David H. Zald

27.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
188 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

David H. Zald is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David H. Zald has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 50 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 44 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David H. Zald's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (71 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (44 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (39 papers). David H. Zald is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (71 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (44 papers) and Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (39 papers). David H. Zald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. David H. Zald's co-authors include Michael T. Treadway, José V. Pardo, Joshua W. Buckholtz, Neil D. Woodward, Beth E. Snitz, Benjamin B. Lahey, William M. Grove, Ronald L. Cowan, C. Nelson and Robert Kessler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

David H. Zald

183 papers receiving 17.5k 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.

Reconsidering anhedonia in depression: Lessons from translational neuroscience

2010 1.1k citations Michael T. Treadway, David H. Zald profile →
Clinical versus mechanical prediction: A meta-analysis.

2000 1.1k citations David H. Zald et al. profile →
The human amygdala and the emotional evaluation of sensory stimuli

2003 855 citations David H. Zald profile →
Emotion, olfaction, and the human amygdala: Amygdala activation during aversive olfactory stimulation

1997 604 citations David H. Zald, José V. Pardo profile →
Worth the ‘EEfRT’? The Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task as an Objective Measure of Motivation and Anhedonia

2009 558 citations Michael T. Treadway, Joshua W. Buckholtz et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Effort-based decision-making in major depressive disorder: A translational model of motivational anhedonia.

2012 509 citations Michael T. Treadway, David H. Zald et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
Is there a general factor of prevalent psychopathology during adulthood?

2012 420 citations Benjamin B. Lahey, Brooks Applegate et al. Journal of Abnormal Psychology profile →
A hierarchical causal taxonomy of psychopathology across the life span.

2016 296 citations Benjamin B. Lahey, Robert F. Krueger et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David H. Zald United States	65	8.4k	4.8k	3.9k	2.9k	2.8k	188	18.0k
Morten L. Kringelbach United Kingdom	71	13.6k 1.6×	4.5k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	326	22.6k
Alain Dagher Canada	70	9.0k 1.1×	2.3k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	4.6k 1.6×	2.0k 0.7×	275	20.5k
Harriet de Wit United States	82	7.5k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	5.9k 1.5×	12.9k 4.5×	2.8k 1.0×	427	28.4k
Hugo Critchley United Kingdom	89	19.3k 2.3×	8.9k 1.8×	4.9k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	10.1k 3.6×	353	34.6k
Deborah Yurgelun‐Todd United States	83	8.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.5×	4.3k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	6.0k 2.1×	332	19.9k
John Polich United States	83	22.3k 2.7×	5.6k 1.2×	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	254	29.5k
Ingmar H. A. Franken Netherlands	63	5.1k 0.6×	4.2k 0.9×	4.3k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	255	12.7k
Michael Brammer United Kingdom	94	21.3k 2.5×	7.2k 1.5×	5.1k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	8.2k 2.9×	257	30.4k
Paul C. Fletcher United Kingdom	89	20.7k 2.5×	4.2k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	6.4k 2.3×	266	30.3k
Dick J. Veltman Netherlands	79	9.3k 1.1×	4.9k 1.0×	6.9k 1.8×	2.6k 0.9×	3.7k 1.3×	389	21.0k

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Malin, Steven K., et al.. (2025). Effect of a single exercise bout on fasting cerebral blood flow and brain insulin sensitivity in middle‐aged to older adults. Experimental Physiology.

Kotov, Roman, William T. Carpenter, David C. Cicero, et al.. (2024). Psychosis superspectrum II: neurobiology, treatment, and implications. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(5). 1293–1309. 12 indexed citations

Castrellon, Jaime J., David H. Zald, Gregory R. Samanez‐Larkin, & Kendra Leigh Seaman. (2023). Adult age-related differences in susceptibility to social conformity pressures in self-control over daily desires.. Psychology and Aging. 39(1). 102–112. 7 indexed citations

Watts, Ashley L., Robert D. Latzman, Cassandra L. Boness, et al.. (2022). New approaches to deep phenotyping in addictions.. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 37(3). 361–375. 17 indexed citations

Lahey, Benjamin B., et al.. (2020). Sex differences in associations of socioemotional dispositions measured in childhood and adolescence with brain white matter microstructure 12 years later. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. e5–e5. 2 indexed citations

Castrellon, Jaime J., Mikella A Green, Jennifer L. Crawford, et al.. (2019). Reproducibility of the correlative triad among aging, dopamine receptor availability, and cognition.. Psychology and Aging. 34(7). 921–932. 13 indexed citations

Seaman, Kendra Leigh, Christopher T. Smith, Linh C. Dang, et al.. (2019). Differential regional decline in dopamine receptor availability across adulthood: Linear and nonlinear effects of age. Human Brain Mapping. 40(10). 3125–3138. 46 indexed citations

Bao, Shunxing, Kalen J. Petersen, Alexander M. Lopez, et al.. (2019). Using deep learning for a diffusion-based segmentation of the dentate nucleus and its benefits over atlas-based methods. Journal of Medical Imaging. 6(4). 1–1. 2 indexed citations

Castrellon, Jaime J., Kendra Leigh Seaman, Jennifer L. Crawford, et al.. (2018). Individual Differences in Dopamine Are Associated with Reward Discounting in Clinical Groups But Not in Healthy Adults. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(2). 321–332. 25 indexed citations

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Seaman, Kendra Leigh, Teresa M. Karrer, Jaime J. Castrellon, et al.. (2018). Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 13(5). 449–459. 63 indexed citations

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Stark, Adam, Christopher T. Smith, Kalen J. Petersen, et al.. (2018). [18F]fallypride characterization of striatal and extrastriatal D2/3 receptors in Parkinson's disease. NeuroImage Clinical. 18. 433–442. 26 indexed citations

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Chung, Moo K., Victoria Villalta‐Gil, Hyekyoung Lee, et al.. (2017). Exact Topological Inference for Paired Brain Networks via Persistent Homology. Lecture notes in computer science. 2017. 299–310. 14 indexed citations

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Seaman, Kendra Leigh, Marissa A. Gorlick, Kruti M. Vekaria, et al.. (2016). Adult age differences in decision making across domains: Increased discounting of social and health-related rewards.. Psychology and Aging. 31(7). 737–746. 62 indexed citations

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Treadway, Michael T., Joshua W. Buckholtz, Ronald L. Cowan, et al.. (2012). Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Human Effort-Based Decision-Making. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(18). 6170–6176. 285 indexed citations

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Lahey, Benjamin B., Brooks Applegate, Jahn K. Hakes, et al.. (2012). Is there a general factor of prevalent psychopathology during adulthood?. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 121(4). 971–977. 420 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stice, Eric, Sonja Yokum, David H. Zald, & Alain Dagher. (2010). Dopamine-Based Reward Circuitry Responsivity, Genetics, and Overeating. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences. 6. 81–93. 62 indexed citations

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Treadway, Michael T., Joshua W. Buckholtz, Ashley N. Schwartzman, Warren Lambert, & David H. Zald. (2009). Worth the ‘EEfRT’? The Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task as an Objective Measure of Motivation and Anhedonia. PLoS ONE. 4(8). e6598–e6598. 558 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Eunice, David H. Zald, & Randolph Blake. (2007). Fearful expressions gain preferential access to awareness during continuous flash suppression.. Emotion. 7(4). 882–886. 278 indexed citations

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Royet, Jean‐Pierre, Julie Hudry, David H. Zald, et al.. (2001). Functional Neuroanatomy of Different Olfactory Judgments. NeuroImage. 13(3). 506–519. 171 indexed citations

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Lorig, Tyler S., David G. Elmes, David H. Zald, & José V. Pardo. (1999). A computer-controlled olfactometer for fMRI and electrophysiological studies of olfaction. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 31(2). 370–375. 96 indexed citations

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