Pedro Bekinschtein

5.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Pedro Bekinschtein is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro Bekinschtein has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 16 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Pedro Bekinschtein's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers). Pedro Bekinschtein is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (35 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (32 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (16 papers). Pedro Bekinschtein collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, Brazil and United Kingdom. Pedro Bekinschtein's co-authors include Jorge H. Medina, Martı́n Cammarota, Iván Izquierdo, Juan Facundo Morici, Magdalena Miranda, Cynthia Katche, Leandro Slipczuk, Lionel M. Igaz, Lisa M. Saksida and Timothy J. Bussey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Pedro Bekinschtein

53 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Key Molecule for Memory in the Healthy and the Pathological Brain

2019 973 citations Magdalena Miranda, Juan Facundo Morici et al. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience profile →
BDNF is essential to promote persistence of long-term memory storage

2008 537 citations Pedro Bekinschtein, Martı́n Cammarota et al. profile →
Persistence of Long-Term Memory Storage Requires a Late Protein Synthesis- and BDNF- Dependent Phase in the Hippocampus

2007 501 citations Pedro Bekinschtein, Martı́n Cammarota et al. Neuron profile →

Peers

Pedro Bekinschtein

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Francesco Angelucci Italy

Masami Kojima Japan

P.F. Gardino Brazil

Gisele Pereira Dias Brazil

T.R. Raju India

Mariana Alonso France

Mário Cesar do Nascimento Bevilaqua Brazil

Liam Drew United Kingdom

Martine Ammassari‐Teule Italy

Angelika Schmitt Germany

Francesco Angelucci Italy

Pedro Bekinschtein

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852 ×0.6

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941 ×1.4

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Citations per year, relative to Pedro Bekinschtein Pedro Bekinschtein (= 1×) peers Francesco Angelucci

Countries citing papers authored by Pedro Bekinschtein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pedro Bekinschtein

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Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2024). Retrieval of contextual memory can be predicted by CA3 remapping and is differentially influenced by NMDAR activity in rat hippocampus subregions. PLoS Biology. 22(7). e3002706–e3002706. 1 indexed citations

Giachero, Marcelo, et al.. (2024). Targeting fear memories: Examining pharmacological disruption in a generalized fear framework. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 213. 107960–107960. 1 indexed citations

Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2024). Environmental enrichment in middle age rats improves spatial and object memory discrimination deficits. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 18. 1478656–1478656. 2 indexed citations

Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2023). Acute and chronic physical activity improves spatial memory in an immersive virtual reality task. iScience. 26(3). 106176–106176. 3 indexed citations

Gallo, Francisco Tomás, Juan Facundo Morici, Magdalena Miranda, et al.. (2022). Dopamine Modulates Adaptive Forgetting in Medial Prefrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 42(34). 6620–6636. 11 indexed citations

Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2021). Functional connectivity of anterior retrosplenial cortex in object recognition memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 186. 107544–107544. 7 indexed citations

Bekinschtein, Pedro, et al.. (2021). A virtual reality platform for memory evaluation: Assessing effects of spatial strategies. Behavior Research Methods. 54(6). 2707–2719. 6 indexed citations

Morales, Cristián, Juan Facundo Morici, Nelson Espinosa, et al.. (2020). Dentate Gyrus Somatostatin Cells are Required for Contextual Discrimination During Episodic Memory Encoding. Cerebral Cortex. 31(2). 1046–1059. 21 indexed citations

Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2020). Molecular mechanisms within the dentate gyrus and the perirhinal cortex interact during discrimination of similar nonspatial memories. Hippocampus. 31(2). 140–155. 6 indexed citations

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Miranda, Magdalena, et al.. (2019). Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Key Molecule for Memory in the Healthy and the Pathological Brain. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 13. 363–363. 973 indexed citations breakdown →

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Morici, Juan Facundo, et al.. (2018). 5-HT2a receptor in mPFC influences context-guided reconsolidation of object memory in perirhinal cortex. eLife. 7. 15 indexed citations

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Ballarini, Fabricio, et al.. (2017). Immersive Platform for Neuroscience Experimental Studies. CIC-Digital (Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires). 1 indexed citations

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Kent, Brianne A., et al.. (2014). The orexigenic hormone acyl-ghrelin increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis and enhances pattern separation. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 51. 431–439. 65 indexed citations

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Bekinschtein, Pedro, Martı́n Cammarota, & Jorge H. Medina. (2013). BDNF and memory processing. Neuropharmacology. 76. 677–683. 284 indexed citations

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Bekinschtein, Pedro, Charlotte A. Oomen, Lisa M. Saksida, & Timothy J. Bussey. (2011). Effects of environmental enrichment and voluntary exercise on neurogenesis, learning and memory, and pattern separation: BDNF as a critical variable?. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 22(5). 536–542. 197 indexed citations

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Bekinschtein, Pedro, Martı́n Cammarota, Lionel M. Igaz, et al.. (2007). Persistence of Long-Term Memory Storage Requires a Late Protein Synthesis- and BDNF- Dependent Phase in the Hippocampus. Neuron. 53(2). 261–277. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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Igaz, Lionel M., Pedro Bekinschtein, Iván Izquierdo, & Jorge H. Medina. (2004). One-trial aversive learning induces late changes in hippocampal CaMKIIα, Homer 1a, Syntaxin 1a and ERK2 protein levels. Molecular Brain Research. 132(1). 1–12. 44 indexed citations

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Igaz, Lionel M., Pedro Bekinschtein, Mônica Ryff Moreira Roca Vianna, Iván Izquierdo, & Jorge H. Medina. (2004). Gene expression during memory formation. Neurotoxicity Research. 6(3). 189–203. 29 indexed citations

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Nepomnaschy, Irene, Gabriela Lombardi, Pedro Bekinschtein, et al.. (2000). Alterations during Positive Selection in the Thymus of nackt CD4-Deficient Mice. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 52(6). 555–562. 2 indexed citations

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Goldman, et al.. (1999). Characterization of Two Infectious Mouse Mammary Tumour Viruses: Superantigenicity and Tumorigenicity. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 49(3). 269–277. 18 indexed citations

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