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Overview

Anne Eckert is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and has a research portfolio primarily focused on neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their work encompasses subfields such as molecular biology, clinical psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, and physiology. The thematic scope of their research includes psychedelics and drug studies, mitochondrial function and pathology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, stress responses and cortisol, chemical synthesis and alkaloids, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Eckert has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing (2020), published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Acute dose-dependent effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in a double-blind placebo-controlled study in healthy subjects (2020), published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Management of mild cognitive impairment (MCI): The need for national and international guidelines (2020), published in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry
  • Direct comparison of the acute effects of lysergic acid diethylamide and psilocybin in a double-blind placebo-controlled study in healthy subjects (2022), published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Acute Effects of Psilocybin After Escitalopram or Placebo Pretreatment in a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study in Healthy Subjects (2021), published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Eckert include Nimmy Varghese, Amandine Grimm, Matthias E. Liechti, Friederike Holze, and Imane Lejri. The long-term collaborations with these researchers suggest a focused network within the fields of neuropsychopharmacology and related biomedical studies.

Eckert's work has been published extensively in several academic venues, most notably:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Cells
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Endocrine Abstracts
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Their research addresses complex biological and psychological processes with an emphasis on the neurochemical and mitochondrial aspects of brain function, as well as the clinical implications for diseases such as Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment. The integration of experimental pharmacology, clinical trials, and neuroendocrine behavior studies reflects a multidisciplinary approach.

Best Publications

  • Dendritic Function of Tau Mediates Amyloid-β Toxicity in Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Models

    Lars M. Ittner;Yazi D. Ke;Fabien Delerue;Mian Bi

  • Brain energy rescue: an emerging therapeutic concept for neurodegenerative disorders of ageing

    Stephen C. Cunnane;Eugenia Trushina;Cecilie Morland;Alessandro Prigione

  • Amyloid-β and tau synergistically impair the oxidative phosphorylation system in triple transgenic Alzheimer's disease mice

    Virginie Rhein;Xiaomin Song;Andreas Wiesner;Lars M. Ittner

  • Brain aging and neurodegeneration: from a mitochondrial point of view.

    Amandine Grimm;Anne Eckert

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction: an early event in Alzheimer pathology accumulates with age in AD transgenic mice.

    S. Hauptmann;I. Scherping;S. Dröse;U. Brandt

  • Proteomic and functional analyses reveal a mitochondrial dysfunction in P301L tau transgenic mice

    Della C. David;Susanne Hauptmann;Isabel Scherping;Katrin Schuessel

  • Dietary Cu stabilizes brain superoxide dismutase 1 activity and reduces amyloid Aβ production in APP23 transgenic mice

    Thomas A Bayer;Stephanie Schäfer;Andreas Simons;André Kemmling

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction, apoptotic cell death, and Alzheimer's disease.

    Anne Eckert;Uta Keil;Celio A. Marques;Astrid Bonert

  • Amyloid-Beta interaction with mitochondria.

    Lucia Pagani;Anne Eckert

  • Amyloid β-induced changes in nitric oxide production and mitochondrial activity lead to apoptosis

    Uta Keil;Astrid Bonert;Celio A. Marques;Isabel Scherping

  • Circadian Control of DRP1 Activity Regulates Mitochondrial Dynamics and Bioenergetics.

    Karen Schmitt;Amandine Grimm;Robert Dallmann;Bjoern Oettinghaus

  • ROS generation, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzyme activities in the aging brain

    S. Leutner;A. Eckert;W. E. Müller

  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction: Common Final Pathway in Brain Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease—Therapeutic Aspects

    Walter E. Müller;Anne Eckert;Christopher Kurz;Gunter Peter Eckert

  • BDNF in sleep, insomnia, and sleep deprivation

    Karen Schmitt;Edith Holsboer-Trachsler;Anne Eckert

  • Reduced hippocampal MT2 melatonin receptor expression in Alzheimer's disease.

    Egemen Savaskan;Mohammed A. Ayoub;Rivka Ravid;Debora Angeloni

  • Effects of EGb 761 Ginkgo biloba extract on mitochondrial function and oxidative stress.

    A. Eckert;U. Keil;S. Kressmann;K. Schindowski

  • Distinct acute effects of LSD, MDMA, and D-amphetamine in healthy subjects.

    Friederike Holze;Patrick Vizeli;Felix Müller;Laura Ley

  • Amyloid-beta leads to impaired cellular respiration, energy production and mitochondrial electron chain complex activities in human neuroblastoma cells.

    V. Rhein;G. Baysang;S. Rao;F. Meier

  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction: The First Domino in Brain Aging and Alzheimer's Disease?

    Kristina Leuner;Susanne Hauptmann;Reham Abdel-Kader;Isabel Scherping

  • Neurotoxic mechanisms caused by the Alzheimer's disease-linked Swedish amyloid precursor protein mutation: oxidative stress, caspases, and the JNK pathway.

    Celio A. Marques;Uta Keil;Astrid Bonert;Barbara Steiner

  • Acute dose-dependent effects of lysergic acid diethylamide in a double-blind placebo-controlled study in healthy subjects.

    Friederike Holze;Friederike Holze;Patrick Vizeli;Patrick Vizeli;Laura Ley;Laura Ley;Felix Müller

  • Impaired Cu/Zn-SOD activity contributes to increased oxidative damage in APP transgenic mice

    Katrin Schuessel;Stephanie Schäfer;Thomas A. Bayer;Christian Czech;Christian Czech

  • Convergence of Amyloid-β and Tau Pathologies on Mitochondria In Vivo

    Anne Eckert;Kathrin L. Schulz;Virginie Rhein;Jürgen Götz

  • Mitochondrial dysfunction - the beginning of the end in Alzheimer's disease? Separate and synergistic modes of tau and amyloid-β toxicity

    Anne Eckert;Karen Schmitt;Jürgen Götz

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter E. Müller
Walter E. Müller Goethe University Frankfurt
Serge Brand
Serge Brand University of Basel
Jürgen Götz
Jürgen Götz University of Queensland
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler University of Basel
Ayikoe Guy Mensah-Nyagan
Ayikoe Guy Mensah-Nyagan University of Strasbourg
Lars M. Ittner
Lars M. Ittner Macquarie University
Hans Förstl
Hans Förstl Technical University of Munich
Christian Cajochen
Christian Cajochen University of Basel
Konrad Maurer
Konrad Maurer Goethe University Frankfurt
Markus Gerber
Markus Gerber University of Basel

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