Tamás F. Freund

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
• 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Hungary Leader Award
• 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2011 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their wide-ranging, technically and conceptually brilliant research on the functional organization of neuronal circuits in the cerebral cortex, especially in the hippo¬campus, a region that is crucial for certain forms of memory
• 2001 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences
• 2000 - Member of Academia Europaea
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Best Publications

• Interneurons of the hippocampus

  T.F. Freund;G. Buzsáki

  4253
  Citations

• Role of Endogenous Cannabinoids in Synaptic Signaling

  Tamás F. Freund;István Katona;Daniele Piomelli

  1876
  Citations

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

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

  1722
  Citations

• Brain monoglyceride lipase participating in endocannabinoid inactivation

  T. P. Dinh;D. Carpenter;F. M. Leslie;T. F. Freund

  1691
  Citations

• Presynaptically Located CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors Regulate GABA Release from Axon Terminals of Specific Hippocampal Interneurons

  István Katona;Beáta Sperlágh;Attila Sı́k;Attila Käfalvi

  1479
  Citations

• GABA-containing neurons in the septum control inhibitory interneurons in the hippocampus

  Unknown

  1322
  Citations

• Total number and distribution of inhibitory and excitatory synapses on hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells

  M Megı́as;Zs Emri;T.F Freund;A.I Gulyás

  1155
  Citations

• Differences between somatic and dendritic inhibition in the hippocampus

  Richard Miles;Katalin Tóth;Katalin Tóth;Attila I Gulyás;Attila I Gulyás;Norbert Hájos

  1147
  Citations

• Tyrosine hydroxylase-immunoreactive boutons in synaptic contact with identified striatonigral neurons, with particular reference to dendritic spines

  T.F. Freund;J.F. Powell;A.D. Smith

  1046
  Citations

• 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

  937
  Citations

• Interneuron Diversity series: Rhythm and mood in perisomatic inhibition

  Tamás F Freund

  926
  Citations

• GABAergic Cells Are the Major Postsynaptic Targets of Mossy Fibers in the Rat Hippocampus

  László Acsády;Anita Kamondi;Attila Sı́k;Tamás Freund

  915
  Citations

• Distribution of CB1 cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala and their role in the control of GABAergic transmission

  István Katona;Ede A. Rancz;László Acsády;Catherine Ledent

  792
  Citations

• Multiple Functions of Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Brain

  István Katona;Tamás F. Freund

  693
  Citations

• Endocannabinoid signaling as a synaptic circuit breaker in neurological disease

  István Katona;Tamás F Freund

  688
  Citations

• Perisomatic Inhibition

  Unknown

  663
  Citations

• Cannabinoids inhibit hippocampal GABAergic transmission and network oscillations.

  Norbert Hájos;István Katona;S S Naiem;Ken Mackie

  632
  Citations

• Novel cannabinoid-sensitive receptor mediates inhibition of glutamatergic synaptic transmission in the hippocampus.

  Norbert Hájos;Catherine Ledent;Tamás F Freund

  629
  Citations

• Molecular Composition of the Endocannabinoid System at Glutamatergic Synapses

  István Katona;Gabriella M. Urbán;Matthew Wallace;Catherine Ledent

  628
  Citations

• Interneurons Containing Calretinin Are Specialized to Control Other Interneurons in the Rat Hippocampus

  Attila I. Gulyás;Norbert Hájos;Tamás F. Freund

  625
  Citations

• Total Number and Ratio of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses Converging onto Single Interneurons of Different Types in the CA1 Area of the Rat Hippocampus

  Attila I. Gulyás;Manuel Megı́as;Zsuzsa Emri;Tamás F. Freund

  595
  Citations

• Segregation of two endocannabinoid-hydrolyzing enzymes into pre- and postsynaptic compartments in the rat hippocampus, cerebellum and amygdala.

  A. I. Gulyas;B. F. Cravatt;M. H. Bracey;T. P. Dinh

  564
  Citations