Fabrizio Benedetti

22.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
194 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Fabrizio Benedetti is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabrizio Benedetti has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 168 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 71 papers in Physiology and 47 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Fabrizio Benedetti's work include Pain Management and Placebo Effect (148 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (69 papers) and Empathy and Medical Education (31 papers). Fabrizio Benedetti is often cited by papers focused on Pain Management and Placebo Effect (148 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (69 papers) and Empathy and Medical Education (31 papers). Fabrizio Benedetti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Fabrizio Benedetti's co-authors include Luana Colloca, Martina Amanzio, Antonella Pollo, Damien G. Finniss, Sergio Vighetti, Elisa Carlino, Leonardo Lopiano, Michele Lanotte, Donald D. Price and G Maggi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Fabrizio Benedetti

191 papers receiving 14.7k 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.

Biological, clinical, and ethical advances of placebo effects

2010 845 citations Damien G. Finniss, Fabrizio Benedetti et al. profile →
A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought

2007 782 citations Donald D. Price, Damien G. Finniss et al. profile →
Neuropharmacological Dissection of Placebo Analgesia: Expectation-Activated Opioid Systems versus Conditioning-Activated Specific Subsystems

1999 661 citations Martina Amanzio, Fabrizio Benedetti profile →
Conscious Expectation and Unconscious Conditioning in Analgesic, Motor, and Hormonal Placebo/Nocebo Responses

2003 578 citations Fabrizio Benedetti, Antonella Pollo et al. profile →
Neurobiological Mechanisms of the Placebo Effect

2005 508 citations Fabrizio Benedetti et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The impact of patients' pre‐treatment expectations on immunosuppressive treatment outcomes in myasthenia gravis: A pilot correlational study 2024 ·Muscle & Nerve ·Elisa Frisaldi, Bruno Ferrero, Alessandra Di Liberto, Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Alessandro Piedimonte, Jan Vollert, Roberto Cavallo, Maurizio Zibetti, Leonardo Lopiano, Aziz Shaibani, Fabrizio Benedetti	1
2	Creating Placebo Nonresponders in the Lab 2023 ·Journal of Pain ·Fabrizio Benedetti, Claudia Arduino, Aziz Shaibani, (unknown)	1
3	Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 2021 ·Sports Medicine ·Clint T. Miller, Patrick J. Owen, Christian A. Than, (unknown), Kate Sadler, Alessandro Piedimonte, Fabrizio Benedetti, Daniel L. Belavý	16
4	Correction to: Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis 2021 ·Sports Medicine ·Clint T. Miller, Patrick J. Owen, Christian A. Than, (unknown), Kate Sadler, Alessandro Piedimonte, Fabrizio Benedetti, Daniel L. Belavý	1
5	Response to Comment on: “Attempting to Separate Placebo Effects from Exercise in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis” 2021 ·Sports Medicine ·Patrick J. Owen, Tobias Saueressig, Daniel L. Belavý, Christian A. Than, (unknown), Kate Sadler, Alessandro Piedimonte, Fabrizio Benedetti, Clint T. Miller	2
6	Effectiveness of a dance-physiotherapy combined intervention in Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial 2021 ·Neurological Sciences ·Elisa Frisaldi, (unknown), Margherita Fabbri, Marco Trucco, (unknown), (unknown), Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Federico Costa, (unknown), (unknown), Giuseppe Massazza, Maurizio Zibetti, Leonardo Lopiano, Fabrizio Benedetti	23
7	The placebo effect in breath holding: a preliminary behavioral investigation 2020 ·Neuroscience Letters ·Alessandro Piedimonte, Diletta Barbiani, Fabrizio Benedetti, (unknown), Elisa Carlino	4
8	I expect what you expect: An electrophysiological study on social expectation of pain 2020 ·Psychophysiology ·Alessandro Piedimonte, Fabrizio Benedetti, (unknown), (unknown), Sergio Vighetti, Elisa Carlino	5
9	Incorporating methods and findings from neuroscience to better understand placebo and nocebo effects in sport 2019 ·European Journal of Sport Science ·Chris Beedie, Fabrizio Benedetti, Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Jacob B. Lindheimer, Bart Roelands	24
10	Consensus statement on placebo effects in sports and exercise: The need for conceptual clarity, methodological rigour, and the elucidation of neurobiological mechanisms 2018 ·European Journal of Sport Science ·Chris Beedie, Fabrizio Benedetti, Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone, Emma Cohen, D. A. Coleman, (unknown), (unknown), Elliott Flowers, A. Foad, Simon C. Harvey, Florentina J. Hettinga, Philip Hurst, Andrew M. Lane, Jacob B. Lindheimer, John S. Raglin, Bart Roelands, Lieke Schiphof‐Godart, Attila Szabó	65
11	Critical Life Functions: Can Placebo Replace Oxygen? 2018 ·International review of neurobiology ·Fabrizio Benedetti, Diletta Barbiani, Eleonora Maria Camerone	12
12	Different Placebos, Different Mechanisms, Different Outcomes: Lessons for Clinical Trials 2015 ·PLoS ONE ·Fabrizio Benedetti, (unknown)	27
13	The placebo response: science versus ethics and the vulnerability of the patient 2012 ·World Psychiatry ·Fabrizio Benedetti	17
14	Placebo manipulations reduce hyperalgesia in neuropathic pain 2012 ·Pain ·Gitte Laue Petersen, Nanna Brix Finnerup, (unknown), Kasper Grosen, Hans K. Pilegaard, Fabrizio Benedetti, Donald D. Price, Troels S. Jensen, Lene Vase	83
15	A Comprehensive Review of the Placebo Effect: Recent Advances and Current Thought 2008 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Donald D. Price, Damien G. Finniss, Fabrizio Benedetti	2
16	The role of learning in nocebo and placebo effects 2008 ·Pain ·Luana Colloca, Monica Sigaudo, Fabrizio Benedetti	310
17	Expectation modulates the response to subthalamic nucleus stimulation in Parkinsonian patients 2002 ·Neuroreport ·Antonella Pollo, Elena Torre, Leonardo Lopiano, Mario Giorgio Rizzone, Michele Lanotte, Andrea E. Cavanna, B. Bergamasco, Fabrizio Benedetti	131
18	Response variability to analgesics: a role for non-specific activation of endogenous opioids 2001 ·Pain ·Martina Amanzio, Antonella Pollo, G Maggi, Fabrizio Benedetti	309
19	Response expectancies in placebo analgesia and their clinical relevance 2001 ·Pain ·Antonella Pollo, Martina Amanzio, Anna Arslanian, Caterina Casadio, G Maggi, Fabrizio Benedetti	318
20	Dose-response relationship of opioids in nociceptive and neuropathic postoperative pain 1998 ·Pain ·Fabrizio Benedetti, Sergio Vighetti, Martina Amanzio, Caterina Casadio, A Oliaro, B. Bergamasco, G Maggi	108

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