Sten Grillner

38.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
367 papers, 26.5k citations indexed

About

Sten Grillner is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sten Grillner has authored 367 papers receiving a total of 26.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 177 papers in Cell Biology and 100 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sten Grillner's work include Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (177 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (112 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (57 papers). Sten Grillner is often cited by papers focused on Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications (177 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (112 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (57 papers). Sten Grillner collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Russia. Sten Grillner's co-authors include Peter Wallén, Hans Forssberg, Brita Robertson, Serge Rossignol, T. G. Deliagina, P. Zangger, Abdeljabbar El Manira, P. Wallén, Lennart Brodin and S. Lund and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sten Grillner

364 papers receiving 25.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Locomotion in vertebrates: central mechanisms and reflex interaction

1975 1.0k citations Sten Grillner profile →
Neurobiological Bases of Rhythmic Motor Acts in Vertebrates

1985 791 citations Sten Grillner profile →
Biological Pattern Generation: The Cellular and Computational Logic of Networks in Motion

2006 632 citations Sten Grillner profile →
The motor infrastructure: from ion channels to neuronal networks

2003 610 citations Sten Grillner profile →
On the central generation of locomotion in the low spinal cat

1979 594 citations Sten Grillner et al. profile →
Central Pattern Generators for Locomotion, with Special Reference to Vertebrates

1985 554 citations Sten Grillner, Peter Wallén profile →
On the initiation of the swing phase of locomotion in chronic spinal cats

1978 412 citations Sten Grillner et al. Brain Research profile →
Current Principles of Motor Control, with Special Reference to Vertebrate Locomotion

2019 317 citations Sten Grillner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sten Grillner Sweden	84	10.5k	8.9k	8.3k	5.2k	3.9k	367	26.5k
Ole Kiehn Sweden	65	6.2k 0.6×	3.6k 0.4×	4.7k 0.6×	2.2k 0.4×	2.7k 0.7×	123	12.7k
E. Jankowska Sweden	64	4.4k 0.4×	4.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.2×	3.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	240	12.6k
V. Reggie Edgerton United States	95	5.7k 0.5×	2.7k 0.3×	3.5k 0.4×	9.4k 1.8×	6.8k 1.8×	426	31.5k
Ian Q. Whishaw Canada	83	11.2k 1.1×	13.0k 1.5×	1.8k 0.2×	958 0.2×	2.7k 0.7×	406	24.8k
Roland R. Roy United States	82	4.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.2×	3.0k 0.4×	8.2k 1.6×	7.2k 1.9×	413	25.8k
R. Llinás United States	81	14.8k 1.4×	9.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.3×	561 0.1×	8.8k 2.3×	234	25.0k
Robert E. Burke United States	73	8.4k 0.8×	2.7k 0.3×	1.5k 0.2×	2.3k 0.4×	4.5k 1.2×	272	18.1k
Liqun Luo United States	101	19.1k 1.8×	6.7k 0.8×	6.1k 0.7×	625 0.1×	15.6k 4.0×	242	36.3k
H. Hultborn Denmark	57	3.3k 0.3×	3.8k 0.4×	1.1k 0.1×	4.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.3×	129	10.6k
H.G.J.M. Kuypers Netherlands	69	5.7k 0.5×	7.4k 0.8×	663 0.1×	1.2k 0.2×	1.8k 0.5×	108	17.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sten Grillner

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Grillner, Sten. (2025). How circuits for habits are formed within the basal ganglia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(13). e2423068122–e2423068122. 2 indexed citations

Grillner, Sten. (2023). The Brain in Motion. The MIT Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

Pansell, Tony, et al.. (2022). Conserved subcortical processing in visuo-vestibular gaze control. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4699–4699. 19 indexed citations

Nylén, Johanna, et al.. (2020). Reciprocal interaction between striatal cholinergic and low‐threshold spiking interneurons — A computational study. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(7). 2135–2148. 8 indexed citations

Suryanarayana, Shreyas M., Juan Pérez‐Fernández, Brita Robertson, & Sten Grillner. (2020). The evolutionary origin of visual and somatosensory representation in the vertebrate pallium. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(4). 639–651. 46 indexed citations

Suzuki, Daichi G., et al.. (2019). The role of the optic tectum for visually evoked orienting and evasive movements. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(30). 15272–15281. 38 indexed citations

Grillner, Sten & Brita Robertson. (2016). The Basal Ganglia Over 500 Million Years. Current Biology. 26(20). R1088–R1100. 204 indexed citations

Grillner, Sten & Brita Robertson. (2015). The basal ganglia downstream control of brainstem motor centres — an evolutionarily conserved strategy. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 33. 47–52. 54 indexed citations

Robertson, Brita, Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Pérez‐Fernández, et al.. (2014). The lamprey blueprint of the mammalian nervous system. Progress in brain research. 212. 337–349. 40 indexed citations

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Katz, Paul S., Sten Grillner, Rachel I. Wilson, et al.. (2013). Vertebrate versus invertebrate neural circuits. Current Biology. 23(12). R504–R506. 8 indexed citations

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Grillner, Sten, et al.. (2000). [Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel are winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine in 2000. They are awarded for basic research on chemical signal transmission in the brain].. PubMed. 97(42). 4685–92. 1 indexed citations

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Bongianni, Fulvia, T. G. Deliagina, & Sten Grillner. (1999). Role of glutamate receptor subtypes in the lamprey respiratory network. Brain Research. 826(2). 298–302. 28 indexed citations

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Grillner, Sten & Apostolos P. Georgopoulos. (1996). Neural control. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 6(6). 741–743. 6 indexed citations

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Pieribone, Vincent A., Qing Xu, X. Zhang, et al.. (1995). Galanin induces a hyperpolarization of norepinephrine-containing locus coeruleus neurons in the brainstem slice. Neuroscience. 64(4). 861–874. 156 indexed citations

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Grillner, Sten, et al.. (1991). Neurobiological basis of human locomotion. 108 indexed citations

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Wallén, P., Johan Christenson, Lennart Brodin, et al.. (1989). Chapter 26 Mechanisms underlying the serotonergic modulation of the spinal circuitry for locomotion in lamprey. Progress in brain research. 80. 321–327. 40 indexed citations

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Brodin, Lennart, U. Tossman, Yoshihiro Ohta, Urban Ungerstedt, & Sten Grillner. (1988). The effect of an uptake inhibitor (dihydrokainate) on endogenous excitatory amino acids in the lamprey spinal cord as revealed by microdialysis. Brain Research. 458(1). 166–169. 22 indexed citations

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Brodin, Lennart, Sten Grillner, & Carl M. Rovainen. (1985). N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA), kainate and quisqualate receptors and the generation of fictive locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord. Brain Research. 325(1-2). 302–306. 153 indexed citations

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Brodin, Lennart & Sten Grillner. (1985). The role of putative excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters in the initiation of locomotion in the lamprey spinal cord. I. The effects of excitatory amino acid antagonists. Brain Research. 360(1-2). 139–148. 73 indexed citations

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Grillner, Sten, Andrew D. McClellan, Karen A. Sigvardt, P. Wallén, & Maria Wilén. (1981). Activation of NMDA‐receptors elicits “Fictive locomotion” in lamprey spinal cord in vitro. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica. 113(4). 549–551. 187 indexed citations

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