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Michela Gallagher 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 Michela Gallagher sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 319 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michela Gallagher 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 Michela Gallagher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 110 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michela Gallagher is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant contributions in both cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience, as well as psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and neurology.

Their work extensively covers topics such as memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, stress responses and cortisol, zebrafish biomedical research applications, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Michela Gallagher has coauthored multiple papers with Ming Teng Koh, James Knierim, Richard C. Mohs, Alfredo Kirkwood, and Audrey Branch.

They have published work in several venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Michela Gallagher include:

  • Spatial learning in male and female Long-Evans rats., 2021, Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Heterogeneity of Age-Related Neural Hyperactivity along the CA3 Transverse Axis, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Lateral entorhinal cortex dysfunction in amnestic mild cognitive impairment, 2021, Neurobiology of Aging
  • The HOPE4MCI study: A randomized double-blind assessment of AGB101 for the treatment of MCI due to AD, 2024, Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
  • All-or-none disconnection of pyramidal inputs onto parvalbumin-positive interneurons gates ocular dominance plasticity, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Michela Gallagher's career has been recognized by their peers, as indicated by awards including Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1994 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1992.

Best Publications

  • A specific amyloid-|[beta]| protein assembly in the brain impairs memory

    Sylvain Lesné;Ming Teng Koh;Linda Kotilinek;Rakez Kayed

  • Severity of spatial learning impairment in aging: Development of a learning index for performance in the Morris water maze.

    Michela Gallagher;Rebecca Burwell;Margaret R. Burchinal

  • Orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala encode expected outcomes during learning

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Andrea A. Chiba;Michela Gallagher

  • Phosphorylation of the AMPA Receptor GluR1 Subunit Is Required for Synaptic Plasticity and Retention of Spatial Memory

    Hey Kyoung Lee;Kogo Takamiya;Jung Soo Han;Hengye Man

  • Reduction of hippocampal hyperactivity improves cognition in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

    Arnold Bakker;Gregory L. Krauss;Marilyn S. Albert;Caroline L. Speck

  • Preserved neuron number in the hippocampus of aged rats with spatial learning deficits.

    Peter R. Rapp;Michela Gallagher

  • Amygdala circuitry in attentional and representational processes.

    Peter C. Holland;Michela Gallagher

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex and Representation of Incentive Value in Associative Learning

    Michela Gallagher;Robert W. McMahan;Geoffrey Schoenbaum

  • Neural encoding in orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala during olfactory discrimination learning.

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Andrea A. Chiba;Michela Gallagher

  • Neurotoxic Lesions of Basolateral, But Not Central, Amygdala Interfere with Pavlovian Second-Order Conditioning and Reinforcer Devaluation Effects

    Tammy Hatfield;Jung Soo Han;Michael Conley;Michela Gallagher

  • Amygdala central nucleus lesions effect on heart rate conditioning in the rabbit

    Bruce S. Kapp;Robert C. Frysinger;Michela Gallagher;James R. Haselton

  • Pattern separation deficits associated with increased hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus activity in nondemented older adults

    Michael A. Yassa;Joyce W. Lacy;Shauna M. Stark;Marilyn S. Albert

  • Encoding Predicted Outcome and Acquired Value in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Cue Sampling Depends upon Input from Basolateral Amygdala

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Barry Setlow;Michael P. Saddoris;Michela Gallagher

  • High-resolution structural and functional MRI of hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus in patients with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Michael A. Yassa;Shauna M. Stark;Arnold Bakker;Marilyn S. Albert

  • Amygdala-frontal interactions and reward expectancy.

    Peter C Holland;Michela Gallagher

  • The amygdala and emotion

    Michela Gallagher;Andrea A Chiba

  • The use of animal models to study the effects of aging on cognition

    Michela Gallagher;Peter R. Rapp

  • Dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mice display schizophrenia-associated phenotypes detected by measures translatable to humans

    Takatoshi Hikida;Hanna Jaaro-Peled;Saurav Seshadri;Kenichi Oishi

  • Different roles for orbitofrontal cortex and basolateral amygdala in a reinforcer devaluation task.

    Charles L. Pickens;Michael P. Saddoris;Barry Setlow;Michela Gallagher

  • Circuit-specific alterations in hippocampal synaptophysin immunoreactivity predict spatial learning impairment in aged rats.

    Thressa D. Smith;Michelle M. Adams;Michela Gallagher;John H. Morrison

  • Orbitofrental cortex and basolateral amygdala encode expected outcomes during learning

    Geoffrey Schoenbaum;Andrea A. Chiba;Michela Gallagher

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Holland
Peter C. Holland Johns Hopkins University
Peter R. Rapp
Peter R. Rapp National Institutes of Health
Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Peter C. Holland
Peter C. Holland Johns Hopkins University
Alfredo Kirkwood
Alfredo Kirkwood Johns Hopkins University
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Geoffrey Schoenbaum National Institutes of Health
Howard Eichenbaum
Howard Eichenbaum Boston University
Jennifer L. Bizon
Jennifer L. Bizon University of Florida
Gorica D. Petrovich
Gorica D. Petrovich Boston College
Marilyn S. Albert
Marilyn S. Albert Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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