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William O. Whetsell publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William O. Whetsell sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 118 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

William O. Whetsell 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 William O. Whetsell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

William O. Whetsell is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their academic and research activities are linked to this institution, which is known for its focus on medical and clinical research.

Available data does not list specific recent papers, notable publications, or frequent co-authors associated with William O. Whetsell, nor does it detail particular research topics or specialized fields of study. Additionally, there is no record of book publications or awards received.

This profile reflects the current publicly available data and emphasizes the scientist's institutional affiliation without elaborating on specific research contributions or outputs.

Best Publications

  • Quinolinic acid: an endogenous metabolite that produces axon-sparing lesions in rat brain

    Robert Schwarcz;William O. Whetsell;Richard M. Mangano

  • II: Excitotoxic models for neurodegenerative disorders

    Robert Schwarcz;Alan C. Foster;Edward D. French;William O. Whetsell

  • Behavioural abnormalities and selective neuronal loss in HD transgenic mice expressing mutated full-length HD cDNA

    P. Hemachandra Reddy;Maya Williams;Vinod Charles;Lisa Garrett

  • Preferential neuronal loss in layer III of the entorhinal cortex in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    Fu Du;William O. Whetsell;Bassei Abou-Khalil;Bennett Blumenkopf

  • Differential loss of synaptic proteins in Alzheimer's disease: implications for synaptic dysfunction.

    P. Hemachandra Reddy;Geethalakshmi Mani;Byung S. Park;Joline Jacques

  • Preferential loss of striato-external pallidal projection neurons in presymptomatic Huntington's disease

    Roger L. Albin;Anton Reiner;Keith D. Anderson;Leon S. Dure

  • The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors

    Thomas J. Palmeri;Randolph Blake;René Marois;Marci A. Flanery

  • Identification of quinolinic acid in rat and human brain tissue.

    Max Wolfensberger;Ursula Amsler;Michel Cuénod;Alan C. Foster

  • 3-Hydroxyanthranilate oxygenase activity is increased in the brains of Huntington disease victims

    Robert Schwarcz;Etsuo Okuno;Robert J. White;Edward D. Bird

  • Lithium treatment prevents neurocognitive deficit resulting from cranial irradiation.

    Eugenia M. Yazlovitskaya;Eric Edwards;Dinesh Thotala;Allie Fu

  • Prolonged exposure to submicromolar concentrations of quinolinic acid causes excitotoxic damage in organotypic cultures of rat corticostriatal system

    William O. Whetsell;Robert Schwarcz

  • Identification and quantification of kynurenic acid in human brain tissue.

    Waldemar A. Turski;Masayuki Nakamura;William P. Todd;Barry K. Carpenter

  • Early degenerative changes in transgenic mice expressing mutant huntingtin involve dendritic abnormalities but no impairment of mitochondrial energy production.

    Paolo Guidetti;Vinod Charles;Er Yun Chen;P. Hemachandra Reddy

  • Identification of extrastriatal dopamine D2 receptors in post mortem human brain with [125I]epidepride

    Robert M. Kessler;William O. Whetsell;M. Sib Ansari;John R. Votaw

  • Progressive aphasia without dementia: Two cases with focal spongiform degeneration

    Howard S. Kirshner;Oguz Tanridag;Lawrence Thurman;William O. Whetsell

  • Dysfunction of brain kynurenic acid metabolism in Huntington's disease: focus on kynurenine aminotransferases

    Diana Jauch;Ewa M. Urbańska;Paolo Guidetti;Edward D. Bird

  • High-resolution 7T MRI of the human hippocampus in vivo.

    Bradley P. Thomas;E. Brian Welch;E. Brian Welch;E. Brian Welch;Blake D. Niederhauser;William O. Whetsell

  • Neurotrophic activity of S-100β in cultures of dorsal root ganglia from embryonic chick and fetal rat

    Linda J. Van Eldik;Barbara Christie-Pope;Laurel M. Bolin;Eric M. Shooter

  • Distribution of dopamine D2-like receptors in the human thalamus: autoradiographic and PET studies.

    Richard W Rieck;M S Ansari;William O Whetsell;Ariel Y Deutch

  • Baroreflex failure in a patient with central nervous system lesions involving the nucleus tractus solitarii.

    I Biaggioni;W O Whetsell;J Jobe;J H Nadeau

  • Quinolinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase in human and rat brain: activity in Huntington's disease and in quinolinate-lesioned rat striatum.

    Alan C. Foster;William O. Whetsell;Edward D. Bird;Robert Schwarcz

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward D. Bird
Edward D. Bird Harvard University
Robert M. Kessler
Robert M. Kessler University of Alabama at Birmingham
William R. Crowley
William R. Crowley University of Utah
Bassel Abou-Khalil
Bassel Abou-Khalil Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Carol A. Tamminga
Carol A. Tamminga The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John B. Penney
John B. Penney University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey Kaye
Jeffrey Kaye Oregon Health & Science University
Anne B. Young
Anne B. Young Harvard University
Elaine K. Perry
Elaine K. Perry Newcastle University

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