Shimon Amir

Research.com Recognitions

• 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
• 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Best Publications

• The aging clock: circadian rhythms and later life

  Suzanne Hood;Shimon Amir

  564
  Citations

• The role of endorphins in stress: Evidence and speculations

  Shimon Amir;Zavie W. Brown;Zalman Amit

  503
  Citations

• Endogenous opioid ligands may mediate stress-induced changes in the affective properties of pain related behavior in rats

  Shimon Amir;Zalman Amit

  367
  Citations

• The central and basolateral nuclei of the amygdala exhibit opposite diurnal rhythms of expression of the clock protein Period2

  Elaine Waddington Lamont;Barry Robinson;Jane Stewart;Shimon Amir

  295
  Citations

• Endogenous dopamine regulates the rhythm of expression of the clock protein PER2 in the rat dorsal striatum via daily activation of D2 dopamine receptors.

  Suzanne Hood;Pamela Cassidy;Marie-Pierre Cossette;Yuval Weigl

  266
  Citations

• The pituitary gland mediates acute and chronic pain responsiveness in stressed and non-stressed rats.

  Shimon Amir;Zalman Amit

  247
  Citations

• Corticotropin-releasing factor projections from limbic forebrain and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus to the region of the ventral tegmental area

  D. Rodaros;D.A. Caruana;S. Amir;J. Stewart

  237
  Citations

• A Circadian Rhythm in the Expression of PERIOD2 Protein Reveals a Novel SCN-Controlled Oscillator in the Oval Nucleus of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis

  Shimon Amir;Elaine Waddington Lamont;Barry Robinson;Jane Stewart

  196
  Citations

• Glucocorticoid rhythms control the rhythm of expression of the clock protein, period2, in oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and central nucleus of the amygdala in rats

  Lauren Segall;Jennifer Perrin;Claire-Dominique Walker;Jane Stewart

  194
  Citations

• Neurodegeneration and the Circadian Clock.

  Suzanne Hood;Shimon Amir

  157
  Citations

• Differential regulation of the expression of Period2 protein in the limbic forebrain and dorsomedial hypothalamus by daily limited access to highly palatable food in food-deprived and free-fed rats

  Michael Verwey;Zehra Khoja;Jane Stewart;Shimon Amir

  157
  Citations

• Translational Control of Entrainment and Synchrony of the Suprachiasmatic Circadian Clock by mTOR/4E-BP1 Signaling

  Ruifeng Cao;Barry Robinson;Haiyan Xu;Christos Gkogkas

  153
  Citations

• The role of the intergeniculate leaflet in entrainment of circadian rhythms to a skeleton photoperiod.

  Kim Edelstein;Shimon Amir

  134
  Citations

• Food-entrainable circadian oscillators in the brain.

  Michael Verwey;Shimon Amir

  131
  Citations

• Too Depressed to Swim or Too Afraid to Stop? A Reinterpretation of the Forced Swim Test as a Measure of Anxiety-Like Behavior.

  Jeffrey Anyan;Shimon Amir

  130
  Citations

• Resetting of the circadian clock by a conditioned stimulus.

  Shimon Amir;Jane Stewart

  126
  Citations

• Stimulation of the paraventricular nucleus with glutamate activates interscapular brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in rats.

  Shimon Amir

  111
  Citations

• The expression of the clock protein PER2 in the limbic forebrain is modulated by the estrous cycle.

  Jennifer S. Perrin;Lauren A. Segall;Valerie L. Harbour;Barbara Woodside

  106
  Citations

• Daily restricted feeding rescues a rhythm of period2 expression in the arrhythmic suprachiasmatic nucleus.

  E.W. Lamont;L. Renteria Diaz;J. Barry-Shaw;J. Stewart

  105
  Citations

• Circadian modulation of fos responses to odor of the red fox, a rodent predator, in the rat olfactory system.

  Doug Funk;Shimon Amir

  103
  Citations