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Stefano Parmigiani

Stefano Parmigiani

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
12487
World Ranking
1783
National Ranking
13

Overview

Stefano Parmigiani is affiliated with the University of Parma in Italy. Their research primarily spans the field of psychology, with specific contributions to clinical psychology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work often addresses topics including:

  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Evolutionary psychology and human behavior
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuropeptides and animal physiology
  • Stress responses and cortisol
  • Sexual function and dysfunction studies
  • Obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders

Stefano Parmigiani has published research in various scientific venues, frequently appearing in the following journals:

  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Parmigiani include:

  • Sex-biased impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals on behavioral development and vulnerability to disease: Of mice and children (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (2024, Environmental Health Perspectives)
  • Proximate and ultimate causes of ritual behavior (2020, Behavioural Brain Research)
  • Effects of Prenatal Exposure to a Low-Dose of Bisphenol A on Sex Differences in Emotional Behavior and Central Alpha2-Adrenergic Receptor Binding (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Disembodiment and Language in Schizophrenia: An Integrated Psychopathological and Evolutionary Perspective (2022, Schizophrenia Bulletin)

Parmigiani frequently collaborates with several co-authors, most notably:

  • Paola Palanza
  • Davidé Ponzi
  • Silvia Paterlini
  • Matteo Tonna
  • Laura Gioiosa

Best Publications

  • A Physiologically Based Approach To the Study of Bisphenol a and Other Estrogenic Chemicals On the Size of Reproductive Organs, Daily Sperm Production, and Behavior:

    Frederick S. Vom Saal;Paul S. Cooke;David L. Buchanan;Paola Palanza

  • Prostate enlargement in mice due to fetal exposure to low doses of estradiol or diethylstilbestrol and opposite effects at high doses

    Frederick S. vom Saal;Barry G. Timms;Monica M. Montano;Paola Palanza

  • Escalated aggressive behavior: dopamine, serotonin and GABA.

    Rosa M.M. de Almeida;Pier Francesco Ferrari;Stefano Parmigiani;Klaus A. Miczek

  • Metabolic disruption in male mice due to fetal exposure to low but not high doses of bisphenol A (BPA): evidence for effects on body weight, food intake, adipocytes, leptin, adiponectin, insulin and glucose regulation.

    Brittany M. Angle;Rylee Phuong Do;Davide Ponzi;Richard W. Stahlhut

  • Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend on Good Laboratory Practices as a Criterion for Selecting Data: The Case of Bisphenol A

    John Peterson Myers;Frederick S. vom Saal;Benson T Akingbemi;Koji Arizono

  • Exposure to a low dose of bisphenol A during fetal life or in adulthood alters maternal behavior in mice.

    Paola L Palanza;Kembra L Howdeshell;Stefano Parmigiani;Frederick S vom Saal

  • Effects of developmental exposure to bisphenol A on brain and behavior in mice.

    Paola Palanza;Laura Gioiosa;Frederick S. vom Saal;Stefano Parmigiani

  • Social stress in mice: gender differences and effects of estrous cycle and social dominance.

    Paola Palanza;Laura Gioiosa;Stefano Parmigiani

  • Individual housing induces altered immuno-endocrine responses to psychological stress in male mice.

    A Bartolomucci;A Bartolomucci;P Palanza;P Sacerdote;G Ceresini

  • Social factors and individual vulnerability to chronic stress exposure

    Alessandro Bartolomucci;Alessandro Bartolomucci;Paola Palanza;Paola Sacerdote;Alberto E. Panerai

  • Current Knowledge on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) from Animal Biology to Humans, from Pregnancy to Adulthood: Highlights from a National Italian Meeting

    Maria Elisabeth Street;Sabrina Angelini;Sergio Bernasconi;Ernesto Burgio

  • Social status in mice: behavioral, endocrine and immune changes are context dependent.

    Alessandro Bartolomucci;Paola Palanza;Leda Gaspani;Elena Limiroli

  • Infanticide and Parental Care

    Stefano Parmigiani;Frederick S. vom Saal

  • Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors

    Jerrold J. Heindel;Frederick S. Vom Saal;Bruce Blumberg;Patrizia Bovolin

  • Selection, evolution of behavior and animal models in behavioral neuroscience.

    Stefano Parmigiani;Paola Palanza;John Rodgers;Piers Francesco Ferrari

  • Estrogenic pesticides: binding relative to estradiol in MCF-7 cells and effects of exposure during fetal life on subsequent territorial behaviour in male mice.

    F.S. Vom Saal;S.C. Nagel;P. Palanza;M. Boechler

  • Behavioral profile of wild mice in the elevated plus-maze test for anxiety.

    A Holmes;S Parmigiani;P.F Ferrari;P Palanza

  • Defensive behaviors in wild and laboratory (Swiss) mice: the mouse defense test battery

    Blanchard Rj;Hebert Ma;Ferrari Pf;Palanza P

  • Behavioral and physiological characterization of male mice under chronic psychosocial stress.

    Alessandro Bartolomucci;Tiziana Pederzani;Paola Sacerdote;Alberto E Panerai

  • Developmental exposure to low-dose estrogenic endocrine disruptors alters sex differences in exploration and emotional responses in mice.

    Laura Gioiosa;Elena Fissore;Giorgia Ghirardelli;Stefano Parmigiani

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul F. Brain
Paul F. Brain Swansea University
Pier Francesco Ferrari
Pier Francesco Ferrari Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
R.J. Rodgers
R.J. Rodgers University of Leeds
Alberto E. Panerai
Alberto E. Panerai University of Milan
D. Caroline Blanchard
D. Caroline Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Paola Sacerdote
Paola Sacerdote University of Milan
Robert J. Blanchard
Robert J. Blanchard University of Hawaii at Manoa
Giancarlo Panzica
Giancarlo Panzica University of Turin
Klaus A. Miczek
Klaus A. Miczek Tufts University
Louis J. Guillette
Louis J. Guillette Medical University of South Carolina

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