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103
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31905
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694
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388

Yoland Smith 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 Yoland Smith sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 301 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yoland Smith 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 Yoland Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Yoland Smith is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Developmental Neuroscience.

The scientist's recent work focuses on several key topics within neuroscience and neuropharmacology, neurological disorders and treatments, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, neural dynamics and brain function, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neural engineering, and genetic neurodegenerative diseases.

Recent publications by Yoland Smith include:

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics, 2020, Neuron
  • Microglia, inflammation and gut microbiota responses in a progressive monkey model of Parkinson's disease: A case series, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Intracerebroventricular Administration of AAV9-PHP.B SYN1-EmGFP Induces Widespread Transgene Expression in the Mouse and Monkey Central Nervous System, 2021, Human Gene Therapy
  • Striatal glutamate delta-1 receptor regulates behavioral flexibility and thalamostriatal connectivity, 2020, Neurobiology of Disease
  • Dysfunction of motor cortices in Parkinson's disease, 2024, Cerebral Cortex

Yoland Smith frequently publishes in several venues, with a notable number of papers in the following journals and repositories:

  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurobiology of Disease
  • The Journal of Comparative Neurology
  • Cerebral Cortex

The scientist has collaborated extensively with colleagues, including:

  • Adriana Galván
  • Jean-François Paré
  • Rosa M. Villalba
  • Gunasingh Masilamoni
  • Shashank M. Dravid

Best Publications

  • Microcircuitry of the direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia.

    Y Smith;M D Bevan;E Shink;J P Bolam

  • Goal-directed and habitual control in the basal ganglia: implications for Parkinson's disease

    Peter Redgrave;Manuel Rodriguez;Manuel Rodriguez;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz;Maria C. Rodriguez-Oroz

  • The thalamostriatal system: a highly specific network of the basal ganglia circuitry

    Yoland Smith;Dinesh V. Raju;Jean-Francois Pare;Mamadou Sidibe

  • Mitochondrial biogenesis in the anticonvulsant mechanism of the ketogenic diet.

    Kristopher J. Bough;Kristopher J. Bough;Jonathon Wetherington;Bjørnar Hassel;Jean Francois Pare

  • Towards a transgenic model of Huntington’s disease in a non-human primate

    Shang Hsun Yang;Pei Hsun Cheng;Heather Banta;Karolina Piotrowska-Nitsche;Karolina Piotrowska-Nitsche

  • Glutamate-dependent neuroglial calcium signaling differs between young and adult brain

    Wei Sun;Evan McConnell;Jean-Francois Pare;Qiwu Xu

  • Activation of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 has direct excitatory effects and potentiates NMDA receptor currents in neurons of the subthalamic nucleus.

    Hazar Awad;George W. Hubert;Yoland Smith;Allan I. Levey

  • CART peptides in the central control of feeding and interactions with neuropeptide Y

    Philip D. Lambert;Philip D. Lambert;Pastor R. Couceyro;Kathleen M. McGirr;Stephanie E. Dall Vechia

  • Anatomy of the dopamine system in the basal ganglia

    Yoland Smith;Jeremy Z. Kieval

  • Neurons of the subthalamic nucleus in primates display glutamate but not GABA immunoreactivity.

    Yoland Smith;André Parent

  • Differential connections of caudate nucleus and putamen in the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)

    Y. Smith;A. Parent

  • Efferent connections of the centromedian and parafascicular thalamic nuclei in the squirrel monkey: a light and electron microscopic study of the thalamostriatal projection in relation to striatal heterogeneity.

    A. F. Sadikot;A. Parent;Y. Smith;J. P. Bolam

  • Glutamatergic inputs from the pedunculopontine nucleus to midbrain dopaminergic neurons in primates: Phaseolus vulgaris‐leucoagglutinin anterograde labeling combined with postembedding glutamate and GABA immunohistochemistry

    Ali Charara;Yoland Smith;André Parent

  • The striatopallidal and striatonigral projections: two distinct fiber systems in primate.

    A. Parent;C. Bouchard;Y. Smith

  • Projections of cholinergic and non-cholinergic neurons of the brainstem core to relay and associational thalamic nuclei in the cat and macaque monkey

    M. Steriade;Denis Pare;A. Parent;Y. Smith

  • Characterization of the oxytocin system regulating affiliative behavior in female prairie voles.

    Heather E. Ross;Charlene D. Cole;Charlene D. Cole;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith;Inga D. Neumann

  • The subthalamic nucleus and the external pallidum: two tightly interconnected structures that control the output of the basal ganglia in the monkey.

    E. Shink;M.D. Bevan;J.P. Bolam;Y. Smith

  • Synaptic relationships between dopaminergic afferents and cortical or thalamic input in the sensorimotor territory of the striatum in monkey.

    Y. Smith;B. D. Bennett;J. P. Bolam;A. Parent

  • Subcortical projections of area 25 (subgenual cortex) of the macaque monkey.

    Lorin J. Freedman;Lorin J. Freedman;Thomas R. Insel;Thomas R. Insel;Yoland Smith;Yoland Smith

  • Efferent projections of the subthalamic nucleus in the squirrel monkey as studied by the PHA-L anterograde tracing method.

    Y. Smith;L.‐N. Hazrati;A. Parent

  • Projections of brainstem core cholinergic and non-cholinergic neurons of cat to intralaminar and reticular thalamic nuclei.

    D. Paré;Y. Smith;A. Parent;M. Steriade

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Wichmann
Thomas Wichmann Emory University
Adriana Galván
Adriana Galván University of California, Los Angeles
André Parent
André Parent Université Laval
Denis Paré
Denis Paré Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
J. P. Bolam
J. P. Bolam University of Oxford
Michael J. Kuhar
Michael J. Kuhar Emory University
Allan I. Levey
Allan I. Levey Emory University
Mahlon R. DeLong
Mahlon R. DeLong Emory University
Jocelyne Bachevalier
Jocelyne Bachevalier Emory University
Leonard L. Howell
Leonard L. Howell Emory University

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