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Robert E. Hampson is affiliated with Wake Forest University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Neuroscience, Medicine, and Engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Neurology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's recent publications address key areas involving neural prosthetics, memory encoding, and brain injury. Notable papers include:

  • Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall of stimulus features and categories, 2024, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Patterned Hippocampal Stimulation Facilitates Memory in Patients With a History of Head Impact and/or Brain Injury, 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Hippocampal CA1 and CA3 neural recording in the human brain: validation of depth electrode placement through high-resolution imaging and electrophysiology, 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Activation of primate frontal eye fields with a CMUT phased array system, 2023, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Distributed Temporal Coding of Visual Memory Categories in Human Hippocampal Neurons Revealed by an Interpretable Decoding Model, 2025, Advanced Science

Their work frequently appears in specific scientific venues including:

  • Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Advanced Science

Collaborations are an important aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Brent M. Roeder
  • Daniel E. Couture
  • Adrian W. Laxton
  • Gautam Popli
  • Xiwei Shé

The main topics covered in their work reflect a focus on brain function and dysfunction, including:

  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Best Publications

  • Cannabinoid physiology and pharmacology: 30 years of progress

    Allyn C. Howlett;Allyn C. Howlett;Christopher S. Breivogel;Steven R. Childers;Samuel A. Deadwyler

  • Distribution of spatial and nonspatial information in dorsal hippocampus

    Robert E. Hampson;John D. Simeral;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Effects of Chronic Treatment with Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol on Cannabinoid-Stimulated [35S]GTPγS Autoradiography in Rat Brain

    Laura J. Sim;Robert E. Hampson;Sam A. Deadwyler;Steven R. Childers

  • Chronic delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol Treatment Produces a Time-Dependent Loss of Cannabinoid Receptors and Cannabinoid Receptor-Activated G Proteins in Rat Brain

    Christopher S. Breivogel;Steven R. Childers;Sam A. Deadwyler;Robert E. Hampson

  • Effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol on delayed match to sample performance in rats: alterations in short-term memory associated with changes in task specific firing of hippocampal cells.

    C J Heyser;R E Hampson;S A Deadwyler

  • A cortical neural prosthesis for restoring and enhancing memory

    Theodore W Berger;Robert E Hampson;Dong Song;Anushka Goonawardena

  • Cannabinoids modulate voltage sensitive potassium A-current in hippocampal neurons via a cAMP-dependent process.

    S. A. Deadwyler;R. E. Hampson;Jian Mu;A. Whyte

  • Cannabinoids, hippocampal function and memory.

    Robert E. Hampson;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Hippocampal ensemble activity during spatial delayed-nonmatch-to-sample performance in rats.

    SA Deadwyler;T Bunn;RE Hampson

  • Systemic and nasal delivery of orexin-A (Hypocretin-1) reduces the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance in nonhuman primates.

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Linda Porrino;Jerome M. Siegel;Robert E. Hampson

  • Hippocampal place cells: stereotypy and plasticity

    CR Breese;RE Hampson;SA Deadwyler

  • Cannabinoids Reveal the Necessity of Hippocampal Neural Encoding for Short-Term Memory in Rats

    Robert E. Hampson;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Hippocampal cell firing correlates of delayed-match-to-sample performance in the rat.

    Robert E. Hampson;Charles J. Heyser;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Cannabinoids modulate potassium current in cultured hippocampal neurons.

    S. A. Deadwyler;R. E. Hampson;B. A. Bennett;T. A. Edwards

  • Restoring lost cognitive function

    T.W. Berger;A. Ahuja;S.H. Courellis;S.A. Deadwyler

  • Nonlinear Dynamic Modeling of Spike Train Transformations for Hippocampal-Cortical Prostheses

    Dong Song;R.H.M. Chan;V.Z. Marmarelis;R.E. Hampson

  • Ensemble Activity and Behavior—What's the Code?

    Sam A. Deadwyler;Robert E. Hampson

  • Facilitation of Task Performance and Removal of the Effects of Sleep Deprivation by an Ampakine (CX717) in Nonhuman Primates

    Linda J Porrino;James B Daunais;Gary A Rogers;Robert E Hampson

  • Facilitative Effects of the Ampakine CX516 on Short-Term Memory in Rats: Enhancement of Delayed-Nonmatch-to-Sample Performance

    Robert E. Hampson;Gary Rogers;Gary Lynch;Sam A. Deadwyler

  • Developing a hippocampal neural prosthetic to facilitate human memory encoding and recall

    Robert E Hampson;Dong Song;Brian S Robinson;Dustin Fetterhoff

  • Firing patterns of nucleus accumbens neurons during cocaine self-administration in rats.

    Regina M. Carelli;Virginia C. King;Robert E. Hampson;Sam A. Deadwyler

Frequent Co-Authors

Sam A. Deadwyler
Sam A. Deadwyler Wake Forest University
Theodore W. Berger
Theodore W. Berger University of Southern California
Greg A. Gerhardt
Greg A. Gerhardt University of Kentucky
Gernot Riedel
Gernot Riedel University of Aberdeen
Thomas C. Foster
Thomas C. Foster University of Florida
Linda J. Porrino
Linda J. Porrino Wake Forest University
Bettina Platt
Bettina Platt University of Aberdeen
Terrence R. Stanford
Terrence R. Stanford Wake Forest University
Leigh R. Hochberg
Leigh R. Hochberg Harvard University
Mark O. West
Mark O. West Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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