Diego Pizzagalli

Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital.

Dr. Pizzagalli received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and did post-doctoral work at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Pizzagalli is a neuroscientist who integrates clinical, behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophyisiological measures to gain a better understanding of mood disorders, in particular, depression. In 2006 he was awarded the “Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology” from the Society for Psychophysiological Research, and in 2007 he received the “Early Career Award” from the EEG & Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS). He is currently the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Representative Publications:

Pizzagalli, D.A., Dillon, D. G., Bogdan, R., Holmes, A. (in press). Reward and Punishment Processing in the Human Brain: Clues from Affective Neuroscience and Implications for Depression Research. In: O. Vartanian and D. Mandel (Eds.), Neuroscience of Decision Making. Psychology Press.

Deveney, C.M., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2008). The cognitive consequences of emotion regulation: An ERP investigation. Psychophysiology, 45, 435-444.

Holmes, A.J., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2008). Spatio-temporal dynamics of error processing dysfunctions in Major Depressive Disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65, 179-188

Dillon, D.G., Pizzagalli, D.A. (2007). Inhibition of action, thought, and emotion: A selective neurobiological review. Applied & Preventive Psychology, 12, 99-114.

Davidson, R.J., Pizzagalli, D., Nitschke, J.B., Putman, K. (2002). Depression: Perspectives from affective neuroscience. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 545-574.

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