John B. Penney

22.7k citations

139 papers · 17.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 63

Impact in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.02%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Neurology top 0.05%
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Papers in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 116
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 77
- Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases 46
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior 13
Neurology 63
- Neurological disorders and treatments 59
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 24

Co-authors: Anne B. Young Roger L. Albin A. B. Young J. Timothy Greenamyre David G. Standaert Zane Hollingsworth G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer Constance J. D’Amato
Journals: Annals of Neurology (19 papers)Neurology (10 papers)Brain Research (9 papers)The Journal of Comparative Neurology (9 papers)Neuroscience (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

John B. Penney

138 papers receiving 16.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Inhibition of caspase-1 slows disease progression in a mouse model of Huntington's disease 1999 · 504 citations

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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.

1999 Nature
1997 Annals of Neurology
1989 Trends in Neurosciences

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1	Differential loss of striatal projection systems in Huntington’s disease: a quantitative immunohistochemical study Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy ·Y.P. Deng, Roger L. Albin, John B. Penney, A. B. Young, Karen E. Anderson, Alex P. Reiner	2004	164
2	Impact of sustained deprenyl (selegiline) in levodopa‐treated Parkinson's disease: A randomized placebo‐controlled extension of the deprenyl and tocopherol antioxidative therapy of parkinsonism trial Annals of Neurology ·Ira Shoulson, David Oakes, Stanley Fahn, Anthony E. Lang, J. William Langston, Peter A. LeWitt, C. Warren Olanow, John B. Penney, Caroline M. Tanner, Karl Kieburtz, Alice Rudolph, (unknown)	2002	200
3	Non-Microelectrode Guided Stereotactic Pallidotomy for Parkinson’s Disease: Surgical Technique and Results Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery ·Emad N. Eskandar, Leslie A. Shinobu, John B. Penney, Lady Katherine Galeano Sánchez	1999	5
4	Inhibition of caspase-1 slows disease progression in a mouse model of Huntington's disease Nature ·Victor Ona, Mingwei Li, Jean Paul Vonsattel, L. John Andrews, Sohail Q. Khan, N.A. Sklyarova, N Petrova -Phd, Anil Menon, Xiao‐Jiang Li, Philip E. Stieg, Junying Yuan, John B. Penney, Sumitra Woodhull, J. Jang‐Ho, Robert M. Friedlander Hit paper breakdown →	1999	504
5	Non-microelectrode Guided Pallidotomy for Parkinson's Disease: Analysis of 73 Cases Neurosurgery ·Emad N. Eskandar, Leslie A. Shinobu, Elisabeth Decker, John B. Penney, G. Rees Cosgrove	1997	1
6	Expression of NMDAR2D glutamate receptor subunit mRNA in neurochemically identified interneurons in the rat neostriatum, neocortex and hippocampus Molecular Brain Research ·David G. Standaert, G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Julie A. Kerner, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1996	146
7	Metabotropic receptors in excitotoxicity: (S)-4-carboxy-3-hydroxyphenylglycine ((S)-4C3HPG) protects against rat striatal quinolinic acid lesions Neuroscience Letters ·Lianna Orlando, David G. Standaert, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1995	41
8	IT15 gene expression in fetal human brain Brain Research ·Leon Dure, G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Jeffrey A. Golden, Sandra McNeil, Pei Ge, Hitoshi Aizawa, Qin Huang, Christine Ambrose, Mabel P. Duyao, Edward D. Bird, Marian DiFiglia, James F. Gusella, Marcy E. MacDonald, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young, Jean‐Paul Vonsattel	1994	19
9	Autoradiographic evidence for increased dopamine uptake sites in striatum of hypoxic mice Neuroscience Letters ·Alberto Arregui, Zane Hollingsworth, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1994	13
10	Regionally Distinct N‐Methyl‐D‐Aspartate Receptors Distinguished by Quantitative Autoradiography of [³H]MK‐801 Binding in Rat Brain Journal of Neurochemistry ·Sharin Y. Sakurai, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1993	69
11	Glutamate Receptor Binding Sites in MPTP-Treated Mice Experimental Neurology ·Ullrich Wüllner, Emmanuel Brouillet, Ole Isacson, A. B. Young, John B. Penney	1993	25
12	Evidence for a projection from the globus pallidus to the entopeduncular nucleus in the rat Neuroscience Letters ·Anthony E. Kincaid, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young, Sarah Winans Newman	1991	55
13	The globus pallidus receives a projection from the parafascicular nucleus in the rat Brain Research ·Anthony E. Kincaid, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young, Sarah Winans Newman	1991	55
14	Preproenkephalin messenger RNA—containing neurons in striatum of patients with symptomatic and presymptomatic huntington's disease: An in situ hybridization study Annals of Neurology ·Roger L. Albin, Ying Qin, Anne B. Young, John B. Penney, Marie‐Françoise Chesselet	1991	54
15	Abnormalities of Striatal Projection Neurons andN-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors in Presymptomatic Huntington's Disease New England Journal of Medicine ·Roger L. Albin, Anne B. Young, John B. Penney, Barbara Handelin, Rosemary Balfour, Karen E. Anderson, Dorene S. Markel, Wallace W. Tourtellotte, Anton Reiner	1990	192
16	Striatal and nigral neuron subpopulations in rigid Huntington's disease: Implications for the functional anatomy of chorea and rigidity‐akinesia Annals of Neurology ·Roger L. Albin, Anton Reiner, Karen E. Anderson, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1990	231
17	Chorea and dystonia: A remote effect of carcinoma Movement Disorders ·Roger L. Albin, Mark B. Bromberg, John B. Penney, Robert H. Knapp	1988	32
18	Quantitative autoradiography of hippocampal GABAB and GABAA receptor changes in Alzheimer's disease Neuroscience Letters ·Dorothy C.M. Chu, John B. Penney, Anne B. Young	1987	57
19	Striatal inhomogeneities and basal ganglia function Movement Disorders ·John B. Penney, C. Rey	1986	254
20	Autoradiographic characterization of N-methyl-D-aspartate-, quisqualate- and kainate-sensitive glutamate binding sites. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ·J. Timothy Greenamyre, James M. Olson, John B. Penney, A. B. Young	1985	341

About John B. Penney

John B. Penney is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Neurology, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience, having authored 139 papers that have together received 17.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (77 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (59 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (46 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (24 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (23 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (16 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (13 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (13.4k citations), Neurology (7.7k citations), Neurology (1.2k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (2.6k citations) and Developmental Neuroscience (466 citations). John B. Penney has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Anne B. Young, Roger L. Albin, A. B. Young, J. Timothy Greenamyre, David G. Standaert, Zane Hollingsworth, G. Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Constance J. D’Amato, Dorothy C.M. Chu and Ira Shoulson. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Brain Research, The Journal of Comparative Neurology and Neuroscience.

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