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 Canada. 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 Brain 1978 2026 1994 2010 2000 1992 1996 1992 2005 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
What are hit papers?

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. 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 →
  29. Cellular and Systems Reconsolidation in the Hippocampus
    2002 558 citations Jacek Dębiec, Joseph E. LeDoux et al. 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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Joseph E. LeDoux
Comparison fields: 5 of 215
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 45.9k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 29.5k
  • Behavioral Neuroscience 18.2k
  • Social Psychology 15.5k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 9.3k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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What the functions of consciousness are depends on what one thinks consciousness is
2025 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Joseph E. LeDoux
1
2
Distributed neural representations of conditioned threat in the human brain
2024 ·Nature Communications ·Zhenfu Wen, Edward F. Pace‐Schott, Sara W. Lazar, Jörgen Rosén, Fredrik Åhs, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Joseph E. LeDoux, Mohammed R. Milad
12
3
A generative adversarial model of intrusive imagery in the human brain
2023 ·PNAS Nexus ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefan G. Hofmann, Hakwan Lau, Joseph E. LeDoux, Vincent Taschereau‐Dumouchel
6
4
Deep history and beyond: a reply to commentators
2023 ·Philosophical Psychology ·Joseph E. LeDoux
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5
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
2023 ·Philosophical Psychology ·Joseph E. LeDoux
26
6
Human threat learning is associated with gut microbiota composition
2022 ·PNAS Nexus ·(unknown), Thomas Kuntz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bridget Callaghan, Curtis Huttenhower, Joseph E. LeDoux, Elizabeth A. Phelps
3
7
Review of The hidden spring: A journey to the source of consciousness.
2022 ·Psychoanalytic Psychology ·Joseph E. LeDoux
2
8
Temporally and anatomically specific contributions of the human amygdala to threat and safety learning
2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Zhenfu Wen, Candace M. Raio, Edward F. Pace‐Schott, Sara W. Lazar, Joseph E. LeDoux, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Mohammed R. Milad
35
9
Putting the “mental” back in “mental disorders”: a perspective from research on fear and anxiety
2022 ·Molecular Psychiatry ·Vincent Taschereau‐Dumouchel, Matthias Michel, Hakwan Lau, Stefan G. Hofmann, Joseph E. LeDoux
94
10
As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness
2021 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Joseph E. LeDoux
47
11
Upregulation of eIF4E, but not other translation initiation factors, in dendritic spines during memory formation
2021 ·The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·(unknown), (unknown), Kiriana K. Cowansage, Joseph E. LeDoux, Eric Klann, Charles A. Hoeffer, Linnaea Ostroff
11
12
Motivational factors underlying aversive Pavlovian-instrumental transfer
2020 ·Learning & Memory ·Vincent D. Campese, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Joseph E. LeDoux
3
13
Noradrenergic Regulation of Central Amygdala in Aversive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer
2017 ·eNeuro ·Vincent D. Campese, (unknown), Elena M. Vazey, Gary Aston‐Jones, Joseph E. LeDoux, Robert M. Sears
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Active Avoidance: Neural Mechanisms and Attenuation of Pavlovian Conditioned Responding
2017 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Emily A. Boeke, Justin M. Moscarello, Joseph E. LeDoux, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Catherine A. Hartley
84
15
Basal variability in CREB phosphorylation predicts trait-like differences in amygdala-dependent memory
2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kiriana K. Cowansage, David E. Bush, Sheena A. Josselyn, Eric Klann, Joseph E. LeDoux
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Endogenous GluR1‐containing AMPA receptors translocate to asymmetric synapses in the lateral amygdala during the early phase of fear memory formation: An electron microscopic immunocytochemical study
2010 ·The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·(unknown), (unknown), Gabriel Lázaro‐Muñoz, (unknown), Christopher K. Cain, Joseph E. LeDoux, Chiye Aoki
33
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Extinction-Reconsolidation Boundaries: Key to Persistent Attenuation of Fear Memories breakdown →
2009 ·Science ·Marie‐H. Monfils, Kiriana K. Cowansage, Eric Klann, Joseph E. LeDoux
708
18
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
2009 ·Humana Press eBooks ·Joseph E. LeDoux, Terence M. Keane, (unknown)
46
19
Postsynaptic Receptor Trafficking Underlying a Form of Associative Learning breakdown →
2005 ·Science ·Simon Rumpel, Joseph E. LeDoux, Anthony M. Zador, Roberto Malinow
592
20
The self : from soul to brain
2003 ·New York Academy of Sciences eBooks ·Joseph E. LeDoux, Jacek Dębiec, Henry B. Moss
15

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