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René Drucker-Colín

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D-Index
55
Citations
9399
World Ranking
4779
National Ranking
3

René Drucker-Colín 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 René Drucker-Colín sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 239 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

René Drucker-Colín 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 René Drucker-Colín sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

René Drucker-Colín was affiliated with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico. Their research primarily focused on neuroscience and medicine, with a concentration in neurology and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist contributed to numerous studies related to neurological disorders and treatments. Key research themes included transcranial magnetic stimulation, sleep and wakefulness research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, muscle activation and electromyography studies, and photochromic and fluorescence chemistry.

Frequent publication venues for their work included Brain Research, Brain Sciences, and Biomedicines. Collaboration with other researchers was evident through repeated coauthorships with Ana Clementina Equihua-Benítez, Julián Alberto Equihua-Benítez, Khalil Guzmán-Vásquez, Oscar Prospéro-García, and Fernanda Ramirez-López.

Prominent papers in their portfolio were:

  • Orexin cell transplant reduces behavioral arrest severity in narcoleptic mice, 2020, Brain Research
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Attenuates Dyskinesias and FosB and c-Fos Expression in a Parkinson's Disease Model, 2024, Brain Sciences
  • Inefficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease Patients with Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesias: Results from a Pilot Study, 2025, Biomedicines

The main areas of study encompassed:

  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study included:

  • Neurology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Biomedical Engineering

The scientist's key topics of work covered:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments

René Drucker-Colín was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980.

Best Publications

  • Open microsurgical autograft of adrenal medulla to the right caudate nucleus in two patients with intractable Parkinson's disease.

    Ignacio Madrazo;René Drucker-Colín;Víctor Díaz;Juan Martínez-Mata

  • Transplantation of fetal substantia nigra and adrenal medulla to the caudate nucleus in two patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Madrazo I;León;Torres C;Aguilera Mc

  • Nicotine, Brain Nicotinic Receptors, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

    Stefan Mihailescu;René Drucker-Colı́n

  • Encoding network states by striatal cell assemblies.

    Luis Carrillo-Reid;Fatuel Tecuapetla;Dagoberto Tapia;Arturo Hernández-Cruz

  • Fetal suprachiasmatic nucleus transplants: diurnal rhythm recovery of lesioned rats.

    René Drucker-Colín;Raúl Aguilar-Roblero;Fernando García-Hernández;Federico Fernández-Cancino

  • Effects of nicotine and mecamylamine on rat dorsal raphe neurons

    Stefan Mihailescu;Marcela Palomero-Rivero;Patricia Meade-Huerta;Axeneth Maza-Flores

  • Anandamide modulates sleep and memory in rats

    Eric Murillo-Rodrı́guez;Manuel Sánchez-Alavez;Luz Navarro;Dolores Martı́nez-González

  • Sleep changes after 4 consecutive days of venlafaxine administration in normal volunteers

    Rafael J. Salín-Pascual;Lourdes Galicia-Polo;René Drucker-Colín

  • Is vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) a sleep factor

    René Drucker-Colín;José Bernal-Pedraza;Federico Fernández-Cancino;Arie Oksenberg

  • Neurogenesis in the subventricular zone following transcranial magnetic field stimulation and nigrostriatal lesions.

    O. Arias-Carrión;L. Verdugo-Díaz;A. Feria-Velasco;D. Millán-Aldaco

  • Growth hormone effects on sleep and wakefulness in the rat.

    R R Drucker-Colín;C W Spanis;J Hunyadi;J F Sassin

  • Effects of transderman nicotine on mood and sleep in nonsmoking major depressed patients.

    R J Salín-Pascual;J R de la Fuente;L Galicia-Polo;R Drucker-Colín

  • Cannabidiol, a constituent of Cannabis sativa, modulates sleep in rats.

    Eric Murillo-Rodríguez;Diana Millán-Aldaco;Marcela Palomero-Rivero;Raphael Mechoulam

  • Effects of rTMS on Parkinson’s disease: a longitudinal fMRI study

    Nadia González-García;Jorge L. Armony;Julian Soto;David Trejo

  • A novel effect of nicotine on mood and sleep in major depression.

    Rafael J. Salín-Pascual;René Drucker-Colín

  • Increasing PGO spike density by auditory stimulation increases the duration and decreases the latency of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

    René Drucker-Colín;José Bernal-Pedraza;Federico Fernandez-Cancino;Adrian R. Morrison

  • Discharge modulation of rat dorsal raphe neurons during sleep and waking: effects of preoptic/basal forebrain warming.

    Rubén Guzmán-Marı́n;Md.Noor Alam;Md.Noor Alam;Ronald Szymusiak;Ronald Szymusiak;René Drucker-Colı́n

  • Modafinil enhances extracellular levels of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and increases wakefulness in rats.

    Eric Murillo-Rodríguez;Reyes Haro;Marcela Palomero-Rivero;Diana Millán-Aldaco

  • The role of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels in neurite growth of cultured chromaffin cells induced by extremely low frequency (ELF) magnetic field stimulation.

    Consuelo Morgado-Valle;Leticia Verdugo-Díaz;David E. García;Christian Morales-Orozco

  • Dyskinesia in Parkinson's disease: mechanisms and current non-pharmacological interventions.

    Rolf Heumann;Rosario Moratalla;Maria Trinidad Herrero;Koushik Chakrabarty

  • Neuroprotective effects of extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields on a Huntington's disease rat model: effects on neurotrophic factors and neuronal density

    I. Tasset;F.J. Medina;I. Jimena;E. Agüera

Frequent Co-Authors

José Bargas
José Bargas National Autonomous University of Mexico
Oscar Arias-Carrión
Oscar Arias-Carrión Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación
Elvira Galarraga
Elvira Galarraga National Autonomous University of Mexico
Juan Fernandez-Ruiz
Juan Fernandez-Ruiz National Autonomous University of Mexico
Dennis McGinty
Dennis McGinty University of California, Los Angeles
Robyn Hudson
Robyn Hudson National Autonomous University of Mexico
Ronald Szymusiak
Ronald Szymusiak University of California, Los Angeles
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Raphael Mechoulam
Raphael Mechoulam Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni
Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni National Autonomous University of Mexico

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