Leonardo Restivo

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Leonardo Restivo is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Restivo has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Restivo's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (26 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers). Leonardo Restivo is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (26 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (23 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers). Leonardo Restivo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and France. Leonardo Restivo's co-authors include Martine Ammassari‐Teule, Gisella Vetere, Sheena A. Josselyn, Paul W. Frankland, Enrica Passino, Bruno Bontempi, Yosuke Niibori, Adelaide P. Yiu, Axel Guskjolen and Anne L. Wheeler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Restivo

38 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Hippocampal Neurogenesis Regulates Forgetting During Adulthood and Infancy

2014 538 citations Katherine G. Akers, Alonso Martínez-Canabal et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo Restivo Italy	21	1.2k	1.1k	549	545	328	39	2.2k
Adelaide P. Yiu Canada	13	1.5k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	479 0.9×	483 0.9×	377 1.1×	13	2.4k
Pascal Roullet France	30	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	415 0.8×	528 1.0×	329 1.0×	50	2.3k
Jesse D. Cushman United States	20	985 0.8×	980 0.9×	489 0.9×	318 0.6×	280 0.9×	40	1.8k
Jonathan R. Epp Canada	24	661 0.6×	687 0.6×	819 1.5×	306 0.6×	282 0.9×	53	2.0k
Christopher S. Rex United States	20	1.5k 1.3×	718 0.6×	504 0.9×	858 1.6×	309 0.9×	30	2.7k
Bruno Bozon France	10	1.0k 0.9×	662 0.6×	259 0.5×	536 1.0×	263 0.8×	12	1.8k
Almira Vazdarjanova United States	24	1.8k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	364 0.7×	720 1.3×	525 1.6×	43	3.1k
Cátia M. Teixeira United States	25	1.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 2.4×	590 1.1×	552 1.7×	38	3.1k
Carola Romberg United Kingdom	14	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 2.1×	545 1.0×	483 1.5×	17	2.7k
Raphael Lamprecht Israel	22	1.6k 1.4×	910 0.8×	229 0.4×	758 1.4×	319 1.0×	51	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonardo Restivo

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Fernandez, Laura M. J., Laura Batti, Leonardo Restivo, et al.. (2025). Autophagy regulates PVALB (parvalbumin) interneuron excitability and memory. Autophagy. 22(2). 351–370.

Restivo, Leonardo, Gunnar Flik, Michael Tsoory, et al.. (2024). A minimal metadata set (MNMS) to repurpose nonclinical in vivo data for biomedical research. Lab Animal. 53(3). 67–79. 9 indexed citations

Restivo, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). Dysregulation of the mTOR-FMRP pathway and synaptic plasticity in an environmental model of ASD. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(5). 1937–1951. 1 indexed citations

Restivo, Leonardo, et al.. (2024). Local translatome sustains synaptic function in impaired Wallerian degeneration. EMBO Reports. 26(1). 61–83. 2 indexed citations

Lecca, Salvatore, Mauro Congiu, Leonardo Restivo, et al.. (2023). A neural substrate for negative affect dictates female parental behavior. Neuron. 111(7). 1094–1103.e8. 17 indexed citations

Lecca, Salvatore, Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, Leonardo Restivo, et al.. (2020). Heterogeneous Habenular Neuronal Ensembles during Selection of Defensive Behaviors. Cell Reports. 31(10). 107752–107752. 30 indexed citations

Vetere, Gisella, Lina Tran, Sara Moberg, et al.. (2019). Memory formation in the absence of experience. Nature Neuroscience. 22(6). 933–940. 73 indexed citations

Restivo, Leonardo, et al.. (2019). The Lactate Receptor HCAR1 Modulates Neuronal Network Activity through the Activation of G_α and G_βγ Subunits. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(23). 4422–4433. 117 indexed citations

Briz, Víctor, Leonardo Restivo, Emanuela Pasciuto, et al.. (2017). The non-coding RNA BC1 regulates experience-dependent structural plasticity and learning. Nature Communications. 8(1). 293–293. 46 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, Yosuke Niibori, Valentina Mercaldo, Sheena A. Josselyn, & Paul W. Frankland. (2015). Development of Adult-Generated Cell Connectivity with Excitatory and Inhibitory Cell Populations in the Hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(29). 10600–10612. 74 indexed citations

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Akers, Katherine G., Alonso Martínez-Canabal, Leonardo Restivo, et al.. (2014). Hippocampal Neurogenesis Regulates Forgetting During Adulthood and Infancy. Science. 344(6184). 598–602. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vetere, Gisella, Leonardo Restivo, Giovanni Novembre, et al.. (2011). Extinction partially reverts structural changes associated with remote fear memory. Learning & Memory. 18(9). 554–557. 39 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo. (2010). Shifting to automatic. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 4. 1–1. 28 indexed citations

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Marchetti, Cristina, et al.. (2009). Synaptic Adaptations of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Induced by a Highly Effective Combinational Antidepressant Therapy. Biological Psychiatry. 67(2). 146–154. 29 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, François S. Roman, Aline Dumuis, et al.. (2007). The Promnesic Effect of G-protein-Coupled 5-HT4 Receptors Activation Is Mediated by a Potentiation of Learning-Induced Spine Growth in the Mouse Hippocampus. Neuropsychopharmacology. 33(10). 2427–2434. 50 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, François S. Roman, Martine Ammassari‐Teule, & E Marchetti. (2006). Simultaneous olfactory discrimination elicits a strain-specific increase in dendritic spines in the hippocampus of inbred mice. Hippocampus. 16(5). 472–479. 32 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, et al.. (2006). Strain Differences in Rewarded Discrimination Learning Using the Olfactory Tubing Maze. Behavior Genetics. 36(6). 923–934. 9 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, Francesca Ferrari, Enrica Passino, et al.. (2005). Enriched environment promotes behavioral and morphological recovery in a mouse model for the fragile X syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(32). 11557–11562. 235 indexed citations

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Restivo, Leonardo, Silvia Middei, Rosaria Reggio, et al.. (2004). Potentiation of ischemia-related behavioral alterations by electro-acupuncture in gerbils.. PubMed. 19(1). 19–23. 4 indexed citations

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Passino, Enrica, Silvia Middei, Leonardo Restivo, Valérie Bertaina‐Anglade, & Martine Ammassari‐Teule. (2002). Genetic approach to variability of memory systems: Analysis of place vs. response learning and Fos-related expression in hippocampal and striatal areas of C57BL/6 and DBA/2 mice. Hippocampus. 12(1). 63–63. 7 indexed citations

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