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Overview

Michael Browning is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields related to brain function and mental health, focusing primarily on neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Browning has contributed extensively to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in Browning's work include mental health research, the treatment of major depression, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and bipolar disorder and treatment.

Frequent collaborators in Browning's research include Catherine J. Harmer, Philip J. Cowen, Quentin J. M. Huys, Erdem Pulcu, and John Geddes.

Browning's publications have appeared in a variety of journals, with a particular concentration in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Translational Psychiatry

Selected recent publications by Michael Browning illustrate the range and focus of their research interests:

  • Advances in the computational understanding of mental illness, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • From structure to clinic: Design of a muscarinic M1 receptor agonist with the potential to treat Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Cell
  • Fifty years on: Serotonin and depression, 2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • A leaky umbrella has little value: evidence clearly indicates the serotonin system is implicated in depression, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • The promise of layer-specific neuroimaging for testing predictive coding theories of psychosis, 2020, Schizophrenia Research

Best Publications

  • Anxious individuals have difficulty learning the causal statistics of aversive environments

    Michael Browning;Timothy E Behrens;Gerhard Jocham;Jill X O'Reilly

  • LTP leads to rapid surface expression of NMDA but not AMPA receptors in adult rat CA1.

    D. R. Grosshans;D. A. Clayton;S. J. Coultrap;M. D. Browning

  • G-protein-coupled receptors act via protein kinase C and Src to regulate NMDA receptors.

    W Y Lu;Z G Xiong;S Lei;B A Orser

  • What has serotonin to do with depression

    Philip J. Cowen;Michael Browning

  • A Hippocampal NR2B Deficit Can Mimic Age-Related Changes in Long-Term Potentiation and Spatial Learning in the Fischer 344 Rat

    Daniel A. Clayton;Michael H. Mesches;Michael H. Mesches;Enriquez Alvarez;Paula C. Bickford;Paula C. Bickford

  • The modification of attentional bias to emotional information: A review of the techniques, mechanisms, and relevance to emotional disorders.

    Michael Browning;Emily A. Holmes;Catherine J. Harmer

  • Maintenance of late-phase LTP is accompanied by PKA-dependent increase in AMPA receptor synthesis

    Asha Nayak;Devon J. Zastrow;Ronald Lickteig;Nancy R. Zahniser

  • Protein phosphorylation and neuronal function.

    Michael D. Browning;Richard Huganir;Paul Greengard

  • Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Cognitive Modification of Attentional Bias

    Michael Browning;Emily A. Holmes;Susannah E. Murphy;Guy M. Goodwin

  • Using attentional bias modification as a cognitive vaccine against depression.

    Michael Browning;Emily A. Holmes;Matthew Charles;Philip J. Cowen

  • Positive Imagery-Based Cognitive Bias Modification as a Web-Based Treatment Tool for Depressed Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

    Simon E. Blackwell;Michael Browning;Andrew Mathews;Arnaud Pictet

  • A single dose of citalopram increases fear recognition in healthy subjects.

    M Browning;C Reid;Philip J. Cowen;Guy M Goodwin

  • Regional and subunit specific changes in NMDA receptor mRNA and immunoreactivity in mouse brain following chronic ethanol ingestion.

    Lawrence D. Snell;Karin R. Nunley;Ronald L. Lickteig;Michael D. Browning

  • Caloric restriction prevents age-related deficits in LTP and in NMDA receptor expression.

    Karen Eckles-Smith;Daniel Clayton;Paula Bickford;Michael D Browning

  • Modulation of Synaptic GABAA Receptor Function by PKA and PKC in Adult Hippocampal Neurons

    Pierrick Poisbeau;Michael C. Cheney;Michael D. Browning;Istvan Mody

  • Synaptic phosphoproteins: specific changes after repetitive stimulation of the hippocampal slice

    Michael Browning;Thomas Dunwiddie;William Bennett;Willem Gispen

  • Protein kinase C and cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylate the beta subunit of the purified gamma-aminobutyric acid A receptor.

    Michael D. Browning;Michel Bureau;Ellen M. Dudek;Richard W. Olsen

  • Phospho-regulation of synaptic and extrasynaptic N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors in adult hippocampal slices.

    S.M. Goebel-Goody;K.D. Davies;R.M. Alvestad Linger;R.K. Freund

  • Significant reductions in synapsin but not synaptophysin specific activity in the brains of some schizophrenics

    Michael D. Browning;Ellen M. Dudek;Jennifer L. Rapier;Sherry Leonard

  • Hippocampal plasticity induced by primed burst, but not long-term potentiation, stimulation is impaired in area CA1 of aged Fischer 344 rats

    Christopher I. Moore;Michael D. Browning;Gregory M. Rose

  • Anxious Individuals Have Difficulty Learning the Causal Statistics of Aversive Environments

    M Browning;T E Behrens;G Jocham;J X O'Reillly

  • A single dose of citaloprarn increases fear recognition in healthy subjects

    M Browning

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Guy M. Goodwin
Guy M. Goodwin University of Oxford
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
Paula C. Bickford
Paula C. Bickford University of South Florida
Colin T. Dourish
Colin T. Dourish University of Oxford
Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Nils Inge Landrø
Nils Inge Landrø University of Oslo
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London
Ray Norbury
Ray Norbury Brunel University London
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg

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