2026 Pico Caroni: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	76	1896	1731	37	36	130	27426

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Overview

Pico Caroni is affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland and specializes in neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience. Their research addresses several interconnected areas within neuroscience, including memory and neural mechanisms, neuropharmacology, genetics related to neurodevelopmental disorders, and neuroplasticity.

The main fields of study for Caroni's research include:

Neuroscience

Within this broad field, subfields of study encompass:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Genetics
Developmental Neuroscience
Molecular Biology

The research topics frequently addressed are:

Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function
Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Caroni has contributed to several papers in well-known journals. Recent publications include:

"Absence of familiarity triggers hallmarks of autism in mouse model through aberrant tail-of-striatum and prelimbic cortex signaling," 2022, Neuron
"Circuit mechanisms of navigation strategy learning in mice," 2023, Current Biology
"Selective vulnerability of the ventral hippocampus-prelimbic cortex axis parvalbumin interneuron network underlies learning deficits of fragile X mice," 2024, Cell Reports
"Strategy updating mediated by specific retrosplenial-parafascicular-basal ganglia networks," 2022, Current Biology
"Protocol to investigate the gradual selection and deployment of goal-oriented search strategies during unsupervised navigation in mice," 2024, STAR Protocols

Frequent publication venues for Caroni's work include:

Neuron
Cell Reports
Current Biology
STAR Protocols
Nature

Caroni collaborates regularly with several researchers, among whom are:

Sergio Valbuena
Komal Bhandari
Flavio Donato
Martina Parrini
Maria Spolidoro

Best Publications

Regulation of actin dynamics through phosphorylation of cofilin by LIM-kinase

Silvia Arber;Freda A. Barbayannis;Hartwig Hanser;Corinna Schneider

2078
Citations
Antibody against myelin-associated inhibitor of neurite growth neutralizes nonpermissive substrate properties of CNS white matter

Pico Caroni;Martin E. Schwab

1194
Citations
MLP-Deficient Mice Exhibit a Disruption of Cardiac Cytoarchitectural Organization, Dilated Cardiomyopathy, and Heart Failure

Silvia Arber;John J Hunter;John Ross;Minoru Hongo

1001
Citations
Early and selective loss of neuromuscular synapse subtypes with low sprouting competence in motoneuron diseases.

Dunja Frey;Corinna Schneider;Lan Xu;Jacques Borg

944
Citations
Perineuronal Nets Protect Fear Memories from Erasure

Nadine Gogolla;Pico Caroni;Andreas Lüthi;Cyril Herry

892
Citations
Overexpression of the neural growth-associated protein GAP-43 induces nerve sprouting in the adult nervous system of transgenic mice.

Ludwig Aigner;Silvia Arber;Josef P. Kapfhammer;Thorsten Laux

820
Citations
Parvalbumin-expressing basket-cell network plasticity induced by experience regulates adult learning

Flavio Donato;Santiago Belluco Rompani;Pico Caroni

795
Citations
Neuropathology in Mice Expressing Human α-Synuclein

Herman van der Putten;Karl-Heinz Wiederhold;Alphonse Probst;Samuel Barbieri

767
Citations
Selective vulnerability and pruning of phasic motoneuron axons in motoneuron disease alleviated by CNTF

San Pun;Alexandre Ferrão Santos;Smita Saxena;Lan Xu

750
Citations
A role for motoneuron subtype-selective ER stress in disease manifestations of FALS mice.

Smita Saxena;Erik Cabuy;Pico Caroni

711
Citations
Structural plasticity upon learning: regulation and functions

Pico Caroni;Flavio Donato;Dominique Muller

640
Citations
Selective neuronal vulnerability in neurodegenerative diseases: from stressor thresholds to degeneration.

Smita Saxena;Pico Caroni

624
Citations
Accumulation of SOD1 Mutants in Postnatal Motoneurons Does Not Cause Motoneuron Pathology or Motoneuron Disease

Maria Maddalena Lino;Corinna Schneider;Pico Caroni

594
Citations
Muscle LIM protein, a novel essential regulator of myogenesis, promotes myogenic differentiation

Silvia Arber;Georg Halder;Pico Caroni

576
Citations
Spinal axon regeneration evoked by replacing two growth cone proteins in adult neurons.

Howard M. Bomze;Ketan R. Bulsara;Bermans J. Iskandar;Pico Caroni

531
Citations
Cell Type-Specific Structural Plasticity of Axonal Branches and Boutons in the Adult Neocortex

Vincenzo De Paola;Anthony Holtmaat;Graham Knott;Sen Song

497
Citations
Shared and Unique Roles of Cap23 and Gap43 in Actin Regulation, Neurite Outgrowth, and Anatomical Plasticity

Dunja Frey;Thorsten Laux;Lan Xu;Corinna Schneider

394
Citations
An ATP-dependent Ca2+-pumping system in dog heart sarcolemma

Pico Caroni;Ernesto Carafoli

387
Citations
Mechanisms of axon degeneration: from development to disease

Smita Saxena;Pico Caroni

325
Citations
Neuroprotection through Excitability and mTOR Required in ALS Motoneurons to Delay Disease and Extend Survival

Smita Saxena;Francesco Roselli;Katyayani Singh;Kerstin Leptien

323
Citations
Specificity of single LIM motifs in targeting and LIM/LIM interactions in situ.

S Arber;P Caroni

314
Citations
Peripheral nervous system defects in erbB2 mutants following genetic rescue of heart development

Masresha T. Woldeyesus;Stefan Britsch;Dieter Riethmacher;Lan Xu

296
Citations