Miles Herkenham

27.5k citations

143 papers · 22.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 77

Impact in

Behavioral Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.02%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology

Papers in

Behavioral Neuroscience 28
- Stress Responses and Cortisol 28
Biological Psychiatry 19
- Tryptophan and brain disorders 19

Co-authors: A B Lynn Walle J. H. Nauta Andrea G. Hohmann L S Melvin Candace B. Pert Linda S. Brady Kenner C. Rice Michael L. Lehmann
Journals: Brain Research (20 papers)The Journal of Comparative Neurology (15 papers)Neuroscience (12 papers)Journal of Neuroscience (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Czechia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Miles Herkenham

140 papers receiving 21.9k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

Increased mortality, hypoactivity, and hypoalgesia in cannabinoid CB1 receptor knockout mice 1999 · 854 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1999 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1991 Journal of Neuroscience
1990 Neuroendocrinology
1990 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1987 Journal of Neuroscience
1984 Nature
1979 The Journal of Comparative Neurology
1977 The Journal of Comparative Neurology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Miles Herkenham, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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#	Work
1	Cannabinoid receptors in GtoPdb v.2025.1 IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE ·Mary E. Abood, Christian C. Felder, Peter J. Greasley, Miles Herkenham, Allyn C. Howlett, George Kunos, Ken Mackie, Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Maurice R. Elphick, Vincenzo Di Marzo, S P H Alexander, Francis Barth, Tom I. Bonner, Heather B. Bradshaw, Guy A. Cabral, Pierre Casellas, Ben Cravatt, William A. Devane, Ruth A. Ross	2025	0
2	Cannabinoid receptors in GtoPdb v.2023.1 IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE ·Mary E. Abood, S P H Alexander, Francis Barth, Tom I. Bonner, Heather B. Bradshaw, Guy A. Cabral, Pierre Casellas, Ben Cravatt, William A. Devane, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Maurice R. Elphick, Christian C. Felder, Peter J. Greasley, Miles Herkenham, Allyn C. Howlett, George Kunos, Ken Mackie, Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Ruth A. Ross	2023	3
3	Analysis of cerebrovascular dysfunction caused by chronic social defeat in mice Brain Behavior and Immunity ·Michael L. Lehmann, Sigit Wibowo, Abdel G. Elkahloun, Miles Herkenham	2020	28
4	Cannabinoid receptors (version 2019.4) in the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology Database IUPHAR/BPS Guide to Pharmacology CITE ·Mary E. Abood, S P H Alexander, Francis Barth, Tom I. Bonner, Heather B. Bradshaw, Guy A. Cabral, Pierre Casellas, Ben Cravatt, William A. Devane, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Maurice R. Elphick, Christian C. Felder, Peter J. Greasley, Miles Herkenham, Allyn C. Howlett, George Kunos, Ken Mackie, Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Ruth A. Ross	2019	12
5	PACAP-deficient mice show attenuated corticosterone secretion and fail to develop depressive behavior during chronic social defeat stress Psychoneuroendocrinology ·Michael L. Lehmann, Tomris Mustafa, Anshuman Satpathy, Miles Herkenham, Lee E. Eiden	2012	95
6	Environmental Enrichment Confers Stress Resiliency to Social Defeat through an Infralimbic Cortex-Dependent Neuroanatomical Pathway Journal of Neuroscience ·Michael L. Lehmann, Miles Herkenham	2011	185
7	NF-κB activity affects learning in aversive tasks: Possible actions via modulation of the stress axis Brain Behavior and Immunity ·Michael L. Lehmann, Rebecca A. Brachman, Samuel J. Listwak, Miles Herkenham	2010	31
8	Induction of IDO by Bacille Calmette-Guérin Is Responsible for Development of Murine Depressive-Like Behavior The Journal of Immunology ·Jason C. O’Connor, Marcus A. Lawson, Caroline André, Eileen M. Briley, S. S. Szegedi, Jacques Lestage, Nathalie Castanon, Miles Herkenham, Robert Dantzer, Keith W. Kelley	2009	242
9	Three Promoters Regulate Tissue- and Cell Type-specific Expression of Murine Interleukin-1 Receptor Type I Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Qun Chen, Hao Zhang, Qiming Li, Ying An, Miles Herkenham, Wenmin Lai, Phillip G. Popovich, Sudha Agarwal, Ning Quan	2009	11
10	Toll-Like Receptor 4 on Nonhematopoietic Cells Sustains CNS Inflammation during Endotoxemia, Independent of Systemic Cytokines Journal of Neuroscience ·Sumana Chakravarty, Miles Herkenham	2005	323
11	Activin mRNA induced during amygdala kindling shows a spatiotemporal progression that tracks the spread of seizures The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·Jane A. Foster, A. E. Randall, Dan McIntyre, Miles Herkenham	2004	28
12	NF-κB p50-deficient mice show reduced anxiety-like behaviors in tests of exploratory drive and anxiety Behavioural Brain Research ·Cheryl A. Kassed, Miles Herkenham	2004	82
13	Intracerebroventricular but not intravenous interleukin-1β induces widespread vascular-mediated leukocyte infiltration and immune signal mRNA expression followed by brain-wide glial activation Neuroscience ·Margit G. Proescholdt, Sumana Chakravarty, Jane A. Foster, Shailly Deewan, Eileen M. Briley, Miles Herkenham	2002	82
14	Chronic sodium salicylate treatment exacerbates brain neurodegeneration in rats infected with Trypanosoma brucei Neuroscience ·Ning Quan, Jama Mhlanga, Michael Whiteside, Krister Kristensson, Miles Herkenham	2000	16
15	Fragile X (fmr1) mRNA expression is differentially regulated in two adult models of activity-dependent gene expression Molecular Brain Research ·Gerald Valentine, Sumana Chakravarty, John M. Sarvey, Clive R. Bramham, Miles Herkenham	2000	19
16	Region-specific up-regulation of opioid receptor binding in enkephalin knockout mice Molecular Brain Research ·Linda S. Brady, Miles Herkenham, Richard B. Rothman, John S. Partilla, Jit R. Bhattacharyya, Anne Zimmer, Hooman Noroozi	1999	41
17	Cyclooxygenase 2 mRNA expression in rat brain after peripheral injection of lipopolysaccharide Brain Research ·Ning Quan, Michael Whiteside, Miles Herkenham	1998	138
18	Arcuate nucleus neurons that project to the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus: Neuropeptidergic identity and consequences of adrenalectomy on mRNA levels in the rat The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·Md. Faizur Rahman ., Miles Herkenham	1995	168
19	The antidepressants fluoxetine, idazoxan and phenelzine alter corticotropin-releasing hormone and tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA levels in rat brain: therapeutic implications Brain Research ·Linda S. Brady, Philip W. Gold, Miles Herkenham, Shou Sudou, Harvey J. Whitfield	1992	208
20	Selective retention of MPP+ within the monoaminergic systems of the primate brain following MPTP administration: An in vivo autoradiographic study Neuroscience ·Miles Herkenham, J. Gajdos, Krys S. Bankiewicz, Shangchuan Yang, Sanford P. Markey, Jan N. Johannessen	1991	149

About Miles Herkenham

Miles Herkenham is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Developmental Neuroscience, having authored 143 papers that have together received 22.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (40 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (36 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (34 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (28 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (23 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (20 papers), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (19 papers) and Tryptophan and brain disorders (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Behavioral Neuroscience (2.7k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (13.4k citations), Biological Psychiatry (1.7k citations), Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (2.8k citations) and Pharmacology (6.9k citations). Miles Herkenham has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Czechia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include A B Lynn, Walle J. H. Nauta, Andrea G. Hohmann, L S Melvin, Candace B. Pert, Linda S. Brady, Kenner C. Rice, Michael L. Lehmann, Ning Quan and Philip W. Gold. Their work appears in journals such as Brain Research, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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