2026 Steven Mennerick: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	68	2757	2521	1288	1156	206	16097

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Steven Mennerick is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within the broader field of neuroscience, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

The main fields of study for Mennerick include:

Neuroscience
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

More specifically, their research focuses on subfields such as:

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurology
Surgery

Major topics covered in Mennerick's research encompass:

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
Tryptophan and brain disorders
Neural dynamics and brain function
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
Stress Responses and Cortisol

Mennerick has authored numerous scientific papers published in a range of journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Biological Psychiatry
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
Journal of Neuroscience
Neuropsychopharmacology

Key recent papers authored by Mennerick or closely associated with their research include:

"A Proinflammatory Stimulus Disrupts Hippocampal Plasticity and Learning via Microglial Activation and 25-Hydroxycholesterol" (2021, Journal of Neuroscience)
"Neurosteroids: mechanistic considerations and clinical prospects" (2023, Neuropsychopharmacology)
"Periodic and aperiodic changes to cortical EEG in response to pharmacological manipulation" (2024, Journal of Neurophysiology)
"Modeling late-onset Alzheimer's disease neuropathology via direct neuronal reprogramming" (2024, Science)
"Glutamate as a Neurotransmitter" (2020, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences)

Frequent collaborators in Mennerick's work include:

Charles F. Zorumski
Xinguo Lu
Yukitoshi Izumi
Peter Lambert
Ann Benz

Best Publications

Synaptic Activity Regulates Interstitial Fluid Amyloid-β Levels In Vivo

John R. Cirrito;Kelvin A. Yamada;Mary Beth Finn;Robert S. Sloviter

1465
Citations
Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is an NMDA antagonist, neuroprotectant and neurotoxin

V Jevtović-Todorović;S M Todorović;S Mennerick;S Powell

810
Citations
Endocytosis Is Required for Synaptic Activity-Dependent Release of Amyloid-β In Vivo

John R. Cirrito;Jae Eun Kang;Jiyeon Lee;Floy R. Stewart

736
Citations
A complement–microglial axis drives synapse loss during virus-induced memory impairment

Michael J. Vasek;Charise Garber;Denise Dorsey;Douglas M. Durrant;Douglas M. Durrant

657
Citations
Glial contributions to excitatory neurotransmission in cultured hippocampal cells

Steven Mennerick;Charles F. Zorumski

395
Citations
Ultrafast exocytosis elicited by calcium current in synaptic terminals of retinal bipolar neurons.

Steven Mennerick;Gary Matthews

313
Citations
Redox modulation of T-type calcium channels in rat peripheral nociceptors.

Slobodan M. Todorovic;Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic;Adam Meyenburg;Steven Mennerick

303
Citations
Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) Produces Widespread Apoptosis in the Developing Central Nervous System

Jennifer L. Hanslick;Karen Lau;Kevin K. Noguchi;John W. Olney

288
Citations
The Major Brain Cholesterol Metabolite 24(S)-Hydroxycholesterol Is a Potent Allosteric Modulator of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate Receptors

Steven M. Paul;James J. Doherty;Albert J. Robichaud;Gabriel M. Belfort

275
Citations
Ketamine: NMDA receptors and beyond

Charles F. Zorumski;Yukitoshi Izumi;Steven Mennerick

262
Citations
Effect of Nitrous Oxide on Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampal Cultures

Steven Mennerick;Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic;Slobodan M. Todorovic;Weixing Shen

254
Citations
Correcting mitochondrial fusion by manipulating mitofusin conformations

Antonietta Franco;Richard N. Kitsis;Julie A. Fleischer;Evripidis Gavathiotis

252
Citations
Reluctant vesicles contribute to the total readily releasable pool in glutamatergic hippocampal neurons.

Krista L Moulder;Steven Mennerick

225
Citations
Neurosteroids, stress and depression: Potential therapeutic opportunities

Charles F. Zorumski;Steven M. Paul;Yukitoshi Izumi;Douglas F. Covey

216
Citations
Acute and chronic effects of ethanol on learning-related synaptic plasticity.

Charles F. Zorumski;Steven Mennerick;Yukitoshi Izumi

209
Citations
Action Potential Initiation and Propagation in CA3 Pyramidal Axons

Julian P. Meeks;Steven Mennerick

205
Citations
Impaired glial glutamate transport in a mouse tuberous sclerosis epilepsy model.

Michael Wong;Kevin C. Ess;Erik J. Uhlmann;Laura A. Jansen

205
Citations
Mechanisms of neurosteroid interactions with GABAA receptors

Gustav Akk;Douglas F. Covey;Alex S. Evers;Joe Henry Steinbach

193
Citations
3beta -hydroxypregnane steroids are pregnenolone sulfate-like GABA(A) receptor antagonists.

Mingde Wang;Yejun He;Lawrence N. Eisenman;Christopher Fields

190
Citations
Passive and synaptic properties of hippocampal neurons grown in microcultures and in mass cultures.

S. Mennerick;Jian Que;A. Benz;C. F. Zorumski

180
Citations
PAIRED-PULSE MODULATION OF FAST EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC CURRENTS IN MICROCULTURES OF RAT HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS

Steven Mennerick;Charles Zorumski

172
Citations
Neurosteroids as novel antidepressants and anxiolytics: GABA-A receptors and beyond.

Charles F. Zorumski;Steven M. Paul;Douglas F. Covey;Steven Mennerick

156
Citations