Sylvain Williams

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Sylvain Williams is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvain Williams has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 50 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sylvain Williams's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (64 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (39 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers). Sylvain Williams is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (64 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (39 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (25 papers). Sylvain Williams collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Sylvain Williams's co-authors include Frédéric Manseau, Marc Danik, Romain Goutagny, Antoine Adamantidis, Richard Boyce, Jesse Jackson, Jean‐Claude Lacaille, Rémi Quirion, Stephen D. Glasgow and Siddhartha Mondragón‐Rodríguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sylvain Williams

85 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Causal evidence for the role of REM sleep theta rhythm in contextual memory consolidation

2016 444 citations Sylvain Williams, Antoine Adamantidis et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sylvain Williams	3.4k	2.7k	1.2k	824	582	87	5.3k
Ángel Núñez	2.9k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	991 0.8×	742 0.9×	612 1.1×	105	5.8k
Matthew W. Jones	3.6k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	730 1.3×	76	6.2k
L. Judson Chandler	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	788 1.0×	642 1.1×	110	5.4k
Marco Capogna	4.1k 1.2×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 1.6×	570 0.7×	615 1.1×	84	5.5k
Alain Artola	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	749 0.9×	720 1.2×	51	4.5k
Francesco Ferraguti	4.8k 1.4×	2.0k 0.7×	2.7k 2.2×	516 0.6×	805 1.4×	111	6.4k
Alexey Semyanov	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	624 0.8×	1.4k 2.4×	104	5.1k
Agnès Gruart	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	849 1.0×	1.6k 2.7×	158	6.0k
José L. Lanciego	3.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	1.9k 1.6×	573 0.7×	786 1.4×	143	7.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvain Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvain Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sylvain Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sylvain Williams based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sylvain Williams. Sylvain Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Roberts, Rachel L., Lorraine Kasaven, Sylvain Williams, et al.. (2025). Obesity and Female Reproductive Health; Is There a Role for Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists?. Obesity Reviews. 27(2). e70015–e70015.

Etter, Guillaume, Suzanne van der Veldt, Coralie‐Anne Mosser, Michael E. Hasselmo, & Sylvain Williams. (2024). Idiothetic representations are modulated by availability of sensory inputs and task demands in the hippocampal-septal circuit. Cell Reports. 43(11). 114980–114980.

Etter, Guillaume, et al.. (2023). Optogenetic frequency scrambling of hippocampal theta oscillations dissociates working memory retrieval from hippocampal spatiotemporal codes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 410–410. 18 indexed citations

Lévesque, Maxime, et al.. (2022). Bilateral optogenetic activation of inhibitory cells favors ictogenesis. Neurobiology of Disease. 171. 105794–105794. 16 indexed citations

Mosser, Coralie‐Anne, Andrés Nieto‐Posadas, Keith K. Murai, et al.. (2020). The McGill‐Mouse‐Miniscope platform: A standardized approach for high‐throughput imaging of neuronal dynamics during behavior. Genes Brain & Behavior. 20(1). e12686–e12686. 8 indexed citations

Gulli, Roberto A., et al.. (2019). Context-dependent representations of objects and space in the primate hippocampus during virtual navigation. Nature Neuroscience. 23(1). 103–112. 63 indexed citations

Etter, Guillaume, et al.. (2019). Optogenetic gamma stimulation rescues memory impairments in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5322–5322. 172 indexed citations

Mahar, Ian, Siddhartha Mondragón‐Rodríguez, Chelsea Cavanagh, et al.. (2017). Phenotypic Alterations in Hippocampal NPY- and PV-Expressing Interneurons in a Presymptomatic Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 8. 327–327. 55 indexed citations

Huh, Carey Y. L., Bénédicte Amilhon, Katie Ferguson, et al.. (2016). Excitatory Inputs Determine Phase-Locking Strength and Spike-Timing of CA1 Stratum Oriens/Alveus Parvalbumin and Somatostatin Interneurons during Intrinsically Generated Hippocampal Theta Rhythm. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(25). 6605–6622. 39 indexed citations

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Robinson, Jennifer C., Frédéric Manseau, Guillaume Ducharme, et al.. (2016). Optogenetic Activation of Septal Glutamatergic Neurons Drive Hippocampal Theta Rhythms. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(10). 3016–3023. 101 indexed citations

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Amilhon, Bénédicte, Carey Y. L. Huh, Frédéric Manseau, et al.. (2015). Parvalbumin Interneurons of Hippocampus Tune Population Activity at Theta Frequency. Neuron. 86(5). 1277–1289. 169 indexed citations

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Ferguson, Katie, Carey Y. L. Huh, Bénédicte Amilhon, et al.. (2015). Network models provide insights into how oriens–lacunosum-moleculare and bistratified cell interactions influence the power of local hippocampal CA1 theta oscillations. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 9. 110–110. 16 indexed citations

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Goutagny, Romain, Ning Gu, Chelsea Cavanagh, et al.. (2013). Alterations in hippocampal network oscillations and theta–gamma coupling arise before Aβ overproduction in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. 37(12). 1896–1902. 188 indexed citations

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Méndez, José Alfredo Tirado, Marie‐Josée Bourque, Grégory Dal Bo, et al.. (2008). Developmental and Target-Dependent Regulation of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter Expression by Dopamine Neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(25). 6309–6318. 86 indexed citations

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Goutagny, Romain, Frédéric Manseau, Jesse Jackson, Marc Danik, & Sylvain Williams. (2008). In vitro activation of the medial septum—Diagonal band complex generates atropine‐sensitive and atropine‐resistant hippocampal theta rhythm: An investigation using a complete septohippocampal preparation. Hippocampus. 18(6). 531–535. 28 indexed citations

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Luheshi, Giamal N., et al.. (2008). Maternal infection and fever during late gestation are associated with altered synaptic transmission in the hippocampus of juvenile offspring rats. American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 295(5). R1563–R1571. 57 indexed citations

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Atkison, Paul, Lawrence Jardine, Sylvain Williams, et al.. (2005). Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa in Pediatric Patients With Liver Failure and Severe Coagulopathy. Transplantation Proceedings. 37(2). 1091–1093. 11 indexed citations

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Bell, Jimmy D., et al.. (2000). Quantification of dendritic spine loss in CA1 pyramidal neurons and immunocytochemical detection of PrP in the scrapie infected murine hippocampus. Brain Pathology. 10(4). 662–662. 11 indexed citations

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Khateb, Asaid, Patrice Fort, Sylvain Williams, et al.. (1997). Modulation of cholinergic nucleus basalis neurons by acetylcholine and N-methyl-d-aspartate. Neuroscience. 81(1). 47–55. 41 indexed citations

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Herzog, Denise, et al.. (1996). Combined Bowel‐Liver Transplantation in an Infant with Microvillous Inclusion Disease. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 22(4). 405–408. 1 indexed citations

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