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According to Wikipedia, Shane O'Mara is a neuroscientist who currently is Professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College Dublin. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Works O'Mara, Shane . Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-8479-2648-7

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Aerobic exercise improves hippocampal function and increases BDNF in the serum of young adult males (2011) (438)
Hippocampal–anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions (2010) (394)
The subiculum: a review of form, physiology and function (2001) (272)
Neurons responding to whole-body motion in the primate hippocampus (1994) (250)
The anterior thalamus provides a subcortical circuit supporting memory and spatial navigation (2013) (244)
The subiculum: what it does, what it might do, and what neuroanatomy has yet to tell us (2005) (223)
Lipopolysaccharide causes deficits in spatial learning in the watermaze but not in BDNF expression in the rat dentate gyrus (2001) (222)
Impact of enriched-environment housing on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and on cognitive performance after a transient global ischemia (2004) (175)
View‐responsive neurons in the primate hippocampal complex (1995) (172)
Individual differences discriminate event-related potentials but not performance during response inhibition (2004) (155)
Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease (2011) (132)
Evidence for a specific defect in hippocampal memory in overt and subclinical hypothyroidism. (2009) (131)
Spatially selective firing properties of hippocampal formation neurons in rodents and primates (1995) (124)
The polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA and DPA exert a protective effect in the hippocampus of the aged rat (2011) (121)
Dose-dependent expression of claudin-5 is a modifying factor in schizophrenia (2017) (117)
Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells in the Rat Anterior Thalamus (2011) (115)
Roles for the subiculum in spatial information processing, memory, motivation and the temporal control of behaviour (2009) (113)
Metabotropic glutamate receptor-induced homosynaptic long-term depression and depotentiation in the dentate gyrus of the rat hippocampus in vitro (1995) (112)
Exercise, but not environmental enrichment, improves learning after kainic acid-induced hippocampal neurodegeneration in association with an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (2005) (111)
Post-treatment, but not pre-treatment, with the selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib markedly enhances functional recovery from kainic acid-induced neurodegeneration (2004) (100)
Deficits in spatial learning and synaptic plasticity induced by the rapid and competitive broad‐spectrum cyclooxygenase inhibitor ibuprofen are reversed by increasing endogenous brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (2003) (97)
Long-term potentiation and spatial learning are associated with increased phosphorylation of TrkB and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the dentate gyrus: evidence for a role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor. (2002) (96)
Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells (2014) (89)
Parallel but separate inputs from limbic cortices to the mammillary bodies and anterior thalamic nuclei in the rat (2010) (85)
Neural mechanisms in vibrotactile adaptation. (1988) (85)
Controlling hippocampal output: The central role of subiculum in hippocampal information processing (2006) (80)
Hippocampal volume is decreased in adults with hypothyroidism. (2014) (79)
EEG alpha power changes reflect response inhibition deficits after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans (2004) (77)
COX‐2, but not COX‐1, activity is necessary for the induction of perforant path long‐term potentiation and spatial learning in vivo (2008) (75)
Evidence for spatially-responsive neurons in the rostral thalamus (2015) (75)
Metabotropic glutamate receptor activation and blockade: their role in long-term potentiation, learning and neurotoxicity (1999) (70)
Exploring the recollective experience during autobiographical memory retrieval in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (2010) (69)
Segregation of parallel inputs to the anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic nuclei of the rat (2013) (66)
Everyday episodic memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a preliminary investigation (2011) (65)
Synaptic plasticity in the hippocampal area CA1‐subiculum projection: Implications for theories of memory (2000) (63)
Interaction between paired-pulse facilitation and long-term potentiation in the projection from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum. (1998) (62)
Dantrolene inhibits long-term depression and depotentiation of synaptic transmission in the rat dentate gyrus (1995) (59)
The projection from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum sustains long‐term potentiation (1998) (55)
Dynamics of place, boundary and object encoding in rat anterior claustrum (2015) (54)
Analysis of recordings of single-unit firing and population activity in the dorsal subiculum of unrestrained, freely moving rats. (2003) (54)
Selective disconnection of the hippocampal formation projections to the mammillary bodies produces only mild deficits on spatial memory tasks: Implications for fornix function (2011) (52)
Automated spike sorting algorithm based on Laplacian eigenmaps and k-means clustering (2011) (52)
Oscillatory entrainment of thalamic neurons by theta rhythm in freely moving rats. (2011) (50)
The effects of the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide on synaptic transmission and plasticity in the CA1-subiculum pathway in vivo (2001) (48)
Early hippocampal volume loss as a marker of eventual memory deficits caused by repeated stress (2016) (47)
Responses of rat subicular neurons to convergent stimulation of lateral entorhinal cortex and CA1 in vivo (2000) (47)
Interaction between paired‐pulse facilitation and long‐term potentiation in the projection from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum (1998) (46)
Cyclooxygenase inhibition attenuates endotoxin-induced spatial learning deficits, but not an endotoxin-induced blockade of long-term potentiation (2005) (46)
Differential regulation of synaptic plasticity of the hippocampal and the hypothalamic inputs to the anterior thalamus (2011) (45)
The widely-used anti-viral drug interferon-alpha induces depressive- and anxiogenic-like effects in healthy rats (2007) (43)
Blockade of NMDA receptors pre-training, but not post-training, impairs object displacement learning in the rat (2008) (42)
Hippocampal inputs mediate theta-related plasticity in anterior thalamus (2011) (39)
Physiological evidence for a possible projection from dorsal subiculum to hippocampal area CA1 (2002) (37)
Rosiglitazone enhances learning, place cell activity, and synaptic plasticity in middle-aged rats (2012) (35)
CREB selectively controls learning-induced structural remodeling of neurons. (2012) (34)
Assessment of Behavioural Markers of Autonoetic Consciousness during Episodic Autobiographical Memory Retrieval: A Preliminary Analysis (2008) (33)
Hippocampal Dynamics Predict Interindividual Cognitive Differences in Rats (2012) (33)
Risk factors for the development of depression in patients with hepatitis C taking interferon-α (2011) (32)
Medial prefrontal cortex lesions cause deficits in a variable-goal location task but not in object exploration. (1999) (32)
Space and Memory (Far) Beyond the Hippocampus: Many Subcortical Structures Also Support Cognitive Mapping and Mnemonic Processing (2019) (32)
Deep layer prefrontal cortex unit discharge in a cue-controlled open-field environment in the freely-moving rat (2002) (31)
Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation (2015) (31)
Plasticity in the projection from the anterior thalamic nuclei to the anterior cingulate cortex in the rat in vivo: paired-pulse facilitation, long-term potentiation and short-term depression (2002) (30)
Stability of subicular place fields across multiple light and dark transitions (2010) (30)
The psychostimulant modafinil facilitates water maze performance and augments synaptic potentiation in dentate gyrus (2010) (29)
Age-related declines in delayed non-match-to-sample performance (DNMS) are reversed by the novel 5HT6 receptor antagonist SB742457 (2012) (29)
Long-term cognitive dysfunction in the rat following docetaxel treatment is ameliorated by the phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor, rolipram (2015) (28)
Mammillothalamic Disconnection Alters Hippocampocortical Oscillatory Activity and Microstructure: Implications for Diencephalic Amnesia (2019) (28)
Heterogeneous spatial representation by different subpopulations of neurons in the subiculum (2017) (27)
Fornical and nonfornical projections from the rat hippocampal formation to the anterior thalamic nuclei (2015) (27)
Responses of dorsal subicular neurons of rats during object exploration in an extended environment (2004) (26)
Potential roles for opioid receptors in motivation and major depressive disorder. (2018) (26)
Hippocampal contributions to neurocognitive mapping in humans: A new model (2005) (26)
Thyroxine replacement in an animal model of congenital hypothyroidism (2007) (26)
Dissociation of Dorsal Hippocampal Regional Activation Under the Influence of Stress in Freely Behaving Rats (2011) (25)
Semliki Forest virus‐mediated gene therapy of the RG2 rat glioma (2010) (25)
Collateral Projections Innervate the Mammillary Bodies and Retrosplenial Cortex: A New Category of Hippocampal Cells (2018) (25)
Interferon-α-induced deficits in novel object recognition are rescued by chronic exercise (2008) (25)
Quantitative MRI analysis of brain volume changes due to controlled cortical impact. (2010) (25)
Long-term potentiation and paired-pulse facilitation in the prelimbic cortex of the rat following stimulation in the contralateral hemisphere in vivo (2000) (25)
The effects of low frequency and two-pulse stimulation protocols on synaptic transmission in the CA1-subiculum pathway in the anaesthetized rat (2000) (24)
Torturing the brain On the folk psychology and folk neurobiology motivating ‘enhanced and coercive interrogation techniques’ (2009) (24)
Interactions between paired-pulse facilitation, low-frequency stimulation, and behavioral stress in the pathway from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum: Dissociation of baseline synaptic transmission from paired-pulse facilitation and depression of the same pathway (2000) (24)
A comparison of brief pulse and ultrabrief pulse electroconvulsive stimulation on rodent brain and behaviour (2012) (23)
The claustrum: Considerations regarding its anatomy, functions and a programme for research (2017) (21)
Concurrent task performance enhances low-level visuomotor learning (2007) (21)
Disorientation combined with bilateral parietal cortex lesions causes path integration deficits in the water maze (1999) (20)
The anterior thalamic nuclei and nucleus reuniens: So similar but so different (2020) (18)
Decoding signal processing in thalamo-hippocampal circuitry: implications for theories of memory and spatial processing (2015) (18)
Deconstructing the Direct Reciprocal Hippocampal-Anterior Thalamic Pathways for Spatial Learning (2020) (18)
Prolonged rote learning produces delayed memory facilitation and metabolic changes in the hippocampus of the ageing human brain (2009) (18)
Neural Processing of Spatial Information: What We Know about Place Cells and What They Can Tell Us about Presence (2006) (17)
The effects of single and multiple episodes of theta patterned or high frequency stimulation on synaptic transmission from hippocampal area CA1 to the subiculum in rats (1999) (17)
The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system (2022) (16)
First-in-class thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-based compound binds to a pharmacologically distinct TRH receptor subtype in human brain and is effective in neurodegenerative models (2015) (16)
Vestibular influence on water maze retention: transient whole body rotations improve the accuracy of the cue-based retention strategy (2005) (14)
Chemogenetics Reveal an Anterior Cingulate–Thalamic Pathway for Attending to Task-Relevant Information (2020) (14)
Exercise prevents IFN-α-induced mood and cognitive dysfunction and increases BDNF expression in the rat (2017) (14)
The anatomical boundary of the rat claustrum (2019) (13)
Separate cortical and hippocampal cell populations target the rat nucleus reuniens and mammillary bodies (2019) (13)
Anterior Thalamic Inputs Are Required for Subiculum Spatial Coding, with Associated Consequences for Hippocampal Spatial Memory (2021) (12)
Antidepressant-like effects of 3-carboxamido seco-nalmefene (3CS-nalmefene), a novel opioid receptor modulator, in a rat IFN-α-induced depression model (2018) (12)
Behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of visuomotor learning during a visual search task. (2003) (12)
Proximal perimeter encoding in the rat rostral thalamus (2018) (12)
Age and cortisol levels modulate judgment of positive and negative facial expressions (2012) (11)
Amygdala substructure volumes in Major Depressive Disorder (2021) (10)
Ectopic hormone production by small cell undifferentiated carcinomas (1990) (9)
Self-Regulation and Self-Control (2018) (9)
Combining exercise and cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition does not ameliorate learning deficits after brain insult, despite an increase in BDNF levels (2005) (9)
On the Imposition of Torture, an Extreme Stressor State, to Extract Information From Memory (2011) (8)
Suppressing the Encoding of New Information in Memory: A Behavioral Study Derived from Principles of Hippocampal Function (2013) (8)
The irregular firing properties of thalamic head direction cells mediate turn-specific modulation of the directional tuning curve (2014) (7)
Dissociating effects of acute photic stress on spatial, episodic-like and working memory in the rat (2014) (7)
Dynamics of spontaneous local field potentials in the anterior claustrum of freely moving rats (2017) (7)
An Exploration of Depressive Symptoms in Hepatitis C Patients Taking Interferon-alpha: Increase in Sickness Behaviors but not Negative Cognitions. (2012) (7)
Extinction of Contextual Fear with Timed Exposure to Enriched Environment: A Differential Effect (2017) (7)
Chronic immobilization stress occludes in vivo cortical activation in an animal model of panic induced by carbon dioxide inhalation (2014) (6)
NeuroChaT: A toolbox to analyse the dynamics of neuronal encoding in freely-behaving rodents in vivo (2019) (6)
Biopsychosocial Functions of Human Walking and Adherence to Behaviourally Demanding Belief Systems: A Narrative Review (2021) (5)
The connected hippocampus (2015) (5)
Spatial Coding in the Subiculum Requires Anterior Thalamic Inputs (2020) (4)
The logic of and lessons from lesions (1997) (4)
Acute phase plasma proteins are altered by electroconvulsive stimulation (2014) (4)
Introduction to the special issue on the nature of hippocampal‐cortical interaction: Theoretical and experimental perspectives (2000) (4)
Integrating the subiculum into hippocampal formation circuitry and the control of instrumental behavior: theoretical comment on Andrzejewski, Spencer, and Kelley (2006). (2006) (4)
Anterior thalamic function is required for spatial coding in the subiculum and is necessary for spatial memory (2020) (4)
Spatial learning in the rat is NMDA-receptor dependent: evidence from an object displacement task (2005) (4)
Time to retire the serial Papez circuit: Implications for space, memory, and attention (2022) (4)
The mammalian subiculum: Contrasting and complementary in vivo and in vitro approaches to subicular function (2006) (4)
The captive brain: torture and the neuroscience of humane interrogation (2018) (3)
A Direct Comparison of Afferents to the Rat Anterior Thalamic Nuclei and Nucleus Reuniens: Overlapping But Different (2021) (3)
The persisting effects of electroconvulsive stimulation on the hippocampal proteome (2014) (3)
Place Cells: Knowing Where You Are Depends on Knowing Where You’re Heading (2017) (3)
Bilateral intrahippocampal NAC61–95 effects on behavior and moderation with l-NAME treatment (2010) (3)
Validation of the face-name pairs task in major depression: impaired recall but not recognition (2014) (3)
The effects of left and right selective amygdalohippocampectomy on episodic memory, discourse production and spatial representation (2003) (2)
Deficits in temporal order memory induced by interferon-alpha (IFN-α) treatment are rescued by aerobic exercise (2018) (2)
The Anatomical Boundary of the Rat Claustrum (2019) (2)
Opioid modulation of depression: A focus on imaging studies. (2018) (2)
39th Annual European Brain and Behaviour Society Abstracts (2007) (2)
Differential effects of opioid receptor modulators on motivational and stress-coping behaviors in the back-translational rat IFN-α depression model (2019) (2)
Mammillothalamic disconnection alters hippocampo-cortical oscillatory activity and microstructure: Implications for diencephalic amnesia (2019) (2)
The subiculum: what it does, what it might do, and what we don't yet know (2005) (1)
Author response: Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells (2014) (1)
The Importance of Cognitive Biases (2018) (1)
Influences of photic stress on postsubicular head‐directional processing (2018) (1)
Investigating the Effects of Mild Induced Hypothermia on Cognition using a Measure of Sustained Attention (2015) (1)
Integrate-and-Fire-or-Burst Model Thalamocortical Relay Neurons and a Minimal Fourier Analysis of Sinusoidally Driven (2015) (1)
Low-Level Visuomotor Learning Disrupts Higher-Order Behavioural Control (2004) (1)
P.2.30 The effect of acute exercise on hippocampal based learning and serum growth factor concentration in sedentary young men (2007) (1)
P1-008: Acute and chronic rosiglitazone administration enhances hippocampal-associated learning in middle-aged, but not young, rats (2008) (1)
The cerebellum and cerebral cortex: Contrasting and converging contributions to spatial navigation and memory (1996) (1)
The Connected Hippocampus. Preface. (2015) (1)
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Attention (Special Issue) (1994) (1)
Torturing scienceScience, interrogational torture, and public policy (2019) (1)
Interrogating the Brain (2020) (1)
A virtual lesion of the human hippocampus: Anteceding N-back performance inhibits subsequent hippocampal-dependent memory function. (2005) (1)
Place Constancies, the Cognitive Map and the Hippocampal Representation of the Environment (1992) (1)
Mind-sets, Self-talk and Changing Behaviour (2018) (1)
Risk factors for the development of depression in patients with hepatitis C taking interferon-α : a review of literature (2010) (1)
Collateral rostral thalamic projections to prelimbic, infralimbic, anterior cingulate and retrosplenial cortices in the rat brain (2022) (0)
A Brain for Business – A Brain for Life: How insights from behavioural and brain science can change business and business practice for the better (2017) (0)
Contents to Volume 45 (1995) (0)
5. What Does Sleep Deprivation Do to the Brain (2015) (0)
Proximal perimeter encoding in the rat rostral thalamus (2019) (0)
The impact of hypothyroidism on neurocognitive functioning: A model of neuroplasticity in the mature adult human brain (2008) (0)
Concluding Scenario Analysis (2018) (0)
The Effects of Proactive Interference Manipulations and Instructed CS Reversal on Conditioned Motor Responses in Human Subjects (1991) (0)
Anticipatory Firing Properties of Head Direction Cells Passive Movements of the Head Do Not Abolish (2006) (0)
Correcting the record: Extended sleep deprivation is torture, and sleep deprivation impairs, rather than facilitates, interrogations and investigative interviews (2020) (0)
8. Why Torture? Why Not Talk? (2015) (0)
A Background Scenario from Organisational Life (2018) (0)
Can we conjointly record direct interactions between neurons in vivo in anatomically-connected brain areas? Probabilistic analyses and further implications (2020) (0)
Objects & Place cells in Claustrum (2015) (0)
1. Torture in Modern Times (2015) (0)
S.07.02 The effect of acute exercise on hippocampal based learning and serum growth factor concentration in sedentary young men (2007) (0)
Lateral Geniculate Nucleus Low-Threshold Calcium Spikes in Cells of the Cat's Current Clamp and Modeling Studies of (2015) (0)
Long-term potentiation: Does it deserve attention? (1997) (0)
Publisher Correction: An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (2022) (0)
Inhibition of human hippocampal function via the 2-Back working memory task (2005) (0)
A selection on attention: special issue on attention (1994) (0)
Cushings syndrome as a model to investigate the effects on cognition of high circulating levels of glucocorticoid (2006) (0)
6. Drowning, Cooling, Heating, and Starving the Brain (2015) (0)
Place cells in the claustrum remap under NMDA receptor control (2021) (0)
DETERMINANTS OF MATERNAL AND INFANTICIDAL BEHAVIOR IN FEMALE MOUSE F1 HYBRIDS (2007) (0)
When is it sensible to use PET to study brain function? (1995) (0)
O'Mara reply to McNaughton and Gray (2002) (0)
Brain Hygiene, Optimising Expertise and Performance (2018) (0)
Human locomotion of a route assists in subsequent blind navigation (2006) (0)
Neural, psychological, and social foundations of collective memory: Implications for common mnemonic processes, agency, and identity. (2022) (0)
Exercise-induced changes in cognitive function : a role for IGF? (2005) (0)
The cognitive neuropsychology of attention : a special issue of "Cognitive Neuropsychology" (1994) (0)
Unrestrained, Freely Moving Rats Population Activity in the Dorsal Subiculum of Analysis of Recordings of Single-Unit Firing and (2015) (0)
Another cognitive psychology. (1987) (0)
Perceptual Constancies (Special Issue) (1992) (0)
Scene-Setting, Background Information and Tools for Thinking (2018) (0)
Preface: Collective memory comes of age. (2022) (0)
Working in Groups and Teams: Group Deliberations (2018) (0)
Another Cognitive Psychology (1987) (0)
7. Why Does a Torturer Torture (2015) (0)
In Praise of Walking (2019) (0)
4. What Do Stress and Pain Do to the Brain (2015) (0)
Theta modulated cels in anteromedial and reuniens thalamic nuclei in freely moving rat (2013) (0)
3. Can We Use Technology to Detect Deception (2015) (0)
Visual modulation of subicular place cells firing fields (2005) (0)
Gender, the Brain and Organisations (2018) (0)
2. How the Brain Supports Memory and Executive Functions (2015) (0)
Event-related potentials during response inhibition in normal absentmindedness and traumatic brain injury (2003) (0)
A new model of human spatial mapping (2005) (0)
Spatial representation, spatial navigation and the hippocampus (1993) (0)
Stress, Resilience and Positive Brain States (2018) (0)
Cyclooxygenase and synaptic plasticity (2005) (0)
Author Correction: An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (2022) (0)
Synaptic plasticity and mnemonic encoding by hippocampal formation place cells (2010) (0)
It's not biology bro: Torture and the Misuse of Science (2018) (0)
Interferon-a inhibits synaptic plasticity in vivo (2005) (0)
Solvitur Ambulando: Why Humans Walk Extraordinary Distances Together Serving Abstract Ends (2020) (0)
The effect of acute and chronic exercise on serum BDNF concentrations in young sedentary men : implications for cognitive function? (2006) (0)
A waveform independent cell identification method to study long-term variability of spike recordings (2011) (0)
Person Perception—How Others See Us, How We See Leaders (2018) (0)
A selection on attention (1994) (0)
Decision letter: Non-rhythmic head-direction cells in the parahippocampal region are not constrained by attractor network dynamics (2018) (0)
Demarcating the anatomical structure of the claustrum: piecing together a new functional puddle (2017) (0)
Pain brings no gain (2017) (0)
Representation of space and objects in rat anterior claustrum (2015) (0)
Neuropsychological abnormalities in overt and sub-clinical hypothyroidism improve but do not normalise following 3 months replacement with L-thyroxine (2007) (0)

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