Stéphane Ciocchi

4.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
21 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Stéphane Ciocchi is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphane Ciocchi has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stéphane Ciocchi's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (18 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers). Stéphane Ciocchi is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (18 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (14 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (6 papers). Stéphane Ciocchi collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United States. Stéphane Ciocchi's co-authors include Andreas Lüthi, Cyril Herry, Christian Müller, Ingrid Ehrlich, François Grenier, Yann Humeau, Karl Deisseroth, Steffen B. E. Wolff, Johannes J. Letzkus and Rolf Sprengel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stéphane Ciocchi

20 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits

2008 761 citations Cyril Herry, Stéphane Ciocchi et al. Nature profile →
Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits

2010 712 citations Stéphane Ciocchi, Cyril Herry et al. Nature profile →
Amygdala Inhibitory Circuits and the Control of Fear Memory

2009 703 citations Ingrid Ehrlich, Yann Humeau et al. Neuron profile →
Genetic dissection of an amygdala microcircuit that gates conditioned fear

2010 642 citations Wulf Haubensak, Prabhat S. Kunwar et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stéphane Ciocchi Switzerland	13	2.4k	2.2k	1.0k	924	538	21	3.5k
Philip Tovote Germany	20	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	871 0.8×	912 1.0×	642 1.2×	39	4.0k
Jonathan P. Fadok United States	18	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	864 0.8×	959 1.0×	862 1.6×	28	4.0k
Sevil Duvarci United States	21	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	879 0.8×	713 0.8×	421 0.8×	26	3.0k
Thomas Seidenbecher Germany	30	2.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	701 0.7×	519 0.6×	645 1.2×	55	3.5k
Devin Mueller United States	21	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	876 0.8×	621 0.7×	518 1.0×	33	2.9k
Elizabeth P. Bauer United States	21	2.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	828 0.8×	614 0.7×	669 1.2×	29	3.1k
Franco Mascagni United States	35	2.3k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	961 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	701 1.3×	56	3.7k
Christopher K. Cain United States	27	2.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	741 0.8×	587 1.1×	54	3.4k
Ingrid Ehrlich Germany	22	2.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	918 0.9×	781 0.8×	1.2k 2.2×	37	4.6k
Natalie C. Tronson United States	27	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	687 0.7×	614 0.7×	675 1.3×	43	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Stéphane Ciocchi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphane Ciocchi

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Pfister, Jean-Pascal, et al.. (2025). Scaling of Ventral Hippocampal Activity during Anxiety. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(12). e1128242025–e1128242025. 2 indexed citations

Veldt, Suzanne van der, Rosemary C. Bagot, Stéphane Ciocchi, et al.. (2025). Anxiety and Beyond: Diversity in Ventral Hippocampus Circuits and Function. Journal of Neuroscience. 45(46). e1304252025–e1304252025.

Ciocchi, Stéphane, et al.. (2025). Distinct ventral hippocampal inhibitory microcircuits regulating anxiety and fear behaviors. Neuroscience. 580. 30–30. 1 indexed citations

Malagon‐Vina, Hugo, et al.. (2025). Hippocampus supports multi-task reinforcement learning under partial observability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9619–9619. 1 indexed citations

Li, Kaizhen, et al.. (2024). Distinct ventral hippocampal inhibitory microcircuits regulating anxiety and fear behaviors. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8228–8228. 8 indexed citations

Li, Kaizhen, et al.. (2024). Activity of ventral hippocampal parvalbumin interneurons during anxiety. Cell Reports. 43(6). 114295–114295. 13 indexed citations

Nguyen, Robin, et al.. (2024). Hippocampal contextualization of social rewards in mice. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9493–9493. 2 indexed citations

Malagon‐Vina, Hugo, Stéphane Ciocchi, & Thomas Klausberger. (2023). Firing patterns of ventral hippocampal neurons predict the exploration of anxiogenic locations. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations

Nguyen, Robin, et al.. (2023). Fear extinction relies on ventral hippocampal safety codes shaped by the amygdala. Science Advances. 9(22). eadg4881–eadg4881. 18 indexed citations

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Malagon‐Vina, Hugo, et al.. (2022). Anxiety-related activity of ventral hippocampal interneurons. Progress in Neurobiology. 219. 102368–102368. 20 indexed citations

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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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Malagon‐Vina, Hugo, Stéphane Ciocchi, Johannes Passecker, Georg Dorffner, & Thomas Klausberger. (2018). Fluid network dynamics in the prefrontal cortex during multiple strategy switching. Nature Communications. 9(1). 309–309. 29 indexed citations

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Ciocchi, Stéphane, Johannes Passecker, Hugo Malagon‐Vina, Nace Mikuš, & Thomas Klausberger. (2015). Selective information routing by ventral hippocampal CA1 projection neurons. Science. 348(6234). 560–563. 229 indexed citations

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Camp, Marguerite, Kathryn P. MacPherson, Lauren Lederle, et al.. (2012). Genetic Strain Differences in Learned Fear Inhibition Associated with Variation in Neuroendocrine, Autonomic, and Amygdala Dendritic Phenotypes. Neuropsychopharmacology. 37(6). 1534–1547. 87 indexed citations

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Meins, Marita, Cyril Herry, Christian D. Muller, et al.. (2010). Impaired fear extinction in mice lacking protease nexin‐1. European Journal of Neuroscience. 31(11). 2033–2042. 18 indexed citations

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Haubensak, Wulf, Prabhat S. Kunwar, Haijiang Cai, et al.. (2010). Genetic dissection of an amygdala microcircuit that gates conditioned fear. Nature. 468(7321). 270–276. 642 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ciocchi, Stéphane, Cyril Herry, François Grenier, et al.. (2010). Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits. Nature. 468(7321). 277–282. 712 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ehrlich, Ingrid, Yann Humeau, François Grenier, et al.. (2009). Amygdala Inhibitory Circuits and the Control of Fear Memory. Neuron. 62(6). 757–771. 703 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herry, Cyril, et al.. (2008). Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits. Nature. 454(7204). 600–606. 761 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shaban, Hamdy, Yann Humeau, Cyril Herry, et al.. (2006). Generalization of amygdala LTP and conditioned fear in the absence of presynaptic inhibition. Nature Neuroscience. 9(8). 1028–1035. 163 indexed citations

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