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56
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15049
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4460
National Ranking
2020

Overview

Michael T. Williams is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work covers key topics such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, memory and neural mechanisms, pesticide exposure and toxicity, as well as radiation therapy and dosimetry.

Williams has published numerous papers in frequent venues including:

  • Neurotoxicology and Teratology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Genes Brain & Behavior
  • Current Research in Toxicology

Representative recent papers include:

  • Review of rodent models of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Effects of pyrethroids on brain development and behavior: Deltamethrin, 2021, Neurotoxicology and Teratology
  • Chronic psychosocial stress during pregnancy affects maternal behavior and neuroendocrine function and modulates hypothalamic CRH and nuclear steroid receptor expression, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Translating Neurobehavioral Toxicity Across Species From Zebrafish to Rats to Humans: Implications for Risk Assessment, 2021, Frontiers in Toxicology
  • The potassium channel Kv4.2 regulates dendritic spine morphology, electroencephalographic characteristics and seizure susceptibility in mice, 2020, Experimental Neurology

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors such as:

  • Charles V. Vorhees
  • Samantha L. Regan
  • Chiho Sugimoto
  • Adam L. Fritz
  • Emily M. Pitzer

Throughout their career, Williams has contributed to advancing knowledge on neurobehavioral toxicity, neuropharmacology, and behavioral effects influenced by environmental factors. Their research integrates multidisciplinary approaches to understand the neural mechanisms underlying behavior and disorders.

Best Publications

  • Morris water maze: procedures for assessing spatial and related forms of learning and memory

    Charles V Vorhees;Michael T Williams

  • Assessing spatial learning and memory in rodents.

    Charles V. Vorhees;Michael T. Williams

  • Plasma Cortisol Levels of Dogs at a County Animal Shelter

    Michael B Hennessy;Harry N Davis;Michael T Williams;Carolyn Mellott

  • Influence of male and female petters on plasma cortisol and behaviour: can human interaction reduce the stress of dogs in a public animal shelter?

    Michael B Hennessy;Michael T. Williams;Deborah D Miller;Chet W Douglas

  • Hypoxia-Ischemia Induces DNA Synthesis without Cell Proliferation in Dying Neurons in Adult Rodent Brain

    Chia Yi Kuan;Aryn J. Schloemer;Aigang Lu;Aigang Lu;Kevin A. Burns

  • Deficiency in Na,K-ATPase α Isoform Genes Alters Spatial Learning, Motor Activity, and Anxiety in Mice

    Amy E. Moseley;Michael T. Williams;Tori L. Schaefer;Cynthia S. Bohanan

  • The effects of neonatal isoflurane exposure in mice on brain cell viability, adult behavior, learning, and memory.

    Andreas W. Loepke;George K. Istaphanous;John J. Mcauliffe;Lili Miles

  • Comparison of the elevated plus and elevated zero mazes in treated and untreated male Sprague-Dawley rats: effects of anxiolytic and anxiogenic agents.

    Amanda A. Braun;Matthew R. Skelton;Charles V. Vorhees;Michael T. Williams

  • Neuronopathic Gaucher disease in the mouse: viable combined selective saposin C deficiency and mutant glucocerebrosidase (V394L) mice with glucosylsphingosine and glucosylceramide accumulation and progressive neurological deficits

    Ying Ying Sun;Benjamin Liou;Huimin Ran;Matthew R. Skelton

  • Impaired spatial and sequential learning in rats treated neonatally with D-fenfluramine.

    L. L. Morford;S. L. Inman-Wood;G. A. Gudelsky;M. T. Williams

  • Value of water mazes for assessing spatial and egocentric learning and memory in rodent basic research and regulatory studies.

    Charles V. Vorhees;Michael T. Williams

  • Creatine Transporter (CrT; Slc6a8) Knockout Mice as a Model of Human CrT Deficiency

    Matthew R. Skelton;Tori L. Schaefer;Devon L. Graham;Ton J. deGrauw

  • Na,K-ATPase and the role of α isoforms in behavior

    Jerry B. Lingrel;Jerry B. Lingrel;Michael T. Williams;Michael T. Williams;Charles V. Vorhees;Charles V. Vorhees;Amy E. Moseley;Amy E. Moseley

  • Protein phosphorylation in nervous tissue: possible involvement in nervous tissue function and relationship to cyclic nucleotide metabolism

    Michael Williams;Richard Rodnight

  • Refining the critical period for methamphetamine-induced spatial deficits in the Morris water maze

    Michael T. Williams;Mary S. Moran;Charles V. Vorhees

  • Abnormal neurodevelopment, neurosignaling and behaviour in Npas3-deficient mice

    Eric W. Brunskill;Lisa A. Ehrman;Michael T. Williams;Justin Klanke

  • Developmental D‐methamphetamine treatment selectively induces spatial navigation impairments in reference memory in the Morris water maze while sparing working memory

    Michael T. Williams;Laronda L. Morford;Sandra L. Wood;Tanya L. Wallace

  • Effect of +-methamphetamine on path integration learning, novel object recognition, and neurotoxicity in rats.

    Nicole R. Herring;Tori L. Schaefer;Gary A. Gudelsky;Charles V. Vorhees

  • 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine in adult rats produces deficits in path integration and spatial reference memory.

    Jessica A. Able;Gary A. Gudelsky;Gary A. Gudelsky;Charles V. Vorhees;Michael T. Williams

  • Long-term effects of neonatal methamphetamine exposure in rats on spatial learning in the Barnes maze and on cliff avoidance, corticosterone release,and neurotoxicity in adulthood

    Michael T Williams;Tracy L Blankenmeyer;Tori L Schaefer;Carrie A Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim B. Seroogy
Kim B. Seroogy University of Cincinnati
Michael B. Hennessy
Michael B. Hennessy Wright State University
Daniel W. Nebert
Daniel W. Nebert University of Cincinnati
Neil M. Richtand
Neil M. Richtand University of California - San Diego School of Medicine
Bruce J. Aronow
Bruce J. Aronow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Richard M. Kostrzewa
Richard M. Kostrzewa East Tennessee State University
Kenneth Campbell
Kenneth Campbell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Lance A. Smith
Lance A. Smith King's College London
Donald P. Cain
Donald P. Cain University of Western Ontario

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