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Amit Etkin publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amit Etkin sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 218 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Amit Etkin D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award

Overview

Amit Etkin is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has made contributions in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their research focuses on various subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and epidemiology.

The main topics of Amit Etkin's work encompass functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, neural dynamics and brain function, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, traumatic brain injury research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and treatment of major depression.

Recent publications by Amit Etkin include:

  • Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Emotional Processing Across Psychiatric Disorders, 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
  • An electroencephalographic signature predicts antidepressant response in major depression, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Identification of psychiatric disorder subtypes from functional connectivity patterns in resting-state electroencephalography, 2020, Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Global connectivity and local excitability changes underlie antidepressant effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Pre-deployment risk factors for PTSD in active-duty personnel deployed to Afghanistan: a machine-learning approach for analyzing multivariate predictors, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry

Amit Etkin's frequent co-authors include Adi Maron-Katz, Tanja Jovanović, Kerry J. Ressler, Seth G. Disner, and Benjamin Suarez-Jimenez.

The scientist's work has been published notably in venues such as Biological Psychiatry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), American Journal of Psychiatry, Neuropsychopharmacology, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Award recognition for Amit Etkin includes the National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award received in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Functional Neuroimaging of Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Emotional Processing in PTSD, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Specific Phobia

    Amit Etkin;Tor D. Wager

  • Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Raffael Kalisch

  • Resting-state connectivity biomarkers define neurophysiological subtypes of depression

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

  • Major depressive disorder

    Christian Otte;Stefan M. Gold;Stefan M. Gold;Brenda W. Penninx;Carmine Maria Pariante

  • Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Daniel M. Peraza;Eric R. Kandel

  • Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness.

    Madeleine Goodkind;Simon B. Eickhoff;Desmond J. Oathes;Desmond J. Oathes;Ying Jiang;Ying Jiang

  • Explicit and implicit emotion regulation: a dual-process framework.

    Anett Gyurak;James J. Gross;Amit Etkin

  • The neural bases of emotion regulation

    Amit Etkin;Christian Büchel;James J. Gross

  • Functional neuroimaging of major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis and new integration of base line activation and neural response data.

    J. Paul Hamilton;Amit Etkin;Daniella J. Furman;Maria G. Lemus

  • Disrupted amygdalar subregion functional connectivity and evidence of a compensatory network in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Amit Etkin;Katherine E. Prater;Alan F. Schatzberg;Vinod Menon

  • Individual Differences in Trait Anxiety Predict the Response of the Basolateral Amygdala to Unconsciously Processed Fearful Faces

    Amit Etkin;Kristen C. Klemenhagen;Joshua T. Dudman;Michael T. Rogan

  • Default mode network mechanisms of transcranial magnetic stimulation in depression

    Conor Liston;Conor Liston;Ashley C. Chen;Ashley C. Chen;Benjamin D. Zebley;Andrew T. Drysdale

  • Failure of Anterior Cingulate Activation and Connectivity With the Amygdala During Implicit Regulation of Emotional Processing in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Amit Etkin;Katherine E. Prater;Fumiko Hoeft;Vinod Menon

  • An essential role in liver development for transcription factor XBP-1

    Andreas M. Reimold;Amit Etkin;Isabelle Clauss;Andrew Perkins

  • Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Cognitive Control Across Psychiatric Disorders.

    Lisa M. McTeague;Julia Huemer;David M. Carreon;Ying Jiang

  • Causal interactions between fronto-parietal central executive and default-mode networks in humans

    Ashley C. Chen;Desmond J. Oathes;Catie Chang;Travis Bradley

  • Dissociable Neural Systems Resolve Conflict from Emotional versus Nonemotional Distracters

    Tobias Egner;Tobias Egner;Amit Etkin;Amit Etkin;Seth Gale;Joy Hirsch

  • Prefrontal cortical regulation of brainwide circuit dynamics and reward-related behavior

    Emily A. Ferenczi;Kelly A. Zalocusky;Conor Liston;Logan Grosenick

  • A Neuronal Isoform of CPEB Regulates Local Protein Synthesis and Stabilizes Synapse-Specific Long-Term Facilitation in Aplysia

    Kausik Si;Maurizio Giustetto;Amit Etkin;Ruby Hsu

  • A meta-analysis of instructed fear studies: Implications for conscious appraisal of threat

    Marie-Luise Mechias;Amit Etkin;Raffael Kalisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Leanne M. Williams
Leanne M. Williams Stanford University
Alan F. Schatzberg
Alan F. Schatzberg Stanford University
Madhukar H. Trivedi
Madhukar H. Trivedi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Anett Gyurak
Anett Gyurak Stanford University
Maurizio Fava
Maurizio Fava Harvard University
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Patrick J. McGrath
Patrick J. McGrath Columbia University
Charles R. Marmar
Charles R. Marmar New York University
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Melvin G. McInnis
Melvin G. McInnis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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