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Scott J. Russo 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 Scott J. Russo sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 275 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott J. Russo 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 Scott J. Russo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 94 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Scott J. Russo is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with an emphasis on behavioral neuroscience, biological psychiatry, molecular biology, neurology, and social psychology.

Their recent publications cover topics related to stress, brain function, and behavior. Notable papers include:

  • "Molecular adaptations of the blood-brain barrier promote stress resilience vs. depression" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress" (2022) published in Nature
  • "Midbrain projection to the basolateral amygdala encodes anxiety-like but not depression-like behaviors" (2022) published in Nature Communications
  • "A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice" (2020) published in Nature Neuroscience
  • "Prefrontal parvalbumin interneurons require juvenile social experience to establish adult social behavior" (2020) published in Nature Communications

Areas of study highlighted in their work include stress responses and cortisol, tryptophan and brain disorders, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Scott J. Russo are:

  • Flurin Cathomas
  • Eric J. Nestler
  • Long Li
  • Romain Durand-de Cuttoli
  • Lyonna F. Parise

Their publications have appeared multiple times in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Neuron
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications

Scott J. Russo has also contributed to book publications, with a recorded publication through McGraw-Hill eBooks titled "Nestler, Hyman & Malenka's molecular neuropharmacology: a foundation for clinical neuroscience" released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Adaptations Underlying Susceptibility and Resistance to Social Defeat in Brain Reward Regions

    Vaishnav Krishnan;Ming Hu Han;Danielle L. Graham;Olivier Berton

  • Essential Role of BDNF in the Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway in Social Defeat Stress

    Olivier Berton;Colleen A. McClung;Ralph J. DiLeone;Vaishnav Krishnan

  • The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

    Scott J. Russo;Eric J. Nestler

  • A standardized protocol for repeated social defeat stress in mice

    Sam A Golden;Herbert E Covington;Olivier Berton;Scott J Russo

  • Neurobiology of Resilience

    Scott J. Russo;James W. Murrough;Ming–Hu Han;Dennis S. Charney

  • Rapid regulation of depression-related behaviours by control of midbrain dopamine neurons

    Dipesh Chaudhury;Jessica J. Walsh;Allyson K. Friedman;Barbara Juarez

  • Social stress induces neurovascular pathology promoting depression.

    Caroline Menard;Caroline Menard;Madeline L. Pfau;Georgia E. Hodes;Veronika Kana

  • Mania-like behavior induced by disruption of CLOCK.

    Kole Roybal;David Theobold;Ami Graham;Jennifer A. DiNieri

  • Chromatin remodeling is a key mechanism underlying cocaine-induced plasticity in striatum

    Arvind Kumar;Kwang Ho Choi;William Renthal;Nadia M. Tsankova

  • Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in human depression.

    Benoit Labonté;Olivia Engmann;Immanuel Purushothaman;Caroline Menard

  • Individual differences in the peripheral immune system promote resilience versus susceptibility to social stress.

    Georgia E. Hodes;Madeline L. Pfau;Marylene Leboeuf;Sam A. Golden

  • The addicted synapse: mechanisms of synaptic and structural plasticity in nucleus accumbens

    Scott J. Russo;David M. Dietz;Dani Dumitriu;John H. Morrison

  • Essential Role of the Histone Methyltransferase G9a in Cocaine-induced Plasticity

    Ian Maze;Herbert E. Iii. Covington;David M. Dietz;Quincey LaPlant;Quincey LaPlant

  • Antidepressant actions of histone deacetylase inhibitors.

    Herbert E. Covington;Ian Maze;Quincey C. LaPlant;Vincent F. Vialou

  • Nuclear factor-κB is a critical mediator of stress-impaired neurogenesis and depressive behavior

    Ja Wook Koo;Scott J. Russo;Deveroux Ferguson;Eric J. Nestler

  • Histone Deacetylase 5 Epigenetically Controls Behavioral Adaptations to Chronic Emotional Stimuli

    William Renthal;Ian Maze;Vaishnav Krishnan;Herbert E. Covington

  • Pathogenesis of depression: Insights from human and rodent studies

    Caroline Ménard;Georgia E. Hodes;Scott J. Russo

  • Neuroimmune mechanisms of depression

    Georgia E Hodes;Veronika Kana;Caroline Menard;Miriam Merad

  • Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Functional Lung Alveolar Epithelial Cells.

    Anjali Jacob;Anjali Jacob;Michael Morley;Finn Hawkins;Finn Hawkins;Katherine B. McCauley;Katherine B. McCauley

  • Brain feminization requires active repression of masculinization via DNA methylation

    Bridget M Nugent;Christopher L Wright;Amol C Shetty;Georgia E Hodes

  • Genome-wide analysis of chromatin regulation by cocaine reveals a role for sirtuins.

    William Renthal;Arvind Kumar;Guanghua Xiao;Matthew Wilkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Georgia E. Hodes
Georgia E. Hodes Virginia Tech
Sam A. Golden
Sam A. Golden University of Washington
Michael F. Beers
Michael F. Beers University of Pennsylvania
Rachael L. Neve
Rachael L. Neve Harvard University
Ming-Hu Han
Ming-Hu Han Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Gustavo Turecki
Gustavo Turecki Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
David M. Dietz
David M. Dietz University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison
Michelle S. Mazei-Robison Michigan State University

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