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Axel Krug is affiliated with the Philipp University of Marburg in Germany. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with substantial contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics of their scholarly work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Mental Health Research Topics, Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Krug's publication record features articles in several prominent venues, demonstrating sustained contributions over time. Frequent journals include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 16 publications, Molecular Psychiatry (14 publications), Translational Psychiatry (9 publications), Psychological Medicine (9 publications), and Neuropsychopharmacology (6 publications).

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Axel Krug are:

  • "Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group" (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA" (2020) in NeuroImage
  • "ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing" (2020) in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders" (2020) in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium" (2021) in Translational Psychiatry

Their frequent co-authors include Tilo Kircher, Igor Nenadić, Udo Dannlowski, Frederike Stein, and Dominik Grotegerd, suggesting ongoing collaborative research relationships that have resulted in numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA.

    Joaquim Radua;Eduard Vieta;Russell Shinohara;Peter Kochunov

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

    Lianne Schmaal;Elena Pozzi;Tiffany C Ho;Tiffany C Ho;Laura S van Velzen

  • Insular and hippocampal gray matter volume reductions in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Mirjam Stratmann;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Axel Krug

  • Neurobiology of the major psychoses: a translational perspective on brain structure and function-the FOR2107 consortium.

    Tilo Kircher;Markus Wöhr;Igor Nenadic;Rainer Schwarting

  • Subcortical shape alterations in major depressive disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

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  • A rating scale for the assessment of objective and subjective formal Thought and Language Disorder (TALD).

    Tilo Kircher;Axel Krug;Mirjam Stratmann;Sayed Ghazi

  • Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders – 13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

    Abraham Nunes;Hugo G. Schnack;Christopher R.K. Ching;Christopher R.K. Ching;Ingrid Agartz

  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders : Evidence through univariate and multivariate mega-analysis including 6420 participants from the ENIGMA MDD working group.

    Nils Opel;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Anbupalam Thalamuthu;Yuri Milaneschi;Dominik Grotegerd

  • Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium

    Nooshin Javaheripour;Meng Li;Tara Chand;Axel Krug;Axel Krug

  • Effect of CACNA1C rs1006737 on neural correlates of verbal fluency in healthy individuals.

    Axel Krug;Vanessa Nieratschker;Valentin Markov;Sören Krach

  • Childhood maltreatment and adult mental disorders – the prevalence of different types of maltreatment and associations with age of onset and severity of symptoms

    Nele Struck;Axel Krug;Dilara Yuksel;Frederike Stein

  • The precuneus and the insula in self-attributional processes

    Maurice Cabanis;Martin Pyka;Martin Pyka;Stephanie Mehl;Bernhard W Muller

  • Systematic misestimation of machine learning performance in neuroimaging studies of depression.

    Claas Flint;Micah Cearns;Micah Cearns;Nils Opel;Ronny Redlich

  • Association of rs1006737 in CACNA1C with alterations in prefrontal activation and fronto-hippocampal connectivity.

    Frieder M. Paulus;Johannes Bedenbender;Sören Krach;Martin Pyka

  • Disadvantage of Social Sensitivity: Interaction of Oxytocin Receptor Genotype and Child Maltreatment on Brain Structure

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Dominik Grotegerd;Ronny Redlich

  • Effects of a CACNA1C genotype on attention networks in healthy individuals.

    Markus Thimm;Tilo Kircher;Thilo Kellermann;Valentin Markov

  • Effect of COMT val158met genotype on cognition and personality

    A.J. Sheldrick;A. Krug;V. Markov;D. Leube

Frequent Co-Authors

Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Igor Nenadic
Igor Nenadic Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Jansen
Andreas Jansen Philipp University of Marburg
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Dominik Grotegerd
Dominik Grotegerd University of Münster
Ronny Redlich
Ronny Redlich University of Münster
Jonathan Repple
Jonathan Repple University Hospital Frankfurt

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