Cyril Herry

11.8k citations

59 papers · 8.7k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.1%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neural dynamics and brain function

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 50
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 46
- Neural dynamics and brain function 14
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 44
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 37
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 5

Co-authors: Andreas Lüthi Stéphane Ciocchi Ingrid Ehrlich Johannes J. Letzkus Steffen B. E. Wolff Christian Müller Julien Courtin François Grenier
Journals: Nature (9 papers)Neuron (6 papers)European Journal of Neuroscience (4 papers)Nature Neuroscience (4 papers)Scientific Reports (3 papers)
Partner nations: France Switzerland Germany

In The Last Decade

Cyril Herry

54 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour 2016 · 502 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Nature
2014 Neuron
2011 Nature
2010 Nature
2009 Neuron
2009 Science
2008 Nature

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All Works

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1	Prefrontal neural geometry of learned cues guides motivated behaviours Nature ·金建全, А.С. Казаков, Cyril Herry, Daniel Jercog	2026	0
2	Dye‐Based Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles, New Promising Tools for Optogenetics (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2/2025) Advanced Healthcare Materials ·浩司沖村, Thomas Bienvenu, Carolin Laser, Jean‐Baptiste Verlhac, Zi-Qing Shao, Ana Paula Nunes Melo, Delphine Girard, Frédéric Lanore, Mireille Blanchard‐Desce, Cyril Herry, Jonathan Daniel, Cyril Déjean	2025	1
3	Dye‐Based Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles, New Promising Tools for Optogenetics Advanced Healthcare Materials ·浩司沖村, Thomas Bienvenu, Carolin Laser, Jean‐Baptiste Verlhac, Zi-Qing Shao, Ana Paula Nunes Melo, Delphine Girard, Frédéric Lanore, Mireille Blanchard‐Desce, Cyril Herry, Jonathan Daniel, Cyril Déjean	2024	0
4	Genetic labeling of embryonically-born dentate granule neurons in young mice using the PenkCre mouse line Scientific Reports ·David Danji, MJ Wilcox, Maddalena Balia, Мусина Мария Алексеевна, Edward E. Coleman, Cyril Herry, Djoher Nora Abrous, Arne Battefeld, Emilie Pacary	2024	1
5	Dopamine D2 receptors in WFS1-neurons regulate food-seeking and avoidance behaviors Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry ·Donghui Zhang, Mergulhao Filipe, Laura Cutando, Gary Beck, Emma Puighermanal, Yiloren Tanidir, Sadulla Nazarovich Meyliev, Daniel Jercog, Adel Mohammed Atef Mohammed Elaimy, F. Roulet, David Frase, Marcelo Rubinstein, Régis Nouvian, Cyril Rivat, B Antoine, Pierre Trifilieff, Giuseppe Gangarossa, Patricia H. Janak, Cyril Herry, Emmanuel Valjent	2023	4
6	Switch of serotonergic descending inhibition into facilitation by a spinal chloride imbalance in neuropathic pain Science Advances ·D. Pisello, Louis-Étienne Lorenzo, Zi-Qing Shao, Rabia Bouali‐Benazzouz, Hugo Martin, Haining Ruang, V.A. Butenko, Jarrod Moore, Ryoko Oka, Otmane Bouchatta, Philippe De Deurwaerdère, Antoine G. Godin, Cyril Herry, Xavier Fioramonti, Marc Landry, Yves De Koninck, Pascal Fossat	2022	17
7	Decoding defensive systems Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·Cyril Herry, Daniel Jercog	2022	5
8	The temporal origin of dentate granule neurons dictates their role in spatial memory Molecular Psychiatry ·Núria Masachs, Vanessa Charrier, 川上岩雄, Valérie Lemaire, Nicolas Blin, Wilfrid Mazier, Sophie Tronel, Marie‐Françoise Montaron, Shaoyu Ge, Giovanni Marsicano, Daniela Cota, Véronique Deroche‐Gamonet, Cyril Herry, Djoher Nora Abrous	2021	15
9	Central amygdala micro-circuits mediate fear extinction Nature Communications ·Nigel Whittle, Jonathan P. Fadok, Kathryn P. MacPherson, Robin Nguyen, Paolo Botta, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Christian Müller, Cyril Herry, Philip Tovote, Andrew Holmes, Nicolas Singewald, Andreas Lüthi, Stéphane Ciocchi	2021	49
10	The advent of fear conditioning as an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder: Learning from the past to shape the future of PTSD research Neuron ·Thomas Bienvenu, Cyril Déjean, Daniel Jercog, Bruno Aouizerate, Maël Lemoine, Cyril Herry	2021	52
11	Prefrontal-Periaqueductal Gray-Projecting Neurons Mediate Context Fear Discrimination Neuron ·Robert R. Rozeske, Daniel Jercog, Nikolaos Karalis, Fabrice Chaudun, Ar Cestari, Delphine Girard, 金建全, Cyril Herry	2018	100
12	Frequency of Cocaine Self-Administration Influences Drug Seeking in the Rat: Optogenetic Evidence for a Role of the Prelimbic Cortex Neuropsychopharmacology ·Elena Martín‐García, Julien Courtin, Plinio De Mattos Barretto, Michelle Soloff, Hélène Wurtz, Yu-Tsung Tai, Florian Levet, Cyril Herry, Véronique Deroche‐Gamonet	2014	45
13	Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons shape neuronal activity to drive fear expression Nature ·Julien Courtin, Fabrice Chaudun, Robert R. Rozeske, Nikolaos Karalis, Cecilia Gonzalez-Campo, Hélène Wurtz, Azzedine Abdi, Jérôme Baufreton, Thomas Bienvenu, Cyril Herry	2013	384
14	Context-Dependent Encoding of Fear and Extinction Memories in a Large-Scale Network Model of the Basal Amygdala PLoS Computational Biology ·Ioannis Vlachos, Cyril Herry, Andreas Lüthi, Ad Aertsen, Arvind Kumar	2011	40
15	Neuronal circuits of fear extinction European Journal of Neuroscience ·Cyril Herry, Francesco Ferraguti, Nicolas Singewald, Johannes J. Letzkus, Ingrid Ehrlich, Andreas Lüthi	2010	381
16	Impaired fear extinction in mice lacking protease nexin‐1 European Journal of Neuroscience ·Marita Meins, Cyril Herry, Christian D. Muller, Stéphane Ciocchi, Eliza Moreno, Andreas Lüthi, Denis Monard	2010	18
17	Erasing Fear Memories with Extinction Training: Figure 1. Journal of Neuroscience ·Gregory J. Quirk, Denis Paré, Rick Richardson, Cyril Herry, Marie‐H. Monfils, Daniela Schiller, Aleksandra Vicentic	2010	171
18	Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure Science ·Nadine Gogolla, Pico Caroni, Andreas Lüthi, Cyril Herry Hit paper breakdown →	2009	578
19	Generalization of amygdala LTP and conditioned fear in the absence of presynaptic inhibition Nature Neuroscience ·Hamdy Shaban, Yann Humeau, Cyril Herry, 吴金随, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Stéphane Ciocchi, Gülendam AMANAT, Herman van der Putten, Klemens Kaupmann, Bernhard Bettler, Andreas Lüthi	2006	163
20	Behavioral and paired-pulse facilitation analyses of long-lasting depression at excitatory synapses in the medial prefrontal cortex in mice Behavioural Brain Research ·Cyril Herry, René García	2003	33

About Cyril Herry

Cyril Herry is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, having authored 59 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (46 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (37 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (14 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (13 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (10 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (9 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (7 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Behavioral Neuroscience (2.1k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (6.1k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.4k citations), Biological Psychiatry (299 citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (401 citations). Cyril Herry has collaborated with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Andreas Lüthi, Stéphane Ciocchi, Ingrid Ehrlich, Johannes J. Letzkus, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Christian Müller, Julien Courtin, François Grenier, René García and Joshua P. Johansen. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Neuron, European Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience and Scientific Reports.

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