Larry W. Swanson

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
• 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• 1971 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Brain Maps: Structure of the Rat Brain

  Larry W. Swanson

  3078
  Citations

• Dwarf locus mutants lacking three pituitary cell types result from mutations in the POU-domain gene pit-1.

  Sen Li;E. Bryan Crenshaw;Elizabeth J. Rawson;Donna M. Simmons;Donna M. Simmons

  2923
  Citations

• Production of a novel neuropeptide encoded by the calcitonin gene via tissue-specific RNA processing

  Michael G. Rosenfeld;Jean-Jacques Mermod;Susan G. Amara;Larry W. Swanson

  2889
  Citations

• Organization of Ovine Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Immunoreactive Cells and Fibers in the Rat Brain: An Immunohistochemical Study

  L.W. Swanson;P.E. Sawchenko;J. Rivier;W.W. Vale

  2401
  Citations

• Distribution of androgen and estrogen receptor mRNA‐containing cells in the rat brain: An in situ hybridization study

  R B Simerly;C Chang;M Muramatsu;L W Swanson

  2381
  Citations

• Hypothalamic Integration: Organization of the Paraventricular and Supraoptic Nuclei

  L W Swanson;P E Sawchenko

  2374
  Citations

• The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus: Cytoarchitectonic subdivisions and organization of projections to the pituitary, dorsal vagal complex, and spinal cord as demonstrated by retrograde fluorescence double‐labeling methods

  L. W. Swanson;H. G. J. M. Kuypers

  2134
  Citations

• The projections of the ventral tegmental area and adjacent regions: A combined fluorescent retrograde tracer and immunofluorescence study in the rat

  Swanson Lw

  2059
  Citations

• What is the amygdala

  Larry W. Swanson;Gorica D. Petrovich

  1995
  Citations

• An autoradiographic study of the organization of the efferet connections of the hippocampal formation in the rat

  L. W. Swanson;W. M. Cowan

  1819
  Citations

• The central adrenergic system. An immunofluorescence study of the location of cell bodies and their efferent connections in the rat utilizing dopamine‐B‐hydroxylase as a marker

  L. W. Swanson;Boyd K Hartman

  1754
  Citations

• Direct hypothalamo-autonomic connections.

  C.B. Saper;A.D. Loewy;L.W. Swanson;W.M. Cowan

  1396
  Citations

• The connections of the septal region in the rat.

  L. W. Swanson;W. M. Cowan

  1324
  Citations

• The organization of noradrenergic pathways from the brainstem to the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei in the rat

  P.E. Sawchenko;L.W. Swanson

  1309
  Citations

• Immunohistochemical identification of neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus that project to the medulla or to the spinal cord in the rat

  P. E. Sawchenko;L. W. Swanson

  1305
  Citations

• Distribution of alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, and beta2 neuronal nicotinic receptor subunit mRNAs in the central nervous system: A hybridization histochemical study in the rat

  Etsuko Wada;Keiji Wada;Jim Boulter;Evan Deneris

  1253
  Citations

• Paraventricular Nucleus:A Site for the Integration of Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Mechanisms

  L W Swanson;P E Sawchenko

  1174
  Citations

• A tissue-specific transcription factor containing a homeodomain specifies a pituitary phenotype.

  Holly A. Ingraham;Ruoping Chen;Harry J. Mangalam;Harry P. Elsholtz

  1159
  Citations

• A Complete Protocol for In Situ Hybridization of Messenger RNAs in Brain and Other Tissues With Radio-labeled Single-Stranded RNA Probes

  Donna M. Simmons;Jeffrey L. Arriza;L.W. Swanson

  1075
  Citations

• Cerebral hemisphere regulation of motivated behavior

  Larry W. Swanson

  1047
  Citations

• The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, George Paxinos, Charles Watson (Eds.). Academic Press, San Diego, CA (1982), vii + 153, $35.00, ISBN: 0 125 47620 5

  L.W. Swanson

  2
  Citations