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Citations
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Gyorgy Bagdy is affiliated with Semmelweis University in Hungary and has developed a research profile centered on medicine and neuroscience, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and biological psychiatry. Their work also spans endocrine and autonomic systems as well as physiology.

Their research covers topics including migraine and headache studies, tryptophan and brain disorders, stress responses and cortisol, circadian rhythm and melatonin, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

Frequent publication venues where Bagdy's work appears include:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE

Notable recent papers by Gyorgy Bagdy include:

  • Inflammation and Blood-Brain Barrier in Depression: Interaction of CLDN5 and IL6 Gene Variants in Stress-Induced Depression (2022) published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Nature and Nurture: Effects of Affective Temperaments on Depressive Symptoms Are Markedly Modified by Stress Exposure (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Genetic analyses of the endocannabinoid pathway in association with affective phenotypic variants (2021) published in Neuroscience Letters
  • (S)-Ketamine but Not (R)-Ketamine Shows Acute Effects on Depression-Like Behavior and Sleep-Wake Architecture in Rats (2023) published in The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Genetic underpinnings of affective temperaments: a pilot GWAS investigation identifies a new genome-wide significant SNP for anxious temperament in ADGRB3 gene (2021) published in Translational Psychiatry

Collaborations frequently occur with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Gabriella Juhász
  • Xénia Gonda
  • Nóra Eszlári
  • Dóra Török
  • Zsófia Gál

Gyorgy Bagdy's research contributions have been recognized with memberships in prestigious organizations including the Academia Europaea since 2013 and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. These memberships reflect ongoing involvement in academic networks and scientific communities related to their fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Serotonin and epilepsy

    Gyorgy Bagdy;Valeria Kecskemeti;Pal Riba;Rita Jakus

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    R. C. Culverhouse;N. L. Saccone;A. C. Horton;Y. Ma

  • Anxiety-like effects induced by acute fluoxetine, sertraline or m-CPP treatment are reversed by pretreatment with the 5-HT2C receptor antagonist SB-242084 but not the 5-HT1A receptor antagonist WAY-100635.

    Gyorgy Bagdy;Marton Graf;Zsuzsanna E. Anheuer;Edit A. Modos

  • NO-induced migraine attack: strong increase in plasma calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) concentration and negative correlation with platelet serotonin release.

    Gabriella Juhasz;Terezia Zsombok;Edit A Modos;Sarolta Olajos

  • Serotonin agonists cause parallel activation of the sympathoadrenomedullary system and the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in conscious rats.

    G Bagdy;A E Calogero;D L Murphy;K Szemeredi

  • Effects of serotonergic agonists and antagonists on corticotropin-releasing hormone secretion by explanted rat hypothalami

    Aldo E. Calogero;Renato Bernardini;Andrew N. Margioris;Gyorgy Bagdy

  • Sumatriptan causes parallel decrease in plasma calcitonin gene‐related peptide (CGRP) concentration and migraine headache during nitroglycerin induced migraine attack

    Gabriella Juhász;Terézia Zsombok;Balázs Jakab;J. Németh

  • Association of the s allele of the 5-HTTLPR with neuroticism-related traits and temperaments in a psychiatrically healthy population

    Xenia Gonda;Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis;Gabriella Juhasz;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Mechanisms of Serotonin Receptor Agonist-Induced Activation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in the Rat

    Aldo E. Calogero;Gyorgy Bagdy;Katalin Szemeredi;Maria E. Tartaglia

  • Role of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptor-mediated oxytocin, prolactin and ACTH/corticosterone responses.

    Gyorgy Bagdy

  • The 5HTTLPR polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene is associated with affective temperaments as measured by TEMPS-A

    Xenia Gonda;Zoltan Rihmer;Terezia Zsombok;Gyorgy Bagdy

  • Neurotransmitter-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responsiveness is defective in inflammatory disease-susceptible lewis rats : in vivo and in vitro studies suggesting globally defective hypothalamic secretion of corticotropin-releasing hormone

    Aldo E. Calogero;Esther M. Sternberg;Gyorgy Bagdy;Craig Smith

  • A study of affective temperaments in Hungary: Internal consistency and concurrent validity of the TEMPS-A against the TCI and NEO-PI-R

    Sándor Rózsa;Zoltán Rihmer;Xénia Gonda;Ilona Szili

  • Patterns of mood changes throughout the reproductive cycle in healthy women without premenstrual dysphoric disorders.

    X. Gonda;T. Telek;Gabriella Juhasz;J. Lazary

  • New evidence for the association of the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) haplotypes, threatening life events, and depressive phenotype.

    Judit Lazary;Aron Lazary;Xenia Gonda;Anita Benko

  • Neuropeptide and Small Transmitter Coexistence: Fundamental Studies and Relevance to Mental Illness.

    Tomas Hökfelt;Swapnali Barde;Zhi Qing David Xu;Zhi Qing David Xu;Eugenia Kuteeva

  • Subthreshold depression is linked to the functional polymorphism of the 5HT transporter gene

    Xenia Gonda;Gabriella Juhasz;Andras Laszik;Zoltan Rihmer

  • Brain galanin system genes interact with life stresses in depression-related phenotypes

    Gabriella Juhasz;Gabriella Juhasz;Gabriella Juhasz;Gabor Hullam;Gabor Hullam;Nora Eszlari;Nora Eszlari;Xenia Gonda;Xenia Gonda

  • Male Fischer 344/N rats show a progressive central impairment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis with advancing age

    Giovanni Cizza;Aldo E. Calogero;Linda S. Brady;Gyorgy Bagdy

  • Effect of 5-HT1C and 5-HT2 receptor stimulation on excessive grooming, penile erection and plasma oxytocin concentrations

    Gyorgy Bagdy;Konstantine T. Kalogeras;Katalin Szemeredi

  • High anxiety and migraine are associated with the s allele of the 5HTTLPR gene polymorphism

    Xenia Gonda;Zoltan Rihmer;Gabriella Juhasz;Terezia Zsombok

  • Signs of attenuated depression-like behavior in vasopressin deficient Brattleboro rats

    M. Mlynarik;D. Zelena;G. Bagdy;G.B. Makara

  • Long-term cortisol treatment impairs behavioral and neuroendocrine responses to 5-HT1 agonists in the rat.

    Gyorgy Bagdy;Aldo E. Calogero;Charanjit S. Aulakh;Katalin Szemeredi

  • Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus lesions differentially affect serotonin-1A (5-HT1A) and 5-HT2 receptor agonist-induced oxytocin, prolactin, and corticosterone responses.

    G Bagdy;G B Makara

  • Promoter variants of the cannabinoid receptor 1 gene (CNR1) in interaction with 5-HTTLPR affect the anxious phenotype.

    Judit Lazary;Aron Lazary;Aron Lazary;Xenia Gonda;Anita Benko

  • Collaborative meta-analysis finds no evidence of a strong interaction between stress and 5-HTTLPR genotype contributing to the development of depression

    Robert C. Culverhouse;Nancy L. Saccone;Amy C. Horton;Yinjiao Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Xenia Gonda
Xenia Gonda Semmelweis University
Ian M. Anderson
Ian M. Anderson University of Manchester
Gyöngyi Kökönyei
Gyöngyi Kökönyei Eötvös Loránd University
Zoltan Rihmer
Zoltan Rihmer Semmelweis University
Rebecca Elliott
Rebecca Elliott University of Manchester
John Francis William Deakin
John Francis William Deakin University of Manchester
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hagop S. Akiskal
Hagop S. Akiskal University of California, San Diego
Sébastien Guillaume
Sébastien Guillaume University of Montpellier
Gonneke Willemsen
Gonneke Willemsen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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