2026 Shaun F. Morrison: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	63	3392	3103	1573	1422	186	14492

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Overview

Shaun F. Morrison is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research encompasses several areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing on physiological and autonomic systems related to thermoregulation and metabolism.

Their recent publications include studies on neural and physiological mechanisms underlying thermoregulatory processes. Key papers are:

Thermoregulation in mice: The road to understanding torpor hypothermia and the shortcomings of a circuit for generating fever, 2022, Temperature
Central sympathetic network for thermoregulatory responses to psychological stress, 2021, Autonomic Neuroscience
Median preoptic area neurons are required for the cooling and febrile activations of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in rat, 2020, Scientific Reports
Activation of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 Channels in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract and Activation of Dynorphin Input to the Median Preoptic Nucleus Contribute to Impaired BAT Thermogenesis in Diet-Induced Obesity, 2021, eNeuro
The neural pathway of the hyperthermic response to antagonists of the transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 channel, 2023, Temperature

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Domenico Tupone
Kazuhiro Nakamura
Ellen Paula Santos da Conceição
Georgina Cano
Pierfrancesco Chiavetta

Most of Shaun F. Morrison's publications appear in the following venues:

Temperature
Autonomic Neuroscience
Scientific Reports
eNeuro
Current Biology

Their main fields of study are:

Medicine
Neuroscience

The research expands into several subfields, including:

Physiology
Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
Cognitive Neuroscience
Surgery
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

The primary topics covered in their work are:

Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Thermoregulation and physiological responses
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Cardiovascular, Neuropeptides, and Oxidative Stress Research
Thermal Regulation in Medicine

Best Publications

Central neural pathways for thermoregulation.

Shaun F Morrison;Kazuhiro Nakamura

740
Citations
A thermosensory pathway that controls body temperature

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F Morrison

567
Citations
Central control of thermogenesis in mammals.

Shaun F. Morrison;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Christopher J. Madden

507
Citations
Central Mechanisms for Thermoregulation

S F Morrison;K Nakamura

501
Citations
Anatomical substrates for the central control of sympathetic outflow to interscapular adipose tissue during cold exposure

Georgina Cano;Alicia M. Passerin;Jennifer C. Schiltz;J. Patrick Card

469
Citations
Serotonin and Blood Pressure Regulation

Stephanie W. Watts;Shaun F. Morrison;Robert Patrick Davis;Susan M. Barman

455
Citations
Central neural regulation of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and energy expenditure.

Shaun F. Morrison;Christopher J. Madden;Domenico Tupone

449
Citations
Differential control of sympathetic outflow.

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385
Citations
Medullary pathways mediating specific sympathetic responses to activation of dorsomedial hypothalamus

W.-H Cao;W Fan;S.F Morrison

312
Citations
GABA-mediated inhibition of raphe pallidus neurons regulates sympathetic outflow to brown adipose tissue

Shaun F. Morrison;Alan F. Sved;Alicia M. Passerin

292
Citations
The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid-1 Channel in Thermoregulation: A Thermosensor It Is Not

Andrej A. Romanovsky;Maria C. Almeida;Andras Garami;Alexandre A. Steiner;Alexandre A. Steiner

281
Citations
A thermosensory pathway mediating heat-defense responses.

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

276
Citations
Central efferent pathways mediating skin cooling-evoked sympathetic thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

272
Citations
Central pathways controlling brown adipose tissue thermogenesis.

Shaun F. Morrison

261
Citations
Central efferent pathways for cold-defensive and febrile shivering

Kazuhiro Nakamura;Shaun F. Morrison

254
Citations
Central control of body temperature.

Shaun F. Morrison

251
Citations
An Orexinergic Projection from Perifornical Hypothalamus to Raphe Pallidus Increases Rat Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis

Domenico Tupone;Christopher J. Madden;Georgina Cano;Shaun F. Morrison

242
Citations
Phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase-containing terminals synapse directly on sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the rat.

Teresa A. Milner;Shaun F. Morrison;Cory Abate;Donald J. Reis

230
Citations
Central neural control of thermoregulation and brown adipose tissue

Shaun F. Morrison

229
Citations
Central control of brown adipose tissue thermogenesis

Shaun F. Morrison;Christopher J. Madden;Domenico Tupone

227
Citations
Monosynaptic projections from the nucleus tractus solitarii to C1 adrenergic neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla: Comparison with input from the caudal ventrolateral medulla

Sue A. Aicher;Rebecca H. Saravay;Sergio Cravo;Iwona Jeske

203
Citations
Direct pyrogenic input from prostaglandin EP3 receptor‐expressing preoptic neurons to the dorsomedial hypothalamus

Yoshiko Nakamura;Kazuhiro Nakamura;Kiyoshi Matsumura;Shigeo Kobayashi

188
Citations
Disinhibition of rostral raphe pallidus neurons increases cardiac sympathetic nerve activity and heart rate

Wei Hua Cao;Shaun F Morrison

180
Citations