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D-Index
95
Citations
41048
World Ranking
892
National Ranking
478

Overview

John B. Penney was affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to academic research in their field, although specific details about their publications, fields of study, and research topics have not been documented here.

There is no recorded information regarding frequent co-authors or publication venues associated with their research activity. Similarly, no book publications or awards have been listed.

Due to the lack of details on recent papers, no specific titles, years, or publication venues can be referenced. The absence of documented main or subfields of study, as well as main topics of work, limits the ability to summarize their research focus or thematic areas comprehensively.

The scientist is noted as deceased, and all references to their career are provided in the past tense accordingly.

Best Publications

  • The functional anatomy of basal ganglia disorders.

    Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • Unified huntington’s disease rating scale: Reliability and consistency

    Karl Kieburtz;John B. Penney;Peter Corno;Neal Ranen

  • Trinucleotide repeat length instability and age of onset in Huntington's disease

    M Duyao;C Ambrose;R Myers;A Novelletto

  • Differential loss of striatal projection neurons in Huntington disease.

    Anton Reiner;Roger L. Albin;Keith D. Anderson;Constance J. D'Amato

  • Inhibition of caspase-1 slows disease progression in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

    Victor O. Ona;Mingwei Li;Jean Paul G. Vonsattel;L. John Andrews

  • Altered brain neurotransmitter receptors in transgenic mice expressing a portion of an abnormal human Huntington disease gene

    Jang-Ho J. Cha;Christoph M. Kosinski;Julie A. Kerner;Stephen A. Alsdorf

  • CAG repeat number governs the development rate of pathology in Huntington's disease

    John B. Penney;Jean‐Paul Vonsattel;Marcy E. Macdonald;James F. Gusella

  • Metabotropic glutamate receptor mRNA expression in the basal ganglia of the rat

    CM Testa;DG Standaert;AB Young;JB Penney

  • Speculations on the Functional Anatomy of Basal Ganglia Disorders

    J B Penney;A B Young

  • Anatomical and affinity state comparisons between dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the rat central nervous system.

    Eric K. Richfield;John B. Penney;Anne B. Young

  • Impact of deprenyl and tocopherol treatment on Parkinson's disease in DATATOP patients requiring levodopa

    John B. Penney;David Oakes;Ira Shoulson;Stanley Fahn

  • NMDA receptor losses in putamen from patients with Huntington's disease

    AB Young;JT Greenamyre;Z Hollingsworth;R Albin

  • Homozygotes for Huntington's disease

    Nancy S. Wexler;Nancy S. Wexler;Anne B. Young;Rudolph E. Tanzi;Helen Travers

  • Striatal inhomogeneities and basal ganglia function

    John B. Penney;Anne B. Young

  • Autoradiographic characterization of N-methyl-D-aspartate-, quisqualate- and kainate-sensitive glutamate binding sites.

    J. T. Greenamyre;J. M. M. Olson;J. B. Penney;A. B. Young

  • Excitatory amino acid binding sites in the basal ganglia of the rat: A quantitative autoradiographic study

    Roger L. Albin;Richard L. Makowiec;Zane R. Hollingsworth;Leon S. Dure

  • The functional anatomy of disorders of the basal ganglia

    Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • Organization of N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptor gene expression in the basal ganglia of the rat

    David G. Standaert;Claudia M. Testa;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • Preferential loss of striato-external pallidal projection neurons in presymptomatic Huntington's disease

    Roger L. Albin;Anton Reiner;Keith D. Anderson;Leon S. Dure

  • Glutamate dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease: an hypothesis

    William F. Maragos;J.Timothy Greenamyre;John B. Penney;Anne B. Young

  • Alterations in L-glutamate binding in Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.

    JT Greenamyre;JB Penney;AB Young;CJ D'Amato

  • Distribution and kinetics of GABAB binding sites in rat central nervous system: A quantitative autoradiographic study

    Dorothy C. M. Chu;Roger L. Albin;Anne B. Young;John B. Penney

  • Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type: Changes in Hippocampal L‐[3H]Glutamate Binding

    J. Timothy Greenamyre;John B. Penney;Constance J. D'Amato;Anne B. Young

  • Anatomic correlation of NMDA and 3H-TCP-labeled receptors in rat brain

    WF Maragos;JB Penney;AB Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne B. Young
Anne B. Young Harvard University
Kirk A. Frey
Kirk A. Frey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric K. Richfield
Eric K. Richfield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Stanley Berent
Stanley Berent University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard D. Hichwa
Richard D. Hichwa University of Iowa
P. Michael Conneally
P. Michael Conneally Indiana University
Henry A. Buchtel
Henry A. Buchtel University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Faye S. Silverstein
Faye S. Silverstein University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bruno Giordani
Bruno Giordani University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James F. Gusella
James F. Gusella Harvard University

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