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Overview

R. Douglas Fields is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with an emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Developmental Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neural Engineering, RNA regulation and disease, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Fields has contributed to several recent scientific papers:

  • Regulation of myelination by microglia, 2021, published in Science Advances
  • Myelin makes memories, 2020, published in Nature Neuroscience
  • Oligodendrocyte-mediated myelin plasticity and its role in neural synchronization, 2023, published in eLife
  • Oligodendroglia are emerging players in several forms of learning and memory, 2022, published in Communications Biology
  • Activity-Dependent Gene Expression in Neurons, 2020, published in The Neuroscientist

Frequent coauthors contributing to Fields's work include Erin Santos, Sinisa Pajevic, Dietmar Plenz, Peter J. Basser, and Dipankar J. Dutta.

Publication venues where Fields has frequently published include:

  • Cerveau & Psycho
  • The Neuroscientist
  • Pour la Science
  • Science Advances
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Plasticity in gray and white: neuroimaging changes in brain structure during learning

    Robert J Zatorre;R Douglas Fields;Heidi Johansen-Berg

  • White matter in learning, cognition and psychiatric disorders.

    R. Douglas Fields

  • New Insights into Neuron-Glia Communication

    R. Douglas Fields;Beth Stevens-Graham

  • Purinergic signalling in neuron–glia interactions

    R. Douglas Fields;Geoffrey Burnstock

  • A new mechanism of nervous system plasticity: activity-dependent myelination

    R. Douglas Fields

  • Astrocytes Promote Myelination in Response to Electrical Impulses

    Tomoko Ishibashi;Kelly A. Dakin;Beth Stevens;Philip R. Lee

  • Adenosine: a neuron-glial transmitter promoting myelination in the CNS in response to action potentials.

    Beth Stevens;Stefania Porta;Laurel L. Haak;Vittorio Gallo

  • Control of Local Protein Synthesis and Initial Events in Myelination by Action Potentials

    Hiroaki Wake;Philip R. Lee;R. Douglas Fields

  • ATP: an extracellular signaling molecule between neurons and glia

    R.Douglas Fields;Beth Stevens

  • White matter and cognition: making the connection

    Christopher M. Filley;Christopher M. Filley;R. Douglas Fields

  • Action Potential-Dependent Regulation of Gene Expression: Temporal Specificity in Ca2+, cAMP-Responsive Element Binding Proteins, and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling

    R. Douglas Fields;Feleke Eshete;Beth Stevens;Kouichi Itoh

  • Role of myelin plasticity in oscillations and synchrony of neuronal activity

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  • Neural cell adhesion molecules in activity-dependent development and synaptic plasticity

    R.Douglas Fields;Kouichi Itoh

  • Nerve regeneration through artificial tubular implants.

    R.Douglas Fields;Jean M. Le Beau;Frank M. Longo;Mark H. Ellisman

  • Response of Schwann Cells to Action Potentials in Development

    Beth Stevens;R. Douglas Fields

  • Myelination: An Overlooked Mechanism of Synaptic Plasticity?

    R. Douglas Fields

  • Change in the Brain's White Matter

    R. Douglas Fields

  • Ligand-induced Dynamic Membrane Changes and Cell Deletion Conferred by Vanilloid Receptor 1

    Zoltan Olah;Tamas Szabo;Laszlo Karai;Chris Hough

  • Nonsynaptic junctions on myelinating glia promote preferential myelination of electrically active axons

    Hiroaki Wake;Fernando C. Ortiz;Dong Ho Woo;Philip R. Lee

  • Regulated expression of the neural cell adhesion molecule L1 by specific patterns of neural impulses

    Kouichi Itoh;Beth Stevens;Melitta Schachner;R. Douglas Fields

  • Control of Myelination by Specific Patterns of Neural Impulses

    Beth Stevens;Sandra Tanner;R. Douglas Fields

  • MicroRNA regulation of homeostatic synaptic plasticity.

    Jonathan E Cohen;Philip R Lee;Shan Chen;Wei Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Beth Stevens
Beth Stevens Boston Children's Hospital
Hiroaki Wake
Hiroaki Wake Kobe University
Stephen G. Waxman
Stephen G. Waxman Yale University
Phillip G. Nelson
Phillip G. Nelson National Institutes of Health
Theodore H. Bullock
Theodore H. Bullock University of California, San Diego
Bernard Zalc
Bernard Zalc Grenoble Alpes University
George Z. Mentis
George Z. Mentis Columbia University
Christopher M. Filley
Christopher M. Filley University of Colorado Denver
Heidi Johansen-Berg
Heidi Johansen-Berg University of Oxford

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