2026 Christian Grillon: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	103	687	617	383	335	291	36260
Psychology	103	550	478	343	289	289	36191

Overview

Christian Grillon is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The work also spans areas such as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their research interests include neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, and investigations related to anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. They have contributed to topics on neuroscience and music perception, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as advanced neuroimaging and MRI techniques and applications.

Christian Grillon has published extensively, with notable recurring publication venues including:

Biological Psychiatry
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Translational Psychiatry
American Journal of Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Grillon include:

"Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group," 2021, Translational Psychiatry
"Longitudinal Trajectory of the Link Between Ventral Striatum and Depression in Adolescence," 2022, American Journal of Psychiatry
"The Posterior Cingulate Cortex Reflects the Impact of Anxiety on Drift Rates During Cognitive Processing," 2022, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
"Intrinsic connections between thalamic sub-regions and the lateral prefrontal cortex are differentially impacted by acute methylphenidate," 2020, Psychopharmacology
"Anxiety makes time pass quicker: neural correlates," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaborators include:

James Blair
Ellen Leibenluft
Murray B. Stein
Raquel E. Gur
John H. Krystal

Best Publications

Phasic vs sustained fear in rats and humans: role of the extended amygdala in fear vs anxiety.

Michael Davis;David L Walker;Leigh Miles;Christian Grillon

1699
Citations
Gating and habituation of the startle reflex in schizophrenic patients.

David L. Braff;Christian Grillon;Mark A. Geyer

1257
Citations
Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders : a meta-analysis

Shmuel Lissek;Alice S. Powers;Erin B. McClure;Elizabeth A. Phelps

1252
Citations
Activation of the left amygdala to a cognitive representation of fear

Elizabeth A. Phelps;Kevin J. O'Connor;J. Christopher Gatenby;John C. Gore

1241
Citations
A review of the modulation of the startle reflex by affective states and its application in psychiatry.

Christian Grillon;Johanna Baas

716
Citations
Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear as a Pathogenic Marker of Panic Disorder

Shmuel Lissek;Stephanie Rabin;Randi E. Heller;David Lukenbaugh

706
Citations
The impact of anxiety upon cognition: perspectives from human threat of shock studies.

Oliver Joe Robinson;Katherine Vytal;Brian R Cornwell;Christian Grillon

650
Citations
Startle reactivity and anxiety disorders: aversive conditioning, context, and neurobiology.

Christian Grillon

649
Citations
Models and mechanisms of anxiety: evidence from startle studies

Christian Grillon

588
Citations
Families at high and low risk for depression: a 3-generation study.

Myrna M. Weissman;Priya Wickramaratne;Yoko Nomura;Virginia Warner

586
Citations
Fear-potentiated startle in humans: effects of anticipatory anxiety on the acoustic blink reflex.

Christian Grillon;Rezvan Ameli;Scott W. Woods;Kathleen Merikangas

583
Citations
Generalized anxiety disorder is associated with overgeneralization of classically conditioned fear.

Shmuel Lissek;Shmuel Lissek;Antonia N. Kaczkurkin;Stephanie Rabin;Marilla Geraci

522
Citations
Positron emission tomographic imaging of neural correlates of a fear acquisition and extinction paradigm in women with childhood sexual-abuse-related post-traumatic stress disorder.

J. Douglas Bremner;Eric Vermetten;Christian G. Schmahl;Viola Vaccarino

485
Citations
Generalization of conditioned fear-potentiated startle in humans: experimental validation and clinical relevance.

Shmuel Lissek;Arter L. Biggs;Stephanie J. Rabin;Brian R. Cornwell

481
Citations
Fear-potentiated startle conditioning to explicit and contextual cues in Gulf War veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Christian Grillon;Charles A. Morgan Iii

480
Citations
Anxious responses to predictable and unpredictable aversive events

Christian Grillon;Johanna P. Baas;Shmuel Lissek;Kathryn Smith

434
Citations
Assessing fear and anxiety in humans using the threat of predictable and unpredictable aversive events (the NPU-threat test).

Anja Schmitz;Christian Grillon

415
Citations
Startle gating deficits occur across prepulse intensities in schizophrenic patients.

Christian Grillon;Rezvan Ameli;Dennis S. Charney;John Krystal

406
Citations
Contextual Fear Conditioning in Humans: Cortical-Hippocampal and Amygdala Contributions

Ruben P. Alvarez;Arter Biggs;Gang Chen;Daniel S. Pine

387
Citations
Development of anxiety: the role of threat appraisal and fear learning

Jennifer C. Britton;Shmuel Lissek;Christian Grillon;A B S Maxine Norcross

364
Citations
Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity.

Ruben P. Alvarez;Gang Chen;Jerzy Bodurka;Jerzy Bodurka;Raphael Kaplan

357
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health

Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health

Oliver J. Robinson University College London

Shmuel Lissek University of Minnesota

Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health

Johanna M.P. Baas Utrecht University

Steven M. Southwick Yale University

Jonathan P. Roiser University College London

Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health

Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Christian Grillon Google Scholar page

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