Marisa Roberto

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
172 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Marisa Roberto is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marisa Roberto has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 62 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 43 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Marisa Roberto's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (76 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (62 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (62 papers). Marisa Roberto is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (76 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (62 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (62 papers). Marisa Roberto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Austria. Marisa Roberto's co-authors include George R. Siggins, Melissa A. Herman, Samuel G. Madamba, Nicholas W. Gilpin, Michal Bajo, Loren H. Parsons, Florence P. Varodayan, Paul Schweitzer, Maureen T. Cruz and David G. Stouffer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Marisa Roberto

165 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue semaglutide reduces alcohol drinking and modulates central GABA neurotransmission

2023 114 citations Mehdi Farokhnia, Sophia Khom et al. JCI Insight profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marisa Roberto United States	48	4.4k	1.9k	1.7k	1.6k	970	172	7.0k
Stephanie C. Dulawa United States	33	3.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	605 0.6×	58	7.3k
Howard C. Becker United States	48	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	173	7.3k
Darin J. Knapp United States	43	3.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	920 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	116	6.8k
Jessica E. Malberg United States	26	3.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	557 0.6×	32	7.6k
Deborah A. Finn United States	42	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	913 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	146	6.8k
Danny G. Winder United States	51	5.3k 1.2×	3.0k 1.6×	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	693 0.7×	148	7.5k
Gonzalo Flores Mexico	41	2.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	989 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	220	5.8k
Wolfgang H. Sommer Germany	46	3.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	814 0.8×	153	6.1k
Mark D. Underwood United States	42	3.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	525 0.5×	98	6.6k
Kuei‐Sen Hsu Taiwan	42	3.2k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	827 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	883 0.9×	148	6.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marisa Roberto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marisa Roberto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marisa Roberto based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Marisa Roberto. Marisa Roberto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Li, Min, Laura Soverchia, Scott P. Runyon, et al.. (2025). Sex-dependent role of Neuropeptide-S on anxiety, fear conditioning, and alcohol seeking in alcohol preferring rats. Neuropharmacology. 278. 110598–110598.

Zhang, Xu, Roman Vlkolinský, Chongyang Wu, et al.. (2025). S-Nitrosylation of CRTC1 in Alzheimer’s disease impairs CREB-dependent gene expression induced by neuronal activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(9). e2418179122–e2418179122. 4 indexed citations

McKee, Sherry A., Valerie A. Earnshaw, Elizabeth E. Epstein, et al.. (2025). Women and alcohol: A call to action. Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research. 50(1). e70205–e70205.

Varodayan, Florence P., Tony D. Davis, Pauravi J. Gandhi, et al.. (2023). Chronic ethanol induces a pro-inflammatory switch in interleukin-1β regulation of GABAergic signaling in the medial prefrontal cortex of male mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 110. 125–139. 22 indexed citations

Lovinger, David M. & Marisa Roberto. (2023). Synaptic Effects Induced by Alcohol. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 71. 217–308. 5 indexed citations

Farokhnia, Mehdi, Sophia Khom, Sophie K. Elvig, et al.. (2023). The glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue semaglutide reduces alcohol drinking and modulates central GABA neurotransmission. JCI Insight. 8(12). 114 indexed citations breakdown →

Cruz, Bryan, Vittoria Borgonetti, Michal Bajo, & Marisa Roberto. (2023). Sex-dependent factors of alcohol and neuroimmune mechanisms. Neurobiology of Stress. 26. 100562–100562. 19 indexed citations

Cruz, Bryan, Valentina Vozella, Benjamin Carper, et al.. (2022). FKBP5 inhibitors modulate alcohol drinking and trauma-related behaviors in a model of comorbid post-traumatic stress and alcohol use disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 48(8). 1144–1154. 13 indexed citations

Farokhnia, Mehdi, Lia J. Zallar, Zhi‐Bing You, et al.. (2021). A closer look at alcohol‐induced changes in the ghrelin system: novel insights from preclinical and clinical data. Addiction Biology. 27(1). e13033–e13033. 23 indexed citations

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Avchalumov, Yosef, Alison D. Kreisler, Sucharita S. Somkuwar, et al.. (2021). Sexually dimorphic prelimbic cortex mechanisms play a role in alcohol dependence: protection by endostatin. Neuropsychopharmacology. 46(11). 1937–1949. 4 indexed citations

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Ohtawa, Masaki, Shuming Chen, Sophia Khom, et al.. (2020). Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Biological Interrogation of Ginkgo biloba Chemical Space En Route to (−)-Bilobalide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(43). 18599–18618. 44 indexed citations

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Agoglia, Abigail E., Manhua Zhu, Harpreet Sidhu, et al.. (2020). Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor-1 Neurons in the Lateral Amygdala Display Selective Sensitivity to Acute and Chronic Ethanol Exposure. eNeuro. 7(2). ENEURO.0420–19.2020. 9 indexed citations

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Tunstall, Brendan J., Dean Kirson, Lia J. Zallar, et al.. (2019). Oxytocin blocks enhanced motivation for alcohol in alcohol dependence and blocks alcohol effects on GABAergic transmission in the central amygdala. PLoS Biology. 17(4). e2006421–e2006421. 76 indexed citations

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Logrip, Marian L., Christopher S. Oleata, & Marisa Roberto. (2017). Sex differences in responses of the basolateral-central amygdala circuit to alcohol, corticosterone and their interaction. PMC. 1 indexed citations

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Harris, R. Adron, Michal Bajo, Richard L. Bell, et al.. (2017). Genetic and Pharmacologic Manipulation of TLR4 Has Minimal Impact on Ethanol Consumption in Rodents. PMC. 2 indexed citations

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Varodayan, Florence P., Marian L. Logrip, & Marisa Roberto. (2017). P/Q-type voltage-gated calcium channels mediate the ethanol and CRF sensitivity of central amygdala GABAergic synapses. Neuropharmacology. 125. 197–206. 22 indexed citations

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Herman, Melissa A., Marsida Kallupi, George Luu, et al.. (2012). Enhanced GABAergic transmission in the central nucleus of the amygdala of genetically selected Marchigian Sardinian rats: Alcohol and CRF effects. Neuropharmacology. 67. 337–348. 49 indexed citations

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Cottone, Pietro, Valentina Sabino, Marisa Roberto, et al.. (2009). CRF system recruitment mediates dark side of compulsive eating. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(47). 20016–20020. 153 indexed citations

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Bajo, Michal, Maureen T. Cruz, George R. Siggins, Robert O. Messing, & Marisa Roberto. (2008). Protein kinase C epsilon mediation of CRF- and ethanol-induced GABA release in central amygdala. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(24). 8410–8415. 102 indexed citations

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Bajo, Michal, Marisa Roberto, & Paul Schweitzer. (2008). Differential alteration of hippocampal excitatory synaptic transmission by cannabinoid ligands. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 87(3). 766–775. 20 indexed citations

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