Michel Le Moal

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Michel Le Moal is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Le Moal has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Social Psychology, 10 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 7 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Michel Le Moal's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (12 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (10 papers) and Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (4 papers). Michel Le Moal is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (12 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (10 papers) and Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience (4 papers). Michel Le Moal collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United States. Michel Le Moal's co-authors include Stefania Maccari, Willy Mayo, Pier Vincenzo Piazza, Monique Vallée, Hervé Simon, F. Dellu, Robert Dantzer, Françoise Rougé‐Pont, Josette Dulluc and Rose-Marie Bluthé and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, Brain Research and Brain Research Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Michel Le Moal

18 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Prenatal Stress Induces High Anxiety and Postnatal Handling Induces Low Anxiety in Adult Offspring: Correlation with Stress-Induced Corticosterone Secretion

1997 666 citations Monique Vallée, Willy Mayo et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Maternal Glucocorticoid Secretion Mediates Long-Term Effects of Prenatal Stress

1996 515 citations Pier Vincenzo Piazza, Michel Le Moal et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michel Le Moal France	18	1.6k	1.3k	713	435	307	18	2.7k
David H. Aitken Canada	18	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	610 0.9×	411 0.9×	348 1.1×	19	3.0k
Kristen L. Brunson United States	24	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	704 1.0×	901 2.1×	323 1.1×	33	3.1k
Gary W. Kraemer United States	31	870 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	514 0.7×	585 1.3×	374 1.2×	62	2.9k
Craig H. Kinsley United States	32	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	622 0.9×	362 0.8×	222 0.7×	72	3.0k
Aldo Bolten Lucion Brazil	36	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	428 0.6×	580 1.3×	255 0.8×	109	3.1k
Beth Tannenbaum Canada	14	2.5k 1.6×	2.3k 1.8×	897 1.3×	302 0.7×	324 1.1×	15	4.3k
Isabelle Weiss Switzerland	13	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	377 0.5×	720 1.7×	354 1.2×	19	2.6k
Eva E. Redei United States	39	1.6k 1.0×	877 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	668 1.5×	288 0.9×	124	3.9k
Paola Casolini Italy	24	1.3k 0.9×	915 0.7×	351 0.5×	1.0k 2.4×	321 1.0×	45	2.7k
Judith M. Stern United States	32	1.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.6×	414 0.6×	349 0.8×	225 0.7×	68	2.9k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Vallée, Monique, Willy Mayo, & Michel Le Moal. (2001). Role of pregnenolone, dehydroepiandrosterone and their sulfate esters on learning and memory in cognitive aging. Brain Research Reviews. 37(1-3). 301–312. 161 indexed citations

Mayo, Willy, Michel Le Moal, & Djoher Nora Abrous. (2001). Pregnenolone Sulfate and Aging of Cognitive Functions: Behavioral, Neurochemical, and Morphological Investigations. Hormones and Behavior. 40(2). 215–217. 34 indexed citations

Barrot, Michel, Michela Marinelli, Djoher Nora Abrous, et al.. (2000). The dopaminergic hyper‐responsiveness of the shell of the nucleus accumbens is hormone‐dependent. European Journal of Neuroscience. 12(3). 973–979. 166 indexed citations

Koehl, Muriel, et al.. (1999). Prenatal stress alters circadian activity of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and hippocampal corticosteroid receptors in adult rats of both gender. Journal of Neurobiology. 40(3). 302–315. 251 indexed citations

Rougé‐Pont, Françoise, Véronique Deroche‐Gamonet, Michel Le Moal, & Pier Vincenzo Piazza. (1998). Individual differences in stress‐induced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens are influenced by corticosterone. European Journal of Neuroscience. 10(12). 3903–3907. 152 indexed citations

Vallée, Monique, Willy Mayo, F. Dellu, et al.. (1997). Prenatal Stress Induces High Anxiety and Postnatal Handling Induces Low Anxiety in Adult Offspring: Correlation with Stress-Induced Corticosterone Secretion. Journal of Neuroscience. 17(7). 2626–2636. 666 indexed citations breakdown →

Piazza, Pier Vincenzo, et al.. (1996). Maternal Glucocorticoid Secretion Mediates Long-Term Effects of Prenatal Stress. Journal of Neuroscience. 16(12). 3943–3949. 515 indexed citations breakdown →

Vallée, Monique, Willy Mayo, Jamie C. Day, et al.. (1996). Early and Later Adoptions Have Different Long-Term Effects on Male Rat Offspring. Journal of Neuroscience. 16(23). 7783–7790. 120 indexed citations

Ahmed, Serge H., et al.. (1995). Amphetamine-induced conditioned activity in rats: Comparison with novelty-induced activity and role of the basolateral amygdala.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 109(4). 723–733. 38 indexed citations

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Dellu, F., et al.. (1994). Reactivity to novelty during youth as a predictive factor of cognitive impairment in the elderly: a longitudinal study in rats. Brain Research. 653(1-2). 51–56. 75 indexed citations

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Castanon, Nathalie, Josette Dulluc, Michel Le Moal, & Pierre Mormède. (1992). Prolactin as a link between behavioral and immune differences between the Roman rat lines. Physiology & Behavior. 51(6). 1235–1241. 31 indexed citations

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Betancur, Catalina, P.J. Neveu, S. Vitiello, & Michel Le Moal. (1991). Natural killer cell activity is associated with brain asymmetry in male mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 5(2). 162–169. 52 indexed citations

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Neveu, Pierre J., Catalina Betancur, S. Vitiello, & Michel Le Moal. (1991). Sex-dependent association between immune function and paw preference in two substrains of C3H mice. Brain Research. 559(2). 347–351. 19 indexed citations

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Neveu, Pierre J., et al.. (1991). Functional brain asymmetry and lymphocyte proliferation in female mice: effects of right and left cortical ablation. Brain Research. 550(1). 125–128. 28 indexed citations

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Betancur, Catalina, et al.. (1991). Strain and sex differences in the degree of paw preference in mice. Behavioural Brain Research. 45(1). 97–101. 45 indexed citations

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Mormède, Pierre, et al.. (1990). Multiple neuroendocrine responses to chronic social stress: Interaction between individual characteristics and situational factors. Physiology & Behavior. 47(6). 1099–1105. 76 indexed citations

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Dantzer, Robert, et al.. (1988). Interleukin-1 induces conditioned taste aversion in rats: a possible explanation for its pituitary-adrenal stimulating activity. Brain Research. 473(2). 369–371. 74 indexed citations

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Dantzer, Robert, George F. Koob, Rose-Marie Bluthé, & Michel Le Moal. (1988). Septal vasopressin modulates social memory in male rats. Brain Research. 457(1). 143–147. 227 indexed citations

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