Joseph E. LeDoux

98.0k total citations · 37 hit papers
399 papers, 70.9k citations indexed

About

Joseph E. LeDoux is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph E. LeDoux has authored 399 papers receiving a total of 70.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 289 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 176 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 127 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Joseph E. LeDoux's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (252 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (165 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (127 papers). Joseph E. LeDoux is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (252 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (165 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (127 papers). Joseph E. LeDoux collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Joseph E. LeDoux's co-authors include Russell G. Phillips, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Glenn E. Schafe, Karim Nader, Lizabeth M. Romanski, Gregory J. Quirk, Jacek Dębiec, Maria A. Morgan, Marie‐H. Monfils and Sarina M. Rodrigues and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joseph E. LeDoux

394 papers receiving 68.0k citations

Hit Papers

Emotion Circuits in the B... 1978 2026 1994 2010 2000 1992 1996 1992 2005 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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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.

  1. Emotion Circuits in the Brain
    2000 6.1k citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  2. Differential contribution of amygdala and hippocampus to cued and contextual fear conditioning.
    1992 2.5k citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  3. The Emotional Brain
    1996 2.5k citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  4. Differential contribution of amygdala and hippocampus to cued and contextual fear conditioning.
    1992 2.3k citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  5. Contributions of the Amygdala to Emotion Processing: From Animal Models to Human Behavior
    2005 2.3k citations Elizabeth A. Phelps, Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  6. The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
    2004 2.2k citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  7. Extinction Learning in Humans
    2004 1.4k citations Elizabeth A. Phelps, Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  8. The Emotional Brain, Fear, and the Amygdala
    2003 1.3k citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  9. Emotion: Clues from the Brain
    1995 1.2k citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  10. Human Amygdala Activation during Conditioned Fear Acquisition and Extinction: a Mixed-Trial fMRI Study
    1998 1.1k citations Joseph E. LeDoux, Elizabeth A. Phelps et al. profile →
  11. Rethinking the Emotional Brain
    2012 1000 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  12. Fear conditioning induces associative long-term potentiation in the amygdala
    1997 992 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  13. The amygdala
    2007 980 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  14. Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms
    2009 908 citations Marie‐H. Monfils, Candace M. Raio et al. profile →
  15. Structural plasticity and memory
    2004 740 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  16. Why We Think Plasticity Underlying Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Occurs in the Basolateral Amygdala
    1999 733 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  17. Extinction-Reconsolidation Boundaries: Key to Persistent Attenuation of Fear Memories
    2009 708 citations Marie‐H. Monfils, Kiriana K. Cowansage et al. Science profile →
  18. Extinction of emotional learning: Contribution of medial prefrontal cortex
    1993 706 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  19. New Vistas on Amygdala Networks in Conditioned Fear
    2004 655 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  20. Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are
    2002 654 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  21. Emotional memory systems in the brain
    1993 621 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  22. Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework
    2016 616 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  23. Fear conditioning enhances short-latency auditory responses of lateral amygdala neurons: Parallel recordings in the freely behaving rat
    1995 606 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  24. Fear and the brain: where have we been, and where are we going?
    1998 596 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  25. Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning
    2005 592 citations Simon Rumpel, Joseph E. LeDoux et al. Science profile →
  26. Coming to terms with fear
    2014 579 citations Joseph E. LeDoux Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  27. Differential contribution of dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal cortex to the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear in rats.
    1995 572 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  28. Cellular and Systems Reconsolidation in the Hippocampus
    2002 558 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  29. Activation of ERK/MAP Kinase in the Amygdala Is Required for Memory Consolidation of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning
    2000 558 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  30. Emotion, Memory and the Brain
    1994 542 citations Joseph E. LeDoux profile →
  31. Response Variation following Trauma: A Translational Neuroscience Approach to Understanding PTSD
    2007 526 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  32. Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction
    2008 522 citations Joseph E. LeDoux, Elizabeth A. Phelps et al. profile →
  33. Repeated restraint stress facilitates fear conditioning independently of causing hippocampal CA3 dendritic atrophy.
    1999 514 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  34. The Integrated Mind
    1978 379 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  35. A higher-order theory of emotional consciousness
    2017 354 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  36. Surviving threats: neural circuit and computational implications of a new taxonomy of defensive behaviour
    2018 243 citations Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →
  37. Understanding the Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
    2019 242 citations Hakwan Lau, Joseph E. LeDoux et al. profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Joseph E. LeDoux 45.9k 29.5k 18.2k 15.5k 9.3k 399 70.9k
James L. McGaugh 26.2k 0.6× 20.9k 0.7× 13.3k 0.7× 9.2k 0.6× 2.3k 0.2× 385 43.6k
Eric J. Nestler 15.0k 0.3× 47.0k 1.6× 16.2k 0.9× 11.0k 0.7× 3.3k 0.4× 667 92.0k
Trevor W. Robbins 74.4k 1.6× 60.6k 2.1× 10.7k 0.6× 14.6k 0.9× 17.0k 1.8× 1.1k 140.3k
Daniel R. Weinberger 33.9k 0.7× 22.7k 0.8× 4.5k 0.2× 5.8k 0.4× 8.1k 0.9× 719 83.1k
Larry R. Squire 44.9k 1.0× 19.8k 0.7× 3.3k 0.2× 5.3k 0.3× 4.5k 0.5× 432 60.3k
Raymond J. Dolan 80.7k 1.8× 13.4k 0.5× 5.0k 0.3× 16.7k 1.1× 25.5k 2.7× 829 113.0k
Scott L. Rauch 26.4k 0.6× 6.7k 0.2× 6.5k 0.4× 5.1k 0.3× 11.5k 1.2× 348 46.6k
Steven F. Maier 6.5k 0.1× 15.4k 0.5× 14.7k 0.8× 7.2k 0.5× 2.2k 0.2× 524 53.0k
Edmund T. Rolls 43.5k 0.9× 15.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.1× 5.7k 0.4× 9.4k 1.0× 573 64.4k
Kerry J. Ressler 8.4k 0.2× 9.7k 0.3× 9.8k 0.5× 5.5k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 444 35.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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LeDoux, Joseph E.. (2025). What the functions of consciousness are depends on what one thinks consciousness is. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1939). 20240311–20240311. 1 indexed citations
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Wen, Zhenfu, Edward F. Pace‐Schott, Sara W. Lazar, et al.. (2024). Distributed neural representations of conditioned threat in the human brain. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2231–2231. 12 indexed citations
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Hofmann, Stefan G., et al.. (2023). A generative adversarial model of intrusive imagery in the human brain. PNAS Nexus. 2(1). pgac265–pgac265. 6 indexed citations
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LeDoux, Joseph E.. (2023). Deep history and beyond: a reply to commentators. Philosophical Psychology. 36(4). 756–766. 4 indexed citations
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LeDoux, Joseph E.. (2023). The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. Philosophical Psychology. 36(4). 704–715. 26 indexed citations
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LeDoux, Joseph E.. (2022). Review of The hidden spring: A journey to the source of consciousness.. Psychoanalytic Psychology. 39(1). 89–91. 2 indexed citations
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Wen, Zhenfu, Candace M. Raio, Edward F. Pace‐Schott, et al.. (2022). Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(26). e2204066119–e2204066119. 35 indexed citations
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Kuntz, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Human threat learning is associated with gut microbiota composition. PNAS Nexus. 1(5). pgac271–pgac271. 3 indexed citations
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Taschereau‐Dumouchel, Vincent, Matthias Michel, Hakwan Lau, Stefan G. Hofmann, & Joseph E. LeDoux. (2022). Putting the “mental” back in “mental disorders”: a perspective from research on fear and anxiety. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(3). 1322–1330. 94 indexed citations
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Cowansage, Kiriana K., et al.. (2021). Upregulation of eIF4E, but not other translation initiation factors, in dendritic spines during memory formation. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 529(11). 3112–3126. 11 indexed citations
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LeDoux, Joseph E.. (2021). As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1844). 20210292–20210292. 47 indexed citations
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Campese, Vincent D., et al.. (2020). Motivational factors underlying aversive Pavlovian-instrumental transfer. Learning & Memory. 27(11). 477–482. 3 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Prerana, Pinar Ayata, Francesco Longo, et al.. (2020). Cell-type-specific drug-inducible protein synthesis inhibition demonstrates that memory consolidation requires rapid neuronal translation. Nature Neuroscience. 23(2). 281–292. 42 indexed citations
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Ostroff, Linnaea, Emanuela Santini, Robert M. Sears, et al.. (2019). Axon TRAP reveals learning-associated alterations in cortical axonal mRNAs in the lateral amygdala. eLife. 8. 44 indexed citations
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Campese, Vincent D., et al.. (2019). Chemogenetic Inhibition Reveals That Processing Relative But Not Absolute Threat Requires Basal Amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(43). 8510–8516. 6 indexed citations
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Campese, Vincent D., et al.. (2017). Noradrenergic Regulation of Central Amygdala in Aversive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer. eNeuro. 4(5). ENEURO.0224–17.2017. 19 indexed citations
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Cowansage, Kiriana K., David E. Bush, Sheena A. Josselyn, Eric Klann, & Joseph E. LeDoux. (2013). Basal variability in CREB phosphorylation predicts trait-like differences in amygdala-dependent memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(41). 16645–16650. 20 indexed citations
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LeDoux, Joseph E., et al.. (2009). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Humana Press eBooks. 46 indexed citations
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Monfils, Marie‐H., Kiriana K. Cowansage, Eric Klann, & Joseph E. LeDoux. (2009). Extinction-Reconsolidation Boundaries: Key to Persistent Attenuation of Fear Memories. Science. 324(5929). 951–955. 708 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rumpel, Simon, Joseph E. LeDoux, Anthony M. Zador, & Roberto Malinow. (2005). Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning. Science. 308(5718). 83–88. 592 indexed citations breakdown →

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