Kevin T. Beier

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
57 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Kevin T. Beier is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin T. Beier has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 21 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kevin T. Beier's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Kevin T. Beier is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (11 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (10 papers). Kevin T. Beier collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Kevin T. Beier's co-authors include Liqun Luo, Robert C. Malenka, Katherine E. DeLoach, Kazunari Miyamichi, Xiaojing Gao, Eric J. Kremer, Constance L. Cepko, Elizabeth E. Steinberg, Karl Deisseroth and Shinjae Chung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kevin T. Beier

53 papers receiving 4.8k citations

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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.

Circuit Architecture of VTA Dopamine Neurons Revealed by Systematic Input-Output Mapping

2015 697 citations Kevin T. Beier, Katherine E. DeLoach et al. Cell profile →
Intact-Brain Analyses Reveal Distinct Information Carried by SNc Dopamine Subcircuits

2015 524 citations Talia N. Lerner, Carrie Shilyansky et al. Cell profile →
Viral-genetic tracing of the input–output organization of a central noradrenaline circuit

2015 515 citations Xiaojing Gao, Kevin T. Beier et al. Nature profile →
Gating of social reward by oxytocin in the ventral tegmental area

2017 383 citations Lin W. Hung, Sophie Neuner et al. Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Acute stress causes sex-specific changes to ventral subiculum synapses, circuitry, and anxiety-like behavior 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Kevin T. Beier, Jason Aoto	0
2	Cationic peptides cause memory loss through endophilin-mediated endocytosis 2025 ·Nature ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), May Hui, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaoyu Shi, Robert F. Hunt, Jason Aoto, Kevin T. Beier	3
3	Circuit mechanism underlying fragmented sleep and memory deficits in 16p11.2 deletion mouse model of autism 2024 ·iScience ·(unknown), Bowon Kim, (unknown), (unknown), Yingqi Wang, (unknown), Hyun‐Soo Shin, (unknown), (unknown), Jiso Hong, Hanna Antila, Steven Thomas, Janardhan P. Bhattarai, Kevin T. Beier, Minghong Ma, Franz Weber, Shinjae Chung	1
4	Regulation of stress-induced sleep fragmentation by preoptic glutamatergic neurons 2023 ·Current Biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Hanna Antila, (unknown), Hannah Kim, Kevin T. Beier, Franz Weber, Shinjae Chung	19
5	A noradrenergic-hypothalamic neural substrate for stress-induced sleep disturbances 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hanna Antila, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Amelia J. Eisch, Kevin T. Beier, Steven Thomas, Franz Weber, Shinjae Chung	38
6	An extended amygdala-midbrain circuit controlling cocaine withdrawal-induced anxiety and reinstatement 2022 ·Cell Reports ·Guilian Tian, May Hui, (unknown), (unknown), Alexandra Rogers, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kevin T. Beier	20
7	The relationship between birth timing, circuit wiring, and physiological response properties of cerebellar granule cells 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·S. Andrew Shuster, Mark J. Wagner, (unknown), Jing Ren, Sophie M. Grutzner, Kevin T. Beier, Tony Hyun Kim, Mark J. Schnitzer, Liqun Luo	16
8	A connectomic analysis of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant depression 2021 ·Brain stimulation ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Daniel A. N. Barbosa, (unknown), (unknown), Hongjie Jiang, Zhe Zheng, (unknown), Wei Gao, Jianmin Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Casey H. Halpern, Helen S. Mayberg, Kevin T. Beier, Junming Zhu, Hemmings Wu	27
9	Can transsynaptic viral strategies be used to reveal functional aspects of neural circuitry? 2020 ·Journal of Neuroscience Methods ·Alexandra Rogers, Kevin T. Beier	26
10	Characterization of transgenic mouse models targeting neuromodulatory systems reveals organizational principles of the dorsal raphe 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Daniel F. Cardozo Pinto, Hongbin Yang, Iskra Pollak Dorocic, Johannes W. de Jong, (unknown), James R. Peck, Yichen Zhu, Christine Liu, Kevin T. Beier, Marten P. Smidt, Stephan Lammel	47
11	Topological Organization of Ventral Tegmental Area Connectivity Revealed by Viral-Genetic Dissection of Input-Output Relations 2019 ·Cell Reports ·Kevin T. Beier, Xiaojing Gao, (unknown), Katherine E. DeLoach, Robert C. Malenka, Liqun Luo	75
12	Regulation of REM and Non-REM Sleep by Periaqueductal GABAergic Neurons 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Franz Weber, (unknown), Shinjae Chung, Kevin T. Beier, (unknown), Mohammad Saffari Doost, Yang Dan	153
13	Integrated anatomical and physiological mapping of striatal afferent projections 2018 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Kyuhyun Choi, Elizabeth N. Holly, M. Felicia Davatolhagh, Kevin T. Beier, Marc V. Fuccillo	30
14	Gating of social reward by oxytocin in the ventral tegmental area breakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Lin W. Hung, Sophie Neuner, Jai S. Polepalli, Kevin T. Beier, Matthew A. Wright, Jessica J. Walsh, Eastman M. Lewis, Liqun Luo, Karl Deisseroth, Gül Dölen, Robert C. Malenka	383
15	Intact-Brain Analyses Reveal Distinct Information Carried by SNc Dopamine Subcircuits breakdown → 2015 ·Cell ·Talia N. Lerner, Carrie Shilyansky, Thomas J. Davidson, Kathryn E. Evans, Kevin T. Beier, Kelly A. Zalocusky, Ailey Crow, Robert C. Malenka, Liqun Luo, Raju Tomer, Karl Deisseroth	524
16	Control of REM sleep by ventral medulla GABAergic neurons 2015 ·Nature ·Franz Weber, Shinjae Chung, Kevin T. Beier, Min Xu, Liqun Luo, Yang Dan	215
17	Pseudotyped retroviruses for infecting axolotl in vivo and in vitro 2013 ·Development ·Jessica L. Whited, Stephanie Tsai, Kevin T. Beier, (unknown), (unknown), James Hanken, Constance L. Cepko, Clifford J. Tabin	41
18	Transsynaptic Tracing with Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Reveals Novel Retinal Circuitry 2013 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Kevin T. Beier, Bart G. Borghuis, Rana N. El‐Danaf, Andrew D. Huberman, Jonathan B. Demb, Constance L. Cepko	45
19	A Class of Human Proteins that Deliver Functional Proteins into Mammalian Cells In Vitro and In Vivo 2011 ·Chemistry & Biology ·(unknown), Kevin T. Beier, Tina Davis, Jen‐Chieh Tseng, Weida Li, David B. Thompson, Allen F. Shih, E May, Constance L. Cepko, Andrew L. Kung, Qiao Zhou, David R. Liu	90
20	Conditional expression of the TVA receptor allows clonal analysis of descendents from Cre-expressing progenitor cells 2011 ·Developmental Biology ·Kevin T. Beier, Maria Samson, Takahiko Matsuda, Constance L. Cepko	39

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