Donald W. Pfaff

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Atlas of estradiol-concentrating cells in the central nervous system of the female rat.

  Donald Pfaff;Melvyn Keiner

  1784
  Citations

• Long-term gene expression and phenotypic correction using adeno-associated virus vectors in the mammalian brain

  Michael G. Kaplitt;Paola Leone;Richard J. Samulski;Xiao Xiao

  1523
  Citations

• Relationship of arousal to circadian anticipatory behavior: ventromedial hypothalamus: one node in a hunger-arousal network.

  Ana C. Ribeiro;Joseph LeSauter;Christophe Dupré;Donald W. Pfaff

  1517
  Citations

• Origin of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons.

  Marlene Schwanzel-Fukuda;Donald W. Pfaff

  1339
  Citations

• Hormones, brain, and behavior

  Donald W. Pfaff;Arthur P. Arnold;Anne M. Etgen;Susan E. Fahrbach

  1326
  Citations

• Catechol-O-methyltransferase-deficient mice exhibit sexually dimorphic changes in catecholamine levels and behavior

  Joseph A. Gogos;Maria Morgan;Victoria Luine;Miklos Santha

  1093
  Citations

• Immunolocalization of estrogen receptor β in the mouse brain: Comparison with estrogen receptor α

  Sudha Warrier Mitra;Elena Hoskin;Joel Yudkovitz;Lisset Pear

  1023
  Citations

• Estrogens and brain function

  Donald W. Pfaff

  933
  Citations

• Connections of the median and dorsal raphe nuclei in the rat: an autoradiographic and degeneration study.

  Lily C. A. Conrad;Christiana M. Leonard;Donald W. Pfaff

  789
  Citations

• Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)-expressing cells do not migrate normally in an inherited hypogonadal (Kallmann) syndrome

  Marlene Schwanzel-Fukuda;David Bick;Donald W. Pfaff

  749
  Citations

• Roles of estrogen receptor-alpha gene expression in reproduction-related behaviors in female mice.

  Sonoko Ogawa;Vincent Eng;Julia Taylor;Dennis B. Lubahn

  680
  Citations

• Absence of oestradiol concentration in cell nuclei of LHRH-immunoreactive neurones

  B. D. Shivers;R. E. Harlan;J. I. Morrell;D. W. Pfaff

  671
  Citations

• Luteinizing hormone-releasing factor potentiates lordosis behavior in hypophysectomized ovariectomized female rats.

  Donald W. Pfaff

  621
  Citations

• THE BRAIN AS A TARGET FOR STEROID HORMONE ACTION

  Bruce S. McEwen;Paula G. Davis;Bruce Parsons;Donald W. Pfaff

  621
  Citations

• Deconstructing and Reconstructing Theory of Mind

  Sara M. Schaafsma;Donald W. Pfaff;Robert P. Spunt;Ralph Adolphs

  612
  Citations

• Silencing of estrogen receptor α in the ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus leads to metabolic syndrome

  Sergei Musatov;Walter Chen;Donald W. Pfaff;Charles V. Mobbs

  609
  Citations

• Behavioral effects of estrogen receptor gene disruption in male mice

  Sonoko Ogawa;Dennis B. Lubahn;Kenneth S. Korach;Donald W. Pfaff

  609
  Citations

• Efferents from medial basal forebrain and hypothalamus in the rat. II. An autoradiographic study of the anterior hypothalamus.

  Lily C. A. Conrad;Donald W. Pfaff

  601
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical analysis of magnocellular elements in rat hypothalamus: Distribution and numbers of cells containing neurophysin, oxytocin, and vasopressin

  C. H. Rhodes;J. I. Morriell;D. W. Pfaff

  586
  Citations

• Efferents from medial basal forebrain and hypothalamus in the rat. I. An autoradiographic study of the medial preoptic area

  Lily C. A. Conrad;Donald W. Pfaff

  534
  Citations