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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
  • 2004 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Herta Flor is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research focuses extensively on the intersections of medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a notable emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and clinical psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has contributed to a range of main topics in research, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Some of the most recent publications by Herta Flor include:

  • "The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises" (2020, Pain)
  • "Brain (re)organisation following amputation: Implications for phantom limb pain" (2020, NeuroImage)
  • "Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment" (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The empirical replicability of task-based fMRI as a function of sample size" (2020, NeuroImage)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Frauke Nees
  • Tobias Banaschewski
  • Andreas Heinz
  • Sylvane Desrivières
  • Michael N. Smolka

Herta Flor's publications appear significantly in several notable venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife

The scientist has also authored a book titled Neuropsychologie des chronischen Schmerzes, published in 2020 by Hogrefe Verlag.

Recognition of their work includes membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, awarded in 2008 for contributions to psychology and cognitive sciences, as well as being a member of Academia Europaea since 2004.

Best Publications

  • The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises.

    Srinivasa N. Raja;Daniel B. Carr;Milton Cohen;Nanna B. Finnerup;Nanna B. Finnerup

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Standardized protocol and reference values

    R. Rolke;R. Baron;C. Maier;T.R. Tölle

  • Phantom-limb pain as a perceptual correlate of cortical reorganization following arm amputation

    Herta Flor;Thomas Elbert;Stefan Knecht;Christian Wienbruch

  • A spelling device for the paralysed

    N. Birbaumer;N. Ghanayim;T. Hinterberger;I. Iversen

  • Efficacy of Multidisciplinary Pain Treatment Centers: A Meta-Analytic Review

    H. Flor;T. Fydrich;D. C. Turk

  • Efficacy of multidisciplinary pain treatment centers: a meta-analytic review.

    Herta Flor;Thomas Fydrich;Dennis C. Turk

  • Quantitative sensory testing in the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS): Somatosensory abnormalities in 1236 patients with different neuropathic pain syndromes

    C. Maier;R. Baron;T. R. Tölle;A. Binder

  • Activation of Cortical and Cerebellar Motor Areas during Executed and Imagined Hand Movements: An fMRI Study

    Martin Lotze;Pedro Montoya;Michael Erb;Ernst Hülsmann

  • Phantom limb pain: a case of maladaptive CNS plasticity?

    Herta Flor;Lone Nikolajsen;Troels Staehelin Jensen

  • Deficient Fear Conditioning in Psychopathy A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Niels Birbaumer;Ralf Veit;Martin Lotze;Michael Erb

  • Reorganization of auditory cortex in tinnitus

    Werner Mühlnickel;Thomas Elbert;Edward Taub;Herta Flor

  • Extensive reorganization of primary somatosensory cortex in chronic back pain patients

    Herta Flor;Christoph Braun;Thomas Elbert;Niels Birbaumer;Niels Birbaumer

  • Amygdala-prefrontal coupling depends on a genetic variation of the serotonin transporter

    Andreas Heinz;Dieter F Braus;Michael N Smolka;Jana Wrase

  • Phantom-limb pain: characteristics, causes, and treatment

    Herta Flor

  • Differential activation of the dorsal striatum by high-calorie visual food stimuli in obese individuals

    Yvonne Rothemund;Claudia Preuschhof;Georg Bohner;Hans-Christian Bauknecht

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • The thought translation device (TTD) for completely paralyzed patients

    N. Birbaumer;A. Kubler;N. Ghanayim;T. Hinterberger

  • Effect of sensory discrimination training on cortical reorganisation and phantom limb pain

    Herta Flor;Claudia Denke;Michael Schaefer;Sabine Grüsser

  • The IMAGEN study: reinforcement-related behaviour in normal brain function and psychopathology.

    G Schumann;E Loth;T Banaschewski;A Barbot

  • Cue-induced activation of the striatum and medial prefrontal cortex is associated with subsequent relapse in abstinent alcoholics

    Sabine M. Grüsser;Jana Wrase;Sabine Klein;Derik Hermann

  • Structural plasticity and reorganisation in chronic pain.

    Rohini Kuner;Herta Flor

  • Correlation between dopamine D(2) receptors in the ventral striatum and central processing of alcohol cues and craving.

    Andreas Heinz;Thomas Siessmeier;Jana Wrase;Derik Hermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Arun L.W. Bokde
Arun L.W. Bokde Trinity College Dublin

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