2026 Hugo D. Critchley: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	116	433	389	56	52	439	60092

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Overview

Hugo D. Critchley is affiliated with Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, focusing on areas that intersect mental and physical health.

The scientist's work has frequently been published in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Scientific Reports
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
SSRN Electronic Journal
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Their main fields of study include:

Medicine
Psychology
Neuroscience

Within these fields, Hugo D. Critchley has contributed to several subfields, especially:

Psychiatry and Mental Health
Cognitive Neuroscience
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Philosophy

The central topics of their research comprise:

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Connective Tissue Disorders Research
Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Among their recent papers are:

"Diseases, Disorders, and Comorbidities of Interoception" (2020), published in Trends in Neurosciences
"Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology" (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
"Brain-body interactions underlying the association of loneliness with mental and physical health" (2020), published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
"Cognition, emotion, and the central autonomic network" (2022), published in Autonomic Neuroscience
"Interoceptive training to target anxiety in autistic adults (ADIE): A single-center, superiority randomized controlled trial" (2021), published in EClinicalMedicine

Hugo D. Critchley has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

Sarah N. Garfinkel
Jessica Eccles
Lisa Quadt
Neil A. Harrison
Charlotte L. Rae

Best Publications

Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness.

Hugo D Critchley;Stefan Wiens;Pia Rotshtein;Arne Ohman

4130
Citations
Temporal difference models and reward-related learning in the human brain

John P. O'Doherty;Peter Dayan;Karl Friston;Hugo Critchley

1794
Citations
Knowing your own heart: distinguishing interoceptive accuracy from interoceptive awareness.

Sarah N. Garfinkel;Sarah N. Garfinkel;Anil K. Seth;Adam B. Barrett;Keisuke Suzuki

1616
Citations
A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty

Tania Singer;Hugo D. Critchley;Kerstin Preuschoff

1528
Citations
Neural mechanisms of autonomic, affective, and cognitive integration.

Hugo D. Critchley;Hugo D. Critchley

1515
Citations
Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence

Hugo D. Critchley;Christopher J. Mathias;Oliver Josephs;John O'Doherty

1491
Citations
Neural responses during anticipation of a primary taste reward.

John P. O'Doherty;Ralf Deichmann;Hugo D. Critchley;Raymond J. Dolan

1396
Citations
Visceral Influences on Brain and Behavior

Hugo D. Critchley;Hugo D. Critchley;Hugo D. Critchley;Neil A. Harrison;Neil A. Harrison;Neil A. Harrison

1290
Citations
Beauty in a smile: The role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness

J. O'Doherty;J. Winston;H. Critchley;D. Perrett

1213
Citations
The functional neuroanatomy of social behaviour: changes in cerebral blood flow when people with autistic disorder process facial expressions.

H. D. Critchley;E. M. Daly;E. T. Bullmore;S. C. Williams

1121
Citations
An Interoceptive Predictive Coding Model of Conscious Presence

Anil K. Seth;Keisuke Suzuki;Hugo D. Critchley;Hugo D. Critchley

1114
Citations
Electrodermal responses: what happens in the brain.

Hugo D. Critchley

1097
Citations
Neural Activity Relating to Generation and Representation of Galvanic Skin Conductance Responses: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Hugo D. Critchley;Rebecca Elliott;Christopher J. Mathias;Raymond J. Dolan

1050
Citations
Cerebral correlates of autonomic cardiovascular arousal: a functional neuroimaging investigation in humans.

H. D. Critchley;D. R. Corfield;M. P. Chandler;C. J. Mathias;C. J. Mathias

954
Citations
Regret and its avoidance: a neuroimaging study of choice behavior

Giorgio Coricelli;Hugo D Critchley;Mateus Joffily;John P O'Doherty

913
Citations
Interoception and emotion.

Hugo D Critchley;Hugo D Critchley;Sarah N Garfinkel

843
Citations
Neural activity in the human brain relating to uncertainty and arousal during anticipation.

Hugo D Critchley;Christopher J Mathias;Raymond J Dolan

835
Citations
Inflammation Causes Mood Changes Through Alterations in Subgenual Cingulate Activity and Mesolimbic Connectivity

Neil A. Harrison;Lena Brydon;Cicely Walker;Marcus A. Gray

830
Citations
Conjoint activity of anterior insular and anterior cingulate cortex: awareness and response

Nick Medford;Hugo D. Critchley

794
Citations
Dissociating valence of outcome from behavioral control in human orbital and ventral prefrontal cortices.

John O'Doherty;Hugo Critchley;Ralf Deichmann;Raymond J. Dolan

793
Citations
Activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex covaries with sympathetic skin conductance level: a physiological account of a “default mode” of brain function

Y. Nagai;Hugo D. Critchley;Eric Featherstone;M. R. Trimble

550
Citations