Sunil Gandhi

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sunil Gandhi is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunil Gandhi has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sunil Gandhi's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Sunil Gandhi is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (13 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (8 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (8 papers). Sunil Gandhi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Sunil Gandhi's co-authors include Geoffrey M. Boynton, Charles F. Stevens, David J. Heeger, Michael P. Stryker, Michael S. A. Graziano, Derek G. Southwell, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, Robert C. Froemke, Dario X. Figueroa Velez and Yuchio Yanagawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sunil Gandhi

48 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Spatial attention affects brain activity in human primary visual cortex

1999 501 citations Sunil Gandhi, Geoffrey M. Boynton et al. profile →

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Sunil Gandhi

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Frank Sengpiel United Kingdom

Mark J. Wagner United States

Colin J. Akerman United Kingdom

Shan Shen China

Siegrid Löwel Germany

Valentin Piëch United States

Albert Kim United States

Keisuke Toyama Japan

Jerry L. Chen United States

Frank Sengpiel United Kingdom

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sunil Gandhi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunil Gandhi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schneider, Christine A., Christian Crouzet, Tatiane S. Lima, et al.. (2025). Infection with Toxoplasma gondii triggers coagulation at the blood-brain barrier and a reduction in cerebral blood flow. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

Chadarevian, Jean Paul, Jonathan Hasselmann, Christina Tu, et al.. (2024). Therapeutic potential of human microglia transplantation in a chimeric model of CSF1R-related leukoencephalopathy. Neuron. 112(16). 2686–2707.e8. 31 indexed citations

Azevedo, Ricardo, et al.. (2023). Toxoplasma gondii‐induced amyloid reduction and neuroimmune responses in Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S13). 1 indexed citations

Huh, Carey Y. L., Henri Leinonen, Jianye Zhang, et al.. (2022). Retinoid therapy restores eye-specific cortical responses in adult mice with retinal degeneration. Current Biology. 32(20). 4538–4546.e5. 4 indexed citations

Velez, Dario X. Figueroa, Miguel A. Arreola, Carey Y. L. Huh, Kim Y. Green, & Sunil Gandhi. (2022). Juvenile depletion of microglia reduces orientation but not high spatial frequency selectivity in mouse V1. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 12779–12779. 3 indexed citations

Hohsfield, Lindsay A., Allison R. Najafi, Neelakshi Soni, et al.. (2021). Subventricular zone/white matter microglia reconstitute the empty adult microglial niche in a dynamic wave. eLife. 10. 31 indexed citations

Zheng, Xiaoting, et al.. (2021). Host interneurons mediate plasticity reactivated by embryonic inhibitory cell transplantation in mouse visual cortex. Nature Communications. 12(1). 862–862. 8 indexed citations

Steward, Oswald, Kelly Matsudaira Yee, Mariajose Metcalfe, et al.. (2020). Rostro-Caudal Specificity of Corticospinal Tract Projections in Mice. Cerebral Cortex. 31(5). 2322–2344. 22 indexed citations

Huh, Carey Y. L., et al.. (2020). Functional Differentiation of Mouse Visual Cortical Areas Depends upon Early Binocular Experience. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(7). 1470–1488. 7 indexed citations

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Grieco, Steven F., Xin Qiao, Xiaoting Zheng, et al.. (2020). Subanesthetic Ketamine Reactivates Adult Cortical Plasticity to Restore Vision from Amblyopia. Current Biology. 30(18). 3591–3603.e8. 41 indexed citations

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Huh, Carey Y. L., et al.. (2019). Long-term Monocular Deprivation during Juvenile Critical Period Disrupts Binocular Integration in Mouse Visual Thalamus. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(3). 585–604. 39 indexed citations

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Velez, Dario X. Figueroa, et al.. (2018). Precocious deposition of perineuronal nets on Parvalbumin inhibitory neurons transplanted into adult visual cortex. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7480–7480. 13 indexed citations

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Velez, Dario X. Figueroa, et al.. (2017). Contralateral Bias of High Spatial Frequency Tuning and Cardinal Direction Selectivity in Mouse Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 37(42). 10125–10138. 26 indexed citations

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Hudry, Eloïse, Sunil Gandhi, Bence György, et al.. (2016). Exosome-associated AAV vector as a robust and convenient neuroscience tool. Gene Therapy. 23(4). 380–392. 118 indexed citations

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Davis, Melissa F., et al.. (2015). Inhibitory Neuron Transplantation into Adult Visual Cortex Creates a New Critical Period that Rescues Impaired Vision. Neuron. 86(4). 1055–1066. 72 indexed citations

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Southwell, Derek G., Robert C. Froemke, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, Michael P. Stryker, & Sunil Gandhi. (2010). Cortical Plasticity Induced by Inhibitory Neuron Transplantation. Science. 327(5969). 1145–1148. 214 indexed citations

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Gandhi, Sunil & Charles F. Stevens. (2003). Three modes of synaptic vesicular recycling revealed by single-vesicle imaging. Nature. 423(6940). 607–613. 343 indexed citations

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Gandhi, Sunil. (2001). Memory retrieval: Reactivating sensory cortex. Current Biology. 11(1). R32–R34. 10 indexed citations

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Graziano, Michael S. A. & Sunil Gandhi. (2000). Location of the polysensory zone in the precentral gyrus of anesthetized monkeys. Experimental Brain Research. 135(2). 259–266. 104 indexed citations

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Wandell, Brian A., Allen Poirson, William T. Newsome, et al.. (1999). Color Signals in Human Motion-Selective Cortex. Neuron. 24(4). 901–909. 110 indexed citations

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