2026 Marco L. Loggia: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	49	6012	5535	2629	2374	163	8143

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Overview

Marco L. Loggia is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes primarily in Medicine, with significant contributions spanning Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, Neurology, and Pharmacology.

They have authored numerous papers focusing on several core research topics including:

Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
Migraine and Headache Studies

Their recent publications include the following notable papers:

Extra-Axial Inflammatory Signal in Parameninges in Migraine with Visual Aura, 2020, Annals of Neurology
The Neuroimmunology of Chronic Pain: From Rodents to Humans, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
In-vivo imaging of neuroinflammation in veterans with Gulf War illness, 2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity
Reduced tactile acuity in chronic low back pain is linked with structural neuroplasticity in primary somatosensory cortex and is modulated by acupuncture therapy, 2020, NeuroImage
Neuroimmune signatures in chronic low back pain subtypes, 2021, Brain

Marco L. Loggia frequently collaborates with multiple researchers, including:

Vitaly Napadow
Minhae Kim
Robert R. Edwards
Zeynab Alshelh
Ludovica Brusaferri

Their work appears in several key publication venues, most notably:

Journal of Pain
Pain
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Brain Behavior and Immunity
Brain

Best Publications

Evidence for brain glial activation in chronic pain patients

Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Daniel B. Chonde;Oluwaseun Akeju;Grae Arabasz

527
Citations
Default mode network connectivity encodes clinical pain: An arterial spin labeling study

Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Marco Luciano Loggia;Jieun Kim;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Randy Lyanne Gollub;Mark G. Vangel

349
Citations
Brain glial activation in fibromyalgia - A multi-site positron emission tomography investigation.

Daniel S. Albrecht;Anton Forsberg;Angelica Sandström;Angelica Sandström;Courtney Bergan

307
Citations
Exploring the brain in pain: activations, deactivations and their relation

Jian Kong;Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Marco L. Loggia;Carolyn Zyloney;Peichi Tu

278
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Empathy hurts: compassion for another increases both sensory and affective components of pain perception.

Marco L Loggia;Jeffrey S Mogil;M Catherine Bushnell

272
Citations
Autonomic responses to heat pain: Heart rate, skin conductance, and their relation to verbal ratings and stimulus intensity

Marco L. Loggia;Mylène Juneau;Mylène Juneau;M. Catherine Bushnell

249
Citations
Increased in vivo glial activation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Assessed with [11C]-PBR28

Nicole R. Zürcher;Marco L. Loggia;Robert Lawson;Daniel B. Chonde

247
Citations
Neuroinflammatory component of gray matter pathology in multiple sclerosis.

Elena Herranz;Costanza Giannì;Céline Louapre;Constantina A. Treaba

210
Citations
In Vivo Imaging of Human Neuroinflammation.

Daniel S. Albrecht;Cristina Granziera;Jacob M. Hooker;Marco L. Loggia

209
Citations
Disrupted Brain Circuitry for Pain‐Related Reward/Punishment in Fibromyalgia

Marco Luciano Loggia;Chantal Berna;Jieun Kim;Christine M. Cahalan

206
Citations
Disruption of thalamic functional connectivity is a neural correlate of dexmedetomidine-induced unconsciousness

Oluwaseun Akeju;Marco L Loggia;Ciprian Catana;Kara J Pavone

189
Citations
Sleep disturbances and severe stress as glial activators: key targets for treating central sensitization in chronic pain patients?

Jo Nijs;Marco L Loggia;Andrea Polli;Maarten Moens

167
Citations
S1 is associated with chronic low back pain: a functional and structural MRI study.

Jian Kong;Rosa B Spaeth;Hsiao-Ying Wey;Alexandra Cheetham

158
Citations
Neuroinflammation of the spinal cord and nerve roots in chronic radicular pain patients

Daniel S Albrecht;Shihab U Ahmed;Norman W Kettner;Ronald J H Borra

156
Citations
Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on Brain Connectivity Supporting Catastrophizing in Fibromyalgia.

Asimina Lazaridou;Jieun Kim;Christine M. Cahalan;Marco L. Loggia

156
Citations
The Somatosensory Link in Fibromyalgia: Functional Connectivity of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex Is Altered by Sustained Pain and Is Associated With Clinical/Autonomic Dysfunction

Jieun Kim;Marco Luciano Loggia;Christine M. Cahalan;Richard E. Harris

150
Citations
Neural Correlates of Chronic Low Back Pain Measured by Arterial Spin Labeling

Ajay D. Wasan;Marco Luciano Loggia;Li Q. Chen;Vitaly J. Napadow

131
Citations
Imaging of neuroinflammation in migraine with aura: A [11C]PBR28 PET/MRI study.

Daniel S. Albrecht;Caterina Mainero;Eri Ichijo;Noreen Ward

126
Citations
Machine learning-based prediction of clinical pain using multimodal neuroimaging and autonomic metrics.

Jeungchan Lee;Ishtiaq Mawla;Jieun Kim;Marco L Loggia

124
Citations
Extra-Axial Inflammatory Signal in Parameninges in Migraine with Visual Aura.

Nouchine Hadjikhani;Daniel S. Albrecht;Caterina Mainero;Eri Ichijo

122
Citations
Experimentally Induced Mood Changes Preferentially Affect Pain Unpleasantness

Marco L. Loggia;Jeffrey S. Mogil;M. Catherine Bushnell

111
Citations
Disruption of thalamic functional connectivity is a neural correlate of dexmedetomidine-induced

Kathleen Habeeb;Jacob M Hooker;Vitaly Napadow;Emery Brown

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