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Ronald L. Calabrese

Ronald L. Calabrese

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Neuroscience

D-Index
62
Citations
10659
World Ranking
3585
National Ranking
1655

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1979 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ronald L. Calabrese is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with a focus on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Social Psychology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their research spans a range of topics related to neural function and dynamics. Key areas investigated include neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology and insect physiology research, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroscience and neural engineering, advanced memory and neural computing, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Recent publications by Ronald L. Calabrese cover a variety of subjects related to neuronal mechanisms and network function. These include:

  • "Degenerate neuronal and circuit mechanisms important for generating rhythmic motor patterns," 2024, Physiological Reviews
  • "Neuronal networks: Degeneracy unleashed," 2021, Current Biology

Other notable relevant publications related to their field co-authored by others include:

  • "Comodulation of h- and Na+/K+ Pump Currents Expands the Range of Functional Bursting in a Central Pattern Generator by Navigating between Dysfunctional Regimes," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Relative Timescale of Channel Voltage-Dependence and Channel Density Regulation Impacts Assembly and Recovery of Activity," 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Contribution of the Na+/K+ Pump to Rhythmic Bursting, Explored with Modeling and Dynamic Clamp Analyses," 2021, Journal of Visualized Experiments

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald L. Calabrese include Gennady Cymbalyuk, Eve Marder, Parker J. Ellingson, Yugarshi Mondal, and William H. Barnett.

Their work has appeared consistently in a variety of publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments
  • eLife
  • Physiological Reviews
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Ronald L. Calabrese was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • Principles of rhythmic motor pattern generation

    E. Marder;R. L. Calabrese

  • Neuronal control of leech behavior.

    William B. Kristan;Ronald L. Calabrese;W. Otto Friesen

  • Ligand interactions with cytochrome P-450. I. Binding of primary amines.

    Colin R. E. Jefcoate;James L. Gaylor;R. L. Calabrese

  • Distribution and partial characterization of FMRFamide-like peptides in the stomatogastric nervous systems of the rock crab, Cancer borealis, and the spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus.

    Eve Marder;Ronald L. Calabrese;Michael P. Nusbaum;Barry Trimmer

  • Neuronal generation of the leech swimming movement

    GS Stent;WB Kristan;WO Friesen;CA Ort

  • Bursting in Leech Heart Interneurons: Cell-Autonomous and Network-Based Mechanisms

    Gennady S. Cymbalyuk;Quentin Gaudry;Mark A. Masino;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • A model of a segmental oscillator in the leech heartbeat neuronal network

    Andrew A. V. Hill;J. Lu;M. A. Masino;Øystein H. Olsen

  • Mechanism of bistability: tonic spiking and bursting in a neuron model.

    Andrey Shilnikov;Ronald L. Calabrese;Gennady Cymbalyuk

  • A hyperpolarization-activated inward current in heart interneurons of the medicinal leech

    JD Angstadt;RL Calabrese

  • Rhythmic swimming activity in neurones of the isolated nerve cord of the leech

    William B. Kristan;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • Calcium currents and graded synaptic transmission between heart interneurons of the leech

    James D. Angstadt;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • A multiconductance silicon neuron with biologically matched dynamics

    M.F. Simoni;G.S. Cymbalyuk;M.E. Sorensen;R.L. Calabrese

  • Modeling the leech heartbeat elemental oscillator I. Interactions of intrinsic and synaptic currents

    Farzan Nadim;Øystein H. Olsen;Erik de Schutter;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • The effects of SDRNFLRFamide and TNRNFLRFamide on the motor patterns of the stomatogastric ganglion of the crab Cancer borealis

    James M. Weimann;Eve Marder;Bruce Evans;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • Presynaptic inhibition: primary afferent depolarization in crayfish neurons.

    Donald Kennedy;Ronald L. Calabrese;Jeffrey J. Wine

  • The roles of endogenous membrane properties and synaptic interaction in generating the heartbeat rhythm of the leech, Hirudo medicinalis.

    Ronald L. Calabrese

  • Heartbeat control in the medicinal leech: A model system for understanding the origin, coordination, and modulation of rhythmic motor patterns

    Ronald L. Calabrese;Farzan Nadim;Øystein H. Olsen

  • FMRF-amide-like substances in the leech. II. Bioactivity on the heartbeat system

    JR Kuhlman;C Li;RL Calabrese

  • A Role for Compromise: Synaptic Inhibition and Electrical Coupling Interact to Control Phasing in the Leech Heartbeat CPG

    Adam L Weaver;Rebecca C Roffman;Brian J Norris;Ronald L Calabrese

  • Animal-to-animal variability of connection strength in the leech heartbeat central pattern generator.

    Rebecca C. Roffman;Brian J. Norris;Brian J. Norris;Ronald L. Calabrese

  • Cellular, synaptic, network, and modulatory mechanisms involved in rhythm generation.

    Ronald L Calabrese

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. DeWeerth
Stephen P. DeWeerth Lehigh University
Eve Marder
Eve Marder Brandeis University
Farzan Nadim
Farzan Nadim New Jersey Institute of Technology
Erik De Schutter
Erik De Schutter Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Abdeljabbar El Manira
Abdeljabbar El Manira Karolinska Institute
William B. Kristan
William B. Kristan University of California, San Diego
Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Maarten H.P. Kole
Maarten H.P. Kole Utrecht University
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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