Joanne Berger-Sweeney
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American neuroscientist and college administrator
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Joanne Berger-Sweeney's Degrees
- PhD Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joanne E. Berger-Sweeney is an American neuroscientist and the 22nd president of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. She is the first African-American and the first woman to serve in the position. Earlier in her career, Berger-Sweeney did proof-of-concept work on galantamine , the second-most used drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Joanne Berger-Sweeney's Published Works
Published Works
- Differential effects on spatial navigation of immunotoxin-induced cholinergic lesions of the medial septal area and nucleus basalis magnocellularis (1994) (327)
- Reference memory, anxiety and estrous cyclicity in C57BL/6NIA mice are affected by age and sex (1999) (248)
- Behavioral and anatomical abnormalities in Mecp2 mutant mice: A model for Rett syndrome (2007) (200)
- Behavioral consequences of abnormal cortical development: insights into developmental disabilities (1997) (196)
- Gene knockout of glycine transporter 1: characterization of the behavioral phenotype. (2004) (186)
- Preclinical research in Rett syndrome: setting the foundation for translational success (2012) (180)
- Cholinergic regulation of cortical development and plasticity. New twists to an old story. (1998) (169)
- Mice are not little rats: species differences in a one‐day water maze task (2000) (166)
- Effects of environmental enrichment on spatial memory and neurochemistry in middle-aged mice. (2003) (155)
- Spatial reference memory and neocortical neurochemistry vary with the estrous cycle in C57BL/6 mice. (2001) (133)
- Selective Immunolesions of Cholinergic Neurons in Mice: Effects on Neuroanatomy, Neurochemistry, and Behavior (2001) (120)
- Sex differences in learning and memory in mice: effects of sequence of testing and cholinergic blockade. (1995) (118)
- Reduced extinction of hippocampal-dependent memories in CPEB knockout mice. (2006) (111)
- Postnatal dietary choline supplementation alters behavior in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (2007) (97)
- Environmental enrichment alters locomotor behaviour and ventricular volume in Mecp2 1lox mice (2009) (95)
- Impairments in learning and memory accompanied by neurodegeneration in mice transgenic for the carboxyl-terminus of the amyloid precursor protein. (1999) (94)
- An altered neonatal behavioral phenotype in Mecp2 mutant mice (2006) (91)
- The cholinergic basal forebrain system during development and its influence on cognitive processes: important questions and potential answers (2003) (87)
- Cholinergic basal forebrain is critical for social transmission of food preferences (2000) (73)
- Effects of postnatal dietary choline supplementation on motor regional brain volume and growth factor expression in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (2008) (66)
- Cognitive and social functions and growth factors in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (2010) (65)
- Neonatal 192 IgG-saporin lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons selectively impair response to spatial novelty in adult rats. (1999) (54)
- Animal models of mental retardation: from gene to cognitive function (2003) (52)
- Gene-environment interactions and epigenetic pathways in autism: the importance of one-carbon metabolism. (2012) (52)
- Longitudinal brain MRI study in a mouse model of Rett Syndrome and the effects of choline (2008) (51)
- Early neonatal 192 IgG saporin induces learning impairments and disrupts cortical morphogenesis in rats (2002) (47)
- Postnatal choline supplementation in preweanling mice: sexually dimorphic behavioral and neurochemical effects. (1998) (46)
- MeCP2 R168X male and female mutant mice exhibit Rett‐like behavioral deficits (2013) (46)
- Developmental regulation of adult cortical morphology and behavior: An animal model for mental retardation (1994) (44)
- Sex differences in neurochemical markers that correlate with behavior in aging mice (2002) (43)
- The nissl stain: a stain for cell bodies in brain sections. (2008) (42)
- Sexually dimorphic responses to neonatal basal forebrain lesions in mice: I. Behavior and neurochemistry. (1998) (39)
- Cognitive deficits in Rett syndrome: What we know and what we need to know to treat them (2011) (38)
- Effects of carbon dioxide-induced anesthesia on cholinergic parameters in rat brain. (1994) (38)
- The effects of neonatal basal forebrain lesions oncognition : towards understanding the developmental roleof the cholinergic basal forebrain (1998) (36)
- Neonatal monoaminergic depletion in mice (Mus musculus) improves performance of a novel odor discrimination task. (1998) (35)
- Different effects of postnatal day 1 versus 7 192 immunoglobulin G-saporin lesions on learning, exploratory behaviors, and neurochemistry in juvenile rats. (1997) (35)
- One-carbon metabolism in neurodevelopmental disorders: Using broad-based nutraceutics to treat cognitive deficits in complex spectrum disorders (2014) (30)
- Phenotypic characterization of mice heterozygous for a null mutation of glutamate carboxypeptidase II (2009) (25)
- Acetyl-L-Carnitine Improves Behavior and Dendritic Morphology in a Mouse Model of Rett Syndrome (2012) (24)
- Neonatal 5,7-DHT Lesions Cause Sex-Specific Changes in Mouse Cortical Morphogenesis (2000) (22)
- Sexually dimorphic effects of anti-NGF treatment in neonatal rats. (1997) (20)
- Carbon dioxide-induced anesthesia has no effect on brain biogenic amine concentrations in mice. (1999) (19)
- Sexually dimorphic responses to neonatal basal forebrain lesions in mice: II. Cortical morphology. (1998) (17)
- Efficacy of a murine-p75-saporin immunotoxin for selective lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in mice (2009) (16)
- Discovering neurons : the experimental basis of neuroscience (1997) (9)
- Perfusion of brain tissues with fixative. (2008) (9)
- Nutritional factors in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (2009) (9)
- Dissection of rat brains. (2008) (8)
- Neurogenesis of the cholinergic medial septum in female and male C57BL/6J mice. (2005) (8)
- Staining for acetylcholinesterase in brain sections. (2010) (7)
- Testing spatial and nonspatial learning using a morris water maze. (2007) (4)
- Sectioning of brain tissues. (2008) (4)
- Using mice to model cognitive deficits in neurologic disorders: Narrowing in on Rett syndrome (2003) (4)
- Subbing slides. (2008) (1)
- Neurochemical Systems Involved in Learning and Memory (2011) (1)
- Observational methods used to assess rat behavior: general activity. (2007) (1)
- Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews: Introduction (2003) (0)
- Choline acetyltransferase staining in brain sections. (2010) (0)
- Observational methods used to assess rat behavior: general principles. (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2003) (0)
- Observational methods used to assess rat behavior: neurological testing. (2007) (0)
- Erratum: Staining for Acetylcholinesterase in Brain Sections (2017) (0)
- Structural anomalies in the peripheral lung of Mecp2 knockout mice (2006) (0)
- Observational methods used to assess rat behavior: behavioral patterns. (2007) (0)
- Alveolar type II cell morphology in a mouse model of Rett syndrome (2007) (0)
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