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Bettina Pfleiderer

Bettina Pfleiderer

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
7876
World Ranking
4156
National Ranking
110

Overview

Bettina Pfleiderer is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with notable work in subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Gender Studies, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health, and General Health Professions.

Their published works address a variety of topics including Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Diversity and Career in Medicine, Innovations in Medical Education, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Birth, Development, and Health, as well as Metabolism and Genetic Disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bettina Pfleiderer include:

  • Benedikt Sundermann
  • Stefan Garde
  • J. Weglage
  • Johanna Maria Helena Rau
  • Reinhold Feldmann

Regular publication venues for their research comprise:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Medical Education
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Pfleiderer include:

  • "Medical education too: sexual harassment within the educational context of medicine - insights of undergraduates," 2021, BMC Medical Education
  • "Approaching altered inhibitory control in phenylketonuria: A functional MRI study with a Go-NoGo task in young female adults," 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Coronary atherosclerotic plaque phenotype and physiopathologic mechanisms: Is there an influence of sex? Insights from intracoronary imaging," 2023, Atherosclerosis
  • "Dentists' Competence and Knowledge on Domestic Violence and How to Improve It-A Review," 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Scratching increases epidermal neuronal branching and alters psychophysical testing responses in atopic dermatitis and brachioradial pruritus," 2023, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Interoceptive sensitivity in anxiety and anxiety disorders: an overview and integration of neurobiological findings.

    Katharina Domschke;Stephan Stevens;Bettina Pfleiderer;Alexander L. Gerlach

  • Human Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Review

    Christina Sehlmeyer;Sonja Schöning;Pienie Zwitserlood;Bettina Pfleiderer

  • Effective electroconvulsive therapy reverses glutamate/glutamine deficit in the left anterior cingulum of unipolar depressed patients

    Bettina Pfleiderer;Nikolaus Michael;Andreas Erfurth;Patricia Ohrmann

  • Decreased gray matter volumes in the cingulo-frontal cortex and the amygdala in patients with fibromyalgia.

    Markus Burgmer;Markus Gaubitz;Carsten Konrad;Marco Wrenger

  • Metabolic changes within the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex occurring with electroconvulsive therapy in patients with treatment resistant unipolar depression.

    Nikolaus Michael;A. Erfurth;P. Ohrmann;V. Arolt

  • Neurotrophic Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Proton Magnetic Resonance Study of the Left Amygdalar Region in Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Nikolaus Michael;Andreas Erfurth;Patricia Ohrmann;Volker Arolt

  • Altered brain activity during pain processing in fibromyalgia.

    Markus Burgmer;Esther Pogatzki-Zahn;Markus Gaubitz;Erik Wessoleck

  • Metabolic changes after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the left prefrontal cortex: a sham-controlled proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) study of healthy brain.

    Nikolaus Michael;Michael Gösling;Michael Reutemann;Annette Kersting

  • Neural correlates of trait anxiety in fear extinction.

    C. Sehlmeyer;U. Dannlowski;S. Schöning;H. Kugel

  • Acute mania is accompanied by elevated glutamate/glutamine levels within the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

    Nikolaus Michael;Andreas Erfurth;Patricia Ohrmann;Michael Gössling

  • Effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on neural correlates of fear conditioning in panic disorder.

    Tilo Kircher;Volker Arolt;Andreas Jansen;Martin Pyka

  • Cognitive impairment and in vivo metabolites in first-episode neuroleptic-naive and chronic medicated schizophrenic patients: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    Patricia Ohrmann;Ansgar Siegmund;Thomas Suslow;Anya Pedersen

  • Predicting treatment response to cognitive behavioral therapy in panic disorder with agoraphobia by integrating local neural information.

    Tim Hahn;Tilo Kircher;Benjamin Straube;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Neural Substrates of Treatment Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia

    Ulrike Lueken;Benjamin Straube;Carsten Konrad;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Evidence for glutamatergic neuronal dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex in chronic but not in first-episode patients with schizophrenia: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    Patricia Ohrmann;Ansgar Siegmund;Thomas Suslow;Katharina Spitzberg

  • Determination of siloxanes, silicon, and platinum in tissues of women with silicone gel-filled implants.

    Daniela Flassbeck;Bettina Pfleiderer;Patrick Klemens;Klaus G. Heumann

  • Gender differences in chronic pruritus: women present different morbidity, more scratch lesions and higher burden.

    S. Ständer;A. Stumpf;N. Osada;S. Wilp

  • MAOA and mechanisms of panic disorder revisited: from bench to molecular psychotherapy

    Andreas Reif;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Michael Höfler

  • Glial cell activation in a subgroup of patients with schizophrenia indicated by increased S100B serum concentrations and elevated myo-inositol

    Matthias Rothermundt;Patricia Ohrmann;Simone Abel;Ansgar Siegmund

  • Functional connectivity profile of the human inferior frontal junction: involvement in a cognitive control network

    Benedikt Sundermann;Bettina Pfleiderer

  • N-acetylaspartate levels of left frontal cortex are associated with verbal intelligence in women but not in men: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    B Pfleiderer;P Ohrmann;T Suslow;M Wolgast

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Tilo Kircher
Tilo Kircher Philipp University of Marburg
Benjamin Straube
Benjamin Straube Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Andreas Jansen
Andreas Jansen Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt

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