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Medicine

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Neuroscience

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Zul Merali 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 Zul Merali sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 224 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zul Merali 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 Zul Merali sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zul Merali is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields including Health Professions, Psychology, and Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their body of work covers a variety of topics, particularly emphasizing Mental Health Treatment and Access, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Global Maternal and Child Health, Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, and Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, and Quality of Life.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Merali include:

  • Recommendations for clinical implementation of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (2024, Alzheimer s & Dementia)
  • Cannabinoids: Revealing their complexity and role in central networks of fear and anxiety (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Considerations for widespread implementation of blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (2024, Alzheimer s & Dementia)
  • Prevalence and risk factors associated with depression in pregnant adolescents in Nairobi, Kenya (2022, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports)
  • Addition of mental health to the lady health worker curriculum in Pakistan: now or never (2023, Human Resources for Health)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Merali include Chinedu Udeh-Momoh, Jasmit Shah, Edna Bosire, Linda Khakali, and Cyprian M. Mostert.

Merali's publications are frequently found in venues such as Alzheimer s & Dementia, BMC Research Notes, Public Health in Practice, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, and Value in Health.

Best Publications

  • Do early-life events permanently alter behavioral and hormonal responses to stressors?

    Hymie Anisman;Marilee D. Zaharia;Michael J. Meaney;Zul Merali

  • Dysregulation in the Suicide Brain: mRNA Expression of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptors and GABAA Receptor Subunits in Frontal Cortical Brain Region

    Zul Merali;Lisheng Du;Pavel Hrdina;Miklos Palkovits

  • The pathogenesis of clinical depression: stressor- and cytokine-induced alterations of neuroplasticity.

    Shawn Hayley;M.O. Poulter;Z. Merali;Hymie Anisman;Hymie Anisman

  • Neurotransmitter, peptide and cytokine processes in relation to depressive disorder: comorbidity between depression and neurodegenerative disorders.

    Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali;Shawn Hayley

  • Cytokines, stress and depressive illness: brain-immune interactions.

    Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  • Endocrine and cytokine correlates of major depression and dysthymia with typical or atypical features

    Hymie Anisman;A.V. Ravindran;J. Griffiths;Z. Merali

  • Aversive and appetitive events evoke the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone and bombesin-like peptides at the central nucleus of the amygdala.

    Zul Merali;Judy McIntosh;Pamela Kent;David Michaud

  • GABAA receptor promoter hypermethylation in suicide brain: implications for the involvement of epigenetic processes

    Michael O. Poulter;Michael O. Poulter;Lisheng Du;Ian C.G. Weaver;Miklós Palkovits

  • SHORT- AND LONG-PERIODS OF NEONATAL MATERNAL SEPARATION DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT ANXIETY AND FEEDING IN ADULT RATS : GENDER-DEPENDENT EFFECTS

    Judy McIntosh;Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  • Therapeutic and protective effect of environmental enrichment against psychogenic and neurogenic stress.

    Cosette Fox;Zul Merali;Catherine Harrison

  • Inhibition of calpains prevents neuronal and behavioral deficits in an MPTP mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

    Stephen J. Crocker;Patrice D. Smith;Vernice Jackson-Lewis;Wiplore R. Lamba

  • Functional interactions between dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine neurons: an in-vivo electrophysiological study in rats with monoaminergic lesions

    Bruno P. Guiard;Mostafa El Mansari;Zul Merali;Pierre Blier

  • Cytokines as a precipitant of depressive illness: animal and human studies.

    Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali;Michael O. Poulter;Shawn Hayley

  • Synergistic Effects of Interleukin-1β, Interleukin-6, and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α: Central Monoamine, Corticosterone, and Behavioral Variations

    Karen Brebner;Shawn Hayley;Robert Zacharko;Zul Merali

  • An assessment of the effects of central interleukin-1β, -2, -6, and tumor necrosis factor-α administration on some behavioural, neurochemical, endocrine and immune parameters in the rat

    T.J Connor;C Song;B.E Leonard;Z Merali

  • Anhedonic and Anxiogenic Effects of Cytokine Exposure

    Hymie Anisman;Zul Merali

  • Stress, coping, uplifts, and quality of life in subtypes of depression: a conceptual frame and emerging data.

    Arun V Ravindran;Kimberly Matheson;Jenna Griffiths;Zul Merali;Zul Merali

  • Evaluation of anxiolytic properties of Gotukola--(Centella asiatica) extracts and asiaticoside in rat behavioral models.

    P. Wijeweera;P. Wijeweera;J.T. Arnason;D. Koszycki;Z. Merali

  • Evaluation of the effects of chronic mild stressors on hedonic and physiological responses: sex and strain compared

    Anne T.M. Konkle;Stephanie L. Baker;Amanda C. Kentner;Lisa Santa-Maria Barbagallo

  • Psychogenic, neurogenic, and systemic stressor effects on plasma corticosterone and behavior: mouse strain-dependent outcomes.

    Hymie Anisman;Shawn Hayley;Owen Kelly;Thomas Borowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Hymie Anisman
Hymie Anisman Carleton University
Michael O. Poulter
Michael O. Poulter University of Western Ontario
Miklós Palkovits
Miklós Palkovits Semmelweis University
John T. Arnason
John T. Arnason University of Ottawa
Terry W. Moody
Terry W. Moody National Institutes of Health
Dan C. McIntyre
Dan C. McIntyre Carleton University
Paul R. Albert
Paul R. Albert Ottawa Hospital
Hugh D. Piggins
Hugh D. Piggins University of Bristol
Vance L. Trudeau
Vance L. Trudeau University of Ottawa
Arun V. Ravindran
Arun V. Ravindran University of Toronto

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