Harvard Title
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Other Affiliations
Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System
Department of Psychology, Stonehill College
Address
Brockton V.A. Medical Center
Research 151 C
940 Belmont St
Brockton MA 02301
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Experimental sleep fragmentation impairs spatial reference but not working memory in Fischer/Brown Norway rats.
Experimental sleep fragmentation and sleep deprivation in rats increases exploration in an open field test of anxiety while increasing plasma corticosterone levels.
Authors: Tartar JL, Ward CP, Cordeira JW, Legare SL, Blanchette AJ, McCarley RW, Strecker RE.
Behav Brain Res
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Behav Brain Res
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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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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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J Sleep Res
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Sleep fragmentation impairs ventilatory long-term facilitation via adenosine A1 receptors.
Authors: McGuire M, Tartar JL, Cao Y, McCarley RW, White DP, Strecker RE, Ling L.
J Physiol
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J Physiol
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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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Sleep
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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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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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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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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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Eur J Neurosci
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