Moira Marizzoni

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Moira Marizzoni is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Biological Psychiatry. According to data from OpenAlex, Moira Marizzoni has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Physiology and 19 papers in Biological Psychiatry. Recurrent topics in Moira Marizzoni's work include Tryptophan and brain disorders (19 papers), Gut microbiota and health (18 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (15 papers). Moira Marizzoni is often cited by papers focused on Tryptophan and brain disorders (19 papers), Gut microbiota and health (18 papers) and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (15 papers). Moira Marizzoni collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Moira Marizzoni's co-authors include Giovanni B. Frisoni, Michela Pievani, Daniele Altomare, Lorenzo Pini, Paolo Bosco, Enrica Cavedo, Samantha Galluzzi, Martina Bocchetta, Annamaria Cattaneo and Nicola Lopizzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Cancer and American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

In The Last Decade

Moira Marizzoni

51 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s Disease and aging

2016 573 citations Lorenzo Pini, Michela Pievani et al. profile →
Microbiota from Alzheimer’s patients induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis

2023 128 citations Stefanie Grabrucker, Moira Marizzoni et al. Brain profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moira Marizzoni Italy	16	649	631	315	302	291	62	1.6k
Auriel A. Willette United States	26	1.1k 1.6×	484 0.8×	409 1.3×	462 1.5×	253 0.9×	72	2.4k
Christian‐Alexandre Castellano Canada	27	1.8k 2.7×	667 1.1×	218 0.7×	149 0.5×	175 0.6×	55	2.6k
Binyin Li China	15	403 0.6×	502 0.8×	133 0.4×	128 0.4×	226 0.8×	41	999
Guoping Peng China	17	254 0.4×	357 0.6×	142 0.5×	199 0.7×	131 0.5×	53	1.1k
N. Vogt United States	12	1.1k 1.7×	1.4k 2.3×	204 0.6×	298 1.0×	753 2.6×	23	2.4k
Jun Mu China	22	232 0.4×	493 0.8×	175 0.6×	308 1.0×	391 1.3×	43	1.5k
Shuguang Yu China	24	362 0.6×	662 1.0×	202 0.6×	200 0.7×	73 0.3×	143	2.2k
Bryan J. Neth United States	15	1.0k 1.6×	737 1.2×	109 0.3×	242 0.8×	276 0.9×	62	1.7k
Manuel Sarasa Spain	24	826 1.3×	566 0.9×	366 1.2×	241 0.8×	62 0.2×	69	1.7k
Wen Xie China	23	260 0.4×	414 0.7×	188 0.6×	125 0.4×	102 0.4×	107	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moira Marizzoni

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All Works

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Chevalier, Claire, Benjamin B. Tournier, Moira Marizzoni, et al.. (2025). Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) From a Human at Low Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Improves Short‐Term Recognition Memory and Increases Neuroinflammation in a 3xTg AD Mouse Model. Genes Brain & Behavior. 24(1). e70012–e70012. 4 indexed citations

Alboni, Silvia, Nadia Cattane, Moira Marizzoni, et al.. (2025). The dietary ligands, omega-3 fatty acid endocannabinoids and short-chain fatty acids prevent cytokine-induced reduction of human hippocampal neurogenesis and alter the expression of genes involved in neuroinflammation and neuroplasticity. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(11). 5338–5355.

Hosseinkhani, Farideh, Claire Chevalier, Moira Marizzoni, et al.. (2025). Plasma and feces multiomics unveil cognition‐associated perturbations of chronic inflammatory pathways of the gut‐microbiota–brain axis. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(10). e70844–e70844.

Gatti, Elena, Débora Elisa Peretti, Marco Aiello, et al.. (2025). [18F]flutemetamol uptake in the colon of a memory clinic population and its association with brain amyloidosis and the gut microbiota profile: an exploratory study. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 52(12). 4591–4603. 1 indexed citations

Zonca, Valentina, Moira Marizzoni, Monica Mazzelli, et al.. (2025). Exposure to early-life stress uncovers shared biological signatures underlying vulnerability in the habenula and insular cortex of male and female adult rats. Neurobiology of Stress. 39. 100761–100761.

Peretti, Débora Elisa, Cecilia Boccalini, Federica Ribaldi, et al.. (2024). Association of glial fibrillary acid protein, Alzheimer's disease pathology and cognitive decline. Brain. 147(12). 4094–4104. 13 indexed citations

Pini, Lorenzo, Ilaria Boscolo Galazzo, Ileana Jelescu, et al.. (2024). Microstructural alterations in the locus coeruleus‐entorhinal cortex pathway in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 16(1). e12513–e12513. 7 indexed citations

Marizzoni, Moira, et al.. (2024). - Long-term effect of prenatal stress on offspring gut microbiome composition and functionality: possible implications on behavioural outcomes. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 160. 106874–106874. 1 indexed citations

Creutzberg, Kerstin Camile, Veronica Begni, Rodrigo Orso, et al.. (2023). Vulnerability and resilience to prenatal stress exposure: behavioral and molecular characterization in adolescent rats. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 358–358. 12 indexed citations

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Grabrucker, Stefanie, Moira Marizzoni, Edina Silajdžić, et al.. (2023). Microbiota from Alzheimer’s patients induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis. Brain. 146(12). 4916–4934. 128 indexed citations breakdown →

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Altomare, Daniele, Federica Ribaldi, Szymon Tomczyk, et al.. (2023). Plasma biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease: a field-test in a memory clinic. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. 94(6). 420–427. 39 indexed citations

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Marizzoni, Moira, Claire Chevalier, Henrik Zetterberg, et al.. (2023). Association of AD risk factors with plasma GFAP levels in a memory clinic population. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(S14). 2 indexed citations

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Begni, Veronica, Moira Marizzoni, Francesca Marchisella, et al.. (2022). Exposure to chronic stress impairs the ability to cope with an acute challenge: Modulation by lurasidone treatment. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 61. 78–90. 7 indexed citations

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Mondelli, Valeria, Annamaria Cattaneo, Naghmeh Nikkheslat, et al.. (2021). Exploring the role of immune pathways in the risk and development of depression in adolescence: Research protocol of the IDEA-FLAME study. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 18. 100396–100396. 4 indexed citations

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Marizzoni, Moira, Thomas Gurry, Stefania Provasi, et al.. (2020). Comparison of Bioinformatics Pipelines and Operating Systems for the Analyses of 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequences in Human Fecal Samples. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1262–1262. 50 indexed citations

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Marizzoni, Moira, Laura R. Magni, S Magnaldi, et al.. (2019). Whole‐brain microstructural white matter alterations in borderline personality disorder patients. Personality and Mental Health. 13(2). 96–106. 15 indexed citations

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Nicolosi, Valentina, Cristina Festari, Daniele Altomare, et al.. (2018). IC‐P‐071: THE EFFECT OF APOE ON WHITE MATTER LESIONS. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 14(7S_Part_1). 1 indexed citations

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Jovicich, Jorge, Moira Marizzoni, Ludovico Minati, et al.. (2015). IC‐P‐137: Longitudinal reproducibility of default‐mode network connectivity in healthy elderly participants: A multicentric resting‐state fMRI study. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 11(7S_Part_2). 7 indexed citations

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Micotti, Edoardo, Claudia Balducci, Daniele Tolomeo, et al.. (2014). Striatum and entorhinal cortex atrophy in AD mouse models: MRI comprehensive analysis. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(2). 776–788. 22 indexed citations

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Santin, Alessandro D., Stefania Bellone, Moira Marizzoni, et al.. (2007). Overexpression of claudin‐3 and claudin‐4 receptors in uterine serous papillary carcinoma. Cancer. 109(7). 1312–1322. 61 indexed citations

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