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Santiago Canals is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research is primarily focused within the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with specific expertise in several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, and Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications.

Key recent publications by Santiago Canals include:

  • Mapping microglia and astrocyte activation in vivo using diffusion MRI, 2022, Science Advances
  • Different theta frameworks coexist in the rat hippocampus and are coordinated during memory-guided and novelty tasks, 2020, eLife
  • Chronic alcohol consumption alters extracellular space geometry and transmitter diffusion in the brain, 2020, Science Advances
  • KAT3-dependent acetylation of cell type-specific genes maintains neuronal identity in the adult mouse brain, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Increased network centrality of the anterior insula in early abstinence from alcohol, 2021, Addiction Biology

Frequent co-authors include Silvia De Santis, Wolfgang H. Sommer, David Moratal, Cláudio R. Mirasso, and Mohamed Kotb Selim, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts within related neuroscience and imaging research areas.

Santiago Canals' publications appear regularly in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Science Advances
  • Addiction Biology

This profile illustrates a consistent engagement with topics bridging advanced neuroimaging techniques, neural connectivity, and brain function, with an emphasis on translational and mechanistic studies within neuroscience and medicine.

Best Publications

  • Parkin gene inactivation alters behaviour and dopamine neurotransmission in the mouse

    Jean Michel Itier;Pablo Ibáñez;Maria Angeles Mena;Nacer Abbas

  • Erbb4 deletion from fast-spiking interneurons causes schizophrenia-like phenotypes

    Isabel del Pino;Cristina García-Frigola;Nathalie Dehorter;Jorge R. Brotons-Mas

  • Avoiding catastrophic failure in correlated networks of networks

    Saulo D. S. Reis;Saulo D. S. Reis;Yanqing Hu;Andrés Babino;José S. Andrade

  • Finding influential nodes for integration in brain networks using optimal percolation theory.

    Gino Del Ferraro;Andrea Moreno;Byungjoon Min;Byungjoon Min;Flaviano Morone

  • Functional MRI Evidence for LTP-Induced Neural Network Reorganization

    Santiago Canals;Michael Beyerlein;Hellmut Merkle;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • CBP is required for environmental enrichment-induced neurogenesis and cognitive enhancement.

    Jose P Lopez-Atalaya;Alessandro Ciccarelli;Alessandro Ciccarelli;Jose Viosca;Luis M Valor

  • Nitric oxide triggers the toxicity due to glutathione depletion in midbrain cultures through 12-lipoxygenase.

    Santiago Canals;Maria José Casarejos;Sonsoles de Bernardo;Eulalia Rodríguez-Martín

  • Longitudinal depolarization gradients along the somatodendritic axis of CA1 pyramidal cells: a novel feature of spreading depression.

    S. Canals;I. Makarova;L. López-Aguado;C. Largo

  • Role of extracellular signal‐regulated protein kinase in neuronal cell death induced by glutathione depletion in neuron/glia mesencephalic cultures

    S de Bernardo;S Canals;M J Casarejos;R M Solano

  • Widespread Vestibular Activation of the Rodent Cortex

    Ede A. Rancz;Javier Moya;Florian Drawitsch;Alan M. Brichta

  • Mapping microglia and astrocyte activation in vivo using diffusion MRI

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  • Mapping of functional brain activity in freely behaving rats during voluntary running using manganese-enhanced MRI: Implication for longitudinal studies

    Oxana Eschenko;Santiago Canals;Irina Simanova;Michael Beyerlein

  • Smart Magnetic Resonance Imaging Agents that Sense Extracellular Calcium Fluctuations

    Goran Angelovski;Petra Fouskova;Ilgar Mamedov;Santiago Canals

  • The role of astroglia on the survival of dopamine neurons

    María Angeles Mena;Sonsoles de Bernardo;Maria José Casarejos;Santiago Canals

  • Functional MRI of long-term potentiation: imaging network plasticity.

    Efrén Álvarez-Salvado;Vicente Pallarés;Andrea Moreno;Santiago Canals

  • Magnetic resonance imaging of cortical connectivity in vivo.

    Santiago Canals;Michael Beyerlein;A. L. Keller;Yusuke Murayama

  • Incubation of neural alcohol cue reactivity after withdrawal and its blockade by naltrexone.

    Patrick Bach;Georg Weil;Enrico Pompili;Sabine Hoffmann

  • Glutathione depletion switches nitric oxide neurotrophic effects to cell death in midbrain cultures: implications for Parkinson's disease.

    S. Canals;M. J. Casarejos;S. De Bernardo;E. Rodríguez‐Martín

  • Electric stimulation fMRI of the perforant pathway to the rat hippocampus

    Santiago Canals;Michael Beyerlein;Yusuke Murayama;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis

  • Selective and persistent activation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase by nitric oxide in glial cells induces neuronal degeneration in glutathione-depleted midbrain cultures

    Santiago Canals;Maria José Casarejos;Sonsoles de Bernardo;Rosa Maria Solano

  • Different theta frameworks coexist in the rat hippocampus and are coordinated during memory-guided and novelty tasks.

    Víctor J López-Madrona;Elena Pérez-Montoyo;Efrén Álvarez-Salvado;David Moratal

  • Behavioral, electrophysiological and histopathological consequences of systemic manganese administration in MEMRI

    Oxana Eschenko;Santiago Canals;Irina Simanova;Nikos K. Logothetis;Nikos K. Logothetis

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wolfgang H. Sommer
Wolfgang H. Sommer Heidelberg University
Oscar Herreras
Oscar Herreras Spanish National Research Council
Derik Hermann
Derik Hermann Heidelberg University
Sabine Vollstädt-Klein
Sabine Vollstädt-Klein Heidelberg University
Angel Barco
Angel Barco Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante
Falk Kiefer
Falk Kiefer Heidelberg University
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Derek K. Jones
Derek K. Jones Cardiff University
Troy W. Margrie
Troy W. Margrie University College London

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