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Christopher I. Wright

Christopher I. Wright

Harvard University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
14343
World Ranking
7041
National Ranking
3037

Christopher I. Wright 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 Christopher I. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 86 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher I. Wright 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 Christopher I. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christopher I. Wright is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's body of work covers key topics including:

  • Children's Physical and Motor Development
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Physical Education and Pedagogy
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A Pragmatic Feasibility Trial Examining the Effect of Job Embedded Professional Development on Teachers' Capacity to Provide Physical Literacy Enriched Physical Education in Elementary Schools" (2020), published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "A real-world feasibility study of the PLAYshop: a brief intervention to facilitate parent engagement in developing their child's physical literacy" (2021), published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies
  • "Piloting the Virtual PLAYshop Program: A Parent-Focused Physical Literacy Intervention for Early Childhood" (2023), published in Children
  • "Time to act: Mental health and desired university supports among graduate students" (2024), published in Higher Education Research & Development
  • "The impact of altering participant MRI scanning position on back muscle volume measurements" (2022), published in BJR|Open

Frequent co-authors in Wright's research include:

  • Patti-Jean Naylor
  • Valerie Carson
  • E. Jean Buckler
  • Olivia De-Jongh González
  • Luke Wolfenden

Wright's publications appear in venues such as the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, Children, Higher Education Research & Development, and Heat Transfer Engineering.

Best Publications

  • The Cortical Signature of Alzheimer's Disease: Regionally Specific Cortical Thinning Relates to Symptom Severity in Very Mild to Mild AD Dementia and is Detectable in Asymptomatic Amyloid-Positive Individuals

    Bradford C. Dickerson;Akram Bakkour;David H. Salat;Eric Feczko

  • Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr;Roger K. Pitman

  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Lisa M. Shin;Christopher I. Wright;Paul A. Cannistraro;Michelle M. Wedig

  • A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger.

    Paul J. Whalen;Lisa M. Shin;Sean C. McInerney;Håkan Fischer

  • Convergence and Segregation of Ventral Striatal Inputs and Outputs

    Henk J. Groenewegen;Christopher I. Wright;Arno V.J. Beijer;Pieter Voorn

  • Inhibited and Uninhibited Infants ``Grown Up'': Adult Amygdalar Response to Novelty

    Carl E. Schwartz;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Jerome Kagan

  • Differential prefrontal cortex and amygdala habituation to repeatedly presented emotional stimuli.

    Christopher I. Wright;Hakan Fischer;Paul J. Whalen;Sean C. Mcinerney

  • Amygdala volume and social network size in humans.

    Kevin C Bickart;Christopher I Wright;Rebecca J Dautoff;Bradford C Dickerson

  • Neuroimaging Studies of Amygdala Function in Anxiety Disorders

    Scott L. Rauch;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright

  • Interleukin-1β Biosynthesis Inhibition Reduces Acute Seizures and Drug Resistant Chronic Epileptic Activity in Mice

    Mattia Maroso;Silvia Balosso;Teresa Ravizza;Valentina Iori

  • The anatomical relationships of the prefrontal cortex with limbic structures and the basal ganglia

    Henk J. Groenewegen;Christopher I. Wright;Harry B. M. Uylings

  • Brain habituation during repeated exposure to fearful and neutral faces: a functional MRI study.

    Håkan Fischer;Christopher I Wright;Christopher I Wright;Paul J Whalen;Paul J Whalen;Sean C McInerney

  • Differential amygdalar response to novel versus newly familiar neutral faces: a functional MRI probe developed for studying inhibited temperament.

    Carl E Schwartz;Christopher I Wright;Christopher I Wright;Lisa M Shin;Lisa M Shin;Jerome Kagan

  • Increased medial temporal lobe activation during the passive viewing of emotional and neutral facial expressions in schizophrenia.

    Daphne J. Holt;Laura Kunkel;Anthony P. Weiss;Donald C. Goff

  • Neuroglial cholinesterases in the normal brain and in Alzheimer's disease: Relationship to plaques, tangles, and patterns of selective vulnerability

    Christopher I. Wright;Changiz Geula;M.-Marsel Mesulam;M.-Marsel Mesulam

  • Neuroanatomical Correlates of Extraversion and Neuroticism

    Christopher I. Wright;Danielle Williams;Eric Feczko;Lisa Feldman Barrett

  • Patterns of convergence and segregation in the medial nucleus accumbens of the rat: relationships of prefrontal cortical, midline thalamic, and basal amygdaloid afferents.

    Christopher I. Wright;Henk J. Groenewegen

  • A functional MRI study of amygdala responses to angry schematic faces in social anxiety disorder

    Karleyton C. Evans;Christopher I. Wright M.D.;Christopher I. Wright M.D.;M B S Michelle Wedig;L B A Andrea Gold

  • Stringent regulation of stably integrated chloramphenicol acetyl transferase genes by E. coli lac repressor in monkey cells

    James Figge;Christopher Wright;Carolyn J. Collins;Thomas M. Roberts

  • Novelty as a dimension in the affective brain

    Mariann Weierich;Christopher I. Wright;Alyson Negreira;Bradford C. Dickerson

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging study of regional brain activation during implicit sequence learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Scott L. Rauch;Michelle M. Wedig;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Brian Martis

  • lac repressor can regulate expression from a hybrid SV40 early promoter containing a lac operator in animal cells.

    Myles Brown;James Figge;Ulla Hansen;Christopher Wright

  • Patterns of overlap and segregation between insular cortical, intermediodorsal thalamic and basal amygdaloid afferents in the nucleus accumbens of the rat

    C.I. Wright;H.J. Groenewegen

  • Novelty responses and differential effects of order in the amygdala, substantia innominata, and inferior temporal cortex.

    Christopher I Wright;Christopher I Wright;Brian Martis;Brian Martis;Carl E Schwartz;Lisa M Shin;Lisa M Shin

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott L. Rauch
Scott L. Rauch McLean Hospital
Lisa M. Shin
Lisa M. Shin Tufts University
Bradford C. Dickerson
Bradford C. Dickerson Harvard Medical School
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Håkan Fischer
Håkan Fischer Stockholm University
Bruce Fischl
Bruce Fischl Harvard University
Stephan Heckers
Stephan Heckers Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Scott P. Orr
Scott P. Orr Harvard University
Andrew E. Budson
Andrew E. Budson Boston University
Cary R. Savage
Cary R. Savage University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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