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Mary Kay Lobo

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Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
12581
World Ranking
5453
National Ranking
2426

Mary Kay Lobo 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 Mary Kay Lobo sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 132 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mary Kay Lobo 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 Mary Kay Lobo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Mary Kay Lobo is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the United States. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Behavioral Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, and Physiology.

Their research covers a range of main topics including Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism.

Mary Kay Lobo has published extensively, with a number of recent papers that include:

  • Depression and substance use disorders: Clinical comorbidity and shared neurobiology, 2020, International Review of Neurobiology
  • Enduring consequences of perinatal fentanyl exposure in mice, 2020, Addiction Biology
  • Perinatal Fentanyl Exposure Leads to Long-Lasting Impairments in Somatosensory Circuit Function and Behavior, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • From Circuits to Chromatin: The Emerging Role of Epigenetics in Mental Health, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Adaptations in Nucleus Accumbens Neuron Subtypes Mediate Negative Affective Behaviors in Fentanyl Abstinence, 2022, Biological Psychiatry

They frequently collaborate with several researchers in their field. The most common co-authors include:

  • Megan E. Fox
  • Ramesh Chandra
  • Daniela Franco
  • Rianne R. Campbell
  • Seth A. Ament

Mary Kay Lobo's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

    Dipesh Chaudhury;Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Barbara Juarez

  • Cell Type–Specific Loss of BDNF Signaling Mimics Optogenetic Control of Cocaine Reward

    Mary Kay Lobo;Herbert E. Covington;Dipesh Chaudhury;Allyson K. Friedman

  • Impaired adult myelination in the prefrontal cortex of socially isolated mice.

    Jia Liu;Karen Dietz;Jacqueline M DeLoyht;Xiomara Pedre

  • Antidepressant Effect of Optogenetic Stimulation of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Herbert E. Covington Iii;Mary Kay Lobo;Ian Maze;Vincent Vialou

  • FACS-array profiling of striatal projection neuron subtypes in juvenile and adult mouse brains

    Mary Kay Lobo;Stanislav L Karsten;Michelle Gray;Michelle Gray;Daniel H Geschwind

  • Coding the direct/indirect pathways by D1 and D2 receptors is not valid for accumbens projections

    Yonatan M Kupchik;Yonatan M Kupchik;Robyn M Brown;Robyn M Brown;Jasper A Heinsbroek;Mary Kay Lobo

  • Shining light on motivation, emotion, and memory processes.

    Anton Ilango;Mary K. Lobo

  • The striatal balancing act in drug addiction: distinct roles of direct and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons.

    Mary Kay Lobo;Eric J. Nestler

  • Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes Mediate Depression-Related Outcomes to Social Defeat Stress

    T. Chase Francis;Ramesh Chandra;Danielle M. Friend;Eric Finkel

  • A Role for Repressive Histone Methylation in Cocaine-Induced Vulnerability to Stress

    Herbert E. Covington;Ian Maze;HaoSheng Sun;Howard M. Bomze

  • Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving

    Brian R. Lee;Yao Ying Ma;Yanhua H. Huang;Xiusong Wang

  • Cocaine-induced adaptations in D1 and D2 accumbens projection neurons (a dichotomy not necessarily synonymous with direct and indirect pathways).

    Rachel J Smith;Mary Kay Lobo;Sade Spencer;Peter W Kalivas

  • Reward behaviour is regulated by the strength of hippocampus-nucleus accumbens synapses

    Tara A. LeGates;Mark D. Kvarta;Jessica R. Tooley;T. Chase Francis

  • ΔFosB Induction in Striatal Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes in Response to Chronic Pharmacological, Emotional, and Optogenetic Stimuli

    Mary Kay Lobo;Samir Zaman;Diane M. Damez-Werno;Ja Wook Koo

  • Emerging Role for Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes in Depression.

    T. Chase Francis;Mary Kay Lobo

  • The molecular and cellular mechanisms of depression: a focus on reward circuitry.

    Megan E Fox;Mary Kay Lobo

  • BDNF Is a Negative Modulator of Morphine Action

    Ja Wook Koo;Michelle S. Mazei-Robison;Dipesh Chaudhury;Barbara Juarez

  • Vicarious Social Defeat Stress Induces Depression-Related Outcomes in Female Mice

    Sergio D. Iñiguez;Francisco J. Flores-Ramirez;Lace M. Riggs;Jason B. Alipio

  • New Insights into the Specificity and Plasticity of Reward and Aversion Encoding in the Mesolimbic System

    Susan F. Volman;Stephan Lammel;Elyssa B. Margolis;Yunbok Kim

  • Rac1 is essential in cocaine-induced structural plasticity of nucleus accumbens neurons

    David M Dietz;Haosheng Sun;Mary Kay Lobo;Michael E. Cahill

  • A novel role of the WNT-dishevelled-GSK3β signaling cascade in the mouse nucleus accumbens in a social defeat model of depression

    Matthew B. Wilkinson;Caroline Dias;Jane Magida;Michelle Mazei-Robison

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Scott J. Russo
Scott J. Russo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ja Wook Koo
Ja Wook Koo Korea Brain Research Institute
Asaf Keller
Asaf Keller University of Maryland, Baltimore
Vincent Vialou
Vincent Vialou Sorbonne University
Deveroux Ferguson
Deveroux Ferguson University of Arizona
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison Michigan State University

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