Carla Nasca

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Carla Nasca is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carla Nasca has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 7 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Carla Nasca's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (18 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (16 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (5 papers). Carla Nasca is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (18 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (16 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (5 papers). Carla Nasca collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Canada. Carla Nasca's co-authors include Bruce S. McEwen, Jason D. Gray, Nicole Bowles, Richard Hunter, Matthew N. Hill, Ilia N. Karatsoreos, Benedetta Bigio, Danielle Zelli, Natalie Rasgon and Ferdinando Nicoletti and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Carla Nasca

30 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Stress Effects on Neuronal Structure: Hippocampus, Amygdala, and Prefrontal Cortex

2015 1.0k citations Bruce S. McEwen, Carla Nasca et al. profile →
Mechanisms of stress in the brain

2015 974 citations Bruce S. McEwen, Nicole Bowles et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carla Nasca United States	19	1.6k	990	628	610	608	30	3.7k
Jason D. Gray United States	25	1.8k 1.1×	842 0.9×	718 1.1×	729 1.2×	1.1k 1.9×	42	4.6k
Susanne Lucae Germany	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	378 0.6×	694 1.1×	523 0.9×	90	4.4k
Ai‐Min Bao China	32	1.4k 0.8×	802 0.8×	892 1.4×	646 1.1×	503 0.8×	74	3.8k
Lena Brydon United Kingdom	38	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	678 1.1×	496 0.8×	388 0.6×	48	5.0k
Georgia E. Hodes United States	34	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	1.0k 1.6×	904 1.5×	814 1.3×	53	4.5k
Lívia A. Carvalho United Kingdom	35	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	439 0.7×	408 0.7×	302 0.5×	76	4.2k
Cornelius Schüle Germany	42	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	585 0.9×	879 1.4×	1.4k 2.2×	126	5.1k
Hiroaki Hori Japan	38	866 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	395 0.6×	667 1.1×	573 0.9×	157	5.0k
Charles F. Gillespie United States	33	1.6k 1.0×	883 0.9×	660 1.1×	460 0.8×	590 1.0×	72	4.8k
Debra A. Bangasser United States	39	2.4k 1.5×	898 0.9×	1.6k 2.5×	668 1.1×	1.3k 2.1×	74	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carla Nasca

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Bigio, Benedetta, Ricardo A. S. Lima‐Filho, Felipe Kenji Sudo, et al.. (2025). Sex differences in mitochondrial free-carnitine levels in subjects at-risk and with Alzheimer’s disease in two independent study cohorts. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(6). 2573–2583. 2 indexed citations

Bigio, Benedetta, Shofiul Azam, Aleksander A. Mathé, & Carla Nasca. (2024). The neuropsychopharmacology of acetyl-L-carnitine (LAC): basic, translational and therapeutic implications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 2–2. 4 indexed citations

Bigio, Benedetta, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic embedding of childhood adversity: mitochondrial metabolism and neurobiology of stress-related CNS diseases. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16. 1183184–1183184. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Zhe, et al.. (2022). Modern views of machine learning for precision psychiatry. Patterns. 3(11). 100602–100602. 98 indexed citations

Michno, Wojciech, Wentao Dong, Yuqin Dai, et al.. (2022). Carnitine octanoyltransferase is important for the assimilation of exogenous acetyl-L-carnitine into acetyl-CoA in mammalian cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 299(2). 102848–102848. 12 indexed citations

Bigio, Benedetta, Yoann Seeleuthner, Gaspard Kerner, et al.. (2021). Detection of homozygous and hemizygous complete or partial exon deletions by whole-exome sequencing. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(2). lqab037–lqab037. 5 indexed citations

Bersani, Giuseppe, Francesca Pacitti, Angela Iannitelli, et al.. (2021). Inverse correlation between plasma 2‐arachidonoylglycerol levels and subjective severity of depression. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental. 36(4). e2779–e2779. 14 indexed citations

Nasca, Carla, Paolo De Angelis, Kathleen Watson, et al.. (2021). Multidimensional predictors of antidepressant responses: Integrating mitochondrial, genetic, metabolic and environmental factors with clinical outcomes. Neurobiology of Stress. 15. 100407–100407. 11 indexed citations

Nasca, Carla, Benedetta Bigio, Kathleen Watson, et al.. (2020). Insulin receptor substrate in brain-enriched exosomes in subjects with major depression: on the path of creation of biosignatures of central insulin resistance. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(9). 5140–5149. 81 indexed citations

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Nasca, Carla, Benedetta Bigio, Thalia Robakis, et al.. (2019). Childhood trauma and insulin resistance in patients suffering from depressive disorders. Experimental Neurology. 315. 15–20. 21 indexed citations

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Watson, Kathleen, et al.. (2017). Insulin resistance, an unmasked culprit in depressive disorders: Promises for interventions. Neuropharmacology. 136(Pt B). 327–334. 63 indexed citations

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Nasca, Carla, Benedetta Bigio, Danielle Zelli, et al.. (2017). Role of the Astroglial Glutamate Exchanger xCT in Ventral Hippocampus in Resilience to Stress. Neuron. 96(2). 402–413.e5. 91 indexed citations

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Bigio, Benedetta, Aleksander A. Mathé, Vasco C. Sousa, et al.. (2016). Epigenetics and energetics in ventral hippocampus mediate rapid antidepressant action: Implications for treatment resistance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(28). 7906–7911. 72 indexed citations

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Bigio, Benedetta, et al.. (2016). Stress-induced structural plasticity of medial amygdala stellate neurons and rapid prevention by a candidate antidepressant. Molecular Psychiatry. 22(2). 227–234. 64 indexed citations

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McEwen, Bruce S., Nicole Bowles, Jason D. Gray, et al.. (2015). Mechanisms of stress in the brain. Nature Neuroscience. 18(10). 1353–1363. 974 indexed citations breakdown →

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McEwen, Bruce S., Jason D. Gray, & Carla Nasca. (2015). 60 YEARS OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY: Redefining neuroendocrinology: stress, sex and cognitive and emotional regulation. Journal of Endocrinology. 226(2). T67–T83. 193 indexed citations

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Nasca, Carla, Danielle Zelli, Benedetta Bigio, et al.. (2015). Stress dynamically regulates behavior and glutamatergic gene expression in hippocampus by opening a window of epigenetic plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(48). 14960–14965. 115 indexed citations

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Wittkowski, Knut M., Benedetta Bigio, Frederick Shic, et al.. (2014). A novel computational biostatistics approach implies impaired dephosphorylation of growth factor receptors as associated with severity of autism. Translational Psychiatry. 4(1). e354–e354. 19 indexed citations

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Nasca, Carla, Benedetta Bigio, Danielle Zelli, Ferdinando Nicoletti, & Bruce S. McEwen. (2014). Mind the gap: glucocorticoids modulate hippocampal glutamate tone underlying individual differences in stress susceptibility. Molecular Psychiatry. 20(6). 755–763. 150 indexed citations

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McEwen, Bruce S., Jason D. Gray, & Carla Nasca. (2014). Recognizing resilience: Learning from the effects of stress on the brain. Neurobiology of Stress. 1. 1–11. 207 indexed citations

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