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Ming-Hu Han 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 Ming-Hu Han sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 110 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ming-Hu Han 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 Ming-Hu Han sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ming-Hu Han is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on the subfields of cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, physiology, and pharmacology.

Their work explores several main topics, including:

  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Stress responses and cortisol regulation
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Treatment of major depression
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling

Ming-Hu Han has published extensively, with 49 publications in neuroscience and 19 in medicine. Frequent venues for their work include Biological Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Coauthors who have collaborated frequently with Ming-Hu Han include Carole Morel, Scott J. Russo, Sarah Montgomery, Eric J. Nestler, and Hongxing Zhang.

Representative recent papers illustrate the focus and scope of their research:

  • "Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Lateral septum-lateral hypothalamus circuit dysfunction in comorbid pain and anxiety," 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Impact of the KCNQ2/3 Channel Opener Ezogabine on Reward Circuit Activity and Clinical Symptoms in Depression: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial," 2021, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Depression and Social Defeat Stress Are Associated with Inhibitory Synaptic Changes in the Nucleus Accumbens," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "C/EBPβ/AEP is age-dependently activated in Parkinson's disease and mediates α-synuclein in the gut and brain," 2023, npj Parkinson's Disease

Best Publications

  • Molecular Adaptations Underlying Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat in Brain Reward Regions

    Vaishnav Krishnan;Ming Hu Han;Danielle L. Graham;Olivier Berton

  • Neurobiology of Resilience

    Scott J. Russo;James W. Murrough;Ming–Hu Han;Dennis S. Charney

  • 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

  • Enhancing Depression Mechanisms in Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Achieves Homeostatic Resilience

    Allyson K. Friedman;Jessica J. Walsh;Barbara Juarez;Stacy M. Ku

  • Ventral hippocampal afferents to the nucleus accumbens regulate susceptibility to depression

    Rosemary C. Bagot;Eric M. Parise;Catherine J. Peña;Hong-Xing Zhang

  • Mesolimbic dopamine neurons in the brain reward circuit mediate susceptibility to social defeat and antidepressant action.

    Jun-Li Cao;Herbert E. Covington;Allyson K. Friedman;Matthew B. Wilkinson

  • CREB regulation of nucleus accumbens excitability mediates social isolation-induced behavioral deficits

    Deanna L Wallace;Ming-Hu Han;Danielle L Graham;Danielle L Graham;Thomas A Green;Thomas A Green

  • Dopaminergic dynamics underlying sex-specific cocaine reward.

    Erin S. Calipari;Barbara Juarez;Carole Morel;Deena M. Walker

  • IκB Kinase Regulates Social Defeat Stress-Induced Synaptic and Behavioral Plasticity

    Daniel J. Christoffel;Sam A. Golden;Dani Dumitriu;Alfred J. Robison

  • HDAC2 regulates atypical antipsychotic responses through the modulation of mGlu2 promoter activity

    Mitsumasa Kurita;Terrell Holloway;Aintzane García-Bea;Aintzane García-Bea;Alexey Kozlenkov

  • Neurobiology of Resilience: Interface Between Mind and Body

    Flurin Cathomas;James W. Murrough;Eric J. Nestler;Ming-Hu Han

  • Epigenetic modulation of inflammation and synaptic plasticity promotes resilience against stress in mice

    Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Georgia E. Hodes;Hongxing Zhang;Song Zhang

  • Basal forebrain projections to the lateral habenula modulate aggression reward

    Sam A. Golden;Mitra Heshmati;Meghan Flanigan;Daniel J. Christoffel

  • 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

  • Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) silences genes responsible for neurodegeneration

    Melanie von Schimmelmann;Philip A Feinberg;Josefa M Sullivan;Stacy M Ku

  • Establishment of a repeated social defeat stress model in female mice

    Aki Takahashi;Aki Takahashi;Aki Takahashi;Jia-Ru Chung;Song Zhang;Hongxing Zhang

  • Stress and CRF gate neural activation of BDNF in the mesolimbic reward pathway

    Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Haosheng Sun;Elizabeth A. Heller

  • Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors.

    Elizabeth A. Heller;Hannah M. Cates;Catherine Jensen Pena;Haosheng Sun

  • Essential Role of Mesolimbic Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Chronic Social Stress–Induced Depressive Behaviors

    Ja Wook Koo;Benoit Labonté;Olivia Engmann;Erin S. Calipari

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Scott J. Russo
Scott J. Russo Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Erin S. Calipari
Erin S. Calipari Vanderbilt University
Ja Wook Koo
Ja Wook Koo Korea Brain Research Institute
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Sam A. Golden
Sam A. Golden University of Washington
Mary Kay Lobo
Mary Kay Lobo University of Maryland, Baltimore
Karl Deisseroth
Karl Deisseroth Stanford University
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison Michigan State University

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