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Neuroscience
South Africa
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
7446
World Ranking
5823
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in South Africa Leader Award

Best Publications

  • The nature of relapse in schizophrenia.

    Robin Emsley;Bonginkosi Chiliza;Laila Asmal;Brian H Harvey

  • Stress–restress evokes sustained iNOS activity and altered GABA levels and NMDA receptors in rat hippocampus

    Brian H. Harvey;Frasia Oosthuizen;Linda Brand;Gregers Wegener

  • Social isolation rearing induces mitochondrial, immunological, neurochemical and behavioural deficits in rats, and is reversed by clozapine or N-acetyl cysteine.

    Marissa Moller;Jan L. Du Preez;Francois P. Viljoen;Michael Berk;Michael Berk

  • A critical inquiry into marble-burying as a preclinical screening paradigm of relevance for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Mapping the way forward

    Geoffrey De Brouwer;Arina Fick;Brian H. Harvey;De Wet Wolmarans

  • Local, but not systemic, administration of serotonergic antidepressants decreases hippocampal nitric oxide synthase activity.

    Gregers Wegener;Vallo Volke;Brian H Harvey;Raben Rosenberg

  • Neuroprogression in schizophrenia : pathways underpinning clinical staging and therapeutic corollaries

    Justin Davis;Steven Moylan;Brian H Harvey;Michael Maes

  • Cortical/hippocampal monoamines, HPA-axis changes and aversive behavior following stress and restress in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder

    Brian H. Harvey;Linda Brand;Zakkiyya Jeeva;Dan J. Stein

  • Animal models of obsessive-compulsive disorder: rationale to understanding psychobiology and pharmacology.

    Schaun Korff;Brian H. Harvey

  • Endocrine, cognitive and hippocampal/cortical 5HT1A/2A receptor changes evoked by a time-dependent sensitisation (TDS) stress model in rats

    Brian H Harvey;Carla Naciti;Linda Brand;Dan J Stein

  • Neuropharmacology of paradoxic weight gain with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

    Brian H. Harvey;Colin D. Bouwer

  • Azure B, a metabolite of methylene blue, is a high-potency, reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.

    Anél Petzer;Brian H. Harvey;Gregers Wegener;Jacobus P. Petzer

  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) of anxiety disorders before and after treatment with citalopram

    Paul D Carey;James Warwick;Dana J H Niehaus;Geoffrey van der Linden

  • Stereotypic behaviour in the deer mouse: Pharmacological validation and relevance for obsessive compulsive disorder

    Schaun Korff;Dan J. Stein;Brian H. Harvey

  • A Review of Biomarkers in Mood and Psychotic Disorders: A Dissection of Clinical vs. Preclinical Correlates.

    Sarel J. Brand;Marisa Möller;Brian H. Harvey

  • A high-fat diet exacerbates depressive-like behavior in the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a genetic model of depression

    Anders Abildgaard;Lasse Solskov;Vallo Volke;Brian H. Harvey

  • Recent advances in drug action and therapeutics: Relevance of novel concepts in G-protein-coupled receptor and signal transduction pharmacology

    C. B. Brink;B. H. Harvey;J. Bodenstein;D. P. Venter

  • Metabotropic and ionotropic glutamate receptors as neurobiological targets in anxiety and stress-related disorders: focus on pharmacology and preclinical translational models

    Brian H. Harvey;Mohammed Shahid

  • Isolation rearing-induced deficits in sensorimotor gating and social interaction in rats are related to cortico-striatal oxidative stress, and reversed by sub-chronic clozapine administration

    Marisa Möller;Jan L. Du Preez;Robin Emsley;Brian H. Harvey

  • The neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19: Interactions with psychiatric illness and pharmacological treatment.

    Esmé Jansen van Vuren;Stephan F. Steyn;Christiaan B. Brink;Marisa Möller

  • Neurobiology of antidepressant withdrawal: implications for the longitudinal outcome of depression

    Brian H Harvey;Bruce S McEwen;Dan J Stein

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