Joshua D. Berke

9.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
57 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Joshua D. Berke is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua D. Berke has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 41 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Joshua D. Berke's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (32 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (16 papers). Joshua D. Berke is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (32 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (27 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (16 papers). Joshua D. Berke collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Joshua D. Berke's co-authors include Steven E. Hyman, Howard Eichenbaum, Robert Schmidt, Jeffrey R. Pettibone, Anatol C. Kreitzer, Arif Hamid, Robert T. Kennedy, Vaughn L. Hetrick, Murat Okatan and Ali Mohebi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joshua D. Berke

56 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Acute Effects of Cocaine on Human Brain Activity and Emotion

1997 946 citations Randy L. Gollub, Robert M. Weisskoff et al. profile →
Addiction, Dopamine, and the Molecular Mechanisms of Memory

2000 943 citations Joshua D. Berke, Steven E. Hyman profile →
What does dopamine mean?

2018 586 citations Joshua D. Berke Nature Neuroscience profile →
Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work

2015 526 citations Jeffrey R. Pettibone, Joshua D. Berke et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation

2019 438 citations Ali Mohebi, Jeffrey R. Pettibone et al. Nature profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua D. Berke United States	30	4.4k	3.3k	1.8k	887	401	57	6.5k
Henry H. Yin United States	39	5.2k 1.2×	4.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	820 2.0×	89	8.2k
Charles D. Blaha United States	53	5.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	2.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	648 1.6×	165	7.7k
Linda J. Porrino United States	47	5.1k 1.2×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	636 0.7×	398 1.0×	145	8.0k
Vikaas S. Sohal United States	38	5.4k 1.2×	5.0k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	349 0.4×	597 1.5×	88	8.7k
Ilana B. Witten United States	28	3.6k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	318 0.4×	582 1.5×	50	5.7k
Mark A. Ungless United Kingdom	29	4.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	323 0.4×	517 1.3×	51	5.6k
Jeffery R. Wickens New Zealand	41	4.1k 0.9×	3.9k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	331 0.8×	109	6.6k
Scott M. Thompson United States	54	6.2k 1.4×	2.7k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	460 0.5×	399 1.0×	117	9.3k
Joshua T. Dudman United States	30	2.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	345 0.4×	288 0.7×	44	4.5k
François Gonon France	46	5.9k 1.3×	1.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	310 0.8×	130	8.6k

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Poddar, Aunoy, Miguel Turrero Garcίa, Sean de la O, et al.. (2025). Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons. Nature. 647(8088). 187–193.

Mohebi, Ali, et al.. (2024). A mismatch between striatal cholinergic pauses and dopaminergic reward prediction errors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(41). e2410828121–e2410828121. 10 indexed citations

Farries, Michael A., Thomas W. Faust, Ali Mohebi, & Joshua D. Berke. (2023). Selective encoding of reward predictions and prediction errors by globus pallidus subpopulations. Current Biology. 33(19). 4124–4135.e5. 11 indexed citations

Mohebi, Ali, et al.. (2023). Accumbens cholinergic interneurons dynamically promote dopamine release and enable motivation. eLife. 12. 33 indexed citations

Gu, Bon-Mi & Joshua D. Berke. (2022). Altered basal ganglia output during self-restraint. eLife. 11. 3 indexed citations

Berke, Joshua D., et al.. (2020). The Degree of Nesting between Spindles and Slow Oscillations Modulates Neural Synchrony. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(24). 4673–4684. 17 indexed citations

Patriarchi, Tommaso, Ali Mohebi, Junqing Sun, et al.. (2020). An expanded palette of dopamine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo. Nature Methods. 17(11). 1147–1155. 127 indexed citations

Pettibone, Jeffrey R., Paras R. Patel, Dawen Cai, et al.. (2020). Cellular-scale silicon probes for high-density, precisely localized neurophysiology. Journal of Neurophysiology. 124(6). 1578–1587. 14 indexed citations

Patel, Paras R., Elissa Welle, Jeffrey R. Pettibone, et al.. (2020). High density carbon fiber arrays for chronic electrophysiology, fast scan cyclic voltammetry, and correlative anatomy. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(5). 56029–56029. 36 indexed citations

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Pettibone, Jeffrey R., Jai Y. Yu, Thomas W. Faust, et al.. (2019). Knock-In Rat Lines with Cre Recombinase at the Dopamine D1 and Adenosine 2a Receptor Loci. eNeuro. 6(5). ENEURO.0163–19.2019. 20 indexed citations

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Mohebi, Ali & Joshua D. Berke. (2019). Dopamine release drives motivation, independently from dopamine cell firing. Neuropsychopharmacology. 45(1). 220–220. 8 indexed citations

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Owen, Scott F., Joshua D. Berke, & Anatol C. Kreitzer. (2018). Fast-Spiking Interneurons Supply Feedforward Control of Bursting, Calcium, and Plasticity for Efficient Learning. Cell. 172(4). 683–695.e15. 99 indexed citations

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Berke, Joshua D.. (2018). What does dopamine mean?. Nature Neuroscience. 21(6). 787–793. 586 indexed citations breakdown →

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Angulo‐García, David, Joshua D. Berke, & Alessandro Torcini. (2016). Cell Assembly Dynamics of Sparsely-Connected Inhibitory Networks: A Simple Model for the Collective Activity of Striatal Projection Neurons. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(2). e1004778–e1004778. 16 indexed citations

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Freeze, Benjamin, et al.. (2013). Control of Basal Ganglia Output by Direct and Indirect Pathway Projection Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(47). 18531–18539. 266 indexed citations

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Klaus, Andreas, Henrike Planert, J. J. Johannes Hjorth, et al.. (2011). Striatal Fast-Spiking Interneurons: From Firing Patterns to Postsynaptic Impact. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 5. 57–57. 25 indexed citations

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Stoetzner, Colin R., Jeffrey R. Pettibone, & Joshua D. Berke. (2009). State-dependent plasticity of the corticostriatal pathway. Neuroscience. 165(4). 1013–1018. 14 indexed citations

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Wiltschko, Alexander B., Gregory J. Gage, & Joshua D. Berke. (2008). Wavelet filtering before spike detection preserves waveform shape and enhances single-unit discrimination. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 173(1). 34–40. 67 indexed citations

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Karlsgodt, Katherine H., Randy L. Gollub, Robert M. Weisskoff, et al.. (1996). Activation of human brain reward circuitry by cocaine observed using FMRI. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 22. 1933. 5 indexed citations

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Hasselmo, Michael E., Eric Schnell, Joshua D. Berke, & Edi Barkai. (1994). A model of the hippocampus combining self-organization and associative memory function. Neural Information Processing Systems. 7. 77–84. 8 indexed citations

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