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Overview

Isabella Heuser is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing especially on psychiatric and neurocognitive conditions. The scientist has produced 29 publications in Medicine and 20 in Neuroscience.

Their work covers several key subfields, including:

  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Pharmacology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neurology

Major topics explored in their research include:

  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Their recent peer-reviewed papers demonstrate a focus on depression treatment and pharmacotherapy in older adults, as well as infectious disease testing methodologies. Notable publications include:

  • Effect of Minocycline on Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Antidepressant and neurocognitive effects of serial ketamine administration versus ECT in depressed patients, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • The FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) List 2021: Fourth Version of a Validated Clinical Aid for Improved Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults, 2022, Drugs & Aging
  • The EURO-FORTA (Fit fOR The Aged) List Version 2: Consensus Validation of a Clinical Tool for Improved Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults, 2023, Drugs & Aging
  • A simple approach to optimum pool size for pooled SARS-CoV-2 testing, 2020, International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Isabella Heuser include:

  • Julian Hellmann-Regen
  • Malek Bajbouj
  • Francesca Regen
  • Sabine Aust
  • Matti Gärtner

Isabella Heuser's research has been published predominantly in:

  • Drugs & Aging (3 publications)
  • PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie (3 publications)
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research (2 publications)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology (2 publications)
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • The Hamilton Anxiety Scale: reliability, validity and sensitivity to change in anxiety and depressive disorders.

    Wolfgang Maier;Raimund Buller;Michael Philipp;Isabella Heuser

  • The combined dexamethasone/CRH test: A refined laboratory test for psychiatric disorders

    Isabella Heuser;Alexander Yassouridis;Florian Holsboer

  • Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease.

    Lesley Jones;Peter A. Holmans;Marian L. Hamshere;Denise Harold

  • Modafinil and methylphenidate for neuroenhancement in healthy individuals: A systematic review

    Dimitris Repantis;Peter Schlattmann;Oona Laisney;Isabella Heuser

  • Diurnal activity and pulsatility of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system in male depressed patients and healthy controls.

    Michael Deuschle;Ulrich Schweiger;Bettina Weber;Ulrike Gotthardt

  • Anxiety disorders in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Murray B. Stein;Isabella J. Heuser;Jorge L. Juncos;Thomas W. Uhde

  • Twenty-Four Hour Cortisol Release Profiles in Patients With Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Compared to Normal Controls: Ultradian Secretory Pulsatility and Diurnal Variation

    A. Hartmann;Johannes D Veldhuis;M. Deuschle;H. Standhardt

  • Neuronal correlates of altered empathy and social cognition in borderline personality disorder

    Isabel Dziobek;Sandra Preißler;Zarko Grozdanovic;Isabella Heuser;Isabella Heuser

  • Cognitive impairment in 873 patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease : Results from the German Study on Epidemiology of Parkinson's Disease with Dementia (GEPAD)

    Oliver Riedel;Jens Klotsche;Annika Spottke;Giinther Deuschl

  • Pituitary-adrenal-system regulation and psychopathology during amitriptyline treatment in elderly depressed patients and normal comparison subjects.

    I. J. E. Heuser;U. Schweiger;U. Gotthardt;J. Schmider

  • Response and remission criteria in major depression – A validation of current practice

    Michael Riedel;Hans-Jürgen Möller;Michael Obermeier;Rebecca Schennach-Wolff

  • A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

  • Hypercortisolemic depression is associated with increased intra-abdominal fat.

    Bettina Weber-Hamann;Frank Hentschel;Anja Kniest;Michael Deuschle

  • Frequency of dementia, depression, and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in 1,449 outpatients with Parkinson’s disease

    Oliver Riedel;Jens Klotsche;Annika Spottke;Giinther Deuschl

  • Modification of central dopaminergic mechanisms by continuous levodopa therapy for advanced Parkinson's disease.

    M. Maral Mouradian;Isabella J. E. Heuser;Fabio Baronti;Thomas N. Chase

  • With aging in humans the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal system increases and its diurnal amplitude flattens

    Michael Deuschle;Ulrike Gotthardt;Ulrich Schweiger;Bettina Weber

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimertextquotesingles disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Malek Bajbouj
Malek Bajbouj Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Wolfgang Gaebel
Wolfgang Gaebel Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Hans-Jürgen Möller
Hans-Jürgen Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Johannes Kornhuber
Johannes Kornhuber University of Göttingen
Lutz Frölich
Lutz Frölich Heidelberg University
Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Joachim Klosterkötter
Joachim Klosterkötter University of Cologne

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