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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Extracellular histamine levels in the feline preoptic/anterior hypothalamic area during natural sleep-wakefulness and prolonged wakefulness: an in vivo microdialysis study.
Authors: Strecker RE, Nalwalk J, Dauphin LJ, Thakkar MM, Chen Y, Ramesh V, Hough LB, McCarley RW.
Neuroscience
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Neuroscience
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Microdialysis perfusion of orexin-A in the basal forebrain increases wakefulness in freely behaving rats.
Authors: Thakkar MM, Ramesh V, Strecker RE, McCarley RW.
Arch Ital Biol
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Arch Ital Biol
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Adenosine as a biological signal mediating sleepiness following prolonged wakefulness.
Authors: Basheer R, Porkka-Heiskanen T, Strecker RE, Thakkar MM, McCarley RW.
Biol Signals Recept
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Biol Signals Recept
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Adenosinergic modulation of basal forebrain and preoptic/anterior hypothalamic neuronal activity in the control of behavioral state.
Authors: Strecker RE, Morairty S, Thakkar MM, Porkka-Heiskanen T, Basheer R, Dauphin LJ, Rainnie DG, Portas CM, Greene RW, McCarley RW.
Behav Brain Res
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Behav Brain Res
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Brain site-specificity of extracellular adenosine concentration changes during sleep deprivation and spontaneous sleep: an in vivo microdialysis study.
A comparison of the effects of amphetamine and low doses of apomorphine on operant force production, inter-response times and response duration in rat.
Behavioral state-related changes of extracellular serotonin concentration in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus: a microdialysis study in freely moving animals.
Authors: Strecker RE, Thakkar MM, Porkka-Heiskanen T, Dauphin LJ, Bjørkum AA, McCarley RW.
Sleep Res Online
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Sleep Res Online
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REM sleep enhancement and behavioral cataplexy following orexin (hypocretin)-II receptor antisense perfusion in the pontine reticular formation.
Authors: Thakkar MM, Ramesh V, Cape EG, Winston S, Strecker RE, McCarley RW.
Sleep Res Online
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Sleep Res Online
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Behavioral state control through differential serotonergic inhibition in the mesopontine cholinergic nuclei: a simultaneous unit recording and microdialysis study.
Dopamine depletion in nucleus accumbens influences locomotion but not force and timing of operant responding.