Roland Zahn

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Roland Zahn is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Zahn has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Social Psychology and 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Roland Zahn's work include Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (27 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (17 papers). Roland Zahn is often cited by papers focused on Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (27 papers), Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (24 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (17 papers). Roland Zahn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Roland Zahn's co-authors include Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman, Frank Krüeger, Ricardo de Oliveira‐Souza, J.F.W. Deakin, Edward D. Huey, Matteo Pardini, Rebecca Elliott, Sophie M. Green and Ian Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature reviews. Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Roland Zahn

98 papers receiving 5.0k citations

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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.

The neural basis of human moral cognition

2005 627 citations Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn et al. profile →
Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation

2006 610 citations Jorge Moll, Frank Krüeger et al. profile →

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Giuseppe Pagnoni Italy

Chandra Sripada United States

Luke J. Chang United States

Michael Koenigs United States

Joseph W. Kable United States

Joshua W. Buckholtz United States

Jorge Moll Brazil

Benjamin Becker China

Rongjun Yu China

Philipp Kanske Germany

Giuseppe Pagnoni Italy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Zahn

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Duan, Suqian, et al.. (2025). “Longing is good”: proof-of-concept for a novel psychological intervention to tackle self-blaming emotions. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1438896–1438896.

Oliveira‐Souza, Ricardo de, Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn, & Paul J. Eslinger. (2024). Late recovery from acquired sociopathy in a boy with a left frontopolar injury. Cortex. 177. 100–112. 1 indexed citations

Happé, Francesca, et al.. (2024). Individual differences in autonomy and sociotropy in relation to autistic traits, camouflaging and interpersonal functioning. Personality and Individual Differences. 227. 112715–112715.

Nikkheslat, Naghmeh, et al.. (2024). How does neurochemistry affect attachment styles in humans? The role of oxytocin and the endogenous opioid system in sociotropy and autonomy – A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 105994–105994.

Fennema, Diede, Gareth J. Barker, Owen O’Daly, et al.. (2024). Neural signatures of emotional biases predict clinical outcomes in difficult-to-treat depression. PubMed. 1. e21–e21. 1 indexed citations

McCrone, Paul, Allan H. Young, Roland Zahn, et al.. (2023). Economic impact of reducing treatment gaps in depression. European Psychiatry. 66(1). e57–e57. 1 indexed citations

Harrison, Phillippa, Ewan Carr, Kimberley Goldsmith, et al.. (2023). Antidepressant Advisor (ADeSS): a decision support system for antidepressant treatment for depression in UK primary care – a feasibility study. BMJ Open. 13(3). e060516–e060516. 7 indexed citations

Bland, Amy R., et al.. (2021). Patrolling the boundaries of social domains: Neural activations to violations of expectations for romantic and work relationships. Social Neuroscience. 16(5). 513–521. 5 indexed citations

Taylor, R., Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Andrew J. Lawrence, et al.. (2021). Predicting clinical outcome to specialist multimodal inpatient treatment in patients with treatment resistant depression. Journal of Affective Disorders. 291. 188–197. 9 indexed citations

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Taylor, R., Rebecca Strawbridge, Allan H. Young, Roland Zahn, & Anthony J. Cleare. (2021). Characterising the severity of treatment resistance in unipolar and bipolar depression. BJPsych Open. 7(6). 1 indexed citations

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Lythe, Karen E., Jennifer A. Gethin, Clifford I. Workman, et al.. (2020). Subgenual activation and the finger of blame: individual differences and depression vulnerability. Psychological Medicine. 52(8). 1560–1568. 10 indexed citations

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Williams, Kate, Rebecca Elliott, Shane McKie, et al.. (2020). Changes in the neural correlates of self-blame following mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in remitted depressed participants. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 304. 111152–111152. 17 indexed citations

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Taylor, R., Lindsey Marwood, Valeria de Angel, et al.. (2020). Pharmacological Augmentation in Unipolar Depression: A Guide to the Guidelines. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 23(9). 587–625. 46 indexed citations

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Gethin, Jennifer A., Karen E. Lythe, Clifford I. Workman, et al.. (2017). Early life stress explains reduced positive memory biases in remitted depression. European Psychiatry. 45. 59–64. 10 indexed citations

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Workman, Clifford I., Karen E. Lythe, Shane McKie, et al.. (2016). A novel resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging signature of resilience to recurrent depression. Psychological Medicine. 47(4). 597–607. 19 indexed citations

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Wise, Toby, Danilo Arnone, Lindsey Marwood, et al.. (2016). Recruiting for research studies using online public advertisements examples from research in affective disorders. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 12. 279–279. 33 indexed citations

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Zahn, Roland, Karen E. Lythe, Jennifer A. Gethin, et al.. (2015). Negative emotions towards others are diminished in remitted major depression. European Psychiatry. 30(4). 448–453. 34 indexed citations

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Green, Sophie M., Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Jorge Moll, J.F.W. Deakin, & Roland Zahn. (2012). Guilt-Selective Functional Disconnection of Anterior Temporal and Subgenual Cortices in Major Depressive Disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry. 69(10). 1014–21. 69 indexed citations

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Krüeger, Frank, Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn, Armin Heinecke, & Jordan Grafman. (2006). Event Frequency Modulates the Processing of Daily Life Activities in Human Medial Prefrontal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. 17(10). 2346–2353. 60 indexed citations

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Zahn, Roland, Martin Buechert, Jochen Talazko, et al.. (2005). Mapping of temporal and parietal cortex in progressive nonfluent aphasia and Alzheimer's disease using chemical shift imaging, voxel-based morphometry and positron emission tomography. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 140(2). 115–131. 34 indexed citations

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