Thomas R. Insel

56.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
263 papers, 35.9k citations indexed

About

Thomas R. Insel is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas R. Insel has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 35.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Social Psychology, 63 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Thomas R. Insel's work include Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (104 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (45 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (36 papers). Thomas R. Insel is often cited by papers focused on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (104 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (45 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (36 papers). Thomas R. Insel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Czechia and United Kingdom. Thomas R. Insel's co-authors include Bruce N. Cuthbert, Larry J. Young, James Winslow, Philip Wang, Kevin J. Quinn, Marjorie A. Garvey, Charles A. Sanislow, Daniel S. Pine, Robert Heinssen and Jennifer N. Ferguson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Thomas R. Insel

257 papers receiving 34.6k citations

Hit Papers

Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a... 1993 2026 2004 2015 2010 2013 2010 2014 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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.

  1. Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research on Mental Disorders
    2010 4.5k citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  2. Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC
    2013 1.9k citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  3. Rethinking schizophrenia
    2010 1.3k citations Thomas R. Insel Nature profile →
  4. The NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Project: Precision Medicine for Psychiatry
    2014 956 citations Thomas R. Insel profile →
  5. Social amnesia in mice lacking the oxytocin gene
    2000 835 citations Larry J. Young, Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  6. Oxytocin in the Medial Amygdala is Essential for Social Recognition in the Mouse
    2001 829 citations Thomas R. Insel, Larry J. Young et al. profile →
  7. The neurobiology of attachment
    2001 812 citations Thomas R. Insel, Larry J. Young profile →
  8. Schizophrenia
    2015 775 citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  9. The Challenge of Translation in Social Neuroscience: A Review of Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Affiliative Behavior
    2010 764 citations Thomas R. Insel Neuron profile →
  10. A role for central vasopressin in pair bonding in monogamous prairie voles
    1993 726 citations James Winslow, C. Sue Carter et al. Nature profile →
  11. Early Life Programming and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
    2010 696 citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  12. Why has it taken so long for biological psychiatry to develop clinical tests and what to do about it?
    2012 654 citations Thomas R. Insel et al. Molecular Psychiatry profile →
  13. The Neurobiology of Parental Behavior
    2003 531 citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →
  14. Digital Phenotyping
    2017 489 citations Thomas R. Insel JAMA profile →
  15. Brain disorders? Precisely
    2015 446 citations Thomas R. Insel et al. profile →

Peers

Thomas R. Insel
Jaak Panksepp United States
Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg Germany
Alan F. Schatzberg United States
Michael J. Meaney Canada
Klaus‐Peter Lesch Germany
Robert M. Sapolsky United States
Kent Berridge United States
Charles B. Nemeroff United States
J. John Mann United States
Dennis L. Murphy United States
Jaak Panksepp United States
Thomas R. Insel
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Insel, Thomas R.. (2013). From Inconvenient Truth to Urgent Opportunity. APS observer. 26(8). 2 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R.. (2012). Compassionate allowance for people with schizophrenia?. Schizophrenia Research. 140(1-3). 15–16. 2 indexed citations
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McMahon, Francis J. & Thomas R. Insel. (2012). Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine in Neuropsychiatry. Neuron. 74(5). 773–776. 42 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R.. (2005). Psychiatry as a Clinical Neuroscience Discipline. JAMA. 294(17). 2221–2221. 176 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R. & Dennis S. Charney. (2003). Research on Major Depression. JAMA. 289(23). 3167–3167. 92 indexed citations
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Fenton, Wayne S., et al.. (2003). Breaking the log-jam in treatment development for cognition in schizophrenia: NIMH perspective. Psychopharmacology. 169(3-4). 365–366. 29 indexed citations
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Young, Larry J., D Gonen, Jeremy Veenstra‐VanderWeele, et al.. (2002). Transmission disequilibrium testing of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) polymorphisms in autism. Molecular Psychiatry. 7(5). 503–507. 201 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R.. (2001). Mouse models for autism: report from a meeting. Mammalian Genome. 12(10). 755–757. 27 indexed citations
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Smith, Matthew, et al.. (2001). Increased Number of BrdU-Labeled Neurons in the Rostral Migratory Stream of the Estrous Prairie Vole. Hormones and Behavior. 39(1). 11–21. 98 indexed citations
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Wang, Zuoxin, Yue Liu, Larry J. Young, & Thomas R. Insel. (1997). Developmental Changes in Forebrain Vasopressin Receptor Binding in Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster) and Montane Voles (Microtus montanus). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 807(1). 510–513. 18 indexed citations
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Young, Larry J., et al.. (1996). Species Differences in Central Oxytocin Receptor Gene Expression: Comparative Analysis of Promoter Sequences. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 8(10). 777–783. 84 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R., et al.. (1995). The monogamous Brain: Or , what midweatern rodent has taught us about the chemistry of mammalian love. Natural history. 104(8). 12–14. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Jessie, et al.. (1994). Oxytocin Administered Centrally Facilitates Formation of a Partner Preference in Female Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 6(3). 247–250. 364 indexed citations
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Witt, Diane M. & Thomas R. Insel. (1994). Increased Fos Expression in Oxytocin Neurons Following Masculine Sexual Behavior. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 6(1). 13–18. 82 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R., et al.. (1993). Vasopressin is both necessary and sufficient for pair bonding in the monogamous prairie vole. The Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 19. 2. 2 indexed citations
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Winslow, James, et al.. (1993). A role for central vasopressin in pair bonding in monogamous prairie voles. Nature. 365(6446). 545–548. 726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Carter, C. Sue, Jessie Williams, Diane M. Witt, & Thomas R. Insel. (1992). Oxytocin and Social Bondinga. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 652(1). 204–211. 190 indexed citations
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Winslow, James & Thomas R. Insel. (1991). Endogenous opioids: Do they modulate the rat pup's response to social isolation?. Behavioral Neuroscience. 105(2). 253–263. 63 indexed citations
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Winslow, James, Thomas R. Insel, Ramón Trullás, & Phil Skolnick. (1990). Rat pup isolation calls are reduced by functional antagonists of the NMDA receptor. European Journal of Pharmacology. 190(1-2). 11–21. 73 indexed citations
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Insel, Thomas R., et al.. (1989). Central administration of corticotropin releasing factor alters rat pup isolation calls. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 32(1). 197–201. 57 indexed citations

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