Dr. Kevin Clark | Neuroscience Research | Research Excellence Award
Faculty | Frontier Development Lab | United States
Dr. Kevin Clark is a multidisciplinary biomedical scientist and biophysicist whose research spans biomedicine, biotechnology, neurobiology, and quantum biology. He is widely recognized for pioneering work on vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and its effects on memory, neural plasticity, epilepsy, and traumatic brain injury, with landmark publications in Nature Neuroscience and Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. His portfolio includes influential U.S. patents translating neuromodulation research into therapeutic applications. Clark has authored 50+ high-impact publications, accumulating 5,640 citations, with an h-index of 33 and i10-index of 51, reflecting sustained global influence. His collaborative research bridges neuroscience, computational theory, and biophysics, contributing to advances in neurological therapeutics, cognitive enhancement, and systems-level understanding of health and disease, with significant societal and clinical impact.
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Enhanced recognition memory following vagus nerve stimulation in human subjects
– Nature Neuroscience, 1999. | citations: 777
Locus coeruleus lesions suppress the seizure-attenuating effects of vagus nerve stimulation
– Epilepsia, 1998. | citations: 710
Methods of treating traumatic brain injury by vagus nerve stimulation
– U.S. Patent No. 6,104,956, 2000. | citations: 386
Methods of modulating aspects of brain neural plasticity by vagus nerve stimulation
– U.S. Patent No. 6,339,725, 2002. | citations: 361
Posttraining electrical stimulation of vagal afferents enhances memory storage processes in the rat
– Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 1998. | citations: 349