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  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

William Wisden is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of Neuroscience. Their work encompasses various subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology.

The main topics of their research include Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin, Sleep and Related Disorders, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep, Regulation of Appetite and Obesity, and Pain Mechanisms and Treatments.

William Wisden has contributed to several publications in notable academic venues. Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Science
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Interface Focus

Some recent papers by William Wisden include:

  • Sleep deprivation and stress: a reciprocal relationship, 2020, Interface Focus
  • Specialized astrocytes mediate glutamatergic gliotransmission in the CNS, 2023, Nature
  • Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • A specific circuit in the midbrain detects stress and induces restorative sleep, 2022, Science
  • The inescapable drive to sleep: Overlapping mechanisms of sleep and sedation, 2021, Science

William Wisden frequently collaborates with several researchers across their projects. Key co-authors include:

  • Nicholas P. Franks
  • Xiao Yu
  • Raquel Yustos
  • Alexei L. Vyssotski
  • Mathieu Nollet

Among the recognitions received, William Wisden is a Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The distribution of 13 GABAA receptor subunit mRNAs in the rat brain − I. Telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon

    William Wisden;David J. Laurie;Hannah Monyer;Peter H. Seeburg

  • A family of AMPA-selective glutamate receptors

    Kari Keinänen;William Wisden;Bernd Sommer;Pia Werner

  • Flip and flop: a cell-specific functional switch in glutamate-operated channels of the CNS

    Bernd Sommer;Kari Keinänen;Todd A. Verdoorn;William Wisden

  • The distribution of thirteen GABAA receptor subunit mRNAs in the rat brain. III. Embryonic and postnatal development

    DJ Laurie;W Wisden;PH Seeburg

  • The distribution of 13 GABAA receptor subunit mRNAs in the rat brain. II. Olfactory bulb and cerebellum.

    DJ Laurie;PH Seeburg;W Wisden

  • Differential expression of immediate early genes in the hippocampus and spinal cord

    W. Wisden;M.L. Errington;S. Williams;S.B. Dunnett

  • Structural and functional basis for GABAA receptor heterogeneity.

    Edwin S. Levitan;Peter R. Schofield;Peter R. Schofield;David R. Burt;Lucy M. Rhee

  • Glutamate-operated channels: Developmentally early and mature forms arise by alternative splicing

    Hannah Monyer;Peter H. Seeburg;William Wisden

  • The KA-2 subunit of excitatory amino acid receptors shows widespread expression in brain and forms ion channels with distantly related subunits

    Anne Herb;Nail Burnashev;Pia Werner;Bert Sakmann

  • Light pulses that shift rhythms induce gene expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus

    Benjamin Rusak;Harold A. Robertson;William Wisden;Stephen P. Hunt

  • Adaptive regulation of neuronal excitability by a voltage- independent potassium conductance

    Stephen G. Brickley;Victoria Revilla;Stuart G. Cull-Candy;William Wisden

  • Cloning of a putative high-affinity kainate receptor expressed predominantly in hippocampal CA3 cells.

    Pia Werner;Mark M. Voigt;Kari Keinänen;William Wisden

  • A complex mosaic of high-affinity kainate receptors in rat brain

    William Wisden;Peter H. Seeburg

  • Calcium-permeable AMPA-kainate receptors in fusiform cerebellar glial cells

    Nail Burnashev;A. Khodorova;Peter Jonas;Paul Johannes Helm

  • The differential expression of 16 NMDA and non-NMDA receptor subunits in the rat spinal cord and in periaqueductal gray

    T. R. Tölle;A. Berthele;W. Zieglgänsberger;P. H. Seeburg

  • Kainate receptor gene expression in the developing rat brain

    S Bahn;B Volk;W Wisden

  • Hippocampal theta rhythm and its coupling with gamma oscillations require fast inhibition onto parvalbumin-positive interneurons

    Peer Wulff;Alexey A. Ponomarenko;Marlene Bartos;Tatiana M. Korotkova

  • Mammalian ionotropic glutamate receptors

    William Wisden;Peter H. Seeburg

  • The rat delta-1 and delta-2 subunits extend the excitatory amino acid receptor family.

    Hilda Lomeli;Rolf Sprengel;David J. Laurie;Georg Köhr

  • Function and pharmacology of multiple GABAA receptor subunits.

    Hartmut Lüddens;William Wisden

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas P. Franks
Nicholas P. Franks Imperial College London
Esa R. Korpi
Esa R. Korpi University of Helsinki
Stephen G. Brickley
Stephen G. Brickley Imperial College London
Hannah Monyer
Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center
Mark G. Darlison
Mark G. Darlison Edinburgh Napier University
Stephen P. Hunt
Stephen P. Hunt University College London
Mark Farrant
Mark Farrant University College London
Peter Somogyi
Peter Somogyi University of Oxford
Nail Burnashev
Nail Burnashev Aix-Marseille University

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