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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
133
Citations
63911
World Ranking
313
National Ranking
194

Neuroscience

D-Index
135
Citations
65871
World Ranking
236
National Ranking
147

Medicine

D-Index
133
Citations
64226
World Ranking
2234
National Ranking
1260

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jacqueline N. Crawley is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines including genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology, with notable contributions in the field of autism spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental genetics.

The scientist has published extensively on topics including:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Their work has appeared in a variety of publication venues, with multiple papers featured in:

  • Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • UNC Libraries
  • Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent collaborators of Crawley include Joseph P. Huston, Bianca Topic, György Buzsáki, Tim Crow, and Paul Gold, each contributing to shared research efforts across different projects and topics.

Selected recent papers by Jacqueline N. Crawley include:

  • Twenty years of discoveries emerging from mouse models of autism, 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Sexually dimorphic neuroanatomical differences relate to ASD-relevant behavioral outcomes in a maternal autoantibody mouse model, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Evaluation of a TrkB agonist on spatial and motor learning in the Ube3a mouse model of Angelman syndrome, 2020, Learning & Memory
  • Towards Preclinical Validation of Arbaclofen (R-baclofen) Treatment for 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • A genetic model of substrate deprivation therapy for a glycosphingolipid storage disorder, 2020, UNC Libraries

Crawley's research fields include:

  • Genetics
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Molecular Biology
  • Rheumatology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

In recognition of their contributions, Crawley was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary report of a simple animal behavior model for the anxiolytic effects of benzodiazepines

    Jacqueline Crawley;Frederick K. Goodwin

  • Atm-deficient mice: a paradigm of ataxia telangiectasia.

    Carrolee Barlow;Shinji Hirotsune;Richard Paylor;Marek Liyanage

  • Behavioural phenotyping assays for mouse models of autism

    Jill L. Silverman;Mu Yang;Catherine Lord;Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Behavioral phenotypes of inbred mouse strains: implications and recommendations for molecular studies.

    Jacqueline N. Crawley;John K. Belknap;Allan Collins;John C. Crabbe

  • Sociability and preference for social novelty in five inbred strains: an approach to assess autistic-like behavior in mice

    Sheryl S Moy;J. J. Nadler;A. Perez;R. P. Barbaro

  • What's Wrong with My Mouse?: Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice

    Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice: Experimental Design and Evaluation of General Health, Sensory Functions, Motor Abilities, and Specific Behavioral Tests

    Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Exploratory behavior models of anxiety in mice

    Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Biological actions of cholecystokinin

    Jacqueline N. Crawley;Rebecca L. Corwin

  • Autistic-like behaviour and cerebellar dysfunction in Purkinje cell Tsc1 mutant mice

    Peter Tzu-shin Tsai;Court Hull;Yunxiang Chu;Emily Greene-Colozzi

  • Mouse behavioral tasks relevant to autism: Phenotypes of 10 inbred strains

    Sheryl S. Moy;Jessica J. Nadler;Nancy B. Young;Antonio Perez

  • Autism-like behavioral phenotypes in BTBR T+tf/J mice

    H. G. McFarlane;G. K. Kusek;M. Yang;J. L. Phoenix

  • Automated apparatus for quantitation of social approach behaviors in mice.

    J. J. Nadler;S. S. Moy;G. Dold;D. Trang

  • A Proposed Test Battery and Constellations of Specific Behavioral Paradigms to Investigate the Behavioral Phenotypes of Transgenic and Knockout Mice

    Jacqueline N. Crawley;Richard Paylor

  • Neuropharmacologic specificity of a simple animal model for the behavioral actions of benzodiazepines

    Jacqueline Crawley

  • Mouse Behavioral Assays Relevant to the Symptoms of Autism

    Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Designing mouse behavioral tasks relevant to autistic-like behaviors.

    Jacqueline N. Crawley

  • Haploinsufficiency of the autism-associated Shank3 gene leads to deficits in synaptic function, social interaction, and social communication.

    Ozlem Bozdagi;Takeshi Sakurai;Danae Papapetrou;Xiaobin Wang

  • A selective imidazobenzodiazepine antagonist of ethanol in the rat

    Peter D. Suzdak;John R. Glowa;Jacqueline N. Crawley;Rochelle D. Schwartz

  • The Developmental Neurobiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom;Catherine Lord;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Eric Courchesne;Eric Courchesne

  • Simple behavioral assessment of mouse olfaction.

    Mu Yang;Jacqueline N. Crawley

Frequent Co-Authors

Mu Yang
Mu Yang Columbia University
Phil Skolnick
Phil Skolnick Opiant Pharmaceuticals
Andrew Holmes
Andrew Holmes National Institutes of Health
Maria Luisa Scattoni
Maria Luisa Scattoni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Sheryl S. Moy
Sheryl S. Moy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tamas Bartfai
Tamas Bartfai Stockholm University
Richard L. Proia
Richard L. Proia National Institutes of Health
David Pickar
David Pickar National Institutes of Health
Tomas Hökfelt
Tomas Hökfelt Karolinska Institute
Terry Magnuson
Terry Magnuson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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