Nathan Insel

1.0k total citations
25 papers, 751 citations indexed

About

Nathan Insel is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Insel has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 751 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nathan Insel's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (15 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Nathan Insel is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (15 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (15 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Nathan Insel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Nathan Insel's co-authors include Carol A. Barnes, Kaori Takehara‐Nishiuchi, Paul W. Frankland, Sheena A. Josselyn, Asim J. Rashid, Almira Vazdarjanova, Paul Worley, Victor Ramı́rez-Amaya, Dalia M. Mikhael and Thane K. Plummer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Insel

24 papers receiving 747 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan Insel Canada 13 529 526 115 109 84 25 751
Matthew M. Tran Canada 4 439 0.8× 405 0.8× 107 0.9× 80 0.7× 101 1.2× 5 619
Fabricio Ballarini Argentina 12 430 0.8× 586 1.1× 132 1.1× 89 0.8× 110 1.3× 19 717
Kazumasa Z. Tanaka Japan 10 719 1.4× 739 1.4× 111 1.0× 161 1.5× 102 1.2× 18 908
Thomas Rogerson United States 6 712 1.3× 683 1.3× 197 1.7× 134 1.2× 64 0.8× 7 982
Diego Moncada Argentina 12 657 1.2× 811 1.5× 199 1.7× 133 1.2× 140 1.7× 14 977
Shruti Muralidhar United States 6 436 0.8× 382 0.7× 172 1.5× 66 0.6× 86 1.0× 8 684
Sungmo Park South Korea 11 575 1.1× 529 1.0× 136 1.2× 97 0.9× 81 1.0× 27 788
Andrei T. Popescu United States 12 651 1.2× 628 1.2× 225 2.0× 57 0.5× 84 1.0× 13 1.1k
B.. Perkins Netherlands 3 452 0.9× 411 0.8× 149 1.3× 82 0.8× 59 0.7× 9 619

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Insel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Insel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Insel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nathan Insel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nathan Insel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nathan Insel. Nathan Insel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yan, Valentina Mercaldo, Andrew J. Mocle, et al.. (2024). Higher-order interactions between hippocampal CA1 neurons are disrupted in amnestic mice. Nature Neuroscience. 27(9). 1794–1804. 5 indexed citations
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Hays, Chelsea C., et al.. (2024). How the forebrain transitions to adulthood: developmental plasticity markers in a long-lived rodent reveal region diversity and the uniqueness of adolescence. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1365737–1365737. 2 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, et al.. (2024). Familiarity and social relationships in degus (Octodon degus). Ethology. 130(8).
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Takehara‐Nishiuchi, Kaori, et al.. (2021). Multiple dimensions of social motivation in adult female degus. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0250219–e0250219. 5 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, et al.. (2020). Female degus show high sociality but no preference for familiar peers. Behavioural Processes. 174. 104102–104102. 13 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, Jordan Guerguiev, & Blake A. Richards. (2018). Irrelevance by inhibition: Learning, computation, and implications for schizophrenia. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(8). e1006315–e1006315. 2 indexed citations
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Morrissey, Mark D., Nathan Insel, & Kaori Takehara‐Nishiuchi. (2017). Generalizable knowledge outweighs incidental details in prefrontal ensemble code over time. eLife. 6. 33 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, et al.. (2017). Observational fear learning in degus is correlated with temporal vocalization patterns. Behavioural Brain Research. 332. 362–371. 10 indexed citations
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Park, Sungmo, Valentina Mercaldo, Asim J. Rashid, et al.. (2016). Neuronal Allocation to a Hippocampal Engram. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(13). 2987–2993. 132 indexed citations
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Sun, Huaying, et al.. (2016). Enhancing Prefrontal Neuron Activity Enables Associative Learning of Temporally Disparate Events. Cell Reports. 15(11). 2400–2410. 17 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, et al.. (2015). Chronic deep brain stimulation of the rat ventral medial prefrontal cortex disrupts hippocampal–prefrontal coherence. Experimental Neurology. 269. 1–7. 10 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan & Paul W. Frankland. (2014). Mechanism, function, and computation in neural systems. Behavioural Processes. 117. 4–11. 2 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan & Carol A. Barnes. (2014). Differential Activation of Fast-Spiking and Regular-Firing Neuron Populations During Movement and Reward in the Dorsal Medial Frontal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 25(9). 2631–2647. 48 indexed citations
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Hsiang, Hwa‐Lin, Jonathan R. Epp, Michel C. van den Oever, et al.. (2014). Manipulating a “Cocaine Engram” in Mice. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(42). 14115–14127. 93 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan & Kaori Takehara‐Nishiuchi. (2013). The cortical structure of consolidated memory: A hypothesis on the role of the cingulate–entorhinal cortical connection. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 106. 343–350. 28 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, Lan T. Hoang, Saman Nematollahi, et al.. (2012). Reduced Gamma Frequency in the Medial Frontal Cortex of Aged Rats during Behavior and Rest: Implications for Age-Related Behavioral Slowing. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(46). 16331–16344. 32 indexed citations
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Takehara‐Nishiuchi, Kaori, Nathan Insel, Linh Hoang, et al.. (2012). Activation Patterns in Superficial Layers of Neocortex Change Between Experiences Independent of Behavior, Environment, or the Hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex. 23(9). 2225–2234. 6 indexed citations
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Insel, Nathan, et al.. (2008). Aging in rhesus macaques is associated with changes in novelty preference and altered saccade dynamics.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 122(6). 1328–1342. 12 indexed citations
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Poe, Gina R., et al.. (2000). Partial hippocampal inactivation: Effects on spatial memory performance in aged and young rats.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 114(5). 940–949. 36 indexed citations

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