2026 Florin Amzica: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6312	5808	368	335	69	13103

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Overview

Florin Amzica is a researcher affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their work primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on neurology and related subfields. Their research spans molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as the endocrine and autonomic systems.

Amzica's published papers cover several topics within neuroscience including ion channel regulation and function, neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and sleep and wakefulness research. Specific attention is given to studies of sleep and related disorders as well as the neuroscience of respiration and sleep.

The scientist's recent publications include:

"Implication of Kir4.1 Channel in Excess Potassium Clearance: An In Vivo Study on Anesthetized Glial-Conditional Kir4.1 Knock-Out Mice" (2021, UNC Libraries)
"Local Field Potential Biomarkers of Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson's Disease: Insights From the Subthalamic Nucleus in Deep Brain Stimulation" (2025, European Journal of Neuroscience)
"Impaired sleep homeostasis in children with epilepsy" (2023, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology)

Amzica has collaborated with several co-authors contributing to their research outputs. Frequent collaborators include:

Oana Chever
Biljana Djukic
Ken D. McCarthy
Marc-Antoine Gobeil
Albert Guillemette

Their works have been published in multiple venues such as:

UNC Libraries
European Journal of Neuroscience
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Best Publications

A novel slow (< 1 Hz) oscillation of neocortical neurons in vivo: depolarizing and hyperpolarizing components

M Steriade;A Nunez;F Amzica

2156
Citations
Intracellular analysis of relations between the slow (< 1 Hz) neocortical oscillation and other sleep rhythms of the electroencephalogram

M Steriade;A Nunez;F Amzica

1084
Citations
Synchronization of fast (30-40 Hz) spontaneous cortical rhythms during brain activation

M Steriade;F Amzica;D Contreras

943
Citations
Electrophysiological correlates of sleep delta waves.

F. Amzica;M. Steriade

673
Citations
Synchronization of fast (30-40 Hz) spontaneous oscillations in intrathalamic and thalamocortical networks

M Steriade;D Contreras;F Amzica;I Timofeev

484
Citations
The K-complex: Its slow (<1-Hz) rhythmicity and relation to delta waves

Florin Amzica;Mircea Steriade

473
Citations
Cortical and thalamic cellular correlates of electroencephalographic burst-suppression

M. Steriade;F. Amzica;D. Contreras

446
Citations
Synchronized sleep oscillations and their paroxysmal developments

M. Steriade;D. Contreras;F. Amzica

432
Citations
Cholinergic and noradrenergic modulation of the slow (approximately 0.3 Hz) oscillation in neocortical cells

M. Steriade;F. Amzica;A. Nunez

350
Citations
Short- and long-range neuronal synchronization of the slow (< 1 Hz) cortical oscillation

F. Amzica;M. Steriade

334
Citations
Implication of Kir4.1 Channel in Excess Potassium Clearance: An In Vivo Study on Anesthetized Glial-Conditional Kir4.1 Knock-Out Mice

Oana Chever;Biljana Djukic;Ken D. McCarthy;Florin Amzica

303
Citations
Disconnection of intracortical synaptic linkages disrupts synchronization of a slow oscillation

F Amzica;M Steriade

295
Citations
Spatial buffering during slow and paroxysmal sleep oscillations in cortical networks of glial cells in vivo.

Florin Amzica;Marcello Massimini;Alfredo Manfridi

286
Citations
Intracortical and corticothalamic coherency of fast spontaneous oscillations.

Mircea Steriade;Florin Amzica

267
Citations
Cellular substrates and laminar profile of sleep K-complex

F. Amzica;M. Steriade

267
Citations
Neuronal and glial membrane potentials during sleep and paroxysmal oscillations in the neocortex.

Florin Amzica;Mircea Steriade

228
Citations
Hypersensitivity of the anesthesia-induced comatose brain.

Daniel Kroeger;Florin Amzica

227
Citations
Extracellular Calcium Fluctuations and Intracellular Potentials in the Cortex During the Slow Sleep Oscillation

Marcello Massimini;Florin Amzica

225
Citations
Spike-Wave Complexes and Fast Components of Cortically Generated Seizures. II. Extra- and Intracellular Patterns

Mircea Steriade;Florin Amzica;Dag Neckelmann;Igor Timofeev

215
Citations
The functional significance of K-complexes.

Florin Amzica;Mircea Steriade

214
Citations