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Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

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Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
6564
World Ranking
8081
National Ranking
3469

Overview

Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans various subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The research topics covered by Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos focus on neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neuroscience and neural engineering, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, and zebrafish biomedical research applications.

Recent publications include:

  • A Signaled Locomotor Avoidance Action Is Fully Represented in the Neural Activity of the Midbrain Tegmentum, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Zona Incerta GABAergic Output Controls a Signaled Locomotor Action in the Midbrain Tegmentum, 2020, eNeuro
  • Basal Ganglia Output Has a Permissive Non-Driving Role in a Signaled Locomotor Action Mediated by the Midbrain, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Bidirectional Control of Orienting Behavior by the Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata: Distinct Significance of Head and Whisker Movements, 2021, eNeuro
  • Caution Influences Avoidance and Approach Behaviors Differently, 2022, Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Castro-Alamancos include:

  • Sebastián Hormigo
  • Ji He Zhou
  • Dorian Chabbert
  • Natan Busel
  • Muhammad Sajid

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Neuroscience (4 publications)
  • eNeuro (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • eLife (2 publications)
  • BIO-PROTOCOL (1 publication)

Best Publications

  • Cortico-cortical connectivity of the human mid-dorsolateral frontal cortex and its modulation by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Tomáš Paus;Manuel A. Castro‐Alamancos;Michael Petrides

  • Different forms of synaptic plasticity in somatosensory and motor areas of the neocortex

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;John P. Donoghue;Barry W. Connors

  • Absence of Rapid Sensory Adaptation in Neocortex during Information Processing States

    Manuel A Castro-Alamancos

  • Cortical sensory suppression during arousal is due to the activity‐dependent depression of thalamocortical synapses

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Elizabeth Oldford

  • Functional recovery of forelimb response capacity after forelimb primary motor cortex damage in the rat is due to the reorganization of adjacent areas of cortex.

    M.A. Castro-Alamancos;J. Borrell

  • Dynamics of sensory thalamocortical synaptic networks during information processing states.

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • Properties of Primary Sensory (Lemniscal) Synapses in the Ventrobasal Thalamus and the Relay of High-Frequency Sensory Inputs

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • Presynaptic Long-Term Potentiation in Corticothalamic Synapses

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Maria E. Calcagnotto

  • Different temporal processing of sensory inputs in the rat thalamus during quiescent and information processing states in vivo.

    Manuel A. Castro‐Alamancos

  • Thalamocortical Up States: Differential Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cortical Inputs on Persistent Activity

    Pavlos Rigas;Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • Input-specific effects of acetylcholine on sensory and intracortical evoked responses in the "barrel cortex" in vivo.

    E Oldford;M.A Castro-Alamancos

  • Cellular Mechanisms of the Augmenting Response: Short-Term Plasticity in a Thalamocortical Pathway

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Barry W. Connors

  • Short-term plasticity of a thalamocortical pathway dynamically modulated by behavioral state.

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Barry W. Connors

  • Noradrenergic activation amplifies bottom-up and top-down signal-to-noise ratios in sensory thalamus.

    Akio Hirata;Juan Aguilar;Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • Short-term synaptic enhancement and long-term potentiation in neocortex

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Barry W. Connors

  • Spatiotemporal properties of short-term plasticity sensorimotor thalamocortical pathways of the rat

    MA Castro-Alamancos;BW Connors

  • Neocortex Network Activation and Deactivation States Controlled by the Thalamus

    Akio Hirata;Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • Role of Thalamocortical Sensory Suppression during Arousal: Focusing Sensory Inputs in Neocortex

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos

  • High-Pass Filtering of Corticothalamic Activity by Neuromodulators Released in the Thalamus During Arousal: In Vitro and In Vivo

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Maria E. Calcagnotto

  • Long-term depression of glutamate-induced gamma-aminobutyric acid release in cerebellum by insulin-like growth factor I.

    Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos;Ignacio Torres-Aleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry W. Connors
Barry W. Connors Brown University
Ignacio Torres-Aleman
Ignacio Torres-Aleman Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience
Carmen Sandi
Carmen Sandi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Luis M. Garcia-Segura
Luis M. Garcia-Segura Spanish National Research Council
Michael Petrides
Michael Petrides McGill University
Asaf Keller
Asaf Keller University of Maryland, Baltimore
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld University of California, San Diego
Kevin D. Alloway
Kevin D. Alloway Pennsylvania State University
Ehud Ahissar
Ehud Ahissar Weizmann Institute of Science

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