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95
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890
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67

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Overview

Hannelore Ehrenreich is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Medicine, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers several subfields including Neurology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Developmental Neuroscience, and Physiology. The scientist's topics of focus include Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Neurogenesis and Neuroplasticity Mechanisms, Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments, Erythropoietin and Anemia Treatment, High Altitude and Hypoxia, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, as well as Tryptophan and brain disorders.

Ehrenreich has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Myelin dysfunction drives amyloid-β deposition in models of Alzheimer's disease (2023, Nature)
  • Functional hypoxia drives neuroplasticity and neurogenesis via brain erythropoietin (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • White matter integrity in mice requires continuous myelin synthesis at the inner tongue (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Erythropoietin as candidate for supportive treatment of severe COVID-19 (2020, Molecular Medicine)

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Biological Psychiatry.

Collaborations form an integral part of their research, with frequent coauthors including Klaus-Armin Nave, Umer Javed Butt, Martin Begemann, Agnes A. Steixner-Kumar, and Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak.

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia

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  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Erythropoietin prevents neuronal apoptosis after cerebral ischemia and metabolic stress

    Anna Leena Sirén;Maddalena Fratelli;Michael Brines;Christoph Goemans

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • Erythropoietin therapy for acute stroke is both safe and beneficial.

    Hannelore Ehrenreich;Martin Hasselblatt;Christoph Dembowski;Lukas Cepek

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • Recombinant Human Erythropoietin in the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

    Hannelore Ehrenreich;Karin Weissenborn;Hilmar Prange;Dietmar Schneider

  • Reduced social interaction and ultrasonic communication in a mouse model of monogenic heritable autism

    Stephane Jamain;Konstantin Radyushkin;Kurt Hammerschmidt;Sylvie Granon

  • Endothelins, peptides with potent vasoactive properties, are produced by human macrophages.

    Hannelore Ehrenreich;Robert W. Anderson;Cecil H. Fox;Peter Rieckmann

  • Specific attentional dysfunction in adults following early start of cannabis use.

    Hannelore Ehrenreich;Thomas Rinn;Hanns J. Kunert;Manfred R. Moeller

  • Neuregulin-1/ErbB Signaling Serves Distinct Functions in Myelination of the Peripheral and Central Nervous System

    Bastian G. Brinkmann;Amit Agarwal;Michael W. Sereda;Michael W. Sereda;Alistair N. Garratt

  • Erythropoietin and erythropoietin receptor in human ischemic/hypoxic brain

    Anna-Leena Sirén;Friederike Knerlich;Wolfgang Poser;Christoph H. Gleiter

  • Practice effects in healthy adults: A longitudinal study on frequent repetitive cognitive testing

    Claudia Bartels;Martin Wegrzyn;Anne Wiedl;Verena Ackermann

  • Myelin dysfunction drives amyloid-β deposition in models of Alzheimer’s disease

    Unknown

  • Neuroligin‐3‐deficient mice: model of a monogenic heritable form of autism with an olfactory deficit

    Konstantin Radyushkin;K. Hammerschmidt;S. Boretius;Frédérique Varoqueaux

  • Neuropsychiatric disease relevance of circulating anti-NMDA receptor autoantibodies depends on blood-brain barrier integrity

    Ch. Hammer;B. Stepniak;A. Schneider;S. Papiol

  • Seroprevalence of Autoantibodies against Brain Antigens in Health and Disease

    Liane Dahm;Christoph Ott;Johann Steiner;Beata Stepniak

  • Reduced oxidative damage in ALS by high-dose enteral melatonin treatment.

    Jochen H. Weishaupt;Claudia Bartels;Esther Pölking;Jeannine Dietrich

  • Genome-wide association study results for educational attainment aid in identifying genetic heterogeneity of schizophrenia

    Vikas Bansal;Marina Mitjans;C.A.P. Burik;C.A.P. Burik;R.K. Linnér;R.K. Linnér

  • Genome wide meta-analysis identifies genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

    Lee Ph;Anttila;Won H

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus-Armin Nave
Klaus-Armin Nave Max Planck Society
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Nils Brose
Nils Brose Max Planck Society
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Thomas Werge
Thomas Werge University of Copenhagen
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital
Ole Mors
Ole Mors Aarhus University
Kamilla W. Miskowiak
Kamilla W. Miskowiak Copenhagen University Hospital
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu

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