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Overview

Claus Svarer is affiliated with Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark. Their research intersects multiple fields within medicine and neuroscience, with a specific focus on imaging techniques and neurotransmitter receptor systems.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

The research subfields encompass:

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry

Key topics explored in their work are:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
  • Tryptophan and Brain Disorders
  • Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol

Their publication record includes a variety of articles in reputable scientific journals. Recent publications include:

  • "A single psilocybin dose is associated with long-term increased mindfulness, preceded by a proportional change in neocortical 5-HT2A receptor binding" (2020) in European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "A high-resolution in vivo atlas of the human brain's benzodiazepine binding site of GABAA receptors" (2021) in NeuroImage
  • "Effects of escitalopram on synaptic density in the healthy human brain: a randomized controlled trial" (2023) in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Oral contraceptives and the serotonin 4 receptor: a molecular brain imaging study in healthy women" (2020) in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • "Dorsal striatal dopamine induces fronto-cortical hypoactivity and attenuates anxiety and compulsive behaviors in rats" (2021) in Neuropsychopharmacology

Svarer has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Gitte M. Knudsen
  • Brice Ozenne
  • Vibe G. Frøkjær
  • Søren Vinther Larsen
  • Patrick M. Fisher

Their work has appeared predominantly in the following scientific venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Applied
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • NeuroImage

Best Publications

  • MR-based automatic delineation of volumes of interest in human brain PET images using probability maps

    Claus Svarer;Karine Madsen;Steen G. Hasselbalch;Lars H. Pinborg

  • Psychedelic effects of psilocybin correlate with serotonin 2A receptor occupancy and plasma psilocin levels.

    Martin K. Madsen;Patrick M. Fisher;Daniel Burmester;Daniel Burmester;Agnete Dyssegaard

  • A High-Resolution In Vivo Atlas of the Human Brain's Serotonin System.

    Vincent Beliveau;Melanie Ganz;Ling Feng;Brice Ozenne

  • Different partial volume correction methods lead to different conclusions: An (18)F-FDG-PET study of aging.

    Douglas N. Greve;David H. Salat;Spencer L. Bowen;David Izquierdo-Garcia

  • Cortical surface-based analysis reduces bias and variance in kinetic modeling of brain PET data.

    Douglas N. Greve;Claus Svarer;Patrick M. Fisher;Ling Feng

  • Cerebral activation during micturition in normal men.

    Sam Nour;Claus Svarer;Jørgen K. I. Kristensen;Olaf B. Paulson

  • Integrated Software for the Analysis of Brain PET/SPECT Studies with Partial-Volume-Effect Correction

    Mario Quarantelli;Karim Berkouk;Anna Prinster;Brigitte Landeau

  • Generalizable patterns in neuroimaging: how many principal components?

    Lars Kai Hansen;Jan Larsen;Finn Årup Nielsen;Stephen C. Strother

  • Frontolimbic serotonin 2A receptor binding in healthy subjects is associated with personality risk factors for affective disorder

    Vibe G. Frokjaer;Erik L. Mortensen;Finn Årup Nielsen;Finn Årup Nielsen;Steven Haugbol

  • Rate Dependence of Regional Cerebral Activation during Performance of a Repetitive Motor Task: A PET Study

    Morten Blinkenberg;Christian Bonde;Søren Holm;Claus Svarer

  • Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder have increased 5-HT2A receptor binding in the caudate nuclei.

    Karen H. Adams;Elsebeth S. Hansen;Lars H. Pinborg;Steen G. Hasselbalch

  • A single psilocybin dose is associated with long-term increased mindfulness, preceded by a proportional change in neocortical 5-HT2A receptor binding.

    Martin Korsbak Madsen;Patrick MacDonald Fisher;Dea Siggaard Stenbæk;Sara Kristiansen

  • A database of [(18)F]-altanserin binding to 5-HT(2A) receptors in normal volunteers: normative data and relationship to physiological and demographic variables.

    Karen H. Adams;Lars H. Pinborg;Claus Svarer;Steen G. Hasselbalch

  • Role of Serotonin Transporter Changes in Depressive Responses to Sex-Steroid Hormone Manipulation: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

    Vibe Gedsoe Frokjaer;Anja Pinborg;Klaus Kähler Holst;Agnete Overgaard

  • Reduced 5-HT2A receptor binding in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

    S.G. Hasselbalch;K. Madsen;C. Svarer;L.H. Pinborg

  • A high-resolution in vivo atlas of the human brain's benzodiazepine binding site of GABAA receptors

    Martin Nørgaard;Vincent Beliveau;Melanie Ganz;Claus Svarer

  • Cerebral serotonin transporter binding is inversely related to body mass index.

    David Erritzoe;Vibe G. Frokjaer;Mette T. Haahr;Jan Kalbitzer

  • Regional brain volumes, diffusivity, and metabolite changes after electroconvulsive therapy for severe depression

    A. Jørgensen;P. Magnusson;L. Hanson;T. Kirkegaard

  • Decreased frontal serotonin2A receptor binding in antipsychotic-naive patients with first-episode schizophrenia

    Hans Rasmussen;David Erritzoe;Rune Andersen;Bjorn H. Ebdrup

  • Quantification of 5-HT2A receptors in the human brain using [18F]altanserin-PET and the bolus/infusion approach.

    Lars H Pinborg;Karen H Adams;Claus Svarer;Søren Holm

  • The personality trait openness is related to cerebral 5-HTT levels.

    Jan Kalbitzer;Vibe G. Frokjaer;David Erritzoe;Claus Svarer

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars H. Pinborg
Lars H. Pinborg Copenhagen University Hospital
David Erritzoe
David Erritzoe Imperial College London
Ian Law
Ian Law Copenhagen University Hospital
Patrick M. Fisher
Patrick M. Fisher Copenhagen University Hospital
William F.C. Baaré
William F.C. Baaré Copenhagen University Hospital
Stephen C. Strother
Stephen C. Strother University of Toronto
Douglas N. Greve
Douglas N. Greve Harvard University
Terry L. Jernigan
Terry L. Jernigan University of California, San Diego
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Lars Vedel Kessing
Lars Vedel Kessing University of Copenhagen

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