Moriel Zelikowsky

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Moriel Zelikowsky is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Moriel Zelikowsky has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 11 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Moriel Zelikowsky's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (12 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 papers). Moriel Zelikowsky is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (12 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (12 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 papers). Moriel Zelikowsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Moriel Zelikowsky's co-authors include Katharina Kircanski, Aaron S. Baker, Jayson L. Mystkowski, Michelle G. Craske, Michael S. Fanselow, David J. Anderson, Ryan Remedios, Stéphanie Bissière, Ann Kennedy and Haijiang Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Moriel Zelikowsky

25 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy

2007 1.1k citations Michelle G. Craske, Katharina Kircanski et al. Behaviour Research and Therapy profile →
The emergence and influence of internal states

2022 96 citations Steven W. Flavell, Nadine Gogolla et al. Neuron profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moriel Zelikowsky United States	17	1.2k	735	658	637	623	26	2.7k
Andrew S. Fox United States	38	2.0k 1.7×	601 0.8×	791 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	584 0.9×	79	3.7k
Richard J. Servatius United States	34	1.2k 1.0×	931 1.3×	667 1.0×	346 0.5×	531 0.9×	131	3.2k
Deborah M. Saucier Canada	33	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	468 0.7×	456 0.7×	536 0.9×	76	3.7k
Terry D. Blumenthal United States	30	1.6k 1.3×	471 0.6×	424 0.6×	914 1.4×	591 0.9×	107	3.3k
Kyle S. Smith United States	22	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 2.4×	498 0.8×	364 0.6×	463 0.7×	40	3.4k
Sarina M. Rodrigues United States	16	1.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	962 1.5×	304 0.5×	272 0.4×	16	2.8k
Karyn M. Myers United States	25	2.1k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	774 1.2×	377 0.6×	515 0.8×	32	3.4k
Stephen V. Mahler United States	30	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	457 0.7×	552 0.9×	244 0.4×	52	3.0k
Michael Potegal United States	34	810 0.7×	584 0.8×	1.2k 1.9×	273 0.4×	481 0.8×	96	2.8k
Marc Guitart‐Masip United Kingdom	33	2.5k 2.1×	924 1.3×	404 0.6×	705 1.1×	291 0.5×	70	3.6k

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, et al.. (2025). An integrative assay for measuring social aversion and motivation in freely behaving mice. Cell Reports Methods. 5(8). 101108–101108.

Tränkner, Dimitri, Amanda H. Mahnke, Keun-Young Kim, et al.. (2025). Inhibitory Neurons Marked by the Connectivity Molecule Kirrel3 Regulate Memory Precision. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(38). e1760242025–e1760242025. 1 indexed citations

Asahina, Kenta & Moriel Zelikowsky. (2025). Comparative Perspectives on Neuropeptide Function and Social Isolation. Biological Psychiatry. 97(10). 942–952. 1 indexed citations

Miller, Cory T., Xiaoke Chen, Zoe R. Donaldson, et al.. (2024). The BRAIN Initiative: a pioneering program on the precipice. Nature Neuroscience. 27(12). 2264–2266. 1 indexed citations

Gericke, Birthe, et al.. (2023). Anxiety in synucleinopathies: neuronal circuitry, underlying pathomechanisms and current therapeutic strategies. npj Parkinson s Disease. 9(1). 97–97. 22 indexed citations

Flavell, Steven W., Nadine Gogolla, Matthew Lovett-Barron, & Moriel Zelikowsky. (2022). The emergence and influence of internal states. Neuron. 110(16). 2545–2570. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

Padilla-Coreano, Nancy, Kay M. Tye, & Moriel Zelikowsky. (2022). Dynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 23(9). 535–550. 30 indexed citations

Marvar, Paul J., Raül Andero, René Hurlemann, et al.. (2021). Limbic Neuropeptidergic Modulators of Emotion and Their Therapeutic Potential for Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(5). 901–910. 16 indexed citations

Zelikowsky, Moriel, et al.. (2020). Stress Varies Along the Social Density Continuum. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 14. 582985–582985. 9 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, et al.. (2018). Neuropeptidergic Control of an Internal Brain State Produced by Prolonged Social Isolation Stress. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 83. 97–103. 14 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, May Hui, Tomomi Karigo, et al.. (2018). The Neuropeptide Tac2 Controls a Distributed Brain State Induced by Chronic Social Isolation Stress. Cell. 173(5). 1265–1279.e19. 190 indexed citations

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Remedios, Ryan, Ann Kennedy, Moriel Zelikowsky, et al.. (2017). Social behaviour shapes hypothalamic neural ensemble representations of conspecific sex. Nature. 550(7676). 388–392. 141 indexed citations

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Hong, Weizhe, Ann Kennedy, Xavier P. Burgos-Artizzu, et al.. (2015). Automated measurement of mouse social behaviors using depth sensing, video tracking, and machine learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). E5351–60. 200 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, et al.. (2014). Neuronal Ensembles in Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Prefrontal Cortex Track Differential Components of Contextual Fear. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(25). 8462–8466. 173 indexed citations

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Fanselow, Michael S., et al.. (2013). Isomorphisms between psychological processes and neural mechanisms: From stimulus elements to genetic markers of activity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 108. 5–13. 3 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, Stéphanie Bissière, & Michael S. Fanselow. (2012). Contextual Fear Memories Formed in the Absence of the Dorsal Hippocampus Decay Across Time. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(10). 3393–3397. 62 indexed citations

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Halladay, Lindsay R., Moriel Zelikowsky, Hugh T. Blair, & Michael S. Fanselow. (2012). Reinstatement of extinguished fear by an unextinguished conditional stimulus. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 6. 18–18. 20 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel, Dániel Pham, & Michael S. Fanselow. (2011). Temporal factors control hippocampal contributions to fear renewal after extinction. Hippocampus. 22(5). 1096–1106. 46 indexed citations

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Zelikowsky, Moriel & Michael S. Fanselow. (2010). Opioid regulation of Pavlovian overshadowing in fear conditioning.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 124(4). 510–519. 15 indexed citations

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Craske, Michelle G., et al.. (2007). Optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 46(1). 5–27. 1065 indexed citations breakdown →

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