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Overview

John P. Bruno is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans neuroscience and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including molecular biology, developmental neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work cover neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, mechanical circulatory support devices, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, as well as nicotinic acetylcholine receptors study.

Bruno has contributed to multiple research articles published across various scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Activation of alpha7 nicotinic and NMDA receptors is necessary for performance in a working memory task, 2020, Psychopharmacology
  • Restoring tripartite glutamatergic synapses: A potential therapy for mood and cognitive deficits in Gulf War illness, 2020, Neurobiology of Stress
  • Excitatory amino acid transporter 1 supports adult hippocampal neural stem cell self-renewal, 2023, iScience
  • Enhancing the resolution of behavioral measures: Key observations during a forty year career in behavioral neuroscience, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Successful Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Despite Aortic Occlusion, 2024, ASAIO Journal

Frequent co-authors in their research include Valentina Valentini, Joshua D. Rieskamp, Ileanexis Rosado-Burgos, Jacob E. Christofi, and Eliza Ansar.

Their publications appear in a range of specialized journals such as Psychopharmacology, Neurobiology of Stress, iScience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, and ASAIO Journal.

Best Publications

  • The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: where top-down meets bottom-up.

    Martin Sarter;Ben Givens;John P Bruno

  • Kynurenines in the mammalian brain: when physiology meets pathology

    Robert Schwarcz;John P. Bruno;Paul J. Muchowski;Hui-Qiu Wu

  • Cognitive functions of cortical acetylcholine: toward a unifying hypothesis

    Martin Sarter;John P Bruno

  • Unraveling the attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: interactions between signal-driven and cognitive modulation of signal detection.

    Martin Sarter;Michael E. Hasselmo;John P. Bruno;Ben Givens

  • Cortical cholinergic inputs mediating arousal, attentional processing and dreaming: differential afferent regulation of the basal forebrain by telencephalic and brainstem afferents.

    M Sarter;J.P Bruno

  • Increases in cortical acetylcholine release during sustained attention performance in rats.

    Anne Marie Himmelheber;Martin Sarter;John P Bruno

  • Attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: what does it mean for learning and memory?

    Martin Sarter;John P. Bruno;Ben Givens

  • Apparent sprouting of striatal serotonergic terminals after dopamine-depleting brain lesions in neonatal rats

    Michal K. Stachowiak;John P. Bruno;Abigail M. Snyder;Edward M. Stricker

  • Differential cortical acetylcholine release in rats performing a sustained attention task versus behavioral control tasks that do not explicitly tax attention

    H.M Arnold;J.A Burk;E.M Hodgson;M Sarter

  • Cortical Cholinergic Transmission and Cortical Information Processing in Schizophrenia

    Martin Sarter;Christopher L Nelson;John P Bruno

  • Abnormal regulation of corticopetal cholinergic neurons and impaired information processing in neuropsychiatric disorders

    Martin Sarter;John P. Bruno

  • Developmental origins of the age-related decline in cortical cholinergic function and associated cognitive abilities.

    Martin Sarter;John P Bruno

  • Augmented Prefrontal Acetylcholine Release during Challenged Attentional Performance

    Rouba Kozak;John P. Bruno;Martin Sarter

  • The Astrocyte-Derived α7 Nicotinic Receptor Antagonist Kynurenic Acid Controls Extracellular Glutamate Levels in the Prefrontal Cortex

    Hui-Qiu Wu;Edna F. R. Pereira;John P. Bruno;Roberto Pellicciari

  • Acute elevations of brain kynurenic acid impair cognitive flexibility: normalization by the alpha7 positive modulator galantamine

    Kathleen S. Alexander;Hui-Qiu Wu;Robert Schwarcz;John P. Bruno

  • Prefrontal cortical modulation of acetylcholine release in posterior parietal cortex.

    C.L. Nelson;M. Sarter;J.P. Bruno

  • Ceramic-based multisite microelectrode arrays for simultaneous measures of choline and acetylcholine in CNS.

    Jason J. Burmeister;Francois Pomerleau;Peter Huettl;Clelland R. Gash

  • Activating the damaged basal forebrain cholinergic system: tonic stimulation versus signal amplification

    M. Sarter;J. P. Bruno;P. Dudchenko

  • Astrocyte‐derived kynurenic acid modulates basal and evoked cortical acetylcholine release

    A. Zmarowski;H.-Q. Wu;J. M. Brooks;M. C. Potter

  • Basal Forebrain Afferent Projections Modulating Cortical Acetylcholine, Attention, and Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    Martin Sarter;John P. Bruno;Janita Turchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Sarter
Martin Sarter University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Maria Hadjiconstantinou
Maria Hadjiconstantinou The Ohio State University
Paul A. Dudchenko
Paul A. Dudchenko University of Stirling
Greg A. Gerhardt
Greg A. Gerhardt University of Kentucky
Jean-Jacques Soghomonian
Jean-Jacques Soghomonian Boston University
Vinay Parikh
Vinay Parikh Temple University
Norton H. Neff
Norton H. Neff The Ohio State University
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Michael J. Zigmond
Michael J. Zigmond University of Pittsburgh
Laurent Descarries
Laurent Descarries University of Montreal

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