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Overview

Emrah Düzel is affiliated with the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a specific focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scope of Düzel's scientific inquiry includes topics such as dementia and cognitive impairment research, functional brain connectivity studies, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, memory and neural mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, and neurological disease mechanisms and treatments.

Frequent collaborators in Düzel's body of work include Anja Schneider, Annika Spottke, Oliver Peters, Jens Wiltfang, and Josef Priller. Their joint research contributions indicate a sustained engagement with specialists across overlapping domains of neurodegenerative disease and neuroimaging.

Düzel has published extensively in several notable venues, most prominently in Alzheimer's & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, Neurology, and Nature Communications.

Recent significant publications illustrate Düzel's contributions to understanding neurodegenerative diseases and related biomarkers. Selected papers include:

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Noradrenergic-dependent functions are associated with age-related locus coeruleus signal intensity differences, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers, and Brain Atrophy in Old Age, 2021, Neurology
  • Plasma extracellular vesicle tau and TDP-43 as diagnostic biomarkers in FTD and ALS, 2024, Nature Medicine
  • Genome-wide meta-analysis for Alzheimer's disease cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers, 2022, Acta Neuropathologica

Best Publications

  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias

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  • Reward-related fMRI activation of dopaminergic midbrain is associated with enhanced hippocampus-dependent long-term memory formation

    B. C. Wittmann;B. H. Schott;S. Guderian;J. U. Frey

  • Absolute Coding of Stimulus Novelty in the Human Substantia Nigra/VTA

    Nico Bunzeck;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • Event-related brain potential correlates of two states of conscious awareness in memory

    Emrah Düzel;Andrew P. Yonelinas;George R Mangun;Hans Jochen Heinze

  • Running-Induced Systemic Cathepsin B Secretion Is Associated with Memory Function.

    Hyo Youl Moon;Andreas Becke;David Berron;Benjamin Becker

  • 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

  • A neoHebbian framework for episodic memory; role of dopamine-dependent late LTP

    John Lisman;Anthony A. Grace;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel

  • Go and no-go learning in reward and punishment: interactions between affect and effect.

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Quentin J.M. Huys;Quentin J.M. Huys;Lluis Fuentemilla;Peter Dayan

  • Brain oscillations and memory.

    Emrah Düzel;Will D Penny;Neil Burgess;Neil Burgess

  • Vascular hippocampal plasticity after aerobic exercise in older adults

    A. Maass;Sandra Düzel;M. Goerke;A. Becke

  • Relationships of peripheral IGF-1, VEGF and BDNF levels to exercise-related changes in memory, hippocampal perfusion and volumes in older adults

    Anne Maass;Anne Maass;Sandra Düzel;Tanja Brigadski;Monique Goerke

  • Can physical exercise in old age improve memory and hippocampal function

    Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel;Emrah Duzel;Henriette van Praag;Michael Sendtner

  • Task-related and item-related brain processes of memory retrieval

    Emrah Düzel;Roberto Cabeza;Terence W. Picton;Andrew P. Yonelinas

  • Locus coeruleus imaging as a biomarker for noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

    Matthew J Betts;Matthew J Betts;Evgeniya Kirilina;Evgeniya Kirilina;Maria C G Otaduy;Dimo Ivanov

  • Brain activity evidence for recognition without recollection after early hippocampal damage

    E. Düzel;F. Vargha-Khadem;H. J. Heinze;M. Mishkin

  • Action versus valence in decision making

    Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Emrah Duzel;Ray Dolan;Peter Dayan

  • Anticipation of novelty recruits reward system and hippocampus while promoting recollection

    Bianca C. Wittmann;Nico Bunzeck;Raymond J. Dolan;Emrah Düzel;Emrah Düzel

  • Dopamine restores reward prediction errors in old age

    Rumana Chowdhury;Marc Guitart-Masip;Marc Guitart-Masip;Christian Lambert;Christian Lambert;Peter Dayan

  • Medial temporal theta state before an event predicts episodic encoding success in humans.

    Sebastian Guderian;Björn H. Schott;Alan Richardson-Klavehn;Emrah Düzel

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • Experience-dependent plasticity of white-matter microstructure extends into old age

    Martin Lövdén;Nils Christian Bodammer;Simone Kühn;Jörn Kaufmann

  • Human Hippocampal and Parahippocampal Activity during Visual Associative Recognition Memory for Spatial and Nonspatial Stimulus Configurations

    Emrah Düzel;Reza Habib;Michael Rotte;Sebastian Guderian

  • Functional subregions of the human entorhinal cortex

    Anne Maass;David Berron;David Berron;Laura A Libby;Charan Ranganath

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Josef Priller
Josef Priller Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael T. Heneka
Michael T. Heneka University Hospital Bonn
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Björn H. Schott
Björn H. Schott University of Göttingen

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