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Nathaniel N. Urban 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 Nathaniel N. Urban sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 86 publications — 10th percentile

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Nathaniel N. Urban 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 Nathaniel N. Urban sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Nathaniel N. Urban is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on neuroscience, particularly within the domains of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and sensory systems. The researcher's interests span several subfields, emphasizing the neural dynamics and brain function related to olfactory and sensory processes.

Their publication record includes studies in both established and preprint venues. Recent papers include:

  • "Mouse Navigation Strategies for Odor Source Localization," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • "Lateralized Decrease of Parvalbumin+ Cells in the Somatosensory Cortex of ASD Models Is Correlated with Unilateral Tactile Hypersensitivity," 2021, Cerebral Cortex
  • "Cell and circuit origins of fast network oscillations in the mammalian main olfactory bulb," 2021, eLife
  • "Fast-spiking interneuron detonation drives high-fidelity inhibition in the olfactory bulb," 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Fast-spiking interneuron detonation drives high-fidelity inhibition in the olfactory bulb," 2024, PLoS Biology

The research themes prominently cover topics such as olfactory and sensory function studies, neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neural engineering, and autism spectrum disorder research. Other areas include photoreceptor and optogenetics research, insect pheromone research and control, and neurobiology related to insect physiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nathaniel N. Urban include Shawn D. Burton, Andrew E. Papale, Tara Deemyad, Stéphanie Puig, and Hang Qi. Their joint work has been published mainly in venues like bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, eLife, and PLoS Biology, with bioRxiv featuring notably as a frequent platform for sharing preprints.

Overall, the research output highlights contributions to understanding fast network oscillations, interneuron function in the olfactory bulb, sensory processing in autism spectrum disorders, and navigational strategies in animals, illustrating a diverse yet focused interest in neural circuits and sensory neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • The multifarious hippocampal mossy fiber pathway: a review

    Darrell A. Henze;Nathaniel N. Urban;German Barrionuevo

  • Intrinsic biophysical diversity decorrelates neuronal firing while increasing information content

    Krishnan Padmanabhan;Nathaniel N Urban;Nathaniel N Urban

  • Reliability, synchrony and noise

    G. Bard Ermentrout;Roberto F. Galán;Roberto F. Galán;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Efficient estimation of phase-resetting curves in real neurons and its significance for neural-network modeling.

    Roberto Fernandez Galan;Roberto Fernandez Galan;G. Bard Ermentrout;G. Bard Ermentrout;Nathaniel N. Urban;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Correlation-Induced Synchronization of Oscillations in Olfactory Bulb Neurons

    Roberto F. Galán;Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé;Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé;Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé;G. Bard Ermentrout;G. Bard Ermentrout;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Activity-dependent gating of lateral inhibition in the mouse olfactory bulb

    Armen C Arevian;Vikrant Kapoor;Nathaniel N Urban;Nathaniel N Urban

  • Reciprocal intraglomerular excitation and intra- and interglomerular lateral inhibition between mouse olfactory bulb mitral cells

    Nathaniel N. Urban;Bert Sakmann

  • Dendritic processing within olfactory bulb circuits

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  • Impairment of long-term potentiation and associative memory in mice that overexpress extracellular superoxide dismutase.

    Edda Thiels;Nathan N. Urban;Guillermo R. Gonzalez-Burgos;Beatriz I. Kanterewicz

  • Action potential propagation in mitral cell lateral dendrites is decremental and controls recurrent and lateral inhibition in the mammalian olfactory bulb

    Troy W. Margrie;Bert Sakmann;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Dopamine Increases Excitability of Pyramidal Neurons in Primate Prefrontal Cortex

    Darrell A. Henze;Guillermo R. González-Burgos;Nathaniel N. Urban;David A. Lewis

  • Lateral inhibition in the olfactory bulb and in olfaction.

    Nathaniel N. Urban;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Intermediate intrinsic diversity enhances neural population coding

    Shreejoy J. Tripathy;Krishnan Padmanabhan;Richard C. Gerkin;Nathaniel N. Urban;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Induction of hebbian and non-hebbian mossy fiber long-term potentiation by distinct patterns of high-frequency stimulation.

    Nathaniel N. Urban;German Barrionuevo

  • The Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Cascade Is Required for NMDA Receptor-Independent LTP in Area CA1 But Not Area CA3 of the Hippocampus

    Beatriz I. Kanterewicz;Nathaniel N. Urban;David B. T. McMahon;Eric D. Norman

  • NeuroElectro: a window to the world's neuron electrophysiology data

    Shreejoy J. Tripathy;Judith Savitskaya;Shawn D. Burton;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Dynamic connectivity in the mitral cell-granule cell microcircuit.

    Veronica Egger;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Relating neural dynamics to neural coding.

    G. Bard Ermentrout;Roberto Fernandez Galan;Nathaniel N. Urban

  • Revisiting the role of the hippocampal mossy fiber synapse.

    Nathaniel N. Urban;Darrell A. Henze;German Barrionuevo

  • Active summation of excitatory postsynaptic potentials in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons

    Nathaniel N. Urban;German Barrionuevo

  • Optimal time scale for spike-time reliability: Theory, simulations and experiments

    Roberto Fernandez Galan;G. Bard Ermentrout;G. Bard Ermentrout;Nathaniel N. Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

German Barrionuevo
German Barrionuevo University of Pittsburgh
Darrell A. Henze
Darrell A. Henze MSD (United States)
David A. Lewis
David A. Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos
Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos University of Pittsburgh
Heidi I.L. Jacobs
Heidi I.L. Jacobs Harvard University
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf Max Planck Society
Stefan Mihalas
Stefan Mihalas Allen Institute for Brain Science
Jon T. Brown
Jon T. Brown University of Exeter
Claudia Clopath
Claudia Clopath Imperial College London

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