Dinesh Pal, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Medical School
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Dinesh Pal, PhD
Associate Professor
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    Qualifications
    • PhD, Sleep Neurobiology
      School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006
    Research Overview

    Neural regulation of states of arousal- sleep, anesthesia, psychedelic states

    Interfaces of sleep homeostasis and sedation

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    • Journal Article
      Intravenous psilocybin induces dose-dependent changes in functional network organization in rat cortex
      Silverstein BH, Kolbman N, Nelson A, Liu T, Guzzo P, Gilligan J, Lee UC, Mashour GA, Vanini G, Pal D. Translational Psychiatry, 2025 Dec 1; 15 (1): DOI:10.1038/s41398-025-03308-4
      PMID: 40128190
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      Neurochemical and Neurophysiological Effects of Intravenous Administration of N,N-Dimethyltryptamine in Rats.
      Glynos NG, Huels ER, Nelson A, Kim Y, Kennedy RT, Mashour GA, Pal D. 2025 Feb 15; DOI:10.1101/2024.04.19.589047
      PMID: 38712161
    • Journal Article
      Corrigendum to “Effect of prolonged sedation with dexmedetomidine, midazolam, propofol, and sevoflurane on sleep homeostasis in rats” [Br J Anaesth 132 (2024) 1248–1259, (S0007091223006396), (10.1016/j.bja.2023.11.014)]
      Silverstein BH, Parkar A, Groenhout T, Fracz Z, Fryzel AM, Fields CW, Nelson A, Liu T, Vanini G, Mashour GA, Pal D. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2025 Jan 1; 134 (1): 257 DOI:10.1016/j.bja.2024.10.004
      PMID: 39482149
    • Journal Article
      Imaging Brain Tissue with Quantum Light at Low Power
      Varnavski O, Johnson P, Liu T, Pal D, Mashour GA, Goodson T. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 Nov 28; 128 (47): 11516 - 11524. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c03225
      PMID: 39536763
    • Journal Article
      Tetrodotoxin-mediated Inactivation of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Decreases Wakefulness and Rapid Eye Movement Sleep, and Increases Slow-Wave Sleep in Rat.
      Groenhout T, Ponnaluri S, Sharba L, Liu T, Nelson A, Hambrecht-Wiedbusch VS, Vanini G, Pal D. Sleep, 2025 Mar 5; DOI:10.1093/sleep/zsae260
    • Journal Article
      Dysregulated Cholinergic Signaling Inhibits Oligodendrocyte Maturation Following Demyelination
      Ravichandar R, Gadelkarim F, Muthaiah R, Glynos N, Murlanova K, Rai NK, Saraswat D, Polanco JJ, Dutta R, Pal D, Sim FJ. Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 Jul 10; 44 (28): DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0051-24.2024
      PMID: 38749703
    • Journal Article
      Effect of Inactivation of Prefrontal Cortex on Sleep-Wake States in Rat
      Ponnaluri S, Groenhout T, Sharba L, Liu T, Mashour GA, Pal D. Physiology, 2024 May 24; 39 (S1): 1146 DOI:10.1152/physiol.2024.39.s1.1146
    • Journal Article
      Effect of Intravenous Delivery of N,N Dimethyltryptamine on Sleep-Wake States in Rat
      Summerfield R, Groenhout T, Liu T, Vanini G, Mashour GA, Pal D. Physiology, 2024 May 24; 39 (S1): 1145 DOI:10.1152/physiol.2024.39.s1.1145