Mala Ananth

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mala Ananth is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mala Ananth has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 13 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mala Ananth's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (5 papers). Mala Ananth is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (10 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (10 papers) and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study (5 papers). Mala Ananth collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Mala Ananth's co-authors include David A. Talmage, Lorna W. Role, Elizabeth Ballinger, Ronald Kim, Panayotis K. Thanos, Nora D. Volkow, Prithviraj Rajebhosale, Michael Michaelides, Gene‐Jack Wang and Lisa S. Robison and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Mala Ananth

24 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Circuits and Signaling in Cognition and Cognitive Decline

2016 519 citations Elizabeth Ballinger, Mala Ananth et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mala Ananth United States	15	520	432	329	160	143	24	1.1k
Jinrong Wei United States	4	580 1.1×	406 0.9×	215 0.7×	238 1.5×	105 0.7×	6	1.3k
Zengbo Ding China	19	721 1.4×	621 1.4×	328 1.0×	184 1.1×	136 1.0×	33	1.5k
Pierangelo Sardo Italy	21	652 1.3×	310 0.7×	321 1.0×	157 1.0×	155 1.1×	72	1.2k
Tamzin L. Ripley United Kingdom	21	718 1.4×	363 0.8×	317 1.0×	129 0.8×	113 0.8×	39	1.1k
Maddalena Mereu Italy	20	737 1.4×	278 0.6×	462 1.4×	189 1.2×	66 0.5×	33	1.2k
Estela Castilla‐Ortega Spain	26	568 1.1×	337 0.8×	491 1.5×	185 1.2×	176 1.2×	65	1.5k
Lu E. Jin United States	13	782 1.5×	717 1.7×	474 1.4×	108 0.7×	194 1.4×	17	1.5k
Sean C. Piantadosi United States	14	522 1.0×	213 0.5×	360 1.1×	187 1.2×	212 1.5×	20	1.5k
Cai‐Lian Cui China	26	835 1.6×	697 1.6×	326 1.0×	158 1.0×	337 2.4×	82	1.7k
Stella Manta Canada	12	395 0.8×	289 0.7×	279 0.8×	106 0.7×	104 0.7×	17	966

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Ananth, Mala, Chuan Huang, Mark Slifstein, et al.. (2025). A central role for acetylcholine in entorhinal cortex function and dysfunction with age in humans and mice. Cell Reports. 44(2). 115249–115249. 1 indexed citations

Rajebhosale, Prithviraj, Mala Ananth, Ronald Kim, et al.. (2024). Functionally refined encoding of threat memory by distinct populations of basal forebrain cholinergic projection neurons. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Ronald, Mala Ananth, Niraj S. Desai, Lorna W. Role, & David A. Talmage. (2024). Distinct subpopulations of ventral pallidal cholinergic projection neurons encode valence of olfactory stimuli. Cell Reports. 43(4). 114009–114009. 5 indexed citations

Ananth, Mala, Prithviraj Rajebhosale, Ronald Kim, David A. Talmage, & Lorna W. Role. (2023). Basal forebrain cholinergic signalling: development, connectivity and roles in cognition. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 24(4). 233–251. 61 indexed citations

Bartlett, Elizabeth, Maura Boldrini, Mala Ananth, et al.. (2023). In vivo serotonin 1A receptor hippocampal binding potential in depression and reported childhood adversity. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e17–e17. 5 indexed citations

Ananth, Mala, et al.. (2021). NeuroConstruct: 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Neurites in Optical Microscopy Brain Images. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 28(12). 4951–4965. 12 indexed citations

Bartlett, Elizabeth, Mala Ananth, Chencan Zhu, et al.. (2020). Examining the underpinnings of loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials with positron emission tomography. NeuroImage. 213. 116733–116733. 16 indexed citations

Ananth, Mala, Elizabeth Bartlett, Christine DeLorenzo, et al.. (2020). Prediction of lithium treatment response in bipolar depression using 5-HTT and 5-HT1A PET. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 47(10). 2417–2428. 9 indexed citations

McGregor, Matthew, et al.. (2020). The functional networks of a novel environment: Neural activity mapping in awake unrestrained rats using positron emission tomography. Brain and Behavior. 10(8). e01646–e01646. 12 indexed citations

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Záborszky, László, Péter Gombkötő, Matthew R. Gielow, et al.. (2018). Specific Basal Forebrain–Cortical Cholinergic Circuits Coordinate Cognitive Operations. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(44). 9446–9458. 134 indexed citations

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Bartlett, Elizabeth, Mala Ananth, Jie Yang, et al.. (2018). Quantification of Positron Emission Tomography Data Using Simultaneous Estimation of the Input Function: Validation with Venous Blood and Replication of Clinical Studies. Molecular Imaging and Biology. 21(5). 926–934. 18 indexed citations

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López‐Hernández, Gretchen Y., Mala Ananth, Li Jiang, et al.. (2017). Electrophysiological properties of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons identified by genetic and optogenetic tagging. Journal of Neurochemistry. 142(S2). 103–110. 14 indexed citations

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Ananth, Mala, Christine DeLorenzo, Jie Yang, J. John Mann, & Ramin V. Parsey. (2017). Decreased Pretreatment Amygdalae Serotonin Transporter Binding in Unipolar Depression Remitters: A Prospective PET Study. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 59(4). 665–670. 10 indexed citations

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Robison, Lisa S., Mala Ananth, Michael Hadjiargyrou, David E. Komatsu, & Panayotis K. Thanos. (2017). Chronic oral methylphenidate treatment reversibly increases striatal dopamine transporter and dopamine type 1 receptor binding in rats. Journal of Neural Transmission. 124(5). 655–667. 28 indexed citations

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Thanos, Panayotis K., Ronald Kim, Foteini Delis, et al.. (2016). Chronic Methamphetamine Effects on Brain Structure and Function in Rats. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0155457–e0155457. 68 indexed citations

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Ballinger, Elizabeth, Mala Ananth, David A. Talmage, & Lorna W. Role. (2016). Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Circuits and Signaling in Cognition and Cognitive Decline. Neuron. 91(6). 1199–1218. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thanos, Panayotis K., Lisa S. Robison, Ronald Kim, et al.. (2016). Suboptimal maternal diets alter mu opioid receptor and dopamine type 1 receptor binding but exert no effect on dopamine transporters in the offspring brain. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience. 64(1). 21–28. 14 indexed citations

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Komatsu, David E., Panayotis K. Thanos, Lisa S. Robison, et al.. (2012). Chronic exposure to methylphenidate impairs appendicular bone quality in young rats. Bone. 50(6). 1214–1222. 35 indexed citations

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Thanos, Panayotis K., et al.. (2011). D‐cycloserine facilitates extinction of cocaine self‐administration in c57 mice. Synapse. 65(10). 1099–1105. 20 indexed citations

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Michaelides, Michael, Panayotis K. Thanos, Ronald Kim, et al.. (2011). PET imaging predicts future body weight and cocaine preference. NeuroImage. 59(2). 1508–1513. 47 indexed citations

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