Kristen E. Pleil

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

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Kristen E. Pleil is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristen E. Pleil has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 16 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 10 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kristen E. Pleil's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (16 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Kristen E. Pleil is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (16 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers). Kristen E. Pleil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Kristen E. Pleil's co-authors include Thomas L. Kash, Emily G. Lowery‐Gionta, Garret D. Stuber, Alice M. Stamatakis, Chia Li, Randall L. Ung, Dennis R. Sparta, Joshua H. Jennings, Todd E. Thiele and Nora M. McCall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Kristen E. Pleil

36 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states

2013 534 citations Joshua H. Jennings, Dennis R. Sparta et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kristen E. Pleil United States	22	1.5k	939	596	588	489	38	2.3k
Dennis R. Sparta United States	21	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	690 1.2×	406 0.7×	462 0.9×	36	2.7k
Zoé A. McElligott United States	28	1.4k 0.9×	754 0.8×	664 1.1×	424 0.7×	541 1.1×	52	2.3k
Ki A. Goosens United States	25	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	433 0.7×	798 1.4×	401 0.8×	50	2.5k
Jessica J. Walsh United States	21	1.1k 0.8×	639 0.7×	627 1.1×	623 1.1×	794 1.6×	27	2.7k
Carmela M. Reichel United States	29	1.5k 1.0×	493 0.5×	733 1.2×	374 0.6×	659 1.3×	72	2.3k
Charles L. Pickens United States	21	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	460 0.8×	431 0.7×	362 0.7×	37	2.1k
Étienne Coutureau France	31	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	339 0.6×	483 0.8×	375 0.8×	62	2.5k
Marco Vènniro United States	29	1.8k 1.2×	763 0.8×	620 1.0×	375 0.6×	700 1.4×	50	2.4k
Zhi‐Bing You United States	24	1.7k 1.1×	521 0.6×	951 1.6×	364 0.6×	280 0.6×	45	2.6k
Dipesh Chaudhury United States	25	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	986 1.7×	674 1.1×	541 1.1×	39	3.6k

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Brindley, Elizabeth, et al.. (2025). Adverse gestational environment configures a subpopulation of ventral dentate granule cells for recruitment to drive innate anxiety. Cell Reports. 44(9). 116219–116219.

Fetcho, Robert N., Jin Xu, Ruirong Yang, et al.. (2024). Elevating levels of the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol blunts opioid reward but not analgesia. Science Advances. 10(48). eadq4779–eadq4779. 5 indexed citations

Pleil, Kristen E., Kathleen A. Grant, Verginia C. Cuzon Carlson, & Thomas L. Kash. (2024). Chronic alcohol consumption alters sex-dependent BNST neuron function in rhesus macaques. Neurobiology of Stress. 31. 100638–100638. 1 indexed citations

Zallar, Lia J., et al.. (2023). Sex differences in binge alcohol drinking and the behavioral consequences of protracted abstinence in C57BL/6J mice. Biology of Sex Differences. 14(1). 83–83. 20 indexed citations

Pleil, Kristen E., et al.. (2021). Circuit and neuropeptide mechanisms of the paraventricular thalamus across stages of alcohol and drug use. Neuropharmacology. 198. 108748–108748. 15 indexed citations

Skelly, Mary Jane, et al.. (2020). Social Isolation Stress in Adolescence, but not Adulthood, Produces Hypersocial Behavior in Adult Male and Female C57BL/6J Mice. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 14. 129–129. 45 indexed citations

Taki, Faten, Shifra Klein, Mary Jane Skelly, et al.. (2020). Epigenomically Bistable Regions across Neuron-Specific Genes Govern Neuron Eligibility to a Coding Ensemble in the Hippocampus. Cell Reports. 31(12). 107789–107789. 9 indexed citations

Acosta-Ruiz, Amanda, Vanessa A. Gutzeit, Mary Jane Skelly, et al.. (2019). Branched Photoswitchable Tethered Ligands Enable Ultra-efficient Optical Control and Detection of G Protein-Coupled Receptors In Vivo. Neuron. 105(3). 446–463.e13. 57 indexed citations

Pleil, Kristen E. & Mary Jane Skelly. (2018). CRF modulation of central monoaminergic function: Implications for sex differences in alcohol drinking and anxiety. Alcohol. 72. 33–47. 20 indexed citations

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Li, Chia, Jonathan A. Sugam, Emily G. Lowery‐Gionta, et al.. (2016). Mu Opioid Receptor Modulation of Dopamine Neurons in the Periaqueductal Gray/Dorsal Raphe: A Role in Regulation of Pain. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(8). 2122–2132. 120 indexed citations

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Pleil, Kristen E., Emily G. Lowery‐Gionta, Nicole A. Crowley, et al.. (2015). Effects of chronic ethanol exposure on neuronal function in the prefrontal cortex and extended amygdala. Neuropharmacology. 99. 735–749. 125 indexed citations

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Pleil, Kristen E., Jennifer A. Rinker, Emily G. Lowery‐Gionta, et al.. (2015). NPY signaling inhibits extended amygdala CRF neurons to suppress binge alcohol drinking. Nature Neuroscience. 18(4). 545–552. 148 indexed citations

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Navarro, Montserrat, Jeffrey J. Olney, Nathan W. Burnham, et al.. (2015). Lateral Hypothalamus GABAergic Neurons Modulate Consummatory Behaviors Regardless of the Caloric Content or Biological Relevance of the Consumed Stimuli. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(6). 1505–1512. 78 indexed citations

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Kash, Thomas L., Kristen E. Pleil, Catherine A. Marcinkiewcz, et al.. (2014). Neuropeptide Regulation of Signaling and Behavior in the BNST. Molecules and Cells. 38(1). 1–13. 82 indexed citations

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Masneuf, Sophie, Emily G. Lowery‐Gionta, Giovanni Colacicco, et al.. (2014). Glutamatergic mechanisms associated with stress-induced amygdala excitability and anxiety-related behavior. Neuropharmacology. 85. 190–197. 52 indexed citations

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Jennings, Joshua H., Dennis R. Sparta, Alice M. Stamatakis, et al.. (2013). Distinct extended amygdala circuits for divergent motivational states. Nature. 496(7444). 224–228. 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lowery‐Gionta, Emily G., Montserrat Navarro, Chia Li, et al.. (2012). Corticotropin Releasing Factor Signaling in the Central Amygdala is Recruited during Binge-Like Ethanol Consumption in C57BL/6J Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(10). 3405–3413. 120 indexed citations

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Li, Chia, Kristen E. Pleil, Alice M. Stamatakis, et al.. (2012). Presynaptic Inhibition of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Release in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis by Kappa Opioid Receptor Signaling. Biological Psychiatry. 71(8). 725–732. 112 indexed citations

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Holmes, Andrew, Paul J. Fitzgerald, Kathryn P. MacPherson, et al.. (2012). Chronic alcohol remodels prefrontal neurons and disrupts NMDAR-mediated fear extinction encoding. Nature Neuroscience. 15(10). 1359–1361. 186 indexed citations

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Pleil, Kristen E., et al.. (2011). Chronic stress alters neuropeptide Y signaling in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in DBA/2J but not C57BL/6J mice. Neuropharmacology. 62(4). 1777–1786. 33 indexed citations

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