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Overview

Frank Padberg is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a strong focus on neurology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and social psychology.

The scientist's work primarily covers topics such as:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Frank Padberg has contributed to research published frequently in these venues:

  • Brain Stimulation
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Stephan Goerigk
  • Daniel Keeser
  • Matthias A. Reinhard
  • André R. Brunoni
  • Peter Falkai

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Frank Padberg include:

  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014-2018), 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Corrigendum to "Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014-2018)" [Clin. Neurophysiol. 131 (2020) 474-528], 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on symptom domains in neuropsychiatric disorders: a systematic review and cross-diagnostic meta-analysis, 2023, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Loneliness, Social Isolation and Their Difference: A Cross-Diagnostic Study in Persistent Depressive Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry

Padberg's academic contributions indicate active engagement in research themes of psychological and neurological interventions, particularly through the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation methods.

Best Publications

  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

    Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;Nathalie André-Obadia;Andrea Antal;Samar S. Ayache

  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): An update (2014–2018)

    Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;André Aleman;Chris Baeken;David H. Benninger

  • Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

    Jean Pascal Lefaucheur;Andrea Antal;Samar S. Ayache;David H. Benninger

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines

    Simone Rossi;Andrea Antal;Sven Bestmann;Marom Bikson

  • Low intensity transcranial electric stimulation: Safety, ethical, legal regulatory and application guidelines

    A. Antal;Ivan Alekseichuk;M. Bikson;J. Brockmöller

  • Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Changes Connectivity of Resting-State Networks during fMRI

    Daniel Keeser;Thomas Meindl;Julie Bor;Ulrich Palm

  • Efficacy and safety of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depression: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial

    Yechiel Levkovitz;Moshe Isserles;Frank Padberg;Sarah H. Lisanby

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in therapy studies : Examination of the reliability of standard coil positioning by neuronavigation

    Uwe Herwig;Frank Padberg;Jürgen Unger;Manfred Spitzer

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation for acute major depressive episodes: meta-analysis of individual patient data.

    André R. Brunoni;Adriano H. Moffa;Felipe Fregni;Ulrich Palm

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in pharmacotherapy-refractory major depression: comparative study of fast, slow and sham rTMS

    Frank Padberg;Peter Zwanzger;Heike Thoma;Norbert Kathmann

  • Differential diagnosis of Alzheimer disease with cerebrospinal fluid levels of tau protein phosphorylated at threonine 231.

    Katharina Buerger;Raymond Zinkowski;Stefan J. Teipel;Tero Tapiola

  • White and gray matter abnormalities in the brain of patients with fibromyalgia: A diffusion-tensor and volumetric imaging study

    Jürgen Lutz;Lorenz Jäger;Dominique de Quervain;Till Krauseneck

  • Prefrontal direct current stimulation modulates resting EEG and event-related potentials in healthy subjects: A standardized low resolution tomography (sLORETA) study

    Daniel Keeser;Frank Padberg;E. Reisinger;Oliver Pogarell

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation in treatment resistant depression: A randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study

    U. Palm;C. Schiller;Z. Fintescu;M. Obermeier

  • Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: efficacy and safety in a European study.

    T. E. Schlaepfer;C. Frick;A. Zobel;W. Maier

  • Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Major Depression: Relation between Efficacy and Stimulation Intensity

    Frank Padberg;Peter Zwanzger;Martin E Keck;Norbert Kathmann

  • Antidepressant effects of augmentative transcranial magnetic stimulation: randomised multicentre trial.

    Uwe Herwig;Andreas J. Fallgatter;Jacqueline Höppner;Gerhard W. Eschweiler

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the prefrontal cortex in depression.

    Frank Padberg;Mark S. George

  • Evaluation of sham transcranial direct current stimulation for randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials.

    Ulrich Palm;Eva Reisinger;Daniel Keeser;Min-Fang Kuo

  • Plasma concentrations of neuroactive steroids before and after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in major depression.

    Frank Padberg;Flavia di Michele;Peter Zwanzger;Elena Romeo

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation : does it have potential in the treatment of depression?

    Frank Padberg;Hans-Jürgen Möller

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Palm
Ulrich Palm Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel Keeser
Daniel Keeser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alkomiet Hasan
Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg
Andre R. Brunoni
Andre R. Brunoni Universidade de São Paulo
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter Falkai
Peter Falkai Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Hans-Jürgen Möller
Hans-Jürgen Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oliver Pogarell
Oliver Pogarell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rainer Rupprecht
Rainer Rupprecht University of Regensburg
Harald Hampel
Harald Hampel Eisai (United States)

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