Benjamin Freeze

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Freeze is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Freeze has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Neurology, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Freeze's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Benjamin Freeze is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (5 papers), Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Benjamin Freeze collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Benjamin Freeze's co-authors include Anatol C. Kreitzer, Alexxai V. Kravitz, Karl Deisseroth, Philip R. L. Parker, Kenneth Kay, Myo T. Thwin, Joshua D. Berke, Sneha Pandya, Ashish Raj and Yashar Zeighami and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Freeze

9 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry

2010 1.3k citations Alexxai V. Kravitz, Benjamin Freeze et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Freeze United States	7	1.3k	686	659	391	98	9	1.8k
Kenneth Kay United States	11	1.9k 1.4×	506 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	389 1.0×	127 1.3×	17	2.4k
Matthew Brodsky United States	16	1.4k 1.1×	534 0.8×	881 1.3×	522 1.3×	123 1.3×	32	2.0k
Juan Mena‐Segovia United Kingdom	24	1.6k 1.2×	938 1.4×	1.0k 1.6×	515 1.3×	214 2.2×	31	2.4k
Frederick L. Hitti United States	15	835 0.6×	423 0.6×	571 0.9×	232 0.6×	204 2.1×	28	1.5k
Aryn H. Gittis United States	24	1.5k 1.2×	849 1.2×	666 1.0×	458 1.2×	245 2.5×	42	2.0k
Máté D. Döbrössy Germany	25	1.3k 1.0×	625 0.9×	445 0.7×	535 1.4×	406 4.1×	91	2.2k
Marianne Benoit‐Marand France	17	1.2k 0.9×	212 0.3×	441 0.7×	739 1.9×	104 1.1×	24	1.7k
Lucy E. Annett United Kingdom	21	1.2k 1.0×	749 1.1×	651 1.0×	450 1.2×	146 1.5×	34	2.0k
Naoki Yamawaki United States	20	938 0.7×	272 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	148 0.4×	191 1.9×	25	1.6k
José Manuel Giménez‐Amaya Spain	24	1.1k 0.8×	629 0.9×	599 0.9×	410 1.0×	110 1.1×	67	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Freeze

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Pandya, Sneha, Pedro D. Maia, Benjamin Freeze, et al.. (2022). Modeling seeding and neuroanatomic spread of pathology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. NeuroImage. 251. 118968–118968. 17 indexed citations

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Freeze, Benjamin, Pedro D. Maia, Sneha Pandya, & Ashish Raj. (2020). Network mediation of pathology pattern in sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Brain Communications. 2(1). fcaa060–fcaa060. 6 indexed citations

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Maia, Pedro D., Sneha Pandya, Benjamin Freeze, et al.. (2020). Origins of atrophy in Parkinson linked to early onset and local transcription patterns. Brain Communications. 2(2). fcaa065–fcaa065. 5 indexed citations

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Pandya, Sneha, Yashar Zeighami, Benjamin Freeze, et al.. (2019). Predictive model of spread of Parkinson's pathology using network diffusion. NeuroImage. 192. 178–194. 58 indexed citations

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Freeze, Benjamin, Sneha Pandya, Yashar Zeighami, & Ashish Raj. (2019). Regional transcriptional architecture of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis and network spread. Brain. 142(10). 3072–3085. 26 indexed citations

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Freeze, Benjamin, Diana Acosta, Sneha Pandya, Yize Zhao, & Ashish Raj. (2018). Regional expression of genes mediating trans-synaptic alpha-synuclein transfer predicts regional atrophy in Parkinson disease. NeuroImage Clinical. 18. 456–466. 39 indexed citations

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Freeze, Benjamin, et al.. (2013). Control of Basal Ganglia Output by Direct and Indirect Pathway Projection Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(47). 18531–18539. 266 indexed citations

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Kravitz, Alexxai V., Benjamin Freeze, Philip R. L. Parker, et al.. (2010). Regulation of parkinsonian motor behaviours by optogenetic control of basal ganglia circuitry. Nature. 466(7306). 622–626. 1329 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freeze, Benjamin, et al.. (2006). State-Dependent Verapamil Block of the Cloned Human Cav3.1 T-Type Ca2+ Channel. Molecular Pharmacology. 70(2). 718–726. 31 indexed citations

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