Publications for Christopher S. Leonard chris_leonard@nymc.edu

NYMC Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences
  • Ishibashi, M., Gumenchuk, I., Miyazaki, K., Inoue, T., Ross, W. N., & Leonard, C. S. (2016). Hypocretin/orexin peptides alter spike encoding by serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons through two distinct mechanisms that increase the late afterhyperpolarization. The Journal of Neuroscience, 36(39), 10097-10115. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0635-16.2016

  • Ishibashi, M., Gumenchuk, I., Kang, B., Steger, C., Lynn, E., Eisenberg, L. M., . . .  Leonard, C. S. (2015). Orexin receptor activation generates gamma band input to cholinergic and serotonergic arousal system neurons and drives an intrinsic Ca2+-dependent resonance in LDT and PPT cholinergic neurons. Frontiers in Neurology, 6, 120. doi:10.3389/fneur.2015.00120

  • Christensen, M. H., Ishibashi, M., Nielsen, M. L., Leonard, C. S., & Kohlmeier, K. A. (2014). Age-related changes in nicotine response of cholinergic and non-cholinergic laterodorsal tegmental neurons: implications for the heightened adolescent susceptibility to nicotine addiction. Neuropharmacology, 85C, 263-283. doi:S0028-3908(14)00177-4

  • Kukkonen, J. P., & Leonard, C. S. (2014). Orexin/hypocretin receptor signalling cascades. British Journal of Pharmacology, 171(2), 314-331. doi:10.1111/bph.12324

  • Leonard, C. S., & Kukkonen, J. P. (2014). Orexin/hypocretin receptor signalling: A functional perspective. British Journal of Pharmacology, 171(2), 294-313. doi:10.1111/bph.12296

  • Kohlmeier, K. A., Tyler, C. J., Kalogiannis, M., Ishibashi, M., Kristensen, M. P., Gumenchuk, I., . . . Leonard, C. S. (2013). Differential actions of orexin receptors in brainstem cholinergic and monoaminergic neurons revealed by receptor knockouts: Implications for orexinergic signaling in arousal and narcolepsy. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7 [Article 246]. doi:10.3389/fnins.2013.00246