Jaime Fornaguera

Universidad de Costa Rica — CR

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

15h-index1.3kcitations29works1.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior(8), Stress Responses and Cortisol(8), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior(8), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments(7), Memory and Neural Mechanisms(3)

Publications29 total

Cafeteria diet increases approach behavior and appetitive ultrasonic vocalizations triggered by a food-related cue in male rats
Physiology & Behavior·2025
Behavioral Assessment of Tramadol and Meloxicam Effects on Postoperative Pain in a Rat Craniotomy Model
Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science·2025· 2 cited
Sex differences in 6-OHDA lesioned rats in a preclinical model for Parkinson’s disease
Behavioural Brain Research·2025· 2 cited
Fat Intake and Obesity-related Parameters Predict Striatal BDNF Gene Expression and Dopamine Metabolite Levels in Cafeteria Diet-fed Rats
Neuroscience·2022· 7 cited
Environmental Enrichment and Physical Exercise Attenuate the Depressive-Like Effects Induced by Social Isolation Stress in Rats
Frontiers in Pharmacology·2020· 52 citedOpen Access
Comparative biochemical study of the venoms of scorpions Tityus asthenes and Centruroides edwardsii from Costa Rica
Toxicon·2020
Behavioural characterisation of chronic unpredictable stress based on ethologically relevant paradigms in rats
Scientific Reports·2019· 134 citedOpen Access
The effects of environmental enrichment and social isolation and their reversion on anxiety and fear conditioning
Behavioural Processes·2018· 38 citedOpen Access
Testing experience and environmental enrichment potentiated open-field habituation and grooming behaviour in rats
Animal Behaviour·2018· 50 citedOpen Access
La administración sub-crónica de hierba de San Juan revierte las conductas de ansiedad y depresión inducidas por dos protocolos distintos de estrés crónico
2017
Sub-chronic administration of St. John’s wort reverses anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors induced by two different protocols of chronic stress
Americanae (AECID Library)·2017Open Access
Aporte docente en el diseño de Ambientes Virtuales Colaborativos para educación preescolar
Americanae (AECID Library)·2016Open Access
Association of Apolipoprotein E-e4 and Dementia Declines with Age
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry·2014· 18 citedOpen Access
Diagnóstico molecular de la enfermedad de Huntington en Costa Rica
Acta Médica Costarricense·2009· 3 citedOpen Access
The effect of chronic fluoxetine on social isolation-induced changes on sucrose consumption, immobility behavior, and on serotonin and dopamine function in hippocampus and ventral striatum
Behavioural Brain Research·2008· 127 citedOpen Access
A detailed analysis of open-field habituation and behavioral and neurochemical antidepressant-like effects in postweaning enriched rats
Behavioural Brain Research·2008· 233 citedOpen Access
Effects of environmental enrichment and social isolation on sucrose consumption and preference: Associations with depressive-like behavior and ventral striatum dopamine
Neuroscience Letters·2008· 92 citedOpen Access
Differential effect of environment enrichment and social isolation on depressive-like behavior, spontaneous activity and serotonin and norepinephrine concentration in prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior·2007· 253 citedOpen Access
Methylmercury increases S100B content in rat cerebrospinal fluid
Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology·2004· 25 citedOpen Access
Time course of deficits in open field behavior after unilateral neostriatal 6-hydroxydopamine lesions
Neurotoxicity Research·2002· 11 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Juan C. Brenes(11), Rainer K.W. Schwarting(8), J.P. Huston(5), Andrey Sequeira‐Cordero(4), Robert J. Carey(3), Mijail Rojas‐Carvajal(3), Rebeca Vindas-Smith(2), Georgina Gómez(2), Sandra Badilla(2), María F Calvo(2), Odir Rodríguez(1), Michael Padilla Mora(1), Adrián Salas-Bastos(1), Roman Goldenberg(1), Heinz Steiner(1), Andrea Mora-Gallegos(1), Fernando Boix(1), Andrea Mora-Gallegos(1), Marcelo Farina(1), Victor Hermes Ceresér(1)