Alain Dagher

32.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
275 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

Alain Dagher is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Dagher has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 70 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 67 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Alain Dagher's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (73 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (52 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (50 papers). Alain Dagher is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (73 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (52 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (50 papers). Alain Dagher collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alain Dagher's co-authors include Ronald B. Postuma, Robert J. Zatorre, Kevin Larcher, Michael Petrides, Valorie N. Salimpoor, Keith J. Worsley, Yashar Zeighami, Marco Leyton, Jens C. Pruessner and Dana M. Small and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alain Dagher

264 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music

2011 1.1k citations Alain Dagher et al. profile →
Evidence for striatal dopamine release during a video game

1998 880 citations Alain Dagher, David J. Brooks et al. profile →
Wisconsin Card Sorting Revisited: Distinct Neural Circuits Participating in Different Stages of the Task Identified by Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2001 767 citations Oury Monchi, Alain Dagher et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Cognitive Strategies Dependent on the Hippocampus and Caudate Nucleus in Human Navigation: Variability and Change with Practice

2003 604 citations Alain Dagher, G. Bruce Pike et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Dopamine Release in Response to a Psychological Stress in Humans and Its Relationship to Early Life Maternal Care: A Positron Emission Tomography Study Using [¹¹C]Raclopride

2004 556 citations Alain Dagher et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

2008 508 citations Alain Dagher et al. profile →
Interactions Between the Nucleus Accumbens and Auditory Cortices Predict Music Reward Value

2013 389 citations Alain Dagher et al. profile →
Clinical criteria for subtyping Parkinson’s disease: biomarkers and longitudinal progression

2017 386 citations Yashar Zeighami, Alain Dagher et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Dagher Canada	70	9.0k	4.6k	4.0k	2.8k	2.3k	275	20.5k
Suzanne N. Haber United States	72	10.6k 1.2×	9.5k 2.0×	5.6k 1.4×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	150	20.7k
Mark S. George United States	103	16.9k 1.9×	3.8k 0.8×	5.1k 1.3×	4.3k 1.5×	2.8k 1.2×	587	35.3k
James B. Rowe United Kingdom	75	9.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	4.9k 1.2×	924 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	465	19.4k
Bhaskar Kolachana United States	55	8.9k 1.0×	8.1k 1.8×	1.7k 0.4×	3.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.3×	104	22.6k
Peter Falkai Germany	82	8.6k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	3.8k 1.4×	2.6k 1.1×	725	26.1k
Morten L. Kringelbach United Kingdom	71	13.6k 1.5×	3.3k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	3.4k 1.2×	4.5k 2.0×	326	22.6k
Masud Husain United Kingdom	83	18.0k 2.0×	1.9k 0.4×	3.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	3.2k 1.4×	422	26.1k
Paul B. Fitzgerald Australia	90	15.9k 1.8×	2.6k 0.6×	2.9k 0.7×	3.3k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	617	29.4k
Felipe Fregni United States	103	19.4k 2.1×	4.9k 1.0×	4.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	588	42.7k
Susan Y. Bookheimer United States	82	16.4k 1.8×	2.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	3.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.5×	335	26.2k

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Morys, Filip, et al.. (2025). Obesity-related brain atrophy is independent of Alzheimer's disease protein pathways. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 107(1). 92–103.

Djordjevic, Jelena, et al.. (2025). Selective Effects of Substantia Nigra and Locus Coeruleus Degeneration on Cognition in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders. 40(5). 844–854. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Qing, Nikhil Bhagwat, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2023). Reproducibility of cerebellar involvement as quantified by consensus structural MRI biomarkers in advanced essential tremor. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 581–581. 4 indexed citations

Rahayel, Shady, et al.. (2022). Predicting longitudinal brain atrophy in Parkinson’s disease using a Susceptible-Infected-Removed agent-based model. Network Neuroscience. 7(3). 906–925. 9 indexed citations

Zeighami, Yashar, Mahsa Dadar, Mélissa Pelletier, et al.. (2022). Impact of weight loss on brain age: Improved brain health following bariatric surgery. NeuroImage. 259. 119415–119415. 20 indexed citations

Morys, Filip, Mahsa Dadar, & Alain Dagher. (2021). Association Between Midlife Obesity and Its Metabolic Consequences, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Cognitive Decline. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 106(10). e4260–e4274. 98 indexed citations

Cox, Sylvia M. L., et al.. (2021). Cocaine cue‐induced mesocorticolimbic activation in cocaine users: Effects of personality traits, lifetime drug use, and acute stimulant ingestion. Addiction Biology. 27(1). e13094–e13094. 4 indexed citations

Vlaming, Ronald de, Eric A. W. Slob, Philip R. Jansen, et al.. (2021). Multivariate analysis reveals shared genetic architecture of brain morphology and human behavior. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1180–1180. 6 indexed citations

Zeighami, Yashar, et al.. (2021). White matter integrity differences in obesity: A meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 133–141. 37 indexed citations

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Spreng, R. Nathan, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Alain Dagher, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: The default network of the human brain is associated with perceived social isolation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3202–3202. 2 indexed citations

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Bhagwat, Nikhil, Erin W. Dickie, Shawn T. Brown, et al.. (2021). Understanding the impact of preprocessing pipelines on neuroimaging cortical surface analyses. GigaScience. 10(1). 34 indexed citations

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Yau, Yvonne, Mahsa Dadar, Yashar Zeighami, et al.. (2020). Neural Correlates of Evidence and Urgency During Human Perceptual Decision-Making in Dynamically Changing Conditions. Cerebral Cortex. 30(10). 5471–5483. 11 indexed citations

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Khundrakpam, Budhachandra, Uku Vainik, Jinnan Gong, et al.. (2020). Neural correlates of polygenic risk score for autism spectrum disorders in general population. Brain Communications. 2(2). fcaa092–fcaa092. 16 indexed citations

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Hinault, Thomas, Michael A. Kraut, Arnold Bakker, Alain Dagher, & Susan Courtney. (2020). Disrupted Neural Synchrony Mediates the Relationship between White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Performance in Older Adults. Cerebral Cortex. 30(10). 5570–5582. 19 indexed citations

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Kirschner, Matthias, Golia Shafiei, Ross D. Markello, et al.. (2020). Latent Clinical-Anatomical Dimensions of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 46(6). 1426–1438. 21 indexed citations

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García‐García, Isabel, Filip Morys, & Alain Dagher. (2019). Nucleus accumbens volume is related to obesity measures in an age‐dependent fashion. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 32(12). e12812–e12812. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Aurore Menegaux, Colleen Manitt, et al.. (2018). Mesocorticolimbic Connectivity and Volumetric Alterations inDCCMutation Carriers. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(20). 4655–4665. 19 indexed citations

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Nagano‐Saito, Atsuko, Marco Leyton, Oury Monchi, et al.. (2008). Dopamine Depletion Impairs Frontostriatal Functional Connectivity during a Set-Shifting Task. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(14). 3697–3706. 184 indexed citations

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Wood, Patrick B., Petra Schweinhardt, Alain Dagher, et al.. (2007). Fibromyalgia patients show an abnormal dopamine response to pain. European Journal of Neuroscience. 25(12). 3576–3582. 331 indexed citations

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Boecker, Henning, Alain Dagher, Andrés Ceballos-Baumann, et al.. (1998). Role of the human rostral supplementary motor area and the basal ganglia in motor sequence control: Investigations with H-2 O-15 PET (vol 79, pg 1070, 1998). UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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