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Andrea Federspiel

Andrea Federspiel

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Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
7688
World Ranking
5809
National Ranking
142

Overview

Andrea Federspiel is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has an extensive research portfolio spanning medicine and neuroscience. The focus of their work integrates cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, psychiatry, and mental health, addressing a range of topics from brain connectivity to climate-related health impacts.

Their research output includes studies in key subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and toxicology considerations related to health.

Frequent publication venues for Federspiel include:

  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Main topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Neural dynamics and brain function

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Andrea Federspiel include:

  • "Ambient temperature and mental health hospitalizations in Bern, Switzerland: A 45-year time-series study" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Limbic links to paranoia: increased resting-state functional connectivity between amygdala, hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex in schizophrenia patients with paranoia" (2021), published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "The role of the orbitofrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens for craving in alcohol use disorder" (2021), published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Functional topography of the thalamo-cortical system during development and its relation to cognition" (2020), published in NeuroImage
  • "Altered diffusion in motor white matter tracts in psychosis patients with catatonia" (2020), published in Schizophrenia Research

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Federspiel's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Roland Wiest
  • Sebastian Walther
  • Tobias Bracht
  • Niklaus Denier
  • Leila M. Soravia

The combination of topics and coauthor networks indicates a strong emphasis on understanding brain connectivity and psychiatric conditions through advanced imaging and cognitive neuroscience methods. Their work also explores environmental factors, as evidenced by research linking climate change and mental health outcomes.

Best Publications

  • Pathways That Make Voices: White Matter Changes in Auditory Hallucinations

    Daniela Hubl;Thomas Koenig;Werner Strik;Andrea Federspiel

  • Functional imbalance of visual pathways indicates alternative face processing strategies in autism

    D. Hubl;S. Bolte;S. Feineis-Matthews;H. Lanfermann

  • Structural plasticity in the language system related to increased second language proficiency.

    Maria Stein;Andrea Federspiel;Thomas Koenig;Miranka Wirth

  • The spatiotemporal pattern of auditory cortical responses during verbal hallucinations

    Vincent G. van de Ven;Elia Formisano;Christian H. Röder;David Prvulovic

  • Semantic memory involvement in the default mode network: a functional neuroimaging study using independent component analysis.

    Miranka Wirth;Kay Jann;Thomas Dierks;Andrea Federspiel

  • Aberrant Hyperconnectivity in the Motor System at Rest Is Linked to Motor Abnormalities in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders.

    Sebastian Walther;Katharina Stegmayer;Andrea Federspiel;Stephan Bohlhalter

  • Association of individual resting state EEG alpha frequency and cerebral blood flow.

    Kay Jann;Thomas Koenig;Thomas Dierks;Chris Boesch

  • Structural and metabolic changes in language areas linked to formal thought disorder.

    Helge Horn;Andrea Federspiel;Miranka Wirth;Thomas J. Müller

  • Examining the gateway to the limbic system with diffusion tensor imaging: the perforant pathway in dementia.

    Peter Kalus;Johannes Slotboom;Jürgen Gallinat;Richard Mahlberg

  • Alterations of white matter connectivity in first episode schizophrenia.

    Andrea Federspiel;Stefan Begré;Claus Kiefer;Gerhard Schroth

  • Reduced neuronal activity in language-related regions after transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations.

    Jochen Kindler;Philipp Homan;Kay Jann;Andrea Federspiel

  • Resting state cerebral blood flow and objective motor activity reveal basal ganglia dysfunction in schizophrenia

    Sebastian Walther;Andrea Federspiel;Helge Horn;Nadja Razavi

  • Resting-State Hyperperfusion of the Supplementary Motor Area in Catatonia.

    Sebastian Walther;Lea Schäppi;Andrea Federspiel;Stephan Bohlhalter

  • Reduced frontal activation with increasing 2nd language proficiency

    Maria Stein;Andrea Federspiel;Thomas Koenig;Miranka Wirth

  • Alterations of white matter integrity related to motor activity in schizophrenia.

    Sebastian Walther;Andrea Federspiel;Helge Horn;Nadja Razavi

  • Interictal arterial spin-labeling MRI perfusion in intractable epilepsy

    N. Pendse;Michael Wissmeyer;S. Altrichter;M. Vargas

  • Frontal white matter integrity is related to psychomotor retardation in major depression.

    Sebastian Walther;Simone Hügli;Oliver Höfle;Andrea Federspiel

  • White matter microstructure alterations of the medial forebrain bundle in melancholic depression

    Tobias Bracht;Helge Joachim Horn;Werner Strik;Andrea Federspiel

  • Combined use of pulsed arterial spin-labeling and susceptibility-weighted imaging in stroke at 3T

    Magalie Viallon;Stephen Altrichter;Vitor Mendes Pereira;Duy Nguyen

  • Sex Differences in Semantic Processing: Event-Related Brain Potentials Distinguish between Lower and Higher Order Semantic Analysis during Word Reading

    M Wirth;H Horn;T Koenig;M Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Strik
Werner Strik University of Bern
Thomas Dierks
Thomas Dierks University of Bern
Sebastian Walther
Sebastian Walther University of Bern
Stephan Bohlhalter
Stephan Bohlhalter University of Bern
Gary F. Egan
Gary F. Egan Monash University
Miranka Wirth
Miranka Wirth German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Thomas Koenig
Thomas Koenig University of Bern

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