Kafui Dzirasa

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Kafui Dzirasa is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Kafui Dzirasa has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Kafui Dzirasa's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Kafui Dzirasa is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (18 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (13 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Kafui Dzirasa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Bulgaria. Kafui Dzirasa's co-authors include Sunil Kumar, Marc G. Caron, Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, Rainbo Hultman, Raul R. Gainetdinov, David Carlson, Brittany M. Katz, Tatyana D. Sotnikova, Lucas M. Santos and Sidarta Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kafui Dzirasa

56 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Inequities in Receipt of Multiple National Institutes of Health Research Project Grants

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kafui Dzirasa United States	24	901	631	274	253	241	58	1.9k
Lauri Tuominen Finland	27	518 0.6×	537 0.9×	351 1.3×	184 0.7×	183 0.8×	61	2.0k
Benjamin M. Robinson United States	31	1.7k 1.9×	396 0.6×	206 0.8×	194 0.8×	80 0.3×	77	3.1k
Luciano Minuzzi Canada	26	1.3k 1.4×	448 0.7×	154 0.6×	91 0.4×	132 0.5×	96	2.5k
Jason Shumake United States	27	796 0.9×	862 1.4×	507 1.9×	77 0.3×	592 2.5×	74	2.4k
Roberto B. Sassi United States	36	1.5k 1.7×	346 0.5×	160 0.6×	100 0.4×	228 0.9×	90	4.1k
Gustavo A. Angarita United States	23	496 0.6×	514 0.8×	70 0.3×	89 0.4×	202 0.8×	74	1.8k
Corinde E. Wiers United States	30	1.2k 1.4×	845 1.3×	93 0.3×	278 1.1×	75 0.3×	107	3.0k
Andreas Hahn Austria	36	1.8k 2.0×	659 1.0×	306 1.1×	80 0.3×	233 1.0×	140	3.9k
Paul Stokes United Kingdom	27	660 0.7×	974 1.5×	98 0.4×	63 0.2×	113 0.5×	58	2.2k
Teresa R. Franklin United States	28	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	155 0.6×	115 0.5×	136 0.6×	54	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kafui Dzirasa

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Dziabis, Julia E., et al.. (2025). Sex-specific regulation of microglial MyD88 in HMGB1-Induced anxiety phenotype in mice. Neurobiology of Stress. 36. 100721–100721.

Shen, Francis X., Susan M. Wolf, Frances Lawrenz, et al.. (2024). Ethical, legal, and policy challenges in field-based neuroimaging research using emerging portable MRI technologies: guidance for investigators and for oversight. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 11(1). lsae008–lsae008. 6 indexed citations

Johnson, M. S., et al.. (2022). P208. Stress Resilience in Amygdala Cellular Subpopulation. Biological Psychiatry. 91(9). S171–S171. 1 indexed citations

Gallagher, Neil M., Kafui Dzirasa, & David Carlson. (2021). Directed Spectrum Measures Improve Latent Network Models Of Neural Populations. Neural Information Processing Systems. 34. 1 indexed citations

Vu, Mai-Anh, Tülay Adalı, Demba Ba, et al.. (2018). A Shared Vision for Machine Learning in Neuroscience. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(7). 1601–1607. 105 indexed citations

Carlson, David, Neil M. Gallagher, Mai-Anh Vu, et al.. (2017). Dynamically Timed Stimulation of Corticolimbic Circuitry Activates a Stress-Compensatory Pathway. Biological Psychiatry. 82(12). 904–913. 29 indexed citations

Borg, Jana Schaich, Sanvesh Srivastava, Lizhen Lin, et al.. (2017). Rat intersubjective decisions are encoded by frequency‐specific oscillatory contexts. Brain and Behavior. 7(6). e00710–e00710. 12 indexed citations

Li, Yitong, Michael Murias, Samantha Major, et al.. (2017). Targeting EEG/LFP Synchrony with Neural Nets. Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. 4621–4631. 30 indexed citations

Gallagher, Neil M., et al.. (2017). Cross-Spectral Factor Analysis. Neural Information Processing Systems. 30. 6842–6852. 8 indexed citations

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Hultman, Rainbo, Stephen D. Mague, Qiang Li, et al.. (2016). Dysregulation of Prefrontal Cortex-Mediated Slow-Evolving Limbic Dynamics Drives Stress-Induced Emotional Pathology. Neuron. 91(2). 439–452. 98 indexed citations

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Spencer, Sade, Kafui Dzirasa, Puja K. Parekh, et al.. (2015). Daytime spikes in dopaminergic activity drive rapid mood-cycling in mice. Molecular Psychiatry. 20(11). 1406–1419. 96 indexed citations

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Carlson, David, et al.. (2014). Analysis of Brain States from Multi-Region LFP Time-Series. Neural Information Processing Systems. 27. 2483–2491. 4 indexed citations

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Carlson, David, Jana Schaich Borg, Kafui Dzirasa, & Lawrence Carin. (2014). On the relations of LFPs & Neural Spike Trains. Neural Information Processing Systems. 27. 2060–2068. 3 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, Sunil Kumar, Benjamin D. Sachs, Marc G. Caron, & Miguel A. L. Nicolelis. (2013). Cortical–Amygdalar Circuit Dysfunction in a Genetic Mouse Model of Serotonin Deficiency. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(10). 4505–4513. 26 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui & Herbert E. Covington. (2012). Increasing the validity of experimental models for depression. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1265(1). 36–45. 36 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sunil Kumar, et al.. (2011). Impaired Limbic Gamma Oscillatory Synchrony during Anxiety-Related Behavior in a Genetic Mouse Model of Bipolar Mania. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(17). 6449–6456. 40 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, H. Westley Phillips, Tatyana D. Sotnikova, et al.. (2010). Noradrenergic Control of Cortico-Striato-Thalamic and Mesolimbic Cross-Structural Synchrony. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(18). 6387–6397. 35 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, Laurent Coque, Michelle M. Sidor, et al.. (2010). Lithium Ameliorates Nucleus Accumbens Phase-Signaling Dysfunction in a Genetic Mouse Model of Mania. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(48). 16314–16323. 61 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, Amy J. Ramsey, Daniel Y. Takahashi, et al.. (2009). Hyperdopaminergia and NMDA Receptor Hypofunction Disrupt Neural Phase Signaling. Journal of Neuroscience. 29(25). 8215–8224. 85 indexed citations

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Dzirasa, Kafui, Sidarta Ribeiro, Rui M. Costa, et al.. (2006). Dopaminergic Control of Sleep–Wake States. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(41). 10577–10589. 234 indexed citations

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