Willy Mayo

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Willy Mayo is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Willy Mayo has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 37 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 25 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Willy Mayo's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (34 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (25 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (21 papers). Willy Mayo is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (34 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (25 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (21 papers). Willy Mayo collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and United States. Willy Mayo's co-authors include Michel Le Moal, F. Dellu, Monique Vallée, H. Simon, Hervé Simon, Stefania Maccari, Michel Le Moal, Djoher Nora Abrous, Pier‐Vincenzo Piazza and Elodie Drapeau and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Willy Mayo

83 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Prenatal Stress Induces High Anxiety and Postnatal Handling Induces Low Anxiety in Adult Offspring: Correlation with Stress-Induced Corticosterone Secretion

1997 666 citations Monique Vallée, Willy Mayo et al. profile →
Spatial memory performances of aged rats in the water maze predict levels of hippocampal neurogenesis

2003 532 citations Willy Mayo, Michel Le Moal et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Willy Mayo	2.0k	1.9k	1.4k	1.2k	1.0k	86	5.6k
Janice M. Juraska	2.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.7×	982 0.9×	119	7.5k
Harm J. Krugers	1.7k 0.8×	3.7k 2.0×	2.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	900 0.9×	119	7.0k
Ana Marı́a Magariños	1.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	693 0.7×	40	5.7k
Maarten van den Buuse	3.4k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.9×	254	7.7k
Gabriele Flügge	2.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	827 0.7×	829 0.8×	62	5.6k
Kevin G. Bath	2.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	1.0k 1.0×	69	6.8k
Muriel Koehl	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	1000 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	982 0.9×	60	5.8k
Marianne B. Müller	1.4k 0.7×	3.6k 1.9×	2.0k 1.4×	868 0.7×	910 0.9×	134	7.3k
Jamie Maguire	2.9k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	97	5.8k
Peter Gass	3.1k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	996 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	199	7.7k

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Mayo, Willy, Gwénaëlle Catheline, Mathilde Poli, et al.. (2024). Associating Disrupted Intrinsic Functional Networks with Cognitive and Socio-Affective Skills Following Cerebellar Stroke. The Cerebellum. 24(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations

Baillet, Marion, Bixente Dilharreguy, F. Lamare, et al.. (2023). Night‐to‐night variability in sleep and amyloid beta burden in normal aging. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(3). e12460–e12460. 4 indexed citations

Mayo, Willy, et al.. (2010). Paradoxical effect of severe dietary restriction on Long-Evans rat life span. International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research. 80(6). 386–393. 5 indexed citations

George, Olivier, Monique Vallée, S. Vitiello, et al.. (2010). Low Brain Allopregnanolone Levels Mediate Flattened Circadian Activity Associated with Memory Impairments in Aged Rats. Biological Psychiatry. 68(10). 956–963. 25 indexed citations

Delord, Sandrine, et al.. (2009). Alteration of Attentional Blink in High Functioning Autism: A Pilot Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 39(11). 1522–1528. 11 indexed citations

Delord, Sandrine, et al.. (2008). Impairment of controlled attentionnal processing after irradiation of posterior fossa tumor: an fMRI study. Perception. 37. 10–10. 2 indexed citations

Lemaire, Valérie, J.‐M. Billard, P. Dutar, et al.. (2006). Motherhood‐induced memory improvement persists across lifespan in rats but is abolished by a gestational stress. European Journal of Neuroscience. 23(12). 3368–3374. 70 indexed citations

Mayo, Willy, Valérie Lemaire, Jordane Malaterre, et al.. (2004). Pregnenolone sulfate enhances neurogenesis and PSA-NCAM in young and aged hippocampus. Neurobiology of Aging. 26(1). 103–114. 70 indexed citations

Mayo, Willy, Olivier George, Sònia Darbra, et al.. (2003). Individual differences in cognitive aging: implication of pregnenolone sulfate. Progress in Neurobiology. 71(1). 43–48. 42 indexed citations

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Koehl, Muriel, Valérie Lemaire, Willy Mayo, et al.. (2002). Individual vulnerability to substance abuse and affective disorders: Role of early environmental influences. Neurotoxicity Research. 4(4). 281–296. 37 indexed citations

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Vallée, Monique, Willy Mayo, & Michel Le Moal. (2001). Role of pregnenolone, dehydroepiandrosterone and their sulfate esters on learning and memory in cognitive aging. Brain Research Reviews. 37(1-3). 301–312. 161 indexed citations

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Darnaudéry, Muriel, Muriel Koehl, Pier‐Vincenzo Piazza, Michel Le Moal, & Willy Mayo. (2000). Pregnenolone sulfate increases hippocampal acetylcholine release and spatial recognition. Brain Research. 852(1). 173–179. 65 indexed citations

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Barrot, Michel, Monique Vallée, M. A. Gingras, et al.. (1999). The neurosteroid pregnenolone sulphate increases dopamine release and the dopaminergic response to morphine in the rat nucleus accumbens. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(10). 3757–3760. 43 indexed citations

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Bouyer, J.J., Monique Vallée, Jean-Marie Deminière, Michel Le Moal, & Willy Mayo. (1998). Reaction of sleep–wakefulness cycle to stress is related to differences in hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis reactivity in rat. Brain Research. 804(1). 114–124. 34 indexed citations

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Mayo, Willy, Monique Vallée, David C. Hancock, et al.. (1997). Effect of aging on the basal expression of c-fos, c-jun, and egr-1 proteins in the hippocampus. Neurobiology of Aging. 18(1). 37–44. 66 indexed citations

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Bouyer, J.J., Jean-Marie Deminière, Willy Mayo, & Michel Le Moal. (1997). Inter-individual differences in the effects of acute stress on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in the rat. Neuroscience Letters. 225(3). 193–196. 23 indexed citations

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Dellu, F., Willy Mayo, Monique Vallée, Michel Le Moal, & H. Simon. (1997). Facilitation of Cognitive Performance in Aged Rats by Past Experience Depends on the Type of Information Processing Involved: A Combined Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 67(2). 121–128. 49 indexed citations

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Mayo, Willy, et al.. (1993). Infusion of neurosteroids into the nucleus basalis magnocellularis affects cognitive processes in the rat. Brain Research. 607(1-2). 324–328. 188 indexed citations

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Mayo, Willy, P.J. Neveu, Keith W. Kelley, et al.. (1990). The nucleus basalis is involved in brain modulation of the immune system in rats. Brain Research. 516(2). 345–348. 12 indexed citations

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Baud, Patrick, Willy Mayo, Michel Le Moal, & Hervé Simon. (1988). Locomotor hyperactivity in the rat after infusion of muscimol and [d-Ala2]Met-enkephalin into the nucleus basalis magnocellularis. Possible interaction with cortical cholinergic projections. Brain Research. 452(1-2). 203–211. 33 indexed citations

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