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Overview

Michael Gabriel is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans multiple aspects of neuroscience and molecular biology, with additional contributions in the fields of biochemistry and genetics.

The scientist's recent publications cover diverse topics involving neuroanatomy, developmental biology, and neurophysiological mechanisms. These works include:

  • ASSIGNING ISOFORM-SPECIFIC ROLES TO TCF7L2 DURING THALAMIC DEVELOPMENT IN MICE, 2023, IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Genoarchitecture of the Early Postmitotic Pretectum and the Role of Wnt Signaling in Shaping Pretectal Neurochemical Anatomy in Zebrafish, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • Medical Students Perception of Anatomage: A 3D Interactive (Virtual) Anatomy Dissection Table, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • MMP-2/9 inhibition modulates sharp wave abundance, inhibitory proteoglycan sulfation, and fear memory in juvenile zebrafish: relevance to affective disorders, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with depression: an electric field modeling meta-analysis, 2024, Neuroscience Applied

Their frequent co-authors include Marcin Andrzej Lipiec, M. Wisniewska, Ismary Blanco, Samantha Deasy, and Matthew Amontree.

Michael Gabriel has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Molecular Psychiatry

The main fields of study for their research are Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields include Molecular Biology, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work frequently addresses key topics such as:

  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Anatomy and Medical Technology

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of Cingulate Cortex and Limbic Thalamus

    Brent A. Vogt;Michael Gabriel

  • Neurobiology of cingulate cortex and limbic thalamus : a comprehensive handbook

    Brent A. Vogt;Michael Gabriel

  • Discriminative Avoidance Learning: A Model System

    Michael Gabriel

  • Chapter 23 Functions of anterior and posterior cingulate cortex during avoidance learning in rabbits

    Michael Gabriel

  • Effects of cingulate cortical lesions on avoidance learning and training-induced unit activity in rabbits

    M. Gabriel;Y. Kubota;S. Sparenborg;K. Straube

  • Hippocampal control of cingulate cortical and anterior thalamic information processing during learning in rabbits.

    M. Gabriel;S. P. Sparenborg;N. Stolar

  • Conditioning and reversal of short-latency multiple-unit responses in the rabbit medial geniculate nucleus.

    Michael Gabriel;Steven E. Saltwick;Joseph D. Miller

  • Amygdalar Lesions Block Discriminative Avoidance Learning and Cingulothalamic Training-Induced Neuronal Plasticity in Rabbits

    Amy Poremba;Michael Gabriel

  • Training-stage related neuronal plasticity in limbic thalamus and cingulate cortex during learning: a possible key to mnemonic retrieval.

    Michael Gabriel;Brent A. Vogt;Yasuo Kubota;Amy Poremba

  • Basolateral amygdaloid multi-unit neuronal correlates of discriminative avoidance learning in rabbits.

    Stephen Maren;Amy Poremba;Michael Gabriel

  • Context-specific multi-site cingulate cortical, limbic thalamic, and hippocampal neuronal activity during concurrent discriminative approach and avoidance training in rabbits

    JH Freeman;C Cuppernell;K Flannery;M Gabriel

  • Multiple-unit activity of the rabbit medial geniculate nucleus in conditioning, extinction, and reversal

    Michael Gabriel;Joseph D. Miller;Steven E. Saltwick

  • Anterior thalamic lesions and neuronal activity in the cingulate and retrosplenial cortices during discriminative avoidance behavior in rabbits.

    Michael Gabriel;Richard W. Lambert;Kent Foster;Edward Orona

  • Amygdala neurons mediate acquisition but not maintenance of instrumental avoidance behavior in rabbits.

    Amy Poremba;Michael Gabriel

  • Amygdalar Efferents Initiate Auditory Thalamic Discriminative Training-Induced Neuronal Activity

    Amy Poremba;Michael Gabriel

  • Multiple-unit activity of the prefrontal cortex and mediodorsal thalamic nucleus during reversal learning of discriminative avoidance behavior in rabbits.

    Edward Orona;Michael Gabriel

  • Anterior and medial thalamic lesions, discriminative avoidance learning, and cingulate cortical neuronal activity in rabbits.

    M Gabriel;S Sparenborg;Y Kubota

  • Unit activity in cingulate cortex and anteroventral thalamus of the rabbit during differential conditioning and reversal.

    Michael Gabriel;Joseph D. Miller;Steven E. Saltwick

  • Interaction of laminae of the cingulate cortex with the anteroventral thalamus during behavioral learning

    Michael Gabriel;Kent Foster;Edward Orona

  • Hippocampal modulation of cingulo-thalamic neuronal activity and discriminative avoidance learning in rabbits.

    E. Kang;M. Gabriel

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Freeman
John H. Freeman University of Iowa
Brent A. Vogt
Brent A. Vogt Boston University
Joseph E. Steinmetz
Joseph E. Steinmetz The Ohio State University
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin University of South Florida
Stephen Maren
Stephen Maren University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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