Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
26 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida's work include Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (14 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers). Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida is often cited by papers focused on Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (14 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (8 papers). Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida's co-authors include Naoshige Uchida, Sachie K. Ogawa, Lisa Zhu, William Menegas, Joseph F. Bergan, Catherine Dulac, Wu Zheng, Anita E. Autry, Neir Eshel and Ryunosuke Amo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida

25 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Whole-Brain Mapping of Direct Inputs to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

2012 894 citations Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida, Sachie K. Ogawa et al. Neuron profile →
An excitatory paraventricular nucleus to AgRP neuron circuit that drives hunger

2014 473 citations Michael J. Krashes, Bhavik P. Shah et al. Nature profile →
Galanin neurons in the medial preoptic area govern parental behaviour

2014 411 citations Wu Zheng, Anita E. Autry et al. Nature profile →
A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis

2025 14 citations Ding Liu, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida United States	20	2.1k	1.6k	1.4k	634	543	26	4.0k
Ian R. Wickersham United States	25	2.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	395 0.6×	471 0.9×	50	4.6k
Benjamin R. Arenkiel United States	35	1.7k 0.8×	942 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	635 1.0×	269 0.5×	97	4.4k
Martin K. Schwarz Germany	32	2.0k 0.9×	942 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	470 0.7×	847 1.6×	69	4.4k
Joanna Mattis United States	17	3.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	550 0.9×	318 0.6×	23	5.1k
Nobuaki Tamamaki Japan	42	3.9k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.4×	438 0.7×	268 0.5×	107	6.0k
Hiroyuki Hioki Japan	36	3.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	391 0.6×	265 0.5×	93	5.4k
Julie J. Mirzabekov United States	6	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	357 0.6×	683 1.3×	6	4.5k
Ken Sugino United States	28	2.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	568 0.9×	223 0.4×	33	4.7k
Loreta Medina Spain	42	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	284 0.4×	1.1k 2.0×	98	4.9k
Ulla Pirvola Finland	38	2.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.9×	558 0.9×	323 0.6×	69	6.6k

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Tsutsui‐Kimura, Iku, Ryunosuke Amo, Yulong Li, et al.. (2025). Dopamine in the tail of the striatum facilitates avoidance in threat–reward conflicts. Nature Neuroscience. 28(4). 795–810. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Ding, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Ryunosuke Amo, et al.. (2025). A hypothalamic circuit underlying the dynamic control of social homeostasis. Nature. 640(8060). 1000–1010. 14 indexed citations breakdown →

Kamath, Tarun, Rochelin Dalangin, Wengang Wang, et al.. (2025). Hunger modulates exploration through suppression of dopamine signaling in the tail of the striatum. Neuron. 113(23). 4055–4068.e8.

Amo, Ryunosuke, Naoshige Uchida, & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2024). Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons. Neuron. 112(6). 1001–1019.e6. 9 indexed citations

Amo, Ryunosuke, et al.. (2024). Shifting attention to orient or avoid: a unifying account of the tail of the striatum and its dopaminergic inputs. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 59. 101441–101441. 5 indexed citations

Cai, Xintong, Changliang Liu, Iku Tsutsui‐Kimura, et al.. (2024). Dopamine dynamics are dispensable for movement but promote reward responses. Nature. 635(8038). 406–414. 19 indexed citations

Amo, Ryunosuke, Sara Matias, Akihiro Yamanaka, et al.. (2022). A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning. Nature Neuroscience. 25(8). 1082–1092. 44 indexed citations

Tsutsui‐Kimura, Iku, Yu Xie, Alexander Mathis, et al.. (2022). Striatal dopamine explains novelty-induced behavioral dynamics and individual variability in threat prediction. Neuron. 110(22). 3789–3804.e9. 50 indexed citations

Tsutsui‐Kimura, Iku, et al.. (2020). Distinct temporal difference error signals in dopamine axons in three regions of the striatum in a decision-making task. eLife. 9. 70 indexed citations

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Kim, HyungGoo R., Athar N. Malik, John G. Mikhael, et al.. (2020). A Unified Framework for Dopamine Signals across Timescales. Cell. 183(6). 1600–1616.e25. 147 indexed citations

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Menegas, William, et al.. (2018). Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli. Nature Neuroscience. 21(10). 1421–1430. 228 indexed citations

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Ogawa, Sachie K. & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2017). Organization of dopamine and serotonin system: Anatomical and functional mapping of monosynaptic inputs using rabies virus. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 174. 9–22. 30 indexed citations

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Menegas, William, Bénédicte M. Babayan, Naoshige Uchida, & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2017). Opposite initialization to novel cues in dopamine signaling in ventral and posterior striatum in mice. eLife. 6. 165 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Hideyuki, Ju Tian, Naoshige Uchida, & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2016). Midbrain dopamine neurons signal aversion in a reward-context-dependent manner. eLife. 5. 78 indexed citations

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Tian, Ju, Ryan Huang, Jeremiah Y. Cohen, et al.. (2016). Distributed and Mixed Information in Monosynaptic Inputs to Dopamine Neurons. Neuron. 91(6). 1374–1389. 146 indexed citations

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Zheng, Wu, Anita E. Autry, Joseph F. Bergan, Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida, & Catherine Dulac. (2014). Galanin neurons in the medial preoptic area govern parental behaviour. Nature. 509(7500). 325–330. 411 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ogawa, Sachie K., Jeremiah Y. Cohen, Dabin Hwang, Naoshige Uchida, & Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida. (2014). Organization of Monosynaptic Inputs to the Serotonin and Dopamine Neuromodulatory Systems. Cell Reports. 8(4). 1105–1118. 180 indexed citations

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Krashes, Michael J., Bhavik P. Shah, Joseph C. Madara, et al.. (2014). An excitatory paraventricular nucleus to AgRP neuron circuit that drives hunger. Nature. 507(7491). 238–242. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watabe‐Uchida, Mitsuko, et al.. (2006). The Rac Activator DOCK7 Regulates Neuronal Polarity through Local Phosphorylation of Stathmin/Op18. Neuron. 51(6). 727–739. 169 indexed citations

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Watabe‐Uchida, Mitsuko, Aki Masuda, Naoko Shimada, et al.. (2004). Novel metalloprotease–disintegrin, meltrin ϵ (ADAM35), expressed in epithelial tissues during chick embryogenesis. Developmental Dynamics. 230(3). 557–568. 10 indexed citations

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