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 C. Aurousseau 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

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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 →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Night‐to‐night variability in sleep and amyloid beta burden in normal aging 2023 ·Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring ·(unknown), Marion Baillet, (unknown), Bixente Dilharreguy, F. Lamare, Karine Pérès, Catherine Helmer, Jean‐François Dartigues, Hélène Amieva, Willy Mayo, Gwénaëlle Catheline	4
2	Assessment of dream-related aspects and beliefs in a large cohort of French students using a validated French version of the Mannheim Dream questionnaire 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), Willy Mayo, Imad Ghorayeb	1
3	Activity/rest cycle and disturbances of structural backbone of cerebral networks in aging 2016 ·NeuroImage ·Marion Baillet, Bixente Dilharreguy, Karine Pérès, Jean‐François Dartigues, Willy Mayo, Gwénaëlle Catheline	21
4	Simplified Quantification Method for In Vivo SPECT Imaging of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter with ¹²³I-Iodobenzovesamicol 2015 ·Journal of Nuclear Medicine ·Joachim Mazère, Willy Mayo, (unknown), Jürgen Schulz, Michèle Allard, Philippe Fernandez, F. Lamare	2
5	Alteration of Attentional Blink in High Functioning Autism: A Pilot Study 2009 ·Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders ·(unknown), (unknown), Sandrine Delord, (unknown), (unknown), Isabelle Hesling, Michèle Allard, Manuel Bouvard, Willy Mayo	11
6	Impairment of controlled attentionnal processing after irradiation of posterior fossa tumor: an fMRI study 2008 ·Perception ·(unknown), Sandrine Delord, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Willy Mayo, (unknown)	2
7	Smad-dependent alterations of PPT cholinergic neurons as a pathophysiological mechanism of age-related sleep-dependent memory impairments 2005 ·Neurobiology of Aging ·Olivier George, Á. Párducz, David Dupret, (unknown), Michel Le Moal, P.V. Piazza, Willy Mayo	9
8	Deleterious effects of an environmental noise on sleep and contribution of its physical components in a rat model 2004 ·Brain Research ·Arnaud Rabat, Jean Bouyer, J.‐M. Aran, (unknown), Willy Mayo, Michel Le Moal	31
9	Sleep‐wake states and cortical synchronization control by pregnenolone sulfate into the pedunculopontine nucleus 2004 ·Journal of Neuroscience Research ·Sònia Darbra, Olivier George, (unknown), (unknown), Michel Le Moal, Willy Mayo	15
10	The Effect of Education on Cognitive Performances and Its Implication for the Constitution of the Cognitive Reserve 2003 ·Developmental Neuropsychology ·Nicolas Le Carret, Sylviane Lafont, Luc Letenneur, Jean‐François Dartigues, Willy Mayo, Colette Fabrigoule	202
11	Individual differences in cognitive aging: implication of pregnenolone sulfate 2003 ·Progress in Neurobiology ·Willy Mayo, Olivier George, Sònia Darbra, (unknown), Monique Vallée, Muriel Darnaudéry, Marc Pallarés, (unknown), Michel Le Moal, (unknown), Djoher Nora Abrous	42
12	The neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate infused into the medial septum nucleus increases hippocampal acetylcholine and spatial memory in rats 2002 ·Brain Research ·Muriel Darnaudéry, Marc Pallarés, (unknown), Michel Le Moal, Willy Mayo	45
13	Role of pregnenolone, dehydroepiandrosterone and their sulfate esters on learning and memory in cognitive aging 2001 ·Brain Research Reviews ·Monique Vallée, Willy Mayo, Michel Le Moal	161
14	Infusion of neurosteroids into the rat nucleus basalis affects paradoxical sleep in accordance with their memory modulating properties 1999 ·Neuroscience ·Muriel Darnaudéry, Marc Pallarés, J.J. Bouyer, Michel Le Moal, Willy Mayo	27
15	The promnesic neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate increases paradoxical sleep in rats 1999 ·Brain Research ·Muriel Darnaudéry, (unknown), Marc Pallarés, Michel Le Moal, Willy Mayo	19
16	Reaction of sleep–wakefulness cycle to stress is related to differences in hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis reactivity in rat 1998 ·Brain Research ·J.J. Bouyer, Monique Vallée, Jean-Marie Deminière, Michel Le Moal, Willy Mayo	34
17	Inter-individual differences in the effects of acute stress on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in the rat 1997 ·Neuroscience Letters ·J.J. Bouyer, Jean-Marie Deminière, Willy Mayo, Michel Le Moal	23
18	Infusion of neurosteroids into the nucleus basalis magnocellularis affects cognitive processes in the rat 1993 ·Brain Research ·Willy Mayo, F. Dellu, (unknown), (unknown), Michel Le Moal, Etienne‐Emile Baulieu, (unknown)	188
19	Choline acetyltransferase activity and [ 3H]vesamicol binding in the temporal cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and rats with basal forebrain lesions 1990 ·Neuroscience ·Merle Ruberg, Willy Mayo, Alexis Brice, Charles Duyckaerts, J J Hauw, H. Simon, M. LeMoal, Yves Agid	78
20	The nucleus basalis is involved in brain modulation of the immune system in rats 1990 ·Brain Research ·(unknown), Willy Mayo, P.J. Neveu, Keith W. Kelley, S. Vitiello, Michel Le Moal, H. Simon	12

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