Michael E. Cahill

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Michael E. Cahill is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael E. Cahill has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael E. Cahill's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (26 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (9 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (9 papers). Michael E. Cahill is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (26 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (9 papers) and Ion channel regulation and function (9 papers). Michael E. Cahill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Michael E. Cahill's co-authors include Peter Penzes, Kevin M. Woolfrey, Kelly A. Jones, Zhong Xie, Deepak P. Srivastava, Huzefa Photowala, Eric J. Nestler, Angela Guillozet-Bongaarts, Robert W. Berry and Lester I. Binder and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Michael E. Cahill

48 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Dendritic spine pathology in neuropsychiatric disorders

2011 1.1k citations Peter Penzes, Michael E. Cahill et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael E. Cahill United States	27	2.2k	1.8k	763	601	583	49	4.1k
Enikö A. Kramár United States	37	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	538 0.7×	829 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	63	5.1k
Warren D. Hirst United States	46	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	370 0.6×	587 1.0×	90	5.9k
Liam Drew United Kingdom	27	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	727 1.0×	383 0.6×	912 1.6×	64	4.0k
Kwangwook Cho United Kingdom	39	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	260 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	64	4.5k
Sabina Berretta United States	37	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	304 0.4×	319 0.5×	982 1.7×	74	4.1k
Robert E. McCullumsmith United States	43	2.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	467 0.6×	485 0.8×	555 1.0×	151	4.7k
Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach Germany	41	2.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	738 1.0×	304 0.5×	609 1.0×	115	5.1k
Jinsoo Seo South Korea	29	1.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	834 1.4×	888 1.5×	71	5.3k
Coleen M. Atkins United States	32	2.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	536 0.7×	765 1.3×	1.1k 1.8×	57	5.1k
Farahnaz Sananbenesi Germany	26	1.3k 0.6×	3.1k 1.7×	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.8×	653 1.1×	37	5.4k

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Schumer, Maya C., et al.. (2025). Breaking barriers: centering researchers with lived experience in psychiatric neuroscience. PubMed. 3(1). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

Kermath, Bailey A., et al.. (2023). Stress-mediated dysregulation of the Rap1 small GTPase impairs hippocampal structure and function. iScience. 26(9). 107566–107566. 5 indexed citations

Kermath, Bailey A., Abigail B. Radcliff, Mathew V. Jones, et al.. (2022). A feature of maternal sleep apnea during gestation causes autism-relevant neuronal and behavioral phenotypes in offspring. PLoS Biology. 20(2). e3001502–e3001502. 18 indexed citations

Kermath, Bailey A., et al.. (2020). The Rap1 small GTPase is a critical mediator of the effects of stress on prefrontal cortical dysfunction. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(7). 3223–3239. 12 indexed citations

Calipari, Erin S., Arthur Godino, Marine Salery, et al.. (2019). Synaptic Microtubule-Associated Protein EB3 and SRC Phosphorylation Mediate Structural and Behavioral Adaptations During Withdrawal From Cocaine Self-Administration. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(29). 5634–5646. 23 indexed citations

Mul, Joram D., Marion Soto, Michael E. Cahill, et al.. (2018). Voluntary wheel running promotes resilience to chronic social defeat stress in mice: a role for nucleus accumbens ΔFosB. Neuropsychopharmacology. 43(9). 1934–1942. 48 indexed citations

Cahill, Michael E., Caleb J. Browne, Junshi Wang, et al.. (2018). Withdrawal from repeated morphine administration augments expression of the RhoA network in the nucleus accumbens to control synaptic structure. Journal of Neurochemistry. 147(1). 84–98. 13 indexed citations

Cates, Hannah M., Elizabeth A. Heller, Casey K. Lardner, et al.. (2017). Transcription Factor E2F3a in Nucleus Accumbens Affects Cocaine Action via Transcription and Alternative Splicing. Biological Psychiatry. 84(3). 167–179. 26 indexed citations

Calipari, Erin S., Barbara Juarez, Carole Morel, et al.. (2017). Dopaminergic dynamics underlying sex-specific cocaine reward. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13877–13877. 256 indexed citations

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Cahill, Michael E., Rosemary C. Bagot, Amy M. Gancarz, et al.. (2016). Bidirectional Synaptic Structural Plasticity after Chronic Cocaine Administration Occurs through Rap1 Small GTPase Signaling. Neuron. 89(3). 566–582. 63 indexed citations

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Russell, Theron A., Katherine D. Blizinsky, Derin Cobia, et al.. (2014). A sequence variant in human KALRN impairs protein function and coincides with reduced cortical thickness. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4858–4858. 28 indexed citations

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Feng, Jian, Matthew B. Wilkinson, Xiaochuan Liu, et al.. (2014). Chronic cocaine-regulated epigenomic changes in mouse nucleus accumbens. Genome biology. 15(4). R65–R65. 133 indexed citations

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Golden, Sam A., Daniel J. Christoffel, Mitra Heshmati, et al.. (2013). Epigenetic regulation of RAC1 induces synaptic remodeling in stress disorders and depression. Nature Medicine. 19(3). 337–344. 249 indexed citations

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Penzes, Peter & Michael E. Cahill. (2012). Deconstructing signal transduction pathways that regulate the actin cytoskeleton in dendritic spines. Cytoskeleton. 69(7). 426–441. 49 indexed citations

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Srivastava, Deepak P., Bryan A. Copits, Zhong Xie, et al.. (2012). Afadin Is Required for Maintenance of Dendritic Structure and Excitatory Tone. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 287(43). 35964–35974. 25 indexed citations

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Deo, Anthony J., Michael E. Cahill, Siyu Li, et al.. (2011). Increased expression of Kalirin-9 in the auditory cortex of schizophrenia subjects: Its role in dendritic pathology. Neurobiology of Disease. 45(2). 796–803. 38 indexed citations

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Penzes, Peter, et al.. (2011). Dendritic spine pathology in neuropsychiatric disorders. Nature Neuroscience. 14(3). 285–293. 1140 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xie, Zhong, Michael E. Cahill, Jelena Radulović, et al.. (2010). Hippocampal phenotypes in kalirin-deficient mice. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 46(1). 45–54. 30 indexed citations

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Cahill, Michael E., Zhong Xie, Michelle Day, et al.. (2009). Kalirin regulates cortical spine morphogenesis and disease-related behavioral phenotypes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(31). 13058–13063. 141 indexed citations

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Woolfrey, Kevin M., Deepak P. Srivastava, Huzefa Photowala, et al.. (2009). Epac2 induces synapse remodeling and depression and its disease-associated forms alter spines. Nature Neuroscience. 12(10). 1275–1284. 134 indexed citations

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