Robert Greene, M.D., Ph.D.

Undergraduate

Kenyon College (1972)

Graduate School

George Washington University (1982)

Medical School

University of Maryland Baltimo (1983), Medicine

• Molecular, cellular and circuit dysfunction in PTSD
• Molecular, cellular and circuit neurophysiology of behavioral state control
• Molecular, cellular and circuit pathophysiology of schizophrenia

 Featured Publications

Behavioral and biochemical dissociation of arousal and homeostatic sleep need influenced by prior wakeful experience in mice.

Suzuki A, Sinton CM, Greene RW, Yanagisawa M Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2013 May

CNS dopamine transmission mediated by noradrenergic innervation.

Smith CC, Greene RW J. Neurosci. 2012 May 32 18 6072-80

Control and function of the homeostatic sleep response by adenosine A1 receptors.

Bjorness TE, Kelly CL, Gao T, Poffenberger V, Greene RW J. Neurosci. 2009 Feb 29 5 1267-76

Adenosine mediation of presynaptic feedback inhibition of glutamate release.

Brambilla D, Chapman D, Greene R Neuron 2005 Apr 46 2 275-83

Focal Deletion of the adenosine A1 receptor in adult mice using an adeno-associated viral vector.

Scammel, T.E., Arrigoni E., Thompson, M.A., Ronan, P.J., Saper, C.B., Greene R.W. J. Neurosci 2003 23 5762-5770

Modulation of N-methyl-d-aspartate recepotor function by glycine transport

Bergeron, R., Coyle, J.T., and Greene, R.W. P.N.A.S. 1998 95 15730-15734

Adenosine: a mediator of the sleep-inducing effects of prolonged wakefulness.

Porkka-Heiskanen T, Strecker RE, Thakkar M, Bjorkum AA, Greene RW, McCarley RW Science 1997 May 276 5316 1265-8

NMDA-dependent modulation of CA1 local circuit inhibition

Grunze, H.C.R., Rainnie, D.G., Hasselmo, M.E., Barkai, E., Hearn, E.F., McCarley, R.W., Greene, R.W. J.Neurosci. 1996 16(6) 2034-43

Abnormal fear response and aggressive behavior in mutant mice deficient for CaM kinase II

Chen, C., Rainnie, D.G., Greene, R.W. and Tonnegawa, S. Science 1994 266 291-294

Adenosine inhibits mesopontine cholinergic neurons: implications for EEG arousal.

Rainnie, D.G., Grunze, H.C.R., McCarley, R.W. and Greene, R.W. Science 1994 263 689-692

• Dept of Veterans Affairs Career Research Enhancement Award
  (1998)
• Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (Fogarty Fellowship)
  (1984)

• American Association for The Advancement of Science
• American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
• European Neuroscience Association
• Sleep Research Society
• Society for Neuroscience