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Diego A. Pizzagalli

Diego A. Pizzagalli

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
101
Citations
43054
World Ranking
591
National Ranking
376

Diego A. Pizzagalli 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 Diego A. Pizzagalli sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 458 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Diego A. Pizzagalli 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 Diego A. Pizzagalli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 101 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.

Overview

Diego A. Pizzagalli is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected domains, primarily within neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their work extensively covers key topics such as:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Pizzagalli's publication record includes several recent papers that address various aspects of brain function and mental health:

  • Prefrontal cortex and depression, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • An electroencephalographic signature predicts antidepressant response in major depression, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial applying the 'fast-fail' approach to evaluating κ-opioid antagonism as a treatment for anhedonia, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Evidence-based umbrella review of 162 peripheral biomarkers for major mental disorders, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity and mindfulness in clinical and non-clinical contexts: A review and synthesis, 2022, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pizzagalli include:

  • Jennifer S. Stevens
  • Thomas C. Neylan
  • Sarah D. Linnstaedt
  • Laura Germine
  • Robert M. Domeier

Their research is often published in venues specializing in psychiatry, neuroscience, and psychology, demonstrated by frequent publications in journals such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Within their fields of study, Pizzagalli's output is strongly represented across the major categories of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Specific subfields with substantial contributions include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology

Best Publications

  • Large-Scale Network Dysfunction in Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-analysis of Resting-State Functional Connectivity.

    Roselinde H. Kaiser;Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna;Tor D. Wager;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Depression: perspectives from affective neuroscience.

    Richard J. Davidson;Diego Pizzagalli;Jack B. Nitschke;Katherine Putnam

  • Effects of early life stress on cognitive and affective function: an integrated review of human literature.

    Pia Pechtel;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Reduced Caudate and Nucleus Accumbens Response to Rewards in Unmedicated Individuals With Major Depressive Disorder

    Diego A. Pizzagalli;A.M. Avram J. Holmes;Daniel G. Dillon;B.A. Elena L. Goetz

  • Depression, stress, and anhedonia: toward a synthesis and integrated model.

    Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Frontocingulate Dysfunction in Depression: Toward Biomarkers of Treatment Response

    Diego A Pizzagalli

  • Reduced hedonic capacity in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a probabilistic reward task

    Diego A. Pizzagalli;Dan Iosifescu;Lindsay A. Hallett;Kyle G. Ratner

  • Toward an Objective Characterization of an Anhedonic Phenotype: A Signal-Detection Approach

    Diego A. Pizzagalli;Allison L. Jahn;James P. O’Shea

  • Reward processing dysfunction in major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

    Alexis E. Whitton;Michael T. Treadway;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Anterior cingulate activity as a predictor of degree of treatment response in major depression: evidence from brain electrical tomography analysis.

    Diego Pizzagalli;Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui;Jack B. Nitschke;Terrence R. Oakes

  • Assessing anhedonia in depression: Potentials and pitfalls.

    Sakina J. Rizvi;Sakina J. Rizvi;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Beth A. Sproule;Sidney H. Kennedy

  • Anxiety selectively disrupts visuospatial working memory.

    Alexander J. Shackman;Issidoros Sarinopoulos;Jeffrey S. Maxwell;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • The Impact of Stress and Major Depressive Disorder on Hippocampal and Medial Prefrontal Cortex Morphology

    Emily L. Belleau;Michael T. Treadway;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Prefrontal cortex and depression.

    Diego A Pizzagalli;Angela C Roberts

  • Reduced Reward Learning predicts outcome in Major Depressive Disorder

    Elske Vrieze;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Koen Demyttenaere;Titia Hompes

  • Functional but not structural subgenual prefrontal cortex abnormalities in melancholia

    D A Pizzagalli;T R Oakes;A S Fox;M K Chung

  • The role of the nucleus accumbens and rostral anterior cingulate cortex in anhedonia: Integration of resting EEG, fMRI, and volumetric techniques

    Jan Wacker;Daniel G. Dillon;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Brain Reactivity to Smoking Cues Prior to Smoking Cessation Predicts Ability to Maintain Tobacco Abstinence

    Amy C. Janes;Diego A. Pizzagalli;Sarah Richardt;Blaise de B. Frederick

  • Mapping anhedonia onto reinforcement learning: a behavioural meta-analysis

    Quentin Jm Huys;Diego A Pizzagalli;Ryan Bogdan;Peter Dayan

  • Acute stress reduces reward responsiveness: implications for depression.

    Ryan Bogdan;Diego A. Pizzagalli

  • Childhood adversity is associated with left basal ganglia dysfunction during reward anticipation in adulthood

    Daniel G. Dillon;Avram J. Holmes;Jeffrey L. Birk;Nancy Brooks

  • Frontal Brain Asymmetry and Reward Responsiveness: A Source-Localization Study

    Diego A. Pizzagalli;Rebecca J. Sherwood;Jeffrey B. Henriques;Richard J. Davidson

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurizio Fava
Maurizio Fava Harvard University
Randy P. Auerbach
Randy P. Auerbach Columbia University
Madhukar H. Trivedi
Madhukar H. Trivedi The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Christian A. Webb
Christian A. Webb Harvard University
Avram J. Holmes
Avram J. Holmes Yale University
Ryan Bogdan
Ryan Bogdan Washington University in St. Louis
Dost Öngür
Dost Öngür Harvard University
Ramin V. Parsey
Ramin V. Parsey Stony Brook University
Dan V. Iosifescu
Dan V. Iosifescu New York University

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