Yihui Cui

4.2k citations

47 papers · 3.0k · 4 hit papers · h-index 22

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Biological Psychiatry top 0.5%
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
Behavioral Neuroscience top 2%
- Stress Responses and Cortisol

Papers in

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 26
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research 21
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior 10
Pharmacology 11
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research 7

Co-authors: Hailan Hu (7 shared papers)Yiyan Dong (6 shared papers)Shuangshuang Ma (3 shared papers)Zheyi Ni (2 shared papers)Yan Yang (1 shared paper)Laurent Venance (14 shared papers)Hugues Berry (6 shared papers)Ying Shen (2 shared papers)
Journals: Nature (4 papers)Neuron (3 papers)eLife (2 papers)Molecular Psychiatry (2 papers)The Journal of Physiology (2 papers)
Partner nations: China France United States

In The Last Decade

Yihui Cui

41 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Yihui Cui's Hit Papers

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Sustained antidepressant effect of ketamine through NMDAR trapping in the LHb 2023 · 134 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2023 Nature
2020 Nature reviews. Neuroscience
2018 Nature
2018 Nature

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1	Ketamine blocks bursting in the lateral habenula to rapidly relieve depression Nature ·Yan Yang, Yihui Cui, Kangning Sang, Yiyan Dong, Zheyi Ni, Shuangshuang Ma, Hailan Hu Hit paper breakdown →	2018	807
2	Astroglial Kir4.1 in the lateral habenula drives neuronal bursts in depression Nature ·Yihui Cui, Yan Fang Yang, Zheyi Ni, Yiyan Dong, Guohong Cai, Alexandre Foncelle, Shuangshuang Ma, Kangning Sang Hit paper breakdown →	2018	485
3	Circuits and functions of the lateral habenula in health and in disease Nature reviews. Neuroscience ·Hailan Hu, Yihui Cui, Yan Yang Hit paper breakdown →	2020	343
4	Polymodal activation of the endocannabinoid system in the extended amygdala Nature Neuroscience ·Nagore Puente, Yihui Cui, Olivier Lassalle, Mathieu Lafourcade, François Georges, Laurent Venance, Pedro Grandes, Olivier Jacques José Manzoni	2011	137
5	Sustained antidepressant effect of ketamine through NMDAR trapping in the LHb Nature ·Shuangshuang Ma, Min Chen, Yihao Jiang, Xinkuan Xiang, Shiqi Wang, Zuohang Wu, Shuo Li, Yihui Cui Hit paper breakdown →	2023	134
6	Activation of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Contributes to the Induction and Expression of Affective Pain Journal of Neuroscience ·Hong Cao, Yong‐Jing Gao, Wen-Hua Ren, Tingting Li, Kaizheng Duan, Yihui Cui, Xiaohua Cao, Zhi‐Qi Zhao	2009	122
7	Hypothalamus-habenula potentiation encodes chronic stress experience and drives depression onset Neuron ·Zhiwei Zheng, Guo Chen, Min Li, Liang Yang, Pengyang Liu, Xuliang Zhang, Yiqin Liu, Xiaonan Guo	2022	116
8	Forebrain NR2B Overexpression Facilitating the Prefrontal Cortex Long-Term Potentiation and Enhancing Working Memory Function in Mice PLoS ONE ·Yihui Cui, Jing Jin, Xuliang Zhang, Hao Xu, Liguo Yang, Dan (Annie) Du, Qingwen Zeng, Joe Z. Tsien	2011	113
9	Distinct coincidence detectors govern the corticostriatal spike timing-dependent plasticity The Journal of Physiology ·Élodie Fino, Vincent Paillé, Yihui Cui, Teresa Morera‐Herreras, Jean‐Michel Deniau, Laurent Venance	2010	106
10	Lateral Habenular Burst Firing as a Target of the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine Trends in Neurosciences ·Yihui Cui, Shaohua Hu, Hailan Hu	2019	83
11	Endocannabinoids mediate bidirectional striatal spike‐timing‐dependent plasticity The Journal of Physiology ·Yihui Cui, Vincent Paillé, Hao Xu, Stéphane Genet, Bruno Delord, Élodie Fino, Hugues Berry, Laurent Venance	2015	55
12	The Effects of NMDA Subunit Composition on Calcium Influx and Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons PLoS Computational Biology ·Rebekah C. Evans, Teresa Morera‐Herreras, Yihui Cui, Kai Du, Tom Sheehan, Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski, Laurent Venance, Kim T. Blackwell	2012	46
13	Endocannabinoid dynamics gate spike-timing dependent depression and potentiation eLife ·Yihui Cui, Ilya Prokin, Hao Xu, Bruno Delord, Stéphane Genet, Laurent Venance, Hugues Berry	2016	46
14	Pathological oligodendrocyte precursor cells revealed in human schizophrenic brains and trigger schizophrenia-like behaviors and synaptic defects in genetic animal model Molecular Psychiatry ·Guangdan Yu, Yixun Su, Guo Chen, Chenju Yi, Bin Yu, Hui Chen, Yihui Cui, Xiaorui Wang	2022	42
15	Deep evolutionary origin of gamete-directed zygote activation by KNOX/BELL transcription factors in green plants eLife ·Tetsuya Hisanaga, Shota Fujimoto, Yihui Cui, Katsutoshi Sato, Ryosuke Sano, Shohei Yamaoka, Takayuki Kohchi, Frédéric Berger	2021	35
16	Stress dynamically modulates neuronal autophagy to gate depression onset Nature ·Liang Yang, Guo Chen, Zhi-Wei Zheng, Yiyan Dong, Qifeng Xie, Zijian Lv, Min Li, Yangyang Lu	2025	31
17	Lights on Endocannabinoid-Mediated Synaptic Potentiation Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience ·Charlotte Piette, Yihui Cui, Nicolas Gervasi, Laurent Venance	2020	29
18	A concurrent excitation and inhibition of dopaminergic subpopulations in response to nicotine Scientific Reports ·Raphaël Eddine, Sébastien Valverde, Stéfania Tolu, Daniel Dautan, Y. Audrey Hay, Carole Morel, Yihui Cui, Bertrand Lambolez	2015	28
19	Dopamine–endocannabinoid interactions mediate spike-timing-dependent potentiation in the striatum Nature Communications ·Hao Xu, Sylvie Pérez, Amandine Cornil, Bérangère Detraux, Ilya Prokin, Yihui Cui, Bertrand Degos, Hugues Berry	2018	27
20	Endocannabinoid-LTP Mediated by CB1 and TRPV1 Receptors Encodes for Limited Occurrences of Coincident Activity in Neocortex Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience ·Yihui Cui, Sylvie Pérez, Laurent Venance	2018	24

About Yihui Cui

Yihui Cui is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience and Social Psychology, having authored 47 papers that have together received 3.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers), Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (10 papers), Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (7 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (5 papers), Vibration and Dynamic Analysis (5 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (5 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (5 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biological Psychiatry (528 citations), Behavioral Neuroscience (294 citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.5k citations), Pharmacology (677 citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (759 citations). Yihui Cui has collaborated with scholars based in China, France and United States. Frequent co-authors include Hailan Hu, Yiyan Dong, Shuangshuang Ma, Zheyi Ni, Yan Yang, Yan Yang, Laurent Venance, Hugues Berry, Ying Shen and Yan Fang Yang. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Neuron, eLife, Molecular Psychiatry and The Journal of Physiology.

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