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Ruth Benavides-Piccione

Ruth Benavides-Piccione

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Neuroscience

D-Index
33
Citations
8144
World Ranking
9402
National Ranking
159

Overview

Ruth Benavides-Piccione is affiliated with the Cajal Institute in Spain and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and related disciplines. Their research spans multiple subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, biophysics, molecular biology, and neurology.

Their work focuses on various main topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, cell image analysis techniques, neuroscience and neural engineering, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, functional brain connectivity studies, and Bayesian modeling and causal inference.

Benavides-Piccione has published research in several notable venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Among recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Benavides-Piccione are the following:

  • Variation in Pyramidal Cell Morphology Across the Human Anterior Temporal Lobe, 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • Strong and reliable synaptic communication between pyramidal neurons in adult human cerebral cortex, 2022, Cerebral Cortex
  • A calcium-based plasticity model for predicting long-term potentiation and depression in the neocortex, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Human Purkinje cells outperform mouse Purkinje cells in dendritic complexity and computational capacity, 2024, Communications Biology
  • Erratum to: Volume Electron Microscopy Study of the Relationship Between Synapses and Astrocytes in the Developing Rat Somatosensory Cortex, 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benavides-Piccione include:

  • Javier DeFelipe
  • Idan Segev
  • Henry Markram
  • Rodrigo Perin
  • Giuseppe Chindemi

Best Publications

  • Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex

    Giorgio A. Ascoli;Lidia Alonso-Nanclares;Stewart A. Anderson;German Barrionuevo

  • New insights into the classification and nomenclature of cortical GABAergic interneurons

    Javier DeFelipe;Pedro L. López-Cruz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Concha Bielza

  • Ultrastructure of dendritic spines: correlation between synaptic and spine morphologies.

    Jon I. Arellano;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Javier DeFelipe;Rafael Yuste

  • The pyramidal cell in cognition: a comparative study in human and monkey.

    Guy N. Elston;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Javier DeFelipe

  • Architecture of the Mouse Brain Synaptome

    Fei Zhu;Fei Zhu;Mélissa Cizeron;Mélissa Cizeron;Zhen Qiu;Ruth Benavides-Piccione

  • Cortical area and species differences in dendritic spine morphology

    Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez;Javier DeFelipe;Rafael Yuste

  • Age-Based Comparison of Human Dendritic Spine Structure Using Complete Three-Dimensional Reconstructions

    Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Isabel Fernaud-Espinosa;Victor Robles;Rafael Yuste

  • Unique membrane properties and enhanced signal processing in human neocortical neurons

    Guy Eyal;Matthijs B Verhoog;Guilherme Testa-Silva;Yair Deitcher

  • PSD95 nanoclusters are postsynaptic building blocks in hippocampus circuits

    Matthew J Broadhead;Mathew Harry Horrocks;Fei Zhu;Leila Arsinoe Muresan

  • Alterations of Neocortical Pyramidal Cell Phenotype in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome: Effects of Environmental Enrichment

    M. Dierssen;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Carmen Martínez-Cué;X. Estivill

  • Specializations of the granular prefrontal cortex of primates: implications for cognitive processing.

    Guy N. Elston;Guy N. Elston;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Alejandra Elston;Bendan Zietsch

  • Human Cortical Pyramidal Neurons: From Spines to Spikes via Models.

    Guy Eyal;Matthijs B. Verhoog;Matthijs B. Verhoog;Guilherme Testa-Silva;Yair Deitcher

  • Density and morphology of dendritic spines in mouse neocortex

    Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;G. N. Elston;Rafael Yuste

  • On dendrites in Down syndrome and DS murine models: a spiny way to learn.

    Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez;M. Martínez De Lagrán;G. Elston

  • Pyramidal Cells in Prefrontal Cortex of Primates: Marked Differences in Neuronal Structure Among Species

    Guy N. Elston;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Alejandra Elston;Paul R. Manger

  • The influence of phospho-tau on dendritic spines of cortical pyramidal neurons in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

    Paula Merino-Serrais;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Lidia Blazquez-Llorca;Lidia Blazquez-Llorca;Asta Kastanauskaite;Asta Kastanauskaite

  • Lack of thyroid hormone receptor alpha1 is associated with selective alterations in behavior and hippocampal circuits.

    Ana Guadano-Ferraz;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;César Venero;C. Lancha

  • Alterations in the phenotype of neocortical pyramidal cells in the Dyrk1A+/- mouse.

    R Benavides-Piccione;M Dierssen;I Ballesteros-Yáñez;M Martínez de Lagrán

  • Dendritic size of pyramidal neurons differs among mouse cortical regions.

    Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Farid Hamzei-Sichani;Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez;Javier DeFelipe

  • Differential Structure of Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons in the Human and Mouse

    Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Mamen Regalado-Reyes;Isabel Fernaud-Espinosa;Asta Kastanauskaite

  • Alterations of cortical pyramidal neurons in mice lacking high-affinity nicotinic receptors.

    Inmaculada Ballesteros-Yáñez;Ruth Benavides-Piccione;Jean-Pierre Bourgeois;Jean-Pierre Changeux

Frequent Co-Authors

Javier DeFelipe
Javier DeFelipe Technical University of Madrid
Guy N. Elston
Guy N. Elston University of Queensland
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University
Paul R. Manger
Paul R. Manger University of the Witwatersrand
Idan Segev
Idan Segev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alberto Muñoz
Alberto Muñoz Complutense University of Madrid
Mara Dierssen
Mara Dierssen Centre for Genomic Regulation
Huibert D. Mansvelder
Huibert D. Mansvelder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christiaan P. J. de Kock
Christiaan P. J. de Kock Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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