2026 Vassilis E. Koliatsos: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	63	3364	3076	1561	1410	171	16629

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Overview

Vassilis E. Koliatsos is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on various aspects of medicine with an emphasis on traumatic brain injury and related neurological conditions.

The main fields of study for Koliatsos include medicine, with specific concentration in several subfields:

Epidemiology
Neurology
Emergency Medicine
Physiology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Their research topics cover a range of areas connected to brain injury and neurological functions, including:

Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
Sirtuins and Resveratrol in Medicine
Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Koliatsos includes:

The Behavioral Neuroscience of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2020, Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Toward a global and reproducible science for brain imaging in neurotrauma: the ENIGMA adult moderate/severe traumatic brain injury working group, 2020, Brain Imaging and Behavior
Traumatic axonopathy in spinal tracts after impact acceleration head injury: Ultrastructural observations and evidence of SARM1-dependent axonal degeneration, 2022, Experimental Neurology
NAD⁺, Axonal Maintenance, and Neurological Disease, 2023, Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
Traumatic Axonal Injury in the Optic Nerve: The Selective Role of SARM1 in the Evolution of Distal Axonopathy, 2023, Journal of Neurotrauma

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Koliatsos include:

Athanasios S. Alexandris
Jiwon Ryu
Zahra Alam
Alexander Olsen
Erin D. Bigler

Typical venues for the publication of their work are:

Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Journal of Neurotrauma
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain Imaging and Behavior
Experimental Neurology

Best Publications

GDNF: a potent survival factor for motoneurons present in peripheral nerve and muscle

Christopher E. Henderson;Heidi S. Phillips;Richard A. Pollock;Alun M. Davies

1636
Citations
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor-deficient mice develop aggressiveness and hyperphagia in conjunction with brain serotonergic abnormalities.

W. Ernest Lyons;W. Ernest Lyons;Laura A. Mamounas;George A. Ricaurte;Vincenzo Coppola

1002
Citations
Evidence for apoptotic cell death in Huntington disease and excitotoxic animal models.

Carlos Portera-Cailliau;John C. Hedreen;Donald L. Price;Vassilis E. Koliatsos

779
Citations
Evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic factor is a trophic factor for motor neurons in vivo

Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Richard E. Clatterbuck;John W. Winslow;Michelle H. Cayouette

682
Citations
BACE1, a Major Determinant of Selective Vulnerability of the Brain to Amyloid-β Amyloidogenesis, is Essential for Cognitive, Emotional, and Synaptic Functions

Fiona M. Laird;Huaibin Cai;Alena V. Savonenko;Mohamed H. Farah

674
Citations
Expression of m1-m4 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor proteins in rat hippocampus and regulation by cholinergic innervation

Allan I. Levey;Sharon M. Edmunds;Vassilis Koliatsos;Ronald G. Wiley

523
Citations
Lipopolysaccharide-induced-neuroinflammation increases intracellular accumulation of amyloid precursor protein and amyloid β peptide in APPswe transgenic mice

Jin G Sheng;Susan H Bora;G Xu;David R Borchelt

494
Citations
Ventral root avulsion: An experimental model of death of adult motor neurons

Vassilis E. Koliatsos;William L. Price;Carlos A. Pardo;Donald L. Price

345
Citations
The pathobiology of blast injuries and blast-induced neurotrauma as identified using a new experimental model of injury in mice.

Ibolja Cernak;Andrew C. Merkle;Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Justin M. Bilik

343
Citations
Human neural stem cell grafts ameliorate motor neuron disease in SOD-1 transgenic rats.

Leyan Xu;Jun Yan;David Chen;Annie M. Welsh

323
Citations
Alzheimer Amyloid Protein Precursor in the Rat Hippocampus: Transport and Processing through the Perforant Path

Joseph D. Buxbaum;Gopal Thinakaran;Vassilis Koliatsos;James O’Callahan;James O’Callahan

322
Citations
NGF-stimulated retrograde transport of trkA in the mammalian nervous system.

Michael D. Ehlers;David R. Kaplan;Donald L. Price;Vassilis E. Koliatsos

314
Citations
Extensive neuronal differentiation of human neural stem cell grafts in adult rat spinal cord.

Jun Yan;Leyan Xu;Annie M Welsh;Glen Hatfield

299
Citations
A Mouse Model of Blast Injury to Brain: Initial Pathological, Neuropathological, and Behavioral Characterization

Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Ibolja Cernak;Leyan Xu;Yeajin Song

283
Citations
Axonal Transport, Amyloid Precursor Protein, Kinesin-1, and the Processing Apparatus: Revisited

Orly Lazarov;Gerardo A. Morfini;Edward B. Lee;Mohamed H. Farah

268
Citations
Brain serotonin dysfunction accounts for aggression in male mice lacking neuronal nitric oxide synthase

Silvana Chiavegatto;Valina L. Dawson;Laura A. Mamounas;Vassilis E. Koliatsos

263
Citations
Mouse nerve growth factor prevents degeneration of axotomized basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in the monkey.

Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Haring J.W. Nauta;Richard E. Clatterbuck;David M. Holtzman

228
Citations
Nerve Growth Factor Expression and Release in Allergic Inflammatory Disease of the Upper Airways

Alvin M. Sanico;Andrzej M. Stanisz;Andrzej M. Stanisz;Todd D. Gleeson;Todd D. Gleeson;Susan Bora;Susan Bora

227
Citations
Human nerve growth factor prevents degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in primates.

Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Richard E. Clatterbuck;Haring J. W. Nauta;Beat Knüsel

218
Citations
Human nerve growth factor improves spatial memory in aged but not in young rats

Alicja L. Markowska;Vassilis E. Koliatsos;Steven J. Breckler;Donald L. Price

204
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