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Overview

Henrik Walter is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields, primarily focusing on psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work covers a variety of research topics, including functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Henrik Walter has published in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on various aspects of mental health and neuroimaging research. Notable recent publications are:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Mental health effects of infection containment strategies: quarantine and isolation-a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Psycho-social factors associated with mental resilience in the Corona lockdown, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Positive Cognitive Reappraisal in Stress Resilience, Mental Health, and Well-Being: A Comprehensive Systematic Review, 2022, Emotion Review

Collaborative research is central in their work, frequently co-authoring with scholars including Andreas Heinz, Tobias Banaschewski, Frauke Nees, Michael N. Smolka, and Sylvane Desrivières.

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

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

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

    Urs Braun;Axel Schäfer;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Cultural objects modulate reward circuitry

    Susanne Erk;Manfred Spitzer;Arthur P. Wunderlich;Lars Galley

  • Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Empathy: Concepts, Circuits, and Genes

    Henrik Walter

  • Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant.

    Christine Esslinger;Henrik Walter;Peter Kirsch;Susanne Erk

  • Test–retest reliability of resting-state connectivity network characteristics using fMRI and graph theoretical measures

    Urs Braun;Michael M. Plichta;Christine Esslinger;Carina Sauer

  • Prediction error as a linear function of reward probability is coded in human nucleus accumbens.

    Birgit Abler;Henrik Walter;Susanne Erk;Hannes Kammerer

  • Acute and sustained effects of cognitive emotion regulation in major depression.

    Susanne Erk;Alexandra Mikschl;Sabine Stier;Angela Ciaramidaro

  • Depression is related to an absence of optimistically biased belief updating about future life events.

    C. Korn;T. Sharot;H. Walter;H. R. Heekeren

  • Understanding Intentions in Social Interaction: The Role of the Anterior Paracingulate Cortex

    Henrik Walter;Mauro Adenzato;Angela Ciaramidaro;Ivan Enrici

  • Emotional context modulates subsequent memory effect

    Susanne Erk;Markus Kiefer;J.o Grothe;Arthur P Wunderlich

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • The intentional network: how the brain reads varieties of intentions.

    A. Ciaramidaro;A. Ciaramidaro;M. Adenzato;I. Enrici;S. Erk

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    L. Schmaal;D.J. Veltman;T.G.M. van Erp;P.G. Sämann

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Ilya M. Veer
Ilya M. Veer Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg Heidelberg University
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Martin Walter
Martin Walter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay

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