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Fabrizio Piras

Fabrizio Piras

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Neuroscience

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53
Citations
12846
World Ranking
5045
National Ranking
242

Psychology

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53
Citations
12324
World Ranking
4776
National Ranking
74

Overview

Fabrizio Piras is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience through numerous publications and collaborations. Their research spans several main topics and subfields that demonstrate a focus on brain function and neurological disorders.

The primary fields of study for Fabrizio Piras are medicine, with 165 publications, and neuroscience, with 94 publications. Their work intersects multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, schizophrenia research and treatment, acute ischemic stroke management, dementia and cognitive impairment research, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.

Frequent co-authors in Fabrizio Piras's body of work include Gianfranco Spalletta, Nerisa Banaj, Daniela Vecchio, Paul M. Thompson, and Neda Jahanshad. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers specializing in related neuroimaging and neurological areas.

The venues where Fabrizio Piras often publishes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 29 publications, Molecular Psychiatry and Human Brain Mapping with 7 publications each, Translational Psychiatry with 5 publications, and the Journal of Personalized Medicine also with 5 publications.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Fabrizio Piras include:

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA (2020), NeuroImage
  • International Multicenter Analysis of Brain Structure Across Clinical Stages of Parkinson's Disease (2021), Movement Disorders
  • A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms (2022), Scientific Data
  • Brain ageing in schizophrenia: evidence from 26 international cohorts via the ENIGMA Schizophrenia consortium (2022), Molecular Psychiatry

Fabrizio Piras has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Frontiers Media in 2023 entitled Insights in Aging Psychiatry: 2021.

Best Publications

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Cortical Brain Abnormalities in 4474 Individuals With Schizophrenia and 5098 Control Subjects via the Enhancing Neuro Imaging Genetics Through Meta Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium

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  • Widespread white matter microstructural differences in schizophrenia across 4322 individuals : results from the ENIGMA Schizophrenia DTI Working Group

    S. Kelly;S. Kelly;N. Jahanshad;A. Zalesky;P. Kochunov

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Magnetic resonance imaging markers of Parkinson’s disease nigrostriatal signature

    Patrice Péran;Andrea Cherubini;Francesca Assogna;Fabrizio Piras

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • Distinct Subcortical Volume Alterations in Pediatric and Adult OCD: A Worldwide Meta- and Mega-Analysis.

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Stephanie H. Ameis

  • Cortical Abnormalities Associated With Pediatric and Adult Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Working Group

    Premika S.W. Boedhoe;Lianne Schmaal;Yoshinari Abe;Pino Alonso

  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA.

    Joaquim Radua;Eduard Vieta;Russell Shinohara;Peter Kochunov

  • Widespread structural brain changes in OCD: a systematic review of voxel-based morphometry studies.

    Federica Piras;Fabrizio Piras;Chiara Chiapponi;Paolo Girardi

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups

    Premika S W Boedhoe;Daan van Rooij;Martine Hoogman;Jos W R Twisk

  • Prefrontal cortical thinning links to negative symptoms in schizophrenia via the ENIGMA consortium.

    E Walton;D P Hibar;T G M van Erp;S G Potkin

  • Atrophy of presubiculum and subiculum is the earliest hippocampal anatomical marker of Alzheimer's disease

    Giovanni A. Carlesimo;Fabrizio Piras;Maria Donata Orfei;Mariangela Iorio

  • Object naming and action-verb generation in Parkinson's disease: a fMRI study.

    Patrice Péran;Dominique Cardebat;Andrea Cherubini;Fabrizio Piras

  • Hippocampal abnormalities and memory deficits in Parkinson disease A multimodal imaging study

    G. A. Carlesimo;F. Piras;F. Assogna;F. E. Pontieri

  • Brain ageing in schizophrenia: evidence from 26 international cohorts via the ENIGMA Schizophrenia consortium

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  • Brain circuitries of obsessive compulsive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies.

    Federica Piras;Fabrizio Piras;Carlo Caltagirone;Gianfranco Spalletta

  • International Multicenter Analysis of Brain Structure Across Clinical Stages of Parkinson's Disease

    Max A. Laansma;Joanna K. Bright;Sarah Al-Bachari;Sarah Al-Bachari;Tim J. Anderson

  • Education mediates microstructural changes in bilateral hippocampus

    Fabrizio Piras;Andrea Cherubini;Carlo Caltagirone;Gianfranco Spalletta

  • Mapping Cortical and Subcortical Asymmetry in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Findings From the ENIGMA Consortium

    Xiang-Zhen Kong;Premika S W Boedhoe;Yoshinari Abe;Pino Alonso

  • Positive symptoms associate with cortical thinning in the superior temporal gyrus via the ENIGMA Schizophrenia consortium

    E. Walton;E. Walton;E. Walton;D. P. Hibar;T. G. M. van Erp;S. G. Potkin

  • GABA System in Schizophrenia and Mood Disorders: A Mini Review on Third-Generation Imaging Studies.

    Chiara Chiapponi;Federica Piras;Fabrizio Piras;Carlo Caltagirone

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianfranco Spalletta
Gianfranco Spalletta Baylor College of Medicine
Carlo Caltagirone
Carlo Caltagirone Fondazione Santa Lucia
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Lianne Schmaal
Lianne Schmaal University of Melbourne
Damiaan Denys
Damiaan Denys University of Amsterdam
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
David C. Glahn
David C. Glahn Boston Children's Hospital
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine

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