2026 David A. Prince: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	107	622	564	350	308	267	36267

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Research.com Recognitions

1971 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1934 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David A. Prince is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and neuroscience, with specific attention to epilepsy research and treatment, neuroscience and neuropharmacology, pharmacological effects and toxicity studies, drug transport and resistance mechanisms, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, ion channel regulation and function, and anesthesia and neurotoxicity research.

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues. These include Neurobiology of Disease, Epilepsia, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They have contributed six publications to the field of medicine and four in neuroscience. Their subfields of study cover psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, oncology, and genetics.

Recent papers by David A. Prince include:

Repurposed molecules for antiepileptogenesis: Missing an opportunity to prevent epilepsy? (2020, Epilepsia)
Chronic partial TrkB activation reduces seizures and mortality in a mouse model of Dravet syndrome (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Prolonged prophylactic effects of gabapentin on status epilepticus-induced neocortical injury (2020, Neurobiology of Disease)
Increased excitatory connectivity and epileptiform activity in thrombospondin1/2 knockout mice following cortical trauma (2024, Neurobiology of Disease)

Frequent coauthors in their work include Feng Gu, Isabel Parada, Pavel Klein, Alon Friedman, and Mustafa Q. Hameed.

Awards received by David A. Prince include being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1971 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1934.

Best Publications

Comparative electrophysiology of pyramidal and sparsely spiny stellate neurons of the neocortex.

D. A. McCormick;B. W. Connors;J. W. Lighthall;D. A. Prince

2322
Citations
Electrophysiological properties of neocortical neurons in vitro

B. W. Connors;M. J. Gutnick;D. A. Prince

1105
Citations
A calcium-activated hyperpolarization follows repetitive firing in hippocampal neurons.

J. R. Hotson;D. A. Prince

689
Citations
Postnatal maturation of the GABAergic system in rat neocortex

H. J. Luhmann;D. A. Prince

642
Citations
A novel T-type current underlies prolonged Ca(2+)-dependent burst firing in GABAergic neurons of rat thalamic reticular nucleus

JR Huguenard;DA Prince

626
Citations
Mechanisms of action of acetylcholine in the guinea-pig cerebral cortex in vitro.

D A McCormick;D A Prince

600
Citations
Characterization of ethosuximide reduction of low-threshold calcium current in thalamic neurons.

Douglas A. Coulter;John R. Huguenard;David A. Prince

595
Citations
Intradendritic recordings from hippocampal neurons.

R. K. S. Wong;D. A. Prince;A. I. Basbaum

588
Citations
Cholinergic switching within neocortical inhibitory networks

Zixiu Xiang;John R. Huguenard;David A. Prince

526
Citations
Calcium currents in rat thalamocortical relay neurones: kinetic properties of the transient, low‐threshold current.

D A Coulter;J R Huguenard;D A Prince

512
Citations
Control Mechanisms in Cortical Epileptogenic Foci*: Surround Inhibition

David A. Prince;B. Joe Wilder

479
Citations
Cellular and field potential properties of epileptogenic hippocampal slices.

Philip A. Schwartzkroin;David A. Prince

475
Citations
Burst generating and regular spiking layer 5 pyramidal neurons of rat neocortex have different morphological features

Yael Chagnac‐Amitai;Heiko J. Luhmann;David A. Prince

475
Citations
Participation of calcium spikes during intrinsic burst firing in hippocampal neurons.

R.K.S. Wong;D.A. Prince

470
Citations
Neurophysiology of epilepsy.

D A Prince

437
Citations
Frequency‐dependent depression of inhibition in guinea‐pig neocortex in vitro by GABAB receptor feed‐back on GABA release.

R A Deisz;D A Prince

419
Citations
Acetylcholine induces burst firing in thalamic reticular neurones by activating a potassium conductance

David A. McCormick;David A. Prince

414
Citations
Afterpotential generation in hippocampal pyramidal cells.

R K Wong;D A Prince

413
Citations
Mechanisms of neocortical epileptogenesis in vitro

M. J. Gutnick;B. W. Connors;D. A. Prince

411
Citations
Intrathalamic rhythmicity studied in vitro: nominal T-current modulation causes robust antioscillatory effects

JR Huguenard;DA Prince

398
Citations