2026 Daniela Perani: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	109	930	887	22	22	523	47808
Neuroscience	109	555	502	14	13	518	48041
Psychology	103	543	472	4	4	371	44548
Medicine	109	5738	5386	180	167	509	48007

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

1618
Citations
Localization of grasp representations in humans by PET: 1. Observation versus execution

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

1575
Citations
Brain activity during observation of actions. Influence of action content and subject's strategy.

J Decety;J Grèzes;N Costes;D Perani

1448
Citations
Mapping motor representations with positron emission tomography

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

1411
Citations
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

1368
Citations
The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.

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

1168
Citations
Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

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

1018
Citations
The anatomy of unilateral neglect after right-hemisphere stroke lesions. A clinical/CT-scan correlation study in man.

Giuseppe Vallar;Daniela Perani

1009
Citations
Anatomical variability in the cortical representation of first and second language

Stanislas Dehaene;Emmanuel Dupoux;Jacques Mehler;Laurent Cohen

877
Citations
A cultural effect on brain function.

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

856
Citations
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

841
Citations
Unawareness of disease following lesions of the right hemisphere: anosognosia for hemiplegia and anosognosia for hemianopia.

Edoardo Bisiach;Giuseppe Vallar;Daniela Perani;Costanza Papagno

830
Citations
Early Setting of Grammatical Processing in the Bilingual Brain

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

778
Citations
The neural basis of first and second language processing

Daniela Perani;Jubin Abutalebi;Jubin Abutalebi

712
Citations
Brain processing of native and foreign languages.

Daniela Perani;Stanislas Dehaene;Franco Grassi;Laurent Cohen

656
Citations
UNILATERAL NEGLECT, REPRESENTATIONAL SCHEMA AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Edoardo Bisiach;Claudio Luzzatti;Daniela Perani

647
Citations
The neural correlates of verb and noun processing: A PET study

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

644
Citations
Neural language networks at birth

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

603
Citations
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

594
Citations
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

498
Citations
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

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefano F. Cappa Istituto Universitario Di Studi Superiori Di Pavia

F. Fazio University of Milano-Bicocca

Giuseppe Magnani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Alessandro Padovani University of Brescia

Sandro Iannaccone Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Valentina Garibotto University of Geneva

Marco Tettamanti University of Milano-Bicocca

Paola Scifo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Karl Herholz University of Manchester

Barbara Borroni University of Brescia

External Links

Personal website of Daniela Perani

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