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Mauricio R. Delgado publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mauricio R. Delgado sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 270 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Mauricio R. Delgado D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mauricio R. Delgado sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 83 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Mauricio R. Delgado is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research contributions span the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. The scientist's work also touches on social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and clinical psychology.

The main research topics explored by Mauricio R. Delgado include:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Recent significant publications by Mauricio R. Delgado include:

  • "Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams," 2020, Nature
  • "Blunted medial prefrontal cortico-limbic reward-related effective connectivity and depression," 2020, Brain
  • "Finding positive meaning in memories of negative events adaptively updates memory," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts," 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Characterizing the mechanisms of social connection," 2023, Neuron

The venues where Mauricio R. Delgado frequently publishes include:

  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Emotion
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature

Frequent collaborators in Mauricio R. Delgado's research are Dominic S. Fareri, Jamil P. Bhanji, Luke J. Chang, Kainan S. Wang, and Emily G. Brudner. These collaborations reflect an active engagement with peers across related domains.

Best Publications

  • Extinction Learning in Humans: Role of the Amygdala and vmPFC

    Elizabeth A. Phelps;Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux

  • The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making

    Bernard W. Balleine;Mauricio R. Delgado;Okihide Hikosaka

  • Tracking the Hemodynamic Responses to Reward and Punishment in the Striatum

    M. R. Delgado;L. E. Nystrom;C. Fissell;D. C. Noll

  • Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams

    Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Rotem Botvinik-Nezer;Felix Holzmeister;Colin F. Camerer;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber

  • Reward-Related Responses in the Human Striatum

    Mauricio R. Delgado

  • Classification and Definition of Disorders Causing Hypertonia in Childhood

    Terence D. Sanger;Mauricio R. Delgado;Deborah Gaebler-Spira;Mark Hallett

  • Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Robert H. Frank;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Neural Circuitry Underlying the Regulation of Conditioned Fear and Its Relation to Extinction

    Mauricio R. Delgado;Katherine I. Nearing;Joseph E. LeDoux;Joseph E. LeDoux;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Modulation of caudate activity by action contingency.

    Elizabeth M Tricomi;Mauricio R Delgado;Julie A Fiez

  • Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion

    Peter Sokol-Hessner;Ming Hsu;Nina G. Curley;Mauricio R. Delgado

  • Dorsal striatum responses to reward and punishment: effects of valence and magnitude manipulations.

    M. R. Delgado;H. M. Locke;V. A. Stenger;J. A. Fiez

  • How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering

    Tali Sharot;Mauricio R Delgado;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Recommendations for the use of botulinum toxin type A in the management of cerebral palsy

    H.Kerr Graham;K.Roger Aoki;Ilona Autti-Rämö;Roslyn N Boyd

  • Genotype/phenotype correlation in 325 individuals referred for a diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis complex in the United States

    Kit Sing Au;Aimee T. Williams;E. Steve Roach;Lori Batchelor

  • Chromosome catastrophes involve replication mechanisms generating complex genomic rearrangements

    Pengfei Liu;Ayelet Erez;Sandesh C.Sreenath Nagamani;Shweta U. Dhar

  • Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humans.

    Mauricio Delgado;A. Olsson;E. A. Phelps

  • Working Memory for Letters, Shapes, and Locations: fMRI Evidence against Stimulus-Based Regional Organization in Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Leigh E. Nystrom;Todd S. Braver;Fred W. Sabb;Mauricio R. Delgado

  • An fMRI study of reward-related probability learning.

    M. R. Delgado;M. M. Miller;S. Inati;Elizabeth A. Phelps;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • RENAL LESION GROWTH IN CHILDREN WITH TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS COMPLEX

    David H. Ewalt;Eugene Sheffield;Steven P. Sparagana;Mauricio R. Delgado

  • The Inherent Reward of Choice

    Lauren A. Leotti;Mauricio R. Delgado

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Phelps
Elizabeth A. Phelps Harvard University
Julie A. Fiez
Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh
Jill A. Rosenfeld
Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine
Christine M. Eng
Christine M. Eng Baylor College of Medicine
Maximilian Muenke
Maximilian Muenke American College of Medical Genetics
Daniela Schiller
Daniela Schiller Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Erich Roessler
Erich Roessler National Institutes of Health
Jean M. Vettel
Jean M. Vettel United States Army Research Laboratory
Jonathan W. Mink
Jonathan W. Mink University of Rochester
James R. Lupski
James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine

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