Balázs Hangya

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Balázs Hangya is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Balázs Hangya has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Balázs Hangya's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (20 papers). Balázs Hangya is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (28 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (24 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (20 papers). Balázs Hangya collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, United States and France. Balázs Hangya's co-authors include Ádám Kepecs, Duda Kvitsiani, Joshua I. Sanders, Z. Josh Huang, Sachin Ranade, Hyun-Jae Pi, Tamás F. Freund, Viktor Varga, Zsolt Borhegyi and István Ulbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Balázs Hangya

40 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Cortical interneurons that specialize in disinhibitory control

2013 774 citations Hyun-Jae Pi, Balázs Hangya et al. Nature profile →

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Derek L. Buhl United States

Marshall G. Hussain Shuler United States

Ulf Knoblich United States

Mark Laubach United States

Matthew F. Nolan United Kingdom

Eva Pastalkova United States

Xavier Leinekugel France

Jonathan T. Ting United States

Didier Pinault France

Clifford G. Kentros United States

Derek L. Buhl United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Balázs Hangya

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Schlingloff, Dániel, Tamás F. Freund, Balázs Hangya, & Attila I. Gulyás. (2025). Collapsing Perisomatic Inhibition Leads to Epileptic Fast-Ripple Oscillations Caused by Pseudosynchronous Firing of CA3 Pyramidal Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(46). e0500252025–e0500252025.

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Hangya, Balázs. (2024). Novel automated training platform for studying flexible switching among natural motivated behaviors in mice. 1 indexed citations

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Király, B., Andor Domonkos, Márta Jelitai, et al.. (2023). The medial septum controls hippocampal supra-theta oscillations. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6159–6159. 15 indexed citations

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Slézia, Andrea, Nicola Solari, Attila Kaszás, et al.. (2023). Behavioral, neural and ultrastructural alterations in a graded-dose 6-OHDA mouse model of early-stage Parkinson's disease. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 19478–19478. 18 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Bellver, Sergio, Richárd Fiáth, Andor Domonkos, et al.. (2022). Huygens synchronization of medial septal pacemaker neurons generates hippocampal theta oscillation. Cell Reports. 40(5). 111149–111149. 13 indexed citations

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Király, B. & Balázs Hangya. (2022). Navigating the Statistical Minefield of Model Selection and Clustering in Neuroscience. eNeuro. 9(4). ENEURO.0066–22.2022. 2 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Bellver, Sergio, Richárd Fiáth, Andor Domonkos, et al.. (2021). Huygens Synchronization of Medial Septal Pacemaker Neurons Generates Hippocampal Theta Oscillation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Hangya, Balázs, et al.. (2021). Differential recruitment of ventral pallidal e-types by behaviorally salient stimuli during Pavlovian conditioning. iScience. 24(4). 102377–102377. 5 indexed citations

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Solari, Nicola, et al.. (2018). Open Source Tools for Temporally Controlled Rodent Behavior Suitable for Electrophysiology and Optogenetic Manipulations. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 12. 18–18. 18 indexed citations

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Sviatkó, Katalin & Balázs Hangya. (2017). Monitoring the Right Collection: The Central Cholinergic Neurons as an Instructive Example. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 11. 31–31. 5 indexed citations

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Hangya, Balázs, Joshua I. Sanders, & Ádám Kepecs. (2016). A Mathematical Framework for Statistical Decision Confidence. Neural Computation. 28(9). 1840–1858. 49 indexed citations

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Giber, Kristóf, Marco A. Diana, Viktor Plattner, et al.. (2015). A subcortical inhibitory signal for behavioral arrest in the thalamus. Nature Neuroscience. 18(4). 562–568. 54 indexed citations

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Hangya, Balázs & Ádám Kepecs. (2015). Vision: How to Train Visual Cortex to Predict Reward Time. Current Biology. 25(12). R490–R492. 6 indexed citations

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Pi, Hyun-Jae, Balázs Hangya, Duda Kvitsiani, et al.. (2013). Cortical interneurons that specialize in disinhibitory control. Nature. 503(7477). 521–524. 774 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kvitsiani, Duda, Sachin Ranade, Balázs Hangya, et al.. (2013). Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex. Nature. 498(7454). 363–366. 358 indexed citations

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Hangya, Balázs, László Entz, Dániel Fabó, et al.. (2011). Complex Propagation Patterns Characterize Human Cortical Activity during Slow-Wave Sleep. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(24). 8770–8779. 29 indexed citations

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Czurkó, András, John R. Huxter, Yu Li, Balázs Hangya, & Robert U. Muller. (2011). Theta Phase Classification of Interneurons in the Hippocampal Formation of Freely Moving Rats. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(8). 2938–2947. 43 indexed citations

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Stefanics, Gábor, Balázs Hangya, István Hernádi, et al.. (2010). Phase Entrainment of Human Delta Oscillations Can Mediate the Effects of Expectation on Reaction Speed. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(41). 13578–13585. 307 indexed citations

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Varga, Viktor, Attila Losonczy, Boris V. Zemelman, et al.. (2009). Fast Synaptic Subcortical Control of Hippocampal Circuits. Science. 326(5951). 449–453. 207 indexed citations

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Varga, Viktor, Balázs Hangya, Kinga Kránitz, et al.. (2008). The presence of pacemaker HCN channels identifies theta rhythmic GABAergic neurons in the medial septum. The Journal of Physiology. 586(16). 3893–3915. 100 indexed citations

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