Newton S. Canteras

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

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Newton S. Canteras is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Newton S. Canteras has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Social Psychology, 60 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 56 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Newton S. Canteras's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (63 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (43 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers). Newton S. Canteras is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (63 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (43 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (43 papers). Newton S. Canteras collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Newton S. Canteras's co-authors include Larry W. Swanson, Richard B. Simerly, Cornelius T. Gross, Marina Goto, Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo, Gorica D. Petrovich, Érika Renata Ribeiro-Barbosa, Eliane Comoli, Cláudio Da Cunha and Simone Cristina Motta and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Newton S. Canteras

125 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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Organization of projections from the medial nucleus of the amygdala: A PHAL study in the rat

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Newton S. Canteras Brazil	47	3.8k	3.6k	3.2k	2.2k	2.0k	125	8.5k
Hong‐Wei Dong United States	30	3.7k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	952 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	49	8.1k
Richard Bandler Australia	54	3.3k 0.9×	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	125	10.0k
Craig W. Berridge United States	53	4.9k 1.3×	3.8k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	2.5k 1.3×	94	10.1k
Carsten T. Wotjak Germany	66	3.3k 0.9×	5.5k 1.5×	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	3.8k 1.9×	182	13.7k
Jan G. Veening Netherlands	46	1.2k 0.3×	2.0k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	96	6.0k
William E. Cullinan United States	35	1.6k 0.4×	2.6k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	4.9k 2.5×	47	8.5k
Eberhard Fuchs Germany	56	1.9k 0.5×	4.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	681 0.3×	4.6k 2.3×	150	12.4k
Rainer K.W. Schwarting Germany	50	2.1k 0.6×	3.8k 1.1×	3.0k 0.9×	492 0.2×	2.1k 1.0×	208	9.1k
Angela Roberts United Kingdom	55	7.6k 2.0×	4.7k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	555 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	119	12.3k
Catherine S. Woolley United States	54	2.1k 0.5×	5.9k 1.6×	2.6k 0.8×	756 0.3×	5.5k 2.8×	89	15.1k

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Oliveira, Fernando A., et al.. (2024). A subiculum-hypothalamic pathway functions in dynamic threat detection and memory updating. Current Biology. 34(12). 2657–2671.e7. 5 indexed citations

Canteras, Newton S., et al.. (2024). Neural Circuits of Fear and Anxiety: Insights from a Neuroethological Perspective. Physiology. 40(3). 208–223. 2 indexed citations

Oliveira, Amanda Ribeiro de, et al.. (2023). Anatomical and functional study of the cuneiform nucleus: A critical site to organize innate defensive behaviors. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1521(1). 79–95. 14 indexed citations

Canteras, Newton S., et al.. (2023). Role of the rostral dorsomedial column of the periaqueductal gray during social defeat in rats. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1530(1). 138–151. 1 indexed citations

Oliveira, Amanda Ribeiro de, et al.. (2022). Dissecting the brain's fear systems responding to snake threats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 56(6). 4788–4802. 6 indexed citations

Baldo, Marcus Vinícius C., et al.. (2022). Neural correlates of distinct levels of predatory threat in dorsal periaqueductal grey neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience. 55(6). 1504–1518. 6 indexed citations

Genewsky, Andreas, Daniel E. Heinz, Sebastian F. Kaltwasser, et al.. (2022). Why do mice squeak? Toward a better understanding of defensive vocalization. iScience. 25(7). 104657–104657. 9 indexed citations

Baldo, Marcus Vinícius C., et al.. (2017). Influence of the anteromedial thalamus on social defeat-associated contextual fear memory. Behavioural Brain Research. 339. 269–277. 10 indexed citations

Motta, Simone Cristina, A.P. Carobrez, & Newton S. Canteras. (2017). The periaqueductal gray and primal emotional processing critical to influence complex defensive responses, fear learning and reward seeking. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 76(Pt A). 39–47. 91 indexed citations

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Sita, Luciane V., Giovanne B. Diniz, Newton S. Canteras, Gilberto Fernando Xavier, & Jackson C. Bittencourt. (2016). Effect of intrahippocampal administration of anti-melanin-concentrating hormone on spatial food-seeking behavior in rats. Peptides. 76. 130–138. 10 indexed citations

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Duarte, Filipe Silveira, Alexandre Ademar Hoeller, Marcelo Duzzioni, et al.. (2014). NK1 receptors antagonism of dorsal hippocampus counteract the anxiogenic-like effects induced by pilocarpine in non-convulsive Wistar rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 265. 53–60. 7 indexed citations

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Sita, Luciane V., Amanda Ribeiro de Oliveira, Renato A. Mortara, et al.. (2012). Hypothalamic melanin-concentrating hormone projections to the septo-hippocampal complex in the rat. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 47. 1–14. 19 indexed citations

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Sobrinho, Cleyton R. & Newton S. Canteras. (2011). A study of the catecholaminergic inputs to the dorsal premammillary nucleus. Neuroscience Letters. 501(3). 157–162. 4 indexed citations

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Boschen, Suelen L., Mariza Bortolanza, Isadora C. Furigo, et al.. (2011). The role of the ventrolateral caudoputamen in predatory hunting. Physiology & Behavior. 105(3). 893–898. 12 indexed citations

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Carvalho-Netto, Eduardo F., Raquel Chacon Ruiz Martinez, Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo, & Newton S. Canteras. (2010). Evidence for the thalamic targets of the medial hypothalamic defensive system mediating emotional memory to predatory threats. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 93(4). 479–486. 29 indexed citations

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Sukikara, Marcia Harumi, Sandra Regina Mota Ortiz, Marcus Vinícius C. Baldo, Luciano Freitas Felício, & Newton S. Canteras. (2006). A Role for the Periaqueductal Gray in Switching Adaptive Behavioral Responses. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(9). 2583–2589. 73 indexed citations

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Bellissimo, Maria Ines, et al.. (2004). Is the unilateral lesion of the left substantia nigra pars compacta sufficient to induce working memory impairment in rats?. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 82(2). 150–158. 33 indexed citations

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Cipolla‐Neto, José, I Bartol, Solange Castro Afeche, et al.. (1999). The Role of the Retrochiasmatic Area in the Control of Pineal Metabolism. Neuroendocrinology. 69(2). 97–104. 14 indexed citations

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Comoli, Eliane & Newton S. Canteras. (1998). Characterization of the neural systems mobilized during predatory behavior in rats. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 24. 678. 4 indexed citations

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Petrovich, Gorica D., Newton S. Canteras, & L. W. Swanson. (1997). Organization of amygdalar projections to the hippocampal formation: a PHA-L study in the rat. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 23. 2101. 2 indexed citations

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