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  • 1999 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Neurosciences
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Florian Holsboer is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a significant focus on subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and pharmacology.

The scientist has contributed to a range of main topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

The publication record of Florian Holsboer includes frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife

Some of their recent papers include:

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises, 2020, Pain
  • Brain (re)organisation following amputation: Implications for phantom limb pain, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The empirical replicability of task-based fMRI as a function of sample size, 2020, NeuroImage

Collaborations have been established with frequent co-authors including:

  • Frauke Nees
  • Tobias Banaschewski
  • Andreas Heinz
  • Sylvane Desrivières
  • Michael N. Smolka

Florian Holsboer has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Hogrefe Verlag titled Neuropsychologie des chronischen Schmerzes in 2020.

The scientist has been recognized by multiple awards, such as election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1999 for contributions in neurosciences, and membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Stress and the brain: from adaptation to disease

    E. Ron de Kloet;Marian Joëls;Florian Holsboer

  • The corticosteroid receptor hypothesis of depression.

    Florian Holsboer

  • Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

    S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

  • Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene-childhood trauma interactions

    Torsten Klengel;Divya Mehta;Christoph Anacker;Monika Rex-Haffner

  • Differential signal transduction by five splice variants of the PACAP receptor

    Dietmar Spengler;Christian Waeber;Colette Pantaloni;Florian Holsboer

  • Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress

    Chris Murgatroyd;Alexandre V Patchev;Yonghe Wu;Vincenzo Micale

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    Stephan Ripke;Naomi R Wray;Cathryn M Lewis;Steven P Hamilton

  • Antidepressants and Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Regulation

    Florian Holsboer;Nicholas Barden

  • Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment

    Elisabeth B Binder;Daria Salyakina;Peter Lichtner;Gabriele M Wochnik

  • Neuroprotection against Oxidative Stress by Estrogens: Structure-Activity Relationship

    Christian Behl;Thomas Skutella;Frank Lezoualc’H;Anke Post

  • Impaired stress response and reduced anxiety in mice lacking a functional corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1

    Peter Timpl;Rainer Spanagel;Inge Sillaber;Adelheid Kresse

  • Effects of the high-affinity corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 antagonist R121919 in major depression: the first 20 patients treated.

    Astrid W Zobel;Thomas Nickel;Heike E Künzel;Nibal Ackl

  • The combined dexamethasone/CRH test: A refined laboratory test for psychiatric disorders

    Isabella Heuser;Alexander Yassouridis;Florian Holsboer

  • The rationale for corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor (CRH-R) antagonists to treat depression and anxiety.

    F Holsboer

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • 17-β Estradiol Protects Neurons from Oxidative Stress-Induced Cell Death in Vitro

    C. Behl;M. Widmann;T. Trapp;F. Holsboer

  • Holocaust Exposure Induced Intergenerational Effects on FKBP5 Methylation

    Rachel Yehuda;Rachel Yehuda;Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Linda M. Bierer;Linda M. Bierer;Heather N. Bader;Heather N. Bader

  • Neuroactive steroids: mechanisms of action and neuropsychopharmacological perspectives

    Rainer Rupprecht;Florian Holsboer

  • Stress, hypercortisolism and corticosteroid receptors in depression: implications for therapy.

    Florian Holsboer

  • A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder

    S. Ripke;N. R. Wray;C. M. Lewis;S. P. Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Ising
Marcus Ising Max Planck Society
Manfred Uhr
Manfred Uhr Max Planck Society
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Rainer Landgraf
Rainer Landgraf Max Planck Society
Axel Steiger
Axel Steiger Max Planck Society
Marianne B. Müller
Marianne B. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Johannes M. H. M. Reul
Johannes M. H. M. Reul University of Bristol
Theo Rein
Theo Rein Max Planck Society
Jan M. Deussing
Jan M. Deussing Max Planck Society

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