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Rodrigo A. España

Rodrigo A. España

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
6837
World Ranking
8943
National Ranking
3786

Overview

Rodrigo A. España is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States and specializes primarily in Neuroscience. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Neurology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics covered by España span Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Nerve Injury and Regeneration, Sleep and Related Disorders, and Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

España has published extensively in journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Addiction Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • ACS Chemical Neuroscience

Key recent publications include:

  • Dopamine transporter function fluctuates across sleep/wake state: potential impact for addiction (2020), Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Chemogenetic Manipulation of Dopamine Neurons Dictates Cocaine Potency at Distal Dopamine Transporters (2020), Journal of Neuroscience
  • Striatal low-threshold spiking interneurons locally gate dopamine (2021), Current Biology
  • Restoring lost nigrostriatal fibers in Parkinson's disease based on clinically-inspired design criteria (2021), Brain Research Bulletin
  • Spinal Dopaminergic Mechanisms Regulating the Micturition Reflex in Male Rats with Complete Spinal Cord Injury (2020), Journal of Neurotrauma

Frequent collaborators of España include Sandhya Kortagere, I. Pamela Alonso, H. Isaac Chen, John E. Duda, and Zachary D. Brodnik. These collaborations have resulted in multiple co-authored papers contributing to the fields of neuroscience and neuropharmacology.

Best Publications

  • Afferents to the Orexin Neurons of the Rat Brain

    Kyoko Yoshida;Sarah McCormack;Rodrigo A. España;Amanda Crocker

  • Noradrenergic Modulation of Wakefulness/Arousal

    Craig W. Berridge;Brooke E. Schmeichel;Rodrigo A. España

  • Wake-promoting and sleep-suppressing actions of hypocretin (orexin): basal forebrain sites of action

    R.A España;B.A Baldo;A.E Kelley;C.W Berridge

  • Sleep neurobiology from a clinical perspective.

    Rodrigo A España;Thomas E Scammell

  • Concomitant loss of dynorphin, NARP, and orexin in narcolepsy.

    Amanda Crocker;Rodrigo A. España;Maria Papadopoulou;Clifford B. Saper

  • Demon Voltammetry and Analysis software: Analysis of cocaine-induced alterations in dopamine signaling using multiple kinetic measures

    Jordan T. Yorgason;Rodrigo A. España;Sara R. Jones

  • Clozapine N-Oxide Administration Produces Behavioral Effects in Long-Evans Rats: Implications for Designing DREADD Experiments.

    Duncan A. A. MacLaren;Richard W. Browne;Jessica K. Shaw;Sandhya Krishnan Radhakrishnan

  • The hypocretin–orexin system regulates cocaine self‐administration via actions on the mesolimbic dopamine system

    Rodrigo A. España;Erik B. Oleson;Jason L. Locke;Bethany R. Brookshire

  • Hypocretin/orexin in arousal and stress.

    Craig W. Berridge;Rodrigo A. España;Nicole M. Vittoz

  • Sleep neurobiology for the clinician.

    Rodrigo A España;Thomas E Scammell

  • Hypocretin 1/orexin A in the ventral tegmental area enhances dopamine responses to cocaine and promotes cocaine self-administration

    Rodrigo A. España;James R. Melchior;David C. S. Roberts;Sara R. Jones

  • Fos immunoreactivity in hypocretin-synthesizing and hypocretin-1 receptor-expressing neurons: effects of diurnal and nocturnal spontaneous waking, stress and hypocretin-1 administration.

    R.A España;R.J Valentino;C.W Berridge

  • Dopamine transporters govern diurnal variation in extracellular dopamine tone

    Mark J. Ferris;Rodrigo A. España;Jason L. Locke;Joanne K. Konstantopoulos

  • Enduring increases in anxiety-like behavior and rapid nucleus accumbens dopamine signaling in socially isolated rats.

    Jordan T. Yorgason;Rodrigo A. España;Joanne K. Konstantopoulos;Jeffrey L. Weiner

  • Organization of hypocretin/orexin efferents to locus coeruleus and basal forebrain arousal-related structures.

    Rodrigo A. España;Kate M. Reis;Rita J. Valentino;Craig W. Berridge

  • Running Promotes Wakefulness and Increases Cataplexy in Orexin Knockout Mice

    Rodrigo A. España;Sarah L. McCormack;Takatoshi Mochizuki;Thomas E. Scammell

  • Circadian-dependent and circadian-independent behavioral actions of hypocretin/orexin.

    Rodrigo A España;Stacey Plahn;Craig W Berridge

  • Chemogenetic Manipulations of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons Reveal Multifaceted Roles in Cocaine Abuse

    Stephen V. Mahler;Stephen V. Mahler;Zachary D. Brodnik;Brittney M. Cox;Brittney M. Cox;William C. Buchta

  • Organization of noradrenergic efferents to arousal-related basal forebrain structures.

    Rodrigo A. España;Craig W. Berridge

  • Norepinephrine at the nexus of arousal, motivation and relapse

    Rodrigo A. España;Brooke E. Schmeichel;Craig W. Berridge

  • Synergistic sedative effects of noradrenergic α1- and β-receptor blockade on forebrain electroencephalographic and behavioral indices

    C.W Berridge;R.A España

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig W. Berridge
Craig W. Berridge University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sara R. Jones
Sara R. Jones Wake Forest University
Thomas E. Scammell
Thomas E. Scammell Harvard Medical School
David C.S. Roberts
David C.S. Roberts Wake Forest University
Jason A. Burdick
Jason A. Burdick University of Colorado Boulder
Gary Aston-Jones
Gary Aston-Jones Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Erin S. Calipari
Erin S. Calipari Vanderbilt University
John A. Wolf
John A. Wolf University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie L. Borgland
Stephanie L. Borgland University of Calgary
Rita J. Valentino
Rita J. Valentino National Institute on Drug Abuse

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