Shane M. O'Mara

Shane M. O'Mara 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 Shane M. O'Mara sits on this spectrum.

Shane M. O'Mara 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 Shane M. O'Mara sits on this spectrum.

Research.com Recognitions

• 2011 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Best Publications

• Aerobic exercise improves hippocampal function and increases BDNF in the serum of young adult males.

  Éadaoin W. Griffin;Sinéad Mullally;Carole Foley;Stuart A. Warmington;Stuart A. Warmington

  716
  Citations

• Hippocampal–anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions

  John Patrick Aggleton;Shane M. O'Mara;Seralynne Denise Vann;Nicholas Fraser Wright

  519
  Citations

• The subiculum: a review of form, physiology and function.

  Shane M O'Mara;Sean Commins;Michael Anderson;John Gigg

  369
  Citations

• View-responsive neurons in the primate hippocampal complex.

  Edmund T. Rolls;Shane M. O'Mara

  330
  Citations

• The subiculum: what it does, what it might do, and what neuroanatomy has yet to tell us

  Shane Michael O'mara

  328
  Citations

• Neurons responding to whole-body motion in the primate hippocampus

  SM O'Mara;ET Rolls;A Berthoz;RP Kesner

  325
  Citations

• The anterior thalamus provides a subcortical circuit supporting memory and spatial navigation.

  Maciej M. Jankowski;Kim C. Ronnqvist;Marian Tsanov;Seralynne Denise Vann

  321
  Citations

• Lipopolysaccharide causes deficits in spatial learning in the watermaze but not in BDNF expression in the rat dentate gyrus

  Kendra N Shaw;Sean Commins;Shane M O'Mara

  279
  Citations

• Dose-dependent expression of claudin-5 is a modifying factor in schizophrenia

  C Greene;J Kealy;M M Humphries;Y Gong

  242
  Citations

• Impact of enriched-environment housing on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and on cognitive performance after a transient global ischemia.

  O.L Gobbo;S.M O’Mara

  231
  Citations

• Individual differences discriminate event-related potentials but not performance during response inhibition

  Richard A. P. Roche;Hugh Garavan;John J. Foxe;Shane M. O’Mara

  197
  Citations

• Evidence for a specific defect in hippocampal memory in overt and subclinical hypothyroidism

  Neuman Correia;Sinead Mullally;Gillian Cooke;Tommy Kyaw Tun

  186
  Citations

• Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease.

  Muireann Irish;Brian A. Lawlor;Shane M. O'Mara;Robert F. Coen

  184
  Citations

• Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells in the Rat Anterior Thalamus

  Marian Tsanov;Ehsan Chah;Seralynne Denise Vann;Richard B. Reilly

  169
  Citations

• Roles for the subiculum in spatial information processing, memory, motivation and the temporal control of behaviour.

  Shane M. O'Mara;Maria V. Sanchez-Vives;Jorge R. Brotons-Mas;Jorge R. Brotons-Mas;Eugene O'Hare

  163
  Citations

• Spatially selective firing properties of hippocampal formation neurons in rodents and primates.

  Shane M. O'mara

  161
  Citations

• Evidence for spatially-responsive neurons in the rostral thalamus.

  Maciej M. Jankowski;Johannes Passecker;Nurul Islam;Seralynne Vann

  155
  Citations

• The polyunsaturated fatty acids, EPA and DPA exert a protective effect in the hippocampus of the aged rat.

  Laura Kelly;Belinda Grehan;Andrea Della Chiesa;Shane M. O'Mara

  151
  Citations

• Exercise, but not environmental enrichment, improves learning after kainic acid-induced hippocampal neurodegeneration in association with an increase in brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

  O.L. Gobbo;S.M. O’Mara

  146
  Citations

• The anterior thalamic nuclei: core components of a tripartite episodic memory system

  Unknown

  136
  Citations

• Long-term potentiation and spatial learning are associated with increased phosphorylation of TrkB and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) in the dentate gyrus: evidence for a role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

  Gooney M;Shaw K;Kelly A;O'Mara Sm

  135
  Citations

• Deficits in spatial learning and synaptic plasticity induced by the rapid and competitive broad-spectrum cyclooxygenase inhibitor ibuprofen are reversed by increasing endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor.

  Kendra N. Shaw;Sean Commins;Shane M. O'Mara

  133
  Citations