Niraj S. Desai

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Niraj S. Desai is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Niraj S. Desai has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 2 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Niraj S. Desai's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (7 papers). Niraj S. Desai is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (7 papers). Niraj S. Desai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Niraj S. Desai's co-authors include Gina G. Turrigiano, Sacha B. Nelson, Eugene M. Izhikevich, Elisabeth C. Walcott, Frank C. Hoppensteadt, Robert H. Cudmore, Peter W. Vanderklish, Daniel Johnston, R. G. F. Gray and Emily A. Higgins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Niraj S. Desai

18 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons

1998 1.7k citations Gina G. Turrigiano, Niraj S. Desai et al. Nature profile →
Plasticity in the intrinsic excitability of cortical pyramidal neurons

1999 601 citations Niraj S. Desai, Gina G. Turrigiano et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niraj S. Desai United States	14	3.0k	2.5k	1.1k	743	385	18	4.0k
Huizhong W. Tao United States	44	4.0k 1.4×	4.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	722 1.0×	340 0.9×	86	6.2k
William B. Levy United States	39	4.3k 1.4×	3.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	697 0.9×	445 1.2×	160	5.9k
Sonja B. Hofer United Kingdom	26	3.8k 1.3×	3.7k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	438 0.6×	453 1.2×	38	5.5k
Dominique Debanne France	40	4.6k 1.6×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	847 1.1×	536 1.4×	89	5.9k
Li I. Zhang United States	40	3.2k 1.1×	4.1k 1.6×	895 0.8×	376 0.5×	354 0.9×	74	5.8k
Hugh P. C. Robinson United Kingdom	33	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	528 0.7×	204 0.5×	71	4.3k
Anirudh Gupta Israel	8	2.8k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	706 0.7×	389 0.5×	364 0.9×	8	3.7k
Gilad Silberberg Sweden	38	4.7k 1.6×	4.3k 1.7×	1.8k 1.7×	448 0.6×	512 1.3×	83	7.2k
Jackie Schiller Israel	29	4.7k 1.6×	4.2k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	990 1.3×	284 0.7×	45	6.0k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Rajebhosale, Prithviraj, Mala Ananth, Ronald Kim, et al.. (2024). Functionally refined encoding of threat memory by distinct populations of basal forebrain cholinergic projection neurons. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Ronald, Mala Ananth, Niraj S. Desai, Lorna W. Role, & David A. Talmage. (2024). Distinct subpopulations of ventral pallidal cholinergic projection neurons encode valence of olfactory stimuli. Cell Reports. 43(4). 114009–114009. 5 indexed citations

Desai, Niraj S., et al.. (2024). A simple MATLAB toolbox for analyzing calcium imaging data in vitro and in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 409. 110202–110202. 1 indexed citations

Desai, Niraj S., R. G. F. Gray, & Daniel Johnston. (2017). A Dynamic Clamp on Every Rig. eNeuro. 4(5). ENEURO.0250–17.2017. 18 indexed citations

Siegel, Jennifer J., William W. Taylor, R. G. F. Gray, et al.. (2015). Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in Mice Is Dependent upon the Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Cerebellum, and Amygdala: Behavioral Characterization and Functional Circuitry. eNeuro. 2(4). ENEURO.0051–14.2015. 48 indexed citations

Desai, Niraj S., Jennifer J. Siegel, William W. Taylor, Raymond A. Chitwood, & Daniel Johnston. (2015). MATLAB-based automated patch-clamp system for awake behaving mice. Journal of Neurophysiology. 114(2). 1331–1345. 26 indexed citations

Walcott, Elisabeth C., Emily A. Higgins, & Niraj S. Desai. (2011). Synaptic and Intrinsic Balancing during Postnatal Development in Rat Pups Exposed to Valproic Acidin Utero. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(37). 13097–13109. 36 indexed citations

Delgado, Jary Y., et al.. (2010). Pyramidal Neuron Conductance State Gates Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(47). 15713–15725. 13 indexed citations

Desai, Niraj S. & Elisabeth C. Walcott. (2006). Synaptic Bombardment Modulates Muscarinic Effects in Forelimb Motor Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(8). 2215–2226. 27 indexed citations

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Desai, Niraj S., et al.. (2006). Early Postnatal Plasticity in Neocortex of Fmr1 Knockout Mice. Journal of Neurophysiology. 96(4). 1734–1745. 94 indexed citations

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Izhikevich, Eugene M., Niraj S. Desai, Elisabeth C. Walcott, & Frank C. Hoppensteadt. (2003). Bursts as a unit of neural information: selective communication via resonance. Trends in Neurosciences. 26(3). 161–167. 475 indexed citations

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Desai, Niraj S.. (2003). Homeostatic plasticity in the CNS: synaptic and intrinsic forms. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 97(4-6). 391–402. 117 indexed citations

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Izhikevich, Eugene M. & Niraj S. Desai. (2003). Relating STDP to BCM. Neural Computation. 15(7). 1511–1523. 226 indexed citations

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Desai, Niraj S., Robert H. Cudmore, Sacha B. Nelson, & Gina G. Turrigiano. (2002). Critical periods for experience-dependent synaptic scaling in visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 5(8). 783–789. 462 indexed citations

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Desai, Niraj S., et al.. (1999). Plasticity in the intrinsic excitability of cortical pyramidal neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 2(6). 515–520. 601 indexed citations breakdown →

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Desai, Niraj S., Sacha B. Nelson, & Gina G. Turrigiano. (1999). Activity-dependent regulation of excitability in rat visual cortical neurons. Neurocomputing. 26-27. 101–106. 11 indexed citations

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Desai, Niraj S., et al.. (1999). BDNF Regulates the Intrinsic Excitability of Cortical Neurons. Learning & Memory. 6(3). 284–291. 164 indexed citations

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Turrigiano, Gina G., et al.. (1998). Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons. Nature. 391(6670). 892–896. 1696 indexed citations breakdown →

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