McKenna

James T. McKenna, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
508-583-4500
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Harvard Title

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Administrative and Hospital Titles

Research Scientist, Department of Psychiatry, VA Boston Healthcare System

Address

Boston Va Med Ctr-W Roxbury
Bldg. 3, Rm. 2A-112
1400 VFW Pkwy  
West Roxbury MA 02132

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24 hours of sleep deprivation in the rat increases sleepiness and decreases vigilance: introduction of the rat-psychomotor vigilance task.
Authors: Christie MA, McKenna JT, Connolly NP, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
J Sleep Res
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Assessing sleepiness in the rat: a multiple sleep latencies test compared to polysomnographic measures of sleepiness.
Authors: McKenna JT, Cordeira JW, Christie MA, Tartar JL, McCoy JG, Lee E, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
J Sleep Res
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Microdialysis elevation of adenosine in the basal forebrain produces vigilance impairments in the rat psychomotor vigilance task.
Authors: Christie MA, Bolortuya Y, Chen LC, McKenna JT, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
Sleep
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Characterization of GABAergic neurons in rapid-eye-movement sleep controlling regions of the brainstem reticular formation in GAD67-green fluorescent protein knock-in mice.
Authors: Brown RE, McKenna JT, Winston S, Basheer R, Yanagawa Y, Thakkar MM, McCarley RW.
Eur J Neurosci
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Sleep fragmentation elevates behavioral, electrographic and neurochemical measures of sleepiness.
Authors: McKenna JT, Tartar JL, Ward CP, Thakkar MM, Cordeira JW, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
Neuroscience
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Experimental sleep fragmentation impairs attentional set-shifting in rats.
Authors: McCoy JG, Tartar JL, Bebis AC, Ward CP, McKenna JT, Baxter MG, McGaughy J, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
Sleep
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Differential effect of orexins (hypocretins) on serotonin release in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei of freely behaving rats.
Authors: Tao R, Ma Z, McKenna JT, Thakkar MM, Winston S, Strecker RE, McCarley RW.
Neuroscience
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Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial learning are impaired in a rat model of sleep fragmentation.
Authors: Tartar JL, Ward CP, McKenna JT, Thakkar M, Arrigoni E, McCarley RW, Brown RE, Strecker RE.
Eur J Neurosci
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Another chapter in the adenosine story.
Authors: Strecker RE, Basheer R, McKenna JT, McCarley RW.
Sleep
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Effects on serotonin of (-)nicotine and dimethylphenylpiperazinium in the dorsal raphe and nucleus accumbens of freely behaving rats.
Authors: Ma Z, Strecker RE, McKenna JT, Thakkar MM, McCarley RW, Tao R.
Neuroscience
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