Brett D. Mensh

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Brett D. Mensh is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett D. Mensh has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Brett D. Mensh's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (7 papers). Brett D. Mensh is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (19 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (7 papers). Brett D. Mensh collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Brett D. Mensh's co-authors include Nelson Spruston, Adam W. Hantman, Austin R. Graves, Kristin Branson, William L. Kath, Misha B. Ahrens, J. Simpson, Na Ji, Wenzhi Sun and Zhongchao Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Brett D. Mensh

55 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

A multilevel multimodal circuit enhances action selection in Drosophila

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brett D. Mensh United States	30	1.9k	1.7k	598	500	361	56	3.6k
Takaki Komiyama United States	35	3.3k 1.7×	2.5k 1.5×	628 1.1×	300 0.6×	291 0.8×	68	4.7k
Sabine L. Renninger Portugal	9	3.3k 1.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 3.2×	290 0.6×	511 1.4×	12	5.4k
Fuqiang Xu China	38	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	452 0.9×	168 0.5×	180	5.3k
Ian R. Wickersham United States	25	2.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	377 0.8×	272 0.8×	50	4.6k
Tianyi Mao United States	21	3.1k 1.7×	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 2.5×	266 0.5×	480 1.3×	37	4.6k
Troy W. Margrie United Kingdom	34	3.4k 1.8×	2.5k 1.5×	887 1.5×	761 1.5×	174 0.5×	71	5.2k
Roberto Lent Brazil	31	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 2.3×	737 1.5×	227 0.6×	101	4.8k
Minmin Luo China	49	3.9k 2.1×	2.2k 1.3×	1.8k 3.1×	384 0.8×	195 0.5×	103	7.3k
Trevor J. Wardill United States	19	3.3k 1.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 2.7×	228 0.5×	397 1.1×	35	5.4k
Li I. Zhang United States	40	3.2k 1.7×	4.1k 2.4×	895 1.5×	354 0.7×	155 0.4×	74	5.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brett D. Mensh

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20 of 20 papers shown

Park, Junchol, et al.. (2025). Conjoint specification of action by neocortex and striatum. Neuron. 113(4). 620–636.e6. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiaoliang, et al.. (2025). Time or distance encoding by hippocampal neurons via heterogeneous ramping rates. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11083–11083.

Matelsky, Jordan, et al.. (2024). Computational kinematics of dance: distinguishing hip hop genres. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 11. 1295308–1295308. 4 indexed citations

Jo, Hang Jin, Sina Sangari, David Chen, et al.. (2023). Multisite Hebbian Plasticity Restores Function in Humans with Spinal Cord Injury. Annals of Neurology. 93(6). 1198–1213. 20 indexed citations

Lillvis, Joshua L., Hideo Otsuna, Takashi Kawase, et al.. (2022). Rapid reconstruction of neural circuits using tissue expansion and light sheet microscopy. eLife. 11. 25 indexed citations

Yang, En, Maarten Zwart, Ben James, et al.. (2022). A brainstem integrator for self-location memory and positional homeostasis in zebrafish. Cell. 185(26). 5011–5027.e20. 25 indexed citations

Konig, Maximilian F., Michael Powell, Verena Staedtke, et al.. (2020). Preventing cytokine storm syndrome in COVID-19 using α-1 adrenergic receptor antagonists. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130(7). 3345–3347. 87 indexed citations

Mu, Yu, Sujatha Narayan, Brett D. Mensh, & Misha B. Ahrens. (2020). Brain-wide, scale-wide physiology underlying behavioral flexibility in zebrafish. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 64. 151–160. 8 indexed citations

Phillips, James, Anton Schulmann, Erina Hara, et al.. (2019). A repeated molecular architecture across thalamic pathways. Nature Neuroscience. 22(11). 1925–1935. 104 indexed citations

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Marasco, Paul D., Jacqueline S. Hebert, Courtney E. Shell, et al.. (2018). Illusory movement perception improves motor control for prosthetic hands. Science Translational Medicine. 10(432). 131 indexed citations

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Shields, Brenda C., Pierre F. Apostolides, Jennifer Brown, et al.. (2017). Deconstructing behavioral neuropharmacology with cellular specificity. Science. 356(6333). 92 indexed citations

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Martin, Kathleen A., Yi Li, Austin R. Graves, et al.. (2015). Dopamine Is Required for the Neural Representation and Control of Movement Vigor. Cell. 162(6). 1418–1430. 191 indexed citations

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Sun, Wenzhi, Zhongchao Tan, Brett D. Mensh, & Na Ji. (2015). Thalamus provides layer 4 of primary visual cortex with orientation- and direction-tuned inputs. Nature Neuroscience. 19(2). 308–315. 159 indexed citations

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Graves, Austin R., Shannon J. Moore, Erik B. Bloss, et al.. (2013). Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons Comprise Two Distinct Cell Types that Are Countermodulated by Metabotropic Receptors. Neuron. 77(2). 376–376. 1 indexed citations

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Ahrens, Misha B., Kuo‐Hua Huang, Sujatha Narayan, Brett D. Mensh, & Florian Engert. (2013). Two-photon calcium imaging during fictive navigation in virtual environments. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 7. 104–104. 39 indexed citations

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Sheffield, Mark, et al.. (2013). Mechanisms of retroaxonal barrage firing in hippocampal interneurons. The Journal of Physiology. 591(19). 4793–4805. 20 indexed citations

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Fallon, Brian A., Kathy Corbera, Shan Yu, et al.. (2009). Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolic Rate in Persistent Lyme Encephalopathy. Archives of General Psychiatry. 66(5). 554–554. 25 indexed citations

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Song, Ting, Elsa D. Angelini, Brett D. Mensh, & Andrew F. Laine. (2005). Comparison study of clinical 3D MRI brain segmentation evaluation. PubMed. 3. 1671–1674. 14 indexed citations

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Major, Guy, R. Baker, Emre Aksay, et al.. (2004). Plasticity and tuning by visual feedback of the stability of a neural integrator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(20). 7739–7744. 44 indexed citations

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Mensh, Brett D., Brenda L. Lonsbury‐Martin, & Glen K. Martin. (1993). Distortion-product emissions in rabbit: II. Prediction of chronic-noise effects by brief pure-tone exposures. Hearing Research. 70(1). 65–72. 13 indexed citations

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