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Peter J. Morgane

Peter J. Morgane

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
12543
World Ranking
3422
National Ranking
1586

Overview

Peter J. Morgane was affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with notable specialization in cognitive neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, physiology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work explored several topics across neuroscience and health, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Throughout their career, they published articles in various journals. Frequent publication venues consisted of:

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurolinguistics

Key recent papers included:

  • The neural basis of attentional alterations in prenatally protein malnourished rats (2020), published in Cerebral Cortex
  • From movements to words: action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex along a caudal to rostral prediction error gradient (2024), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • From movements to words: action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex along a caudal to rostral prediction error gradient (2025), published in Journal of Neurolinguistics

Collaboration was a notable aspect of their research, coauthoring multiple works with several researchers, including:

  • Shen Shiqing
  • Anton Jean-Luc
  • Nicola Bruno
  • S. Julien
  • Chanoine Valérie

The scope of their investigations spanned fundamental aspects of brain connectivity and neural mechanisms related to language, behavioral psychology, and early developmental health. Their contributions extended into examining the neural basis of attention and the neural pathways underlying action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex.

Best Publications

  • Prenatal malnutrition and development of the brain.

    Peter J. Morgane;Robert Austin-LaFrance;Joseph Bronzino;John Tonkiss

  • A review of systems and networks of the limbic forebrain/limbic midbrain.

    Peter J. Morgane;Janina R. Galler;David J. Mokler;David J. Mokler

  • Effects of prenatal protein malnutrition on the hippocampal formation

    Peter J Morgane;David J Mokler;David J Mokler;Janina R Galler

  • The effects of protein malnutrition on the developing central nervous system in the rat

    P.J. Morgane;M. Miller;T. Kemper;W. Stern

  • Handbook of the hypothalamus

    P. J. Morgane;Jaak Panksepp

  • Limbic cholinergic pathways involved in sleep and emotional behavior

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  • Dorsal raphe, substantia nigra and locus coeruleus: Interconnections with each other and the neostriatum

    Daniel A. Pasquier;Thomas L. Kemper;William B. Forbes;Peter J. Morgane

  • Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

    W.L. McFarland;M.S. Jacobs;P.J. Morgane

  • Ontogeny of the levels of biogenic amines in various parts of the brain and in peripheral tissues in normal and protein malnourished rats

    Warren C. Stern;Maravene Miller;William B. Forbes;Peter J. Morgane

  • Implications of the “initial brain” concept for brain evolution in Cetacea

    Ilya I. Glezer;Myron S. Jacobs;Peter J. Morgane

  • The anatomy of the brain of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Rhinic lobe (Rhinencephalon): The archicortex.

    M.S. Jacobs;W.L. McFarland;P.J. Morgane

  • Raphe projections to the locus coeruleus in the rat.

    Peter J. Morgane;M.S. Jacobs

  • Malnutrition and the Developing Central Nervous System

    Peter J. Morgane;Robert J. Austin-LaFrance;Joseph D. Bronzino;John Tonkiss

  • Conservative features of neocortical evolution in dolphin brain.

    P.J. Morgane;M.S. Jacobs;A. Galaburda

  • Calretinin-immunoreactive neurons in the primary visual cortex of dolphin and human brains.

    Ilya I. Glezer;Patrick R. Hof;Peter J. Morgane

  • Seizure susceptibility and brain amine levels following protein malnutrition during development in the rat

    Warren C. Stern;William B. Forbes;Oscar Resnick;Peter J. Morgane

  • Developmental protein malnutrition: Influences on the central nervous system of the rat ☆

    O. Resnick;M. Miller;W. Forbes;R. Hall

  • Medial forebrain bundle and “feeding centers” of the hypothalamus

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  • Comparative analysis of calcium-binding protein-immunoreactive neuronal populations in the auditory and visual systems of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) and the macaque monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

    Ilya I Glezer;Patrick R Hof;Peter J Morgane;Peter J Morgane

  • Theoretical view of REM sleep function: Maintenance of catecholamine systems in the central nervous system

    Warren C. Stern;Peter J. Morgane

  • Effects of prenatal protein deprivation on postnatal development of granule cells in the fascia dentata

    S. Diáz‐Cintra;L. Cintra;A. Galván;A. Aguilar

  • Visual cortex of the dolphin: an image analysis study.

    Peter J. Morgane;Ilya I. Glezer;Ilya I. Glezer;Myron S. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp Washington State University
Patrick R. Hof
Patrick R. Hof Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Albert M. Galaburda
Albert M. Galaburda Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Stanley Finger
Stanley Finger Washington University in St. Louis
Douglas L. Rosene
Douglas L. Rosene Boston University
George F. Martin
George F. Martin The Ohio State University
Leonard Green
Leonard Green Washington University in St. Louis
Harry W.M. Steinbusch
Harry W.M. Steinbusch Maastricht University
Csaba Leranth
Csaba Leranth Yale University
Vicki Anderson
Vicki Anderson Murdoch Children's Research Institute

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