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Overview

Gerd Wagner is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research centers on neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist has focused extensively on topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, suicide and self-harm studies, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, sleep and wakefulness research, advanced MRI techniques and applications, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Recent publications by Gerd Wagner include:

  • Functional network alterations differently associated with suicidal ideas and acts in depressed patients: an indirect support to the transition model (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Functional connectivity signatures of major depressive disorder: machine learning analysis of two multicenter neuroimaging studies (2023, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • In vivo anatomical mapping of human locus coeruleus functional connectivity at 3 T MRI (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Linking atypical depression and insulin resistance-related disorders via low-grade chronic inflammation: Integrating the phenotypic, molecular and neuroanatomical dimensions (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)

Gerd Wagner frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Martin Walter (19 joint publications)
  • Thomas Sobanski (12 joint publications)
  • Meng Li (11 joint publications)
  • Ulrich W. Kastner (9 joint publications)
  • Tara Chand (8 joint publications)

Their work is regularly published in peer-reviewed venues such as Translational Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, Human Brain Mapping, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Brain Sciences.

Gerd Wagner's research contributions lie predominantly in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. Their studies often explore the functional and anatomical connectivity within the brain, applying advanced neuroimaging techniques to investigate mental health conditions like major depressive disorder and suicidal behaviors. The combination of clinical and experimental approaches informs their interdisciplinary examination of psychosomatic disorders and brain function.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    H. J. Watson;Z. Yilmaz;L. M. Thornton;C. Hubel

  • Population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Lutz Wiehlmann;Gerd Wagner;Nina Cramer;Benny Siebert

  • Cortical inefficiency in patients with unipolar depression: an event-related FMRI study with the Stroop task.

    Gerd Wagner;Esther Sinsel;Thomas Sobanski;Sabine Köhler

  • Pain perception in major depression depends on pain modality

    Karl-Jürgen Bär;Stanislaw Brehm;Michael Karl Boettger;Silke Boettger

  • Structural brain alterations in patients with major depressive disorder and high risk for suicide: evidence for a distinct neurobiological entity?

    Gerd Wagner;Kathrin Koch;Claudia Schachtzabel;C. Christoph Schultz

  • Loss of efferent vagal activity in acute schizophrenia

    K.J. Bär;A. Letzsch;T. Jochum;G. Wagner

  • Reduced cortical thickness in first episode schizophrenia

    C. Christoph Schultz;Kathrin Koch;Gerd Wagner;Martin Roebel

  • The influence of major depression and its treatment on heart rate variability and pupillary light reflex parameters.

    Karl-Jürgen Bär;Wolf Greiner;Thomas Jochum;Marc Friedrich

  • White matter abnormalities and brain activation in schizophrenia: A combined DTI and fMRI study

    Ralf G.M. Schlösser;Igor Nenadic;Igor Nenadic;Gerd Wagner;Daniel Güllmar

  • Fronto-cingulate effective connectivity in major depression: a study with fMRI and dynamic causal modeling.

    Ralf G. M. Schlösser;Gerd Wagner;Kathrin Koch;R. Dahnke

  • Functional connectivity and network analysis of midbrain and brainstem nuclei.

    Karl-Jürgen Bär;Feliberto de la Cruz;Andy Schumann;Stefanie Koehler

  • Computational meta-analysis of statistical parametric maps in major depression

    Danilo Arnone;Dominic Job;Sudhakar Selvaraj;Osamu Abe

  • Increased prefrontal activation during pain perception in major depression.

    Karl-Jürgen Bär;Gerd Wagner;Mandy Koschke;Silke Boettger

  • Association of a functional 1019C>G 5-HT1A receptor gene polymorphism with panic disorder with agoraphobia.

    Claudia Rothe;Lise Gutknecht;Christine Freitag;Ralf Tauber

  • Prefrontal cortical thickness in depressed patients with high-risk for suicidal behavior.

    Gerd Wagner;C. Christoph Schultz;Kathrin Koch;Claudia Schachtzabel

  • The special involvement of the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex in planning abilities: an event-related fMRI study with the Tower of London paradigm.

    Gerd Wagner;Kathrin Koch;Jürgen R. Reichenbach;Heinrich Sauer

  • Default mode network activity in schizophrenia studied at resting state using probabilistic ICA

    Gianluca Mingoia;Gerd Wagner;Kerstin Langbein;Raka Maitra

  • Altered activation in association with reward-related trial-and-error learning in patients with schizophrenia.

    Kathrin Koch;Claudia Schachtzabel;Gerd Wagner;Julia Schikora

  • Fronto-cingulate effective connectivity in obsessive compulsive disorder: a study with fMRI and dynamic causal modeling.

    Ralf G.M. Schlösser;Gerd Wagner;Claudia Schachtzabel;Gregor Peikert

  • Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium

    Nooshin Javaheripour;Meng Li;Tara Chand;Axel Krug;Axel Krug

  • Assessing the working memory network: studies with functional magnetic resonance imaging and structural equation modeling.

    R.G.M. Schlösser;G. Wagner;H. Sauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf G.M. Schlösser
Ralf G.M. Schlösser Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Kathrin Koch
Kathrin Koch Technical University of Munich
Jürgen R. Reichenbach
Jürgen R. Reichenbach Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Claudia Schachtzabel
Claudia Schachtzabel Jena University Hospital
Igor Nenadic
Igor Nenadic Philipp University of Marburg
Christian Gaser
Christian Gaser Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Fabrice Jollant
Fabrice Jollant University of Paris-Saclay
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn

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