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Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Alvaro Pascual-Leone publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alvaro Pascual-Leone sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 1,203 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alvaro Pascual-Leone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 202 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award

Overview

Alvaro Pascual-Leone is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their body of work spans over 300 publications and addresses key topics including transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, functional brain connectivity, dementia and cognitive impairment research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neurological disorders and treatments, neural dynamics and brain function, and stroke rehabilitation and recovery.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Brain Stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology

They have collaborated extensively with other researchers, often co-authoring with:

  • David Bartrés-Faz
  • Gabriele Cattaneo
  • Ali Jannati
  • Josep M. Tormos
  • Javier Solana Sánchez

Several recent publications exemplify the scope of their research, including:

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines (2020), Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Distinct Symptom-Specific Treatment Targets for Circuit-Based Neuromodulation (2020), American Journal of Psychiatry
  • A framework for concepts of reserve and resilience in aging (2022), Neurobiology of Aging
  • Brain stimulation and brain lesions converge on common causal circuits in neuropsychiatric disease (2021), Nature Human Behaviour
  • Assessing the mechanisms of brain plasticity by transcranial magnetic stimulation (2022), Neuropsychopharmacology

Their research addresses technical, clinical, and theoretical aspects of brain stimulation, brain plasticity, and neuropsychiatric disease mechanisms, contributing to evolving methodologies and treatment approaches.

Best Publications

  • Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research

    Simone Rossi;Mark Hallett;Paolo M. Rossini;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation: State of the art 2008

    Michael A. Nitsche;Leonardo G. Cohen;Eric M. Wassermann;Alberto Priori

  • Non-invasive electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, spinal cord, roots and peripheral nerves: Basic principles and procedures for routine clinical and research application: An updated report from an I.F.C.N. Committee

    P.M. Rossini;D. Burke;R. Chen;L.G. Cohen

  • The plastic human brain cortex.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Amir Amedi;Felipe Fregni;Lotfi B. Merabet

  • Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression

    Andrew T Drysdale;Logan Grosenick;Logan Grosenick;Jonathan Downar;Katharine Dunlop

  • Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills

    A. Pascual-Leone;D. Nguyet;L. G. Cohen;J. P. Brasil-Neto

  • Responses to rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Josep Valls-Solé;Eric M. Wassermann;Mark Hallett

  • α-Band Electroencephalographic Activity over Occipital Cortex Indexes Visuospatial Attention Bias and Predicts Visual Target Detection

    Gregor Thut;Annika Nietzel;Stephan A. Brandt;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects.

    Norihiro Sadato;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Jordan Grafman;Vicente Ibañez

  • Clinical research with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): Challenges and future directions

    Andre Russowsky Brunoni;Michael A. Nitsche;Nadia Bolognini;Marom Bikson

  • Rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in drug-resistant depression

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Belen Rubio;Federico Pallardó;Maria Dolores Catalá

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurology

    Masahito Kobayashi;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of prefrontal cortex enhances working memory.

    Felipe Fregni;Paulo S. Boggio;Michael Nitsche;Felix Bermpohl

  • Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications

    Steven C. Cramer;Mriganka Sur;Bruce H. Dobkin;Charles J O'Brien

  • Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex

    Daria Knoch;Daria Knoch;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Kaspar Meyer;Valerie Treyer

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines

    Simone Rossi;Andrea Antal;Sven Bestmann;Marom Bikson

  • Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines

    A. Antal;Ivan Alekseichuk;M. Bikson;J. Brockmöller

  • Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans

    Leonardo G. Cohen;Pablo Celnik;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Brian Corwell

  • Noninvasive human brain stimulation.

    Timothy Wagner;Antoni Valero-Cabre;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Targets for Depression Is Related to Intrinsic Functional Connectivity with the Subgenual Cingulate

    Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;Michael D. Fox;Randy L. Buckner;Matthew P. White;Michael D. Greicius

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience--virtual lesion, chronometry, and functional connectivity.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Vincent Walsh;John Rothwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Felipe Fregni
Felipe Fregni Harvard University
Alexander Rotenberg
Alexander Rotenberg Boston Children's Hospital
Emiliano Santarnecchi
Emiliano Santarnecchi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael D. Fox
Michael D. Fox Harvard University
Paulo S. Boggio
Paulo S. Boggio Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Dylan J. Edwards
Dylan J. Edwards Edith Cowan University
Mouhsin M. Shafi
Mouhsin M. Shafi Harvard Medical School
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
David Bartrés-Faz
David Bartrés-Faz University of Barcelona

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