2026 Mark E. Stanton: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	55	4783	4399	2153	1946	165	9206
Psychology	55	4455	4125	2473	2239	183	9267

Overview

Mark E. Stanton is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within Medicine and Neuroscience, with specific attention to Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The key research topics addressed in their work include:

Stress Responses and Cortisol
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
Birth, Development, and Health
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep

Mark E. Stanton has published in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

Behavioral Neuroscience
Behavioural Brain Research
Developmental Psychobiology
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Open Access Repository (University of Tasmania)

Notable recent papers include:

"Role of dorsal and ventral hippocampal muscarinic receptor activity in acquisition and retention of contextual fear conditioning." (2020) published in Behavioral Neuroscience
"Prefrontal NMDA-receptor antagonism disrupts encoding or consolidation but not retrieval of incidental context learning" (2021) published in Behavioural Brain Research
"Infant rats can acquire, but not retain contextual associations in object-in-context and contextual fear conditioning paradigms" (2020) published in Developmental Psychobiology
"Mechanisms of context conditioning in the developing rat" (2021) published in Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
"Lorazepam-induced amnesia: examination of delayed free recall and priming effects" (2023) published in Open Access Repository (University of Tasmania)

Their collaborations include frequent work with several co-authors such as Nicholas A. Heroux, Colin J. Horgan, Claudia C. Pinizzotto, Hollie R. Sanders, and Nathen J. Murawski, reflecting varied research partnerships across their publications.

Best Publications

Deficient cerebellar long-term depression and impaired motor learning in mGluR1 mutant mice.

Atsu Aiba;Masanobu Kano;Chong Chen;Chong Chen;Mark Stanton

1052
Citations
Exposure to perfluorooctane sulfonate during pregnancy in rat and mouse. II: postnatal evaluation.

Christopher Lau;Julie R. Thibodeaux;Roger G. Hanson;John M. Rogers

675
Citations
Behavioral stress impairs long-term potentiation in rodent hippocampus

Michael R. Foy;Mark E. Stanton;Seymour Levine;Richard F. Thompson

547
Citations
Maternal deprivation potentiates pituitary-adrenal stress responses in infant rats.

Mark E. Stanton;Yvonne R. Gutierrez;Seymour Levine

321
Citations
Multiple memory systems, development and conditioning

Mark E. Stanton

231
Citations
Impaired eyeblink conditioning in children with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Sandra W. Jacobson;Mark E. Stanton;Christopher D. Molteno;Matthew J. Burden

210
Citations
Memory and the septo-hippocampal cholinergic system in the rat

Gilberto N. O. Brito;Becky J. Davis;Linda C. Stopp;Mark E. Stanton

198
Citations
Inhibition of infant glucocorticoid stress response: Specific role of maternal cues

Mark E. Stanton;Mark E. Stanton;Seymour Levine

175
Citations
Maternal contact inhibits pituitary-adrenal stress responses in preweanling rats.

Mark E. Stanton;Mark E. Stanton;James Wallstrom;Seymour Levine

165
Citations
Efficacy of Maternal Choline Supplementation During Pregnancy in Mitigating Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Growth and Cognitive Function: A Randomized, Double‐Blind, Placebo‐Controlled Clinical Trial

Sandra W. Jacobson;Sandra W. Jacobson;R. Colin Carter;R. Colin Carter;Christopher D. Molteno;Mark E. Stanton

162
Citations
Differential ontogeny of working memory and reference memory in the rat.

Ronald J. Green;Mark E. Stanton

157
Citations
Eyeblink conditioning in the developing rat.

Mark E. Stanton;John H. Freeman;Ronald W. Skelton

146
Citations
Social influences on conditioned cortisol secretion in the squirrel monkey.

Mark E. Stanton;Jeffrey M. Patterson;Seymour Levine

132
Citations
Workshop on the qualitative and quantitative comparability of human and animal developmental neurotoxicity, Work Group I report: comparability of measures of developmental neurotoxicity in humans and laboratory animals.

Mark E. Stanton;Linda P. Spear

114
Citations
Effects of early hippocampal lesions on trace, delay, and long-delay eyeblink conditioning in developing rats.

Dragana Ivkovich;Mark E. Stanton

113
Citations
Impaired delay and trace eyeblink conditioning in school-age children with fetal alcohol syndrome

Sandra W. Jacobson;Mark E. Stanton;Neil C. Dodge;Mariska Pienaar

107
Citations
Fornix transections disrupt the ontogeny of latent inhibition in the rat

Michelle M. Nicolle;Craig C. Barry;Bellina Veronesi;Mark E. Stanton;Mark E. Stanton

106
Citations
Neonatal Ethanol Exposure Impairs Eyeblink Conditioning in Weanling Rats

Mark E. Stanton;Charles R. Goodlett

104
Citations
Ontogeny of delay versus trace eyeblink conditioning in the rat

Dragana Ivkovich;Christine M. Paczkowski;Mark E. Stanton

100
Citations
Disruption of human eyeblink conditioning after central cholinergic blockade with scopolamine.

Paul R. Solomon;MaryEllen Groccia-Ellison;Deirdre Flynn;Jennifer Mirak

99
Citations
The ontogeny of learning and memory.

David Bucci;Mark Stanton

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Freeman University of Iowa

Jeffrey B. Rosen University of Delaware

Seymour Levine Stanford University

John E. Desmond Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Susumu Tonegawa MIT

Rick Richardson University of New South Wales

Jerry W. Rudy University of Colorado Boulder

Michael S. Fanselow University of California, Los Angeles

Linda P. Spear Binghamton University

Michela Gallagher Johns Hopkins University

External Links

Personal website of Mark E. Stanton

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