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Overview

Boris Suchan is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and has contributed extensively to neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their research intersects multiple subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, neurology, and clinical psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, vestibular and auditory disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and psychiatric care and mental health services.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Preventing dementia? Interventional approaches in mild cognitive impairment" (2021), Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "TMS over the posterior cerebellum modulates motor cortical excitability in response to facial emotional expressions" (2020), European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Cognitive telerehabilitation: an expert consensus paper on current evidence and future perspective" (2024), Frontiers in Neurology
  • "Play to Win: Action Video Game Experience and Attention Driven Perceptual Exploration in Categorization Learning" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Configural processing of emotional bodies and faces in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder" (2020), Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Frequent co-authors of Boris Suchan include:

  • Patrizia Thoma
  • Jürgen Margraf
  • Christiane Völter
  • Vanessa J. Lissek
  • Lukas Lorentz

Regular publication venues for their work include:

  • Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie
  • NeuroImage
  • Children
  • Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Boris Suchan has also contributed to book publications, with at least two published by Springer Nature:

  • Klinische Neuropsychologie im ambulanten Setting (2020)
  • Klinische Neuropsychologie (expected 2025)

Best Publications

  • Cortico-subcortical contributions to executive control

    Katrin Heyder;Boris Suchan;Irene Daum

  • The Regulatory Role of the Human Mediodorsal Thalamus.

    Giulio Pergola;Lola Danet;Anne Lise Pitel;Giovanni A. Carlesimo

  • Neural correlates of viewing photographs of one's own body and another woman's body in anorexia and bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study

    Silja Vocks;Martin Busch;Dietrich Grönemeyer;Dietmar Schulte

  • Empathy and social problem solving in alcohol dependence, mood disorders and selected personality disorders

    Patrizia Thoma;Christine Friedmann;Boris Suchan

  • Structural encoding and recognition of biological motion: evidence from event-related potentials and source analysis

    Daniel Jokisch;Irene Daum;Boris Suchan;Nikolaus F. Troje;Nikolaus F. Troje

  • Reduction of gray matter density in the extrastriate body area in women with anorexia nervosa.

    Boris Suchan;Martin Busch;Dietmar Schulte;Dietrich Grönermeyer

  • Losing your head: Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of body inversion

    Denise A. Minnebusch;Boris Suchan;Irene Daum

  • When the future becomes the past: Differences in brain activation patterns for episodic memory and episodic future thinking

    Julia A. Weiler;Boris Suchan;Irene Daum

  • Reduced connectivity between the left fusiform body area and the extrastriate body area in anorexia nervosa is associated with body image distortion.

    Boris Suchan;Denise Soria Bauser;Martin Busch;Dietmar Schulte

  • Foreseeing the future: occurrence probability of imagined future events modulates hippocampal activation.

    Julia A. Weiler;Boris Suchan;Irene Daum

  • Changes in neuronal correlates of body image processing by means of cognitive-behavioural body image therapy for eating disorders: a randomized controlled fMRI study.

    S Vocks;D Schulte;M Busch;D Grönemeyer

  • BESST (Bochum Emotional Stimulus Set)--a pilot validation study of a stimulus set containing emotional bodies and faces from frontal and averted views.

    Patrizia Thoma;Denise Soria Bauser;Boris Suchan

  • Preventing dementia? Interventional approaches in mild cognitive impairment.

    Vanessa Lissek;Boris Suchan

  • The effect of long-term high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on working memory in schizophrenia and healthy controls--a randomized placebo-controlled, double-blind fMRI study.

    Birgit Guse;Peter Falkai;Oliver Gruber;Heather Whalley

  • Cognitive and affective empathy in younger and older individuals

    Oksana Ze;Patrizia Thoma;Boris Suchan

  • Visual hallucinations in recovery from cortical blindness: imaging correlates.

    Gilbert Wunderlich;Boris Suchan;Jens Volkmann;Hans Herzog

  • Event-related potentials reflect heterogeneity of developmental prosopagnosia

    Denise A. Minnebusch;Boris Suchan;Meike Ramon;Irene Daum

  • Dissociation of grey and white matter reduction in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 and 6: a voxel-based morphometry study.

    Carsten Lukas;Ludger Schöls;Barbara Bellenberg;Udo Rüb

  • The medial temporal lobe: memory and beyond.

    Robert K. Lech;Boris Suchan

  • The role of the thalamic nuclei in recognition memory accompanied by recall during encoding and retrieval: An fMRI study

    Giulio Pergola;Alexander Ranft;Klaus Mathias;Boris Suchan

  • A bilateral occipitotemporal network mediates face perception.

    Denise A. Minnebusch;Boris Suchan;Odo Köster;Irene Daum

  • Recall deficits in stroke patients with thalamic lesions covary with damage to the parvocellular mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus.

    Giulio Pergola;Onur Güntürkün;Benno Koch;Michael Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene Daum
Irene Daum Ruhr University Bochum
Silja Vocks
Silja Vocks Osnabrück University
Stephan Herpertz
Stephan Herpertz Ruhr University Bochum
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Volker Hömberg
Volker Hömberg Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rüdiger J. Seitz Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Lars Kuchinke
Lars Kuchinke International Psychoanalytic University Berlin
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca

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