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Nathalie Leresche

Nathalie Leresche

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
6422
World Ranking
8309
National Ranking
383

Overview

Nathalie Leresche is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The scientist's work notably addresses subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research topics focus on Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders, Epilepsy Research and Treatment, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Régis C. Lambert
  • Sophie L. Fayad
  • Guillaume Ourties
  • Benjamin Le Gac
  • Baptiste Jouffre

Key recent publications by Nathalie Leresche comprise:

  • Clinical and experimental insight into pathophysiology, comorbidity and therapy of absence seizures, 2020, Brain
  • Centrally expressed Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel is critical for the initiation and maintenance of neuropathic pain, 2022, eLife
  • Centrally expressed Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel is critical for the initiation and maintenance of neuropathic pain, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The venues where Nathalie has published include:

  • Brain
  • eLife
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Childhood absence epilepsy: genes, channels, neurons and networks.

    Vincenzo Crunelli;Nathalie Leresche

  • Calcium entry increases the sensitivity of cerebellar Purkinje cells to applied GABA and decreases inhibitory synaptic currents

    I. Llano;N. Leresche;A. Marty

  • A role for GABAB receptors in excitation and inhibition of thalamocortical cells.

    Vincenzo Crunelli;Nathalie Leresche

  • Intracellular recordings in thalamic neurones during spontaneous spike and wave discharges in rats with absence epilepsy

    Didier Pinault;Nathalie Leresche;Stéphane Charpier;Jean-Michel Deniau

  • Essential Thalamic Contribution to Slow Waves of Natural Sleep

    François David;Joscha T. Schmiedt;Joscha T. Schmiedt;Hannah L. Taylor;Gergely Orban

  • Selective T-Type Calcium Channel Block in Thalamic Neurons Reveals Channel Redundancy and Physiological Impact of ITwindow

    Fanny M Dreyfus;Anne Tscherter;Adam C Errington;John J Renger

  • On the Action of the Anti-Absence Drug Ethosuximide in the Rat and Cat Thalamus

    Nathalie Leresche;H. Rheinallt Parri;Gül Erdemli;Alice Guyon

  • Cl‐ ‐ and K+‐dependent inhibitory postsynaptic potentials evoked by interneurones of the rat lateral geniculate nucleus.

    V Crunelli;M Haby;D Jassik-Gerschenfeld;N Leresche

  • Cortical-area specific block of genetically determined absence seizures by ethosuximide

    J. P. A. Manning;D. A. Richards;N Leresche;Vincenzo Crunelli

  • Clinical and experimental insight into pathophysiology, comorbidity and therapy of absence seizures

    Vincenzo Crunelli;Vincenzo Crunelli;Magor L Lőrincz;Magor L Lőrincz;Cian McCafferty;Régis C Lambert

  • Activity of Thalamic Reticular Neurons during Spontaneous Genetically Determined Spike and Wave Discharges

    Seán J. Slaght;Nathalie Leresche;Jean-Michel Deniau;Vincenzo Crunelli

  • Unravelling the brain targets of γ-hydroxybutyric acid

    Vincenzo Crunelli;Zsuzsa Emri;Nathalie Leresche

  • Dual function of thalamic low-vigilance state oscillations: rhythm-regulation and plasticity.

    Vincenzo Crunelli;Vincenzo Crunelli;Magor L. Lőrincz;William M. Connelly;François David

  • Cortical drive and thalamic feed-forward inhibition control thalamic output synchrony during absence seizures

    Cian McCafferty;Cian McCafferty;François David;François David;Marcello Venzi;Magor L Lőrincz

  • The GABAB antagonist phaclofen inhibits the late K+-dependent IPSP in cat and rat thalamic and hippocampal neurones.

    Ivan Soltesz;Matthias Haby;Nathalie Leresche;Vincenzo Crunelli

  • Pacemaker-like and other types of spontaneous membrane potential oscillations of thalamocortical cells

    Nathalie Leresche;Dora Jassik-Gerschenfeld;Matthias Haby;Ivan Soltesz

  • From sleep spindles of natural sleep to spike and wave discharges of typical absence seizures: is the hypothesis still valid?

    Nathalie Leresche;Régis C. Lambert;Régis C. Lambert;Adam Clarke Errington;Vincenzo Crunelli

  • Live imaging of neural structure and function by fibred fluorescence microscopy

    Pierre Vincent;Pierre Vincent;Uwe Maskos;Igor Charvet;Laurence Bourgeais;Laurence Bourgeais

  • On the putative contribution of GABAB receptors to the electrical events occuring during spontaneous spike and wave discharges

    Stéphane Charpier;Nathalie Leresche;Jean-Michel Deniau;Séverine Mahon

  • On the excitatory post‐synaptic potential evoked by stimulation of the optic tract in the rat lateral geniculate nucleus.

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  • T-Type Calcium Channels Consolidate Tonic Action Potential Output of Thalamic Neurons to Neocortex

    Charlotte Deleuze;François David;Sébastien Béhuret;Gérard Sadoc

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincenzo Crunelli
Vincenzo Crunelli Cardiff University
Giuseppe Di Giovanni
Giuseppe Di Giovanni Magna Graecia University
John J. Renger
John J. Renger MSD (United States)
Stuart W. Hughes
Stuart W. Hughes Vertex Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Norman G. Bowery
Norman G. Bowery University of Birmingham
Hee-Sup Shin
Hee-Sup Shin Institute for Basic Science
Thierry Bal
Thierry Bal Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stephen R. Williams
Stephen R. Williams University of Queensland
Ivan Soltesz
Ivan Soltesz Stanford University
Sara J. Aton
Sara J. Aton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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