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Newton S. Canteras

Newton S. Canteras

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Neuroscience
Brazil
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
60
Citations
14604
World Ranking
3810
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Newton S. Canteras is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The research topics Canteras focuses on cover diverse areas within neurobiology and behavior. These include:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Sleep and wakefulness research
  • Zebrafish biomedical research applications

Canteras has published extensively in several key scientific journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • Current Biology
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Among Canteras's recent scientific papers are:

  • "Coordination of escape and spatial navigation circuits orchestrates versatile flight from threats" (2021, Neuron)
  • "Dorsal periaqueductal gray ensembles represent approach and avoidance states" (2021, eLife)
  • "Orchestration of innate and conditioned defensive actions by the periaqueductal gray" (2023, Neuropharmacology)
  • "Shared Dorsal Periaqueductal Gray Activation Patterns during Exposure to Innate and Conditioned Threats" (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Defensive behaviors and brain regional activation changes in rats confronting a snake" (2020, Behavioural Brain Research)

Canteras collaborates frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Fernando MCV Reis
  • Avishek Adhikari
  • Fernando Falkenburger Melleu
  • Peter J. Schuette
  • Sandra Maesta-Pereira

Best Publications

  • Organization of projections from the medial nucleus of the amygdala: a PHAL study in the rat

    N. S. Canteras;R. B. Simerly;L. W. Swanson

  • Combinatorial amygdalar inputs to hippocampal domains and hypothalamic behavior systems

    Gorica D Petrovich;Newton S Canteras;Larry W Swanson

  • Projections of the ventral subiculum to the amygdala, septum, and hypothalamus: A PHAL anterograde tract‐tracing study in the rat

    N. S. Canteras;L. W. Swanson

  • The many paths to fear.

    Cornelius T. Gross;Newton Sabino Canteras

  • Organization of projections from the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus: a Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin study in the rat.

    N. S. Canteras;R. B. Simerly;L. W. Swanson

  • The medial hypothalamic defensive system: hodological organization and functional implications.

    Newton S. Canteras

  • A direct projection from superior colliculus to substantia nigra for detecting salient visual events

    Eliane Comoli;Véronique Coizet;Justin Boyes;J Paul Bolam

  • Organization of projections from the dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus: A PHA-L study in the rat

    R.H. Thompson;N.S. Canteras;L.W. Swanson

  • Afferent connections of the subthalamic nucleus: a combined retrograde and anterograde horseradish peroxidase study in the rat.

    Newton S. Canteras;Sara J. Shammah-Lagnado;Bomfim A. Silva;Juarez A. Ricardo

  • Severe reduction of rat defensive behavior to a predator by discrete hypothalamic chemical lesions.

    N.S Canteras;S Chiavegatto;L.E Ribeiro do Valle;L.W Swanson

  • Connections of the posterior nucleus of the amygdala.

    N. S. Canteras;R. B. Simerly;L. W. Swanson

  • Integrated control of predatory hunting by the central nucleus of the amygdala

    Wenfei Han;Wenfei Han;Luis A. Tellez;Miguel J. Rangel;Miguel J. Rangel;Simone C. Motta

  • Comparison of bilaterally 6-OHDA- and MPTP-lesioned rats as models of the early phase of Parkinson's disease: histological, neurochemical, motor and memory alterations.

    Marcelo Machado Ferro;Maria Ines Bellissimo;Janete Aparecida Anselmo-Franci;Miriam Elizabeth Mendes Angellucci

  • Independent hypothalamic circuits for social and predator fear

    Bianca A Silva;Camilla Mattucci;Piotr Krzywkowski;Emanuele Murana

  • Connections of the nucleus incertus.

    Marina Goto;Larry W. Swanson;Newton S. Canteras

  • Fos-like immunoreactivity in the periaqueductal gray of rats exposed to a natural predator.

    Newton Sabino Canteras;Marina Goto

  • Projections of the ventral premammillary nucleus

    N. S. Canteras;R. B. Simerly;L. W. Swanson

  • Dissecting the brain's fear system reveals the hypothalamus is critical for responding in subordinate conspecific intruders

    Simone Cristina Motta;Marina Goto;Flavia Venetucci Gouveia;Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo

  • Lesions of structures showing FOS expression to cat presentation: Effects on responsivity to a Cat, Cat odor, and nonpredator threat

    D. Caroline Blanchard;Newton S. Canteras;Chris M. Markham;Nathan S. Pentkowski

  • The dorsal premammillary nucleus: an unusual component of the mammillary body

    N S Canteras;L W Swanson

  • Organization of projections from the anterior hypothalamic nucleus: a Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin study in the rat.

    P. Y. Risold;N. S. Canteras;L. W. Swanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry W. Swanson
Larry W. Swanson University of Southern California
Claudio Da Cunha
Claudio Da Cunha Federal University of Paraná
D. Caroline Blanchard
D. Caroline Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jackson C. Bittencourt
Jackson C. Bittencourt Universidade de São Paulo
Robert J. Blanchard
Robert J. Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Richard B. Simerly
Richard B. Simerly Vanderbilt University
Deborah Suchecki
Deborah Suchecki Federal University of Sao Paulo
John A. Russell
John A. Russell University of Edinburgh
Jose Donato
Jose Donato Universidade de São Paulo
Catherine M. Cahill
Catherine M. Cahill University of California, Los Angeles

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