Brian Christie
Canadian neuroscientist
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- Masters Psychology University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian R. Christie is a Professor of Medicine and Neuroscience at The University of Victoria. He helped found the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Victoria and served as its director from 2010–2017. He is a Michael Smith Senior Scholar Award winner. Christie received his PhD in 1992 from the University of Otago before doing postdoctoral work with Daniel Johnston at Baylor College of Medicine and Terrence Sejnowski at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and then became Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. Promoted to Associate Professor in 2007. Full Professor in 2013.
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Published Works
- Running enhances neurogenesis, learning, and long-term potentiation in mice. (1999) (2868)
- Functional neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus (2002) (2867)
- Traumatic brain injury: integrated approaches to improve prevention, clinical care, and research (2017) (1139)
- Regulation of Synaptic Efficacy by Coincidence of Postsynaptic APs and EPSPs (1997) (926)
- Effects of voluntary exercise on synaptic plasticity and gene expression in the dentate gyrus of adult male sprague–dawley rats in vivo (2004) (812)
- Environmental enrichment and voluntary exercise massively increase neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus via dissociable pathways (2006) (573)
- Voluntary exercise alters the cytoarchitecture of the adult dentate gyrus by increasing cellular proliferation, dendritic complexity, and spine density (2005) (450)
- Dopamine D1/D5 receptor modulation of excitatory synaptic inputs to layer V prefrontal cortex neurons. (2001) (410)
- Mice lacking methyl-CpG binding protein 1 have deficits in adult neurogenesis and hippocampal function (2003) (404)
- Antidepressant effects of exercise: evidence for an adult-neurogenesis hypothesis? (2006) (316)
- Active dendrites, potassium channels and synaptic plasticity. (2003) (258)
- Physical exercise-induced hippocampal neurogenesis and antidepressant effects are mediated by the adipocyte hormone adiponectin (2014) (239)
- Exercise-induced changes in dendritic structure and complexity in the adult hippocampal dentate gyrus (2006) (236)
- Hippocampal long-term depression mediates acute stress-induced spatial memory retrieval impairment (2007) (234)
- Different Ca2+ channels in soma and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons mediate spike-induced Ca2+ influx. (1995) (220)
- Subthreshold synaptic activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels mediates a localized Ca2+ influx into the dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons. (1995) (204)
- Hippocampal cell loss and neurogenesis after fetal alcohol exposure: Insights from different rodent models (2010) (183)
- Priming of associative long-term depression in the dentate gyrus by θ frequency synaptic activity (1992) (180)
- NGF Is Essential for Hippocampal Plasticity and Learning (2009) (178)
- A Comparison of the Different Animal Models of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Their Use in Studying Complex Behaviors (2014) (173)
- Contribution of NR2A and NR2B NMDA subunits to bidirectional synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus in vivo (2006) (169)
- The role of oxidative stress in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (2011) (161)
- Anxiety- and depression-like behaviors are accompanied by an increase in oxidative stress in a rat model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: Protective effects of voluntary physical exercise (2012) (159)
- Voluntary exercise rescues deficits in spatial memory and long‐term potentiation in prenatal ethanol‐exposed male rats (2005) (157)
- Flip side of synaptic plasticity: Long‐term depression mechanisms in the hippocampus (1994) (144)
- Hippocampal cell proliferation is reduced following prenatal ethanol exposure but can be rescued with voluntary exercise (2006) (141)
- Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus (2006) (135)
- Overexpression of the cell adhesion protein neuroligin‐1 induces learning deficits and impairs synaptic plasticity by altering the ratio of excitation to inhibition in the hippocampus (2009) (128)
- Dihydropyridine-sensitive, voltage-gated Ca2+ channels contribute to the resting intracellular Ca2+ concentration of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. (1996) (127)
- Endogenous cannabinoid signaling is required for voluntary exercise‐induced enhancement of progenitor cell proliferation in the hippocampus (2009) (124)
- The Role of RNA Editing of Kainate Receptors in Synaptic Plasticity and Seizures (2001) (121)
- The potential for animal models to provide insight into mild traumatic brain injury: Translational challenges and strategies (2017) (105)
- Running reduces stress and enhances cell genesis in aged mice (2011) (102)
- Effects of exercise on NMDA receptor subunit contributions to bidirectional synaptic plasticity in the mouse dentate gyrus (2007) (99)
- Physical Exercise-Induced Adult Neurogenesis: A Good Strategy to Prevent Cognitive Decline in Neurodegenerative Diseases? (2014) (98)
- Altered adult hippocampal neurogenesis in the YAC128 transgenic mouse model of Huntington disease (2011) (98)
- NMDA‐dependent heterosynaptic long‐term depression in the dentate gyrus of anaesthetized rats (1992) (97)
- Immediate early gene expression associated with the persistence of heterosynaptic long-term depression in the hippocampus. (1994) (97)
- Exercising Our Brains: How Physical Activity Impacts Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus (2008) (96)
- Hippocampal Neurogenesis Levels Predict WATERMAZE Search Strategies in the Aging Brain (2013) (93)
- NMDA receptor hypofunction in the dentate gyrus and impaired context discrimination in adult Fmr1 knockout mice (2012) (92)
- Omega-3 supplementation can restore glutathione levels and prevent oxidative damage caused by prenatal ethanol exposure. (2013) (90)
- Long-term exercise is needed to enhance synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. (2013) (89)
- Contribution of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels to homosynaptic long-term depression in the CA1 region in vitro. (1997) (82)
- The role of oxidative stress in Huntington's disease: are antioxidants good therapeutic candidates? (2014) (80)
- The role of dendritic action potentials and Ca2+ influx in the induction of homosynaptic long-term depression in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. (1996) (79)
- Voluntary exercise induces adult hippocampal neurogenesis and BDNF expression in a rodent model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (2011) (77)
- Fmr1 knockout mice show reduced anxiety and alterations in neurogenesis that are specific to the ventral dentate gyrus (2009) (75)
- Glutathione Restores the Mechanism of Synaptic Plasticity in Aged Mice to That of the Adult (2011) (74)
- Differential regulation of paired-pulse plasticity following LTP in the dentate gyrus. (1994) (69)
- Altered adult hippocampal neuronal maturation in a rat model of fetal alcohol syndrome (2011) (67)
- The effects of hormones and physical exercise on hippocampal structural plasticity (2016) (63)
- Cingulate cell discharge patterns related to hippocampal EEG and their modulation by muscarinic and nicotinic agents (1988) (60)
- Prolonged cannabinoid treatment results in spatial working memory deficits and impaired long‐term potentiation in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in vivo (2004) (60)
- Differential Response of Hippocampal Subregions to Stress and Learning (2012) (60)
- Author Correction: Exercise hormone irisin is a critical regulator of cognitive function (2021) (59)
- Effects of pre-natal alcohol exposure on hippocampal synaptic plasticity: Sex, age and methodological considerations (2016) (57)
- Tyrosine phosphorylation of the GluR2 subunit is required for long‐term depression of synaptic efficacy in young animals in vivo (2007) (57)
- Omega-3 fatty acids can reverse the long-term deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity caused by prenatal ethanol exposure (2013) (51)
- Hippocampal dysfunction and cognitive impairment in Fragile-X Syndrome (2016) (51)
- Neurogenesis in Huntington's disease: Can studying adult neurogenesis lead to the development of new therapeutic strategies? (2011) (49)
- Rescue of NMDAR-dependent synaptic plasticity in Fmr1 knock-out mice. (2015) (49)
- Prenatal ethanol exposure enhances NMDAR‐dependent long‐term potentiation in the adolescent female dentate gyrus (2012) (49)
- The Benefits of Exercise on Structural and Functional Plasticity in the Rodent Hippocampus of Different Disease Models (2015) (47)
- Voluntary exercise does not enhance long-term potentiation in the adolescent female dentate gyrus (2011) (47)
- Stress differentially regulates the effects of voluntary exercise on cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of mice (2009) (46)
- Nestin‐expressing cells and their relationship to mitotically active cells in the subventricular zones of the adult rat (2005) (45)
- GluN2A-/- Mice Lack Bidirectional Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus and Perform Poorly on Spatial Pattern Separation Tasks. (2015) (45)
- L-type voltage-sensitive calcium channel antagonists block heterosynaptic long-term depression in the dentate gyrus of anaesthetized rats (1994) (42)
- Sustained Running in Rats Administered Corticosterone Prevents the Development of Depressive Behaviors and Enhances Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Synaptic Plasticity without Increasing Neurotrophic Factor Levels (2014) (42)
- Isolectin-IB4 as a vascular stain for the study of adult neurogenesis (2006) (38)
- Synaptic plasticity in morphologically identified CA1 stratum radiatum interneurons and giant projection cells (2000) (37)
- Reduced synaptic plasticity in the lateral perforant path input to the dentate gyrus of aged C57BL/6 mice. (2003) (37)
- The putative neural stem cell marker, nestin, is expressed in heterogeneous cell types in the adult rat neocortex (2006) (37)
- Dendritic calcium channels and hippocampal long‐term depression (1996) (36)
- Repeated mild traumatic brain injury can cause acute neurologic impairment without overt structural damage in juvenile rats (2018) (36)
- Electrophysiological identification of medial and lateral perforant path inputs to the dentate gyrus (2013) (36)
- Evidence for common expression mechanisms underlying heterosynaptic and associative long-term depression in the dentate gyrus. (1995) (35)
- Deletion of the nuclear receptor Nr2e1 impairs synaptic plasticity and dendritic structure in the mouse dentate gyrus (2006) (34)
- Impairments in hippocampal synaptic plasticity following prenatal ethanol exposure are dependent on glutathione levels (2013) (34)
- Revisiting the flip side: Long-term depression of synaptic efficacy in the hippocampus (2017) (34)
- Prenatal ethanol exposure differentially affects hippocampal neurogenesis in the adolescent and aged brain (2014) (33)
- Modulation of synaptic plasticity by exercise. (2019) (33)
- Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Produces Long-Lasting Deficits in Synaptic Plasticity in the Female Juvenile Hippocampus. (2017) (32)
- The Effects of Ethanol Exposure During Distinct Periods of Brain Development on Oxidative Stress in the Adult Rat Brain (2017) (31)
- The antidepressant‐like effect of chronic guanosine treatment is associated with increased hippocampal neuronal differentiation (2016) (30)
- Long‐term depression in vivo: Effects of sex, stress, diet, and prenatal ethanol exposure (2008) (30)
- Liquid diets reduce cell proliferation but not neurogenesis in the adult rat hippocampus (2013) (29)
- Deletion of the NMDA Receptor GluN2A Subunit Significantly Decreases Dendritic Growth in Maturing Dentate Granule Neurons (2014) (29)
- Enhanced Deficits in Long-Term Potentiation in the Adult Dentate Gyrus with 2nd Trimester Ethanol Consumption (2012) (26)
- Mild Closed-Head Injury in Conscious Rats Causes Transient Neurobehavioral and Glial Disturbances: A Novel Experimental Model of Concussion. (2019) (24)
- Optimizing Differentiation Protocols for Producing Dopaminergic Neurons from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering Applications (2015) (23)
- Temporally specific proliferation events are induced in the hippocampus following acute focal injury (2006) (22)
- Intermittent ethanol exposure during adolescence impairs cannabinoid type 1 receptor-dependent long-term depression and recognition memory in adult mice (2019) (21)
- Endocannabinoid long-term depression revealed at medial perforant path excitatory synapses in the dentate gyrus (2019) (20)
- Adolescent ethanol intake alters cannabinoid type‐1 receptor localization in astrocytes of the adult mouse hippocampus (2019) (19)
- Chronic minocycline treatment improves hippocampal neuronal structure, NMDA receptor function, and memory processing in Fmr1 knockout mice (2018) (18)
- Impaired bidirectional NMDA receptor dependent synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus of adult female Fmr1 heterozygous knockout mice (2016) (18)
- Three-dimensional multiple object tracking in the pediatric population: the NeuroTracker and its promising role in the management of mild traumatic brain injury (2018) (18)
- Diffusion MRI abnormalities in adolescent rats given repeated mild traumatic brain injury (2018) (16)
- YAC128 Huntington׳s disease transgenic mice show enhanced short-term hippocampal synaptic plasticity early in the course of the disease (2014) (15)
- An Engineered Infected Epidermis Model for In Vitro Study of the Skin’s Pro-Inflammatory Response (2020) (15)
- Trade‐offs in marine protection: multispecies interactions within a community‐led temperate marine reserve (2017) (14)
- Effects of Ethanol Exposure during Distinct Periods of Brain Development on Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity (2013) (14)
- Enhanced corticosteroid signaling alters synaptic plasticity in the dentate gyrus in mice lacking the fragile X mental retardation protein (2015) (13)
- Time-Course Analysis of Protein and Lipid Oxidation in the Brains of Yac128 Huntington's Disease Transgenic Mice. (2016) (13)
- Long‐term depression (LTD) in the hippocampus (1996) (13)
- Impaired bidirectional synaptic plasticity in juvenile offspring following prenatal ethanol exposure. (2019) (12)
- Chronic corticosterone administration reduces dendritic complexity in mature, but not young granule cells in the rat dentate gyrus (2016) (12)
- ISX-9 can potentiate cell proliferation and neuronal commitment in the rat dentate gyrus (2016) (12)
- Cognition, learning behaviour and hippocampal synaptic plasticity are not disrupted in mice over-expressing the cholesterol transporter ABCG1 (2009) (12)
- Characterization of the neurogenesis quiescent zone in the rodent brain: Effects of age and exercise (2010) (12)
- Prenatal ethanol exposure impairs temporal ordering behaviours in young adult rats (2016) (11)
- Acute Δ9‐tetrahydrocannabinol prompts rapid changes in cannabinoid CB1 receptor immunolabeling and subcellular structure in CA1 hippocampus of young adult male mice (2020) (11)
- Interplay between hormones and exercise on hippocampal plasticity across the lifespan. (2020) (10)
- Exercise hormone irisin is a critical regulator of cognitive function (2021) (10)
- Chronic minocycline treatment improves social recognition memory in adult male Fmr1 knockout mice (2016) (10)
- Acute slice preparation for electrophysiology increases spine numbers equivalently in the male and female juvenile hippocampus: A DiI labeling study. (2019) (10)
- Oxidative Stress in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders – Insights for the Development of Antioxidant-Based Therapies (2014) (9)
- Effects of Voluntary Exercise on Cell Proliferation and Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of Adult FMR1 Knockout Mice (2018) (9)
- Fragile-X Syndrome Is Associated With NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and Reduced Dendritic Complexity in Mature Dentate Granule Cells (2019) (9)
- Does Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Increase the Risk for Dementia? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2020) (9)
- Do new neurons have a functional role in the adult hippocampus? (2007) (9)
- Prenatal ethanol (EtOH) exposure alters the sensitivity of the adult dentate gyrus to acute EtOH exposure. (2014) (8)
- A Rapid Neurological Assessment Protocol for Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Awake Rats (2019) (8)
- Potential Biomarkers for Physical Exercise-Induced Brain Health (2016) (8)
- A Systematic Review of the Effects of Perinatal Alcohol Exposure and Perinatal Marijuana Exposure on Adult Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus. (2020) (8)
- Corticotrophin-releasing hormone decreases synaptic transmission in rat sensorimotor cortex in vivo (2005) (8)
- Could Neurotracker be used as a clinical marker of recovery following pediatric mild traumatic brain injury? An exploratory study (2020) (7)
- Effects of Isx-9 and stress on adult hippocampal neurogenesis: Experimental considerations and future perspectives (2017) (7)
- Chronic AdipoRon Treatment Mimics the Effects of Physical Exercise on Restoring Hippocampal Neuroplasticity in Diabetic Mice (2021) (7)
- Multiple object tracking scores predict post-concussion status years after mild traumatic brain injury. (2020) (7)
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects the hippocampal levels of histone variant H2A.Z-2. (2019) (7)
- Heading in the right direction: A critical review of studies examining the effects of heading in soccer players. (2020) (6)
- AdipoRon Treatment Induces a Dose-Dependent Response in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis (2021) (5)
- Understanding Changes in Hippocampal Interneurons Subtypes in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review (2021) (5)
- Hippocampal cognitive impairment in juvenile rats after repeated mild traumatic brain injury (2020) (4)
- Postnatal Choline Supplementation Rescues Deficits in Synaptic Plasticity Following Prenatal Ethanol Exposure (2022) (4)
- Unlocking the brain: A new method for Western blot protein detection from fixed brain tissue (2020) (4)
- Endocannabinoid receptors contribute significantly to multiple forms of long-term depression in the rat dentate gyrus (2020) (3)
- The Canadian Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Common Data Elements Project: Harmonizing Outcomes to Increase Understanding of Pediatric Concussion. (2018) (3)
- Prenatal alcohol and cannabis exposure can have opposing and region-specific effects on parvalbumin interneuron numbers in the hippocampus. (2021) (3)
- Draft 1 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder ( FASD ) affects the hippocampal levels of histone variant H 2 A . Z2 (2019) (2)
- Input to the Dentate Gyrus of Aged C 57 BL / 6 Mice Reduced Synaptic Plasticity in the Lateral Perforant Path (2003) (2)
- Tracking Effects of Exercise on Neuronal Plasticity (2015) (2)
- Practical Considerations for In Vivo Electrophysiology Along the Dorsoventral Hippocampal Axis (2018) (2)
- Effects of Ethanol on Synaptic Plasticity and NMDA Currents in the Juvenile Rat Dentate Gyrus (2020) (1)
- Characterization of the neurogenesis quiescent zone in the rodent brain: effects of age and exercise (2010) (1)
- Author Correction: Exercise hormone irisin is a critical regulator of cognitive function (2021) (1)
- Abnormal neurogensis in the hippocampus of a mouse model of fragile X syndromes (2007) (1)
- Exercising some control over the hippocampus (2009) (1)
- Impaired spatial processing in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome (2018) (1)
- Assessing Changes in Synaptic Plasticity Using an Awake Closed-Head Injury Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2023) (1)
- Effects of prenatal ethanol exposure on choline-induced long-term depression in the hippocampus. (2021) (1)
- Do Pair-Fed Diets have Sex-Specific Influences on Bi-Directional Plasticity in the Medial Perforant Path of the Dentate Gyrus? (2018) (0)
- Fmr1 knockout mice exhibit altered neuron density and synaptic structure in the dentate gyrus (2011) (0)
- NGF FASCILITATES HIPPOCAMPAL LTP AND IMPROVES MEMORY IN THE INTACT ADULT RAT BRAIN (2000) (0)
- Alterations in Striatal Survival Signaling Pathways in the YAC 128 Transgenic Mouse Model of Huntington ’ s Disease (2016) (0)
- Low-frequency Stimulation Inducible Long-term Potentiation at the Accessory Olfactory Bulb to Medial Amygdala Synapse of the American Bullfrog (2015) (0)
- A Fragile Synapse: Changes at the Synapse in Fragile X Syndrome (2006) (0)
- The Novel Impact Of Treadmill Exercise And Sex Difference On Cell Proliferation and Cell Survival In The Dentate Gyrus Of G93A Mice (2008) (0)
- Corrigendum to “Omega-3 fatty acids can reverse the long-term deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity caused by prenatal ethanol exposure” [Neurosci. Lett. 551C (2013) 7–11] (2016) (0)
- Chapter 5 – Physical Exercise (2016) (0)
- Running title : Minocyline improves social recognition in Fragile X mice (2016) (0)
- CA1 pyramidal neurons. induction of homosynaptic long-term depression in hippocampal The role of dendritic action potentials and Ca2+ influx in the (2007) (0)
- Comparison of hippocampal neuron spine densities in acute and perfusion‐fixed slices using the lipophilic dye DiI (2019) (0)
- Prenatal ethanol exposure reduces pyramidal cell size and postsynaptic density length in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in adolescent rats (726.2) (2014) (0)
- Morphological analysis of dentate granule neurons in the mouse model of Fragile‐X syndrome (2010) (0)
- Repeated mild traumatic brain injury in the juvenile brain: Investigations on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Long-Term Potentiation Michael Baudry, Joel L. Davis (1999) (0)
- Immediate early gene expression associated with the persistence of heterosynaptic long-term depression in the hippocampus ( long-term potentlation / dentate gymw / synaptic platidty / arning / memory ) (0)
- Evidence for vascular microbleeds in brains following repeated mild traumatic brain injury (2020) (0)
- Tracking the antidepressant effects of physical exercise and its mechanisms (2016) (0)
- Effects of Chronic Minocycline Treatment on Neurogenesis in Fmr1 KO Mice (2016) (0)
- Evaluation of Hippocampal Neurogenesis in YAC128 Huntington’s Disease Transgenic Mice (2009) (0)
- Intact rate of cell proliferation in the adult dentate gyrus of GluN2A−/− mice. (2014) (0)
- Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β Activity Following Repeat-Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (2016) (0)
- Dopamine D1/D5 receptor m synaptic inputs to layer V pr (2016) (0)
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