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Alcino J. Silva

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Neuroscience

D-Index
106
Citations
47300
World Ranking
627
National Ranking
354

Alcino J. Silva 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 Alcino J. Silva sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 267 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Alcino J. Silva 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 Alcino J. Silva sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 106 D-Index — 94th percentile

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

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alcino J. Silva is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Genetics.

The scientist's work addresses multiple main topics, notably Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Migration, Health and Trauma, as well as Photoreceptor and Optogenetics research.

Alcino J. Silva has contributed to a range of scholarly publications, including:

  • "Breakdown of spatial coding and interneuron synchronization in epileptic mice" (2020), published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "Aversive experience drives offline ensemble reactivation to link memories across days" (2023), published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Novel measures of Morris water maze performance that use vector field maps to assess accuracy, uncertainty, and intention of navigational searches" (2022), published in Hippocampus
  • "Experiment Selection in Meta-Analytic Piecemeal Causal Discovery" (2021), published in IEEE Access
  • "Local Memory Allocation Recruits Memory Ensembles Across Brain Regions" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors with whom Silva has collaborated include:

  • Daniel Almeida Filho
  • Panayiota Poirazi
  • Alessandro Luchetti
  • Tristan Shuman
  • Denise J. Cai

Prominent publication venues for Silva include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Hippocampus
  • Biomedicines

Alcino J. Silva received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Deficient long-term memory in mice with a targeted mutation of the cAMP-responsive element-binding protein

    Roussoudan Bourtchuladze;Bruno Frenguelli;Julie Blendy;Diana Cioffi

  • CREB AND MEMORY

    Alcino J. Silva;Jeffrey H. Kogan;Paul W. Frankland;Satoshi Kida

  • Deficient Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in α-Calcium-Calmodulin Kinase II Mutant Mice

    Alcino J. Silva;Alcino J. Silva;Charles F. Stevens;Charles F. Stevens;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa;Yanyan Wang;Yanyan Wang

  • Impaired spatial learning in alpha-calcium-calmodulin kinase II mutant mice

    Alcino J. Silva;Richard Paylor;Jeanne M. Wehner;Susumu Tonegawa;Susumu Tonegawa

  • Behavioral phenotypes of inbred mouse strains: implications and recommendations for molecular studies.

    Jacqueline N. Crawley;John K. Belknap;Allan Collins;John C. Crabbe

  • Memory Reconsolidation and Extinction Have Distinct Temporal and Biochemical Signatures

    Akinobu Suzuki;Sheena A. Josselyn;Sheena A. Josselyn;Paul W. Frankland;Paul W. Frankland;Shoichi Masushige

  • Autophosphorylation at Thr286 of the alpha calcium-calmodulin kinase II in LTP and learning.

    Karl Peter Giese;Nikolai B. Fedorov;Robert K. Filipkowski;Alcino J. Silva

  • Dnmt1 and Dnmt3a maintain DNA methylation and regulate synaptic function in adult forebrain neurons

    Jian Feng;Yu Zhou;Yu Zhou;Susan L Campbell;Thuc Le

  • The involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex in remote contextual fear memory

    Paul W. Frankland;Bruno Bontempi;Lynn E. Talton;Leszek Kaczmarek

  • A shared neural ensemble links distinct contextual memories encoded close in time

    Denise J. Cai;Daniel Aharoni;Daniel Aharoni;Tristan Shuman;Justin Shobe

  • Reversal of learning deficits in a Tsc2+/− mouse model of tuberous sclerosis

    Dan Ehninger;Sangyeul Han;Carrie Shilyansky;Yu Zhou

  • Neuronal Competition and Selection During Memory Formation

    Jin-Hee Han;Steven A. Kushner;Steven A. Kushner;Adelaide P. Yiu;Christy J. Cole

  • CREB required for the stability of new and reactivated fear memories

    Satoshi Kida;Sheena A. Josselyn;Sandra Penña De Ortiz;Jeffrey H. Kogan

  • Forebrain engraftment by human glial progenitor cells enhances synaptic plasticity and learning in adult mice

    Xiaoning Han;Michael Chen;Fushun Wang;Martha Windrem

  • Modified hippocampal long-term potentiation in PKCγ-mutant mice

    Asa Abeliovich;Chong Chen;Yukiko Goda;Alcino J. Silva

  • Mechanism for the learning deficits in a mouse model of neurofibromatosis type 1

    Rui M. Costa;Nikolai B. Federov;Jeff H. Kogan;Geoffrey G. Murphy

  • Calmodulin-Kinases: Modulators of Neuronal Development and Plasticity

    Gary A. Wayman;Yong-Seok Lee;Hiroshi Tokumitsu;Alcino J. Silva

  • CREB regulates excitability and the allocation of memory to subsets of neurons in the amygdala.

    Yu Zhou;Jaejoon Won;Mikael Guzman Karlsson;Miou Zhou

  • Selective cognitive dysfunction in acetylcholine M1 muscarinic receptor mutant mice.

    Stephan G. Anagnostaras;Geoffrey G. Murphy;Susan E. Hamilton;Scott L. Mitchell

  • Long-term memory underlying hippocampus-dependent social recognition in mice.

    Jeffrey H. Kogan;Paul W. Frankland;Alcino J. Silva

  • The dorsal hippocampus is essential for context discrimination but not for contextual conditioning

    Paul W. Frankland;Vincenzo Cestari;Robert K. Filipkowski;Robert J. McDonald

Frequent Co-Authors

Ype Elgersma
Ype Elgersma Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dan Ehninger
Dan Ehninger German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Rui M. Costa
Rui M. Costa Columbia University
Karl Peter Giese
Karl Peter Giese King's College London
Paul W. Frankland
Paul W. Frankland University of Toronto
Sheena A. Josselyn
Sheena A. Josselyn University of Toronto
Peyman Golshani
Peyman Golshani University of California, Los Angeles
Masuo Ohno
Masuo Ohno Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Geoffrey G. Murphy
Geoffrey G. Murphy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Carrie E. Bearden
Carrie E. Bearden University of California, Los Angeles

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