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Rafael Ignacio Gatica Hernández

Postdoctoral Researcher

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Educación

  •  Pharmacist, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2013
  •  Neuroscience, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2015
  •  Neuroscience, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2020

Experiencia Académica

  •   Professor Other

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Facultad de Medicina

    Santiago, Chile

    2024 - A la fecha


 

Article (8)

Dendrites Crossing Borders: Quantifying the Distribution of Individual Substantia Nigra Dopaminergic Neurons’ Dendritic Tree in Pars Compacta and Pars Reticulata

Gatica, Rafael Ignacio; Lazcano, Guillermo; Henny, Pablo

Article SCOPUS
Neuromethods  (2023)

Electrophysiological Characterization of Dopaminergic Neurons of the Rat Substantia Nigra Compacta

Aguilar-Rivera, Marcelo; Gatica, Rafael Ignacio; Azocar, Victor; Buc, Darinka; FUENTEALBA-EVANS, JOSE ANTONIO

Article SCOPUS
Neuromethods  (2023)

Susceptibility to express amphetamine locomotor sensitization correlates with dorsolateral striatum bursting activity and GABAergic synapses in the globus pallidus

Ignacio Gatica, Rafael; Aguilar-Rivera, Marcelo; Henny, Pablo; FUENTEALBA-EVANS, JOSE ANTONIO

Article ISI SCOPUS
BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN  (2022)

Dendritic Architecture Predicts <i>in vivo</i> Firing Pattern in Mouse Ventral Tegmental Area and Substantia Nigra Dopaminergic Neurons

Montero, Trinidad; Ignacio Gatica, Rafael; Farassat, Navid; Meza, Rodrigo C.; Gonzalez-Cabrera, Cristian; Roeper, Jochen; Henny, Pablo

Article ISI SCOPUS
Frontiers in Neural Circuits  (2021)

Individual Differences in Amphetamine Locomotor Sensitization are Accompanied with Changes in Dopamine Release and Firing Pattern in the Dorsolateral Striatum of Rats

Gatica R.I.

Article ISI SCOPUS
 (2020)

The expression of amphetamine sensitization is dissociable from anxiety and aversive memory: Effect of an acute injection of amphetamine

P?rez-Valenzuela, Enzo; Sierra-Mercado, Demetrio; Fuentealba, Jos? Antonio

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS  (2017)

AMPHETAMINE SENSITIZATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN INCREASE IN PRELIMBIC CORTEX ACTIVITY

Aguilar-Rivera M.I.; Casanova J.P.; Gatica R.I.; Quirk G.J.

Article ISI SCOPUS
NEUROSCIENCE  (2015)

Clozapine pre-treatment has a protracted hypolocomotor effect on the induction and expression of amphetamine sensitization

Herrera, AS; Escobar F.; Fuentealba, JA

Article ISI SCOPUS
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry  (2013)

Proyecto (3)

Characterization of somato-dendritic and axon initial segment domains of midbrain dopaminergic neurons

FONDECYT (1141170)

Proyecto
2014-2017
Tesista

The influence of kappa opioid system in amphetamine-sensitization=> study of the kappa opioid receptor activity on dopamine neurotransmission in dorsolateral striatum of amphetamine-sensitized rats

FONDECYT (1141088)

Proyecto
2014-2017
Tesista

Núcleo Milenio Estrés y Adicción (NEDA)=> Desde las Moléculas hasta la Conducta

Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y Turismo (N°P10/063-F)

Proyecto
2008-2014
Personal técnico y/o de apoyo

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José Fuentealba

Associate professor

Farmacy

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

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Rafael Gatica

Postdoctoral Researcher

Faculty of Biological Sciences

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile