Robert H. Purdy

Best Publications

• Neuroactive steroids

  Unknown

  1240
  Citations

• Neurosteroids act on recombinant human GABAA receptors

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

  672
  Citations

• 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

  497
  Citations

• 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

  486
  Citations

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

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

  433
  Citations

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

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

  413
  Citations

• 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

  393
  Citations

• 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

  370
  Citations

• 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

  366
  Citations

• 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

  333
  Citations

• 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

  275
  Citations

• Stress and neuroactive steroids.

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

  271
  Citations

• 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

  263
  Citations

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

  Unknown

  262
  Citations

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

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

  258
  Citations

• 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

  252
  Citations

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

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

  246
  Citations

• 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

  239
  Citations

• 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

  232
  Citations

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

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

  206
  Citations