2026 Patrice Fort: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	66	3038	2775	1407	1266	214	13719

Overview

Patrice Fort is affiliated with the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center in France and has made contributions primarily in neuroscience and medicine. Their research has a particular focus on sleep and wakefulness mechanisms, including sleep disorders and circadian rhythm regulation.

The main fields of study that Patrice Fort has contributed to include:

Neuroscience
Medicine

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study encompass:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Neurology
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

The research topics addressed by Patrice Fort feature prominently:

Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Sleep and related disorders
Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Restless Legs Syndrome Research
Melanin and skin pigmentation
Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques

Patrice Fort's recent published papers include:

"Is REM sleep a paradoxical state?: Different neurons are activated in the cingulate cortices and the claustrum during wakefulness and paradoxical sleep hypersomnia," 2021, Biochemical Pharmacology
"Targeted recombination in active populations as a new mouse genetic model to study sleep-active neuronal populations: Demonstration that Lhx6+ neurons in the ventral zona incerta are activated during paradoxical sleep hypersomnia," 2020, Journal of Sleep Research
"Modelling human neuronal catecholaminergic pigmentation in rodents recapitulates age-related neurodegenerative deficits," 2024, Nature Communications
"Which structure generates paradoxical (REM) sleep: The brainstem, the hypothalamus, the amygdala or the cortex?", 2024, Sleep Medicine Reviews
"Granule cells in the infrapyramidal blade of the dentate gyrus are activated during paradoxical (REM) sleep hypersomnia but not during wakefulness: a study using TRAP mice," 2021, SLEEP

Frequent co-authors associated with Patrice Fort include:

Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Sébastien Arthaud
Amarine Chancel
Renato Maciel
Justin Malcey

The most common venues for Patrice Fort's publications are:

SLEEP
Médecine du Sommeil
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Sleep Research
Nature Communications

Best Publications

Role of Inflammation in Diabetic Retinopathy

Anne Rübsam;Sonia Parikh;Patrice E Fort

687
Citations
Identification of sleep-promoting neurons in vitro

Thierry Gallopin;Patrice Fort;Emmanuel Eggermann;Bruno Cauli

599
Citations
A role of melanin-concentrating hormone producing neurons in the central regulation of paradoxical sleep.

Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny;Patrice Fort;Laurène Cagnon

513
Citations
New insights into the mechanisms of diabetic complications: role of lipids and lipid metabolism

Stephanie Eid;Kelli M. Sas;Steven F. Abcouwer;Eva L. Feldman

463
Citations
Iontophoretic application of unconjugated cholera toxin B subunit (CTb) combined with immunohistochemistry of neurochemical substances: a method for transmitter identification of retrogradely labeled neurons.

Pierre-Herve´ Luppi;Patrice Fort;Michel Jouvet

433
Citations
The rat ponto-medullary network responsible for paradoxical sleep onset and maintenance: a combined microinjection and functional neuroanatomical study.

Romuald Boissard;Damien Gervasoni;Markus H Schmidt;Bruno Barbagli

396
Citations
Role and Origin of the GABAergic Innervation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons

Damien Gervasoni;Christelle Peyron;Claire Rampon;Bruno Barbagli

363
Citations
The neuronal network responsible for paradoxical sleep and its dysfunctions causing narcolepsy and rapid eye movement (REM) behavior disorder

Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Olivier Clément;Emilie Sapin;Damien Gervasoni

286
Citations
Localization of the brainstem GABAergic neurons controlling paradoxical (REM) sleep.

Emilie Sapin;Damien Lapray;Anne Bérod;Romain Goutagny

271
Citations
Role of catecholamines in the modafinil and amphetamine induced wakefulness, a comparative pharmacological study in the cat.

J.S. Lin;Bernard Roussel;Hideo Akaoka;Patrice Fort

267
Citations
The endogenous somnogen adenosine excites a subset of sleep-promoting neurons via A2A receptors in the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus.

T. Gallopin;P.-H. Luppi;B. Cauli;Y. Urade

249
Citations
Localization of the GABAergic and non-GABAergic neurons projecting to the sublaterodorsal nucleus and potentially gating paradoxical sleep onset.

Romuald Boissard;Patrice Fort;Damien Gervasoni;Bruno Barbagli

248
Citations
Paradoxical (REM) sleep genesis: The switch from an aminergic–cholinergic to a GABAergic–glutamatergic hypothesis

Pierre Hervé Luppi;Damien Gervasoni;Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny

240
Citations
Distribution of glycine-immunoreactive cell bodies and fibers in the rat brain

C. Rampon;P.H. Luppi;P. Fort;C. Peyron

234
Citations
Electrophysiological evidence that noradrenergic neurons of the rat locus coeruleus are tonically inhibited by GABA during sleep

Gervasoni D;Darracq L;Fort P;Soulière F;Soulière F

230
Citations
Diabetes reduces basal retinal insulin receptor signaling: reversal with systemic and local insulin.

Chad E.N. Reiter;Xiaohua Wu;Lakshman Sandirasegarane;Makoto Nakamura

209
Citations
Evidence that neurons of the sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus triggering paradoxical (REM) sleep are glutamatergic.

Olivier Clément;Emilie Sapin;Anne Bérod;Anne Bérod;Anne Bérod;Patrice Fort;Patrice Fort

193
Citations
Lower brainstem catecholamine afferents to the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.

Christelle Peyron;Pierre‐Hervé Luppi;Patrice Fort;Claire Rampon

178
Citations
Genetic inactivation of glutamate neurons in the rat sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus recapitulates REM sleep behaviour disorder.

Sara Valencia Garcia;Sara Valencia Garcia;Paul-Antoine Libourel;Paul-Antoine Libourel;Michael Lazarus;Daniela Grassi

175
Citations
Effect of the wake-promoting agent modafinil on sleep-promoting neurons from the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus: an in vitro pharmacologic study.

Thierry Gallopin;Pierre-Hervé Luppi;Francis A. Rambert;Armand Frydman

170
Citations
Alternating vigilance states: new insights regarding neuronal networks and mechanisms.

Fort P;Bassetti Cl;Luppi Ph

167
Citations
The nuclei of origin of monoaminergic, peptidergic, and cholinergic afferents to the cat nucleus reticularis magnocellularis: a double-labeling study with cholera toxin as a retrograde tracer.

Pierre‐Hervé Luppi;Kazuya Sakai;Patrice Fort;Denise Salvert

110
Citations