therapy-a consensus statement from the International Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group

    C. H. Schenck;J. Y. Montplaisir;B. Frauscher;B. Hogl

  • Systemic and nasal delivery of orexin-A (Hypocretin-1) reduces the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance in nonhuman primates.

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Linda Porrino;Jerome M. Siegel;Robert E. Hampson

  • Sensation Seeking and Cortical Augmenting-Reducing

    Marvin Zuckerman;Thomas Murtaugh;Jerome Siegel

  • GABA release in the locus coeruleus as a function of sleep/wake state.

    D. Nitz;J.M. Siegel

  • Narcolepsy: A Key Role for Hypocretins (Orexins)

    Jerome M Siegel

  • Medullary regions mediating atonia

    YY Lai;JM Siegel

  • Sleep: a functional enigma.

    Robert Greene;Jerome Siegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Manger
Paul R. Manger University of the Witwatersrand
Dennis McGinty
Dennis McGinty University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald Szymusiak
Ronald Szymusiak University of California, Los Angeles
John H. Peever
John H. Peever University of Toronto
Nigel T. Maidment
Nigel T. Maidment University of California, Los Angeles
John D. Pettigrew
John D. Pettigrew University of Queensland
Birendra Nath Mallick
Birendra Nath Mallick Jawaharlal Nehru University
Mehdi Tafti
Mehdi Tafti University of Lausanne
Douglas A. Nitz
Douglas A. Nitz University of California, San Diego
Nigel C. Bennett
Nigel C. Bennett University of Pretoria

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