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Overview

Christian Gerloff is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including neurology, epidemiology, cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and rehabilitation.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics, notably acute ischemic stroke management, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, functional brain connectivity studies, and neurological disorders and treatments.

Recent publications by Christian Gerloff include:

  • Neuropathology of patients with COVID-19 in Germany: a post-mortem case series (2020, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Frequent neurocognitive deficits after recovery from mild COVID-19 (2020, Brain Communications)
  • Multi-organ assessment in mainly non-hospitalized individuals after SARS-CoV-2 infection: The Hamburg City Health Study COVID programme (2021, European Heart Journal)
  • Intravenous alteplase for stroke with unknown time of onset guided by advanced imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data (2020, The Lancet)
  • COVID -19 Vaccine-Associated Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in Germany (2021, Annals of Neurology)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Christian Gerloff include:

  • Götz Thomalla
  • Bastian Cheng
  • Jens Fiehler
  • Matthias Endres
  • Chi-un Choe

Christian Gerloff frequently publishes in several venues, with the highest numbers of publications found in:

  • Stroke
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • DGNeurologie
  • Brain Communications
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Depression of motor cortex excitability by low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    R. Chen;J. Classen;C. Gerloff;P. Celnik

  • Effects of non-invasive cortical stimulation on skilled motor function in chronic stroke

    Friedhelm Hummel;Pablo Celnik;Pascal Giraux;Agnes Floel

  • MRI-Guided Thrombolysis for Stroke with Unknown Time of Onset

    Götz Thomalla;Claus Z. Simonsen;Florent Boutitie;Grethe Andersen

  • Neuropathology of patients with COVID-19 in Germany: a post-mortem case series.

    Jakob Matschke;Marc Lütgehetmann;Christian Hagel;Jan P Sperhake

  • Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans

    Leonardo G. Cohen;Pablo Celnik;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Brian Corwell

  • Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Cerebral Immune Cell Accumulation in Stroke

    Mathias Gelderblom;Frank Leypoldt;Karin Steinbach;Doerthe Behrens

  • Brain oscillatory substrates of visual short-term memory capacity.

    Paul Sauseng;Paul Sauseng;Wolfgang Klimesch;Kirstin F. Heise;Walter R. Gruber

  • DWI-FLAIR mismatch for the identification of patients with acute ischaemic stroke within 4·5 h of symptom onset (PRE-FLAIR): a multicentre observational study

    Götz Thomalla;Bastian Cheng;Martin Ebinger;Qing Hao

  • Functional coupling and regional activation of human cortical motor areas during simple, internally paced and externally paced finger movements.

    C Gerloff;J Richard;J Hadley;A E Schulman

  • Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in motor areas of the contralesional hemisphere of well recovered patients after capsular stroke

    Christian Gerloff;Khalaf Bushara;Alexandra Sailer;Eric M. Wassermann

  • Intrinsic Coupling Modes: Multiscale Interactions in Ongoing Brain Activity

    Andreas K. Engel;Christian Gerloff;Claus C. Hilgetag;Claus C. Hilgetag;Guido Nolte

  • Neutralization of the IL-17 axis diminishes neutrophil invasion and protects from ischemic stroke.

    Mathias Gelderblom;Anna Weymar;Christian Bernreuther;Joachim Velden

  • Abnormal somatosensory homunculus in dystonia of the hand

    William Bara-Jimenez;Maria Jose Catalan;Mark Hallett;Christian Gerloff

  • Dissociation of sustained attention from central executive functions: local activity and interregional connectivity in the theta range

    P. Sauseng;J. Hoppe;W. Klimesch;C. Gerloff

  • Enhancing cognitive performance with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation at human individual alpha frequency.

    Wolfgang Klimesch;Paul Sauseng;Christian Gerloff

  • Stimulation over the human supplementary motor area interferes with the organization of future elements in complex motor sequences.

    C Gerloff;B Corwell;R Chen;M Hallett

  • The role of multiple contralesional motor areas for complex hand movements after internal capsular lesion

    Martin Lotze;Jochen Markert;Paul Sauseng;Julia Hoppe

  • Two types of ipsilateral reorganization in congenital hemiparesis: a TMS and fMRI study.

    Martin Staudt;Wolfgang Grodd;Christian Gerloff;Michael Erb

  • Brain-to-brain synchrony in parent-child dyads and the relationship with emotion regulation revealed by fNIRS-based hyperscanning

    Vanessa Reindl;Vanessa Reindl;Christian Gerloff;Wolfgang Scharke;Kerstin Konrad

  • Involvement of the ipsilateral motor cortex in finger movements of different complexities

    Robert Chen;Christian Gerloff;Mark Hallett;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Frequent neurocognitive deficits after recovery from mild COVID-19

    Marcel S Woo;Jakob Heinrich Malsy;Jana Pöttgen;Susan Seddiq Zai

  • Inhibitory influence of the ipsilateral motor cortex on responses to stimulation of the human cortex and pyramidal tract

    Christian Gerloff;Leonardo G. Cohen;Mary Kay Floeter;Robert Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedhelm C. Hummel
Friedhelm C. Hummel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Götz Thomalla
Götz Thomalla Universität Hamburg
Alexander Münchau
Alexander Münchau University of Lübeck
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen National Institutes of Health
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Andreas K. Engel
Andreas K. Engel Universität Hamburg
Jochen B. Fiebach
Jochen B. Fiebach Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Vincent Thijs
Vincent Thijs Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Keith W. Muir
Keith W. Muir University of Glasgow
Manfred Westphal
Manfred Westphal Universität Hamburg

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