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Elke Kalbe is affiliated with the University of Vechta in Germany and has a research focus primarily in medicine, with significant contributions to neurology, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience. Their work encompasses experimental and clinical psychology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to neurological and cognitive disorders.

The main topics covered in their research include Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, neurological disorders and treatments, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, cognitive functions and memory, cognitive abilities and testing, and cerebral palsy and movement disorders.

Elke Kalbe has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • Physical exercise for people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2023, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "The system has to be health literate, too" - perspectives among healthcare professionals on health literacy in transcultural treatment settings, 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • Effects of motor-cognitive training on dual-task performance in people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2023, Journal of Neurology
  • Gender gap in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, 2022, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • Physical exercise for people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2024, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

They have frequently published in venues such as the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Journal of Neurology, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Elke Kalbe's work, with frequent co-authors including Ann-Kristin Folkerts, Anja Ophey, Carsten Eggers, Ümran Sema Seven, and Inga Liepelt-Scarfone.

Best Publications

  • Introducing MASC: a movie for the assessment of social cognition.

    Isabel Dziobek;Stefan Fleck;Elke Kalbe;Kimberley Rogers

  • Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

    Karl Herholz;Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Jean-Claude Baron

  • DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

    E Kalbe;J Kessler;P Calabrese;R Smith

  • Multicenter Standardized 18F-FDG PET Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease, and Other Dementias

    Lisa Mosconi;Wai H. Tsui;Wai H. Tsui;Karl Herholz;Alberto Pupi

  • Decision-making deficits of Korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: Associations with executive functions

    Matthias Brand;Esther Fujiwara;Sabine Borsutzky;Elke Kalbe

  • Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study

    Elke Kalbe;Marius Schlegel;Alexander T. Sack;Dennis A. Nowak

  • Dementia in Parkinson disease Functional imaging of cholinergic and dopaminergic pathways

    Rüdiger Hilker;A. V. Thomas;J. C. Klein;S. Weisenbach

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling.

    Matthias Brand;Elke Kalbe;Kirsten Labudda;Esther Fujiwara

  • Neurotransmitter changes in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia in vivo

    Johannes C. Klein;Carsten Eggers;Elke Kalbe;S. Weisenbach

  • Heterogeneity of brain glucose metabolism in mild cognitive impairment and clinical progression to alzheimer disease

    Davide Anchisi;Barbara Borroni;Massimo Franceschi;Nasser Kerrouche

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Elke Kalbe;Rüdiger Hilker

  • Subthalamic nucleus stimulation restores glucose metabolism in associative and limbic cortices and in cerebellum: evidence from a FDG-PET study in advanced Parkinson's disease.

    Ruediger Hilker;Juergen Voges;Simon Weisenbach;Elke Kalbe

  • Screening for cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease with the Parkinson neuropsychometric dementia assessment (PANDA) instrument

    Elke Kalbe;Pasquale Calabrese;Nils Kohn;Rüdiger Hilker

  • Education and occupation as proxies for reserve in aMCI converters and AD: FDG-PET evidence

    V. Garibotto;B. Borroni;E. Kalbe;K. Herholz

  • Regional cerebral metabolism in early Alzheimer’s disease with clinically significant apathy or depression

    Vjera A. Holthoff;Bettina Beuthien-Baumann;Elke Kalbe;Susanne Lüdecke

  • Dissociation of decision-making under ambiguity and decision-making under risk in patients with Parkinson's disease: A neuropsychological and psychophysiological study

    Frank Euteneuer;Florian Schaefer;Ralf Stuermer;Wolfram Boucsein

  • A European multicentre PET study of fibrillar amyloid in Alzheimer's disease

    Agneta Nordberg;Agneta Nordberg;Stephen F. Carter;Stephen F. Carter;Juha Rinne;Juha Rinne;Alexander Drzezga

  • Neural correlates of anosognosia for cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

    Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Karl Herholz;Patricia Marique

  • Affective and cognitive Theory of Mind in patients with parkinson's disease.

    Maren E. Bodden;Brit Mollenhauer;Claudia Trenkwalder;Nicole Cabanel

  • Anosognosia in very mild Alzheimer's disease but not in mild cognitive impairment.

    Elke Kalbe;E. Salmon;D. Perani;Vjera Holthoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Daniela Berg
Daniela Berg University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Daniela Perani
Daniela Perani Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Isabel Dziobek
Isabel Dziobek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Fabienne Collette
Fabienne Collette University of Liège
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Helen F.K. Chiu
Helen F.K. Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Agneta Nordberg
Agneta Nordberg Karolinska University Hospital

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