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Overview

Peter Redgrave is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a notable focus on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Additional interests include cell biology and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has published extensively on a variety of topics, including neurological disorders and treatments, neural dynamics and brain function, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments. Other areas of study include neural and behavioral psychology and biomedical applications using zebrafish as a research model, as well as photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter Redgrave include Ignacio Obeso, Pasqualina Guida, Tadashi Isa, Mario Michiels, and David Luque.

Their work has been published in several scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), along with publications in the Annual Review of Neuroscience, eNeuro, and Neurobiology of Disease.

  • "The Neural Basis of Escape Behavior in Vertebrates," 2020, Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • "Dissecting the Tectal Output Channels for Orienting and Defense Responses," 2020, eNeuro
  • "An fMRI meta-analysis of the role of the striatum in everyday-life vs laboratory-developed habits," 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Selective activation of striatal indirect pathway suppresses levodopa induced-dyskinesias," 2022, Neurobiology of Disease
  • "Visual instrumental learning in blindsight monkeys," 2021, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?

    P. Redgrave;T.J. Prescott;K. Gurney

  • Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease

    Peter Redgrave;Manuel Rodriguez;Manuel Rodriguez;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz

  • The short-latency dopamine signal: a role in discovering novel actions?

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • Event or emergency? Two response systems in the mammalian superior colliculus.

    P. Dean;P. Redgrave;G.W.M. Westby

  • Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?

    Peter Redgrave;Tony J. Prescott;Kevin Gurney

  • Subcortical loops through the basal ganglia.

    John G. McHaffie;Terrence R. Stanford;Barry E. Stein;Véronique Coizet

  • Cerebral Vasomotion: A 0.1-Hz Oscillation in Reflected Light Imaging of Neural Activity

    J E Mayhew;S Askew;Y Zheng;J Porrill

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

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

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

  • Movements resembling orientation or avoidance elicited by electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in rats

    N Sahibzada;P Dean;P Redgrave

  • How visual stimuli activate dopaminergic neurons at short latency.

    Eleanor Dommett;Véronique Coizet;Véronique Coizet;Charles D Blaha;Charles D Blaha;John Martindale;John Martindale

  • What is reinforced by phasic dopamine signals

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney;John Reynolds

  • Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates

    Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • Descending projections from the superior colliculus in rat: a study using orthograde transport of wheatgerm-agglutinin conjugated horseradish peroxidase.

    P. Redgrave;I. J. Mitchell;P. Dean

  • A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing

    Tony J. Prescott;Fernando M. Montes González;Kevin Gurney;Mark D. Humphries

  • Functional properties of the basal ganglia's re-entrant loop architecture: selection and reinforcement

    P. Redgrave;N. Vautrelle;J.N.J. Reynolds

  • Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes.

    Kevin Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Jeffery R. Wickens;Peter Redgrave

  • Head and body movements produced by electrical stimulation of superior colliculus in rats: Effects of interruption of crossed tectoreticulospinal pathway

    P Dean;P Redgrave;N Sahibzada;K Tsuji

  • Output pathways from the rat superior colliculus mediating approach and avoidance have different sensory properties.

    G. W. M. Westby;K. A. Keay;P. Redgrave;P. Dean

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Dean
Paul Dean University of Sheffield
Kevin Gurney
Kevin Gurney University of Sheffield
Jason Berwick
Jason Berwick University of Sheffield
Paul G. Overton
Paul G. Overton University of Sheffield
John G. McHaffie
John G. McHaffie Wake Forest University
Tadashi Isa
Tadashi Isa Kyoto University
Barry E. Stein
Barry E. Stein Wake Forest University
Philip Winn
Philip Winn University of Strathclyde
Charles D. Blaha
Charles D. Blaha Mayo Clinic
Elizabeth A. Franz
Elizabeth A. Franz University of Otago

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