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Patrice Fort 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 Patrice Fort sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 214 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Patrice Fort 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 Patrice Fort sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Identification of sleep-promoting neurons in vitro

    Thierry Gallopin;Patrice Fort;Emmanuel Eggermann;Bruno Cauli

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

    Laure Verret;Romain Goutagny;Patrice Fort;Laurène Cagnon

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Role and Origin of the GABAergic Innervation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons

    Damien Gervasoni;Christelle Peyron;Claire Rampon;Bruno Barbagli

  • 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

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

    Emilie Sapin;Damien Lapray;Anne Bérod;Romain Goutagny

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • Lower brainstem catecholamine afferents to the rat dorsal raphe nucleus.

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Fort P;Bassetti Cl;Luppi Ph

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christelle Peyron
Christelle Peyron Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Denise Salvert
Denise Salvert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Lucienne Léger
Lucienne Léger Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michel Muhlethaler
Michel Muhlethaler University of Geneva
Michel Jouvet
Michel Jouvet Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Guy Chouvet
Guy Chouvet Grenoble Alpes University
Asaid Khateb
Asaid Khateb University of Haifa
Kazuya Sakai
Kazuya Sakai Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Mauro Serafin
Mauro Serafin University of Geneva

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