Philip Tovote

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
39 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Philip Tovote is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Tovote has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 14 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Philip Tovote's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (12 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (12 papers). Philip Tovote is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (12 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (12 papers). Philip Tovote collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Philip Tovote's co-authors include Andreas Lüthi, Jonathan P. Fadok, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Cyril Herry, Johannes J. Letzkus, Julien Courtin, Milica Marković, E. Meyer, Paolo Botta and Christian Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Philip Tovote

36 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Neuronal circuits for fear and anxiety

2015 1.2k citations Philip Tovote, Jonathan P. Fadok et al. Nature reviews. Neuroscience profile →
A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex

2011 615 citations Steffen B. E. Wolff, Philip Tovote et al. Nature profile →
Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

2016 502 citations Philip Tovote, Maria Soledad Esposito et al. Nature profile →
A competitive inhibitory circuit for selection of active and passive fear responses

2017 312 citations Jonathan P. Fadok, Milica Marković et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philip Tovote Germany	20	2.4k	2.2k	912	871	642	39	4.0k
Jonathan P. Fadok United States	18	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	959 1.1×	864 1.0×	862 1.3×	28	4.0k
Stéphane Ciocchi Switzerland	13	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	924 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	538 0.8×	21	3.5k
Joel Finkelstein United States	8	2.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	855 0.9×	516 0.6×	1.0k 1.6×	10	4.6k
Steffen B. E. Wolff United States	19	2.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	706 0.8×	602 0.7×	720 1.1×	24	3.9k
Sevil Duvarci United States	21	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	713 0.8×	879 1.0×	421 0.7×	26	3.0k
Thomas Seidenbecher Germany	30	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	519 0.6×	701 0.8×	645 1.0×	55	3.5k
Deqiang Jing United States	22	1.3k 0.5×	2.4k 1.1×	602 0.7×	937 1.1×	845 1.3×	35	4.6k
Avishek Adhikari United States	24	2.4k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	988 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	33	5.6k
Natalie C. Tronson United States	27	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	614 0.7×	687 0.8×	675 1.1×	43	2.9k
Joshua P. Johansen Japan	22	2.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	707 0.8×	827 0.9×	785 1.2×	36	4.4k

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Rodriguez-Rozada, Silvia & Philip Tovote. (2025). Central regulation of cardio-behavioral responses: Circuit engagement during aversive emotional states. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 94. 103105–103105.

Peach, Robert L., et al.. (2024). Enhancing security in brain–computer interface applications with deep learning: Electroencephalogram-based user identification. Expert Systems with Applications. 253. 124218–124218. 4 indexed citations

Stein, Nikolai, et al.. (2023). Deep learning-enabled segmentation of ambiguous bioimages with deepflash2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1679–1679. 10 indexed citations

Deisseroth, Karl, et al.. (2023). Integrated cardio-behavioral responses to threat define defensive states. Nature Neuroscience. 26(3). 447–457. 27 indexed citations

Rodriguez-Rozada, Silvia, Stefan Frantz, & Philip Tovote. (2023). Cardiac optogenetics: regulating brain states via the heart. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 8(1). 324–324.

Tovote, Philip, et al.. (2023). Cerebellar contribution to the regulation of defensive states. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 17. 1160083–1160083. 8 indexed citations

Schulte, Clemens, Orly Avraham, Cataldo Schietroma, et al.. (2022). A Versatile Synthetic Affinity Probe Reveals Inhibitory Synapse Ultrastructure and Brain Connectivity**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(30). e202202078–e202202078. 7 indexed citations

Peng, Yangfan, et al.. (2022). Current approaches to characterize micro- and macroscale circuit mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease in rodent models. Experimental Neurology. 351. 114008–114008. 8 indexed citations

Whittle, Nigel, Jonathan P. Fadok, Kathryn P. MacPherson, et al.. (2021). Central amygdala micro-circuits mediate fear extinction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4156–4156. 49 indexed citations

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Pernía‐Andrade, Alejandro J., Nikolaus Wenger, Maria Soledad Esposito, & Philip Tovote. (2021). Circuits for State-Dependent Modulation of Locomotion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15. 745689–745689. 23 indexed citations

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Knörr, Susanne, Robert L. Peach, Thomas Ott, et al.. (2021). The evolution of dystonia-like movements in TOR1A rats after transient nerve injury is accompanied by dopaminergic dysregulation and abnormal oscillatory activity of a central motor network. Neurobiology of Disease. 154. 105337–105337. 24 indexed citations

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Schaefer, Natascha, et al.. (2020). Anxiety and Startle Phenotypes in Glrb Spastic and Glra1 Spasmodic Mouse Mutants. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 13. 152–152. 9 indexed citations

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Knörr, Susanne, et al.. (2019). Striatal dopaminergic dysregulation and dystonia-like movements induced by sensorimotor stress in a pharmacological mouse model of rapid-onset dystonia-parkinsonism. Experimental Neurology. 323. 113109–113109. 13 indexed citations

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Tovote, Philip, Maria Soledad Esposito, Paolo Botta, et al.. (2016). Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour. Nature. 534(7606). 206–212. 502 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tovote, Philip, Jonathan P. Fadok, & Andreas Lüthi. (2015). Neuronal circuits for fear and anxiety. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 16(6). 317–331. 1220 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rubehn, Birthe, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Philip Tovote, et al.. (2011). Polymer-based shaft microelectrodes with optical and fluidic capabilities as a tool for optogenetics. PubMed. 2011. 2969–2972. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Lizhen, Philip Tovote, Martin D. Rayner, et al.. (2010). Corticotropin-releasing factor receptors and urocortins, links between the brain and the heart. European Journal of Pharmacology. 632(1-3). 1–6. 34 indexed citations

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Tovote, Philip, Michaël Meyer, Anja Ronnenberg, et al.. (2005). Heart rate dynamics and behavioral responses during acute emotional challenge in corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1-deficient and corticotropin-releasing factor-overexpressing mice. Neuroscience. 134(4). 1113–1122. 25 indexed citations

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Stiedl, Oliver, Philip Tovote, Sven Ove Ögren, & Michaël Meyer. (2004). Behavioral and autonomic dynamics during contextual fear conditioning in mice. Autonomic Neuroscience. 115(1-2). 15–27. 36 indexed citations

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Tovote, Philip, Michaël Meyer, Annette G. Beck‐Sickinger, et al.. (2004). Central NPY receptor-mediated alteration of heart rate dynamics in mice during expression of fear conditioned to an auditory cue. Regulatory Peptides. 120(1-3). 205–214. 35 indexed citations

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