Nicholas J. Lenn

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Nicholas J. Lenn is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas J. Lenn has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Nicholas J. Lenn's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (16 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (6 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers). Nicholas J. Lenn is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (16 papers), Epilepsy research and treatment (6 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers). Nicholas J. Lenn collaborates with scholars based in United States. Nicholas J. Lenn's co-authors include Robert Y. Moore, Thomas S. Reese, Geoffrey S. Hamill, Lidia V. Gabis, Ravi Yangala, Edward H. Bertram, Eric W. Lothman, Alan B. Ettinger, Edith E. Nolan and Deborah M. Weisbrot and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, PEDIATRICS and The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas J. Lenn

52 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. A retinohypothalamic projection in the rat
    1972 1.0k citations Nicholas J. Lenn et al. The Journal of Comparative Neurology profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas J. Lenn United States 21 1.2k 990 678 545 428 52 2.6k
Nobuo Okado Japan 35 1.7k 1.4× 700 0.7× 685 1.0× 1.1k 2.0× 217 0.5× 95 3.9k
Richard W. Clough United States 22 986 0.8× 355 0.4× 518 0.8× 543 1.0× 218 0.5× 41 2.5k
WH Oertel Germany 25 2.3k 2.0× 340 0.3× 513 0.8× 1.2k 2.2× 198 0.5× 52 3.6k
Stanley Jacobson United States 30 1.1k 0.9× 245 0.2× 1.3k 2.0× 507 0.9× 160 0.4× 62 3.2k
Kenneth J. Mack United States 27 730 0.6× 431 0.4× 506 0.7× 662 1.2× 727 1.7× 71 2.7k
Gunnar Skagerberg Sweden 22 1.2k 1.1× 564 0.6× 382 0.6× 475 0.9× 171 0.4× 39 2.4k
A. Weindl Germany 30 1.5k 1.2× 721 0.7× 308 0.5× 855 1.6× 114 0.3× 77 3.2k
M.I. Botez Canada 28 901 0.8× 170 0.2× 828 1.2× 502 0.9× 268 0.6× 97 2.5k
Mark J. Perlow United States 30 1.7k 1.5× 717 0.7× 423 0.6× 631 1.2× 76 0.2× 58 3.5k
W. Michael Panneton United States 34 1.1k 0.9× 1.2k 1.2× 627 0.9× 291 0.5× 111 0.3× 64 2.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lenn, Nicholas J., et al.. (2000). Multiple cranial nerve enhancement in early infantile Krabbe’s disease. Neurology. 54(12). 2348–2349. 15 indexed citations
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Ettinger, Alan B., Deborah M. Weisbrot, Edith E. Nolan, et al.. (1998). Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety in Pediatric Epilepsy Patients. Epilepsia. 39(6). 595–599. 235 indexed citations
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Gamma, Edmund F. La, Robert E. Strecker, Nicholas J. Lenn, Joseph D. DeCristofaro, & Gary Weisinger. (1994). Dopaminergic Regulation of a Transfected Preproenkephalin Promoter in Primary Rat Astrocytes in Vitro and in Vivo. Experimental Neurology. 130(2). 304–310. 6 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J., et al.. (1993). Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania in a Young Child: Possible Relation to Ipsilateral Occipital Infarction. Journal of Child Neurology. 8(3). 235–236. 28 indexed citations
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Gamma, Edmund F. La, Gary Weisinger, Nicholas J. Lenn, & Robert E. Strecker. (1992). Genetically Modified Striatal Astrocytes Grafted to the Brain: Pharmacological Control of an Inducible Promoter. Neural Plasticity. 3(4). 244–245. 1 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J. & Matthew Robertson. (1992). Clinical utility of unbound antiepileptic drug blood levels in the management of epilepsy. Neurology. 42(5). 988–988. 36 indexed citations
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Bertram, Edward H., Eric W. Lothman, & Nicholas J. Lenn. (1990). The hippocampus in experimental chronic epilepsy: A morphometric analysis. Annals of Neurology. 27(1). 43–48. 103 indexed citations
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Bekenstein, Jonathan W. & Nicholas J. Lenn. (1990). Hemicholinium-3 binding sites in subnuclei of the rat interpeduncular nucleus: Quantitative in vitro autoradiography. Brain Research Bulletin. 24(2). 181–184. 1 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J., P. John Seeley, P.M. Field, & Geoffrey Raisman. (1989). Fetal Medial Habenula Transplants: Innervation of the Rat Interpeduncular Nucleus. Neural Plasticity. 1(2). 57–62. 2 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J., et al.. (1989). Facial sparing as a feature of prenatal-onset hemiparesis. Pediatric Neurology. 5(5). 291–295. 12 indexed citations
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Donovan, M. Kathleen & Nicholas J. Lenn. (1989). Postinfectious encephalomyelitis with localized basal ganglia involvement. Pediatric Neurology. 5(5). 311–313. 32 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J.. (1987). Plasticity and responses of the immature nervous system to injury.. PubMed. 11(2). 117–31. 3 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J.. (1987). Neuroplasticity and the Developing Brain: Implications for Therapy. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 13(4). 176–183. 9 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J., Csaba Léránth, & László Záborszky. (1986). Choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity is localized to four types of synapses in the rat interpenduncular nucleus. Journal of Neurocytology. 15(5). 680–680. 29 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J., Viviana J. Wong, & Geoffrey S. Hamill. (1979). Quantitative demonstration of somatic synapi sprouting following dendritic deafferentation in neonatal rat interpeduncular nucleus. Brain Research Bulletin. 4(6). 843–848. 14 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J.. (1978). Fornix afferents to the anteroventral thalamic nucleus: An EM study in the rat. Brain Research Bulletin. 3(6). 589–593. 3 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J.. (1978). Effect of neonatal deafferentation on synaptogenesis in the rat interpeduncular nucleus. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 181(1). 93–115. 24 indexed citations
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Deuel, Ruthmary K. & Nicholas J. Lenn. (1977). Treatment of acquired epileptic aphasia. The Journal of Pediatrics. 90(6). 959–961. 27 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J. & Thomas S. Reese. (1966). The fine structure of nerve endings in the nucleus of the trapezoid body and the ventral cochlear nucleus. American Journal of Anatomy. 118(2). 375–389. 188 indexed citations
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Lenn, Nicholas J.. (1965). Electron microscopic observations on monoamine‐containing brain stem neurons in normal and drug‐treated rats. The Anatomical Record. 153(4). 399–406. 43 indexed citations

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