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Benjamin N. Greenwood

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Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
7892
World Ranking
7146
National Ranking
3093

Benjamin N. Greenwood 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 Benjamin N. Greenwood sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 94 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Benjamin N. Greenwood 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 Benjamin N. Greenwood sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

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Overview

Benjamin N. Greenwood is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a total of 24 publications in neuroscience and 12 in medicine. The subfields of study most associated with their work include behavioral neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, physiology, and rehabilitation.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, including stress responses and cortisol, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, adipose tissue and metabolism, behavioral health and interventions, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and exercise and physiological responses.

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include Margaret K. Tanner, Alyssa A. Hohorst, Esteban C. Loetz, Rebecca Han, and Jessica Westerman.

Benjamin N. Greenwood has published regularly in venues such as Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Anxiety Disorders, and Stress.

The publication record includes the following recent papers:

  • Aerobic exercise in the treatment of PTSD: An examination of preclinical and clinical laboratory findings, potential mechanisms, clinical implications, and future directions (2023) in Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Compensatory eating behaviors in male and female rats in response to exercise training (2020) in American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
  • Female rats are more responsive than are males to the protective effects of voluntary physical activity against the behavioral consequences of inescapable stress (2023) in Stress
  • Acute exercise enhances fear extinction through a mechanism involving central mTOR signaling (2020) in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • A novel social fear conditioning procedure alters social behavior and mTOR signaling in differentially housed adolescent rats (2020) in Developmental Psychobiology

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of exercise.

    Rod K. Dishman;Hans Rudolf Berthoud;Frank W. Booth;Carl W. Cotman

  • Catecholamines mediate stress-induced increases in peripheral and central inflammatory cytokines.

    J.D. Johnson;J. Campisi;C.M. Sharkey;S.L. Kennedy

  • Freewheel Running Prevents Learned Helplessness/Behavioral Depression: Role of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Teresa E. Foley;Heidi E. W. Day;Jay Campisi

  • Long-term voluntary wheel running is rewarding and produces plasticity in the mesolimbic reward pathway.

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Teresa E. Foley;Tony V. Le;Paul V. Strong

  • Differential Expression of 5HT-1A, α1b Adrenergic, CRF-R1, and CRF-R2 Receptor mRNA in Serotonergic, γ-Aminobutyric Acidergic, and Catecholaminergic Cells of the Rat Dorsal Raphe Nucleus

    Heidi E.W. Day;Benjamin N. Greenwood;Sayamwong E. Hammack;Sayamwong E. Hammack;Linda R. Watkins

  • Immunization with a heat-killed preparation of the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae promotes stress resilience in mice

    Stefan O. Reber;Philip H. Siebler;Nina C. Donner;James T. Morton

  • 5-Hydroxytryptamine 2C Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala Are Involved in the Expression of Anxiety After Uncontrollable Traumatic Stress

    John P. Christianson;Thomas Ragole;Jose Amat;Benjamin N. Greenwood

  • Exercise, stress resistance, and central serotonergic systems.

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Monika Fleshner

  • Exercise, Learned Helplessness, and the Stress-Resistant Brain

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Monika Fleshner

  • The inflammasome and danger associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) are implicated in cytokine and chemokine responses following stressor exposure.

    Thomas Maslanik;Lucas Mahaffey;Kate Tannura;Lida Beninson

  • Wheel running alters serotonin (5-HT) transporter, 5-HT1A, 5-HT1B, and alpha1b-adrenergic receptor mRNA in the rat raphe nuclei

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Teresa E. Foley;Heidi E.W. Day;Daniel Burhans

  • The consequences of uncontrollable stress are sensitive to duration of prior wheel running.

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Teresa E. Foley;Dan Burhans;Steven F. Maier

  • Prior voluntary wheel running attenuates neuropathic pain.

    Peter M Grace;Timothy J Fabisiak;Suzanne M Green-Fulgham;Nathan D Anderson

  • A behavioral analysis of the impact of voluntary physical activity on hippocampus-dependent contextual conditioning

    Benjamin N Greenwood;Paul V Strong;Teresa E Foley;Monika Fleshner

  • Dietary Prebiotics and Bioactive Milk Fractions Improve NREM Sleep, Enhance REM Sleep Rebound and Attenuate the Stress-Induced Decrease in Diurnal Temperature and Gut Microbial Alpha Diversity

    Robert S. Thompson;Rachel Roller;Agnieszka Mika;Benjamin N. Greenwood

  • Voluntary freewheel running selectively modulates catecholamine content in peripheral tissue and c-Fos expression in the central sympathetic circuit following exposure to uncontrollable stress in rats.

    B.N Greenwood;S Kennedy;T.P Smith;S Campeau

  • The protective effects of voluntary exercise against the behavioral consequences of uncontrollable stress persist despite an increase in anxiety following forced cessation of exercise

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Alice B. Loughridge;Nouara Sadaoui;John P. Christianson

  • Chronic voluntary wheel running facilitates corticosterone response habituation to repeated audiogenic stress exposure in male rats

    Sarah K. Sasse;Benjamin N. Greenwood;Cher V. Masini;Tara J. Nyhuis

  • 5-HT2C Receptors in the Basolateral Amygdala and Dorsal Striatum Are a Novel Target for the Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Effects of Exercise

    Benjamin N. Greenwood;Paul V. Strong;Alice B. Loughridge;Heidi E. W. Day

  • Early life diets with prebiotics and bioactive milk fractions attenuate the impact of stress on learned helplessness behaviours and alter gene expression within neural circuits important for stress resistance.

    Agnieszka Mika;Heidi E. W. Day;Alexander Martinez;Nicole L. Rumian

  • Expression of fibroblast growth factor-2 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA in the medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus after uncontrollable or controllable stress.

    Sondra T. Bland;Julie P. Tamlyn;Ruth M. Barrientos;Benjamin N. Greenwood

  • Neurobiology of exercise

    R. K. Dishman;H. R. Berthoud;F. W. Booth;C. W. Cotman

Frequent Co-Authors

Monika Fleshner
Monika Fleshner University of Colorado Boulder
Steven F. Maier
Steven F. Maier University of Colorado Boulder
Serge Campeau
Serge Campeau University of Colorado Boulder
Linda R. Watkins
Linda R. Watkins University of Colorado Boulder
Sondra T. Bland
Sondra T. Bland University of Colorado Denver
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Frederick R. Walker
Frederick R. Walker University of Newcastle Australia
Carl W. Cotman
Carl W. Cotman University of California, Irvine
Arthur F. Kramer
Arthur F. Kramer Northeastern University
Charles H. Hillman
Charles H. Hillman Northeastern University

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