Zul Merali

6.7k total citations
79 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Zul Merali is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Zul Merali has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 29 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 22 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Zul Merali's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (44 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (29 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (19 papers). Zul Merali is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (44 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (29 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (19 papers). Zul Merali collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Hungary. Zul Merali's co-authors include Hymie Anisman, H. Anisman, Shawn Hayley, Michael O. Poulter, Arun Ravindran, Jenna Griffiths, Miklós Palkovits, Lisheng Du, Gábor Faludi and Catherine Bielajew and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Neuroscience, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Zul Merali

78 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zul Merali Canada	38	2.3k	1.9k	1.0k	865	670	79	5.0k
Christoph Anacker United States	26	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	755 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	46	6.1k
Georgia E. Hodes United States	34	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	814 0.9×	904 1.3×	53	4.5k
Zóltan Sarnyai Australia	41	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	2.0k 2.3×	1.4k 2.0×	134	7.3k
Jason D. Gray United States	25	1.8k 0.8×	842 0.4×	718 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	729 1.1×	42	4.6k
Annamaria Cattaneo Italy	47	2.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	590 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	1.6k 2.4×	152	7.1k
Lena Brydon United Kingdom	38	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	678 0.7×	388 0.4×	496 0.7×	48	5.0k
Lena Brundin United States	41	1.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.4×	383 0.4×	614 0.7×	877 1.3×	94	6.2k
Mitchel A. Kling United States	46	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	111	8.8k
Thomas C. Baghai Germany	45	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	645 0.6×	1.7k 1.9×	1.3k 2.0×	170	6.7k
Yvonne M. Ulrich‐Lai United States	35	4.2k 1.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.5k 2.5×	1.1k 1.3×	785 1.2×	77	7.7k

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Ali, Shehzad, Dominic Trépel, Chinedu Udeh‐Momoh, et al.. (2025). Investing in equitable healthy aging: Why Africa must reform social pension schemes to improve Alzheimer's disease and dementia outcomes. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(2). e14527–e14527. 1 indexed citations

Wang, JianLi, Raymond W. Lam, Kendall Ho, et al.. (2016). Preferred Features of E-Mental Health Programs for Prevention of Major Depression in Male Workers: Results From a Canadian National Survey. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 18(6). e132–e132. 23 indexed citations

Koszycki, Diana, et al.. (2016). Effects of CBT Versus MBSR Treatment on Social Stress Reactions in Social Anxiety Disorder. Mindfulness. 7(2). 514–526. 26 indexed citations

Kent, Pamela, et al.. (2015). Effects of intranasal and peripheral oxytocin or gastrin-releasing peptide administration on social interaction and corticosterone levels in rats. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 64. 123–130. 17 indexed citations

Hayley, Shawn, Lisheng Du, Darcy Litteljohn, et al.. (2015). Gender and brain regions specific differences in brain derived neurotrophic factor protein levels of depressed individuals who died through suicide. Neuroscience Letters. 600. 12–16. 54 indexed citations

Johnson, Susan M., Melissa Burgess Moser, Lane Beckes, et al.. (2013). Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort with Emotionally Focused Therapy. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79314–e79314. 66 indexed citations

Poulter, Michael O., Lisheng Du, Ian C.G. Weaver, et al.. (2008). GABAA Receptor Promoter Hypermethylation in Suicide Brain: Implications for the Involvement of Epigenetic Processes. Biological Psychiatry. 64(8). 645–652. 212 indexed citations

Anisman, Hymie, Lisheng Du, Miklós Palkovits, et al.. (2008). Serotonin receptor subtype and p11 mRNA expression in stress-relevant brain regions of suicide and control subjects. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 33(2). 131–141. 116 indexed citations

Miguelez, Maı̈a, Hymie Anisman, Jean‐Michel Weber, & Zul Merali. (2006). Effects of acute or chronic omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid treatment on behavioral, neuroendocrine and cytokine changes elicited by exogenous interleukin-1β challenge. Journal of Neuroimmunology. 181(1-2). 19–28. 4 indexed citations

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Merali, Zul, Pamela Kent, Lisheng Du, et al.. (2005). Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone, Arginine Vasopressin, Gastrin-Releasing Peptide, and Neuromedin B Alterations in Stress-Relevant Brain Regions of Suicides and Control Subjects. Biological Psychiatry. 59(7). 594–602. 112 indexed citations

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Konkle, Anne T. M., et al.. (2003). Evaluation of the effects of chronic mild stressors on hedonic and physiological responses: sex and strain compared. Brain Research. 992(2). 227–238. 172 indexed citations

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Ravindran, Arun, Kimberly Matheson, Jenna Griffiths, Zul Merali, & Hymie Anisman. (2002). Stress, coping, uplifts, and quality of life in subtypes of depression: a conceptual frame and emerging data. Journal of Affective Disorders. 71(1-3). 121–130. 112 indexed citations

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Delva, Nicholas J., Michael Franklin, Emily R. Hawken, et al.. (2002). Effects of short-term administration of valproate on serotonin-1A and dopamine receptor function in healthy human subjects. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 27(6). 429–437. 10 indexed citations

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Hayley, Shawn, William A. Staines, Zul Merali, & H. Anisman. (2001). Time-dependent sensitization of corticotropin-releasing hormone, arginine vasopressin and c-fos immunoreactivity within the mouse brain in response to tumor necrosis factor-α. Neuroscience. 106(1). 137–148. 45 indexed citations

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Ravindran, Arun, et al.. (2000). Lymphocyte proliferation among major depressive and dysthymic patients with typical or atypical features. Journal of Affective Disorders. 58(1). 1–10. 28 indexed citations

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Anisman, Hymie, Arun Ravindran, Jenna Griffiths, & Zul Merali. (1999). Interleukin-1β production in dysthymia before and after pharmacotherapy. Biological Psychiatry. 46(12). 1649–1655. 75 indexed citations

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Ravindran, Arun, Jenna Griffiths, Zul Merali, & Hymie Anisman. (1998). Circulating Lymphocyte Subsets in Major Depression and Dysthymia With Typical or Atypical Features. Psychosomatic Medicine. 60(3). 283–289. 52 indexed citations

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Kokkinidis, Larry, et al.. (1998). Lipopolysaccharide, central in vivo biogenic amine variations, and anhedonia. Neuroreport. 9(17). 3797–3801. 74 indexed citations

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Ravindran, Arun, Robert J. Bialik, Pavel Hrdina, et al.. (1997). Neuroendocrine and anthropometric measures in major depression: the effect of antidepressant treatment. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental. 12(6). 583–589. 1 indexed citations

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Merali, Zul & Hélène Plamondon. (1996). Pharmaco-Ontogenic Modulation of Feeding by Oxytocin, Bombesin, and Their Antagonists. Peptides. 17(7). 1119–1126. 8 indexed citations

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