| Experience-dependent modification of a central amygdala fear circuit H Li, MA Penzo, H Taniguchi, CD Kopec, ZJ Huang, B Li Nature neuroscience 16 (3), 332-339, 2013 | 522 | 2013 |
| The paraventricular thalamus controls a central amygdala fear circuit MA Penzo, V Robert, J Tucciarone, D De Bundel, M Wang, L Van Aelst, ... Nature 519 (7544), 455-459, 2015 | 476 | 2015 |
| Fear conditioning potentiates synaptic transmission onto long-range projection neurons in the lateral subdivision of central amygdala MA Penzo, V Robert, B Li Journal of Neuroscience 34 (7), 2432-2437, 2014 | 222 | 2014 |
| A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes M Stephenson-Jones, K Yu, S Ahrens, JM Tucciarone, AN van Huijstee, ... Nature 539 (7628), 289-293, 2016 | 195 | 2016 |
| A central extended amygdala circuit that modulates anxiety S Ahrens, MV Wu, A Furlan, GR Hwang, R Paik, H Li, MA Penzo, ... Journal of Neuroscience 38 (24), 5567-5583, 2018 | 154 | 2018 |
| The locus coeruleus drives disinhibition in the midline thalamus via a dopaminergic mechanism BS Beas, BJ Wright, M Skirzewski, Y Leng, JH Hyun, O Koita, ... Nature neuroscience 21 (7), 963-973, 2018 | 139 | 2018 |
| Two genetically, anatomically and functionally distinct cell types segregate across anteroposterior axis of paraventricular thalamus C Gao, Y Leng, J Ma, V Rooke, S Rodriguez-Gonzalez, C Ramakrishnan, ... Nature neuroscience 23 (2), 217-228, 2020 | 120 | 2020 |
| Retrieving fear memories, as time goes by… FH Do Monte, GJ Quirk, B Li, MA Penzo Molecular psychiatry 21 (8), 1027-1036, 2016 | 89 | 2016 |
| An insula–central amygdala circuit for guiding tastant-reinforced choice behavior HC Schiff, AL Bouhuis, K Yu, MA Penzo, H Li, M He, B Li Journal of Neuroscience 38 (6), 1418-1429, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| Tobacco cembranoids protect the function of acute hippocampal slices against NMDA by a mechanism mediated by α4β2 nicotinic receptors PA Ferchmin, J Hao, D Perez, M Penzo, HM Maldonado, MT Gonzalez, ... Journal of neuroscience research 82 (5), 631-641, 2005 | 64 | 2005 |
| The central nucleus of the amygdala and the construction of defensive modes across the threat-imminence continuum JM Moscarello, MA Penzo Nature Neuroscience 25 (8), 999-1008, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| The paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus: an integrative node underlying homeostatic behavior MA Penzo, C Gao Trends in neurosciences 44 (7), 538-549, 2021 | 49 | 2021 |
| Retinal innervation tunes circuits that drive nonphotic entrainment to food DC Fernandez, R Komal, J Langel, J Ma, PQ Duy, MA Penzo, H Zhao, ... Nature 581 (7807), 194-198, 2020 | 37 | 2020 |
| Divergent projections of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus mediate the selection of passive and active defensive behaviors J Ma, J du Hoffmann, M Kindel, BS Beas, Y Chudasama, MA Penzo Nature neuroscience 24 (10), 1429-1440, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Endocannabinoid-mediated long-term depression in the avian midbrain expressed presynaptically and postsynaptically MA Penzo, JL Peña Journal of Neuroscience 29 (13), 4131-4139, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| A ventrolateral medulla-midline thalamic circuit for hypoglycemic feeding B Sofia Beas, X Gu, Y Leng, O Koita, S Rodriguez-Gonzalez, M Kindel, ... Nature communications 11 (1), 6218, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Parvalbumin interneuron dysfunction in a thalamo-prefrontal cortical circuit in disc1 locus impairment mice K Delevich, H Jaaro-Peled, M Penzo, A Sawa, B Li Eneuro 7 (2), 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| γ‐Aminobutyric acid type a receptor inhibition triggers a nicotinic neuroprotective mechanism PA Ferchmin, D Pérez, W Castro Alvarez, MA Penzo, HM Maldonado, ... Journal of neuroscience research 91 (3), 416-425, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice S Singh, TD Wilson, S Valdivia, B Benowitz, S Chaudhry, J Ma, AP Adke, ... Elife 11, e68760, 2022 | 14 | 2022 |
| Molecular and spatial profiling of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus C Gao, CA Gohel, Y Leng, J Ma, D Goldman, AJ Levine, MA Penzo Elife 12, e81818, 2023 | 13 | 2023 |
