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Marco A. Riva

Marco A. Riva

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Medicine

D-Index
87
Citations
23028
World Ranking
13792
National Ranking
526

Overview

Marco A. Riva is affiliated with the University of Milan in Italy and focuses primarily on neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly output covers a variety of subfields, with particular emphasis on behavioral neuroscience, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, biological psychiatry, physiology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's main research topics encompass stress responses and cortisol, birth, development, and health, tryptophan and brain disorders, adipose tissue and metabolism, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, anesthesia and neurotoxicity research, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Marco A. Riva has contributed to several recent academic papers, including:

  • The impact of handling technique and handling frequency on laboratory mouse welfare is sex-specific, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Oxidation-reduction mechanisms in psychiatric disorders: A novel target for pharmacological intervention, 2020, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
  • Social isolation in rats: Effects on animal welfare and molecular markers for neuroplasticity, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Depression, obesity and their comorbidity during pregnancy: effects on the offspring's mental and physical health, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Long-lasting effects of prenatal stress on HPA axis and inflammation: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis in rodent studies, 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Frequent co-authors in Marco A. Riva's publications include:

  • Veronica Begni
  • Annamaria Cattaneo
  • Monica Mazzelli
  • Kerstin Camile Creutzberg
  • Nadia Cattane

Marco A. Riva regularly publishes in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Translational Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor: a bridge between inflammation and neuroplasticity

    Francesca Calabrese;Andrea C. Rossetti;Giorgio Racagni;Peter Gass

  • Early maternal deprivation reduces the expression of BDNF and NMDA receptor subunits in rat hippocampus

    M Roceri;W Hendriks;G Racagni;B A Ellenbroek

  • Stress in puberty unmasks latent neuropathological consequences of prenatal immune activation in mice.

    Sandra Giovanoli;Harald Engler;Andrea Engler;Juliet Richetto

  • Serum and plasma BDNF levels in major depression: A replication study and meta-analyses

    Luisella Bocchio-Chiavetto;Vincenzo Bagnardi;Roberta Zanardini;Raffaella Molteni

  • Postnatal repeated maternal deprivation produces age-dependent changes of brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in selected rat brain regions.

    Mila Roceri;Francesca Cirulli;Cassandra Pessina;Paolo Peretto

  • Neuronal plasticity: a link between stress and mood disorders.

    Francesca Calabrese;Raffaella Molteni;Giorgio Racagni;Marco A. Riva

  • Glucocorticoid-related molecular signaling pathways regulating hippocampal neurogenesis.

    Christoph Anacker;Annamaria Cattaneo;Alessia Luoni;Ksenia Musaelyan

  • Role for the kinase SGK1 in stress, depression, and glucocorticoid effects on hippocampal neurogenesis.

    Christoph Anacker;Annamaria Cattaneo;Annamaria Cattaneo;Ksenia Musaelyan;Patricia Zunszain

  • Association between the BDNF 196 A/G polymorphism and sporadic Alzheimer's disease.

    M Ventriglia;L Bocchio Chiavetto;L Benussi;G Binetti

  • Nicotine prevents experimental parkinsonism in rodents and induces striatal increase of neurotrophic factors.

    Roberto Maggio;Marco Riva;Francesca Vaglini;Francesco Fornai

  • Neurosurgical treatment of craniopharyngioma in adults and children: early and long-term results in a large case series

    Pietro Mortini;Marco Losa;Gabriella Pozzobon;Raffaella Barzaghi

  • Stress during development: Impact on neuroplasticity and relevance to psychopathology.

    Fabio Fumagalli;Raffaella Molteni;Giorgio Racagni;Marco Andrea Riva

  • The human BDNF gene: peripheral gene expression and protein levels as biomarkers for psychiatric disorders.

    A Cattaneo;N Cattane;V Begni;Carmine M. Pariante

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) increases serum Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in drug resistant depressed patients.

    Luisella Bocchio-Chiavetto;Roberta Zanardini;Marco Bortolomasi;Maria Abate

  • Glucocorticoid receptor and FKBP5 expression is altered following exposure to chronic stress: modulation by antidepressant treatment.

    Gianluigi Guidotti;Francesca Calabrese;Christoph Anacker;Giorgio Racagni

  • The expanding role of BDNF: a therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease?

    F Fumagalli;G Racagni;M A Riva

  • The serotonin-BDNF duo: Developmental implications for the vulnerability to psychopathology

    Judith Regina Homberg;Raffaella Molteni;Francesca Calabrese;Marco A. Riva

  • AMPA receptor subunit 1 (GluR-A) knockout mice model the glutamate hypothesis of depression

    S. Chourbaji;Miriam A. Vogt;Fabio Fumagalli;R. Sohr

  • Structure¿property relationships in osmo-air-dehydrated apricot cubes

    Marco Riva;Stefano Campolongo;Alexa Avitabile Leva;Andrea Maestrelli

  • CREB, neurogenesis and depression

    Peter Gass;Marco A. Riva

Frequent Co-Authors

Giorgio Racagni
Giorgio Racagni University of Milan
Francesca Calabrese
Francesca Calabrese University of Milan
Annamaria Cattaneo
Annamaria Cattaneo University of Milan
Carmine M. Pariante
Carmine M. Pariante King's College London
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Francesca Cirulli
Francesca Cirulli Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Mariusz Papp
Mariusz Papp Polish Academy of Sciences
Judith R. Homberg
Judith R. Homberg Radboud University
Valeria Mondelli
Valeria Mondelli King's College London
Valerio Magnaghi
Valerio Magnaghi University of Milan

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