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  • 2011 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Shane M. O'Mara is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Clinical Psychology, and Neurology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Recent publications by Shane M. O'Mara include the following papers:

  • The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system, 2022, Nature reviews. Neuroscience
  • Amygdala substructure volumes in Major Depressive Disorder, 2021, NeuroImage Clinical
  • Anterior Thalamic Inputs Are Required for Subiculum Spatial Coding, with Associated Consequences for Hippocampal Spatial Memory, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Deconstructing the Direct Reciprocal Hippocampal-Anterior Thalamic Pathways for Spatial Learning, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Shane M. O'Mara include:

  • John P. Aggleton
  • Seán Martin
  • Andrew J. D. Nelson
  • M. Mathiasen
  • Adam Richie-Halford

The scientist commonly publishes in several respected research venues such as:

  • Scientific Data
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Progress in brain research

Shane M. O'Mara received recognition through membership in the Royal Irish Academy in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Aerobic exercise improves hippocampal function and increases BDNF in the serum of young adult males.

    Éadaoin W. Griffin;Sinéad Mullally;Carole Foley;Stuart A. Warmington;Stuart A. Warmington

  • Hippocampal–anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions

    John Patrick Aggleton;Shane M. O'Mara;Seralynne Denise Vann;Nicholas Fraser Wright

  • The subiculum: a review of form, physiology and function.

    Shane M O'Mara;Sean Commins;Michael Anderson;John Gigg

  • View-responsive neurons in the primate hippocampal complex.

    Edmund T. Rolls;Shane M. O'Mara

  • The subiculum: what it does, what it might do, and what neuroanatomy has yet to tell us

    Shane Michael O'mara

  • Neurons responding to whole-body motion in the primate hippocampus

    SM O'Mara;ET Rolls;A Berthoz;RP Kesner

  • The anterior thalamus provides a subcortical circuit supporting memory and spatial navigation.

    Maciej M. Jankowski;Kim C. Ronnqvist;Marian Tsanov;Seralynne Denise Vann

  • Lipopolysaccharide causes deficits in spatial learning in the watermaze but not in BDNF expression in the rat dentate gyrus

    Kendra N Shaw;Sean Commins;Shane M O'Mara

  • Dose-dependent expression of claudin-5 is a modifying factor in schizophrenia

    C Greene;J Kealy;M M Humphries;Y Gong

  • Impact of enriched-environment housing on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and on cognitive performance after a transient global ischemia.

    O.L Gobbo;S.M O’Mara

  • Individual differences discriminate event-related potentials but not performance during response inhibition

    Richard A. P. Roche;Hugh Garavan;John J. Foxe;Shane M. O’Mara

  • Evidence for a specific defect in hippocampal memory in overt and subclinical hypothyroidism

    Neuman Correia;Sinead Mullally;Gillian Cooke;Tommy Kyaw Tun

  • Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Brian A. Lawlor;Shane M. O'Mara;Robert F. Coen

  • Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells in the Rat Anterior Thalamus

    Marian Tsanov;Ehsan Chah;Seralynne Denise Vann;Richard B. Reilly

  • Roles for the subiculum in spatial information processing, memory, motivation and the temporal control of behaviour.

    Shane M. O'Mara;Maria V. Sanchez-Vives;Jorge R. Brotons-Mas;Jorge R. Brotons-Mas;Eugene O'Hare

  • Spatially selective firing properties of hippocampal formation neurons in rodents and primates.

    Shane M. O'mara

  • Evidence for spatially-responsive neurons in the rostral thalamus.

    Maciej M. Jankowski;Johannes Passecker;Nurul Islam;Seralynne Vann

  • The polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA and DPA exert a protective effect in the hippocampus of the aged rat.

    Laura Kelly;Belinda Grehan;Andrea Della Chiesa;Shane M. O'Mara

  • Exercise, but not environmental enrichment, improves learning after kainic acid-induced hippocampal neurodegeneration in association with an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

    O.L. Gobbo;S.M. O’Mara

  • The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system

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  • Long-term potentiation and spatial learning are associated with increased phosphorylation of TrkB and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the dentate gyrus: evidence for a role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

    Gooney M;Shaw K;Kelly A;O'Mara Sm

  • Deficits in spatial learning and synaptic plasticity induced by the rapid and competitive broad-spectrum cyclooxygenase inhibitor ibuprofen are reversed by increasing endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

    Kendra N. Shaw;Sean Commins;Shane M. O'Mara

Frequent Co-Authors

John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
Seralynne Denise Vann
Seralynne Denise Vann Cardiff University
Jonathan T. Erichsen
Jonathan T. Erichsen Cardiff University
Richard B. Reilly
Richard B. Reilly Trinity College Dublin
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives
Maria V. Sanchez-Vives Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Neil Upton
Neil Upton Transpharmation, UK
Muireann Irish
Muireann Irish University of Sydney
Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson Trinity College Dublin
Charles L. Cox
Charles L. Cox Michigan State University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont

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