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Christian Gaser is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and has published extensively in fields related to medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, neurology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics covered by Gaser's work include functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, advanced MRI techniques and applications, health, environment, cognitive aging, neonatal and fetal brain pathology, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gaser are Robert Dahnke, Eileen Lüders, Bianca Besteher, Igor Nenadić, and Florian Kurth.

Gaser's publication record includes contributions to several key scientific venues. The most common among these are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Human Brain Mapping.

Recent papers published by Christian Gaser include:

  • CAT: a computational anatomy toolbox for the analysis of structural MRI data, 2024, GigaScience
  • CAT - A Computational Anatomy Toolbox for the Analysis of Structural MRI Data, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Surface-based analysis increases the specificity of cortical activation patterns and connectivity results, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Larger gray matter volumes in neuropsychiatric long-COVID syndrome, 2022, Psychiatry Research
  • When your brain looks older than expected: combined lifestyle risk and BrainAGE, 2021, Brain Structure and Function

Best Publications

  • Neuroplasticity: changes in grey matter induced by training.

    Bogdan Draganski;Christian Gaser;Volker Busch;Gerhard Schuierer

  • Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians

    Christian Gaser;Gottfried Schlaug

  • An automated tool for detection of FLAIR-hyperintense white-matter lesions in Multiple Sclerosis

    Paul Schmidt;Christian Gaser;Milan Arsic;Dorothea Buck

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

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

  • Training-Induced Brain Structure Changes in the Elderly

    Janina Boyke;Joenna Driemeyer;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

  • Estimating the age of healthy subjects from T1-weighted MRI scans using kernel methods: exploring the influence of various parameters

    Katja Franke;Gabriel Ziegler;Stefan Klöppel;Christian Gaser

  • CAT – A Computational Anatomy Toolbox for the Analysis of Structural MRI Data

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  • The underlying anatomical correlates of long-term meditation: Larger hippocampal and frontal volumes of gray matter

    Eileen Luders;Arthur W. Toga;Natasha Lepore;Christian Gaser

  • Machine learning framework for early MRI-based Alzheimer's conversion prediction in MCI subjects.

    Elaheh Moradi;Antonietta Pepe;Christian Gaser;Heikki Huttunen

  • Cortical thickness and central surface estimation

    Robert Dahnke;Rachel Aine Yotter;Christian Gaser

  • Ten Years of BrainAGE as a Neuroimaging Biomarker of Brain Aging: What Insights Have We Gained?

    Katja Franke;Christian Gaser

  • Changes in gray matter induced by learning--revisited.

    Joenna Driemeyer;Janina Boyke;Christian Gaser;Christian Büchel

  • BrainAGE in Mild Cognitive Impaired Patients: Predicting the Conversion to Alzheimer’s Disease

    Christian Gaser;Katja Franke;Stefan Klöppel;Nikolaos Koutsouleris

  • Use of Neuroanatomical Pattern Classification to Identify Subjects in At-Risk Mental States of Psychosis and Predict Disease Transition

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Eva M. Meisenzahl;Christos Davatzikos;Ronald Bottlender

  • Accelerated Brain Aging in Schizophrenia and Beyond: A Neuroanatomical Marker of Psychiatric Disorders

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Christos Davatzikos;Stefan Borgwardt;Christian Gaser

  • Structural Brain Changes in Tinnitus

    M. Mühlau;J. P. Rauschecker;E. Oestreicher;C. Gaser

  • Template-O-Matic: A toolbox for creating customized pediatric templates

    Marko Wilke;Scott K. Holland;Mekibib Altaye;Christian Gaser

  • Functional anatomy of pitch memory--an fMRI study with sparse temporal sampling.

    Nadine Gaab;Christian Gaser;Tino Zaehle;Lutz Jancke

  • A curvature-based approach to estimate local gyrification on the cortical surface

    Eileen Luders;Paul M. Thompson;Katherine Narr;Arthur W. Toga

  • Standardized evaluation of algorithms for computer-aided diagnosis of dementia based on structural MRI: The CADDementia challenge

    Esther E. Bron;Marion Smits;Wiesje M. van der Flier;Hugo Vrenken

  • Gray matter differences between musicians and nonmusicians.

    Christian Gaser;Gottfried Schlaug

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor Nenadic
Igor Nenadic Philipp University of Marburg
Jürgen R. Reichenbach
Jürgen R. Reichenbach Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Otto W. Witte
Otto W. Witte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Christine Klein
Christine Klein University of Lübeck
Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ronald Bottlender
Ronald Bottlender Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Arthur W. Toga
Arthur W. Toga University of Southern California

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