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Ritchie E. Brown is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a strong focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work concentrates on key topics related to sleep and wakefulness mechanisms and disorders. These topics include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Sleep and related disorders, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Circadian rhythm and melatonin, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and Neural dynamics and brain function.

Ritchie E. Brown's recent notable publications include:

  • Basal Forebrain Parvalbumin Neurons Mediate Arousals from Sleep Induced by Hypercarbia or Auditory Stimuli, 2020, Current Biology
  • Optogenetic manipulation of an ascending arousal system tunes cortical broadband gamma power and reveals functional deficits relevant to schizophrenia, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Effects of a patient-derived de novo coding alteration of CACNA1I in mice connect a schizophrenia risk gene with sleep spindle deficits, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Alterations of sleep oscillations in Alzheimer's disease: A potential role for GABAergic neurons in the cortex, hippocampus, and thalamus, 2022, Brain Research Bulletin
  • Knockdown of GABAA alpha3 subunits on thalamic reticular neurons enhances deep sleep in mice, 2022, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors consist of:

  • Fumi Katsuki
  • James T Mckenna
  • David S. Uygun
  • James M. McNally
  • Radhika Basheer

Ritchie E. Brown often publishes in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SLEEP
  • Brain Research Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience

This profile highlights a research career deeply embedded in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying sleep, cognitive processes, and related neurobiological functions through numerous collaborations and publications in prominent scientific journals.

Best Publications

  • Control of Sleep and Wakefulness

    Ritchie E. Brown;Radhika Basheer;James T. McKenna;Robert E. Strecker

  • The physiology of brain histamine.

    Ritchie E. Brown;David R. Stevens;Helmut L. Haas

  • Excitation of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopaminergic and Nondopaminergic Neurons by Orexins/Hypocretins

    Tatiana M. Korotkova;Olga A. Sergeeva;Krister S. Eriksson;Helmut L. Haas

  • Orexin/Hypocretin Excites the Histaminergic Neurons of the Tuberomammillary Nucleus

    Krister S. Eriksson;Olga Sergeeva;Ritchie E. Brown;Helmut L. Haas

  • Convergent Excitation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Neurons by Multiple Arousal Systems (Orexin/Hypocretin, Histamine and Noradrenaline)

    Ritchie E. Brown;Olga A. Sergeeva;Krister S. Eriksson;Helmut L. Haas

  • Orexin A excites serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus of the rat.

    Ritchie E. Brown;Olga Sergeeva;Krister S. Eriksson;Helmut L. Haas

  • Sleep Neurophysiological Dynamics Through the Lens of Multitaper Spectral Analysis.

    Michael J. Prerau;Ritchie E. Brown;Matt T. Bianchi;Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen

  • Cortically projecting basal forebrain parvalbumin neurons regulate cortical gamma band oscillations.

    Tae Kim;Tae Kim;Stephen Thankachan;Stephen Thankachan;James T. McKenna;James T. McKenna;James M. McNally;James M. McNally

  • Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial learning are impaired in a rat model of sleep fragmentation

    Jaime L. Tartar;Christopher P. Ward;Christopher P. Ward;James T. McKenna;Mahesh Thakkar

  • Effects of arousal- and feeding-related neuropeptides on dopaminergic and GABAergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area of the rat

    T. M. Korotkova;R. E. Brown;O. A. Sergeeva;A. A. Ponomarenko

  • On the mechanism of histaminergic inhibition of glutamate release in the rat dentate gyrus.

    Ritchie E. Brown;Helmut L. Haas

  • Orexins/hypocretins cause sharp wave- and θ-related synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus via glutamatergic, gabaergic, noradrenergic, and cholinergic signaling

    O Selbach;N Doreulee;C Bohla;K.S Eriksson

  • Optogenetic Dissection of the Basal Forebrain Neuromodulatory Control of Cortical Activation, Plasticity, and Cognition

    Shih Chieh Lin;Ritchie E. Brown;Marshall G.Hussain Shuler;Carl C.H. Petersen

  • Histaminergic modulation of synaptic plasticity in area CA1 of rat hippocampal slices

    R.E. Brown;N.B. Fedorov;H.I. Haas;K.G. Reyman

  • Long-term increase of hippocampal excitability by histamine and cyclic AMP

    O. Selbach;R.E. Brown;H.L. Haas

  • Cholinergic Neurons in the Basal Forebrain Promote Wakefulness by Actions on Neighboring Non-Cholinergic Neurons: An Opto-Dialysis Study.

    Janneke C. Zant;Tae Kim;Laszlo Prokai;Szabolcs Szarka

  • Selective excitation of GABAergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the rat by orexin/hypocretin in vitro.

    Tatiana M Korotkova;Krister S Eriksson;Helmut L Haas;Ritchie E Brown

  • Impact of ketamine on neuronal network dynamics: translational modeling of schizophrenia-relevant deficits.

    Bernat Kocsis;Ritchie E. Brown;Robert W. McCarley;Mihaly Hajos

  • Characterization of GABAergic neurons in rapid-eye-movement sleep controlling regions of the brainstem reticular formation in GAD67-green fluorescent protein knock-in mice.

    Ritchie E. Brown;James T. McKenna;Stuart Winston;Radhika Basheer

  • Histamine excites GABAergic cells in the rat substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area in vitro

    Tatiana M. Korotkova;Helmut L. Haas;Ritchie E. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Robert E. Strecker
Robert E. Strecker VA Boston Healthcare System
Helmut L. Haas
Helmut L. Haas Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Olga A. Sergeeva
Olga A. Sergeeva Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mahesh M. Thakkar
Mahesh M. Thakkar University of Missouri
Klaus G. Reymann
Klaus G. Reymann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Bernat Kocsis
Bernat Kocsis Harvard University
Yuchio Yanagawa
Yuchio Yanagawa Gunma University
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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