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2026

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Overview

Andreas Heinz is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. The scientist's work further delves into subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and general health professions.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neural and behavioral psychology studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and mental health treatment and access.

Andreas Heinz has contributed to several recent papers published in notable venues, including:

  • Brain charts for the human lifespan, 2022, Nature
  • The effects of social isolation stress and discrimination on mental health, 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Mental health effects of infection containment strategies: quarantine and isolation-a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Defining pathways to healthy sustainable urban development, 2020, Environment International

The scientist frequently collaborates with others active in overlapping research areas. Their most frequent co-authors include Tobias Banaschewski, Michael N. Smolka, Henrik Walter, Sylvane Desrivières, and Frauke Nees.

Andreas Heinz often publishes in several key scientific venues, including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Der Nervenarzt, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Molecular Psychiatry, and European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence

    Jeanne E Savage;Philip R Jansen;Philip R Jansen;Sven Stringer;Kyoko Watanabe

  • Toward a new definition of mental health.

    Silvana Galderisi;Andreas Heinz;Marianne Kastrup;Julian Beezhold

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans.

    Urs Braun;Axel Schäfer;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk

  • Amygdala-prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter

    Andreas Heinz;Dieter F Braus;Michael N Smolka;Jana Wrase

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Prediction of psychosis in adolescents and young adults at high risk: results from the prospective European prediction of psychosis study

    Stephan Ruhrmann;Frauke Schultze-Lutter;Raimo K. R. Salokangas;Markus Heinimaa

  • The IMAGEN study: reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology.

    G Schumann;E Loth;T Banaschewski;A Barbot

  • Cue-induced activation of the striatum and medial prefrontal cortex is associated with subsequent relapse in abstinent alcoholics

    Sabine M. Grüsser;Jana Wrase;Sabine Klein;Derik Hermann

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenia.

    Georg Juckel;Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael Koslowski;Torsten Wüstenberg;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Genotype Influences In Vivo Dopamine Transporter Availability in Human Striatum

    Andreas Heinz;David Goldman;Douglas W Jones;Roberta Palmour

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

    Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

  • Correlation between dopamine D(2) receptors in the ventral striatum and central processing of alcohol cues and craving.

    Andreas Heinz;Thomas Siessmeier;Jana Wrase;Derik Hermann

  • Dysfunction of reward processing correlates with alcohol craving in detoxified alcoholics

    Jana Wrase;Florian Schlagenhauf;Thorsten Kienast;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • A relationship between serotonin transporter genotype and in vivo protein expression and alcohol neurotoxicity.

    Andreas Heinz;Douglas W Jones;Chiara Mazzanti;David Goldman

  • Ventral striatal activation during reward anticipation correlates with impulsivity in alcoholics

    A Beck;F Schlagenhauf;T Wüstenberg;J Hein

  • Catechol-O-methyltransferase val158met genotype affects processing of emotional stimuli in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

    Michael N. Smolka;Gunter Schumann;Jana Wrase;Sabine M. Grüsser

  • Mental health, health care utilisation of migrants in Europe.

    J. Lindert;M. Schouler-Ocak;A. Heinz;Stefan Priebe

Frequent Co-Authors

Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University

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