Sergio Vighetti

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Sergio Vighetti is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Physiology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Vighetti has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 14 papers in Physiology and 11 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Sergio Vighetti's work include Pain Management and Placebo Effect (17 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (14 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (6 papers). Sergio Vighetti is often cited by papers focused on Pain Management and Placebo Effect (17 papers), Pain Mechanisms and Treatments (14 papers) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies (6 papers). Sergio Vighetti collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Belarus and United States. Sergio Vighetti's co-authors include Fabrizio Benedetti, Innocenzo Rainero, Antonella Pollo, G. Asteggiano, Leonardo Lopiano, Michele Lanotte, Martina Amanzio, B. Bergamasco, Claudia Arduino and L Tarenzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Neuroscience and Pain.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Vighetti

41 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Conscious Expectation and Unconscious Conditioning in Analgesic, Motor, and Hormonal Placebo/Nocebo Responses

2003 578 citations Fabrizio Benedetti, Antonella Pollo et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sergio Vighetti Italy	22	1.9k	866	632	446	377	43	2.7k
Jürgen Lorenz Germany	22	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.8×	449 0.7×	309 0.7×	197 0.5×	41	3.0k
Antonella Pollo Italy	25	2.1k 1.1×	754 0.9×	746 1.2×	116 0.3×	607 1.6×	43	3.0k
Martina Amanzio Italy	28	3.2k 1.7×	1.5k 1.7×	1.3k 2.1×	369 0.8×	843 2.2×	65	4.5k
Regine Klinger Germany	19	1.3k 0.7×	717 0.8×	509 0.8×	210 0.5×	320 0.8×	75	2.0k
Karin Jensen Sweden	30	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	1.5k 2.3×	219 0.5×	364 1.0×	79	3.4k
Robert K. Hofbauer United States	12	1.4k 0.8×	947 1.1×	411 0.7×	141 0.3×	105 0.3×	25	2.2k
Alexander Ploghaus United Kingdom	8	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	618 1.0×	145 0.3×	124 0.3×	9	3.2k
Marta Čeko United States	22	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	735 1.2×	207 0.5×	101 0.3×	35	3.1k
Javeria A. Hashmi Canada	19	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	465 0.7×	157 0.4×	206 0.5×	40	2.4k
Paul Geha United States	23	1.9k 1.0×	2.2k 2.5×	700 1.1×	421 0.9×	116 0.3×	40	4.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Vighetti

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Piedimonte, Alessandro, et al.. (2021). Pain expectation and avoidance in the social context: an electrophysiological study. The Journal of Physiological Sciences. 71(1). 29–29. 6 indexed citations

Piedimonte, Alessandro, et al.. (2020). I expect what you expect: An electrophysiological study on social expectation of pain. Psychophysiology. 57(12). e13666–e13666. 5 indexed citations

Spalatro, Angela Valentina, Sergio Vighetti, Giovanni Abbate‐Daga, et al.. (2020). The song of Anorexia Nervosa: a specific evoked potential response to musical stimuli in affected participants. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity. 26(3). 807–816. 5 indexed citations

Romagnolo, Alberto, Maurizio Zibetti, Marco Lenzi, et al.. (2020). Low frequency subthalamic stimulation and event-related potentials in Parkinson disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 82. 123–127. 6 indexed citations

Carlino, Elisa, Alessandro Piedimonte, Alberto Romagnolo, et al.. (2019). Verbal communication about drug dosage balances drug reduction in Parkinson's disease: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidences. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 65. 184–189. 8 indexed citations

D’Agata, Federico, Marcella Caglio, Paola Caroppo, et al.. (2016). Cognitive and Neurophysiological Effects of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Stroke Patients after Motor Rehabilitation. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 10. 135–135. 32 indexed citations

Benedetti, Fabrizio, et al.. (2015). High-altitude headache. Pain. 156(11). 2326–2336. 21 indexed citations

Carlino, Elisa, Elisa Frisaldi, Innocenzo Rainero, et al.. (2014). Nonlinear analysis of electroencephalogram in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Neuroreport. 25(7). 496–500. 5 indexed citations

Benedetti, Fabrizio, et al.. (2012). Pain as a reward: Changing the meaning of pain from negative to positive co-activates opioid and cannabinoid systems. Pain. 154(3). 361–367. 78 indexed citations

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Carlino, Elisa, Fabrizio Benedetti, Innocenzo Rainero, et al.. (2010). Pain perception and tolerance in patients with frontotemporal dementia. Pain. 151(3). 783–789. 42 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Fabrizio, Martina Amanzio, Sergio Vighetti, & G. Asteggiano. (2006). The Biochemical and Neuroendocrine Bases of the Hyperalgesic Nocebo Effect. Journal of Neuroscience. 26(46). 12014–12022. 306 indexed citations

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Colloca, Luana, Fabrizio Benedetti, B. Bergamasco, et al.. (2006). Electroencephalographic responses to intraoperative subthalamic stimulation. Neuroreport. 17(14). 1465–1468. 3 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Fabrizio, Claudia Arduino, Sergio Vighetti, et al.. (2006). Loss of expectation-related mechanisms in Alzheimer’s disease makes analgesic therapies less effective. Pain. 121(1). 133–144. 229 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Fabrizio, Claudia Arduino, Sergio Vighetti, et al.. (2004). Pain reactivity in Alzheimer patients with different degrees of cognitive impairment and brain electrical activity deterioration. Pain. 111(1). 22–29. 83 indexed citations

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Pollo, Antonella, Sergio Vighetti, Innocenzo Rainero, & Fabrizio Benedetti. (2003). Placebo analgesia and the heart. Pain. 102(1). 125–133. 87 indexed citations

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Rainero, Innocenzo, Sergio Vighetti, B. Bergamasco, Lorenzo Pinessi, & Fabrizio Benedetti. (2000). Autonomic responses and pain perception in Alzheimer’s disease. European Journal of Pain. 4(3). 267–274. 66 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Fabrizio, Sergio Vighetti, Martina Amanzio, et al.. (1998). Dose-response relationship of opioids in nociceptive and neuropathic postoperative pain. Pain. 74(2). 205–211. 108 indexed citations

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Benedetti, Fabrizio, Sergio Vighetti, Martina Amanzio, et al.. (1998). Neurophysiologic assessment of nerve impairment in posterolateral and muscle-sparing thoracotomy. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 115(4). 841–847. 139 indexed citations

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Canavero, Sergio, Vincenzo Bonicalzi, C. A. Pagni, et al.. (1995). Propofol analgesia in central pain: Preliminary clinical observations. Journal of Neurology. 242(9). 561–567. 35 indexed citations

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Vighetti, Sergio, et al.. (1992). Time information in Poggendorff visual illusion: visual evoked potentials.. PubMed. 7(3). 205–13. 3 indexed citations

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