Alex C. Kwan

5.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
62 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alex C. Kwan is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex C. Kwan has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 15 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alex C. Kwan's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Psychedelics and Drug Studies (14 papers). Alex C. Kwan is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers) and Psychedelics and Drug Studies (14 papers). Alex C. Kwan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Alex C. Kwan's co-authors include Yang Dan, Florent Barthas, Ling-Xiao Shao, Farhan Ali, Watt W. Webb, Pasha A. Davoudian, Neil K. Savalia, Seung‐Hee Lee, Clara Liao and Ian Gregg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alex C. Kwan

56 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo

2021 351 citations Ling-Xiao Shao, Clara Liao et al. Neuron profile →
The neural basis of psychedelic action

2022 163 citations Alex C. Kwan et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors

2025 27 citations Clara Liao, Pasha A. Davoudian et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Frontal noradrenergic and cholinergic transients exhibit distinct spatiotemporal dynamics during competitive decision-making 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Neil K. Savalia, (unknown), Jiesi Feng, Yulong Li, Alfred P. Kaye, Alex C. Kwan	1
2	Autism-associated Scn2a haploinsufficiency disrupts in vivo dendritic signaling and impairs flexible decision-making 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hao Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Neil K. Savalia, (unknown), (unknown), Kevin J. Bender, Alex C. Kwan	0
3	Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors breakdown → 2025 ·Nature ·(unknown), Clara Liao, Pasha A. Davoudian, Neil K. Savalia, Quan Jiang, (unknown), Dun Xian Tan, (unknown), Rongjian Liu, Samuel C. Woodburn, (unknown), Hail Kim, Alicia Che, Alex C. Kwan	27
4	Y chromosome genes interplay with interval timing in regulating mating duration of male Drosophila melanogaster 2024 ·Gene Reports ·(unknown), Alex C. Kwan, Woo Jae Kim	4
5	Publisher Correction: Structural neural plasticity evoked by rapid-acting antidepressant interventions 2024 ·Nature reviews. Neuroscience ·Clara Liao, (unknown), (unknown), Conor Liston, Alex C. Kwan	0
6	Competitive and cooperative games for probing the neural basis of social decision-making in animals 2023 ·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ·(unknown), Alex C. Kwan	6
7	5-MeO-DMT modifies innate behaviors and promotes structural neural plasticity in mice 2023 ·Neuropsychopharmacology ·Sarah J. Jefferson, Ian Gregg, (unknown), Clara Liao, Hao Wu, Pasha A. Davoudian, Samuel C. Woodburn, (unknown), Jeffrey Sprouse, Alexander M. Sherwood, Alfred P. Kaye, Christopher Pittenger, Alex C. Kwan	34
8	Dynamic Foraging Behavior Performance Is Not Affected byScn2aHaploinsufficiency 2023 ·eNeuro ·(unknown), Hao Wu, (unknown), Alex C. Kwan, Kevin J. Bender	2
9	Association of Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Calcium Progression and Radiation Dose with Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Breast Cancer 2023 ·International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), M. Burnison, (unknown), Julie K. Jang, Stephen L. Shiao, Mitchell Kamrava, (unknown), (unknown), Balaji Tamarappoo, David Ouyang, Alex C. Kwan, (unknown), Raymond H. Mak, Katelyn M. Atkins	0
10	A computational model for learning from repeated traumatic experiences under uncertainty 2023 ·Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience ·Alfred P. Kaye, (unknown), Alex C. Kwan, Kerry J. Ressler, John H. Krystal	3
11	Hyperconnectivity of Two Separate Long-Range Cholinergic Systems Contributes to the Reorganization of the Brain Functional Connectivity during Nicotine Withdrawal in Male Mice 2023 ·eNeuro ·Lieselot L. G. Carrette, Adam Kimbrough, Pasha A. Davoudian, Alex C. Kwan, Andrés Collazo, Olivier George	3
12	Activity of a direct VTA to ventral pallidum GABA pathway encodes unconditioned reward value and sustains motivation for reward 2022 ·Science Advances ·Wen‐Liang Zhou, Kristen K.O. Kim, Farhan Ali, Steven T. Pittenger, Cali A. Calarco, Yann S. Mineur, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth, Alex C. Kwan, Marina R. Picciotto	20
13	A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging 2021 ·Nature Neuroscience ·Peter Rupprecht, Stefano Carta, (unknown), (unknown), Antonin Blot, Alex C. Kwan, Yang Dan, Sonja B. Hofer, K. Kitamura, Fritjof Helmchen, Rainer W. Friedrich	64
14	Psilocybin induces rapid and persistent growth of dendritic spines in frontal cortex in vivo breakdown → 2021 ·Neuron ·Ling-Xiao Shao, Clara Liao, Ian Gregg, Pasha A. Davoudian, Neil K. Savalia, (unknown), Alex C. Kwan	351
15	Inhibitory regulation of calcium transients in prefrontal dendritic spines is compromised by a nonsense Shank3 mutation 2020 ·Molecular Psychiatry ·Farhan Ali, Ling-Xiao Shao, Danielle M. Gerhard, (unknown), Santosh Pothula, Christopher Pittenger, Ronald S. Duman, Alex C. Kwan	17
16	Enhanced Population Coding for Rewarded Choices in the Medial Frontal Cortex of the Mouse 2018 ·Cerebral Cortex ·(unknown), (unknown), Alex C. Kwan	22
17	Targeted two-photon chemical apoptotic ablation of defined cell types in vivo 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Robert Hill, Eyiyemisi C. Damisah, Fuyi Chen, Alex C. Kwan, Jaime Grutzendler	35
18	Fast and slow transitions in frontal ensemble activity during flexible sensorimotor behavior 2016 ·Nature Neuroscience ·(unknown), (unknown), Farhan Ali, (unknown), Alex C. Kwan	78
19	Dissection of Cortical Microcircuits by Single-Neuron Stimulation In Vivo 2012 ·Current Biology ·Alex C. Kwan, Yang Dan	92
20	Electrophysiological Characterization of V2a Interneurons and Their Locomotor-Related Activity in the Neonatal Mouse Spinal Cord 2010 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Guisheng Zhong, Steven Droho, Steven A. Crone, (unknown), Alex C. Kwan, Watt W. Webb, Kamal Sharma, Ronald M. Harris‐Warrick	113

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