José Prius Mengual
Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Sleep Neurobiology
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in sleep neurobiology. I am interested in understanding the role sleep plays in cognitive function and how disrupted sleep has been linked to a broad range of neurological, neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders. My postdoctoral research focuses on the role of cellular stress to induce sleep and let the neural network to recover the homeostasis before it suffers irreversible damage to its activity. To address this, I combine in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology with a pharmacological approach using novel methods in rodents.
I received a BSc in Biochemistry and a MSc in Biotechnology from University of Córdoba. I received my PhD about cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the changes of synaptic plasticity during the development at the department of Anatomy, Physiology and Molecular Biology of the University Pablo de Olavide.
Recent publications
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Neuronal and astrocyte determinants of critical periods of plasticity.
Journal article
Andrade-Talavera Y. et al, (2023), Trends Neurosci, 46, 566 - 580
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Effects of clozapine-N-oxide and compound 21 on sleep in laboratory mice.
Conference paper
Traut J. et al, (2023), Elife, 12
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“Paradoxical wakefulness” induced by psychedelic 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine in mice
Preprint
Bréant BJB. et al, (2022)
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Effects of clozapine-N-oxide and compound 21 on sleep in laboratory mice
Preprint
Traut J. et al, (2022)
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Investigating the effects of endoplasmic reticulum stress on mouse cortical local field potential activity and sleep pressure
Conference paper
Chakrabarty A. et al, (2022), JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH, 31