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Daniela Perani 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 Daniela Perani sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 371 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniela Perani 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 Daniela Perani sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Daniela Perani is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Physiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their scholarly work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications

Daniela Perani has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Amyloid-PET and 18F-FDG-PET in the diagnostic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias", 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • "The combined effects of microglia activation and brain glucose hypometabolism in early-onset Alzheimer's disease", 2020, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "In vivo human molecular neuroimaging of dopaminergic vulnerability along the Alzheimer's disease phases", 2021, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Time-dependent recovery of brain hypometabolism in neuro-COVID-19 patients", 2022, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • "The impact of tau deposition and hypometabolism on cognitive impairment and longitudinal cognitive decline", 2023, Alzheimer's & Dementia

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Cecilia Boccalini
  • Silvia Paola Caminiti
  • Valentina Garibotto
  • Luca Presotto
  • Giovanni B. Frisoni

Daniela Perani's publications appear predominantly in academic venues such as:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • The Lancet Neurology

Overall, Daniela Perani's research integrates diagnostic imaging techniques with neurodegenerative disease studies, contributing to the understanding of brain metabolism, cognitive decline, and molecular neuroimaging, particularly within Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Best Publications

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits

    Marco Tettamanti;Giovanni Buccino;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese

  • Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution

    G. Rizzolatti;L. Fadiga;M. Matelli;V. Bettinardi

  • Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy.

    J Decety;J Grèzes;N Costes;D Perani

  • Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography

    Jean Decety;D. Perani;Marc Jeannerod;V. Bettinardi

  • Cerebral blood flow, blood volume and oxygen utilization. Normal values and effect of age.

    K. L. Leenders;D. Perani;A. A. Lammertsma;J. D. Heather

  • The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.

    Daniela Perani;Eraldo Paulesu;Nuria Sebastian Galles;Emmanuel Dupoux

  • Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

    Karl Herholz;Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Jean-Claude Baron

  • The anatomy of unilateral neglect after right-hemisphere stroke lesions. A clinical/CT-scan correlation study in man.

    Giuseppe Vallar;Daniela Perani

  • Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

    Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler;Laurent Cohen

  • A cultural effect on brain function.

    Eraldo Paulesu;Eamon McCrory;Ferruccio Fazio;L. Menoncello

  • The logopenic/phonological variant of primary progressive aphasia

    Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini;Simona Maria Brambati;Valeria Ginex;Jennifer M. Ogar;Jennifer M. Ogar;Jennifer M. Ogar

  • Unawareness of disease following lesions of the right hemisphere: anosognosia for hemiplegia and anosognosia for hemianopia.

    Edoardo Bisiach;Giuseppe Vallar;Daniela Perani;Costanza Papagno

  • Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain

    Isabell Wartenburger;Hauke R. Heekeren;Hauke R. Heekeren;Jubin Abutalebi;Stefano F. Cappa

  • The neural basis of first and second language processing

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi

  • Brain processing of native and foreign languages.

    Daniela Perani;Stanislas Dehaene;Franco Grassi;Laurent Cohen

  • UNILATERAL NEGLECT, REPRESENTATIONAL SCHEMA AND CONSCIOUSNESS

    Edoardo Bisiach;Claudio Luzzatti;Daniela Perani

  • The neural correlates of verb and noun processing: A PET study

    Daniela Perani;Stefano F. Cappa;Tatiana T. Schnur;Marco Tettamanti

  • Neural language networks at birth

    Daniela Perani;Maria C. Saccuman;Paola Scifo;Alfred Anwander

  • The role of age of acquisition and language usage in early, high-proficient bilinguals: an fMRI study during verbal fluency

    Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Eraldo Paulesu;Simona Brambati

  • Amyloid-PET and 18F-FDG-PET in the diagnostic investigation of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

    Gaël Chételat;Javier Arbizu;Henryk Barthel;Valentina Garibotto

  • Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits J. Cogn. Neurosci. 2005 17: 273-281

    Giovanni Buccino Marco Tettamanti;Maria Cristina Saccuman;Vittorio Gallese;Massimo Danna

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano F. Cappa
Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia
F. Fazio
F. Fazio University of Milano-Bicocca
Giuseppe Magnani
Giuseppe Magnani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Alessandro Padovani
Alessandro Padovani University of Brescia
Sandro Iannaccone
Sandro Iannaccone Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Valentina Garibotto
Valentina Garibotto University of Geneva
Marco Tettamanti
Marco Tettamanti University of Milano-Bicocca
Paola Scifo
Paola Scifo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Karl Herholz
Karl Herholz University of Manchester
Barbara Borroni
Barbara Borroni University of Brescia

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