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Stephen Maren

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Neuroscience

D-Index
94
Citations
34055
World Ranking
940
National Ranking
505

Stephen Maren publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 201 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Stephen Maren 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 Stephen Maren sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 94 D-Index — 90th percentile

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Overview

Stephen Maren is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with a substantial emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience. Other areas include social psychology and neurology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Stephen Maren's recent notable papers include:

  • "Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning" (2020, Physiological Reviews)
  • "Covert capture and attenuation of a hippocampus-dependent fear memory" (2021, Nature Neuroscience)
  • "Behavioral and brain mechanisms mediating conditioned flight behavior in rats" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Thalamic nucleus reuniens coordinates prefrontal-hippocampal synchrony to suppress extinguished fear" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Convergent Coding of Recent and Remote Fear Memory in the Basolateral Amygdala" (2022, Biological Psychiatry)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Michael S. Totty
  • Cecily R. Oleksiak
  • Hugo Bayer
  • Karthik R. Ramanathan
  • Justin M. Moscarello

Stephen Maren has published numerous papers in several venues, most prominently in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications. Other common outlets for their work include Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Biological Psychiatry, Nature Communications, and Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of Pavlovian fear conditioning.

    Stephen Maren

  • The contextual brain: implications for fear conditioning, extinction and psychopathology

    Stephen Maren;K. Luan Phan;Israel Liberzon

  • Neuronal signalling of fear memory.

    Stephen Maren;Gregory J. Quirk

  • Neurotoxic lesions of the dorsal hippocampus and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats

    Stephen Maren;Gal Aharonov;Michael S Fanselow

  • Temporally Graded Retrograde Amnesia of Contextual Fear after Hippocampal Damage in Rats: Within-Subjects Examination

    Stephan G. Anagnostaras;Stephen Maren;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Contextual and Temporal Modulation of Extinction: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms.

    Mark E. Bouton;R. Frederick Westbrook;Kevin A. Corcoran;Stephen Maren

  • Long-term potentiation in the amygdala: a mechanism for emotional learning and memory.

    Stephen Maren

  • Synaptic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala induced by hippocampal formation stimulation in vivo

    S Maren;Fanselow

  • The Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in the Conditioning and Extinction of Fear.

    Thomas F. Giustino;Stephen Maren

  • Contextual and auditory fear conditioning are mediated by the lateral, basal, and central amygdaloid nuclei in rats

    Ki A. Goosens;Stephen Maren

  • Hippocampal Inactivation Disrupts Contextual Retrieval of Fear Memory after Extinction

    Kevin A. Corcoran;Stephen Maren

  • Sex differences in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) and Pavlovian fear conditioning in rats: positive correlation between LTP and contextual learning

    Stephen Maren;Beatrice De Oca;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Neural and cellular mechanisms of fear and extinction memory formation.

    Caitlin A. Orsini;Stephen Maren

  • The Amygdala and Fear Conditioning: Has the Nut Been Cracked?

    Stephen Maren;Michael S Fanselow

  • Hippocampal Inactivation Disrupts the Acquisition and Contextual Encoding of Fear Extinction

    Kevin A. Corcoran;Kevin A. Corcoran;Timothy J. Desmond;Kirk A. Frey;Stephen Maren

  • N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the basolateral amygdala are required for both acquisition and expression of conditional fear in rats

    Stephen Maren;Gal Aharonov;Deborah L. Stote;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Synaptic Mechanisms of Associative Memory in the Amygdala

    Stephen Maren

  • Electrolytic lesions of the fimbria/fornix, dorsal hippocampus, or entorhinal cortex produce anterograde deficits in contextual fear conditioning in rats

    Stephen Maren;Michael S. Fanselow

  • Neurotoxic basolateral amygdala lesions impair learning and memory but not the performance of conditional fear in rats.

    Stephen Maren

  • Stress and Fear Extinction.

    Stephen Maren;Andrew Holmes

  • Retrograde abolition of conditional fear after excitotoxic lesions in the basolateral amygdala of rats: absence of a temporal gradient.

    Stephen Maren;Gal Aharonov;Michael S. Fanselow

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Fanselow
Michael S. Fanselow University of California, Los Angeles
Richard F. Thompson
Richard F. Thompson University of Southern California
Michel Baudry
Michel Baudry Western University of Health Sciences
Stephan G. Anagnostaras
Stephan G. Anagnostaras University of California, San Diego
Terry E. Robinson
Terry E. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kirk A. Frey
Kirk A. Frey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Israel Liberzon
Israel Liberzon Texas A&M University
Jerry W. Rudy
Jerry W. Rudy University of Colorado Boulder
Mark E. Bouton
Mark E. Bouton University of Vermont
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University

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