Author name: Kristen Hartman

Schwartz M, Nguyen A, Warrier D, Palmerston J, Thomas A, Morairty S, Neylan T, Kilduff T (2016) Locus coeruleus and tuberomammillary nuclei ablations attenuate hypocretin/orexin antagonist-mediated rem sleep. eNeuro 3:ENEURO.0018-0016.2016. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0018-16.2016 Summary: To examine the mechanism by which the Orexin 1r/Orexin 2r antagonist almorexant decreases wakefulness and increases NREM and REM sleep the authors […]

Yao Y, Echeverry S, Shi X, Yang M, Yang Q, Wang G, Chambon J, Wu Y, Fu K, De Koninck Y, Zhang J (2016) Dynamics of spinal microglia repopulation following an acute depletion. Sci Rep 6:22839. doi: 10.1038/srep22839 Summary: This study confirms that similar to microglia in the brain, spinal microglia can repopulate rapidly following

Fei Y, Wang X, Chen S, Zhou Q, Zhang C, Li Y, Sun L, Zhang L (2016) Role of the RVM in descending pain regulation originating from the cerebrospinal fluid-contacting nucleus. Neurochem Res 41:1651-1661. doi: 10.1007/s11064-016-1880-6 Summary: The researchers investigated whether the CSF-contacting nucleus contributed to descending pain modulation in normal and neuropathic rats, and

Wang L, Conner J, Nagahara A, Tuszynski M (2016) Rehabilitation drives enhancement of neuronal structure in functionally relevant neuronal subsets. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113:2750-2755. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1514682113 Summary: Rehabilitation is often prescribed after brain injury, but the basis for how training can influence brain plasticity and recovery is unclear. In this study,

Vazquez-DeRose J, Schwartz M, Nguyen A, Warrier D, Gulati S, Mathew T, Neylan T, Kilduff T (2016) Hypocretin/orexin antagonism enhances sleep-related adenosine and GABA neurotransmission in rat basal forebrain. Brain Struct Funct 221:923-940. doi: 10.1007/s00429-014-0946-y Summary: The basal forebrain (BF) is one of the regions receiving excitatory input from orexin neurons. The authors investigated the