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Robert E. Strecker is affiliated with the VA Boston Healthcare System in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on sleep, wakefulness, and related physiological and cognitive processes.

The main fields of study covered in Strecker's work include:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, their work spans several subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Molecular Biology

Strecker's research topics further reflect this focus, including:

  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Their recent published papers illustrate the areas they have contributed to scientifically:

  • "Role of the locus coeruleus and basal forebrain in arousal and attention" (2022) Brain Research Bulletin
  • "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
  • "Differential modulation of NREM sleep regulation and EEG topography by chronic sleep restriction in mice" (2020) Scientific Reports

Their publications frequently appear in specific venues such as:

  • SLEEP
  • Brain Research Bulletin
  • Current Biology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry

Strecker has collaborated regularly with a consistent group of coauthors, including:

  • James T Mckenna
  • James M. McNally
  • Felipe L. Schiffino
  • Ritchie E. Brown
  • Eden B. Maness

Best Publications

  • Control of Sleep and Wakefulness

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

  • Adenosine: a mediator of the sleep-inducing effects of prolonged wakefulness.

    Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen;Robert E. Strecker;Mahesh Thakkar;Alvhild A. Bjørkum

  • Adenosine and sleep–wake regulation

    Radhika Basheer;Robert E. Strecker;Mahesh M. Thakkar;Robert W. McCarley

  • Brain site-specificity of extracellular adenosine concentration changes during sleep deprivation and spontaneous sleep: an in vivo microdialysis study.

    T Porkka-Heiskanen;R.E Strecker;R.W McCarley

  • Adenosinergic modulation of basal forebrain and preoptic/anterior hypothalamic neuronal activity in the control of behavioral state

    Robert E Strecker;Stephen Morairty;Mahesh M Thakkar;Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen

  • Human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: immunological aspects, spontaneous and drug-induced behaviour, and dopamine release.

    Patrik Brundin;R E Strecker;H Widner;H Widner;D J Clarke

  • Behavioural effects of human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease.

    P Brundin;O G Nilsson;R E Strecker;O Lindvall

  • Mechanisms of action of intracerebral neural implants: studies on nigral and striatal grafts to the lesioned striatum

    Anders Björklund;Olle Lindvall;Ole Isacson;Patrik Brundin

  • The cognitive cost of sleep lost.

    John G. McCoy;Robert E. Strecker;Robert E. Strecker

  • Endogenous release of neuronal serotonin and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in the caudate-putamen of the rat as revealed by intracerebral dialysis coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorimetric detection.

    Peter Kalén;Robert E. Strecker;Evald Rosengren;Anders Björklund

  • Ventrolateral preoptic nucleus contains sleep-active, galaninergic neurons in multiple mammalian species.

    S.E Gaus;R.E Strecker;B.A Tate;R.A Parker

  • 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

  • Common scale-invariant patterns of sleep-wake transitions across mammalian species.

    Chung-Chuan Lo;Thomas Chou;Thomas Penzel;Thomas E. Scammell

  • Behavioral correlates of dopaminergic unit activity in freely moving cats

    George F. Steinfels;James Heym;Robert E. Strecker;Barry L. Jacobs

  • Human fetal dopamine neurons grafted in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: ultrastructural evidence for synapse formation using tyrosine hydroxylase immunocytochemistry

    D. J. Clarke;P. Brundin;R. E. Strecker;O. G. Nilsson

  • Autoregulation of dopamine release and metabolism by intrastriatal nigral grafts as revealed by intracerebral dialysis.

    R.E. Strecker;T. Sharp;P. Brundin;T. Zetterström

  • Combined cholinergic and serotonergic denervation of the forebrain produces severe deficits in a spatial learning task in the rat.

    O.G. Nilsson;R.E. Strecker;A. Daszuta;A. Björklund

  • Intracerebral xenografts of dopamine neurons: the role of immunosuppression and the blood-brain barrier.

    P Brundin;H Widner;H Widner;O G Nilsson;R E Strecker

  • 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

  • Behavioral State Control through Differential Serotonergic Inhibition in the Mesopontine Cholinergic Nuclei: A Simultaneous Unit Recording and Microdialysis Study

    Mahesh M. Thakkar;Robert E. Strecker;Robert W. McCarley

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Ritchie E. Brown
Ritchie E. Brown Harvard University
Mahesh M. Thakkar
Mahesh M. Thakkar University of Missouri
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen
Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen University of Helsinki
Håkan Widner
Håkan Widner Lund University
Barry L. Jacobs
Barry L. Jacobs Princeton University
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Bernat Kocsis
Bernat Kocsis Harvard University
Ole Isacson
Ole Isacson Harvard University

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