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Birgit Abler

Birgit Abler

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
5689
World Ranking
8570
National Ranking
724

Birgit Abler publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birgit Abler sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 92 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Birgit Abler D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Birgit Abler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Birgit Abler is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience. Their work spans clinical and cognitive domains with a strong focus on psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, and pharmacology. The breadth of research topics includes psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, cannabis and cannabinoid research, personality disorders and psychopathology, suicide and self-harm studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Abler's publication record includes contributions to various scientific journals, with recent papers covering diverse subject areas:

  • "Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis" (2020) published in Psychophysiology
  • "Fear extinction learning and anandamide: an fMRI study in healthy humans" (2021) published in Translational Psychiatry
  • "Factors Influencing Decision Making Regarding the Acceptance of the COVID-19 Vaccination in Egypt: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Urban, Well-Educated Sample" (2021) published in Vaccines
  • "FAAH polymorphism (rs324420) modulates extinction recall in healthy humans: an fMRI study" (2021) published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Psychiatric Disorders of Neurocysticercosis: Narrative Review" (2021) published in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Nervenheilkunde, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Psychophysiology, and Vaccines.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jennifer Spohrs
  • Paul L. Plener
  • Sandra Nickel
  • Kathrin Malejko
  • David Mikusky

Abler's studies often integrate interdisciplinary approaches involving clinical psychology and neuroscience techniques, frequently leveraging functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore behavioral and neurobiological aspects of psychiatric disorders.

Their contributions to understanding mechanisms underlying fear extinction, cannabinoid research, and decision-making in public health contexts such as vaccination acceptance reflect a diverse research portfolio.

Best Publications

  • Emotion Regulation Questionnaire – Eine deutschsprachige Fassung des ERQ von Gross und John

    Birgit Abler;Henrik Kessler

  • Prediction error as a linear function of reward probability is coded in human nucleus accumbens.

    Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk;Hannes Kammerer

  • Anticipation of aversive stimuli activates extended amygdala in unipolar depression.

    Birgit Abler;Birgit Abler;Susanne Erk;Uwe Herwig;Henrik Walter

  • Antidepressant effects of augmentative transcranial magnetic stimulation: randomised multicentre trial.

    Uwe Herwig;Andreas J. Fallgatter;Jacqueline Höppner;Gerhard W. Eschweiler

  • Abnormal Reward System Activation in Mania

    Birgit Abler;Ian Greenhouse;Dost Ongur;Henrik Walter

  • Neural correlates of frustration.

    Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk

  • Modulation of anticipatory emotion and perception processing by cognitive control.

    Uwe Herwig;Thomas Baumgartner;Tina Kaffenberger;Tina Kaffenberger;Annette B. Brühl

  • Motivating forces of human actions Neuroimaging reward and social interaction

    Henrik Walter;Birgit Abler;Angela Ciaramidaro;Susanne Erk

  • Cognitive reappraisal modulates expected value and prediction error encoding in the ventral striatum

    Markus R. Staudinger;Susanne Erk;Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter

  • Human reward system activation is modulated by a single dose of olanzapine in healthy subjects in an event-related, double-blind, placebo-controlled fMRI study

    Birgit Abler;Susanne Erk;Henrik Walter

  • Altered reward functions in patients on atypical antipsychotic medication in line with the revised dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia

    Henrik Walter;Hannes Kammerer;Karel Frasch;Manfred Spitzer

  • Investigating directed influences between activated brain areas in a motor-response task using fMRI

    Birgit Abler;Alard Roebroeck;Rainer Goebel;Anett Höse

  • High field FMRI reveals thalamocortical integration of segregated cognitive and emotional processing in mediodorsal and intralaminar thalamic nuclei.

    Coraline Danielle Metzger;Ulf Eckert;Johann Steiner;Alexander Sartorius

  • Differential neural processing of social exclusion in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: An fMRI study.

    Rebecca C. Groschwitz;Paul L. Plener;Georg Groen;Martina Bonenberger

  • Expecting unpleasant stimuli--an fMRI study.

    Uwe Herwig;Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk

  • Neural Correlates of Antidepressant-Related Sexual Dysfunction: A Placebo-Controlled fMRI Study on Healthy Males Under Subchronic Paroxetine and Bupropion

    Birgit Abler;Angela Seeringer;Antonie Hartmann;Georg Gron

  • Cognitive modulation of emotion anticipation

    Susanne Erk;Birgit Abler;Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter

  • Neural correlates of erotic stimulation under different levels of female sexual hormones.

    Birgit Abler;Daniela Kumpfmüller;Georg Grön;Martin Walter

  • Neural Correlates of Error Monitoring Modulated by Atomoxetine in Healthy Volunteers

    Heiko Graf;Birgit Abler;Roland Freudenmann;Petra Beschoner

  • Neural Correlates of Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review.

    Kathrin Malejko;Birgit Abler;Paul L. Plener;Joana Straub

  • Rapid Communication Prediction error as a linear function of reward probability is coded in human nucleus accumbens

    Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk;Hannes Kammerer

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul L. Plener
Paul L. Plener Medical University of Vienna
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Georg Grön
Georg Grön University of Ulm
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer University of Ulm
Uwe Herwig
Uwe Herwig University of Zurich
Jan Kassubek
Jan Kassubek University of Ulm
Thomas Kammer
Thomas Kammer University of Ulm
Matthias Schwab
Matthias Schwab University of Tübingen
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm

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