Stan Floresco

21.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
162 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Stan Floresco is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stan Floresco has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 111 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 39 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stan Floresco's work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (90 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (88 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (59 papers). Stan Floresco is often cited by papers focused on Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (90 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (88 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (59 papers). Stan Floresco collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Stan Floresco's co-authors include Anthony G. Phillips, Jeremy K. Seamans, Anthony A. Grace, Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi, Maric Tse, Jennifer R. St. Onge, Colin M. Stopper, Daniel J. Lodge, Yukiori Goto and Anthony R. West and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stan Floresco

157 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Hit Papers

Afferent modulation of dopamine neuron firing differentia... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2003 2007 1995 1997 2014 250 500 750
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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. Afferent modulation of dopamine neuron firing differentially regulates tonic and phasic dopamine transmission
    2003 857 citations Stan Floresco et al. profile →
  2. Regulation of firing of dopaminergic neurons and control of goal-directed behaviors
    2007 785 citations Stan Floresco et al. profile →
  3. Targeted disruption of the Huntington's disease gene results in embryonic lethality and behavioral and morphological changes in heterozygotes
    1995 633 citations Stan Floresco, Anthony G. Phillips et al. profile →
  4. Selective Roles for Hippocampal, Prefrontal Cortical, and Ventral Striatal Circuits in Radial-Arm Maze Tasks With or Without a Delay
    1997 631 citations Stan Floresco, Anthony G. Phillips et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
  5. The Nucleus Accumbens: An Interface Between Cognition, Emotion, and Action
    2014 603 citations Stan Floresco profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stan Floresco Canada 72 10.6k 8.9k 3.9k 2.7k 2.2k 162 16.4k
Jane R. Taylor United States 76 10.8k 1.0× 6.6k 0.7× 4.8k 1.2× 2.6k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 236 18.7k
David M. Bannerman United Kingdom 66 8.7k 0.8× 8.6k 1.0× 2.9k 0.7× 2.4k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 202 16.6k
Henriette van Praag United States 52 7.7k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 4.3k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.6× 98 22.9k
J. N. P. Rawlins United Kingdom 71 12.3k 1.2× 13.0k 1.5× 4.0k 1.0× 3.3k 1.2× 2.2k 1.0× 170 24.6k
Kay M. Tye United States 47 9.1k 0.9× 7.6k 0.9× 3.5k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 3.3k 1.5× 77 15.6k
John D. Salamone United States 79 12.4k 1.2× 5.9k 0.7× 4.2k 1.1× 2.0k 0.7× 2.9k 1.3× 265 19.3k
Michela Gallagher United States 92 14.5k 1.4× 15.7k 1.8× 5.1k 1.3× 4.2k 1.5× 2.9k 1.3× 284 26.2k
William A. Carlezon United States 71 11.1k 1.1× 4.2k 0.5× 6.3k 1.6× 2.7k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 205 17.2k
Louk J. M. J. Vanderschuren Netherlands 64 9.2k 0.9× 3.8k 0.4× 3.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 4.1k 1.9× 187 14.7k
Timothy J. Bussey United Kingdom 75 7.8k 0.7× 10.3k 1.2× 2.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 159 16.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2025). Medial Orbitofrontal, Prefrontal, and Amygdalar Circuits Support Dissociable Component Processes of Risk/Reward Decision-Making. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(16). e2147242025–e2147242025. 1 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2024). Acute stress differentially alters reward-related decision making and inhibitory control under threat of punishment. Neurobiology of Stress. 30. 100633–100633. 1 indexed citations
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Seib, Désirée R., Daniel J. Tobiansky, John Meitzen, Stan Floresco, & Kiran K. Soma. (2023). Neurosteroids and the mesocorticolimbic system. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 153. 105356–105356. 14 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2022). Medial orbitofrontal cortical regulation of different aspects of Pavlovian and instrumental reward seeking. Psychopharmacology. 240(3). 441–459. 2 indexed citations
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Anderson, Michael C. & Stan Floresco. (2021). Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories: the retrieval stopping model. Neuropsychopharmacology. 47(1). 180–195. 52 indexed citations
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Seib, Désirée R., et al.. (2021). Hippocampal neurogenesis promotes preference for future rewards. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(11). 6317–6335. 14 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2020). Prelimbic and Infralimbic Prefrontal Regulation of Active and Inhibitory Avoidance and Reward-Seeking. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(24). 4773–4787. 86 indexed citations
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Hoffman, Michaela, et al.. (2019). The Abused Inhalant Toluene Impairs Medial Prefrontal Cortex Activity and Risk/Reward Decision-Making during a Probabilistic Discounting Task. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(46). 9207–9220. 15 indexed citations
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Bangasser, Debra A., et al.. (2019). Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF) circuit modulation of cognition and motivation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 103. 50–59. 60 indexed citations
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Tse, Maric, et al.. (2018). Effects of aging on executive functioning and mesocorticolimbic dopamine markers in male Fischer 344 × brown Norway rats. Neurobiology of Aging. 72. 134–146. 18 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2018). Differential Contributions of Nucleus Accumbens Subregions to Cue-Guided Risk/Reward Decision Making and Implementation of Conditional Rules. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(8). 1901–1914. 46 indexed citations
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Larkin, Joshua D., et al.. (2017). Prefrontal Dopamine D 1 and D 2 Receptors Regulate Dissociable Aspects of Decision Making via Distinct Ventral Striatal and Amygdalar Circuits. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(26). 6200–6213. 79 indexed citations
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Dalton, Gemma L., et al.. (2016). Multifaceted Contributions by Different Regions of the Orbitofrontal and Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Probabilistic Reversal Learning. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(6). 1996–2006. 137 indexed citations
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Winstanley, Catharine A. & Stan Floresco. (2016). Deciphering Decision Making: Variation in Animal Models of Effort- and Uncertainty-Based Choice Reveals Distinct Neural Circuitries Underlying Core Cognitive Processes. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(48). 12069–12079. 82 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan, et al.. (2016). Prefrontal cortical GABAergic and NMDA glutamatergic regulation of delayed responding. Neuropharmacology. 113(Pt A). 10–20. 25 indexed citations
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Piantadosi, Patrick T., et al.. (2015). Perturbations in reward-related decision-making induced by reduced prefrontal cortical GABA transmission: Relevance for psychiatric disorders. Neuropharmacology. 101. 279–290. 31 indexed citations
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Floresco, Stan & Anthony G. Phillips. (2001). Delay-dependent modulation of memory retrieval by infusion of a dopamine D₁ agonist into the rat medial prefrontal cortex.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 115(4). 934–939. 168 indexed citations

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