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Overview

Heike Tost is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the intersecting fields of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Their work places a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional focus on psychiatry and mental health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging techniques.

Tost's research spans several core topics, including functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, and autism spectrum disorder research. Other significant areas of investigation include advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, schizophrenia research and treatment, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and health disparities and outcomes.

Notable recent publications by Tost include:

  • Brain network dynamics during working memory are modulated by dopamine and diminished in schizophrenia, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Atypical Brain Asymmetry in Autism-A Candidate for Clinically Meaningful Stratification, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Early Social Adversity, Altered Brain Functional Connectivity, and Mental Health, 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • Multiparametric mapping of white matter microstructure in catatonia, 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology

Frequent coauthors in their work include Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Tobias Banaschewski, Carolin Moessnang, Eva Loth, and Declan Murphy. These collaborations indicate active engagement in multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research projects within their specialized fields.

Tost regularly publishes in journals such as Molecular Autism, Biological Psychiatry, Nature Mental Health, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. These venues reflect the clinical and neuroscience-oriented scope of their research outputs.

Best Publications

  • City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans.

    Florian Lederbogen;Peter Kirsch;Leila Haddad;Fabian Streit

  • Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans.

    Urs Braun;Axel Schäfer;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk

  • CNVs conferring risk of autism or schizophrenia affect cognition in controls

    Hreinn Stefansson;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Stacy Steinberg;Brynja Magnusdottir

  • A common allele in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function

    Heike Tost;Bhaskar Kolachana;Shabnam Hakimi;Herve Lemaitre

  • Neural mechanisms of social risk for psychiatric disorders

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Heike Tost

  • Environmental influence in the brain, human welfare and mental health

    Heike Tost;Frances A Champagne;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Test–retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive–emotive fMRI test battery

    Michael M. Plichta;Adam J. Schwarz;Oliver Grimm;Katrin Morgen

  • Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions in Schizophrenia: Contemporary Challenges for Integrated, Large-scale Investigations

    Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Bart P. Rutten;Inez Myin-Germeys;Philippe Delespaul

  • The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): design and methodologies to identify and validate stratification biomarkers for autism spectrum disorders

    Eva Loth;Tony Charman;Luke Mason;Julian Tillmann

  • Test–retest reliability of fMRI-based graph theoretical properties during working memory, emotion processing, and resting state

    Hengyi Cao;Michael M. Plichta;Axel Schäfer;Leila Haddad

  • Integrative approaches utilizing oxytocin to enhance prosocial behavior: From animal and human social behavior to autistic social dysfunction

    Hidenori Yamasue;Jason R. Yee;Rene Hurlemann;James K Rilling

  • Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure.

    Heike Tost;Markus Reichert;Markus Reichert;Urs Braun;Iris Reinhard

  • Dynamic brain network reconfiguration as a potential schizophrenia genetic risk mechanism modulated by NMDA receptor function

    Urs Braun;Axel Schäfer;Danielle S. Bassett;Franziska Rausch

  • Dopamine and psychosis: Theory, pathomechanisms and intermediate phenotypes

    Heike Tost;Tajvar Alam;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Brain Structure Correlates of Urban Upbringing, an Environmental Risk Factor for Schizophrenia

    Leila Haddad;Axel Schäfer;Fabian Streit;Florian Lederbogen

  • From Maps to Multi-dimensional Network Mechanisms of Mental Disorders

    Urs Braun;Axel Schaefer;Richard F. Betzel;Heike Tost

  • The EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP): Clinical characterisation

    Tony Charman;Eva Loth;Julian Tillmann;Daisy Crawley

  • Sensory information processing in neuroleptic-naive first-episode schizophrenic patients: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Dieter F. Braus;Wolfgang Weber-Fahr;Heike Tost;Matthias Ruf

  • Information flow between interacting human brains: Identification, validation, and relationship to social expertise

    Edda Bilek;Matthias Ruf;Axel Schäfer;Ceren Akdeniz

  • Neuroimaging Evidence for a Role of Neural Social Stress Processing in Ethnic Minority-Associated Environmental Risk

    Ceren Akdeniz;Heike Tost;Fabian Streit;Leila Haddad

  • Addiction Research Consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake (ReCoDe)-From trajectories to mechanisms and interventions.

    Andreas Heinz;Falk Kiefer;Michael N. Smolka;Tanja Endrass

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Dieter F. Braus
Dieter F. Braus Universität Hamburg
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Michael M. Plichta
Michael M. Plichta Goethe University Frankfurt
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Manuel Mattheisen
Manuel Mattheisen Dalhousie University

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