Ian Maze

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ian Maze is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Maze has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ian Maze's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (30 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (16 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (10 papers). Ian Maze is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (30 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (16 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (10 papers). Ian Maze collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Ian Maze's co-authors include Eric J. Nestler, Herbert E. Covington, William Renthal, Quincey LaPlant, Rachael L. Neve, Scott J. Russo, Vincent Vialou, Li Shen, C. David Allis and Kyung‐Min Noh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ian Maze

55 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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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.

Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression

2015 363 citations Rosemary C. Bagot, Eric M. Parise et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Maze United States	31	3.3k	1.8k	1.1k	853	834	56	5.6k
Quincey LaPlant United States	23	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	744 0.7×	824 1.0×	720 0.9×	31	4.7k
Nadia M. Tsankova United States	7	2.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	1.2k 1.4×	10	5.6k
Keri Martinowich United States	35	3.2k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	972 1.2×	78	8.4k
Alfred J. Robison United States	37	2.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	575 0.5×	939 1.1×	747 0.9×	81	5.1k
Colin A. Hodgkinson United States	49	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	522 0.6×	339 0.4×	130	7.7k
Arvind Kumar India	34	4.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	107	8.4k
Cathy Fernandes United Kingdom	40	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	864 0.8×	790 0.9×	438 0.5×	106	4.6k
Miklós Tóth United States	39	2.5k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	986 0.9×	815 1.0×	586 0.7×	113	6.3k
Gorazd Rosoklija United States	36	1.9k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	791 0.7×	819 1.0×	993 1.2×	82	6.9k
Johannes Gräff Switzerland	27	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	546 0.6×	369 0.4×	66	5.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Maze, Ian, et al.. (2025). Elucidating neuroepigenetic mechanisms to inform targeted therapeutics for brain disorders. iScience. 28(3). 112092–112092. 1 indexed citations

Chan, Jennifer C, Natália Alenina, Ashley M. Cunningham, et al.. (2024). Serotonin Transporter-dependent Histone Serotonylation in Placenta Contributes to the Neurodevelopmental Transcriptome. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(7). 168454–168454. 12 indexed citations

Salvo, G., Sasha L. Fulton, Jennifer C Chan, et al.. (2024). Histone serotonylation in dorsal raphe nucleus contributes to stress- and antidepressant-mediated gene expression and behavior. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5042–5042. 16 indexed citations

Mitra, Swarup, Craig Werner, Ana García López, et al.. (2024). A Novel Role for the Histone Demethylase JMJD3 in Mediating Heroin-Induced Relapse-Like Behaviors. Biological Psychiatry. 97(6). 602–613. 2 indexed citations

Maze, Ian, et al.. (2023). Post-translational modifications of histone proteins by monoamine neurotransmitters. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 74. 102302–102302. 13 indexed citations

Farrelly, Lorna A., Nadine Schrode, Aaron Topol, et al.. (2022). Chromatin profiling in human neurons reveals aberrant roles for histone acetylation and BET family proteins in schizophrenia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2195–2195. 22 indexed citations

Fulton, Sasha L., Swarup Mitra, Ashley E. Lepack, et al.. (2022). Histone H3 dopaminylation in ventral tegmental area underlies heroin-induced transcriptional and behavioral plasticity in male rats. Neuropsychopharmacology. 47(10). 1776–1783. 22 indexed citations

Siddiq, Mustafa M., Sari S. Hannila, Elena Nikulina, et al.. (2021). Extracellular histones, a new class of inhibitory molecules of CNS axonal regeneration. Brain Communications. 3(4). fcab271–fcab271. 5 indexed citations

Zhao, Shuai, Kelly N. Chuh, Baichao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Histone H3Q5 serotonylation stabilizes H3K4 methylation and potentiates its readout. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 44 indexed citations

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Stewart, Andrew F., Sasha L. Fulton, & Ian Maze. (2020). Epigenetics of Drug Addiction. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 11(7). a040253–a040253. 25 indexed citations

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Werner, Craig, Swarup Mitra, Jennifer A. Martin, et al.. (2019). Ubiquitin-proteasomal regulation of chromatin remodeler INO80 in the nucleus accumbens mediates persistent cocaine craving. Science Advances. 5(10). eaay0351–eaay0351. 24 indexed citations

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Bastle, Ryan M. & Ian Maze. (2018). Chromatin regulation in complex brain disorders. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 25. 57–65. 18 indexed citations

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Wenderski, Wendy & Ian Maze. (2016). Histone turnover and chromatin accessibility: Critical mediators of neurological development, plasticity, and disease. BioEssays. 38(5). 410–419. 19 indexed citations

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Bagot, Rosemary C., Eric M. Parise, Catherine J. Peña, et al.. (2015). Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7062–7062. 363 indexed citations breakdown →

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Covington, Herbert E., Ian Maze, Vincent Vialou, & Eric J. Nestler. (2015). Antidepressant action of HDAC inhibition in the prefrontal cortex. Neuroscience. 298. 329–335. 64 indexed citations

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Noh, Kyung‐Min, Ian Maze, Dan Zhao, et al.. (2014). ATRX tolerates activity-dependent histone H3 methyl/phos switching to maintain repetitive element silencing in neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(22). 6820–6827. 43 indexed citations

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Dietz, David, Pamela Kennedy, HaoSheng Sun, et al.. (2013). ΔFosB Induction in Prefrontal Cortex by Antipsychotic Drugs is Associated with Negative Behavioral Outcomes. Neuropsychopharmacology. 39(3). 538–544. 14 indexed citations

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Covington, Herbert E., Ian Maze, HaoSheng Sun, et al.. (2011). A Role for Repressive Histone Methylation in Cocaine-Induced Vulnerability to Stress. Neuron. 71(4). 656–670. 228 indexed citations

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Maze, Ian & Scott J. Russo. (2010). Transcriptional Mechanisms Underlying Addiction-Related Structural Plasticity. Molecular Interventions. 10(4). 219–230. 21 indexed citations

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Renthal, William, Arvind Kumar, Guanghua Xiao, et al.. (2009). Genome-wide Analysis of Chromatin Regulation by Cocaine Reveals a Role for Sirtuins. Neuron. 62(3). 335–348. 300 indexed citations

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