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Donald W. Pfaff

Active 1968–2022

224
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Citations
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,678 citing papers, 46.3% of this breakdownCanada: 561 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 556 citing papers, 5.5% of this breakdownGermany: 437 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownFrance: 419 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownJapan: 347 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownChina: 330 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownItaly: 301 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 283 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 198 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSpain: 193 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownSweden: 174 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Neuroscience34.1%
  • Medicine24.7%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.4%
  • Psychology14.5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.6%
  • Environmental Science1.3%
  • Other3.4%

Topics

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior8.2%
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol6.6%
  • Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones5.4%
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects4.4%
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research3.2%
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity2.2%
  • Other70%

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  1. Immunolocalization of Estrogen Receptor β in the Mouse Brain: Comparison with Estrogen Receptor α

    Authors: Sudha W. Mitra, Elena Hoskin, Joel B. Yudkovitz, Lisset Pear, Hilary Wilkinson, Shinji Hayashi, Donald W. Pfaff, Sonoko Ogawa, Susan P. Rohrer, James M. Schaeffer, Bruce S. McEwen, Stephen E. Alves - Endocrinology 2003 cited by 869

  2. Reproducibility and replicability of rodent phenotyping in preclinical studies

    Authors: Neri Kafkafi, Joseph Agassi, Elissa J. Chesler, John C. Crabbe, Wim E. Crusio, David Eilam, Robert Gerlai, Ilan Golani, Àlex Gómez-Marín, Ruth Heller, Fuad A. Iraqi, Iman Jaljuli, Natasha A. Karp, Hugh W. Morgan, George Nicholson, Donald W. Pfaff, S. Helene Richter, Philip B. Stark, Oliver Stiedl, Victoria Stodden, Lisa M. Tarantino, Valter Tucci, William Valdar, Robert W. Williams, Hanno Würbel, Yoav Benjamini - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 2018 cited by 217

  3. Deconstructing and reconstructing theory of mind

    Authors: Sara M. Schaafsma, Donald W. Pfaff, Robert P. Spunt, Ralph Adolphs - Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2014 cited by 506

  4. Origin of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons

    Authors: Marlene Schwanzel‐Fukuda, Donald W. Pfaff - Nature 1989 cited by 1,118

  5. Stress and corticosteroids regulate rat hippocampal mitochondrial DNA gene expression via the glucocorticoid receptor

    Authors: Richard Hunter, Ma’ayan Seligsohn, Todd G. Rubin, Brian B. Griffiths, Yıldırım Özdemir, Donald W. Pfaff, Nicole A. Datson, Bruce S. McEwen - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 189

  6. Long-term gene expression and phenotypic correction using adeno-associated virus vectors in the mammalian brain

    Authors: Michael G. Kaplitt, Paola Leone, R. Jude Samulski, Xiao Xiao, Donald W. Pfaff, Karen L. O’Malley, Matthew J. During - Nature Genetics 1994 cited by 1,031

  7. Silencing of estrogen receptor α in the ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus leads to metabolic syndrome

    Authors: Sergei Musatov, Walter W. Chen, Donald W. Pfaff, Charles V. Mobbs, Xue-Jun Yang, Deborah J. Clegg, Michael G. Kaplitt, Sonoko Ogawa - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 520

  8. Maternal diabetes induces autism-like behavior by hyperglycemia-mediated persistent oxidative stress and suppression of superoxide dismutase 2

    Authors: Xiumin Wang, Jianping Lu, Weiguo Xie, Xiao‐Yun Lu, Yujie Liang, Min Li, Zichen Wang, Xiaodong Huang, Mingxi Tang, Donald W. Pfaff, Ya‐Ping Tang, Paul Yao - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019 cited by 97

  9. RNAi-mediated silencing of estrogen receptor α in the ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus abolishes female sexual behaviors

    Authors: Sergei Musatov, Walter W. Chen, Donald W. Pfaff, Michael G. Kaplitt, Sonoko Ogawa - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006 cited by 224

  10. Recovery of consciousness is mediated by a network of discrete metastable activity states

    Authors: Andrew E. Hudson, Diany Paola Calderon, Donald W. Pfaff, Alex Proekt - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 177

  11. Activating an anterior nucleus gigantocellularis subpopulation triggers emergence from pharmacologically-induced coma in rodents

    Authors: Sijia Gao, Alex Proekt, Nicolas Renier, Diany Paola Calderon, Donald W. Pfaff - Nature Communications 2019 cited by 54

  12. Non-genomic actions of estrogens and their interaction with genomic actions in the brain

    Authors: Nandini Vasudevan, Donald W. Pfaff - Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 2007 cited by 346

  13. Endocrine and Physiological Changes in Response to Chronic Corticosterone: A Potential Model of the Metabolic Syndrome in Mouse

    Authors: Ilia N. Karatsoreos, Sarah M. Bhagat, Nicole Bowles, Zachary M. Weil, Donald W. Pfaff, Bruce S. McEwen - Endocrinology 2010 cited by 259

  14. Neuroscience in the 21st Century From Basic to Clinical

    Authors: Donald W. Pfaff - 2012 cited by 133

  15. siRNA silencing of estrogen receptor-α expression specifically in medial preoptic area neurons abolishes maternal care in female mice

    Authors: Ana Cristina de Medeiros Ribeiro, Sergei Musatov, Anna Shteyler, Serge Simanduyev, Isabel Arrieta‐Cruz, Sonoko Ogawa, Donald W. Pfaff - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 102

  16. Triphenyl phosphate permeates the blood brain barrier and induces neurotoxicity in mouse brain

    Authors: Xiaoshan Liu, Xiaolei Zhao, Yao Wang, Jiabin Hong, Ming Shi, Donald W. Pfaff, Lianxian Guo, Huanwen Tang - Chemosphere 2020 cited by 57

  17. Neuroscience in the 21st Century

    Authors: Donald W. Pfaff, Nora D. Volkow, John L.R. Rubenstein, Ralph Adolphs, Will Agnew-Svoboda, Serge Ahmed, Stewart Anderson, Roberto Araya, Arthur Arnold, Douglas Arnold, Paul Avan, Nicole Avena, Julie Bakker, Peter Bandettini, Helen Barbas, Daniel Barron, Catherine Barthlmy, Linda Bartoshuk, James Bashford, Thomas Bayer, Claude Bedard, Helene Benveniste, Kent Berridge, Richard Bodnar, Sietse De Boer, Yvonne Bouter, Janina Boyken, Andreas Bringmann, Anthony Brown, Richard Brown, John Brust, Ruud Buijs, Robert Burke, Merlin Butler, D Calderon, Newton Canteras, Silvia Cappello, Francisco Castellanos, Samuel Chamberlain, Pablo Chamero, Andrew Chen, Rochelle Cohen, Susan Courtney, Silvia Cruz, Kathleen Cullen, Yi Dai, Robert Dantzer, Alain Destexhe, Lakshmi Devi, Ulrich Dirnagl, Kimberly Dougherty, Uri Eden, Ulrich Eisel, Joel Elmquist, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Jennifer Evans, John Finberg, Xli Taylor, Eric Fliers, Andrea Forero, Joanna Fowler, Marc Freeman, Lloyd Fricker, Gregory Funk, Ashley Gearhardt, Charles Gillespie, Peter Goadsby, Jay Goldberg, Carlos Gonzlez, Gabriela Gonzlez-Mariscal, Arturo Gonzalez-Iglesias, Olivia Gosseries, Vinicio Granados-Soto, Jon Grant, John Greer, Jian-Guo Gu, P Michael, Michael Matise, Rallo, Jae Yeon Kim, Samuel Pleasure, Mercedes, Will Agnew-Svoboda, Alex Kolodkin, Martin, Andrea Forero, Echeverry, Silvia Cappello, Rachel Kennedy, Jun Chen, Ji-Sheng Han, Zhi-Qi Zhao, Feng Wei, Jen-Chuen Hsieh, Lan Bao, C Andrew, Yi Chen, Bi-Fa Dai, Jian-Guo Fan, Shuang-Lin Gu and 121 more - 2022 cited by 34

  18. Catechol- O -methyltransferase-deficient mice exhibit sexually dimorphic changes in catecholamine levels and behavior

    Authors: Joseph A. Gogos, Maria A. Morgan, Victoria N. Luine, Miklós Sántha, Sonoko Ogawa, Donald W. Pfaff, Maria Karayiorgou - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1998 cited by 855

  19. Facilitation of the lordosis reflex of female rats from the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus.

    Authors: Donald W. Pfaff, Yasuo Sakuma - The Journal of Physiology 1979 cited by 464

  20. Stomach ghrelin-secreting cells as food-entrainable circadian clocks

    Authors: Joseph LeSauter, Nawshin Hoque, Michael Weintraub, Donald W. Pfaff, Rae Silver - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 cited by 314

  21. Regulation of hippocampal H3 histone methylation by acute and chronic stress

    Authors: Richard Hunter, Katharine McCarthy, Thomas A. Milne, Donald W. Pfaff, Bruce S. McEwen - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 cited by 288

  22. Brain mast cells link the immune system to anxiety-like behavior

    Authors: Katherine M. Nautiyal, Ana Cristina de Medeiros Ribeiro, Donald W. Pfaff, Rae Silver - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008 cited by 186

  23. Sexually dimorphic responses to early adversity: Implications for affective problems and autism spectrum disorder

    Authors: Elysia Poggi Davis, Donald W. Pfaff - Psychoneuroendocrinology 2014 cited by 164

  24. Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior

    Authors: Alex Proekt, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, Donald W. Pfaff - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 139