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Citations
8761
World Ranking
6192
National Ranking
519

Overview

Burkhard Pleger is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where their research focuses on neuroscience and medicine. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, neurology, molecular biology, sensory systems, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their publication record features contributions to a range of neuroscience topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory and neural mechanisms, olfactory and sensory function studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and transcranial magnetic stimulation studies.

Pleger has authored numerous papers, some recent and notable examples include:

  • A Systematic Review of Obesity and Binge Eating Associated Impairment of the Cognitive Inhibition System, 2021, Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Thalamic regulation of frontal interactions in human cognitive flexibility, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Human orbitofrontal cortex signals decision outcomes to sensory cortex during behavioral adaptations, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Encoding schemes in somatosensation: From micro- to meta-topography, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Stroke-derived neutrophils demonstrate higher formation potential and impaired resolution of CD66b + driven neutrophil extracellular traps, 2022, BMC Neurology

Frequent coauthors in Pleger's research include:

  • Bin Wang
  • Michael M. Halassa
  • Elodie Saruco
  • Bogdan Pintea
  • Kathrin Ohla

Pleger's work has been published in various scientific venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Nature Communications
  • BMC Neurology
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Eigenvector centrality mapping for analyzing connectivity patterns in fMRI data of the human brain.

    Gabriele Lohmann;Daniel S. Margulies;Annette Horstmann;Burkhard Pleger

  • Sensorimotor Returning in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Parallels Pain Reduction

    Burkhard Pleger;Martin Tegenthoff;Patrick Ragert;Ann-Freya Förster

  • Bilateral motor cortex disinhibition in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I of the hand.

    P. Schwenkreis;F. Janssen;O. Rommel;B. Pleger

  • Patterns of cortical reorganization parallel impaired tactile discrimination and pain intensity in complex regional pain syndrome

    Burkhard Pleger;Patrick Ragert;Peter Schwenkreis;Ann-Freya Förster

  • Anterolateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Analgesic Effect of Expected and Perceived Control over Pain

    Katja Wiech;Raffael Kalisch;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Burkhard Pleger

  • Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization.

    Hubert R. Dinse;Patrick Ragert;Burkhard Pleger;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Functional imaging of perceptual learning in human primary and secondary somatosensory cortex.

    Burkhard Pleger;Ann Freya Foerster;Patrick Ragert;Hubert R Dinse

  • Shifts in cortical representations predict human discrimination improvement.

    Burkhard Pleger;Hubert R. Dinse;Patrick Ragert;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Neural correlates of the volitional regulation of the desire for food

    Maurice Hollmann;Lydia Hellrung;Burkhard Pleger;Haiko Schlögl

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex attenuates pain perception in complex regional pain syndrome type I.

    Burkhard Pleger;Frank Janssen;Peter Schwenkreis;Birgit Völker

  • Improvement of Tactile Discrimination Performance and Enlargement of Cortical Somatosensory Maps after 5 Hz rTMS

    Martin Tegenthoff;Patrick Ragert;Burkhard Pleger;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Mean sustained pain levels are linked to hemispherical side-to-side differences of primary somatosensory cortex in the complex regional pain syndrome I.

    Burkhard Pleger;Martin Tegenthoff;Peter Schwenkreis;Frank Janssen

  • Obesity-Related Differences between Women and Men in Brain Structure and Goal-Directed Behavior

    Annette Horstmann;Franziska P. Busse;David Mathar;Karsten Müller

  • Immobilization impairs tactile perception and shrinks somatosensory cortical maps.

    Silke Lissek;Claudia Wilimzig;Claudia Wilimzig;Philipp Stude;Burkhard Pleger;Burkhard Pleger

  • Sex-dependent influences of obesity on cerebral white matter investigated by diffusion-tensor imaging

    Karsten Mueller;Alfred Anwander;Harald E. Möller;Annette Horstmann

  • Blocking Central Opiate Function Modulates Hedonic Impact and Anterior Cingulate Response to Rewards and Losses

    Predrag Petrovic;Burkhard Pleger;Ben Seymour;Stefan Klöppel

  • Neural Coding of Tactile Decisions in the Human Prefrontal Cortex

    Burkhard Pleger;Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Sven Bestmann

  • Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Verbal Working Memory

    Andreas Boehringer;Katja Macher;Juergen Dukart;Juergen Dukart;Arno Villringer;Arno Villringer;Arno Villringer

  • Reward facilitates tactile judgments and modulates hemodynamic responses in human primary somatosensory cortex

    B Pleger;F Blankenburg;C Ruff;J Driver

  • Influence of Dopaminergically Mediated Reward on Somatosensory Decision-Making

    Burkhard Pleger;Burkhard Pleger;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Christian C. Ruff;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Felix Blankenburg;Stefan Klöppel;Stefan Klöppel

Frequent Co-Authors

Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Annette Horstmann
Annette Horstmann University of Helsinki
Martin Tegenthoff
Martin Tegenthoff Ruhr University Bochum
Peter Schwenkreis
Peter Schwenkreis Ruhr University Bochum
Hubert R. Dinse
Hubert R. Dinse Ruhr University Bochum
Patrick Ragert
Patrick Ragert Leipzig University
Jane Neumann
Jane Neumann Max Planck Society
Karsten Mueller
Karsten Mueller Max Planck Society
Matthias L. Schroeter
Matthias L. Schroeter Max Planck Society
Felix Blankenburg
Felix Blankenburg Freie Universität Berlin

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