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Overview

Sara N. Burke is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within neuroscience and medicine, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and related physiological processes.

The scientist's primary areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these disciplines, their work further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Physiology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Neurology

The main topics covered by their research encompass:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Sara N. Burke has authored multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Cefepime" (2022) published in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
  • "Twelve Months of Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Cognition and Alters Microbiome Composition Independent of Macronutrient Composition" (2022) published in Nutrients
  • "Metabolic switching is impaired by aging and facilitated by ketosis independent of glycogen" (2020) published in Aging
  • "Acute vagus nerve stimulation enhances reversal learning in rats" (2021) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • "Rodent mnemonic similarity task performance requires the prefrontal cortex" (2021) published in Hippocampus

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sara N. Burke include:

  • Andrew P. Maurer
  • Abbi R. Hernandez
  • Jennifer L. Bizon
  • Sarah D. Lovett
  • Jack P. Kennedy

Publication venues where their work frequently appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Physiology
  • Nutrients

Best Publications

  • Neural plasticity in the ageing brain

    Sara N. Burke;Carol A. Barnes

  • Senescent synapses and hippocampal circuit dynamics

    Sara N. Burke;Carol A. Barnes

  • Pattern Separation Deficits May Contribute to Age-Associated Recognition Impairments

    Sara N. Burke;Jenelle L. Wallace;Saman Nematollahi;Ajay R. Uprety

  • Phase precession in hippocampal interneurons showing strong functional coupling to individual pyramidal cells.

    Andrew P. Maurer;Stephen L. Cowen;Sara N. Burke;Carol A. Barnes

  • Organization of hippocampal cell assemblies based on theta phase precession.

    Andrew P. Maurer;Stephen L. Cowen;Sara N. Burke;Carol A. Barnes

  • The influence of objects on place field expression and size in distal hippocampal CA1.

    Sara N. Burke;Andrew P. Maurer;Saman Nematollahi;Ajay R. Uprety

  • Sequence reactivation in the hippocampus is impaired in aged rats.

    Jason L. Gerrard;Sara N. Burke;Bruce L. McNaughton;Carol A. Barnes

  • A Ketogenic Diet Improves Cognition and Has Biochemical Effects in Prefrontal Cortex That Are Dissociable From Hippocampus.

    Abbi R. Hernandez;Caesar M. Hernandez;Keila Campos;Leah Truckenbrod

  • Differential encoding of behavior and spatial context in deep and superficial layers of the neocortex.

    Sara N. Burke;Monica K. Chawla;Marsha R. Penner;Brynne E. Crowell

  • Representation of three-dimensional objects by the rat perirhinal cortex.

    S.N. Burke;A.P. Maurer;A.L. Hartzell;S. Nematollahi

  • 3D-catFISH: a system for automated quantitative three-dimensional compartmental analysis of temporal gene transcription activity imaged by fluorescence in situ hybridization

    Monica K. Chawla;Gang Lin;Kathy Olson;Almira Vazdarjanova

  • Characterizing cognitive aging of recognition memory and related processes in animal models and in humans.

    Sara N. Burke;Lee Ryan;Carol A. Barnes

  • Shared Functions of Perirhinal and Parahippocampal Cortices: Implications for Cognitive Aging.

    Sara N. Burke;Leslie S. Gaynor;Carol A. Barnes;Russell M. Bauer

  • Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Cefepime

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  • Cholinergic modulation of covert attention in the rat

    Catherine Stewart;Sara Burke;Richard Marrocco

  • Movement Enhances the Nonlinearity of Hippocampal Theta.

    Alex Sheremet;Sara N. Burke;Andrew P. Maurer

  • Greater running speeds result in altered hippocampal phase sequence dynamics.

    Andrew P. Maurer;Sara N. Burke;Sara N. Burke;Peter Lipa;Peter Lipa;William E. Skaggs

  • Age-Related Declines in Prefrontal Cortical Expression of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors that Support Working Memory.

    Caesar M. Hernandez;Joseph A. McQuail;Miranda R. Schwabe;Sara N. Burke

  • Transcription of the Immediate-early Gene Arc in CA1 of the Hippocampus Reveals Activity Differences along the Proximodistal Axis that are Attenuated by Advanced Age

    Andrea L. Hartzell;Sara N. Burke;Lan T. Hoang;James P. Lister

  • Rodent age‐related impairments in discriminating perceptually similar objects parallel those observed in humans

    Sarah A. Johnson;Sean M. Turner;Lindsay A. Santacroce;Katelyn N. Carty

  • Age-related Changes in Lateral Entorhinal and CA3 Neuron Allocation Predict Poor Performance on Object Discrimination

    Andrew P. Maurer;Sarah A. Johnson;Abbi R. Hernandez;Jordan Reasor

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Barnes
Carol A. Barnes University of Arizona
Jennifer L. Bizon
Jennifer L. Bizon University of Florida
Barry Setlow
Barry Setlow University of Florida
Bruce L. McNaughton
Bruce L. McNaughton University of California, Irvine
Russell M. Bauer
Russell M. Bauer University of Florida
Lori L. McMahon
Lori L. McMahon University of Alabama at Birmingham
Paul F. Worley
Paul F. Worley Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Lee Ryan
Lee Ryan University of Arizona
Marcelo Febo
Marcelo Febo University of Florida
Denise C. Park
Denise C. Park The University of Texas at Dallas

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