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Marc Guitart-Masip

Marc Guitart-Masip

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
6318
World Ranking
7888
National Ranking
155

Overview

Marc Guitart-Masip is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience. The primary focus of their research lies within cognitive neuroscience, with a substantial body of work exploring experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health. Their publications largely address topics related to neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity, neural dynamics and brain function, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, mental health research, memory and neural mechanisms, as well as diet and metabolism studies.

Marc Guitart-Masip's research output includes several recent papers:

  • Decision-making ability, psychopathology, and brain connectivity (2021, Neuron)
  • Neural signatures of arbitration between Pavlovian and instrumental action selection (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • Diabetes, Prediabetes, and Brain Aging: The Role of Healthy Lifestyle (2024, Diabetes Care)
  • Dopamine release in human associative striatum during reversal learning (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Learning in anticipation of reward and punishment: perspectives across the human lifespan (2020, Neurobiology of Aging)

Their publications often appear in a variety of scientific venues, with notable frequency in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, Cerebral Cortex, Neurobiology of Aging, and Scientific Reports.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Lieke de Boer, Lars Nyberg, Benjamín Garzón, Lars Bäckman, and Jan Axelsson.

Marc Guitart-Masip's contributions span across the following main fields and subfields:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental health

Their research themes cover:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Best Publications

  • Go and no-go learning in reward and punishment: interactions between affect and effect.

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Quentin J.M. Huys;Quentin J.M. Huys;Lluis Fuentemilla;Peter Dayan

  • Action versus valence in decision making

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Emrah Duzel;Ray Dolan;Peter Dayan

  • Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age

    Rumana Chowdhury;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christian Lambert;Christian Lambert;Peter Dayan

  • NOvelty-related motivation of anticipation and exploration by dopamine (NOMAD): implications for healthy aging.

    Emrah Düzel;Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Sandra Düzel

  • Action Dominates Valence in Anticipatory Representations in the Human Striatum and Dopaminergic Midbrain

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Lluis Fuentemilla;Dominik R. Bach;Quentin J. M. Huys

  • Dopamine modulates reward-related vigor.

    Ulrik Beierholm;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marcos Economides;Rumana Chowdhury;Rumana Chowdhury

  • Functional imaging of the human dopaminergic midbrain

    Emrah Düzel;Nico Bunzeck;Marc Guitart-Masip;Bianca Wittmann

  • How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans

    Tali Sharot;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christoph W. Korn;Christoph W. Korn;Rumana Chowdhury;Rumana Chowdhury

  • Frontal Theta Overrides Pavlovian Learning Biases

    James F. Cavanagh;Ian Eisenberg;Marc Guitart-Masip;Quentin Huys

  • Dopamine and effort-based decision making.

    Irma Triasih Kurniawan;Irma Triasih Kurniawan;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Ray J. Dolan

  • Dopamine Modulates Episodic Memory Persistence in Old Age

    Rumana Chowdhury;Marc Guitart-Masip;Nico Bunzeck;Raymond J Dolan

  • Effort and Valuation in the Brain: The Effects of Anticipation and Execution

    Irma T Kurniawan;Marc Guitart-Masip;Peter Dayan;Raymond J Dolan

  • Human Hippocampus Arbitrates Approach-Avoidance Conflict.

    Dominik R. Bach;Dominik R. Bach;Dominik R. Bach;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Pau A. Packard;Júlia Miró

  • Action controls dopaminergic enhancement of reward representations

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Rumana Chowdhury;Tali Sharot;Peter Dayan

  • Contextual Novelty Changes Reward Representations in the Striatum

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Nico Bunzeck;Klaas E. Stephan;Klaas E. Stephan;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Differential, but not opponent, effects of l-DOPA and citalopram on action learning with reward and punishment

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marcos Economides;Quentin J. M. Huys;Michael J. Frank

  • BOLD Variability is Related to Dopaminergic Neurotransmission and Cognitive Aging

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Alireza Salami;Alireza Salami;Douglas D. Garrett;Anna Rieckmann

  • A resource for the simultaneous high-resolution mapping of multiple quantitative trait loci in rats: The NIH heterogeneous stock

    Martina Johannesson;Regina Lopez-Aumatell;Pernilla Stridh;Margarita Diez

  • Human Hippocampus Arbitrates Approach-Avoidance Conflict

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  • Decision-Theoretic Psychiatry

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Marc Guitart-Masip;Raymond J. Dolan;Raymond J. Dolan;Peter Dayan

  • Report How Dopamine Enhances an Optimism Bias in Humans

    Tali Sharot;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christoph W. Korn;Rumana Chowdhury

  • Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age (vol 16, pg 648, 2013)

    R Chowdhury;M Guitart-Masip;C Lambert;P Dayan

Frequent Co-Authors

Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London
Dominik R. Bach
Dominik R. Bach University of Bonn
Lars Bäckman
Lars Bäckman Karolinska Institute
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg Umeå University
Alberto Fernández-Teruel
Alberto Fernández-Teruel Autonomous University of Barcelona
Constanze I. Seidenbecher
Constanze I. Seidenbecher Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Nico Bunzeck
Nico Bunzeck University of Lübeck
Stephen M. Fleming
Stephen M. Fleming University College London

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