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Scott L. Rauch 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 Scott L. Rauch sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 524 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott L. Rauch 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 Scott L. Rauch sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 159 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Scott L. Rauch is affiliated with McLean Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Among their recent publications are:

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits, 2022, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data, 2021, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Neural Circuitry of Anxiety: Evidence from Structural and Functional Neuroimaging Studies, 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • The prefrontal cortex and OCD, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Deanna M. Barch
  • Thomas C. Neylan
  • Sarah D. Linnstaedt
  • Robert M. Domeier
  • Samuel A. McLean

Scott L. Rauch is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), having received this recognition in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Masked Presentations of Emotional Facial Expressions Modulate Amygdala Activity without Explicit Knowledge

    Paul J. Whalen;Scott L. Rauch;Nancy L. Etcoff;Sean C. McInerney

  • Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness

    Sara W. Lazar;Catherine E. Kerr;Rachel H. Wasserman;Jeremy R. Gray

  • Neurobiology of emotion perception I: the neural basis of normal emotion perception

    Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

  • Response and Habituation of the Human Amygdala during Visual Processing of Facial Expression

    Hans C Breiter;Nancy L Etcoff;Paul J Whalen;William A Kennedy

  • Neurobiology of emotion perception II: Implications for major psychiatric disorders

    Mary L Phillips;Wayne C Drevets;Scott L Rauch;Richard Lane

  • Neurocircuitry models of posttraumatic stress disorder and extinction: human neuroimaging research--past, present, and future.

    Scott L. Rauch;Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Elizabeth A. Phelps

  • Amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and hippocampal function in PTSD.

    Lisa M. Shin;Lisa M. Shin;Scott L. Rauch;Roger K. Pitman

  • Neurobiological basis of failure to recall extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Roger K. Pitman;Cameron B. Ellis;Andrea L. Gold

  • A symptom provocation study of posttraumatic stress disorder using positron emission tomography and script-driven imagery

    S L Rauch;B A van der Kolk;R E Fisler;N M Alpert

  • Exaggerated amygdala response to masked facial stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder: a functional MRI study.

    Scott L Rauch;Paul J Whalen;Lisa M Shin;Lisa M Shin;Sean C McInerney

  • Reduced Caudate and Nucleus Accumbens Response to Rewards in Unmedicated Individuals With Major Depressive Disorder

    Diego A. Pizzagalli;A.M. Avram J. Holmes;Daniel G. Dillon;B.A. Elena L. Goetz

  • Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert.

    Mohammed R. Milad;Christopher I. Wright;Christopher I. Wright;Scott P. Orr;Scott P. Orr;Roger K. Pitman

  • Anterior cingulate cortex dysfunction in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder revealed by fMRI and the counting stroop

    George Bush;Jean A Frazier;Scott L Rauch;Larry J Seidman;Larry J Seidman

  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Lisa M. Shin;Christopher I. Wright;Paul A. Cannistraro;Michelle M. Wedig

  • Toward a Neurobiology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Ann M Graybiel;Scott L Rauch

  • Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Measured During Symptom Provocation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Using Oxygen 15—Labeled Carbon Dioxide and Positron Emission Tomography

    Scott L. Rauch;Michael A. Jenike;Nathaniel M. Alpert;Lee Baer

  • Functional neuroimaging and the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Sanjaya Saxena;Scott L. Rauch

  • Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in the Amygdala and Medial Prefrontal Cortex During Traumatic Imagery in Male and Female Vietnam Veterans With PTSD

    Lisa M. Shin;Scott P. Orr;Margaret A. Carson;Scott L. Rauch

  • A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger.

    Paul J. Whalen;Lisa M. Shin;Sean C. McInerney;Håkan Fischer

  • The counting stroop: An interference task specialized for functional neuroimaging—validation study with functional MRI

    George Bush;George Bush;Paul J. Whalen;Bruce R. Rosen;Bruce R. Rosen;Michael A. Jenike

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Jenike
Michael A. Jenike Harvard University
Lisa M. Shin
Lisa M. Shin Tufts University
Cary R. Savage
Cary R. Savage University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Nathaniel M. Alpert
Nathaniel M. Alpert Harvard University
Darin D. Dougherty
Darin D. Dougherty Harvard University
Isabelle M. Rosso
Isabelle M. Rosso Harvard University
Christopher I. Wright
Christopher I. Wright Harvard University
Lee Baer
Lee Baer Harvard University
Roger K. Pitman
Roger K. Pitman Harvard University
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University

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