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Reinaldo N. Takahashi is affiliated with the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Brazil. Their research activity focuses predominantly on neuroscience and medicine, with particular attention to pharmacology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, biological psychiatry, and behavioral neuroscience.

Takahashi's work addresses various topics in neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, cannabis and cannabinoid research, sleep and wakefulness, treatment of major depression, tryptophan and brain disorders, memory and neural mechanisms, and stress responses involving cortisol.

Frequent publication venues for Takahashi's research include Neuroscience, Brain Research Bulletin, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Takahashi include:

  • Ketamine reversed short-term memory impairment and depressive-like behavior in animal model of Parkinson's disease, 2020, Brain Research Bulletin
  • From an Alternative Medicine to a New Treatment for Refractory Epilepsies: Can Cannabidiol Follow the Same Path to Treat Neuropsychiatric Disorders?, 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Interactions of Noradrenergic, Glucocorticoid and Endocannabinoid Systems Intensify and Generalize Fear Memory Traces, 2021, Neuroscience
  • Corrigendum to "Emotional, Cognitive and Neurochemical Alterations in a Premotor Stage Model of Parkinson's Disease" [Neuroscience 156(4) (2008) 830-840], 2021, Neuroscience
  • Prof. Elisaldo Araújo Carlini, Cannabis and Cannabinoids Research Pioneer (June 9, 1930-September 16, 2020), 2020, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Their research collaborations are reflected in frequent co-authorship with the following scientists:

  • Cláudio Da Cunha
  • Débora Dalla Vecchia
  • Luiz Kae Sales Kanazawa
  • Etiéli Wendler
  • Palloma de Almeida Soares Hocayen

Best Publications

  • Emotional, cognitive and neurochemical alterations in a premotor stage model of Parkinson's disease.

    M.T. Tadaiesky;P.A. Dombrowski;C.P. Figueiredo;E. Cargnin-Ferreira

  • Connecting TNF-alpha signaling pathways to iNOS expression in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: relevance for the behavioral and synaptic deficits induced by amyloid beta protein.

    Rodrigo Medeiros;Rui D S Prediger;Giselle F Passos;Pablo Pandolfo

  • Facilitation of contextual fear memory extinction and anti-anxiogenic effects of AM404 and cannabidiol in conditioned rats.

    Rafael M. Bitencourt;Fabrício A. Pamplona;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Caffeine reverses age-related deficits in olfactory discrimination and social recognition memory in rats. Involvement of adenosine A1 and A2A receptors.

    Rui D.S. Prediger;Luciano C. Batista;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • The cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55,212-2 facilitates the extinction of contextual fear memory and spatial memory in rats.

    Fabrício A. Pamplona;Rui D. S. Prediger;Pablo Pandolfo;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Adenosine receptor antagonists for cognitive dysfunction: a review of animal studies.

    Reinaldo Naoto Takahashi;Fabricio Alano Pamplona;Rui Daniel Schroder Prediger

  • Anti-inflammatory lipoxin A4 is an endogenous allosteric enhancer of CB1 cannabinoid receptor

    Fabricio A. Pamplona;Juliano Ferreira;Octávio Menezes de Lima;Filipe Silveira Duarte

  • Impaired learning in a spatial working memory version and in a cued version of the water maze in rats with MPTP-induced mesencephalic dopaminergic lesions.

    Edmar Miyoshi;Samantha Wietzikoski;Milton Camplessei;Rodolfo Silveira

  • Object location memory in mice: pharmacological validation and further evidence of hippocampal CA1 participation.

    Fabrício Luiz Assini;Marcelo Duzzioni;Reinaldo Naoto Takahashi

  • On disruption of fear memory by reconsolidation blockade: evidence from cannabidiol treatment.

    Cristina A J Stern;Lucas Gazarini;Reinaldo N Takahashi;Francisco S Guimarães

  • The risk is in the air: Intranasal administration of MPTP to rats reproducing clinical features of Parkinson's disease

    Rui D S Prediger;Luciano C Batista;Rodrigo Medeiros;Pablo Pandolfo

  • The lesion of the rat substantia nigra pars compacta dopaminergic neurons as a model for Parkinson's disease memory disabilities.

    Claudio Da Cunha;Miriam Elizabeth Mendes Angelucci;Newton S Canteras;Susan Wonnacott

  • SR 141716A prevents Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol-induced spatial learning deficit in a Morris-type water maze in mice

    George E. Da Silva;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Evaluation of Lewis and SHR rat strains as a genetic model for the study of anxiety and pain.

    André Ramos;Anderson L. Kangerski;Paula F. Basso;José E. Da Silva Santos

  • Short- and long-term effects of cannabinoids on the extinction of contextual fear memory in rats

    Fabrício A. Pamplona;Rafael M. Bitencourt;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Memory disruption in rats with nigral lesions induced by MPTP: a model for early Parkinson's disease amnesia

    Da Cunha C;Gevaerd Ms;Vital Ma;Miyoshi E

  • WIN 55212-2 impairs contextual fear conditioning through the activation of CB1 cannabinoid receptors.

    Fabrício Alano Pamplona;Reinaldo Naoto Takahashi

  • Caffeine improves spatial learning deficits in an animal model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR)

    Rui D. S. Prediger;Fabrício A. Pamplona;Daniel Fernandes;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Anxiogenic properties of cocaine in the rat evaluated with the elevated plus-maze.

    Renato Rogerio;Reinaldo N. Takahashi

  • Caffeine reverses the memory disruption induced by intra-nigral MPTP-injection in rats.

    Monique S Gevaerd;Reinaldo N Takahashi;Rodolfo Silveira;Claudio Da Cunha

  • The cannabinoid antagonist SR141716A facilitates memory acquisition and consolidation in the mouse elevated T-maze

    Reinaldo Naoto Takahashi;Fabrício Alano Pamplona;Marcelo Soares Fernandes

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudio Da Cunha
Claudio Da Cunha Federal University of Paraná
Pierre Mormède
Pierre Mormède Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Ana Lúcia S. Rodrigues
Ana Lúcia S. Rodrigues Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Roger Walz
Roger Walz Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Francisco Silveira Guimarães
Francisco Silveira Guimarães Universidade de São Paulo
Richard L. Doty
Richard L. Doty University of Pennsylvania
Newton S. Canteras
Newton S. Canteras Universidade de São Paulo
Carsten T. Wotjak
Carsten T. Wotjak Max Planck Society
Paula Agostinho
Paula Agostinho University of Coimbra
Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno
Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno Federal University of Sao Paulo

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