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John E. Lisman

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Neuroscience

D-Index
104
Citations
49982
World Ranking
659
National Ranking
366

John E. Lisman publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John E. Lisman sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 267 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

John E. Lisman D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John E. Lisman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 104 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John E. Lisman was affiliated with Brandeis University in the United States. Their research spanned primarily the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work focused notably on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

Lisman's research encompassed various topics including Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Ion channel regulation and function, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neural dynamics and brain function, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study, Behavioral and Psychological Studies, and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics.

The scientist contributed to several journals and publication venues, including Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Scientific Reports, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors in Lisman's body of work included Nathan A. Schneider, Donald B. Katz, Hyun-Jae Pi, Nicole L. Rumian, and Carolyn Nicole Brown.

Some of the notable recent papers by Lisman included:

  • Optogenetic perturbation of projections from thalamic nucleus reuniens to hippocampus disrupts spatial working memory retrieval more than encoding, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Short-term CaMKII inhibition with tatCN19o does not erase pre-formed memory in mice and is neuroprotective in pigs, 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Parametric shift from rational to irrational decisions in mice, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Short-term CaMKII inhibition with tatCN19o does not erase pre-formed memory and is neuroprotective in non-rodents, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Lisman was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Hippocampal-VTA Loop: Controlling the Entry of Information into Long-Term Memory

    John E. Lisman;Anthony A. Grace

  • The molecular basis of CaMKII function in synaptic and behavioural memory.

    John Lisman;Howard Schulman;Hollis Cline

  • Bursts as a unit of neural information: making unreliable synapses reliable.

    John E. Lisman

  • Storage of 7 +/- 2 short-term memories in oscillatory subcycles

    John E. Lisman;Marco A. P. Idiart

  • The theta-gamma neural code

    John E. Lisman;Ole Jensen

  • A mechanism for the Hebb and the anti-Hebb processes underlying learning and memory.

    John Lisman

  • Oscillations in the Alpha Band (9–12 Hz) Increase with Memory Load during Retention in a Short-term Memory Task

    Ole Jensen;Jack Gelfand;John Kounios;John E. Lisman

  • Mechanisms of CaMKII action in long-term potentiation

    John Lisman;Ryohei Yasuda;Sridhar Raghavachari

  • Circuit-based framework for understanding neurotransmitter and risk gene interactions in schizophrenia

    John E. Lisman;Joseph T. Coyle;Robert W. Green;Daniel C. Javitt

  • Gating of Human Theta Oscillations by a Working Memory Task

    Sridhar Raghavachari;Michael J. Kahana;Michael J. Kahana;Daniel S. Rizzuto;Jeremy B. Caplan

  • Gamma Oscillations Correlate with Working Memory Load in Humans

    Marc W. Howard;Daniel S. Rizzuto;Jeremy B. Caplan;Joseph R. Madsen

  • Relating Hippocampal Circuitry to Function: Recall of Memory Sequences by Reciprocal Dentate–CA3 Interactions

    John E Lisman

  • Viewpoints: how the hippocampus contributes to memory, navigation and cognition

    John Lisman;György Buzsáki;Howard Eichenbaum;Lynn Nadel

  • Bidirectional synaptic plasticity induced by a single burst during cholinergic theta oscillation in CA1 in vitro

    Patricio T. Huerta;John E. Lisman

  • The CaM kinase II hypothesis for the storage of synaptic memory.

    John Lisman

  • A model of synaptic memory: a CaMKII/PP1 switch that potentiates transmission by organizing an AMPA receptor anchoring assembly.

    John E Lisman;Anatol M Zhabotinsky

  • Heightened synaptic plasticity of hippocampal CA1 neurons during a cholinergically induced rhythmic state.

    Patriclo T. Huerta;John E. Lisman

  • A mechanism for memory storage insensitive to molecular turnover: a bistable autophosphorylating kinase.

    John E. Lisman

  • The theta/gamma discrete phase code occuring during the hippocampal phase precession may be a more general brain coding scheme.

    John Lisman

  • Storage, recall, and novelty detection of sequences by the hippocampus: Elaborating on the SOCRATIC model to account for normal and aberrant effects of dopamine

    John E. Lisman;Nonna A. Otmakhova

Frequent Co-Authors

Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Michael J. Kahana
Michael J. Kahana University of Pennsylvania
Donald B. Katz
Donald B. Katz Brandeis University
Gordon L. Fain
Gordon L. Fain University of California, Los Angeles
William N. Ross
William N. Ross New York Medical College
Adam Kepecs
Adam Kepecs Washington University in St. Louis
Joseph R. Madsen
Joseph R. Madsen Boston Children's Hospital
Roberto Malinow
Roberto Malinow University of California, San Diego
Roger A. Nicoll
Roger A. Nicoll University of California, San Francisco
Robert C. Malenka
Robert C. Malenka Stanford University

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