Alexander Z. Harris

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Z. Harris is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Z. Harris has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 6 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander Z. Harris's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (17 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (13 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers). Alexander Z. Harris is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (17 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (13 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers). Alexander Z. Harris collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Czechia. Alexander Z. Harris's co-authors include Joshua A. Gordon, Joseph M. Stujenske, Diana L. Pettit, Ekaterina Likhtik, Atheir I. Abbas, Christoph Kellendonk, Scott S. Bolkan, Gregory M. Sullivan, Joseph E. LeDoux and Glenn E. Schafe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Z. Harris

32 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Thalamic projections sustain prefrontal activity during working memory maintenance

2017 340 citations Scott S. Bolkan, Joseph M. Stujenske et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Z. Harris United States	18	1.3k	1.3k	530	445	307	33	2.4k
Craig Weiss United States	34	2.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	677 1.3×	517 1.2×	307 1.0×	87	3.4k
Thomas C. Foster United States	26	1.3k 0.9×	937 0.7×	824 1.6×	313 0.7×	162 0.5×	43	2.6k
Roberto De Pasquale United States	17	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	680 1.3×	130 0.3×	99 0.3×	25	2.3k
Benedetto Sacchetti Italy	29	1.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.5×	438 0.8×	410 0.9×	371 1.2×	58	3.2k
Deniz Yilmazer‐Hanke Germany	26	935 0.7×	509 0.4×	418 0.8×	308 0.7×	279 0.9×	74	2.4k
Linus D. Sun United States	10	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	487 0.9×	152 0.3×	80 0.3×	12	2.0k
James R. Moyer United States	26	2.2k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	662 1.2×	313 0.7×	173 0.6×	36	2.9k
Paul J. May United States	30	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	710 1.3×	130 0.3×	190 0.6×	96	3.4k
O.T. Phillipson United Kingdom	32	2.9k 2.1×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 2.2×	215 0.5×	377 1.2×	68	4.1k
Scott A. Heldt United States	23	894 0.7×	625 0.5×	461 0.9×	298 0.7×	186 0.6×	40	1.6k

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Olson, Randall J., et al.. (2024). Decoupling of cortical activity from behavioral state following administration of the classic psychedelic DOI. Neuropharmacology. 257. 110030–110030. 1 indexed citations

Chohan, Muhammad O., Jared M. Kopelman, Zeinab Fazlali, et al.. (2022). Developmental impact of glutamate transporter overexpression on dopaminergic neuron activity and stereotypic behavior. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(3). 1515–1526. 7 indexed citations

Canetta, Sarah, Emma S. Holt, Eric Teboul, et al.. (2022). Mature parvalbumin interneuron function in prefrontal cortex requires activity during a postnatal sensitive period. eLife. 11. 31 indexed citations

Holt, Emma S., Lorenzo Posani, Stefano Fusi, et al.. (2022). Adolescent thalamic inhibition leads to long-lasting impairments in prefrontal cortex function. Nature Neuroscience. 25(6). 714–725. 34 indexed citations

Ibarra‐Lecue, Inés, Saskia Haegens, & Alexander Z. Harris. (2022). Breaking Down a Rhythm: Dissecting the Mechanisms Underlying Task-Related Neural Oscillations. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 16. 846905–846905. 10 indexed citations

Lowes, Daniel C., Emma S. Holt, Atheir I. Abbas, et al.. (2021). Ventral tegmental area GABA neurons mediate stress-induced blunted reward-seeking in mice. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3539–3539. 48 indexed citations

Harris, Alexander Z., et al.. (2021). PTEN Expression Regulates Gap Junction Connectivity in the Retina. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 15. 629244–629244. 3 indexed citations

Park, Alan Jung, Alexander Z. Harris, Kelly Martyniuk, et al.. (2021). Reset of hippocampal–prefrontal circuitry facilitates learning. Nature. 591(7851). 615–619. 70 indexed citations

Abbas, Atheir I., Mitchell P. Morton, Scott S. Bolkan, et al.. (2018). Somatostatin Interneurons Facilitate Hippocampal-Prefrontal Synchrony and Prefrontal Spatial Encoding. Neuron. 100(4). 926–939.e3. 126 indexed citations

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Bolkan, Scott S., Joseph M. Stujenske, Sébastien Parnaudeau, et al.. (2017). Thalamic projections sustain prefrontal activity during working memory maintenance. Nature Neuroscience. 20(7). 987–996. 340 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harris, Alexander Z. & Joshua A. Gordon. (2015). Long-Range Neural Synchrony in Behavior. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 38(1). 171–194. 119 indexed citations

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Harris, Yael, et al.. (2012). Cabergoline Associated with First Episode Mania. Psychosomatics. 53(6). 595–600. 8 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z., et al.. (2011). A Case of Acute Renal Failure in a Patient Recently Treated With Clozapine and a Review of Previously Reported Cases. The Primary Care Companion For CNS Disorders. 13(3). 11 indexed citations

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Costa, Vital Paulino, Enyr Saran Arcieri, & Alexander Z. Harris. (2009). Blood pressure and glaucoma. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 93(10). 1276–1282. 72 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z. & Diana L. Pettit. (2007). Extrasynaptic and synaptic NMDA receptors form stable and uniform pools in rat hippocampal slices. The Journal of Physiology. 584(2). 509–519. 153 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z. & Diana L. Pettit. (2007). Recruiting Extrasynaptic NMDA Receptors Augments Synaptic Signaling. Journal of Neurophysiology. 99(2). 524–533. 60 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z., et al.. (2006). Variable Kainate Receptor Distributions of Oriens Interneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology. 96(3). 1683–1689. 12 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z., et al.. (2006). Synaptic kainate currents reset interneuron firing phase. The Journal of Physiology. 578(1). 259–273. 20 indexed citations

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Harris, Alexander Z., et al.. (2002). The first technique for non-invasive measurements of volumetric ophthalmic artery blood flow in humans. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 86(11). 1216–1219. 21 indexed citations

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Evans, David W., Alexander Z. Harris, Melanie E. Garrett, Ho Seok Chung, & Larry Kagemann. (1999). Glaucoma patients demonstrate faulty autoregulation of ocular blood flow during posture change. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 83(7). 809–813. 93 indexed citations

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