2026 Diego Contreras: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	59	3934	3602	1784	1607	110	20335

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Overview

Diego Contreras is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Neuroscience, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The subfields related to their work also encompass Molecular Biology, Surgery, and Biophysics.

The main topics that Diego Contreras investigates include:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Diego Contreras has published several papers spanning recent years. Some of the notable publications include:

"Structural and functional integration of human forebrain organoids with the injured adult rat visual system" (2023) in Cell Stem Cell
"Ketamine triggers a switch in excitatory neuronal activity across neocortex" (2022) in Nature Neuroscience
"Visual evoked feedforward-feedback traveling waves organize neural activity across the cortical hierarchy in mice" (2022) in Nature Communications
"Cross-regional coordination of activity in the human brain during autobiographical self-referential processing" (2024) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Neural assemblies coordinated by cortical waves are associated with waking and hallucinatory brain states" (2024) in Cell Reports

Their frequent co-authors include:

Max B. Kelz
Adeeti Aggarwal
Jennifer Luo
Helen Chung
Alex Proekt

Diego Contreras frequently publishes in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cell Stem Cell
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Communications
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics

Dae Hyeong Kim;Jonathan Viventi;Jason J. Amsden;Jianliang Xiao

1938
Citations
Flexible, foldable, actively multiplexed, high-density electrode array for mapping brain activity in vivo

Jonathan Viventi;Dae Hyeong Kim;Leif Vigeland;Eric S. Frechette

1270
Citations
ON THE CELLULAR AND NETWORK BASES OF EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

David A McCormick;Diego Contreras

1245
Citations
Cellular Basis of EEG Slow Rhythms: A Study of Dynamic Corticothalamic Relationships

D Contreras;M Steriade

947
Citations
Synchronization of fast (30-40 Hz) spontaneous cortical rhythms during brain activation

M Steriade;F Amzica;D Contreras

943
Citations
The slow (<1 Hz) oscillation in reticular thalamic and thalamocortical neurons: Scenario of sleep rhythm generation in interacting thalamic and neocortical networks

M Steriade;D Contreras;R Curro Dossi;A Nunez

844
Citations
Spatiotemporal analysis of local field potentials and unit discharges in cat cerebral cortex during natural wake and sleep states.

Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade

720
Citations
Control of Spatiotemporal Coherence of a Thalamic Oscillation by Corticothalamic Feedback

Diego Contreras;Alain Destexhe;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Mircea Steriade

613
Citations
RELATIONS BETWEEN CORTICAL AND THALAMIC CELLULAR EVENTS DURING TRANSITION FROM SLEEP PATTERNS TO PAROXYSMAL ACTIVITY

M Steriade;D Contreras

578
Citations
Single-column thalamocortical network model exhibiting gamma oscillations, sleep spindles, and epileptogenic bursts

Roger D. Traub;Diego Contreras;Mark O. Cunningham;Hilary Murray

535
Citations
Spike-wave complexes and fast components of cortically generated seizures. I. Role of neocortex and thalamus.

Mircea Steriade;Diego Contreras

508
Citations
Synchronization of fast (30-40 Hz) spontaneous oscillations in intrathalamic and thalamocortical networks

M Steriade;D Contreras;F Amzica;I Timofeev

484
Citations
Mechanisms Underlying the Synchronizing Action of Corticothalamic Feedback Through Inhibition of Thalamic Relay Cells

Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade

456
Citations
Cortical and thalamic cellular correlates of electroencephalographic burst-suppression

M. Steriade;F. Amzica;D. Contreras

446
Citations
A model of spindle rhythmicity in the isolated thalamic reticular nucleus

A. Destexhe;D. Contreras;T. J. Sejnowski;M. Steriade

434
Citations
Synchronized sleep oscillations and their paroxysmal developments

M. Steriade;D. Contreras;F. Amzica

432
Citations
Dynamics of excitation and inhibition underlying stimulus selectivity in rat somatosensory cortex

W Bryan Wilent;Diego Contreras

429
Citations
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spindle Oscillations in Cortex and Thalamus

Diego Contreras;Alain Destexhe;Terrence J. Sejnowski;Mircea Steriade

407
Citations
Mechanisms of long-lasting hyperpolarizations underlying slow sleep oscillations in cat corticothalamic networks.

D Contreras;I Timofeev;M Steriade

383
Citations
In vivo, in vitro, and computational analysis of dendritic calcium currents in thalamic reticular neurons

Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade;Terrence J. Sejnowski

365
Citations