Stephen Maren

27.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
178 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Maren is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Maren has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 138 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 110 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Stephen Maren's work include Memory and Neural Mechanisms (159 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (131 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (110 papers). Stephen Maren is often cited by papers focused on Memory and Neural Mechanisms (159 papers), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (131 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (110 papers). Stephen Maren collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Poland. Stephen Maren's co-authors include Michael S. Fanselow, Gregory J. Quirk, Kevin A. Corcoran, Gal Aharonov, Ki A. Goosens, Israel Liberzon, K. Luan Phan, Thomas F. Giustino, Jinzhao Ji and William G. Holt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Maren

174 papers receiving 21.0k 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.

Neurobiology of Pavlovian Fear Conditioning

2001 1.4k citations Stephen Maren profile →
The contextual brain: implications for fear conditioning, extinction and psychopathology

2013 1.1k citations Stephen Maren et al. profile →
Neuronal signalling of fear memory

2004 1.1k citations Stephen Maren et al. profile →
Neurotoxic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

1997 632 citations Stephen Maren, Michael S. Fanselow et al. Behavioural Brain Research profile →
Contextual and Temporal Modulation of Extinction: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms

2006 543 citations Stephen Maren et al. profile →
Temporally Graded Retrograde Amnesia of Contextual Fear after Hippocampal Damage in Rats: Within-Subjects Examination

1999 535 citations Stephen Maren, Michael S. Fanselow et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Maren United States	81	15.7k	13.4k	8.6k	4.7k	2.7k	178	21.4k
Gregory J. Quirk Puerto Rico	63	17.1k 1.1×	12.7k 0.9×	7.9k 0.9×	4.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	103	24.0k
Joram Feldon Switzerland	91	9.8k 0.6×	12.8k 1.0×	8.5k 1.0×	8.0k 1.7×	4.9k 1.8×	419	29.1k
Jeansok J. Kim United States	57	8.7k 0.6×	8.5k 0.6×	5.3k 0.6×	3.1k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	117	15.2k
John P. Aggleton United Kingdom	91	22.2k 1.4×	14.5k 1.1×	2.9k 0.3×	2.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	311	28.7k
Michela Gallagher United States	92	15.7k 1.0×	14.5k 1.1×	4.2k 0.5×	2.9k 0.6×	5.1k 1.9×	284	26.2k
Benno Roozendaal Netherlands	81	9.5k 0.6×	5.7k 0.4×	12.5k 1.5×	7.5k 1.6×	1.8k 0.7×	181	22.2k
Denis Paré United States	66	13.1k 0.8×	10.9k 0.8×	3.4k 0.4×	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	163	16.8k
Andreas Lüthi Switzerland	50	8.2k 0.5×	8.8k 0.7×	2.7k 0.3×	2.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.2×	80	14.1k
Michael S. Fanselow United States	88	20.0k 1.3×	19.1k 1.4×	11.4k 1.3×	7.2k 1.5×	5.4k 2.0×	306	34.2k
Karim Nader Canada	58	9.3k 0.6×	8.0k 0.6×	2.7k 0.3×	1.8k 0.4×	3.1k 1.2×	118	14.1k

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Hassell, James E., et al.. (2025). Hippocampal ensembles regulate circuit-induced relapse of extinguished fear. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(10). 4700–4709. 1 indexed citations

Totty, Michael S., et al.. (2025). Associative coding of conditioned fear in the thalamic nucleus reuniens in rodents and humans. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1142–1142.

Bertoglio, Leandro J., et al.. (2025). Windows of change: Revisiting temporal and molecular dynamics of memory reconsolidation and persistence. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 174. 106198–106198. 1 indexed citations

Hassell, James E., et al.. (2024). Hippocampal Engrams and Contextual Memory. Advances in neurobiology. 38. 45–66. 2 indexed citations

Hassell, James E., et al.. (2024). Neural circuits for the adaptive regulation of fear and extinction memory. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 18. 1352797–1352797. 14 indexed citations

Totty, Michael S., et al.. (2023). Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6565–6565. 24 indexed citations

Ramanathan, Karthik R. & Stephen Maren. (2019). Nucleus reuniens mediates the extinction of contextual fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research. 374. 112114–112114. 45 indexed citations

Prater, Katherine E., Cortney A. Turner, Peter Blandino, et al.. (2017). Selectively Bred Rats Provide a Unique Model of Vulnerability to PTSD-Like Behavior and Respond Differentially to FGF2 Augmentation Early in Life. Neuropsychopharmacology. 42(8). 1706–1714. 19 indexed citations

Acca, Gillian M., et al.. (2017). Allopregnanolone induces state-dependent fear via the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Hormones and Behavior. 89. 137–144. 18 indexed citations

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Goode, Travis D. & Stephen Maren. (2017). Role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in aversive learning and memory. Learning & Memory. 24(9). 480–491. 99 indexed citations

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Maren, Stephen. (2017). Synapse-Specific Encoding of Fear Memory in the Amygdala. Neuron. 95(5). 988–990. 11 indexed citations

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Giustino, Thomas F., Paul J. Fitzgerald, & Stephen Maren. (2016). Revisiting propranolol and PTSD: Memory erasure or extinction enhancement?. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 130. 26–33. 92 indexed citations

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Maren, Stephen & Andrew Holmes. (2015). Stress and Fear Extinction. Neuropsychopharmacology. 41(1). 58–79. 283 indexed citations

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Jin, Jingji & Stephen Maren. (2015). Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions in Memory and Emotion. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 9. 170–170. 229 indexed citations

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Chang, Chun‐hui & Stephen Maren. (2011). Medial prefrontal cortex activation facilitates re-extinction of fear in rats. Learning & Memory. 18(4). 221–225. 53 indexed citations

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Ji, Jinzhao & Stephen Maren. (2007). Hippocampal involvement in contextual modulation of fear extinction. Hippocampus. 17(9). 749–758. 227 indexed citations

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Maren, Stephen. (2005). Synaptic Mechanisms of Associative Memory in the Amygdala. Neuron. 47(6). 783–786. 268 indexed citations

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Goosens, Ki A., Jennifer A. Hobin, & Stephen Maren. (2003). Auditory-Evoked Spike Firing in the Lateral Amygdala and Pavlovian Fear Conditioning. Neuron. 40(5). 1013–1022. 105 indexed citations

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Goosens, Ki A., William G. Holt, & Stephen Maren. (2000). A role for amygdaloid PKA and PKC in the acquisition of long-term conditional fear memories in rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 114(1-2). 145–152. 71 indexed citations

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Maren, Stephen & Michael S. Fanselow. (1996). The Amygdala and Fear Conditioning: Has the Nut Been Cracked?. Neuron. 16(2). 237–240. 323 indexed citations

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