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Bhaskar Kolachana 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 Bhaskar Kolachana sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 119 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bhaskar Kolachana 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 Bhaskar Kolachana sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Bhaskar Kolachana is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine, with significant contributions in genetics, psychiatry and mental health, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.

They have explored a variety of topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, functional brain connectivity studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, stress responses and cortisol, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and diet and metabolism studies.

Kolachana's research outputs can be seen in frequent publications in several venues, notably:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Brain Connectivity
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • Translational Psychiatry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kolachana include:

  • Neanderthal-Derived Genetic Variation is Associated with Functional Connectivity in the Brains of Living Humans, 2020, Brain Connectivity
  • Neanderthal-derived genetic variation in living humans relates to schizophrenia diagnosis, to psychotic symptom severity, and to dopamine synthesis, 2021, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics
  • Cortico-striatal differences in the epigenome in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, 2024, Translational Psychiatry
  • Polygenic scores for psychiatric disorders in a diverse postmortem brain tissue cohort, 2023, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Dorsal visual stream and LIMK1: hemideletion, haplotype, and enduring effects in children with Williams syndrome, 2023, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

In their collaborative work, Kolachana frequently partners with several researchers, including Karen F. Berman, Michael D. Gregory, Philip D. Kohn, Daniel P. Eisenberg, and Stefano Marenco.

Best Publications

  • The BDNF val66met polymorphism affects activity-dependent secretion of BDNF and human memory and hippocampal function

    Michael F. Egan;Masami Kojima;Masami Kojima;Joseph H. Callicott;Terry E. Goldberg

  • Effect of COMT Val108/158 Met genotype on frontal lobe function and risk for schizophrenia.

    Michael F. Egan;Terry E. Goldberg;Bhaskar S. Kolachana;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Serotonin Transporter Genetic Variation and the Response of the Human Amygdala

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Tessitore;Bhaskar Kolachana

  • 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression

    Lukas Pezawas;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Emily M Drabant;Beth A Verchinski

  • Functional Analysis of Genetic Variation in Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT): Effects on mRNA, Protein, and Enzyme Activity in Postmortem Human Brain

    Jingshan Chen;Barbara K. Lipska;Nader Halim;Quang D. Ma

  • Schizophrenia is associated with elevated amphetamine-induced synaptic dopamine concentrations: Evidence from a novel positron emission tomography method

    Alan Breier;T. P. Su;R. Saunders;R. E. Carson

  • Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism Affects Human Memory-Related Hippocampal Activity and Predicts Memory Performance

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Terry E. Goldberg;Venkata S. Mattay;Bhaskar S. Kolachana

  • Catechol O-methyltransferase val158-met genotype and individual variation in the brain response to amphetamine.

    Venkata S. Mattay;Terry E. Goldberg;Francesco Fera;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • The distinct cognitive syndromes of Parkinson's disease: 5 year follow-up of the CamPaIGN cohort

    Caroline H. Williams-Gray;Jonathan R. Evans;An Goris;An Goris;Thomas Foltynie

  • The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism and Variation in Human Cortical Morphology

    Lukas Pezawas;Beth A. Verchinski;Venkata S. Mattay;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Neural mechanisms of genetic risk for impulsivity and violence in humans

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Joshua W. Buckholtz;Bhaskar Kolachana;Ahmad R. Hariri;Ahmad R. Hariri

  • A Susceptibility Gene for Affective Disorders and the Response of the Human Amygdala

    Ahmad R. Hariri;Emily M. Drabant;Karen E. Munoz;Bhaskar S. Kolachana

  • Executive subprocesses in working memory: relationship to catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met genotype and schizophrenia.

    Terry E. Goldberg;Michael F. Egan;Tonya Gscheidle;Richard Coppola

  • A common allele in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function

    Heike Tost;Bhaskar Kolachana;Shabnam Hakimi;Herve Lemaitre

  • Variation in DISC1 affects hippocampal structure and function and increases risk for schizophrenia

    Joseph H. Callicott;Richard E. Straub;Lukas Pezawas;Michael F. Egan

  • Midbrain dopamine and prefrontal function in humans: Interaction and modulation by COMT genotype

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Philip D Kohn;Bhaskar Kolachana;Shane Kippenhan

  • Variation in dopamine genes influences responsivity of the human reward system

    Jean Claude Dreher;Philip Kohn;Bhaskar Kolachana;Daniel R. Weinberger

  • Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Genotype and Dopamine Regulation in the Human Brain

    Mayada Akil;Bhaskar S. Kolachana;Debora A. Rothmond;Thomas M. Hyde

  • Effect of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase val158met Genotype on Attentional Control

    Giuseppe Blasi;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Brita Elvevåg

  • Impact of complex genetic variation in COMT on human brain function.

    A Meyer-Lindenberg;T Nichols;J H Callicott;J Ding

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Michael F. Egan
Michael F. Egan MSD (United States)
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Karen F. Berman
Karen F. Berman National Institutes of Health
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Alessandro Bertolino
Alessandro Bertolino University of Bari Aldo Moro
Ahmad R. Hariri
Ahmad R. Hariri Duke University
Terry E. Goldberg
Terry E. Goldberg Columbia University
Richard C. Saunders
Richard C. Saunders National Institutes of Health

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