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Christian Dettmers

Christian Dettmers

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Neuroscience

D-Index
39
Citations
8598
World Ranking
8245
National Ranking
695

Overview

Christian Dettmers is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany, focusing primarily on medical research. Their work spans several subfields, notably Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Surgery, and Hematology, with a total of 52 publications concentrated in Medicine.

Their principal research topics include:

  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Shoulder Injury and Treatment
  • Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
  • Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation

Dettmers has contributed to a range of scientific articles published in various venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Neurologie & Rehabilitation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Dettmers are:

  • "Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis Is Associated With Childhood Adversities" (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • "Association of blood lipids with onset and prognosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: results from the ALS Swabia registry" (2023, Journal of Neurology)
  • "Association of Fatigue Severity With Maladaptive Coping in Multiple Sclerosis: A Data-Driven Psychodynamic Perspective" (2021, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • "Cognitive Fatigability, not Fatigue predicts employment status in patients with MS three months after rehabilitation" (2021, Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders)
  • "Functional neurological symptoms are a frequent and relevant comorbidity in patients with multiple sclerosis" (2023, Frontiers in Neurology)

Frequent collaborators include Michael Jöbges, Roger Schmidt, Michael Joebges, Jennifer Randerath, and M. Jöbges, indicating ongoing cooperative research activity with these individuals.

Best Publications

  • Motor cortex plasticity during constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patients.

    J. Liepert;W.H.R. Miltner;H. Bauder;M. Sommer

  • Action Observation Has a Positive Impact on Rehabilitation of Motor Deficits After Stroke

    Denis Ertelt;Steven Small;Ana Solodkin;Christian Dettmers

  • Effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on Patients With Chronic Motor Deficits After Stroke A Replication

    Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Heike Bauder;Monika Sommer;Christian Dettmers

  • Relation between cerebral activity and force in the motor areas of the human brain.

    C. Dettmers;G. R. Fink;R. N. Lemon;K. M. Stephan

  • The human action recognition system and its relationship to Broca's area: an fMRI study.

    Farsin Hamzei;Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Volkmar Glauche

  • A blueprint for movement: functional and anatomical representations in the human motor system

    Michel Rijntjes;Christian Dettmers;Christian Büchel;Stefan Kiebel

  • Role of the Human Rostral Supplementary Motor Area and the Basal Ganglia in Motor Sequence Control: Investigations With H2 15O PET

    H. Boecker;A. Dagher;A. O. Ceballos-Baumann;A. O. Ceballos-Baumann;R. E. Passingham

  • Inhibition of ipsilateral motor cortex during phasic generation of low force

    J Liepert;C Dettmers;C Terborg;C Weiller

  • Distributed form of constraint-induced movement therapy improves functional outcome and quality of life after stroke

    Christian Dettmers;Ulrike Teske;Farsin Hamzei;Gitendra Uswatte

  • Two different reorganization patterns after rehabilitative therapy: An exploratory study with fMRI and TMS

    Farsin Hamzei;Joachim Liepert;Christian Dettmers;Cornelius Weiller

  • Surface orientation discrimination activates caudal and anterior intraparietal sulcus in humans: an event-related fMRI study.

    Elisa Shikata;Elisa Shikata;Farsin Hamzei;Volkmar Glauche;René Knab

  • PET study of changes in local brain hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism after unilateral middle cerebral artery occlusion in baboons.

    S. Pappata;M. Fiorelli;T. Rommel;A. Hartmann

  • Increased excitability in the primary motor cortex and supplementary motor area in patients with phantom limb pain after upper limb amputation.

    C Dettmers;T Adler;R Rzanny;R van Schayck

  • Quantitative comparison of functional magnetic resonance imaging with positron emission tomography using a force-related paradigm

    Christian Dettmers;Alan Connelly;Klaus M Stephan;Robert Turner

  • Cerebral activation during the exertion of sustained static force in man

    C. Dettmers;R. N. Lemon;K. M. Stephan;G. R. Fink

  • Endurance exercise improves walking distance in MS patients with fatigue.

    C. Dettmers;M. Sulzmann;A. Ruchay-Plössl;R. Gütler

  • Reduction of excitability ("inhibition") in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex is mirrored by fMRI signal decreases.

    Farsin Hamzei;Christian Dettmers;Reinhard Rzanny;Joachim Liepert

  • Action imagery combined with action observation activates more corticomotor regions than action observation alone.

    Violetta Nedelko;Thomas Hassa;Farsin Hamzei;Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld

  • Exergaming With Additional Postural Demands Improves Balance and Gait in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis as Much as Conventional Balance Training and Leads to High Adherence to Home-Based Balance Training

    Andreas Kramer;Christian Dettmers;Markus Gruber

  • Human cerebral activity with increasing inspiratory force: a study using positron emission tomography

    Gereon R. Fink;Douglas R. Corfield;Kevin Murphy;Ichiro Kobayashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Cornelius Weiller
Cornelius Weiller University of Freiburg
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld
Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Richard S. J. Frackowiak
Richard S. J. Frackowiak École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Annette Sterr
Annette Sterr University of Surrey
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner Friedrich Schiller University Jena
François Chollet
François Chollet Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse
Jean-François Démonet
Jean-François Démonet University Hospital of Lausanne

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