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Alexander Sartorius

Alexander Sartorius

Heidelberg University
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
40
Citations
7377
World Ranking
8043
National Ranking
674

Alexander Sartorius publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Sartorius sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 218 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alexander Sartorius D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Sartorius sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Sartorius is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has authored a significant body of research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work prominently focuses on Psychiatry and Mental Health, covering subfields such as Pharmacology, Neurology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Biological Psychiatry.

The scientist's research topics span various areas including Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies, Treatment of Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Tryptophan and Brain Disorders, Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Associated Phenomena, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, and Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies.

Frequent collaborators include Jonathan Reinwald, David Zilles-Wegner, Sebastian Karl, Wolfgang Weber-Fahr, and Markus Sack.

Alexander Sartorius has contributed to multiple publications in several journals and periodicals. The most frequent venues for their work are:

  • InFo Neurologie + Psychiatrie (12 publications)
  • Journal of Ect (8 publications)
  • Molecular Psychiatry (7 publications)
  • Translational Psychiatry (4 publications)
  • Der Nervenarzt (4 publications)

Selected recent papers by Alexander Sartorius include:

  • The neuroleptic malignant syndrome-a systematic case series analysis focusing on therapy regimes and outcome, 2020, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Dopamine transporter silencing in the rat: systems-level alterations in striato-cerebellar and prefrontal-midbrain circuits, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Methylome-wide change associated with response to electroconvulsive therapy in depressed patients, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Baseline levels of miR-223-3p correlate with the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy in patients with major depression, 2023, Translational Psychiatry
  • Malignant catatonia: Severity, treatment and outcome - a systematic case series analysis, 2021, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Remission of Major Depression Under Deep Brain Stimulation of the Lateral Habenula in a Therapy-Refractory Patient

    Alexander Sartorius;Karl L. Kiening;Peter Kirsch;Carl C. von Gall

  • Correlations and discrepancies between serum and brain tissue levels of neurotrophins after electroconvulsive treatment in rats.

    A. Sartorius;R. Hellweg;J. Litzke;M. Vogt

  • Deep brain stimulation of the lateral habenula in treatment resistant major depression

    Alexander Sartorius;Fritz A. Henn

  • Common functional networks in the mouse brain revealed by multi-centre resting-state fMRI analysis

    Joanes Grandjean;Carola Canella;Cynthia Anckaerts;Gülebru Ayrancı

  • Translational magnetic resonance spectroscopy reveals excessive central glutamate levels during alcohol withdrawal in humans and rats.

    Derik Hermann;Wolfgang Weber-Fahr;Alexander Sartorius;Mareen Hoerst

  • Diminished gray matter in the hippocampus of cannabis users: possible protective effects of cannabidiol.

    Traute Demirakca;Alexander Sartorius;Gabriele Ende;Nadja Meyer

  • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex N-acetylaspartate/total creatine (NAA/tCr) loss in male recreational cannabis users.

    Derik Hermann;Alexander Sartorius;Helga Welzel;Sigrid Walter

  • Pharmacological inhibition of the lateral habenula improves depressive-like behavior in an animal model of treatment resistant depression

    C. Winter;B. Vollmayr;A. Djodari-Irani;J. Klein

  • Impact of the anesthetic agents ketamine, etomidate, thiopental, and propofol on seizure parameters and seizure quality in electroconvulsive therapy: a retrospective study

    Carolin Hoyer;Laura Kranaster;Christoph Janke;Alexander Sartorius

  • Clinically favourable effects of ketamine as an anaesthetic for electroconvulsive therapy: a retrospective study.

    Laura Kranaster;Jutta Kammerer-Ciernioch;Carolin Hoyer;Alexander Sartorius

  • Efficacy and cognitive side effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in depressed elderly inpatients with coexisting mild cognitive impairment or dementia.

    Lucrezia Hausner;Marinella Damian;Alexander Sartorius;Lutz Frölich

  • In vivo voxel based morphometry: detection of increased hippocampal volume and decreased glutamate levels in exercising mice.

    Sarah Biedermann;Johannes Fuss;Lei Zheng;Alexander Sartorius

  • High field FMRI reveals thalamocortical integration of segregated cognitive and emotional processing in mediodorsal and intralaminar thalamic nuclei.

    Coraline Danielle Metzger;Ulf Eckert;Johann Steiner;Alexander Sartorius

  • Antipsychotic drug effects on motor activation measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenic patients.

    Dieter F Braus;Gabriele Ende;Wolfgang Weber-Fahr;Alexander Sartorius

  • Abnormal amygdala activation profile in pedophilia

    Alexander Sartorius;Matthias Ruf;Christine Kief;Traute Demirakca

  • Sub-Anesthetic Ketamine Modulates Intrinsic BOLD Connectivity Within the Hippocampal-Prefrontal Circuit in the Rat

    Natalia Gass;Adam James Schwarz;Alexander Sartorius;Esther Schenker

  • Elevated spectroscopic glutamate/gamma-amino butyric acid in rats bred for learned helplessness

    Alexander Sartorius;Magdalena M. Mahlstedt;Barbara Vollmayr;Fritz A. Henn

  • Advantages and challenges of small animal magnetic resonance imaging as a translational tool.

    Carolin Hoyer;Natalia Gass;Wolfgang Weber-Fahr;Alexander Sartorius

  • Electroconvulsive therapy increases temporal gray matter volume and cortical thickness

    Alexander Sartorius;Traute Demirakca;Andreas Böhringer;Christian Clemm von Hohenberg

  • A new translational target for deep brain stimulation to treat depression

    Karl Kiening;Alexander Sartorius

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam J. Schwarz
Adam J. Schwarz Qynapse
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Gabriele Ende
Gabriele Ende Heidelberg University
Fritz A. Henn
Fritz A. Henn Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter Gass
Peter Gass Heidelberg University
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg
Robert Christian Wolf
Robert Christian Wolf Heidelberg University
Michael Spedding
Michael Spedding DuPont (United States)
Lutz Frölich
Lutz Frölich Heidelberg University
Rainer Spanagel
Rainer Spanagel Heidelberg University

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