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Alain Berthoz

Alain Berthoz

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
110
Citations
35085
World Ranking
546
National Ranking
15

Alain Berthoz publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Berthoz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 514 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alain Berthoz D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Berthoz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 110 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Alain Berthoz is affiliated with the Collège de France in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on epilepsy research and treatment, with additional interests in neuroscience and neuropharmacology, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, subfields of interest encompass:

  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology

Key topics covered in Alain Berthoz's work include:

  • Epilepsy research and treatment
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Prominent recent publications by this researcher are:

  • "ILAE clinical practice recommendations for the medical treatment of depression in adults with epilepsy," 2021, Epilepsia
  • "Serotonergic therapy in epilepsy," 2021, Current Opinion in Neurology
  • "Suicidality in Epilepsy: Does It Share Common Pathogenic Mechanisms with Epilepsy?" 2021, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
  • "EEG in fitness to drive evaluations in people with epilepsy - Considerable variations across Europe," 2020, Seizure
  • "A European questionnaire survey on epilepsy monitoring units' current practice for postoperative psychogenic nonepileptic seizures' detection," 2020, Epilepsy & Behavior

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated on multiple publications with Alain Berthoz include:

  • Alla Guekht
  • Andreas Schulze-Bonhage
  • Morten I. Lossius
  • António Gil-Nagel
  • Kristina Malmgren

Publications by Alain Berthoz have frequently appeared in venues such as:

  • Epilepsy & Behavior
  • Seizure
  • Epilepsia
  • Current Opinion in Neurology
  • Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Over the course of their career, Alain Berthoz has received several awards including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and becoming a Member of the Academia Europaea in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Head stabilization during various locomotor tasks in humans. I. Normal subjects.

    T. Pozzo;A. Berthoz;L. Lefort

  • Motor processes in mental rotation

    Mark Wexler;Stephen M Kosslyn;Alain Berthoz

  • Postural readjustments induced by linear motion of visual scenes.

    F. Lestienne;J. Soechting;A. Berthoz

  • Perception of linear horizontal self-motion induced by peripheral vision (linearvection) basic characteristics and visual-vestibular interactions.

    A. Berthoz;B. Pavard;L. R. Young

  • Mental navigation along memorized routes activates the hippocampus, precuneus, and insula

    Olivier Ghaem;Emmanuel Mellet;Fabrice Crivello;Nathalie Tzourio

  • Does the brain model Newton's laws?

    J. McIntyre;M. Zago;A. Berthoz;F. Lacquaniti

  • Biologically based artificial navigation systems: review and prospects.

    Olivier Trullier;Olivier Trullier;Sidney I. Wiener;Alain Berthoz;Jean-Arcady Meyer

  • Visual contribution to rapid motor responses during postural control.

    L. Nashner;A. Berthoz

  • The Brain's Sense of Movement

    Alain Berthoz;Giselle Weiss

  • Functional MRI of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation

    Elie Lobel;Justus F. Kleine;Denis Le Bihan;Denis Le Bihan;Anne Leroy-Willig

  • The neural basis of egocentric and allocentric coding of space in humans: a functional magnetic resonance study

    Gaspare Galati;Elie Lobel;Giuseppe Vallar;Alain Berthoz

  • Reference Frames for Spatial Cognition: Different Brain Areas are Involved in Viewer-, Object-, and Landmark-Centered Judgments About Object Location

    Giorgia Committeri;Gaspare Galati;Anne-Lise Paradis;Luigi Pizzamiglio

  • Reappraisal of the human vestibular cortex by cortical electrical stimulation study.

    Philippe Kahane;Dominique Hoffmann;Lorella Minotti;Alain Berthoz

  • Neurons responding to whole-body motion in the primate hippocampus

    SM O'Mara;ET Rolls;A Berthoz;RP Kesner

  • Lateralized human hippocampal activity predicts navigation based on sequence or place memory.

    Kinga Iglói;Christian F. Doeller;Alain Berthoz;Laure Rondi-Reig

  • Eye-head coordination for the steering of locomotion in humans: an anticipatory synergy

    Renato Grasso;Pascal Prévost;Yuri P Ivanenko;Alain Berthoz

  • Spatial memory of body linear displacement: what is being stored?

    Alain Berthoz;Isabelle Israel;Pierre Georges-Francois;Renato Grasso

  • A fronto-parietal system for computing the egocentric spatial frame of reference in humans

    Giuseppe Vallar;Elie Lobel;Gaspare Galati;Alain Berthoz

  • Task-related gamma-band dynamics from an intracerebral perspective: review and implications for surface EEG and MEG.

    Karim Jerbi;Tomás Ossandón;Carlos M. Hamamé;S. Senova;S. Senova

  • Head stabilization during various locomotor tasks in humans. II : Patients with bilateral peripheral vestibular deficits

    T Pozzo;A Berthoz;L Lefort;E Vitte

  • PET study of voluntary saccadic eye movements in humans: basal ganglia-thalamocortical system and cingulate cortex involvement

    L Petit;C Orssaud;N Tzourio;G Salamon

  • Neuronal activity in prepositus nucleus correlated with eye movement in the alert cat.

    J. Lopez-Barneo;C. Darlot;A. Berthoz;R. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Kahane
Philippe Kahane Grenoble Alpes University
Gaspare Galati
Gaspare Galati Sapienza University of Rome
Sidney I. Wiener
Sidney I. Wiener Collège de France
Thierry Pozzo
Thierry Pozzo Italian Institute of Technology
Cecilia Laschi
Cecilia Laschi National University of Singapore
Bernard Mazoyer
Bernard Mazoyer University of Bordeaux
Jean-Paul Laumond
Jean-Paul Laumond École Normale Supérieure
Paolo Dario
Paolo Dario Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Karim Jerbi
Karim Jerbi University of Montreal

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