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Oscar Herreras is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, as well as areas overlapping Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Oscar Herreras has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • IBRO Neuroscience Reports
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Neurocritical Care
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • eLife

Selected recent papers by Oscar Herreras are:

  • "The Critical Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Early Brain Injury: Consensus and Contention," 2022, Neurocritical Care
  • "Different theta frameworks coexist in the rat hippocampus and are coordinated during memory-guided and novelty tasks," 2020, eLife
  • "Questioning Glutamate Excitotoxicity in Acute Brain Damage: The Importance of Spreading Depolarization," 2022, Neurocritical Care
  • "Mechanisms of the negative potential associated with Leão's spreading depolarization: A history of brain electrogenesis," 2020, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • "Diversity of cortical activity changes beyond depression during Spreading Depolarizations," 2023, Nature Communications

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Julia Makarova
  • Ricardo Muñoz-Arnaiz
  • Víctor J. López-Madrona
  • Valeri A. Makarov
  • Begoña Bartolomé

Best Publications

  • In vivo determination of extracellular concentration of amino acids in the rat hippocampus. A method based on brain dialysis and computerized analysis

    J. Lerma;A.S. Herranz;O. Herreras;V. Abraira

  • Kainate Receptors Presynaptically Downregulate GABAergic Inhibition in the Rat Hippocampus

    Antonio Rodríguez-Moreno;Oscar Herreras;Juan Lerma

  • Local Field Potentials: Myths and Misunderstandings

    Oscar Herreras

  • Recording, analysis, and interpretation of spreading depolarizations in neurointensive care: Review and recommendations of the COSBID research group

    Jens P. Dreier;Martin Fabricius;Cenk Ayata;Oliver W. Sakowitz

  • The effect of depressing glial function in rat brain in situ on ion homeostasis, synaptic transmission, and neuron survival

    C Largo;P Cuevas;GG Somjen;R Martin del Rio

  • Does taurine act as an osmoregulatory substance in the rat brain

    JoséM. Solís;Antonio S. Herranz;Oscar Herreras;Juan Lerma

  • Mechanism of spreading depression: a review of recent findings and a hypothesis.

    G G Somjen;P G Aitken;G L Czéh;O Herreras

  • Glutamate receptors of the kainate type and synaptic transmission

    Juan Lerma;Miguel Morales;María A. Vicente;Oscar Herreras

  • Analysis of potential shifts associated with recurrent spreading depression and prolonged unstable spreading depression induced by microdialysis of elevated K+ in hippocampus of anesthetized rats

    O. Herreras;G.G. Somjen

  • ROLE OF NEURONAL SYNCHRONIZING MECHANISMS IN THE PROPAGATION OF SPREADING DEPRESSION IN THE IN VIVO HIPPOCAMPUS

    O Herreras;C Largo;JM Ibarz;GG Somjen

  • Effects of the Gliotoxin Fluorocitrate on Spreading Depression and Glial Membrane Potential in Rat Brain In Situ

    Carlota Largo;José M. Ibarz;Oscar Herreras

  • The Critical Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Early Brain Injury: Consensus and Contention

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  • Spreading depression-like depolarization and selective vulnerability of neurons. A brief review.

    G. G. Somjen;P. G. Aitken;M. Balestrino;O. Herreras

  • Longitudinal depolarization gradients along the somatodendritic axis of CA1 pyramidal cells: a novel feature of spreading depression.

    S. Canals;I. Makarova;L. López-Aguado;C. Largo

  • Propagating dendritic action potential mediates synaptic transmission in CA1 pyramidal cells in situ

    O. Herreras

  • Disentanglement of local field potential sources by independent component analysis

    Valeri A. Makarov;Julia Makarova;Oscar Herreras

  • Constitutive hippocampal cholesterol loss underlies poor cognition in old rodents

    Mauricio Gerardo Martín;Mauricio Gerardo Martín;Tariq Ahmed;Alejandra Korovaichuk;César Venero

  • Schaffer-Specific Local Field Potentials Reflect Discrete Excitatory Events at Gamma Frequency That May Fire Postsynaptic Hippocampal CA1 Units

    Antonio Fernández-Ruiz;Valeri A. Makarov;Nuria Benito;Oscar Herreras

  • Propagation of spreading depression among dendrites and somata of the same cell population

    O. Herreras;G.G. Somjen

  • Macroscopic and subcellular factors shaping population spikes.

    P. Varona;J. M. Ibarz;L. López-Aguado;O. Herreras

  • Is Spreading Depolarization Characterized by an Abrupt, Massive Release of Gibbs Free Energy from the Human Brain Cortex?

    Jens P. Dreier;Thomas Isele;Clemens Reiffurth;Nikolas Offenhauser

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Lerma
Juan Lerma Spanish National Research Council
George G. Somjen
George G. Somjen Duke University
Santiago Canals
Santiago Canals Spanish National Research Council
Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Sergei A. Kirov
Sergei A. Kirov Augusta University
Jens P. Dreier
Jens P. Dreier Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Alberto Muñoz
Alberto Muñoz Complutense University of Madrid
Jed A. Hartings
Jed A. Hartings University of Cincinnati
Brian A. MacVicar
Brian A. MacVicar University of British Columbia

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