Pia Pechtel

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Pia Pechtel is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Pia Pechtel has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Clinical Psychology, 8 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 7 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Pia Pechtel's work include Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (14 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (7 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (7 papers). Pia Pechtel is often cited by papers focused on Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (14 papers), Child Abuse and Trauma (7 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (7 papers). Pia Pechtel collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Pia Pechtel's co-authors include Diego A. Pizzagalli, Karlen Lyons‐Ruth, Martin H. Teicher, Carl M. Anderson, Elena L. Goetz, Sunny J. Dutra, Isabelle M. Rosso, William D. S. Killgore, Scott L. Rauch and Daniel G. Dillon and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Pia Pechtel

24 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effects of early life stress on cognitive and affective function: an integrated review of human literature

2010 992 citations Pia Pechtel, Diego A. Pizzagalli Psychopharmacology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pia Pechtel United States	17	1.2k	498	428	426	399	25	2.1k
Hilary K. Lambert United States	15	1.7k 1.4×	416 0.8×	367 0.9×	356 0.8×	373 0.9×	21	2.4k
Kathryn L. Humphreys United States	22	1.2k 1.1×	594 1.2×	509 1.2×	571 1.3×	748 1.9×	39	2.6k
Meg Dennison Australia	18	870 0.7×	298 0.6×	365 0.9×	276 0.6×	674 1.7×	24	1.8k
Bonnie Goff United States	21	1.3k 1.1×	677 1.4×	616 1.4×	678 1.6×	906 2.3×	27	2.6k
Carryl P. Navalta United States	16	1.5k 1.3×	493 1.0×	192 0.4×	400 0.9×	330 0.8×	20	2.5k
Heather Douglas-Palumberi United States	10	1.2k 1.0×	422 0.8×	242 0.6×	300 0.7×	239 0.6×	10	2.1k
Jessica L. Jenness United States	23	1.6k 1.4×	330 0.7×	600 1.4×	454 1.1×	379 0.9×	43	2.2k
Karina Quevedo United States	17	1.3k 1.1×	712 1.4×	450 1.1×	563 1.3×	577 1.4×	35	2.6k
Dorothea Blomeyer Germany	28	859 0.7×	461 0.9×	235 0.5×	260 0.6×	241 0.6×	58	2.0k
Damion J. Grasso United States	24	1.6k 1.4×	198 0.4×	278 0.6×	403 0.9×	263 0.7×	84	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pia Pechtel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Borchers, Lauren R., Rotem Dan, Emily L. Belleau, et al.. (2025). Dopaminergic frontostriatal pathways in major depressive disorder and childhood sexual abuse: a multimodal neuroimaging investigation. Molecular Psychiatry. 31(1). 343–351.

Pechtel, Pia, Jennifer Harris, Anke Karl, et al.. (2022). Emerging ecophenotype: reward anticipation is linked to high-risk behaviours after sexual abuse. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 17(11). 1035–1043. 4 indexed citations

Pechtel, Pia, Emily L. Belleau, Roselinde H. Kaiser, et al.. (2022). Stress and reward: A multimodal assessment of childhood sexual abuse. Neurobiology of Stress. 21. 100498–100498. 3 indexed citations

Belleau, Emily L., Thomas A. W. Bolton, Roselinde H. Kaiser, et al.. (2022). Resting state brain dynamics: Associations with childhood sexual abuse and major depressive disorder. NeuroImage Clinical. 36. 103164–103164. 16 indexed citations

Ang, Yuen‐Siang, Gerard E. Bruder, John G. Keilp, et al.. (2020). Exploration of baseline and early changes in neurocognitive characteristics as predictors of treatment response to bupropion, sertraline, and placebo in the EMBARC clinical trial. Psychological Medicine. 52(13). 2441–2449. 5 indexed citations

Khoury, Jennifer E., et al.. (2019). Relations among maternal withdrawal in infancy, borderline features, suicidality/self-injury, and adult hippocampal volume: A 30-year longitudinal study. Behavioural Brain Research. 374. 112139–112139. 23 indexed citations

Kaiser, Roselinde H., Rachel Clegg, Franziska Goer, et al.. (2017). Childhood stress, grown-up brain networks: corticolimbic correlates of threat-related early life stress and adult stress response. Psychological Medicine. 48(7). 1157–1166. 79 indexed citations

Lyons‐Ruth, Karlen, et al.. (2016). Disorganized attachment in infancy predicts greater amygdala volume in adulthood. Behavioural Brain Research. 308. 83–93. 79 indexed citations

Janes, Amy C., Paola Pedrelli, Alexis E. Whitton, et al.. (2015). Reward Responsiveness Varies by Smoking Status in Women with a History of Major Depressive Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology. 40(8). 1940–1946. 28 indexed citations

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Mueller, Erik M., Pia Pechtel, Andrew L. Cohen, Samuel Douglas, & Diego A. Pizzagalli. (2015). POTENTIATED PROCESSING OF NEGATIVE FEEDBACK IN DEPRESSION IS ATTENUATED BY ANHEDONIA. Depression and Anxiety. 32(4). 296–305. 43 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia, Karlen Lyons‐Ruth, Carl M. Anderson, & Martin H. Teicher. (2014). Sensitive periods of amygdala development: The role of maltreatment in preadolescence. NeuroImage. 97. 236–244. 232 indexed citations

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Auerbach, Randy P., et al.. (2014). Co-occurring depressive and substance use disorders in adolescents: An examination of reward responsiveness during treatment.. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 24(2). 109–121. 26 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia & Diego A. Pizzagalli. (2013). Disrupted Reinforcement Learning and Maladaptive Behavior in Women With a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse. JAMA Psychiatry. 70(5). 499–499. 58 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia, Sunny J. Dutra, Elena L. Goetz, & Diego A. Pizzagalli. (2013). Blunted reward responsiveness in remitted depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 47(12). 1864–1869. 141 indexed citations

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Auerbach, Randy P., et al.. (2013). Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying cognitive vulnerability models of depression.. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. 23(3). 222–235. 11 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia, Ashley C. Woodman, & Karlen Lyons‐Ruth. (2012). Early Maternal Withdrawal and Nonverbal Childhood IQ as Precursors for Substance Use Disorder in Young Adulthood: Results of a 20-Year Prospective Study. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. 5(3). 316–329. 20 indexed citations

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Lyons‐Ruth, Karlen, et al.. (2011). Perceived parental protection and cortisol responses among young females with borderline personality disorder and controls. Psychiatry Research. 189(3). 426–432. 28 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia, Ian M. Evans, & John Podd. (2011). Conceptualization of the Complex Outcomes of Sexual Abuse: A Signal Detection Analysis. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 20(6). 677–694. 1 indexed citations

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Pechtel, Pia & Diego A. Pizzagalli. (2010). Effects of early life stress on cognitive and affective function: an integrated review of human literature. Psychopharmacology. 214(1). 55–70. 992 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kirkland, John, et al.. (2005). An Empirical Taxonomy of Social‐Psychological Risk Indicators in Youth Suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. 35(4). 436–447. 5 indexed citations

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