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Fabrizio Benedetti

Fabrizio Benedetti

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Neuroscience

D-Index
82
Citations
30044
World Ranking
1494
National Ranking
57

Medicine

D-Index
82
Citations
30026
World Ranking
15950
National Ranking
626

Overview

Fabrizio Benedetti is affiliated with the University of Turin in Italy and has conducted research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their work encompasses key subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Physiology.

The scientist's research focuses mainly on topics including Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Empathy and Medical Education, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies, and Neurology and Historical Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Fabrizio Benedetti include:

  • Context matters: the psychoneurobiological determinants of placebo, nocebo and context-related effects in physiotherapy (2020, Archives of Physiotherapy)
  • What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus (2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics)
  • European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology (2020, The Journal of Headache and Pain)
  • Manipulating placebo analgesia and nocebo hyperalgesia by changing brain excitability (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Chronic nonbacterial osteomyelitis - clinical and magnetic resonance imaging features (2020, Pediatric Radiology)

Fabrizio Benedetti has frequent co-authors with whom collaborations have resulted in multiple publications. These include Aziz Shaibani, Elisa Frisaldi, Elisa Carlino, Alessandro Piedimonte, and Eleonora Maria Camerone.

Frequent venues for Fabrizio Benedetti's publications include:

  • Pain
  • Sports Medicine
  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • PubMed

Best Publications

  • A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought

    Donald D. Price;Damien G. Finniss;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects

    Damien G Finniss;Ted J Kaptchuk;Franklin Miller;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Neuropharmacological Dissection of Placebo Analgesia: Expectation-Activated Opioid Systems versus Conditioning-Activated Specific Subsystems

    Martina Amanzio;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Helen S. Mayberg;Tor D. Wager;Christian S. Stohler

  • Conscious Expectation and Unconscious Conditioning in Analgesic, Motor, and Hormonal Placebo/Nocebo Responses

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Antonella Pollo;Leonardo Lopiano;Michele Lanotte

  • WHEN WORDS ARE PAINFUL: UNRAVELING THE MECHANISMS OF THE NOCEBO EFFECT

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Michele Maria Rosario Lanotte;Leonardo Lopiano;L. Colloca

  • New Insights into the Placebo and Nocebo Responses

    Paul Enck;Fabrizio Benedetti;Manfred Schedlowski

  • Overt versus covert treatment for pain, anxiety, and Parkinson's disease

    Luana Colloca;Leonardo Lopiano;Michele Lanotte;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Placebos and painkillers: is mind as real as matter?

    Luana Colloca;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • How placebos change the patient's brain.

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Elisa Carlino;Antonella Pollo

  • The role of learning in nocebo and placebo effects

    L. Colloca;M. Sigaudo;F. Benedetti

  • Response variability to analgesics: a role for non-specific activation of endogenous opioids

    Martina Amanzio;Antonella Pollo;Giuliano Maggi;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Response expectancies in placebo analgesia and their clinical relevance

    Antonella Pollo;Martina Amanzio;Anna Arslanian;Caterina Casadio

  • Implications of Placebo and Nocebo Effects for Clinical Practice: Expert Consensus.

    Andrea W M Evers;Luana Colloca;Charlotte Blease;Marco Annoni

  • How prior experience shapes placebo analgesia.

    Luana Colloca;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • The biochemical and neuroendocrine bases of the hyperalgesic nocebo effect.

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Martina Amanzio;Sergio Vighetti;Giovanni Asteggiano

  • Placebo and the New Physiology of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Placebo analgesia induced by social observational learning.

    Luana Colloca;Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Mechanisms of placebo and placebo-related effects across diseases and treatments.

    Fabrizio Benedetti

  • Somatotopic Activation of Opioid Systems by Target-Directed Expectations of Analgesia

    Fabrizio Benedetti;Claudia Arduino;Martina Amanzio

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonardo Lopiano
Leonardo Lopiano University of Turin
Michele Lanotte
Michele Lanotte University of Turin
Tor D. Wager
Tor D. Wager Dartmouth College
Maurizio Zibetti
Maurizio Zibetti University of Turin
Donald D. Price
Donald D. Price University of Florida
Carlo Adolfo Porro
Carlo Adolfo Porro University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Ben Colagiuri
Ben Colagiuri University of Sydney
Andrew L. Geers
Andrew L. Geers University of Toledo
Ted J. Kaptchuk
Ted J. Kaptchuk Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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