Nelson Butters

32.6k citations

239 papers · 25.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 80

Impact in

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.05%
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.05%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

Papers in

Cognitive Neuroscience 132
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms 75
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism 25
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies 20
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies 16
Psychiatry and Mental health 77
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research 62

Co-authors: David P. Salmon Robert Katzman Laird S. Cermak Eliezer Masliah Richard DeTeresa Lawrence A. Hansen Robert D. Terry Robert Hill
Journals: Neuropsychologia (25 papers)Neuropsychology (15 papers)Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research (11 papers)Brain and Cognition (10 papers)Cortex (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Portugal

In The Last Decade

Nelson Butters

234 papers receiving 24.1k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

The HNRC 500-Neuropsychology of Hiv infection at different disease stages 1995 · 543 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.

1995 Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
1994 Neurology
1992 Archives of Neurology
1992 Neuropsychologia
1991 Annals of Neurology
1991 Archives of Neurology
1990 Neurology
1975 Brain Research

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Co-authors

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1	Is There a “Subcortical” Profile of Attentional Dysfunction? A Comparison of Patients with Huntington’s and Parkinson’s Diseases on a Global-Local Focused Attention Task Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology ·Osvaldo Orduna, Dean C. Delis, Ивченкова Маргарита Анатольевна, Theresa Demadura, Jane S. Paulsen, Neal R. Swerdlow, Michael R. Swenson, David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters, Clifford W. Shults	1998	25
2	Random number generation in dementia of the Alzheimer type: A test of frontal executive functions Neuropsychologia ·Peter Brugger, Andreas U. Monsch, David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters	1996	91
3	Longitudinal Analysis of Clock Drawing in Alzheimer's Disease Patients Brain and Cognition ·Isabelle Rouleau, David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters	1996	116
4	Discrimination of cortical from subcortical dementias on the basis of memory and problem-solving tests Journal of Clinical Psychology ·Jane S. Paulsen, David P. Salmon, Andreas U. Monsch, Nelson Butters, Michael R. Swenson, Mark W. Bondi	1995	44
5	Clinical Assessment of Memory Disorders in Amnesia and Dementia Annual Review of Psychology ·Nelson Butters, Dean C. Delis, John A. Lucas	1995	92
6	Neurobiology of skill and habit learning Current Opinion in Neurobiology ·David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters	1995	140
7	Neuropsychological explorations of memory and cognition : essays in honor of Nelson Butters Plenum Press eBooks ·Nelson Butters, Laird S. Cermak	1994	28
8	Memory remembered: 1970-1991 Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology ·Nelson Butters	1992	4
9	Pictorial priming and cued recall in Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease Brain and Cognition ·William C. Heindel, David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters	1990	73
10	Graded Neuropsychological Impairment and Elevated γ‐Glutamyl Transferase in Chronic Alcoholic Men Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research ·Michael R. Irwin, Tom L. Smith, Nelson Butters, Sandra Brown, S. A. Corey, Igor Grant, Marc A. Schuckit	1989	12
11	Neuropsychology of alcoholism: Implications for diagnosis and treatment. Oscar A. Parsons, Nelson Butters, حسن امینی	1987	225
12	Autobiographical Memory Cambridge University Press eBooks ·David C. Rubin, John A. Robinson, William F. Brewer, Marigold Linton, Ulric Neisser, Craig R. Barclay, Brian J. Reiser, Joseph M. Fitzgerald, Norman Brown, Scott Wetzler, Alan Baddeley, Nelson Butters, Herbert F. Crovitz	1986	458
13	An Assessment of Verbal Recall, Recognition and Fluency Abilities in Patients with Huntington's Disease Cortex ·Nelson Butters, Jessica Wolfe, Eric Granholm, Maryann E. Martone	1986	162
14	A Comparison of the Information Processing Deficits of Patients with Huntington's Chorea and Korsakoff's Syndrome Cortex ·Nelson Butters, Troy J. Tworek, Laird S. Cermak, Daniel S. Sax	1976	35
15	Retrieving Information from Korsakoff Patients Effects of Categorical Cues and Reference to the Task Cortex ·Howard Gardner, François Boller, Judith Moreines, Nelson Butters	1973	70
16	Short Term Memory Disorders Following Temporal Lobe Removals in Humans Cortex ·Ina Samuels, Nelson Butters, Paul Fedio	1972	21
17	Spatial Discrimination Systems and Cerebral Lateralization Cortex ·Pedro Menor Hernández, Nelson Butters, Harold Goodglass	1972	17
18	Short-Term Visual and Auditory Memory Disorders After Parietal and Frontal Lobe Damage Cortex ·Nelson Butters, Ina Samuels, Harold Goodglass, Betty Ann Brody	1970	67
19	Role of the Right Parietal Lobe in the Mediation of Cross-Modal Associations and Reversible Operations in Space Cortex ·Nelson Butters, Melvin I. Barton, Betty Ann Brody	1970	86
20	The Role of the Left Parietal Lobe in the Mediation of Intra-and Cross-Modal Associations Cortex ·Nelson Butters, Betty Ann Brody	1968	43

About Nelson Butters

Nelson Butters is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology and Sensory Systems, having authored 239 papers that have together received 25.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (75 papers), Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (62 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (36 papers), Alcoholism and Thiamine Deficiency (27 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (25 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (21 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (20 papers) and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (12.4k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (8.5k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (5.4k citations), Neurology (2.2k citations) and Neurology (3.7k citations). Nelson Butters has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. Frequent co-authors include David P. Salmon, Robert Katzman, Laird S. Cermak, Eliezer Masliah, Richard DeTeresa, Lawrence A. Hansen, Robert D. Terry, Robert Hill, Deepak Ν. Pandya and William C. Heindel. Their work appears in journals such as Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychology, Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research, Brain and Cognition and Cortex.

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