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Clifford B. Saper, M.D.,Ph.D.

Harvard Title

James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology

Administrative and Hospital Titles

Head of the Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Address

Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr
Neurology, Kirstein 406
330 Brookline Ave  
Boston MA 02215

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Colocalization of orexin a and glutamate immunoreactivity in axon terminals in the tuberomammillary nucleus in rats.
Authors: Torrealba F, Yanagisawa M, Saper CB.
Neuroscience
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The need to feed: homeostatic and hedonic control of eating.
Authors: Saper CB, Chou TC, Elmquist JK.
Neuron
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The sedative component of anesthesia is mediated by GABA(A) receptors in an endogenous sleep pathway.
Authors: Nelson LE, Guo TZ, Lu J, Saper CB, Franks NP, Maze M.
Nat Neurosci
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor stimulation increases blood pressure and heart rate and activates autonomic regulatory neurons.
Authors: Yamamoto H, Lee CE, Marcus JN, Williams TD, Overton JM, Lopez ME, Hollenberg AN, Baggio L, Saper CB, Drucker DJ, Elmquist JK.
J Clin Invest
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Selective activation of the extended ventrolateral preoptic nucleus during rapid eye movement sleep.
Authors: Lu J, Bjorkum AA, Xu M, Gaus SE, Shiromani PJ, Saper CB.
J Neurosci
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Afferents to the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus.
Authors: Chou TC, Bjorkum AA, Gaus SE, Lu J, Scammell TE, Saper CB.
J Neurosci
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The central autonomic nervous system: conscious visceral perception and autonomic pattern generation.
Authors: Saper CB.
Annu Rev Neurosci
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Ventrolateral preoptic nucleus contains sleep-active, galaninergic neurons in multiple mammalian species.
Authors: Gaus SE, Strecker RE, Tate BA, Parker RA, Saper CB.
Neuroscience
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Melanopsin in cells of origin of the retinohypothalamic tract.
Authors: Gooley JJ, Lu J, Chou TC, Scammell TE, Saper CB.
Nat Neurosci
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Synaptic and morphological characteristics of temperature-sensitive and -insensitive rat hypothalamic neurones.
Authors: Griffin JD, Saper CB, Boulant JA.
J Physiol
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