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Overview

Erich Seifritz is a researcher affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland, engaged extensively in the fields of medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Their scholarly work spans multiple disciplines, with a pronounced focus on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience. Experimental and cognitive psychology as well as pharmacology also feature as significant subfields in their research portfolio.

The main topics covered by their studies include schizophrenia research and treatment, functional brain connectivity, mental health, and the treatment of major depression. Additional research interests encompass tryptophan and brain disorders, psychedelics and drug studies, and the influence of neurotransmitter receptors on behavior.

Seifritz has contributed to several prominent academic venues, publishing notably in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Schweizerische Ärztezeitung, and Bulletin des Médecins Suisses.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy in major depressive disorder: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial (2022, EClinicalMedicine)
  • An International Adult Guideline for Making Clozapine Titration Safer by Using Six Ancestry-Based Personalized Dosing Titrations, CRP, and Clozapine Levels (2021, Pharmacopsychiatry)
  • Psilocybin Induces Time-Dependent Changes in Global Functional Connectivity (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Computational Mechanisms of Effort and Reward Decisions in Patients With Depression and Their Association With Relapse After Antidepressant Discontinuation (2020, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Disordered eating and eating disorders in male elite athletes: a scoping review (2020, BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine)

Their frequent co-authors include Boris B. Quednow, Stefan Vetter, Matthias Kirschner, Stefan Kaiser, and Sebastian Olbrich, highlighting collaborations with multiple researchers across their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Differential sex-independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents

    Erich Seifritz;Fabrizio Esposito;John G Neuhoff;Andreas Lüthi

  • Real-time fMRI neurofeedback: Progress and challenges

    J. Sulzer;S. Haller;F. Scharnowski;F. Scharnowski;N. Weiskopf

  • Processing of Temporal Unpredictability in Human and Animal Amygdala

    Cyril Herry;Dominik R. Bach;Fabrizio Esposito;Francesco Di Salle

  • Cortical and subcortical correlates of electroencephalographic alpha rhythm modulation

    Bernd Feige;Klaus Scheffler;Fabrizio Esposito;Francesco Di Salle

  • Independent component analysis of fMRI group studies by self-organizing clustering

    Fabrizio Esposito;Tommaso Scarabino;Aapo Hyvarinen;Johan Himberg

  • The Fabric of Meaning and Subjective Effects in LSD-Induced States Depend on Serotonin 2A Receptor Activation

    Katrin H. Preller;Marcus Herdener;Thomas Pokorny;Amanda Planzer

  • Neural correlates of antinociception in borderline personality disorder.

    Christian Schmahl;Martin Bohus;Fabrizio Esposito;Rolf-Detlef Treede

  • Modelling suicide and unemployment: a longitudinal analysis covering 63 countries, 2000–11

    Carlos Nordt;Ingeborg Warnke;Erich Seifritz;Wolfram Kawohl

  • Changes in global and thalamic brain connectivity in LSD-induced altered states of consciousness are attributable to the 5-HT2A receptor.

    Katrin H Preller;Joshua B Burt;Jie Lisa Ji;Charles H Schleifer

  • Psilocybin-Induced Decrease in Amygdala Reactivity Correlates with Enhanced Positive Mood in Healthy Volunteers

    Rainer Kraehenmann;Katrin H. Preller;Milan Scheidegger;Thomas Pokorny

  • Mental Health Literacy, Attitudes to Help Seeking, and Perceived Need as Predictors of Mental Health Service Use: A Longitudinal Study

    Herdis Bonabi;Mario Müller;Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross;Jochen Eisele

  • Resting state brain network function in major depression - Depression symptomatology, antidepressant treatment effects, future research.

    Janis Brakowski;Simona Spinelli;Nadja Dörig;Oliver Gero Bosch

  • Psilocybin biases facial recognition, goal-directed behavior, and mood state toward positive relative to negative emotions through different serotonergic subreceptors.

    Michael Kometer;André Schmidt;Rosilla Bachmann;Erich Studerus

  • Interplay of approximate planning strategies

    Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Níall Lally;Níall Lally;Paul Faulkner;Neir Eshel

  • Ketamine decreases resting state functional network connectivity in healthy subjects: implications for antidepressant drug action.

    Milan Scheidegger;Martin Walter;Martin Walter;Mick Lehmann;Coraline Metzger

  • Helplessness: a systematic translational review of theory and evidence for its relevance to understanding and treating depression.

    Christopher R. Pryce;Damiano Azzinnari;Simona Spinelli;Erich Seifritz

  • Clinical and Physiological Consequences of Rapid Tryptophan Depletion

    Polly Moore;Polly Moore;Hans-Peter Landolt;Erich Seifritz;Erich Seifritz;Camellia Clark

  • Red Wine Ingredient Resveratrol Protects from β-Amyloid Neurotoxicity

    Egemen Savaskan;Gianfranco Olivieri;Fides Meier;Erich Seifritz

  • Spatiotemporal pattern of neural processing in the human auditory cortex.

    Erich Seifritz;Fabrizio Esposito;Franciszek Hennel;Henrietta Mustovic

  • Apathy But Not Diminished Expression in Schizophrenia Is Associated With Discounting of Monetary Rewards by Physical Effort

    Matthias N. Hartmann;Oliver M. Hager;Anna V. Reimann;Justin R. Chumbley

  • The effect of appraisal level on processing of emotional prosody in meaningless speech.

    Dominik R. Bach;Didier Grandjean;David Sander;Marcus Herdener;Marcus Herdener

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris B. Quednow
Boris B. Quednow University of Zurich
Fabrizio Esposito
Fabrizio Esposito University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Klaus Scheffler
Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Society
Katrin H. Preller
Katrin H. Preller University of Zurich
Francesco Di Salle
Francesco Di Salle University of Salerno
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler
Edith Holsboer-Trachsler University of Basel
Franz X. Vollenweider
Franz X. Vollenweider University of Zurich
Simone Grimm
Simone Grimm University of Zurich
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich

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