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Overview

Boris B. Quednow is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with 132 and 99 publications respectively.

Their work focuses on several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Toxicology.

Main research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Boris B. Quednow has published in a variety of venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Praxis
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience Applied

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research:

  • Self-injury from early adolescence to early adulthood: age-related course, recurrence, and services use in males and females from the community (2020), European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Altered neuroaxonal integrity in schizophrenia and major depressive disorder assessed with neurofilament light chain in serum (2021), Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • The role of serotonin in declarative memory: A systematic review of animal and human research (2022), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Impaired glutamate homeostasis in the nucleus accumbens in human cocaine addiction (2020), Molecular Psychiatry
  • When Substance Use Is Underreported: Comparing Self-Reports and Hair Toxicology in an Urban Cohort of Young Adults (2023), Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Boris B. Quednow frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their coauthors include:

  • Erich Seifritz (49 publications)
  • Markus R. Baumgartner (34 publications)
  • Francesco Bavato (27 publications)
  • Lilly Shanahan (20 publications)
  • Denis Ribeaud (19 publications)

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, notably through Frontiers Media, with the title "Insights in Addictive Disorders: 2022" scheduled for 2024.

Best Publications

  • MDMA enhances emotional empathy and prosocial behavior

    Cédric M. Hysek;Yasmin Schmid;Linda D. Simmler;Gregor Domes

  • Psilocybin-Induced Deficits in Automatic and Controlled Inhibition are Attenuated by Ketanserin in Healthy Human Volunteers

    Boris B Quednow;Michael Kometer;Mark A Geyer;Franz X Vollenweider

  • The effects of the preferential 5-HT2A agonist psilocybin on prepulse inhibition of startle in healthy human volunteers depend on interstimulus interval.

    Franz X Vollenweider;Philipp A Csomor;Bernhard Knappe;Mark A Geyer

  • Impaired prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle in obsessive-compulsive disorder.

    Klaus Hoenig;Andrea Hochrein;Boris B. Quednow;Wolfgang Maier

  • Executive performance of depressed suicide attempters: the role of suicidal ideation

    Jens Westheide;Boris B. Quednow;Kai-Uwe Kuhn;Christian Hoppe

  • Cognitive impairment in cocaine users is drug-induced but partially reversible: evidence from a longitudinal study.

    Matthias Vonmoos;Lea M Hulka;Katrin H Preller;Franziska Minder

  • Cognitive dysfunctions in recreational and dependent cocaine users: role of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, craving and early age at onset

    Matthias Vonmoos;Lea M. Hulka;Katrin H. Preller;Daniela Jenni

  • Elevated impulsivity and impaired decision-making cognition in heavy users of MDMA (“Ecstasy”)

    Boris B. Quednow;Boris B. Quednow;Kai-Uwe Kühn;Christian Hoppe;Jens Westheide

  • Impaired sensorimotor gating of the acoustic startle response in the prodrome of schizophrenia

    B.B. Quednow;I. Frommann;J. Berning;K.U. Kühn

  • Impaired emotional empathy and related social network deficits in cocaine users

    Katrin H. Preller;Lea M. Hulka;Matthias Vonmoos;Daniela Jenni

  • Differential effects of MDMA and methylphenidate on social cognition

    Yasmin Schmid;Cédric M Hysek;Linda D Simmler;Molly J Crockett

  • Prepulse inhibition and habituation of acoustic startle response in male MDMA ('ecstasy') users, cannabis users, and healthy controls.

    Boris B Quednow;Kai-Uwe Kühn;Klaus Hoenig;Wolfgang Maier

  • Sensorimotor gating and habituation of the startle response in schizophrenic patients randomly treated with amisulpride or olanzapine.

    Boris B. Quednow;Michael Wagner;Jens Westheide;Katrin Beckmann

  • Altered social and non-social decision-making in recreational and dependent cocaine users.

    L M Hulka;C Eisenegger;K H Preller;M Vonmoos

  • Antidepressive treatment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and major depression: a prospective study with three different antidepressants.

    Kai Uwe Kühn;Boris B Quednow;Markus Thiel;Peter Falkai

  • Memory deficits in abstinent MDMA (ecstasy) users : neuropsychological evidence of frontal dysfunction

    Boris B. Quednow;Frank Jessen;Kai-Uwe Kühn;Wolfgang Maier

  • On the Influence of Baseline Startle Reactivity on the Indexation of Prepulse Inhibition

    Philipp A. Csomor;Benjamin K. Yee;Franz X. Vollenweider;Joram Feldon

  • Ethics of neuroenhancement: A phantom debate

    Boris B Quednow

  • A quantitiative LC-MS/MS method for the measurement of arachidonic acid, prostanoids, endocannabinoids, N-acylethanolamines and steroids in human plasma.

    María Salomé Gachet;Peter Rhyn;Oliver G. Bosch;Boris B. Quednow

  • Functional changes of the reward system underlie blunted response to social gaze in cocaine users.

    Katrin H. Preller;Marcus Herdener;Leonhard Schilbach;Philipp Stämpfli

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Katrin H. Preller
Katrin H. Preller University of Zurich
Franz X. Vollenweider
Franz X. Vollenweider University of Zurich
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Ulrich Ettinger
Ulrich Ettinger University of Bonn
Veena Kumari
Veena Kumari Brunel University London
Leonhard Schilbach
Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
David A. Collier
David A. Collier Eli Lilly (United States)
Dominik R. Bach
Dominik R. Bach University of Bonn
Sibylle G. Schwab
Sibylle G. Schwab University of Wollongong

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