Robert Mason

Contact

• workRoom E12 University of Nottingham Medical School
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 30130
• fax0115 82 30142
• rob.mason@nottingham.ac.uk
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuronal-networks

Research Summary

I am a member of the neuronal networks electrophysiology laboratory. We are one of the few labs in Europe/USA equipped to carry out simultaneous multiple neuronal recording and detailed analyses of… read more

Recent Publications

• TAXIDIS, JIANNIS, COOMBES, STEPHEN, MASON, ROBERT and OWEN, MARKUS R, 2011. Modeling sharp wave-ripple complexes through a CA3-CA1 network model with chemical synapses. Hippocampus.
• TAXIDIS, J, COOMBER, B, MASON, R and OWEN, M, 2010. Assessing Cortico-Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Under Anesthesia And Kainic Acid Using Generalized Partial Directed Coherence Biological Cybernetics. 102(4), 327-340
• DISSANAYAKE, DWN, ZACHARIOU, M, MARSDEN, CA and MASON, R, 2009. Effects Of Phencyclidine On Auditory Gating In The Rat Hippocampus And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex Brain Research. 1298, 153-160
• STEVENSON, CW, SPICER, CH, MASON, R and MARSDEN, CA, 2009. Early Life Programming Of Fear Conditioning And Extinction In Adult Male Rats Behavioural Brain Research. 205(2), 505-510

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Current Research

I am a member of the neuronal networks electrophysiology laboratory. We are one of the few labs in Europe/USA equipped to carry out simultaneous multiple neuronal recording and detailed analyses of neuronal network interactions from in vitro or in vivo preparations. Studies are directed at understanding network behaviour associated with epilepsy, nociception and analegesic pharamcology, action of drugs of abuse and hypothalamic control of feeding and circadian function.

Past Research

Vvisual neurophysiology; circadian biology;

Future Research

In collaboration with School of Physics and School of Mathemeatical Science developing novel approaches to neuronal ensemble activity analysis. With Prof D Auer develop simultaneous fMRI & electrophysiological recording technique to investigate physiological and pharmacological-induced changes in CNS function.

• TAXIDIS, JIANNIS, COOMBES, STEPHEN, MASON, ROBERT and OWEN, MARKUS R, 2011. Modeling sharp wave-ripple complexes through a CA3-CA1 network model with chemical synapses. Hippocampus.
• TAXIDIS, J, COOMBER, B, MASON, R and OWEN, M, 2010. Assessing Cortico-Hippocampal Functional Connectivity Under Anesthesia And Kainic Acid Using Generalized Partial Directed Coherence Biological Cybernetics. 102(4), 327-340
• DISSANAYAKE, DWN, ZACHARIOU, M, MARSDEN, CA and MASON, R, 2009. Effects Of Phencyclidine On Auditory Gating In The Rat Hippocampus And The Medial Prefrontal Cortex Brain Research. 1298, 153-160
• STEVENSON, CW, SPICER, CH, MASON, R and MARSDEN, CA, 2009. Early Life Programming Of Fear Conditioning And Extinction In Adult Male Rats Behavioural Brain Research. 205(2), 505-510
• TUNSTALL, B, BECKETT, S and MASON, R, 2009. Ultrasonic Vocalisations Explain Unexpected Effects On Pre-Pulse Inhibition Responses In Rats Chronically Pre-Treated With Phencyclidine Behavioural Brain Research. 202(2), 184-191
• STEVENSON, CW, GOODWIN, PE, TUNSTALL, B, SPICER, CH, MARSDEN, CA and MASON, R, 2009. Neonatal Maternal Separation Alters Reward-Related Ultrasonic Vocalizations In Rat Dams Behavioural Brain Research. 200(1), 232-236
• STEVENSON, CW, MEREDITH, JP, SPICER, CH, MASON, R and MARSDEN, CA, 2009. Early Life Programming Of Innate Fear And Fear Learning In Adult Female Rats Behavioural Brain Research. 198(1), 51-57
• MASON R and CHEER JF, 2009. Cannabinoid Receptor Activation Reverses Kainate-Induced Synchronized Population Burst Firing In Rat Hippocampus. Frontiers In Integrative Neuroscience. 3, 13
• ZACHARIOU, M., DISSANAYAKE, D. W., COOMBES, S., OWEN, M. R. and MASON, R., 2008. Sensory gating and its modulation by cannabinoids: electrophysiological, computational and mathematical analysis COGNITIVE NEURODYNAMICS. VOL 2(NUMBER 2), 159-170
• STEVENSON CW, HALLIDAY DM, MARSDEN CA, MASON R, 2008. Early life programming of hemispheric lateralization and synchronization in the adult medial prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience. (In Press.)
• STEVENSON CW, MARSDEN CA, MASON R, 2008. Early life stress causes FG-7142-induced corticolimbic dysfunction in adulthood. Brain Research. 1193, 43-50
• COOMBER,, O'DONOGHUE, and MASON,, 2008. Inhibition of endocannabinoid metabolism attenuates enhanced hippocampal neuronal activity induced by kainic acid. Synapse (New York). 62(10), 746-755
• JHAVERI MD, ELMES SJR, RICHARDSON D, BARRETT DA, KENDALL DA, MASON R, CHAPMAN V, 2008. Evidence for a novel functional role of cannabinoid CB2 receptors in the thalamus of neuropathic rats. Eur J Neuroscience. 27, 1722-1730
• STEVENSON, C.W., HALLIDAY, D.M., MARSDEN, C.A. and MASON, R, 2007. Systemic administration of the benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist FG-7142 Synapse. 61(8), 646-663
• ZACHARIOU, M., DISSANAYAKE, D.W.N., OWEN, M.R., MASON, R. and COOMBES, S, 2007. The role of cannabinoids in the neurobiology of sensory gating: a firing rate model study Neurocomputing. 70(10-12), 1902-1906
• ABDUL AZIZ, A.A., FINN, D.P., MASON, R. and CHAPMAN, V, 2005. Comparison of responses of ventral posterolateral and posterior complex thalamic neurons in naive rats and rats with hindpaw inflammation: mu-opioid receptor mediated inhibitions. Neuropharmacology. 48(4), 607-616
• CHEER, J F, KENDALL, D A, MASON, R and MARSDEN, C A, 2003. Differential cannabinoid-induced electrophysiological effects in rat ventral tegmentum. Neuropharmacology. 44(5), 633-41
• LAPIZ, M D S, FULFORD, A, MUCHIMAPURA, S, MASON, R, PARKER, T and MARSDEN, C A, 2003. Influence of postweaning social isolation in the rat on brain development, conditioned behavior, and neurotransmission. Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology. 33(1), 13-29
• MUCHIMAPURA, SUPARPORN, MASON, ROBERT and MARSDEN, CHARLES A, 2003. Effect of isolation rearing on pre- and post-synaptic serotonergic function in the rat dorsal hippocampus. Synapse (New York). 47(3), 209-17
• MUCHIMAPURA, S, FULFORD, A J, MASON, R and MARSDEN, C A, 2002. Isolation rearing in the rat disrupts the hippocampal response to stress. Neuroscience. 112(3), 697-705
• LAPIZ, M D, FULFORD, A, MUCHIMAPURA, S, MASON, R, PARKER, T and MARSDEN, C A, 2001. Influence of postweaning social isolation in the rat on brain development, conditioned behaviour and neurotransmission. Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni IM Sechenova. 87(6), 730-51