2026 Cyril Herry: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	36	8887	8204	423	387	70	13381

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Overview

Cyril Herry is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and specializes in neuroscience. Their research spans various domains within the field, with a primary focus on understanding neural mechanisms related to memory, behavior, and brain function.

The main fields of study for Cyril Herry include:

Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, their work delves into several subfields, including:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Social Psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience

They have explored a range of specific topics, reflecting a broad focus on neural dynamics and neurobehavioral processes:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Stress Responses and Cortisol

Their frequent co-authors include:

Daniel Jercog
Cyril Déjean
Thomas Bienvenu
Nânci Winke
Frédéric Lanore

Publications by Cyril Herry have appeared in established venues with repeated contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Scientific Reports
Neuron
Advanced Healthcare Materials

Recent notable papers include:

"Breathing-driven prefrontal oscillations regulate maintenance of conditioned-fear evoked freezing independently of initiation" (2021, Nature Communications)
"The advent of fear conditioning as an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder: Learning from the past to shape the future of PTSD research" (2021, Neuron)
"Dynamical prefrontal population coding during defensive behaviours" (2021, Nature)
"Central amygdala micro-circuits mediate fear extinction" (2021, Nature Communications)
"Switch of serotonergic descending inhibition into facilitation by a spinal chloride imbalance in neuropathic pain" (2022, Science Advances)

Best Publications

Switching on and off fear by distinct neuronal circuits

Cyril Herry;Stephane Ciocchi;Verena Senn;Lynda Demmou

1133
Citations
Amygdala inhibitory circuits and the control of fear memory.

Ingrid Ehrlich;Yann Humeau;François Grenier;Stephane Ciocchi

1132
Citations
Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits

Stephane Ciocchi;Cyril Herry;Cyril Herry;François Grenier;Steffen B. E. Wolff

1064
Citations
A disinhibitory microcircuit for associative fear learning in the auditory cortex

Johannes J. Letzkus;Steffen B. E. Wolff;Steffen B. E. Wolff;Elisabeth M. M. Meyer;Elisabeth M. M. Meyer;Philip Tovote

939
Citations
Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure

Nadine Gogolla;Pico Caroni;Andreas Lüthi;Cyril Herry

892
Citations
Midbrain circuits for defensive behaviour

Philip Tovote;Maria Soledad Esposito;Maria Soledad Esposito;Paolo Botta;Fabrice Chaudun

747
Citations
Amygdala interneuron subtypes control fear learning through disinhibition

Steffen B. E. Wolff;Jan Gründemann;Philip Tovote;Sabine Krabbe

582
Citations
Long-range connectivity defines behavioral specificity of amygdala neurons

Verena Senn;Verena Senn;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Steffen B.E. Wolff;Cyril Herry;François Grenier

578
Citations
Neuronal circuits of fear extinction.

Cyril Herry;Francesco Ferraguti;Nicolas Singewald;Johannes J. Letzkus

576
Citations
Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons shape neuronal activity to drive fear expression

Julien Courtin;Fabrice Chaudun;Robert R Rozeske;Nikolaos Karalis

573
Citations
Processing of Temporal Unpredictability in Human and Animal Amygdala

Cyril Herry;Dominik R. Bach;Fabrizio Esposito;Francesco Di Salle

541
Citations
Encoding of fear learning and memory in distributed neuronal circuits

Cyril Herry;Joshua P Johansen

508
Citations
Prefrontal Cortex Long-Term Potentiation, But Not Long-Term Depression, Is Associated with the Maintenance of Extinction of Learned Fear in Mice

Cyril Herry;René Garcia

409
Citations
4-Hz oscillations synchronize prefrontal-amygdala circuits during fear behavior

Nikolaos Karalis;Cyril Dejean;Fabrice Chaudun;Suzana Khoder

385
Citations
Erasing Fear Memories with Extinction Training

Gregory J. Quirk;Denis Paré;Rick Richardson;Cyril Herry

267
Citations
Extinction of auditory fear conditioning requires MAPK/ERK activation in the basolateral amygdala

Cyril Herry;Pierre Trifilieff;Jacques Micheau;Andreas Lüthi

250
Citations
Generalization of amygdala LTP and conditioned fear in the absence of presynaptic inhibition.

Hamdy Shaban;Yann Humeau;Yann Humeau;Cyril Herry;Guillaume Cassasus

243
Citations
Resistance to extinction is associated with impaired immediate early gene induction in medial prefrontal cortex and amygdala.

Cyril Herry;Nicole Mons

239
Citations
Prefrontal neuronal assemblies temporally control fear behaviour

Cyril Dejean;Cyril Dejean;Julien Courtin;Julien Courtin;Julien Courtin;Nikolaos Karalis;Nikolaos Karalis;Nikolaos Karalis;Fabrice Chaudun;Fabrice Chaudun

230
Citations
Dendritic spine heterogeneity determines afferent-specific Hebbian plasticity in the amygdala.

Yann Humeau;Cyril Herry;Nicola Kemp;Hamdy Shaban

190
Citations