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Neuroscience

D-Index
55
Citations
12075
World Ranking
4686
National Ranking
2117

Best Publications

  • Neuroactive steroids

    Unknown

  • Neurosteroids act on recombinant human GABAA receptors

    Giulia Puia;Maria Rita Santi;Stefano Vicini;Dolan B. Pritchett

  • Relationship between symptom severity and steroid variation in women with premenstrual syndrome: study on serum pregnenolone, pregnenolone sulfate, 5 alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione and 3 alpha-hydroxy-5 alpha-pregnan-20-one.

    M Wang;L Seippel;R H Purdy;T Bãckström

  • ROLE OF BRAIN ALLOPREGNANOLONE IN THE PLASTICITY OF GAMMA -AMINOBUTYRIC ACID TYPE A RECEPTOR IN RAT BRAIN DURING PREGNANCY AND AFTER DELIVERY

    A. Concas;M. C. Mostallino;P. Porcu;P. Follesa

  • Circulating Levels of Allopregnanolone in Humans: Gender, Age, and Endocrine Influences

    A. R. Genazzani;F. Petraglia;F. Bernardi;E. Casarosa

  • Sulfated and unsulfated steroids modulate γ-aminobutyric acidA receptor function through distinct sites

    Mijeong Park-Chung;Andrew Malayev;Robert H. Purdy;Terrell T. Gibbs

  • Progesterone, 5α-pregnane-3,20-dione and 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnane-20-one in specific regions of the human female brain in different endocrine states

    Marie Bixo;Agneta Andersson;Bengt Winblad;Robert H Purdy

  • Social Isolation‐Induced Decreases in Both the Abundance of Neuroactive Steroids and GABAA Receptor Function in Rat Brain

    Mariangela Serra;Maria Giuseppina Pisu;Martino Littera;Giacomo Papi

  • Time-dependent changes in rat brain neuroactive steroid concentrations and GABAA receptor function after acute stress.

    Maria Luisa Barbaccia;Gianna Roscetti;Marco Trabucchi;Maria Cristina Mostallino

  • The anxiolytic-like effects of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone: interactions with GABAA receptors

    Michelle D. Brot;Yvette Akwa;Yvette Akwa;Robert H. Purdy;Robert H. Purdy;George F. Koob;George F. Koob

  • Distinct Sites for Inverse Modulation of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors by Sulfated Steroids

    Mijeong Park-Chung;Fong-Sen Wu;Robert H. Purdy;Andrew A. Malayev

  • Stress and neuroactive steroids.

    Maria Luisa Barbaccia;Mariangela Serra;Robert H Purdy;Robert H Purdy;Giovanni Biggio

  • Patients with Premenstrual Syndrome Have a Different Sensitivity to a Neuroactive Steroid during the Menstrual Cycle Compared to Control Subjects

    Inger Sundström;Agneta Andersson;Sigrid Nyberg;Donald Ashbrook

  • Anxiolytic effect of progesterone is associated with increases in cortical alloprenanolone and GABAA receptor function

    Unknown

  • Brain steroidogenesis mediates ethanol modulation of GABAA receptor activity in rat hippocampus.

    Enrico Sanna;Giuseppe Talani;Fabio Busonero;Maria Giuseppina Pisu

  • Quantification of Neurosteroids in Rat Plasma and Brain Following Swim Stress and Allopregnanolone Administration Using Negative Chemical Ionization Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

    Monique Vallée;Jeffery D. Rivera;George F. Koob;Robert H. Purdy;Robert H. Purdy

  • Radioimmunoassay of 3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnan-20-one in rat and human plasma

    Robert H. Purdy;Perry H. Moore;P. Narasimha Rao;Nobuyoshi Hagino

  • The neurosteroids, progesterone and 3α,5α-THP, enhance sexual motivation, receptivity, and proceptivity in female rats

    Cheryl A. Frye;Laura E. Bayon;Neena K. Pursnani;Robert H. Purdy

  • Anxiolytic metabolites of progesterone: correlation with mood and performance measures following oral progesterone administration to healthy female volunteers.

    Ellen W. Freeman;Robert H. Purdy;Christos Coutifaris;Karl Rickels

  • Ethanol markedly increases "GABAergic" neurosteroids in alcohol-preferring rats.

    Maria Luisa Barbaccia;Daniela Affricano;Marco Trabucchi;Robert H Purdy

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