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Constanze I. Seidenbecher

Constanze I. Seidenbecher

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
8724
World Ranking
6195
National Ranking
520

Overview

Constanze I. Seidenbecher is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields that dominate their work include cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and cell biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas within neuroscience and related disciplines. Key themes include neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, dementia and cognitive impairment research, proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, and neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

Seidenbecher has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific journals and publication venues. Notable venues where their work appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neural Transmission, Human Brain Mapping, European Journal of Neuroscience, and Matrix Biology.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Constanze I. Seidenbecher include:

  • Dopamine Receptor Activation Modulates the Integrity of the Perisynaptic Extracellular Matrix at Excitatory Synapses, 2020, Cells
  • A comprehensive score reflecting memory-related fMRI activations and deactivations as potential biomarker for neurocognitive aging, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Neurocan genome-wide psychiatric risk variant affects explicit memory performance and hippocampal function in healthy humans, 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Learning in anticipation of reward and punishment: perspectives across the human lifespan, 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Brain extracellular matrix: An upcoming target in neurological and psychiatric disorders, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience

Collaboration has been a consistent aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Björn H. Schott, Anni Richter, Gusalija Behnisch, Emrah Düzel, and Alexander Dityatev.

Best Publications

  • Brain extracellular matrix affects AMPA receptor lateral mobility and short-term synaptic plasticity

    Renato Frischknecht;Martin Heine;David Perrais;Constanze I. Seidenbecher

  • Mesolimbic Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activations during Reward Anticipation Correlate with Reward-Related Ventral Striatal Dopamine Release

    Björn H Schott;Luciano Minuzzi;Ruth M Krebs;David Elmenhorst

  • Synaptopathies: synaptic dysfunction in neurological disorders - A review from students to students

    Katarzyna Lepeta;Mychael V. Lourenco;Barbara C. Schweitzer;Pamela V. Martino Adami

  • Postnatal development of perineuronal nets in wild-type mice and in a mutant deficient in tenascin-R.

    Gert Brückner;Jens Grosche;Sandra Schmidt;Wolfgang Härtig

  • Brevican-deficient mice display impaired hippocampal CA1 long-term potentiation but show no obvious deficits in learning and memory

    Cord Brakebusch;Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Fredrik Asztely;Uwe Rauch

  • Neurofascin assembles a specialized extracellular matrix at the axon initial segment

    Kristian L. Hedstrom;Xiaorong Xu;Yasuhiro Ogawa;Renato Frischknecht

  • Compartmentalization from the outside: the extracellular matrix and functional microdomains in the brain

    Alexander Dityatev;Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Melitta Schachner

  • The dopaminergic midbrain participates in human episodic memory formation: evidence from genetic imaging.

    Björn H. Schott;Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Daniela B. Fenker;Corinna J. Lauer

  • Proline-rich synapse-associated proteins ProSAP1 and ProSAP2 interact with synaptic proteins of the SAPAP/GKAP family.

    Tobias M. Boeckers;Carsten Winter;Karl-Heinz Smalla;Michael R. Kreutz

  • Contributions of astrocytes to synapse formation and maturation - Potential functions of the perisynaptic extracellular matrix.

    Andreas Faissner;Martin Pyka;Maren Geissler;Thomas Sobik

  • Neurocan is dispensable for brain development

    Xiao-Hong Zhou;Cord Brakebusch;Henry Matthies;Toshitaka Oohashi

  • Ageing and early-stage Parkinson's disease affect separable neural mechanisms of mesolimbic reward processing

    Björn H Schott;Ludwig Niehaus;Bianca C Wittmann;Hartmut Schütze

  • Caldendrin–Jacob: A Protein Liaison That Couples NMDA Receptor Signalling to the Nucleus

    Daniela C Dieterich;Anna Karpova;Marina Mikhaylova;Irina Zdobnova

  • Three mechanisms assemble central nervous system nodes of Ranvier.

    Keiichiro Susuki;Kae Jiun Chang;Daniel R. Zollinger;Yanhong Liu

  • The energetic brain – A review from students to students

    Melina Paula Bordone;Mootaz M Salman;Haley E Titus;Elham Amini

  • Brevican, a chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan of rat brain, occurs as secreted and cell surface glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored isoforms.

    Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Karin Richter;Uwe Rauch;Reinhard Fässler

  • A methyl jasmonate-induced shift in the length of the 5' untranslated region impairs translation of the plastid rbcL transcript in barley.

    Steffen Reinbothe;Christiane Reinbothe;C. Heintzen;C. Seidenbecher

  • Apoptotic versus necrotic characteristics of retinal ganglion cell death after partial optic nerve injury.

    Annett Bien;Constanze I. Seidenbecher;Tobias M. Böckers;Bernhard A. Sabel

  • Rapamycin-sensitive signalling in long-term consolidation of auditory cortex-dependent memory.

    Wolfgang Tischmeyer;Horst Schicknick;Michaela Kraus;Constanze I. Seidenbecher

  • Brevican-containing perineuronal nets of extracellular matrix in dissociated hippocampal primary cultures.

    Nora John;Hans Krügel;Renato Frischknecht;Karl-Heinz Smalla

  • Brevican: A key proteoglycan in the perisynaptic extracellular matrix of the brain

    Renato Frischknecht;Constanze I. Seidenbecher

Frequent Co-Authors

Eckart D. Gundelfinger
Eckart D. Gundelfinger Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Björn H. Schott
Björn H. Schott University of Göttingen
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Michael R. Kreutz
Michael R. Kreutz Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Torsten Wüstenberg
Torsten Wüstenberg Heidelberg University
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Marc Guitart-Masip
Marc Guitart-Masip Karolinska Institute
Alexander Dityatev
Alexander Dityatev German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Dirk Montag
Dirk Montag Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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