Liisa A.M. Galea

21.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
234 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Liisa A.M. Galea is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Liisa A.M. Galea has authored 234 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 76 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 64 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Liisa A.M. Galea's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (107 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (76 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (61 papers). Liisa A.M. Galea is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (107 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (76 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (61 papers). Liisa A.M. Galea collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Liisa A.M. Galea's co-authors include Susanne Brummelte, Bruce S. McEwen, Jodi L. Pawluski, Cindy K. Barha, Patima Tanapat, Elizabeth Gould, Stephanie E. Lieblich, Martin Kavaliers, Jonathan R. Epp and Steven R. Wainwright and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Liisa A.M. Galea

225 papers receiving 16.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of the Adult Tree Shrew Is Regulated by Psychosocial Stress and NMDA Receptor Activation

1997 1.1k citations Liisa A.M. Galea et al. profile →
Chronic stress impairs rat spatial memory on the Y maze, and this effect is blocked by tianeptine pretreatment.

1996 642 citations Liisa A.M. Galea et al. profile →
Postpartum depression: Etiology, treatment and consequences for maternal care

2015 383 citations Liisa A.M. Galea et al. Hormones and Behavior profile →
Sex differences in depression: Insights from clinical and preclinical studies

2019 304 citations Rand S. Eid, Aarthi R. Gobinath et al. profile →
An analysis of neuroscience and psychiatry papers published from 2009 and 2019 outlines opportunities for increasing discovery of sex differences

2022 109 citations Liisa A.M. Galea et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liisa A.M. Galea Canada	71	6.6k	4.7k	4.6k	3.2k	2.5k	234	16.4k
Margaret M. McCarthy United States	72	3.9k 0.6×	4.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.3×	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	259	16.7k
Catherine S. Woolley United States	54	5.5k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	5.9k 1.9×	616 0.2×	89	15.1k
Tallie Z. Baram United States	83	7.8k 1.2×	5.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.4×	7.5k 2.4×	1.1k 0.4×	277	22.1k
Paul J. Lucassen Netherlands	74	5.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	4.3k 0.9×	4.0k 1.3×	503 0.2×	247	16.9k
Kerry J. Ressler United States	99	9.8k 1.5×	5.5k 1.2×	2.4k 0.5×	9.7k 3.1×	1.2k 0.5×	444	35.0k
Dick F. Swaab Netherlands	102	7.2k 1.1×	9.4k 2.0×	1.6k 0.4×	7.3k 2.3×	1.3k 0.5×	684	39.2k
Tracey J. Shors United States	60	4.7k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	5.0k 1.1×	5.8k 1.8×	469 0.2×	130	14.3k
Luis Miguel García‐Segura Spain	87	4.9k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	6.4k 2.0×	845 0.3×	484	25.1k
Marian Joëls Netherlands	89	20.1k 3.1×	10.4k 2.2×	3.0k 0.7×	6.7k 2.1×	855 0.3×	337	32.5k
Catherine Belzung France	62	6.9k 1.1×	4.2k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	7.0k 2.2×	407 0.2×	209	20.4k

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Richard, Jennifer E., Andrew McGovern, Stephanie E. Lieblich, et al.. (2025). Sex-specific metabolic and central effects of GLP-1–estradiol conjugate in middle-aged rats on a standard or western diet. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 130. 106088–106088.

Galea, Liisa A.M., et al.. (2025). SSRIs reduce plasma tau and restore dorsal raphe metabolism in Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14579–e14579. 3 indexed citations

Ren, Yi, Bo Young Ahn, Heewon Seo, et al.. (2025). Impaired parvalbumin interneurons in the retrosplenial cortex as the cause of sex-dependent vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease. Science Advances. 11(18). eadt8976–eadt8976. 1 indexed citations

Moore, Katherine, et al.. (2025). Canadian Health Research Funding Patterns for Sexual and Gender Minority Populations Reflect Exclusion of Women. LGBT Health. 12(2). 144–151. 1 indexed citations

Estrada‐Camarena, Erika, et al.. (2024). Menstrually-related mood disorders and postpartum depression: Convergent aspects in aetiology. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 76. 101171–101171.

Puri, Tanvi A., et al.. (2024). Pregnancy history and estradiol influence spatial memory, hippocampal plasticity, and inflammation in middle-aged rats. Hormones and Behavior. 165. 105616–105616. 2 indexed citations

Dhamala, Elvisha, Lucina Q. Uddin, Liisa A.M. Galea, et al.. (2024). Considering the interconnected nature of social identities in neuroimaging research. Nature Neuroscience. 28(2). 222–233. 5 indexed citations

Lymer, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). The effects of estrogens on spatial learning and memory in female rodents – A systematic review and meta-analysis. Hormones and Behavior. 164. 105598–105598. 4 indexed citations

Duarte‐Guterman, Paula, et al.. (2023). Cellular and molecular signatures of motherhood in the adult and ageing rat brain. Open Biology. 13(11). 230217–230217. 10 indexed citations

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Falck, Ryan S., Teresa Liu‐Ambrose, Liisa A.M. Galea, & Roger Tam. (2023). Can we use machine learning to predict cognitive performance from actigraphy data? Preliminary results from the UK Biobank Study. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S23). 1 indexed citations

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Wen, Yanhua, et al.. (2021). Maternal fluoxetine reduces hippocampal inflammation and neurogenesis in adult offspring with sex-specific effects of periadolescent oxytocin. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 97. 394–409. 11 indexed citations

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Gobinath, Aarthi R., et al.. (2019). Folic acid, but not folate, regulates different stages of neurogenesis in the ventral hippocampus of adult female rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 31(10). e12787–e12787. 5 indexed citations

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Duarte‐Guterman, Paula, Stephanie E. Lieblich, Steven R. Wainwright, et al.. (2019). Androgens Enhance Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Males but Not Females in an Age-Dependent Manner. Endocrinology. 160(9). 2128–2136. 38 indexed citations

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Eid, Rand S., et al.. (2019). Ovarian status dictates the neuroinflammatory and behavioral consequences of sub-chronic stress exposure in middle-aged female mice. Neurobiology of Stress. 12. 100199–100199. 9 indexed citations

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Galea, Liisa A.M., et al.. (2018). Disinhibition of the prefrontal cortex leads to brain-wide increases in neuronal activation that are modified by spatial learning. Brain Structure and Function. 224(1). 171–190. 5 indexed citations

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Gobinath, Aarthi R., Rand Mahmoud, & Liisa A.M. Galea. (2015). Influence of sex and stress exposure across the lifespan on endophenotypes of depression: focus on behavior, glucocorticoids, and hippocampus. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 8. 420–420. 88 indexed citations

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Gobinath, Aarthi R., Joanna L. Workman, Carmen Chow, Stephanie E. Lieblich, & Liisa A.M. Galea. (2015). Maternal postpartum corticosterone and fluoxetine differentially affect adult male and female offspring on anxiety-like behavior, stress reactivity, and hippocampal neurogenesis. Neuropharmacology. 101. 165–178. 61 indexed citations

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Cuttler, Carrie, Peter Graf, Jodi L. Pawluski, & Liisa A.M. Galea. (2011). Everyday life memory deficits in pregnant women.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 65(1). 27–37. 56 indexed citations

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Barr, Alasdair M., et al.. (2009). Role of estradiol withdrawal in ‘anhedonic’ sucrose consumption: A model of postpartum depression. Physiology & Behavior. 97(2). 259–265. 75 indexed citations

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Kavaliers, Martin, John P. Wiebe, & Liisa A.M. Galea. (1994). Reduction of predator odor-induced anxiety in mice by the neurosteroid 3α-hydroxy-4-pregnen-20-one (3αHP). Brain Research. 645(1-2). 325–329. 35 indexed citations

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