2026 Christian Büchel: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	130	275	246	19	17	541	68353

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Neuroscience

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Overview

Christian Büchel is affiliated with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with significant attention to cognitive neuroscience and related subfields. The scope of their work includes psychiatry and mental health, physiology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The core topics covered in Christian Büchel's research portfolio are diverse, illustrating a strong emphasis on pain and its management. Key areas include pain management and the placebo effect, functional brain connectivity studies, pain mechanisms and treatments, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Christian Büchel's recent scientific contributions include multiple papers published in high-impact journals. Notable recent publications are:

Meta-analysis of neural systems underlying placebo analgesia from individual participant fMRI data, 2021, Nature Communications
Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord, 2021, Nature Protocols
What Should Clinicians Tell Patients about Placebo and Nocebo Effects? Practical Considerations Based on Expert Consensus, 2020, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
The IMAGEN study: a decade of imaging genetics in adolescents, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
A shared neural basis underlying psychiatric comorbidity, 2023, Nature Medicine

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Christian Büchel include:

Sylvane Desrivières
Hugh Garavan
Tobias Banaschewski
Michael N. Smolka
Arun L.W. Bokde

Christian Büchel often publishes in specific scientific venues, with multiple contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Scientific Reports
NeuroImage
Nature Communications

Best Publications

A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions

J. S. Morris;K. J. Friston;C. Buchel;C. D. Frith

1692
Citations
Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidation.

Björn Rasch;Christian Büchel;Steffen Gais;Jan Born

1538
Citations
Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks

Arne May;Anish Bahra;Christian Büchel;Richard Sj Frackowiak

1335
Citations
The neural bases of emotion regulation

Amit Etkin;Christian Büchel;James J. Gross

1324
Citations
Brain systems mediating aversive conditioning: An event related fMRI study

C. Büchel;J. Morris;R.J. Dolan;K.J. Friston

1298
Citations
Multisubject fMRI studies and conjunction analyses.

K.J. Friston;A.P. Holmes;C.J. Price;C. Büchel

1286
Citations
Episodic future thinking reduces reward delay discounting through an enhancement of prefrontal-mediotemporal interactions.

Jan Peters;Christian Büchel

1131
Citations
Oxytocin Attenuates Amygdala Responses to Emotional Faces Regardless of Valence

Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Jan Gläscher;Christian Büchel

1051
Citations
Modulation of connectivity in visual pathways by attention: cortical interactions evaluated with structural equation modelling and fMRI.

C Büchel;K J Friston

1013
Citations
Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Brain Structure Changes during Extensive Learning

Bogdan Draganski;Christian Gaser;Gerd Kempermann;Hans-Georg Kuhn

988
Citations
Pathological gambling is linked to reduced activation of the mesolimbic reward system

Jan Reuter;Thomas Raedler;Michael Rose;Iver Hand

943
Citations
Activation of the Opioidergic Descending Pain Control System Underlies Placebo Analgesia

Falk Eippert;Ulrike Bingel;Eszter D. Schoell;Juliana Yacubian

933
Citations
Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes in the Elderly

Janina Boyke;Joenna Driemeyer;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

889
Citations
Amygdala-prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter

Andreas Heinz;Dieter F Braus;Michael N Smolka;Jana Wrase

874
Citations
Brainstem activation specific to migraine headache

A. Bahra;Matharu;C. Buchel;R.S.J. Frackowiak

743
Citations
The neural mechanisms of inter-temporal decision-making: understanding variability

Jan Peters;Christian Büchel

742
Citations
The IMAGEN study: reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology.

G Schumann;E Loth;T Banaschewski;A Barbot

727
Citations
Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Andre Altmann;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Anna-Clare Milazzo;Catie Chang

692
Citations
Brain regions involved in articulation.

R. J. S. Wise;J. Greene;C. Büchel;S. K. Scott

686
Citations
Painful stimuli evoke different stimulus-response functions in the amygdala, prefrontal, insula and somatosensory cortex: a single-trial fMRI study

K. Bornhövd;M. Quante;V. Glauche;B. Bromm

683
Citations
Mechanisms of placebo analgesia: rACC recruitment of a subcortical antinociceptive network.

U. Bingel;J. Lorenz;E. Schoell;C. Weiller

671
Citations