Jocelyn M. Richard

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

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Jocelyn M. Richard is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jocelyn M. Richard has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 19 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jocelyn M. Richard's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (23 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers). Jocelyn M. Richard is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (23 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (12 papers). Jocelyn M. Richard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Jocelyn M. Richard's co-authors include Kent Berridge, Alexandra G. DiFeliceantonio, Patricia H. Janak, Elyssa B. Margolis, Benjamin T. Saunders, Alexis Faure, David J. Ottenheimer, Howard L. Fields, Sheila M. Reynolds and Anita Rackham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Jocelyn M. Richard

30 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

The tempted brain eats: Pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders

2010 591 citations Kent Berridge, Jocelyn M. Richard et al. Brain Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jocelyn M. Richard United States	21	1.3k	918	652	388	376	31	2.4k
Johannes W. de Jong Netherlands	21	991 0.8×	589 0.6×	501 0.8×	397 1.0×	345 0.9×	27	1.9k
László Lénárd Hungary	26	1.2k 0.9×	636 0.7×	621 1.0×	285 0.7×	675 1.8×	141	2.9k
Carrie R. Ferrario United States	28	1.4k 1.1×	481 0.5×	661 1.0×	302 0.8×	571 1.5×	58	2.4k
Wayne E. Pratt United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	750 0.8×	407 0.6×	334 0.9×	848 2.3×	39	2.1k
Susana Peciña United States	17	1.4k 1.0×	915 1.0×	456 0.7×	405 1.0×	656 1.7×	22	2.6k
Kyle S. Smith United States	22	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	549 0.8×	463 1.2×	507 1.3×	40	3.4k
Evelyn K. Lambe Canada	33	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	463 1.2×	298 0.8×	65	3.3k
Stephen V. Mahler United States	30	1.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	612 0.9×	244 0.6×	697 1.9×	52	3.0k
Miriam Schneider Germany	32	1.5k 1.1×	552 0.6×	474 0.7×	386 1.0×	324 0.9×	72	3.6k
Daina Economidou Italy	29	2.5k 1.9×	1.0k 1.1×	1.0k 1.6×	332 0.9×	376 1.0×	34	3.2k

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Lemos, Julia C., et al.. (2025). Ventral Pallidal GABAergic Neurons Drive Consumption in Male, But Not Female, Rats. eNeuro. 12(2). ENEURO.0245–24.2025.

Richard, Jocelyn M., et al.. (2024). Ventral pallidum neurons projecting to the ventral tegmental area reinforce but do not invigorate reward-seeking behavior. Cell Reports. 43(1). 113669–113669. 3 indexed citations

Richard, Jocelyn M., et al.. (2023). Ventral Pallidal GABAergic Neuron Calcium Activity Encodes Cue-Driven Reward Seeking and Persists in the Absence of Reward Delivery. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(28). 5191–5203. 5 indexed citations

Richard, Jocelyn M., et al.. (2023). Sex-biased effects of outcome devaluation by sensory-specific satiety on Pavlovian-conditioned behavior. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 17. 1259003–1259003. 1 indexed citations

Richard, Jocelyn M., et al.. (2022). Reinstatement of Pavlovian responses to alcohol cues by stress. Psychopharmacology. 240(3). 531–545. 4 indexed citations

Richard, Jocelyn M., et al.. (2022). Alcohol availability during withdrawal gates the impact of alcohol vapor exposure on responses to alcohol cues. Psychopharmacology. 239(10). 3103–3116. 1 indexed citations

Ottenheimer, David J., Bilal A. Bari, Elissa Sutlief, et al.. (2020). A quantitative reward prediction error signal in the ventral pallidum. Nature Neuroscience. 23(10). 1267–1276. 58 indexed citations

Ottenheimer, David J., et al.. (2019). Recruitment and disruption of ventral pallidal cue encoding during alcohol seeking. European Journal of Neuroscience. 50(9). 3428–3444. 8 indexed citations

Ottenheimer, David J., Jocelyn M. Richard, & Patricia H. Janak. (2018). Ventral pallidum encodes relative reward value earlier and more robustly than nucleus accumbens. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4350–4350. 77 indexed citations

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Saunders, Benjamin T., Jocelyn M. Richard, Elyssa B. Margolis, & Patricia H. Janak. (2018). Dopamine neurons create Pavlovian conditioned stimuli with circuit-defined motivational properties. Nature Neuroscience. 21(8). 1072–1083. 235 indexed citations

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Richard, Jocelyn M. & Howard L. Fields. (2016). Mu-opioid receptor activation in the medial shell of nucleus accumbens promotes alcohol consumption, self-administration and cue-induced reinstatement. Neuropharmacology. 108. 14–23. 27 indexed citations

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Richard, Jocelyn M., Frédéric Ambroggi, Patricia H. Janak, & Howard L. Fields. (2016). Ventral Pallidum Neurons Encode Incentive Value and Promote Cue-Elicited Instrumental Actions. Neuron. 90(6). 1165–1173. 89 indexed citations

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Richard, Jocelyn M., Daniel C. Castro, Alexandra G. DiFeliceantonio, Mike J.F. Robinson, & Kent Berridge. (2012). Mapping brain circuits of reward and motivation: In the footsteps of Ann Kelley. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 37(9). 1919–1931. 132 indexed citations

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Richard, Jocelyn M. & Kent Berridge. (2012). Prefrontal Cortex Modulates Desire and Dread Generated by Nucleus Accumbens Glutamate Disruption. Biological Psychiatry. 73(4). 360–370. 63 indexed citations

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Richard, Jocelyn M. & Kent Berridge. (2011). Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine/Glutamate Interaction Switches Modes to Generate Desire versus Dread: D₁Alone for Appetitive Eating But D₁and D₂Together for Fear. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(36). 12866–12879. 111 indexed citations

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Faure, Alexis, Jocelyn M. Richard, & Kent Berridge. (2010). Desire and Dread from the Nucleus Accumbens: Cortical Glutamate and Subcortical GABA Differentially Generate Motivation and Hedonic Impact in the Rat. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11223–e11223. 82 indexed citations

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Berridge, Kent, et al.. (2010). The tempted brain eats: Pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. Brain Research. 1350. 43–64. 591 indexed citations breakdown →

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Richard, Jocelyn M. & Kent Berridge. (2010). Metabotropic glutamate receptor blockade in nucleus accumbens shell shifts affective valence towards fear and disgust. European Journal of Neuroscience. 33(4). 736–747. 32 indexed citations

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Quirion, R., Jocelyn M. Richard, & T Dam. (1985). Evidence for the existence of serotonin type-2 receptors on cholinergic terminals in rat cortex. Brain Research. 333(2). 345–349. 75 indexed citations

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Wood, Paul L. & Jocelyn M. Richard. (1982). Gabaergic regulation of the substantia innominata-cortical cholinergic pathway. Neuropharmacology. 21(10). 969–972. 54 indexed citations

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