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Matthew D. Sacchet

Matthew D. Sacchet

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
45
Citations
8546
World Ranking
445
National Ranking
70

Neuroscience

D-Index
49
Citations
10650
World Ranking
5923
National Ranking
2598

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Matthew D. Sacchet is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within neuroscience, medicine, and psychology, focusing extensively on neuroimaging and mental health. The main fields of their work include Neuroscience with 71 publications, Medicine with 65, and Psychology with 49. Subfields include Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research primarily explores topics such as Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Treatment of Major Depression, Mental Health Research Topics, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, and Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Some of the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Matthew D. Sacchet include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Subcortical shape alterations in major depressive disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Human Brain Mapping)

They frequently publish in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biological Psychiatry, European Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, and Translational Psychiatry. The number of publications in these venues ranges from 5 to 14, indicating repeated contributions to key journals in their fields of study.

Matthew D. Sacchet has collaborated consistently with several researchers, including Ian H. Gotlib, Tilo Kircher, Chris H. Miller, Dominik Grotegerd, and Dan J. Stein, with collaboration counts ranging from 18 to 44 joint works. These co-authors have contributed to a wide spectrum of research within psychiatry and neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Mindfulness starts with the body: somatosensory attention and top-down modulation of cortical alpha rhythms in mindfulness meditation

    Catherine E. Kerr;Matthew D. Sacchet;Sara W. Lazar;Christopher I. Moore

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging of Major Depressive Disorder in Youth

    Chris H. Miller;J. Paul Hamilton;Matthew D. Sacchet;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity and mindfulness in clinical and non-clinical contexts: A review and synthesis

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  • Detecting Neuroimaging Biomarkers for Depression: A Meta-analysis of Multivariate Pattern Recognition Studies.

    Joseph Kambeitz;Carlos Cabral;Matthew D. Sacchet;Ian H. Gotlib

  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

    Lianne Schmaal;Elena Pozzi;Tiffany C Ho;Tiffany C Ho;Laura S van Velzen

  • Common and distinct neural correlates of personal and vicarious reward: A quantitative meta-analysis.

    Sylvia A. Morelli;Matthew D. Sacchet;Jamil Zaki

  • Resting-state functional connectivity of the amygdala and longitudinal changes in depression severity in adolescent depression

    Colm G. Connolly;Tiffany C. Ho;Tiffany C. Ho;Eva Henje Blom;Eva Henje Blom;Kaja Z. LeWinn

  • Subcortical shape alterations in major depressive disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

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  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.

    Nils Opel;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Yuri Milaneschi;Dominik Grotegerd

  • Subcortical volumes across the lifespan: Data from 18,605 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Efstathios Papachristou;Gaelle E. Doucet

  • Myelination of the brain in Major Depressive Disorder: An in vivo quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study

    Matthew D. Sacchet;Ian H. Gotlib

  • Support vector machine classification of major depressive disorder using diffusion-weighted neuroimaging and graph theory

    Matthew D. Sacchet;Gautam Prasad;Gautam Prasad;Lara C. Foland-Ross;Paul M. Thompson

  • Abnormalities in electroencephalographic microstates are state and trait markers of major depressive disorder.

    Michael Murphy;Alexis E. Whitton;Alexis E. Whitton;Alexis E. Whitton;Stephanie Deccy;Manon L. Ironside;Manon L. Ironside

  • Greater male than female variability in regional brain structure across the lifespan

    Lara M Wierenga;Gaelle E Doucet;Gaelle E Doucet;Danai Dima;Danai Dima;Ingrid Agartz;Ingrid Agartz

  • Mindfulness Training Alters Emotional Memory Recall Compared to Active Controls: Support for an Emotional Information Processing Model of Mindfulness

    Douglas Roberts-Wolfe;Douglas Roberts-Wolfe;Matthew D. Sacchet;Matthew D. Sacchet;Elizabeth Hastings;Harold Roth

  • Cortical thickness predicts the first onset of major depression in adolescence.

    Lara C. Foland-Ross;Matthew D. Sacchet;Gautam Prasad;Brooke Gilbert

  • Effects of salience-network-node neurofeedback training on affective biases in major depressive disorder

    J. Paul Hamilton;Gary H. Glover;Epifanio Bagarinao;Catie Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian H. Gotlib
Ian H. Gotlib Stanford University
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Tiffany C. Ho
Tiffany C. Ho University of California, San Francisco
Lianne Schmaal
Lianne Schmaal University of Melbourne
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Dick J. Veltman
Dick J. Veltman Amsterdam UMC
Ilya M. Veer
Ilya M. Veer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California

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