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Marisela Morales 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 Marisela Morales sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 147 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marisela Morales 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 Marisela Morales sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 74 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marisela Morales is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a primary emphasis on cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several key topics in neuroscience, including:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Marisela Morales has published extensively, with frequent contributions to venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Neuropsychopharmacology, Microscopy and Microanalysis, and the Journal of Neuroscience. Key recent papers include:

  • VTA Glutamatergic Neurons Mediate Innate Defensive Behaviors, 2020, Neuron
  • An Amygdalo-Parabrachial Pathway Regulates Pain Perception and Chronic Pain, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Distinct Signaling by Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate, GABA, and Combinatorial Glutamate-GABA Neurons in Motivated Behavior, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Cooperative synaptic and intrinsic plasticity in a disynaptic limbic circuit drive stress-induced anhedonia and passive coping in mice, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Morphine and Fentanyl Repeated Administration Induces Different Levels of NLRP3-Dependent Pyroptosis in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of Male Rats via Cell-Specific Activation of TLR4 and Opioid Receptors, 2020, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Morales include M. Flavia Barbano, Bing Liu, Shiliang Zhang, and Jorge Miranda-Barrientos.

Best Publications

  • The Brain on Drugs: From Reward to Addiction.

    Nora D. Volkow;Marisela Morales

  • Ventral tegmental area: cellular heterogeneity, connectivity and behaviour.

    Marisela Morales;Elyssa B. Margolis

  • Pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei contain distinct populations of cholinergic, glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons in the rat

    Hui-Ling Wang;Marisela Morales

  • Selective activation of cholinergic interneurons enhances accumbal phasic dopamine release: setting the tone for reward processing

    Roger Cachope;Yolanda Mateo;Brian N. Mathur;James Irving

  • The 5-HT3 receptor is present in different subpopulations of GABAergic neurons in the rat telencephalon.

    Marisela Morales;Floyd E. Bloom

  • Glutamatergic neurons are present in the rat ventral tegmental area

    Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi;Whitney Sheen;Marisela Morales

  • Mesocorticolimbic Glutamatergic Pathway

    Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi;Hui-Ling Wang;Xueping Li;Tsz H. Ng

  • Single rodent mesohabenular axons release glutamate and GABA

    David H Root;Carlos A Mejias-Aponte;Shiliang Zhang;Hui-Ling Wang

  • Discharge profiles across the sleep-waking cycle of identified cholinergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic neurons in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum of the rat

    Soufiane Boucetta;Youssouf Cissé;Lynda Mainville;Marisela Morales

  • Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models.

    Marco Venniro;Michelle Zhang;Daniele Caprioli;Jennifer K. Hoots

  • Time-dependent changes in extinction behavior and stress-induced reinstatement of drug seeking following withdrawal from heroin in rats

    Uri Shalev;Marisela Morales;Bruce Hope;Jasmine Yap

  • Dopaminergic and glutamatergic microdomains in a subset of rodent mesoaccumbens axons

    Shiliang Zhang;Jia Qi;Xueping Li;Hui-Ling Wang

  • Glutamatergic and Nonglutamatergic Neurons of the Ventral Tegmental Area Establish Local Synaptic Contacts with Dopaminergic and Nondopaminergic Neurons

    Alice Dobi;Elyssa B. Margolis;Hui-Ling Wang;Brandon K. Harvey

  • Distribution of neurons expressing immunoreactivity for the 5HT3 receptor subtype in the rat brain and spinal cord.

    Marisela Morales;Elena Battenberg;Floyd E. Bloom

  • Role of Projections from Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Nucleus Accumbens Shell in Context-Induced Reinstatement of Heroin Seeking

    Jennifer M. Bossert;Anna L. Stern;Florence R.M. Theberge;Nathan J. Marchant

  • Glutamate neurons within the midbrain dopamine regions

    Marisela Morales;David H. Root

  • Differential Composition of 5-Hydroxytryptamine3Receptors Synthesized in the Rat CNS and Peripheral Nervous System

    Marisela Morales;Shwun-De Wang

  • Role of Glutamatergic Projections from Ventral Tegmental Area to Lateral Habenula in Aversive Conditioning

    David H. Root;Carlos A. Mejias-Aponte;Jia Qi;Marisela Morales

  • Identification of Rat Ventral Tegmental Area GABAergic Neurons

    Elyssa B. Margolis;Brian Toy;Patricia Himmels;Marisela Morales

  • VTA glutamatergic inputs to nucleus accumbens drive aversion by acting on GABAergic interneurons

    Jia Qi;Shiliang Zhang;Hui-Ling Wang;David J Barker

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yavin Shaham
Yavin Shaham National Institute on Drug Abuse
Brandon K. Harvey
Brandon K. Harvey National Institute on Drug Abuse
Yun Wang
Yun Wang National Health Research Institutes
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Geoffrey Schoenbaum National Institutes of Health
Carl R. Lupica
Carl R. Lupica National Institute on Drug Abuse
Bruce T. Hope
Bruce T. Hope National Institute on Drug Abuse
George F. Koob
George F. Koob National Institute on Drug Abuse
Alexander F. Hoffman
Alexander F. Hoffman National Institute on Drug Abuse
Sergi Ferré
Sergi Ferré National Institute on Drug Abuse

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