Ritchie E. Brown

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
73 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Ritchie E. Brown is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Ritchie E. Brown has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 33 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 26 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Ritchie E. Brown's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (42 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (18 papers). Ritchie E. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (42 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (18 papers). Ritchie E. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Japan. Ritchie E. Brown's co-authors include Helmut L. Haas, Robert W. McCarley, James T Mckenna, Olga A. Sergeeva, Krister S. Eriksson, Radhika Basheer, David R. Stevens, Robert E. Strecker, Tatiana Korotkova and James M. McNally and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ritchie E. Brown

72 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Control of Sleep and Wakefulness

2012 975 citations Ritchie E. Brown, Radhika Basheer et al. profile →
The physiology of brain histamine

2001 789 citations Ritchie E. Brown, David R. Stevens et al. Progress in Neurobiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ritchie E. Brown United States	37	3.8k	2.5k	1.9k	1.6k	1.0k	73	6.0k
Kazuya Sakai France	45	4.7k 1.2×	3.4k 1.3×	2.7k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	843 0.8×	116	6.7k
Takatoshi Mochizuki Japan	35	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	673 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	684 0.7×	96	4.3k
Patrice Fort France	47	4.6k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	671 0.6×	105	6.6k
Clifford B. Saper United States	17	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	974 0.6×	465 0.4×	19	5.2k
Seiji Nishino United States	57	11.4k 3.0×	8.1k 3.2×	2.3k 1.2×	7.9k 5.1×	1.3k 1.3×	214	14.9k
Michel Mühlethaler Switzerland	35	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	592 0.6×	57	4.0k
Kazue Semba Canada	45	3.6k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	3.5k 1.8×	923 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	110	6.4k
Michael M. Halassa United States	33	4.0k 1.0×	701 0.3×	3.8k 2.0×	497 0.3×	1.2k 1.1×	71	7.1k
Akihiro Yamanaka Japan	51	5.6k 1.5×	5.3k 2.1×	2.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.2×	170	9.3k
Robert E. Strecker United States	45	4.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	3.9k 2.0×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	106	8.7k

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Brown, Ritchie E., et al.. (2025). Individualized temporal patterns drive human sleep spindle timing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(2). e2405276121–e2405276121. 1 indexed citations

Katsuki, Fumi, et al.. (2024). Sleep-Deep-Learner is taught sleep–wake scoring by the end-user to complete each record in their style. SLEEP Advances. 5(1). zpae022–zpae022. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Chun, Fumi Katsuki, David S. Uygun, et al.. (2024). Neuronal PAS domain 1 identifies a major subpopulation of wakefulness-promoting GABAergic neurons in the basal forebrain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(21). e2321410121–e2321410121. 3 indexed citations

Mckenna, James T, Stephen Thankachan, David S. Uygun, et al.. (2020). Basal Forebrain Parvalbumin Neurons Mediate Arousals from Sleep Induced by Hypercarbia or Auditory Stimuli. Current Biology. 30(12). 2379–2385.e4. 33 indexed citations

Yang, Chun, James T Mckenna, Kenneth A. Jacobson, et al.. (2018). Activation of basal forebrain purinergic P2 receptors promotes wakefulness in mice. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10730–10730. 9 indexed citations

Prerau, Michael J., Ritchie E. Brown, Matt T. Bianchi, Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen, & Patrick L. Purdon. (2016). Sleep Neurophysiological Dynamics Through the Lens of Multitaper Spectral Analysis. Physiology. 32(1). 60–92. 202 indexed citations

Brown, Ritchie E. & James T Mckenna. (2015). Turning a Negative into a Positive: Ascending GABAergic Control of Cortical Activation and Arousal. Frontiers in Neurology. 6. 135–135. 64 indexed citations

Lin, Shih‐Chieh, Ritchie E. Brown, Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Carl C.H. Petersen, & Ádám Kepecs. (2015). Optogenetic Dissection of the Basal Forebrain Neuromodulatory Control of Cortical Activation, Plasticity, and Cognition. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(41). 13896–13903. 79 indexed citations

McNally, James M., Robert W. McCarley, & Ritchie E. Brown. (2013). Chronic Ketamine Reduces the Peak Frequency of Gamma Oscillations in Mouse Prefrontal Cortex Ex vivo. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 4. 106–106. 36 indexed citations

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McNally, James M., Robert W. McCarley, & Ritchie E. Brown. (2013). Impaired GABAergic Neurotransmission in Schizophrenia Underlies Impairments in Cortical Gamma Band Oscillations. Current Psychiatry Reports. 15(3). 346–346. 40 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Ritchie E. Brown, Karen R. Dobkins, Jennifer E. McDowell, & Brett A. Clementz. (2009). Diminished Parietal Cortex Activity Associated with Poor Motion Direction Discrimination Performance in Schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex. 20(7). 1749–1755. 27 indexed citations

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Brown, Ritchie E., Stuart Winston, Radhika Basheer, Mahesh Thakkar, & Robert W. McCarley. (2006). Electrophysiological characterization of neurons in the dorsolateral pontine rapid-eye-movement sleep induction zone of the rat: Intrinsic membrane properties and responses to carbachol and orexins. Neuroscience. 143(3). 739–755. 47 indexed citations

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Tartar, Jaime L., Christopher P. Ward, James T Mckenna, et al.. (2006). Hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial learning are impaired in a rat model of sleep fragmentation. European Journal of Neuroscience. 23(10). 2739–2748. 164 indexed citations

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Selbach, Oliver, Nanuli Doreulee, Kent Eriksson, et al.. (2004). Orexins/hypocretins cause sharp wave- and θ-related synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus via glutamatergic, gabaergic, noradrenergic, and cholinergic signaling. Neuroscience. 127(2). 519–528. 94 indexed citations

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Korotkova, Tatiana, Helmut L. Haas, & Ritchie E. Brown. (2002). Histamine excites GABAergic cells in the rat substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area in vitro. Neuroscience Letters. 320(3). 133–136. 55 indexed citations

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Brown, Ritchie E., David R. Stevens, & Helmut L. Haas. (2001). The physiology of brain histamine. Progress in Neurobiology. 63(6). 637–672. 789 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brown, Ritchie E., Olga A. Sergeeva, Krister S. Eriksson, & Helmut L. Haas. (2001). Orexin A excites serotonergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus of the rat. Neuropharmacology. 40(3). 457–459. 212 indexed citations

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Brown, Ritchie E. & Helmut L. Haas. (1999). On the mechanism of histaminergic inhibition of glutamate release in the rat dentate gyrus. The Journal of Physiology. 515(3). 777–786. 101 indexed citations

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Brown, Ritchie E., et al.. (1995). Histaminergic modulation of synaptic plasticity in area CA1 of rat hippocampal slices. Neuropharmacology. 34(2). 181–190. 70 indexed citations

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Brown, Ritchie E. & Klaus G. Reymann. (1995). Class I metabotropic glutamate receptor agonists do not facilitate the induction of long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus of the rat in vitro. Neuroscience Letters. 202(1-2). 73–76. 7 indexed citations

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