Charu Ramakrishnan

Also affiliated with Stanford University

NeuroscienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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2.0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

2in pilot corpus

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 2 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics

Neuron(2020)10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.027

Top 11%

2.0DataRank

Top 11%131 citations

Leah Acker, Arash Afraz, Daniel L. Albaugh, Hidetoshi Amita, Ariana R. Andrei +93 more

Papers

Driven by 47 papers — median percentile 89. Top paper: “Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety”.

Amygdala circuitry mediating reversible and bidirectional control of anxiety

Nature(2011)10.1038/nature09820

N/A

14.8DataRank · unranked

1320 citations

Rohit Prakash, Sung-Yon Kim, Lief E. Fenno, Logan Grosenick, Hosniya Zarabi +5 more

An optogenetic toolbox designed for primates

Nature Neuroscience(2011)10.1038/nn.2749

N/A

12.2DataRank · unranked

452 citations

Matthew T Kaufman, Murtaza Mogri, Ramin Pashaie, Werapong Goo, Ofer Yizhar +4 more

Dendritic calcium signals in rhesus macaque motor cortex drive an optical brain-computer interface

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-23884-5

N/A

2.1DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Daniel J. O’Shea, Xulu Sun, James H. Marshel, Ailey Crow, Brian Hsueh +16 more

An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics

Neuron(2020)10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.027

Top 11%

2.0DataRank

Top 11%131 citations

Leah Acker, Arash Afraz, Daniel L. Albaugh, Hidetoshi Amita, Ariana R. Andrei +93 more

Cardiogenic control of affective behavioural state

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-05748-8

N/A

0.870DataRank · unranked

330 citations

Ritchie Chen, YoungJu Jo, Daniel D. Tang, Misha Raffiee, Yoon Seok Kim +22 more

Enhancer AAVs for targeting spinal motor neurons and descending motor pathways in rodents and macaque

Cell Reports(2025)10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115730

N/A

0.457DataRank · unranked

20 citations

Nelson Johansen, Naz Taskin, Ananya Chowdhury, Meagan A. Quinlan, Alexander Fraser +53 more

Neocortical long-range inhibition promotes cortical synchrony and sleep

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.20.599756

N/A

0.360DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Geoffrey Terral, A. Lechuga, Stefano Lutzu, Arena Manning, Nelson Perez Catalan +20 more

A Unique Population of Ventral Tegmental Area Neurons Inhibits the Lateral Habenula to Promote Reward

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/f8vg-g284

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Randall L. Ung, Alice M. Stamatakis, Charu Ramakrishnan, Joanna Mattis, Joshua H. Jennings +6 more

Genetically identified amygdala–striatal circuits for valence-specific behaviors

Nature Neuroscience(2021)10.1038/s41593-021-00927-0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

128 citations

Wuqiang Guan, Tao Yang, Alessandro Furlan, Xiong Xiao, Kai Yu +10 more

Sox6 expression distinguishes dorsally and ventrally biased dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra with distinctive properties and embryonic origins

Cell Reports(2021)10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109975

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

98 citations

Maite Azcorra, Giuliana Caronia-Brown, Jean‐François Poulin, Zachary Gaertner, Serafin Gatica +12 more

A neural circuit state change underlying skilled movements

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.001

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

89 citations

Joan Savall, Oscar Hernandez, Gabriel C. Mel, Hakan Inan, Oleg Rumyantsev +9 more

Transcriptional and functional divergence in lateral hypothalamic glutamate neurons projecting to the lateral habenula and ventral tegmental area

Neuron(2021)10.1016/j.neuron.2021.09.020

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

84 citations

Marcus L. Basiri, Yuejia Liu, Yoshiko Hashikawa, Koichi Hashikawa, Lief E. Fenno +5 more

Reciprocal Lateral Hypothalamic and Raphe GABAergic Projections Promote Wakefulness

Journal of Neuroscience(2021)10.1523/jneurosci.2850-20.2021

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

36 citations

Szabina Furdan, Péter Sere, Lukas T. Oesch, Benedek Molnár, Giuseppe Di Giovanni +8 more

An uncommon neuronal class conveys visual signals from rods and cones to retinal ganglion cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2104884118

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Charu Ramakrishnan, Tushar H. Ganjawala, Ping Wang, Karl Deisseroth, Ning Tian +1 more

Similar neural and perceptual masking effects of low-power optogenetic stimulation in primate V1

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.16.431182

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Giacomo Benvenuti, Yuzhi Chen, Satwant Kumar, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth +3 more

Evaluating the efficacy of Optoα1AR activation in astrocytes in modulating basal hippocampal synaptic excitation and inhibition

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.01.06.425606

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Courtney Sobieski, Charu Ramakrishnan, Robbie J. Ingram, Natalia M. Wojnowski, R. Anthony DeFazio +3 more

A functional cellular framework for sex and estrous cycle-dependent gene expression and behavior

Cell(2022)10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.031

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

163 citations

Sayaka Inoue, Daniel W. Bayless, Taehong Yang, Adarsh Tantry, Chung-ha O. Davis +10 more

Cell-type-specific population dynamics of diverse reward computations

Cell(2022)10.1016/j.cell.2022.08.019

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

81 citations

YoungJu Jo, Sam Vesuna, Xiao Wang, Blake Holcomb, Rebecca H. Tien +9 more

Activity of a direct VTA to ventral pallidum GABA pathway encodes unconditioned reward value and sustains motivation for reward

Science Advances(2022)10.1126/sciadv.abm5217

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

53 citations

Kristen K.O. Kim, Farhan Ali, Steven T. Pittenger, Cali A. Calarco, Yann S. Mineur +5 more

Similar neural and perceptual masking effects of low-power optogenetic stimulation in primate V1

eLife(2022)10.7554/elife.68393

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Giacomo Benvenuti, Yuzhi Chen, Satwant Kumar, Charu Ramakrishnan, Karl Deisseroth +3 more

Direct neural perturbations reveal a dynamical mechanism for robust computation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.12.16.520768

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

55 citations

Lea Duncker, Werapong Goo, Xulu Sun, Saurabh Vyas, Eric M. Trautmann +6 more

Unique functional responses differentially map onto genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.12.19.521076

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Zachary Gaertner, Connor Davidson, Cooper K. Hayes, Charu Ramakrishnan, Lief E. Fenno +6 more

Unique functional responses differentially map onto genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons

Nature Neuroscience(2023)10.1038/s41593-023-01401-9

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

169 citations

Zachary Gaertner, Connor Davidson, Qianzi He, Hailey Kim, Shivathmihai Nagappan +9 more

All-optical physiology resolves a synaptic basis for behavioral timescale plasticity

Cell(2023)10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.035

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

151 citations

Doo Kyung Kim, Joshua H. Jennings, He Tian, Peter Y. Wang, Charu Ramakrishnan +9 more

Orbitofrontal cortex control of striatum leads economic decision-making

Nature Neuroscience(2023)10.1038/s41593-023-01409-1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

58 citations

Melissa Hernandez, Charu Ramakrishnan, Ailey Crow, Robert C. Malenka, Karl Deisseroth +1 more

Genetically targeted chemical assembly of polymers specifically localized extracellularly to surface membranes of living neurons

Science Advances(2023)10.1126/sciadv.adi1870

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

32 citations

Kang Yong Loh, Chandan S. Kadur, Lukas Michalek, Jiayi Dou, Charu Ramakrishnan +3 more

Human OPRM1 and murine Oprm1 promoter driven viral constructs for genetic access to μ-opioidergic cell types

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-41407-2

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

24 citations

Sébastien Tremblay, Blake A. Kimmey, Jia Li, Sophie A. Rogers, Jessica A. Wojick +20 more

Optoα1AR activation in astrocytes modulates basal hippocampal synaptic excitation and inhibition in a stimulation‐specific manner

Hippocampus(2023)10.1002/hipo.23580

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

16 citations

Courtney Sobieski, Charu Ramakrishnan, Robbie J. Ingram, Natalia M. Wojnowski, R. Anthony DeFazio +3 more

The parasubthalamic nucleus refeeding ensemble delays feeding initiation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.01.28.525750

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Catherine Lopez, Colton Krull, Max Kreifeldt, Maggie Angelo, Charu Ramakrishnan +3 more

Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at inhibitory synapses in vivo

Science(2024)10.1126/science.adk3863

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

52 citations

Linlin Z. Fan, Jordan S. Farrell, Shreya Malhotra, Jesslyn Homidan, Doo Kyung Kim +6 more

Prefrontal cortical dynorphin peptidergic transmission constrains threat-driven behavioral and network states

Neuron(2024)10.1016/j.neuron.2024.03.015

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

25 citations

Rodolfo J. Flores, Héctor E. Yarur, Aaron Limoges, Héctor Bravo-Rivera, Sanne M. Casello +15 more

A brain-wide map of descending inputs onto spinal V1 interneurons

Neuron(2024)10.1016/j.neuron.2024.11.019

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Anand S Kulkarni, Alexandra J. Trevisan, Katie Han, Jennifer M. Hinton, Paulina Deltuvaite +8 more

The parasubthalamic nucleus refeeding ensemble delays feeding initiation and hastens water drinking

Molecular Psychiatry(2024)10.1038/s41380-024-02653-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Catherine Lopez, Colton Krull, Max Kreifeldt, Maggie Angelo, Leeann Shu +4 more

Monosynaptic Inputs to Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate and GABA Co-transmitting Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience(2024)10.1523/jneurosci.2184-23.2024

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Alysabeth Phillips, Kristoffer Lauridsen, Gunnar Enserro, Bodhi Rubinstein, Daniel Alas +11 more

Cholinergic Neuronal Activity Promotes Diffuse Midline Glioma Growth through Muscarinic Signaling

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.09.21.614235

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Antonia Drinnenberg, Avishai Gavish, Belgin Yalçın, Kiarash Shamardani, Abigail Rogers +16 more

Prefrontal cortical dynorphin peptidergic transmission constrains threat-driven behavioral and network states

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.01.08.574700

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Rodolfo J. Flores, Héctor E. Yarur, Aaron Limoges, Héctor Bravo-Rivera, Sanne M. Casello +15 more

Long-Range GABAergic Inputs Regulate Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Control Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/4wna-aq43

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Karl Deisseroth, Brent Asrican, Weidong Li, Isaac Haniff, Hechen Bao +6 more

Two genetically, anatomically and functionally distinct cell types segregate across anteroposterior axis of paraventricular thalamus

Nature Neuroscience(2020)10.1038/s41593-019-0572-3

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

189 citations

Yan Leng, Jun Ma, Victoria Rooke, Shakira Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Charu Ramakrishnan +3 more

Environmental Novelty Modulates Rapid Cortical Plasticity During Navigation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.21.683723

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Antonia Drinnenberg, Can Dong, Charu Ramakrishnan, La’Akea Siverts, Tanya L. Daigle +6 more

Selective Vulnerability of Dopamine-Glutamate Neurons in Aging Weakens Entorhinal Dopamine Signaling

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.06.680552

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Sixtine Fleury, Alexandra Bilder, Jordan Nacimba, Lakshman Abhilash, Yoon Seok Kim +5 more

Cholinergic neuronal activity promotes diffuse midline glioma growth through muscarinic signaling

Cell(2025)10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.031

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

41 citations

Antonia Drinnenberg, Avishai Gavish, Belgin Yalçın, Kiarash Shamardani, Abigail Rogers +22 more

Comprehensive Dual- and Triple-Feature Intersectional Single-Vector Delivery of Diverse Functional Payloads to Cells of Behaving Mammals

Neuron(2020)10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.003

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

187 citations

Charu Ramakrishnan, Yoon Seok Kim, Kathryn E. Evans, Maisie Lo, Sam Vesuna +7 more

Distinct Signaling by Ventral Tegmental Area Glutamate, GABA, and Combinatorial Glutamate-GABA Neurons in Motivated Behavior

Cell Reports(2020)10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108094

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

132 citations

David J. Barker, David J. Estrin, Jorge Miranda‐Barrientos, Bing Liu, Shiliang Zhang +8 more

A Genetically Defined Compartmentalized Striatal Direct Pathway for Negative Reinforcement

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.032

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

116 citations

Hanfei Deng, Alessandro Furlan, Tao Yang, Xian Zhang, Ga‐Ram Hwang +12 more

Serotonin engages an anxiety and fear-promoting circuit in the extended amygdala

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/wj17-yx66

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Tamás Kozicz, Karl Deisseroth, Montserrat Navarro, Christopher M. Mazzone, Lindsay R. Halladay +14 more

A unique and evolutionarily conserved retinal interneuron relays rod and cone input to the inner plexiform layer

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.05.16.100008

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Charu Ramakrishnan, Tushar H. Ganjawala, Yumei Li, Sangbae Kim, Ping Wang +4 more

Reciprocal lateral hypothalamic and raphé GABAergic projections promote wakefulness

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.04.367722

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Szabina Furdan, Péter Sere, Lukas Oesch, Benedek Molnár, Giuseppe Di Giovanni +8 more

Charu Ramakrishnan

Indexed papers

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