Lief E. Fenno

17.8k citations

51 papers · 12.4k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 34

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research 34
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 17
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering 11
Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.2%
- Neural dynamics and brain function 9
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 6
Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.5%
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems top 0.5%
Developmental Neuroscience top 1%
Molecular Biology
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling 10
Biomedical Engineering
- Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks 8
Social Psychology
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior 6

Co-authors: Karl Deisseroth Ofer Yizhar Charu Ramakrishnan Thomas J. Davidson Murtaza Mogri Kay M. Tye Kimberly R. Thompson Viviana Gradinaru
Cited by: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Behavioral Neuroscience
Journals: Nature (8 papers)Science (2 papers)Cell (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Hungary

In The Last Decade

Lief E. Fenno

49 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

2017 Science Advances
2016 Nature
2014 Cell
2011 Nature Methods
2011 Neuron
2011 Nature
2011 Nature
2011 Annual Review of Neuroscience
2009 Nature

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1	Salience Signaling and Stimulus Scaling of Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate Neuron Subtypes Journal of Neuroscience ·Dillon J. McGovern,Alysabeth Phillips,Annie Ly,Emily D. Prévost,Lucy Ward,Kayla Siletti,Yoon Seok Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Karl Deisseroth,Michael V. Baratta,Christopher Ford,David H. Root	2025	0
2	Monosynaptic Inputs to Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate and GABA Co-transmitting Neurons Journal of Neuroscience ·Emily D. Prévost,Alysabeth Phillips,Kristoffer Lauridsen,Gunnar Enserro,Bodhi Rubinstein,Daniel Alas,Dillon J. McGovern,Annie Ly,Hayden Hotchkiss,Makaila Banks,Connor McNulty,Yoon Seok Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Karl Deisseroth,David H. Root	2024	2
3	Prefrontal cortical dynorphin peptidergic transmission constrains threat-driven behavioral and network states Neuron ·Huikun Wang,Rodolfo J. Flores,Héctor E. Yarur,Aaron Limoges,Héctor Bravo-Rivera,Sanne M. Casello,Niharika Loomba,Juan Enríquez-Traba,Miguel Arenivar,Queenie Wang,Robert P. Ganley,Charu Ramakrishnan,Lief E. Fenno,Yoon Kim,Karl Deisseroth,Grace Or,Chunyang Dong,Mark A. Hoon,Lin Tian,Hugo A. Tejeda	2024	13
4	Ultrasound-Induced Cascade Amplification in a Mechanoluminescent Nanotransducer for Enhanced Sono-Optogenetic Deep Brain Stimulation ACS Nano ·Wenliang Wang,Kai Wing Kevin Tang,Ilya Pyatnitskiy,Xiangping Liu,Xi Shi,David Huo,Jinmo Jeong,Thomas Wynn,Arjun Sangani,Andrew J. Baker,Ju-Chun Hsieh,Anakaren Romero Lozano,Brinkley Artman,Lief E. Fenno,Vivek Buch,Huiliang Wang	2023	20
5	Cell-type-specific population dynamics of diverse reward computations Cell ·Emily Sylwestrak,YoungJu Jo,Sam Vesuna,Xiao Wang,Blake Holcomb,Rebecca H. Tien,Doo Kyung Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,William E. Allen,Ritchie Chen,Krishna V. Shenoy,David Sussillo,Karl Deisseroth	2022	33
6	Reciprocal Lateral Hypothalamic and Raphe GABAergic Projections Promote Wakefulness Journal of Neuroscience ·Mary Gazea,Szabina Furdan,Péter Sere,Lukas T. Oesch,Benedek Molnár,Giuseppe Di Giovanni,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Joanna Mattis,Karl Deisseroth,Susan M. Dymecki,Antoine Adamantidis,Magor L. Lörincz	2021	22
7	Genetically targeted chemical assembly of functional materials in living cells, tissues, and animals Science ·Jia Liu,Yoon Seok Kim,Claire E. Richardson,Ariane Tom,Charu Ramakrishnan,Fikri Birey,Toru Katsumata,Shucheng Chen,Cheng Wang,Xiao Wang,Lydia‐Marie Joubert,Yuanwen Jiang,Huiliang Wang,Lief E. Fenno,Jeffrey B.‐H. Tok,Sergiu P. Pașca,Kang Shen,Zhenan Bao,Karl Deisseroth	2020	157
8	Distinct Signaling by Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate, GABA, and Combinatorial Glutamate-GABA Neurons in Motivated Behavior Cell Reports ·David H. Root,David J. Barker,David J. Estrin,Jorge Miranda‐Barrientos,Bing Liu,Shiliang Zhang,Hui-Ling Wang,Francois Vautier,Charu Ramakrishnan,Yoon Seok Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Karl Deisseroth,Marisela Morales	2020	65
9	Comprehensive Dual- and Triple-Feature Intersectional Single-Vector Delivery of Diverse Functional Payloads to Cells of Behaving Mammals Neuron ·Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Yoon Seok Kim,Kathryn E. Evans,Maisie Lo,Sam Vesuna,Masatoshi Inoue,Kathy Y.M. Cheung,Elle Yuen,Nandini Pichamoorthy,Alice Hong,Karl Deisseroth	2020	103
10	Excitation of Diverse Classes of Cholecystokinin Interneurons in the Basal Amygdala Facilitates Fear Extinction eNeuro ·Laura Rovira-Esteban,Ozge Gunduz‐Cinar,Olena Bukalo,Aaron Limoges,Emma T. Brockway,Kinga Müller,Lief E. Fenno,Yoon Seok Kim,Charu Ramakrishnan,Tibor Andrási,Karl Deisseroth,Andrew Holmes,Norbert Hájos	2019	28
11	Structural mechanisms of selectivity and gating in anion channelrhodopsins Nature ·Hideaki Kato,Yoon Seok Kim,Joseph M. Paggi,Kathryn E. Evans,William E. Allen,Claire E. Richardson,Keiichi Inoue,Shota Ito,Charu Ramakrishnan,Lief E. Fenno,Keitaro Yamashita,Daniel Hilger,Soo Yeun Lee,A. Berndt,Kang Shen,Hideki Kandori,Ron O. Dror,Brian K. Kobilka,Karl Deisseroth	2018	60
12	Thirst-associated preoptic neurons encode an aversive motivational drive Science ·William E. Allen,Laura A. DeNardo,Michael Z. Chen,Cindy D. Liu,Kyle M. Loh,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Karl Deisseroth,Liqun Luo	2017	244
13	The central amygdala controls learning in the lateral amygdala Nature Neuroscience ·Kai Yu,Sandra Ahrens,Xian Zhang,Hillary C. Schiff,Charu Ramakrishnan,Lief E. Fenno,Karl Deisseroth,Fei Zhao,Min‐Hua Luo,Ling Gong,Miao He,Pengcheng Zhou,Liam Paninski,Bo Li	2017	129
14	Distinct Thalamic Reticular Cell Types Differentially Modulate Normal and Pathological Cortical Rhythms Cell Reports ·Alexandra Clemente-Perez,Stefanie Ritter Makinson,Bryan Higashikubo,Scott Brovarney,Frances S. Cho,Alexander Urry,Stephanie S. Holden,Matthew Wimer,Csaba Dávid,Lief E. Fenno,László Acsády,Karl Deisseroth,Jeanne T. Paz	2017	135
15	Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviourbreakdown → Nature ·Philip Tovote,Maria Soledad Esposito,Paolo Botta,Fabrice Chaudun,Jonathan P. Fadok,Milica Marković,Steffen B. E. Wolff,Charu Ramakrishnan,Lief E. Fenno,Karl Deisseroth,Cyril Herry,Silvia Arber,Andreas Lüthi	2016	502
16	Natural Neural Projection Dynamics Underlying Social Behaviorbreakdown → Cell ·Lisa A. Gunaydin,Logan Grosenick,Joel Finkelstein,Isaac Kauvar,Lief E. Fenno,Avishek Adhikari,Stephan Lammel,Julie J. Mirzabekov,Raag D. Airan,Kelly A. Zalocusky,Kay M. Tye,Polina Anikeeva,Robert C. Malenka,Karl Deisseroth	2014	973
17	Targeting cells with single vectors using multiple-feature Boolean logic Nature Methods ·Lief E. Fenno,Joanna Mattis,Charu Ramakrishnan,Minsuk Hyun,Soo Yeun Lee,Miao He,Jason Tucciarone,Aslihan Selimbeyoglu,A. Berndt,Logan Grosenick,Kelly A. Zalocusky,Hannah L. Bernstein,H. T. Swanson,Chelsey Perry,Ilka Diester,Frederick M. Boyce,Caroline E. Bass,Rachael L. Neve,Z. Josh Huang,Karl Deisseroth	2014	373
18	Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxietybreakdown → Nature ·Kay M. Tye,Rohit Prakash,Sung‐Yon Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Logan Grosenick,Hosniya Zarabi,Kimberly R. Thompson,Viviana Gradinaru,Charu Ramakrishnan,Karl Deisseroth	2011	932
19	Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunctionbreakdown → Nature ·Ofer Yizhar,Lief E. Fenno,Matthias Prigge,Franziska Schneider,Thomas J. Davidson,Daniel J. O’Shea,Vikaas S. Sohal,Inbal Goshen,Joel Finkelstein,Jeanne T. Paz,Katja Stehfest,Roman Fudim,Charu Ramakrishnan,John R. Huguenard,Peter Hegemann,Karl Deisseroth	2011	1788
20	Global and local fMRI signals driven by neurons defined optogenetically by type and wiring Nature ·Jin Hyung Lee,Rémy Durand,Viviana Gradinaru,Feng Zhang,Inbal Goshen,Dae‐Shik Kim,Lief E. Fenno,Charu Ramakrishnan,Karl Deisseroth	2010	490

About Lief E. Fenno

Lief E. Fenno is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 51 papers that have together received 12.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (34 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (17 papers), Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (11 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (10 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (9 papers), Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks (8 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (6 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (8.5k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (5.2k citations) and Behavioral Neuroscience (682 citations). Lief E. Fenno has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Hungary. Frequent co-authors include Karl Deisseroth, Ofer Yizhar, Charu Ramakrishnan, Thomas J. Davidson, Murtaza Mogri, Kay M. Tye, Kimberly R. Thompson, Viviana Gradinaru, Joel Finkelstein and Logan Grosenick. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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