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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

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

    Björn Rasch;Christian Büchel;Steffen Gais;Jan Born

  • Hypothalamic activation in cluster headache attacks

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

  • The neural bases of emotion regulation

    Amit Etkin;Christian Büchel;James J. Gross

  • Brain systems mediating aversive conditioning: An event related fMRI study

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

  • Multisubject fMRI studies and conjunction analyses.

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

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

    Jan Peters;Christian Büchel

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Amygdala Responses to Emotional Faces Regardless of Valence

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Jan Gläscher;Christian Büchel

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

    C Büchel;K J Friston

  • Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Brain Structure Changes during Extensive Learning

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

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

    Jan Reuter;Thomas Raedler;Michael Rose;Iver Hand

  • Activation of the Opioidergic Descending Pain Control System Underlies Placebo Analgesia

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

  • Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes in the Elderly

    Janina Boyke;Joenna Driemeyer;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

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

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

  • Brainstem activation specific to migraine headache

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

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

    Jan Peters;Christian Büchel

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

    G Schumann;E Loth;T Banaschewski;A Barbot

  • Correlated gene expression supports synchronous activity in brain networks

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

  • Brain regions involved in articulation.

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

  • 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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Arun L.W. Bokde
Arun L.W. Bokde Trinity College Dublin

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