2026 Douglas A. Coulter: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	71	2434	2225	1149	1032	143	16159

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Overview

Douglas A. Coulter is a researcher affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their work spans multiple disciplines within the broad fields of neuroscience, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, physics, and astronomy.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Physics and Astronomy

The subfields of study associated with their research cover:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Molecular Biology
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Cognitive Neuroscience

Douglas A. Coulter's primary research topics focus on:

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Epilepsy Research and Treatment
Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Their recent publications include:

Aged heterozygous Cdkl5 mutant mice exhibit spontaneous epileptic spasms, 2020, Experimental Neurology
X-linked cellular mosaicism underlies age-dependent occurrence of seizure-like events in mouse models of CDKL5 deficiency disorder, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
Modular, Circuit-Based Interventions Rescue Hippocampal-Dependent Social and Spatial Memory in a 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Mouse Model, 2020, Biological Psychiatry
Functional NMDA receptors are expressed by human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, 2021, Scientific Reports
Highlights From AES2020, a Virtual American Epilepsy Society Experience, 2021, Epilepsy currents/Epilepsy currents

The venues where Coulter frequently publishes are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Experimental Neurology
Neurobiology of Disease
Biological Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in Douglas A. Coulter's research include:

Hajime Takano
A. Rest
Katie Auchettl
Samaporn Tinyanont
C. Gall

Best Publications

Selective changes in single cell GABA A receptor subunit expression and function in temporal lobe epilepsy

Amy R. Brooks-Kayal;Amy R. Brooks-Kayal;Melissa D. Shumate;Hong Jin;Tatiana Y. Rikhter

870
Citations
Amyloid-β plaques enhance Alzheimer's brain tau-seeded pathologies by facilitating neuritic plaque tau aggregation.

Zhuohao He;Jing L Guo;Jennifer D McBride;Sneha Narasimhan

648
Citations
Mechanisms of epileptogenesis: a convergence on neural circuit dysfunction

Ethan M. Goldberg;Douglas A. Coulter

618
Citations
Characterization of ethosuximide reduction of low-threshold calcium current in thalamic neurons.

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

595
Citations
Transparent, flexible, low-noise graphene electrodes for simultaneous electrophysiology and neuro-imaging

Duygu Kuzum;Ertugrul Cubukcu;Brian Litt

577
Citations
Selective induction of astrocytic gliosis generates deficits in neuronal inhibition

Pavel I Ortinski;JingHui Dong;Alison E. Mungenast;Cuiyong Yue

537
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
Cellular Actions of Topiramate: Blockade of Kainate-Evoked Inward Currents in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons

John W. Gibbs;Sompong Sombati;Robert J. DeLorenzo;Douglas A. Coulter

429
Citations
Conditioning-specific membrane changes of rabbit hippocampal neurons measured in vitro

John F. Disterhoft;Douglas A. Coulter;Daniel L. Alkon

400
Citations
Astrocytic regulation of glutamate homeostasis in epilepsy.

Douglas A. Coulter;Tore Eid

358
Citations
A Neuronal Glutamate Transporter Contributes to Neurotransmitter GABA Synthesis and Epilepsy

Jehuda P. Sepkuty;Akiva S. Cohen;Christine Eccles;Azhar Rafiq

323
Citations
Enhanced astrocytic Ca2+ signals contribute to neuronal excitotoxicity after status epilepticus.

Shinghua Ding;Tommaso Fellin;Yingzi Zhu;So-Young Lee

310
Citations
Disrupted dentate granule cell chloride regulation enhances synaptic excitability during development of temporal lobe epilepsy.

Hemal R. Pathak;Florian Weissinger;Miho Terunuma;Gregory C. Carlson

303
Citations
Role of Astrocytes in Epilepsy

Douglas A. Coulter;Christian Steinhäuser

292
Citations
Specific Petit Mal Anticonvulsants Reduce Calcium Currents in Thalamic Neurons

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

266
Citations
Differential Epilepsy-Associated Alterations in Postsynaptic GABAA Receptor Function in Dentate Granule and CA1 Neurons

John W. Gibbs;Melissa D. Shumate;Douglas A. Coulter

263
Citations
Classical conditioning reduces amplitude and duration of calcium-dependent afterhyperpolarization in rabbit hippocampal pyramidal cells

D. A. Coulter;J. J. Lo Turco;M. Kubota;J. F. Disterhoft

251
Citations
Dynamic Regulation of Synaptic GABA Release by the Glutamate-Glutamine Cycle in Hippocampal Area CA1

Shu-Ling Liang;Gregory C. Carlson;Douglas A. Coulter

238
Citations
Differential effects of petit mal anticonvulsants and convulsants on thalamic neurones: calcium current reduction

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

207
Citations
Increased expression of the neuronal glutamate transporter (EAAT3/EAAC1) in hippocampal and neocortical epilepsy.

Peter B Crino;Hong Jin;Melissa D Shumate;Michael B Robinson

206
Citations