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Alessandro Bertolino

Alessandro Bertolino

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Neuroscience

D-Index
87
Citations
35265
World Ranking
1238
National Ranking
44

Overview

Alessandro Bertolino is affiliated with the University of Bari Aldo Moro in Italy. Their research spans fields primarily in Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychiatry and Mental Health. They have contributed extensively to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's main research topics cover Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Mental Health Research Topics, and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications. Additional areas of interest include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Tryptophan and brain disorders, and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks.

Prominent publication venues where Alessandro Bertolino has frequently contributed include:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • European Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work comprise Giulio Pergola, Linda A. Antonucci, Stefan Borgwardt, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, and Rachel Upthegrove. These collaborations indicate a broad interdisciplinary approach within neuropsychiatric research.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Alessandro Bertolino include:

  • "Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years," 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • "Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Multimodal Machine Learning Workflows for Prediction of Psychosis in Patients With Clinical High-Risk Syndromes and Recent-Onset Depression," 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • "Brain network dynamics during working memory are modulated by dopamine and diminished in schizophrenia," 2021, Nature Communications

The interdisciplinary nature of Alessandro Bertolino's work reflects integration of neuroimaging modalities with psychiatric research and machine learning methodologies. Their research contributions have addressed brain structural changes across the lifespan, harmonization techniques in neuroimaging, shared neurobiological features of psychiatric disorders, prediction models for psychosis, and neural dynamics modulated by neurotransmitters in schizophrenia.

Best Publications

  • The BDNF val66met polymorphism affects activity-dependent secretion of BDNF and human memory and hippocampal function

    Michael F. Egan;Masami Kojima;Masami Kojima;Joseph H. Callicott;Terry E. Goldberg

  • Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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  • Physiological characteristics of capacity constraints in working memory as revealed by functional MRI.

    Joseph H. Callicott;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino;Kimberly Finn

  • Physiological Dysfunction of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Schizophrenia Revisited

    Joseph H. Callicott;Alessandro Bertolino;Venkata S. Mattay;Frederick J.P. Langheim

  • Prefrontal neurons and the genetics of schizophrenia.

    Daniel R. Weinberger;Michael F. Egan;Alessandro Bertolino;Joseph H. Callicott

  • Abnormal fMRI response of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in cognitively intact siblings of patients with schizophrenia.

    Joseph H. Callicott;Michael F. Egan;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino

  • Variation in GRM3 affects cognition, prefrontal glutamate, and risk for schizophrenia.

    Michael F. Egan;Richard E. Straub;Terry E. Goldberg;Imtiaz Yakub

  • Polymorphisms in human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory

    Ying Zhang;Alessandro Bertolino;Leonardo Fazio;Giuseppe Blasi

  • Dopaminergic modulation of cortical function in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Tessitore;Joseph H. Callicott;Alessandro Bertolino

  • The influence of illness-related variables, personal resources and context-related factors on real-life functioning of people with schizophrenia

    Silvana Galderisi;Alessandro Rossi;Paola Rocca;Alessandro Bertolino

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain mapping in psychiatry: methodological issues illustrated in a study of working memory in schizophrenia

    Joseph H. Callicott;Nicolas F. Ramsey;Kathleen Tallent;Alessandro Bertolino

  • Interaction of COMT Val108/158 Met Genotype and Olanzapine Treatment on Prefrontal Cortical Function in Patients With Schizophrenia

    Alessandro Bertolino;Grazia Caforio;Giuseppe Blasi;Mariapia De Candia

  • Effect of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase val158met Genotype on Attentional Control

    Giuseppe Blasi;Venkata S. Mattay;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Brita Elvevåg

  • Effects of dextroamphetamine on cognitive performance and cortical activation.

    Venkata S. Mattay;Joseph H. Callicott;Alessandro Bertolino;Ian Heaton

  • Regionally specific pattern of neurochemical pathology in schizophrenia as assessed by multislice proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging

    Alessandro Bertolino;Safia Nawroz;Venkata S. Mattay;Alan S. Barnett

  • Interplay Among Psychopathologic Variables, Personal Resources, Context-Related Factors, and Real-life Functioning in Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Network Analysis.

    Silvana Galderisi;Paola Rucci;Brian Kirkpatrick;Armida Mucci

  • Variation of Human Amygdala Response During Threatening Stimuli as a Function of 5′HTTLPR Genotype and Personality Style

    Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Giampiero Arciero;Valeria Rubino;Valeria Latorre

  • Brain regions underlying response inhibition and interference monitoring and suppression

    Giuseppe Blasi;Terry E. Goldberg;Thomas Weickert;Saumitra Das

  • Independent component model of the default-mode brain function: Assessing the impact of active thinking.

    Fabrizio Esposito;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Tommaso Scarabino;Valeria Latorre;Valeria Latorre

  • Additive effects of genetic variation in dopamine regulating genes on working memory cortical activity in human brain.

    Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Alessandro Bertolino;Giuseppe Blasi;Giuseppe Blasi;Valeria Latorre;Valeria Rubino

  • A primate-specific, brain isoform of KCNH2 affects cortical physiology, cognition, neuronal repolarization and risk of schizophrenia

    Stephen J. Huffaker;Jingshan Chen;Kristin K. Nicodemus;Fabio Sambataro

  • Prefrontal Neurons and the Genetics of Schizophrenia

    Daniel R. Weinberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Blasi
Giuseppe Blasi University of Bari Aldo Moro
Daniel R. Weinberger
Daniel R. Weinberger Johns Hopkins University
Annabella Di Giorgio
Annabella Di Giorgio Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza
Venkata S. Mattay
Venkata S. Mattay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Joseph H. Callicott
Joseph H. Callicott National Institutes of Health
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Juergen Dukart
Juergen Dukart Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Silvana Galderisi
Silvana Galderisi University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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