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Neuroscience

D-Index
78
Citations
20970
World Ranking
1770
National Ranking
99

Lisa M. Saksida 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 Lisa M. Saksida sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 201 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Lisa M. Saksida 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 Lisa M. Saksida sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 78 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Lisa M. Saksida is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and cell biology.

Their primary research interests focus on topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, stress responses and cortisol, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural dynamics and brain function, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

The following papers represent some of their recent contributions:

  • An optimized acetylcholine sensor for monitoring in vivo cholinergic activity, 2020, Nature Methods
  • Repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in mice triggers a slowly developing cascade of long-term and persistent behavioral deficits and pathological changes, 2021, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Chondroitin 6-sulphate is required for neuroplasticity and memory in ageing, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Touchscreen cognitive testing: Cross-species translation and co-clinical trials in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disease, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • New frontiers in translational research: Touchscreens, open science, and the mouse translational research accelerator platform, 2020, Genes Brain & Behavior

Lisa M. Saksida frequently publishes in journals such as Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Translational Psychiatry, and Genes Brain & Behavior.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with peers including Timothy J. Bussey, Marco A. M. Prado, Vânia F. Prado, and Flávio H. Beraldo.

Award recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020 for contributions categorized under the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • A Functional Role for Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Spatial Pattern Separation

    C. D. Clelland;M. Choi;C. Romberg;G. D. Clemenson

  • Double Dissociation between the Effects of Peri-Postrhinal Cortex and Hippocampal Lesions on Tests of Object Recognition and Spatial Memory: Heterogeneity of Function within the Temporal Lobe

    Boyer D. Winters;Suzanna E. Forwood;Rosemary A. Cowell;Lisa M. Saksida

  • Running enhances spatial pattern separation in mice

    David J. Creer;Carola Romberg;Lisa M. Saksida;Henriette van Praag

  • Object recognition memory: neurobiological mechanisms of encoding, consolidation and retrieval.

    Boyer D. Winters;Lisa M. Saksida;Timothy J. Bussey

  • Visual Perception and Memory: A New View of Medial Temporal Lobe Function in Primates and Rodents ∗

    Elisabeth A. Murray;Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida

  • The touchscreen operant platform for testing learning and memory in rats and mice

    Alexa E Horner;Christopher J Heath;Martha Hvoslef-Eide;Brianne A Kent

  • An optimized acetylcholine sensor for monitoring in vivo cholinergic activity.

    Miao Jing;Yuexuan Li;Yuexuan Li;Jianzhi Zeng;Jianzhi Zeng;Pengcheng Huang

  • Perirhinal cortex resolves feature ambiguity in complex visual discriminations

    Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Perceptual deficits in amnesia: challenging the medial temporal lobe 'mnemonic' view.

    Andy C. H. Lee;Tim J. Bussey;Elisabeth A. Murray;Lisa M. Saksida

  • The touchscreen operant platform for assessing executive function in rats and mice

    Adam C Mar;Alexa E Horner;Simon R O Nilsson;Johan Alsiö

  • The Touchscreen Cognitive Testing Method for Rodents: How to Get the Best out of Your Rat

    Timothy J. Bussey;Tina L. Padain;Elizabeth A. Skillings;Boyer D. Winters

  • Functional specialization in the human medial temporal lobe

    Morgan D. Barense;Timothy J. Bussey;Andy C. H. Lee;Timothy T. Rogers

  • New translational assays for preclinical modelling of cognition in schizophrenia: the touchscreen testing method for mice and rats

    T.J. Bussey;A. Holmes;L. Lyon;A.C. Mar

  • TDP-43 gains function due to perturbed autoregulation in a Tardbp knock-in mouse model of ALS-FTD.

    Matthew A. White;Matthew A. White;Eosu Kim;Eosu Kim;Amanda Duffy;Robert Adalbert

  • Effects of environmental enrichment and voluntary exercise on neurogenesis, learning and memory, and pattern separation: BDNF as a critical variable?

    Pedro Alejandro Bekinschtein;Charlotte A. Oomen;Lisa M. Saksida;Timothy J. Bussey

  • Synaptic scaffold evolution generated components of vertebrate cognitive complexity

    Jess Nithianantharajah;Jess Nithianantharajah;Noboru H Komiyama;Noboru H Komiyama;Andrew McKechanie;Mandy Johnstone

  • Impaired Fear Extinction Learning and Cortico-Amygdala Circuit Abnormalities in a Common Genetic Mouse Strain

    Kathryn Hefner;Nigel Whittle;Jaynann Juhasz;Maxine Norcross

  • Memory, perception, and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: thinking outside of the boxes.

    T.J. Bussey;L.M. Saksida

  • The organization of visual object representations: a connectionist model of effects of lesions in perirhinal cortex.

    Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida

  • Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: testing 'declarative' vs. 'perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex function.

    Timothy J. Bussey;Lisa M. Saksida;Elisabeth A. Murray

  • Towards an understanding of the mechanisms of weak central coherence effects: experiments in visual configural learning and auditory perception.

    Kate Plaisted;Lisa Saksida;José Alcántara;Emma Weisblatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy J. Bussey
Timothy J. Bussey University of Western Ontario
Andrew Holmes
Andrew Holmes National Institutes of Health
Boyer D. Winters
Boyer D. Winters University of Guelph
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Seth G. N. Grant
Seth G. N. Grant University of Edinburgh
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray National Institutes of Health
Vania F. Prado
Vania F. Prado University of Western Ontario
Marco A. M. Prado
Marco A. M. Prado University of Western Ontario
Yulong Li
Yulong Li Peking University
Morgan D. Barense
Morgan D. Barense University of Toronto

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