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Diego Contreras

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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
Citations
20335
World Ranking
3934
National Ranking
1784

Diego Contreras 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 Diego Contreras sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 110 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Diego Contreras 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 Diego Contreras sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 59 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

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

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

  • ON THE CELLULAR AND NETWORK BASES OF EPILEPTIC SEIZURES

    David A McCormick;Diego Contreras

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

    D Contreras;M Steriade

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

    M Steriade;F Amzica;D Contreras

  • 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

  • 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

  • Control of Spatiotemporal Coherence of a Thalamic Oscillation by Corticothalamic Feedback

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

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

    M Steriade;D Contreras

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

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

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

    Mircea Steriade;Diego Contreras

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

    M Steriade;D Contreras;F Amzica;I Timofeev

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

    Alain Destexhe;Diego Contreras;Mircea Steriade

  • Cortical and thalamic cellular correlates of electroencephalographic burst-suppression

    M. Steriade;F. Amzica;D. Contreras

  • A model of spindle rhythmicity in the isolated thalamic reticular nucleus

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

  • Synchronized sleep oscillations and their paroxysmal developments

    M. Steriade;D. Contreras;F. Amzica

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

    W Bryan Wilent;Diego Contreras

  • Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spindle Oscillations in Cortex and Thalamus

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

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

    D Contreras;I Timofeev;M Steriade

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alain Destexhe
Alain Destexhe Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michael J. Higley
Michael J. Higley Yale University
Arjun G. Yodh
Arjun G. Yodh University of Pennsylvania
John A. Wolf
John A. Wolf University of Pennsylvania
Jessica A. Cardin
Jessica A. Cardin Yale University
William W. Lytton
William W. Lytton SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brian Litt
Brian Litt University of Pennsylvania
Mircea Steriade
Mircea Steriade Université Laval
Miles A. Whittington
Miles A. Whittington University of York
Roger D. Traub
Roger D. Traub IBM (United States)

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