2026 Kenneth D. Carr: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	39	8373	7737	3578	3238	113	5327

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Overview

Kenneth D. Carr is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, contributing extensively across several main and subfields.

Their main field of study is Neuroscience, with a specific concentration in these subfields:

Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Nutrition and Dietetics
Molecular Biology
Epidemiology

Carr's work covers multiple key topics including:

Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases
Advanced Glycation End Products research

Their research output includes publications in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following:

Physiology & Behavior (4 papers)
Current Pharmaceutical Design (1 paper)
Biomolecules (1 paper)
Addiction Neuroscience (1 paper)
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (1 paper)

Recent papers authored by Carr encompass a range of topics related to neuroscience and behavioral physiology. Notable recent publications include:

"Modulatory Effects of Food Restriction on Brain and Behavioral Effects of Abused Drugs" (2020) in Current Pharmaceutical Design
"Homeostatic regulation of reward via synaptic insertion of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors in nucleus accumbens" (2020) in Physiology & Behavior
"Actions and Consequences of Insulin in the Striatum" (2023) in Biomolecules
"Involvement of the Receptor for Advanced Glycation End Products (RAGE) in high fat-high sugar diet-induced anhedonia in rats" (2023) in Physiology & Behavior
"Effects of nucleus accumbens insulin inactivation on microstructure of licking for glucose and saccharin in male and female rats" (2022) in Physiology & Behavior

Collaborations are evident in the research record, with frequent coauthors including:

Sydney P. Weiner
Carolina Vásquez
Jamison P Geracci
Jyoti C. Patel
Margaret E. Rice

Best Publications

Augmentation of drug reward by chronic food restriction: behavioral evidence and underlying mechanisms.

Kenneth D Carr

428
Citations
Insulin enhances striatal dopamine release by activating cholinergic interneurons and thereby signals reward

Melissa A. Stouffer;Catherine A. Woods;Jyoti C. Patel;Christian R. Lee

290
Citations
Food restriction enhances the central rewarding effect of abused drugs.

Soledad Cabeza de Vaca;Kenneth D. Carr

262
Citations
Chronic food restriction: Enhancing effects on drug reward and striatal cell signaling

Kenneth D. Carr

242
Citations
Evidence of increased dopamine receptor signaling in food-restricted rats.

K.D Carr;Y Tsimberg;Y Berman;N Yamamoto

235
Citations
Feeding, drug abuse, and the sensitization of reward by metabolic need

Kenneth D. Carr

179
Citations
Neuroanatomical patterns of fos-like immunoreactivity induced by a palatable meal and meal-paired environment in saline- and naltrexone-treated rats.

Tina H Park;Kenneth D Carr

124
Citations
Chronic food restriction and weight loss produce opioid facilitation of perifornical hypothalamic self-stimulation.

Kenneth D. Carr;Toni D. Wolinsky

110
Citations
Regulation of α and β components of noradrenergic cyclic AMP response in cortical slices

Eric A. Stone;Bruce S. McEwen;Ariel S. Herrera;Kenneth D. Carr

106
Citations
Rewarding and locomotor-activating effects of direct dopamine receptor agonists are augmented by chronic food restriction in rats.

Kenneth D. Carr;Gye-Young Kim;Soledad Cabeza de Vaca

97
Citations
Potentiation of reward by hunger is opioid mediated

Kenneth D. Carr;Eric J. Simon

90
Citations
Effects of naloxone and its quarternary analogue on stimulation-induced feeding

K.D. Carr;E.J. Simon

89
Citations
Chronic food restriction and dopamine transporter function in rat striatum.

Juan Zhen;Maarten E.A. Reith;Kenneth D. Carr

86
Citations
Curve-shift analysis of self-stimulation in food-restricted rats: relationship between daily meal, plasma corticosterone and reward sensitization.

Glenn C. Abrahamsen;Yemiliya Berman;Kenneth D. Carr

83
Citations
Chronic food restriction increases D-1 dopamine receptor agonist-induced phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 and cyclic AMP response element-binding protein in caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens.

S.L Haberny;Y Berman;E Meller;K.D Carr

76
Citations
The melanocortin receptor agonist MTII augments the rewarding effect of amphetamine in ad-libitum-fed and food-restricted rats.

Soledad Cabeza de Vaca;Gye-Young Kim;Kenneth D Carr

75
Citations
Medial thalamic injection of opioid agonists: μ-agonist increases while κ-agonist decreases stimulus thresholds for pain and reward

Kenneth D. Carr;Tina H. Bak

75
Citations
Stereotypies elicited by injection of N-propylnorapomorphine into striatal subregions and nucleus accumbens

Fabio Bordi;Kenneth D. Carr;Emanuel Meller

75
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AMPA RECEPTOR SUBUNIT GluR1 DOWNSTREAM OF D-1 DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATION IN NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS SHELL MEDIATES INCREASED DRUG REWARD MAGNITUDE IN FOOD-RESTRICTED RATS

K.D. Carr;L.S. Chau;S. Cabeza de Vaca;K. Gustafson

74
Citations
Hypoinsulinemia may mediate the lowering of self-stimulation thresholds by food restriction and streptozotocin-induced diabetes

Kenneth D Carr;Gye-Young Kim;Soledad Cabeza de Vaca

74
Citations