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Per Svenningsson

Per Svenningsson

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Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
31857
World Ranking
10891
National Ranking
205

Overview

Per Svenningsson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans several fields including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Neurology, Molecular Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of research include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, and Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Svenningsson include Movement Disorders, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), npj Parkinson's Disease, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.

Recent notable papers authored include:

  • A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An update on blood-based biomarkers for non-Alzheimer neurodegenerative disorders, 2020, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • The α-synuclein PET tracer [18F] ACI-12589 distinguishes multiple system atrophy from other neurodegenerative diseases, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Spatial multimodal analysis of transcriptomes and metabolomes in tissues, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Genome-wide Association Analysis of Parkinson's Disease and Schizophrenia Reveals Shared Genetic Architecture and Identifies Novel Risk Loci, 2020, Biological Psychiatry

Collaborations are frequent with researchers such as Wojciech Pasławski, Xiaoqun Zhang, Martin Paucar, Per E. Andrén, and Mohammadreza Shariatgorji.

Best Publications

  • Adenosine and Brain Function

    Bertil B Fredholm;Jiang-Fan Chen;Rodrigo A Cunha;Per Svenningsson

  • DARPP-32: an integrator of neurotransmission.

    Per Svenningsson;Akinori Nishi;Gilberto Fisone;Jean-Antoine Girault

  • Regulation of a protein phosphatase cascade allows convergent dopamine and glutamate signals to activate ERK in the striatum

    Emmanuel Valjent;Vincent Pascoli;Per Svenningsson;Surojit Paul

  • Alterations in 5-HT1B Receptor Function by p11 in Depression-Like States

    Per Svenningsson;Karima Chergui;Ilan Rachleff;Marc Flajolet

  • Distribution, biochemistry and function of striatal adenosine A2A receptors

    Svenningsson P;Le Moine C;Fisone G;Fredholm Bb

  • Cognitive impairment in patients with Parkinson's disease: diagnosis, biomarkers, and treatment

    Per Svenningsson;Eric Westman;Clive Ballard;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland;Dag Aarsland

  • Depression in Parkinson disease—epidemiology, mechanisms and management

    Dag Aarsland;Sven Påhlhagen;Clive G. Ballard;Uwe Ehrt

  • Effects of chronic exposure to cocaine are regulated by the neuronal protein Cdk5

    James A. Bibb;Jingshan Chen;Jane R. Taylor;Per Svenningsson

  • A multicentre validation study of the diagnostic value of plasma neurofilament light.

    Nicholas J. Ashton;Shorena Janelidze;Ahmad Al Khleifat;Antoine Leuzy

  • Dopamine and cAMP-Regulated Phosphoprotein 32 kDa Controls Both Striatal Long-Term Depression and Long-Term Potentiation, Opposing Forms of Synaptic Plasticity

    Paolo Calabresi;Paolo Gubellini;Diego Centonze;Barbara Picconi

  • The role of 5-HT(1A) receptors in learning and memory.

    Sven Ove Ögren;Therese M. Eriksson;Elin Elvander-Tottie;Claudio D’Addario

  • Vagotomy and Parkinson disease: A Swedish register-based matched-cohort study.

    Bojing Liu;Fang Fang;Nancy L. Pedersen;Annika Tillander

  • Diverse psychotomimetics act through a common signaling pathway.

    Per Svenningsson;Eleni T. Tzavara;Robert Carruthers;Ilan Rachleff

  • Mutations in the gene encoding PDGF-B cause brain calcifications in humans and mice

    Annika Keller;Annika Keller;Annika Keller;Ana Westenberger;Maria J Sobrido;Maria García-Murias

  • Severe deficiencies in dopamine signaling in presymptomatic Huntington's disease mice

    James A. Bibb;Zhen Yan;Per Svenningsson;Gretchen L. Snyder

  • Mutations in XPR1 cause primary familial brain calcification associated with altered phosphate export

    Andrea Legati;Donatella Giovannini;Gaël Nicolas;Uriel López-Sánchez

  • Distribution of adenosine receptors in the postmortem human brain: an extended autoradiographic study.

    Per Svenningsson;Håkan Hall;Göran Sedvall;Bertil B. Fredholm

  • How can drug discovery for psychiatric disorders be improved

    Yves Agid;György Buzsáki;David M. Diamond;Richard Frackowiak

  • The neurobiological properties of Tianeptine (Stablon): from monoamine hypothesis to glutamatergic modulation

    Bruce S. McEwen;Sumantra Chattarji;David M. Diamond;Thérèse M. Jay;Thérèse M. Jay

  • EuroInf: A Multicenter Comparative Observational Study of Apomorphine and Levodopa Infusion in Parkinson's Disease

    Pablo Martinez-Martin;Prashanth Reddy;Regina Katzenschlager;Angelo Antonini

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Greengard
Paul Greengard Rockefeller University
Bertil B. Fredholm
Bertil B. Fredholm Karolinska Institute
Dag Aarsland
Dag Aarsland King's College London
Andrea Varrone
Andrea Varrone Karolinska Institute
Angus C. Nairn
Angus C. Nairn Yale University
George G. Nomikos
George G. Nomikos Takeda (Japan)
Christer Halldin
Christer Halldin Karolinska Institute
Lars Farde
Lars Farde Karolinska Institute
Gilberto Fisone
Gilberto Fisone Karolinska Institute
Thérèse M. Jay
Thérèse M. Jay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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