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Gary Aston‐Jones

Active 1980–2024

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Gary Aston-Jones
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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 4,838 citing papers, 40.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 803 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownGermany: 783 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownCanada: 568 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 517 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownChina: 515 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownFrance: 465 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 368 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownItaly: 349 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownJapan: 301 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 281 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSweden: 202 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Neuroscience72.2%
  • Medicine13.2%
  • Psychology6.7%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4.6%
  • Computer Science0.8%
  • Engineering0.6%
  • Other1.9%

Topics

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research7.1%
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research6.5%
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior6%
  • Neural dynamics and brain function5.2%
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies5.1%
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms5%
  • Other65.1%

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  1. AN INTEGRATIVE THEORY OF LOCUS COERULEUS-NOREPINEPHRINE FUNCTION: Adaptive Gain and Optimal Performance

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Jonathan D. Cohen - Annual Review of Neuroscience 2005 cited by 4,584

  2. Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot

    Authors: Gina R. Poe, Stephen L. Foote, Oxana Eschenko, Joshua P. Johansen, Sébastien Bouret, Gary Aston‐Jones, Carolyn W. Harley, Denise Manahan‐Vaughan, David Weinshenker, Rita J. Valentino, Craig W. Berridge, Daniel J. Chandler, Barry D. Waterhouse, Susan J. Sara - Nature reviews. Neuroscience 2020 cited by 740

  3. Decision making, the P3, and the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system.

    Authors: Sander Nieuwenhuis, Gary Aston‐Jones, Jonathan D. Cohen - Psychological Bulletin 2005 cited by 1,685

  4. Activity of norepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in behaving rats anticipates fluctuations in the sleep-waking cycle

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, F E Bloom - Journal of Neuroscience 1981 cited by 1,973

  5. Adaptive gain and the role of the locus coeruleus–norepinephrine system in optimal performance

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Jonathan D. Cohen - The Journal of Comparative Neurology 2005 cited by 645

  6. Role of locus coeruleus in attention and behavioral flexibility

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Janusz Rajkowski, Jonathan D. Cohen - Biological Psychiatry 1999 cited by 942

  7. Abnormal Locus Coeruleus Sleep Activity Alters Sleep Signatures of Memory Consolidation and Impairs Place Cell Stability and Spatial Memory

    Authors: Kevin M. Swift, Brooks A. Gross, Michelle Frazer, David S. Bauer, Kyle J.D. Clark, Elena M. Vazey, Gary Aston‐Jones, Yong Li, Anthony E. Pickering, Susan J. Sara, Gina R. Poe - Current Biology 2018 cited by 162

  8. Phasic locus coeruleus activity regulates cortical encoding of salience information

    Authors: Elena M. Vazey, David E. Moorman, Gary Aston‐Jones - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2018 cited by 266

  9. The anatomical and functional relationship between the P3 and autonomic components of the orienting response

    Authors: Sander Nieuwenhuis, Eco J. C. de Geus, Gary Aston‐Jones - Psychophysiology 2010 cited by 476

  10. A role for lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward seeking

    Authors: Glenda C. Harris, Mathieu E. Wimmer, Gary Aston‐Jones - Nature 2005 cited by 1,326

  11. Locus coeruleus: From global projection system to adaptive regulation of behavior

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Barry D. Waterhouse - Brain Research 2016 cited by 279

  12. Linking Context with Reward: A Functional Circuit from Hippocampal CA3 to Ventral Tegmental Area

    Authors: Alice H. Luo, Pouya Tahsili‐Fahadan, Roy A. Wise, Carl R. Lupica, Gary Aston‐Jones - Science 2011 cited by 425

  13. Noninvasive techniques for probing neurocircuitry and treating illness: vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

    Authors: Mark S. George, Gary Aston‐Jones - Neuropsychopharmacology 2009 cited by 408

  14. The Role of Locus Coeruleus in the Regulation of Cognitive Performance

    Authors: Marius Usher, Jonathan D. Cohen, David Servan‐Schreiber, Janusz Rajkowski, Gary Aston‐Jones - Science 1999 cited by 740

  15. Designer receptor manipulations reveal a role of the locus coeruleus noradrenergic system in isoflurane general anesthesia

    Authors: Elena M. Vazey, Gary Aston‐Jones - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 294

  16. Increased locus coeruleus tonic activity causes disengagement from a patch-foraging task

    Authors: Gary A. Kane, Elena M. Vazey, Robert C. Wilson, Amitai Shenhav, Nathaniel D. Daw, Gary Aston‐Jones, Jonathan D. Cohen - Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience 2017 cited by 138

  17. Nucleus locus ceruleus: new evidence of anatomical and physiological specificity

    Authors: Stephen L. Foote, Floyd E. Bloom, Gary Aston‐Jones - Physiological Reviews 1983 cited by 1,902

  18. A neural circuit for circadian regulation of arousal

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Sheng Chen, Yan Zhu, Michael L. Oshinsky - Nature Neuroscience 2001 cited by 631

  19. Increased Number and Activity of a Lateral Subpopulation of Hypothalamic Orexin/Hypocretin Neurons Underlies the Expression of an Addicted State in Rats

    Authors: Morgan H. James, Colin M. Stopper, Benjamin Zimmer, Nikki E. Koll, Hannah E. Bowrey, Gary Aston‐Jones - Biological Psychiatry 2018 cited by 206

  20. Locus coeruleus neurons in monkey are selectively activated by attended cues in a vigilance task

    Authors: Gary Aston‐Jones, Janusz Rajkowski, P Kubiak, Tatiana Alexinsky - Journal of Neuroscience 1994 cited by 655

  21. Impulse activity of locus coeruleus neurons in awake rats and monkeys is a function of sensory stimulation and arousal.

    Authors: Stephen L. Foote, Gary Aston‐Jones, Floyd E. Bloom - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1980 cited by 863

  22. Motivational activation: a unifying hypothesis of orexin/hypocretin function

    Authors: Stephen V. Mahler, David E. Moorman, Rachel J. Smith, Morgan H. James, Gary Aston‐Jones - Nature Neuroscience 2014 cited by 393

  23. Designer receptors show role for ventral pallidum input to ventral tegmental area in cocaine seeking

    Authors: Stephen V. Mahler, Elena M. Vazey, Jacob T. Beckley, Colby Keistler, Ellen M McGlinchey, Jennifer Kaufling, Steven P. Wilson, Karl Deisseroth, John J. Woodward, Gary Aston‐Jones - Nature Neuroscience 2014 cited by 374

  24. Phasic Activation of Monkey Locus Ceruleus Neurons by Simple Decisions in a Forced-Choice Task

    Authors: Edwin C. Clayton, Janusz Rajkowski, Jonathan D. Cohen, Gary Aston‐Jones - Journal of Neuroscience 2004 cited by 241