Richard F. Thompson

Publication List Details

Period

1953 - 2008

Number

63

Co-Authors

Progesterone regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity in rodent hippocampus (2008)

Foy, Michael R., Akopian, Garnik, Thompson, Richard F.

Ovarian hormones influence memory formation by eliciting changes in neural activity. The effects of various concentrations of progesterone (P4) on synaptic transmission and plasticity associated with...

Decremental effects of context exposure following delay eyeblink conditioning in rabbits (2006)

Poulos, Andrew M, Pakaprot, Narawut, Mahdi, Benjamin, Kehoe, E James, Thompson, Richard F

The conditioning context arises from the relatively static features of the training environment. In rabbit eyeblink conditioning, procedures that retard acquisition (conditioned stimulus [CS]...

Neural Substrates of Eyeblink Conditioning: Acquisition and Retention (2003)

Christian, Kimberly M., Thompson, Richard F.

Classical conditioning of the eyeblink reflex to a neutral stimulus that predicts an aversive stimulus is a basic form of associative learning. Acquisition and retention of this learned response...

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the Neural Bases for Learning and Memory. (1998)

Thompson, Richard F., Solomon, Herbert

Our ONR supported empirical work during the past five years has focused on identification of the essential i.e., the necessary and sufficient, neural memory trace circuitry and the essential memory...

A Biological Neural Network Analysis of Learning and Memory. (1998)

Thompson, Richard F.

The basic goal of our research program is to localize and analyze processes and mechanisms of memory formation, storage and retrieval in the mammalian brain. We focus on associative learning and...

Importance of the intracellular domain of NR2 subunits for NMDA receptor function in vivo (1998)

Sprengel,Rolf, Suchanek,Bettina, Amico,Carla, Brusa,Rossella, Burnashev,Nail, Rozov,Andrej, ...

NMDA receptors, a class of glutamate-gated cation channels with high Ca2+ conductance, mediate fast transmission and plasticity of central excitatory synapses. We show here that gene-targeted mice...

Importance of the intracellular domain of NR2 subunits for NMDA receptor function in vivo (1998)

Sprengel,Rolf, Suchanek,Bettina, Amico,Carla, Brusa,Rossella, Burnashev,Nail, Rozov,Andrej, ...

NMDA receptors, a class of glutamate-gated cation channels with high Ca2+ conductance, mediate fast transmission and plasticity of central excitatory synapses. We show here that gene-targeted mice...

Importance of the intracellular domain of NR2 subunits for NMDA receptor function in vivo (1998)

Sprengel, Rolf, Suchanek, Bettina, Amico, Carla, Brusa, Rossella, Burnashev, Nail, Rozov, Andrej, ...

NMDA receptors, a class of glutamate-gated cation channels with high Ca2+ conductance, mediate fast transmission and plasticity of central excitatory synapses. We show here that gene-targeted mice...

Importance of the intracellular domain of NR2 subunits for NMDA receptor function in vivo (1998)

Sprengel, Rolf, Suchanek, Bettina, Amico, Carla, Brusa, Rossella, Burnashev, Nail, Rozov, Andrej, ...

NMDA receptors, a class of glutamate-gated cation channels with high Ca2+ conductance, mediate fast transmission and plasticity of central excitatory synapses. We show here that gene-targeted mice...

Impaired motor coordination and persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation of cerebellar Purkinje cells in mice lacking Galpha q (1997)

Offermanns, Stefan, Hashimoto, Kouichi, Watanabe, Masahiko, Sun, William, Kurihara, Hideo, Thompson, Richard F., ...

Mice lacking the alpha -subunit of the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein Gq (Galpha q) are viable but suffer from ataxia with typical signs of motor discoordination. The anatomy of...

Impaired motor coordination and persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation of cerebellar Purkinje cells in mice lacking G alpha q (1997)

Offermanns, Stefan, Hashimoto, Kouichi, Watanabe, Masahiko, Sun, William, Kurihara, Hideo, Thompson, Richard F., ...

Mice lacking the alpha-subunit of the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein G(q) (G alpha(q)) are viable but suffer from ataxia with typical signs of motor discoordination. The anatomy of...

Selective enhancement of emotional, but not motor, learning in monoamine oxidase A-deficient mice (1997)

Kim, Jeansok J., Shih, Jean C., Chen, Kevin, Chen, Lu, Bao, Shaowen, Maren, Stephen, ...

Mice deficient in monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), an enzyme that metabolizes monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin, have elevated norepinephrine and serotonin levels in the frontal cortex,...

A Biological Neural Network Analysis of Learning and Memory: The Cerebellum and Sensory Motor Conditioning. (1996)

Thompson, Richard F.

This research supported by the Office of Naval Research was focussed on how memories for the learning of skilled sensory-motor behaviors are learned, where they are stored in the brain and how these...

Emergence neophobia correlates with hippocampal and cortical glutamate receptor binding in rats (1994)

Maren, Stephen, Tocco, Georges, Chavanne, Frederic, Baudry, Michel, Thompson, Richard F., Mitchell, Denis

Previous work from our laboratory indicated that emergence neophobia is highly correlated with perforant path long-term potentiation (LTP) in rats. In the present study, we examined the relationship...

Parallel augmentation of hippocampal long-term potentiation, theta rhythm, and contextual fear conditioning in water-deprived rats (1994)

Maren, Stephen, DeCola, Joseph P., Swain, Rodney A., Fanselow, Michael S., Thompson, Richard F.

The influence of water deprivation on hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), theta rhythm, and contextual fear conditioning in rats was examined. In Experiment 1, hippocampal EEG activity and...

Postsynaptic factors in the expression of long-term potentiation (LTP): increased glutamate receptor binding following LTP induction in vivo (1993)

Maren, Stephen, Tocco, Georges, Standley, Steven, Baudry, Michel, Thompson, Richard F.

Several lines of evidence indicate that LTP in the hippocampus is associated with a change in the properties of postsynaptic glutamate receptors. In the present study, we used quantitative...

Individual differences in emergence neophobia predict magnitiude of perforant-path long-term potentiation (LTP) and plasma corticosterone levels in rats (1993)

Maren, Stephen, Patel, Ketan, Thompson, Richard F., Mitchell, Denis

Emergence neophobia was assessed in an emergence apparatus that provided a choice between novel and familiar alternatives. Two weeks following emergence testing the threshold to induce perforant path...

Effects of the novel NMDA receptor antagonist, CGP 39551, on field potentials and the induction and expression of LTP in the dentate gyrus in vivo (1992)

Maren, Stephen, Baudry, Michel, Thompson, Richard F.

The effects of the novel competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, CGP 39551 [the carboxyethylester of CGP 37849; DL-(E)-2-amino-4-methyl-5-phosphono-3-pentenoic acid], on...

Long-term potentiation is associated with increased [3H]AMPA binding in rat hippocampus (1992)

Tocco, Georges, Maren, Stephen, Shors, Tracey J., Baudry, Michel, Thompson, Richard F.

The location and nature of the changes underlying long-term potentiation (LTP) remain controversial issues. In this study, we tested the possibility that changes in binding properties of the...

A negative correlation between the induction of long-term potentiation and activation of immediate early genes (1991)

Schreiber, Steven S., Maren, Stephen, Tocco, Georges, Shors, Tracey J., Thompson, Richard F.

In the present study we examined the relationship between the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the dentate gyrus of anesthetized rats and activation of immediate early genes (IEGs; c-fos...

Differential effects of ketamine and MK-801 on the induction of long-term potentiation (1991)

Maren, Stephen, Baudry, Michel, Thompson, Richard F.

Ketamine and MK-801 are phencyclidine (PCP)-like noncompetitive antagonists of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor that produce a use-dependent blockade of the NMDA receptor-coupled channel....

Introducción a la psicología fisiológica (1977)

Thompson, Richard F.

Traducción de: Introduction to physiological psychology

Fundamentos de psicología fisiológica (1973)

Thompson, Richard F.

Traducción de: Foundations of Physiological Psychology

The tyrosine kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways mediate multiple effects of estrogen in hippocampus

Bi, Ruifen, Broutman, Greg, Foy, Mike R., Thompson, Richard F., Baudry, Michel

Estrogen replacement therapy in women is associated with improvement of cognitive deficits and reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease. The present study indicates that estrogen is neuroprotective...

Impaired cerebellar synapse maturation in waggler, a mutant mouse with a disrupted neuronal calcium channel γ subunit

Chen, Lu, Bao, Shaowen, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Thompson, Richard F.

The waggler, a neurological mutant mouse with a disrupted putative neuronal Ca2+ channel γ subunit, exhibits a cerebellar granule cell-specific brain-derived neurotrophic factor deficit, severe...

Selective enhancement of emotional, but not motor, learning in monoamine oxidase A-deficient mice

Kim, Jeansok J., Shih, Jean C., Chen, Kevin, Chen, Lu, Bao, Shaowen, Maren, Stephen, ...

Mice deficient in monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), an enzyme that metabolizes monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin, have elevated norepinephrine and serotonin levels in the frontal cortex,...

Impaired motor coordination and persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation of cerebellar Purkinje cells in mice lacking Gαq

Offermanns, Stefan, Hashimoto, Kouichi, Watanabe, Masahiko, Sun, William, Kurihara, Hideo, Thompson, Richard F., ...

Mice lacking the α-subunit of the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein Gq (Gαq) are viable but suffer from ataxia with typical signs of motor discoordination. The anatomy of the...

Cyclic changes in estradiol regulate synaptic plasticity through the MAP kinase pathway

Bi, Ruifen, Foy, Michael R., Vouimba, Rose-Marie, Thompson, Richard F., Baudry, Michel

Hippocampal synaptic structure and function exhibit marked variations during the estrus cycle of female rats. Estradiol activates the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway in numerous cell...

Cerebellar cortical inhibition and classical eyeblink conditioning

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Kim, Jeansok J., Thompson, Richard F.

The cerebellum is considered a brain structure in which memories for learned motor responses (e.g., conditioned eyeblink responses) are stored. Within the cerebellum, however, the relative importance...

Reversal of age-related learning deficits and brain oxidative stress in mice with superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics

Liu, Ruolan, Liu, Ingrid Y., Bi, Xiaoning, Thompson, Richard F., Doctrow, Susan R., Malfroy, Bernard, ...

Oxidative stress has been implicated in cognitive impairment in both old experimental animals and aged humans. This implication has led to the notion that antioxidant defense mechanisms in the brain...

Impaired Eye-Blink Conditioning in waggler, a Mutant Mouse With Cerebellar BDNF Deficiency

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Knusel, Beat, Thompson, Richard F.

In addition to their trophic functions, neurotrophins are also implicated in synaptic modulation and learning and memory. Although gene knockout techniques have been used widely in studying the roles...

Effects of Paired and Unpaired Eye-Blink Conditioning on Purkinje Cell Morphology

Anderson, Brenda J., Relucio, Karen, Haglund, Karl, Logan, Christy, Knowlton, Barbara, Thompson, Judith, ...

This experiment addressed (1) the importance of conjunctive stimulus presentation for morphological plasticity of cerebellar Purkinje cells and inhibitory interneurons and (2) whether plasticity is...

Transgenic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Modulates a Developing Cerebellar Inhibitory Synapse

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Thompson, Richard F.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been shown to promote synapse formation and maturation in neurons of many brain regions, including inhibitory synapses. In the cerebellum, the Golgi...

Molecular evidence for two-stage learning and partial laterality in eyeblink conditioning of mice

Park, Jin-Sung, Onodera, Takashi, Nishimura, Shin-ichi, Thompson, Richard F., Itohara, Shigeyoshi

The anterior interpositus nucleus (AIN) is the proposed site of memory formation of eyeblink conditioning. A large part of the underlying molecular events, however, remain unknown. To elucidate the...

The tyrosine kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways mediate multiple effects of estrogen in hippocampus

Bi, Ruifen, Broutman, Greg, Foy, Mike R., Thompson, Richard F., Baudry, Michel

Estrogen replacement therapy in women is associated with improvement of cognitive deficits and reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease. The present study indicates that estrogen is neuroprotective...

Impaired cerebellar synapse maturation in waggler, a mutant mouse with a disrupted neuronal calcium channel γ subunit

Chen, Lu, Bao, Shaowen, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Thompson, Richard F.

The waggler, a neurological mutant mouse with a disrupted putative neuronal Ca2+ channel γ subunit, exhibits a cerebellar granule cell-specific brain-derived neurotrophic factor deficit, severe...

Selective enhancement of emotional, but not motor, learning in monoamine oxidase A-deficient mice

Kim, Jeansok J., Shih, Jean C., Chen, Kevin, Chen, Lu, Bao, Shaowen, Maren, Stephen, ...

Mice deficient in monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), an enzyme that metabolizes monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin, have elevated norepinephrine and serotonin levels in the frontal cortex,...

Impaired motor coordination and persistent multiple climbing fiber innervation of cerebellar Purkinje cells in mice lacking Gαq

Offermanns, Stefan, Hashimoto, Kouichi, Watanabe, Masahiko, Sun, William, Kurihara, Hideo, Thompson, Richard F., ...

Mice lacking the α-subunit of the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide binding protein Gq (Gαq) are viable but suffer from ataxia with typical signs of motor discoordination. The anatomy of the...

Cyclic changes in estradiol regulate synaptic plasticity through the MAP kinase pathway

Bi, Ruifen, Foy, Michael R., Vouimba, Rose-Marie, Thompson, Richard F., Baudry, Michel

Hippocampal synaptic structure and function exhibit marked variations during the estrus cycle of female rats. Estradiol activates the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway in numerous cell...

Cerebellar cortical inhibition and classical eyeblink conditioning

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Kim, Jeansok J., Thompson, Richard F.

The cerebellum is considered a brain structure in which memories for learned motor responses (e.g., conditioned eyeblink responses) are stored. Within the cerebellum, however, the relative importance...

Reversal of age-related learning deficits and brain oxidative stress in mice with superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics

Liu, Ruolan, Liu, Ingrid Y., Bi, Xiaoning, Thompson, Richard F., Doctrow, Susan R., Malfroy, Bernard, ...

Oxidative stress has been implicated in cognitive impairment in both old experimental animals and aged humans. This implication has led to the notion that antioxidant defense mechanisms in the brain...

Impaired Eye-Blink Conditioning in waggler, a Mutant Mouse With Cerebellar BDNF Deficiency

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Knusel, Beat, Thompson, Richard F.

In addition to their trophic functions, neurotrophins are also implicated in synaptic modulation and learning and memory. Although gene knockout techniques have been used widely in studying the roles...

Effects of Paired and Unpaired Eye-Blink Conditioning on Purkinje Cell Morphology

Anderson, Brenda J., Relucio, Karen, Haglund, Karl, Logan, Christy, Knowlton, Barbara, Thompson, Judith, ...

This experiment addressed (1) the importance of conjunctive stimulus presentation for morphological plasticity of cerebellar Purkinje cells and inhibitory interneurons and (2) whether plasticity is...

Transgenic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Modulates a Developing Cerebellar Inhibitory Synapse

Bao, Shaowen, Chen, Lu, Qiao, Xiaoxi, Thompson, Richard F.

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been shown to promote synapse formation and maturation in neurons of many brain regions, including inhibitory synapses. In the cerebellum, the Golgi...

Molecular evidence for two-stage learning and partial laterality in eyeblink conditioning of mice

Park, Jin-Sung, Onodera, Takashi, Nishimura, Shin-ichi, Thompson, Richard F., Itohara, Shigeyoshi

The anterior interpositus nucleus (AIN) is the proposed site of memory formation of eyeblink conditioning. A large part of the underlying molecular events, however, remain unknown. To elucidate the...

Eye-blink conditioning is associated with changes in synaptic ultrastructure in the rabbit interpositus nuclei

Weeks, Andrew C.W., Connor, Steve, Hinchcliff, Richard, LeBoutillier, Janelle C., Thompson, Richard F., Petit, Ted L.

Eye-blink conditioning involves the pairing of a conditioned stimulus (usually a tone) to an unconditioned stimulus (air puff), and it is well established that an intact cerebellum and interpositus...

Progesterone regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity in rodent hippocampus

Foy, Michael R., Akopian, Garnik, Thompson, Richard F.

Ovarian hormones influence memory formation by eliciting changes in neural activity. The effects of various concentrations of progesterone (P4) on synaptic transmission and plasticity associated with...