Prof. Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni

Cognitive Neurosciences Dept., Instituto de Fisiología Celular
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Email: fbermude@ifc.unam.mx;bermudez@unam.mx

Qualifications

1984 Ph.D., University of California, Neuroscience

1980 M.Sc., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Pharmacology

1977 M.D., National University of Mexico, College of Medicine

Publications (Selected)

1. Balderas I., Rodríguez Ortíz C.J., and Bermúdez-Rattoni F. Retrieval and reconsolidation of the object recognition memory are independent processes in the perirhinal cortex. Neuroscience. 253, pp 398-405. 2013.

2. Balderas I., Moreno-Castilla P. and Bermudez-Rattoni F. Dopamine d1 receptor activity modulates object recognition memory consolidation in the perirhinal cortex but not in the hippocampus.Hippocampus, 2013.

3. Guzmán Ramos K.R., Moreno Castilla P., Castro Cruz M., McGaugh, J.L., Martínez-Coria, H., LaFerla F.M, and Bermúdez Rattoni F. Restoration of dopamine release deficits during object recognition memory acquisition attenuates cognitive impairment in a triple transgenic mice model of Alzheimer’s disease. Learning & Memory. 19: 445-462. 2012.

4. Jean-Pascal Morin, César Quiroz, Lucía Mendoza-Viveros, Victor Ramírez-Amaya, Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni. Familiar taste induces higher dendritic levels of activity-regulated cytoskeleton associated protein in the insular cortex than a novel one. Learning and Memory 18: 610-616, 2011.

5. Gustavo Pacheco López and Federico Bermúdez Rattoni. Brain-immune interactions and the neural basis of disease avoidant ingestive behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366, 3389-3405, 2011. PMC3189354.

6. Quiroz-Baez R., Ferrera F., Rosendo-Gutiérrez F, Moran J., Bermudez-Rattoni F. and Arias C. Caspase 12 activation is involved in amyloid-protein-induced synaptictoxicity. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 26: 467–476, 2011.

7. Bermúdez-Rattoni F.: Is memory consolidation a multiple circuit-system? Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 107(18): 8051-8052. 2010.

8. Guzmán Ramos K.R., Osorio Gómez D., Moreno Castilla P., Bermúdez Rattoni F. Off-line concomitant release of dopamine and glutamate involvement in taste memory consolidation. Journal of Neurochemistry. 114: 226–236. 2010.

9. Bermúdez Rattoni F. Molecular mechanisms of taste-recognition memory. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 5, 209-217. 2004.

10. Miranda MI., Ferreira G., Ramírez-Lugo L., y Bermúdez-Rattoni F. Glutamatergic activity in the amygdala signals visceral input during taste memory formation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99(17), 11417-11422. 2002.

11. Ramírez Amaya V., Balderas I., Sandoval J., Escobar M.L. and Bermúdez Rattoni F. Spatial long-term memory is related with mossy fiber synaptogenesis. The Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 21 (18):7340-7348. 2001.

12. Miranda, M.I., Bermúdez Rattoni, F. Reversible inactivation of the nbm disrupts cortical ach release and acquisition but not retrieval of aversive memories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (USA) 6478-6482, 1999.

13. Ramirez-Amaya, V., Escobar, M.L. and Bermudez-Rattoni F. Synaptogenesis of mossy fibers induced by spatial maze over-training. Hippocampus, 9:631-636. 1999.

14. Gutiérrez, H., Gutiérrez, R., Ramírez-Trejo, L., Silva-Gandarias, R., Ormsby, C.E., Miranda, M.I. and Bermúdez-Rattoni F. Redundant basal forebrain modulation in taste aversion memory formation. The Journal of Neuroscience. 19(17), 7661-7669, 1999.

15. Gutiérrez. H., Miranda, M.I. y Bermúdez Rattoni, F. Learning impairment and cholinergic deafferentiation after cortical nerve growth factor deprivation. Journal of Neurosciences, 17 (10) 3796-3803, 1997.

16. Bermúdez‑Rattoni, F., Introini‑Collison, F.B. and McGaugh, J.L. Reversible lesion of the insular cortex by tetrodotoxin produce retrograde and anterograde amnesia for inhibitory avoidance and spatial learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. (USA) 88: 5379‑53820. 1991.

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