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Jens C. Pruessner

Jens C. Pruessner

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Psychology

D-Index
94
Citations
41078
World Ranking
800
National Ranking
27

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
43439
World Ranking
9143
National Ranking
509

Overview

Jens C. Pruessner is a researcher affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their work spans multiple disciplines including Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a significant focus on the study of stress and neuroendocrine processes.

Their research is prominently featured in fields such as Behavioral Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. This diverse range demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach to understanding brain functions and behavioral responses.

Jens C. Pruessner's main topics of research include the following:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Their publication record features recent papers that cover topics such as Alzheimer disease symptom progression, cortisol awakening response assessment, stress response modification through laughter yoga, social stress transmission in animals, and brain responses to probiotic treatment during stress challenges. Notable examples include:

  • Association of Elevated Amyloid and Tau Positron Emission Tomography Signal With Near-Term Development of Alzheimer Disease Symptoms in Older Adults Without Cognitive Impairment, 2022, JAMA Neurology
  • Evaluation and update of the expert consensus guidelines for the assessment of the cortisol awakening response (CAR), 2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Laughter yoga reduces the cortisol response to acute stress in healthy individuals, 2020, Stress
  • The social transmission of stress in animal collectives, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Probiotic Mixture Containing Lactobacillus helveticus, Bifidobacterium longum and Lactiplantibacillus plantarum Affects Brain Responses to an Arithmetic Stress Task in Healthy Subjects: A Randomised Clinical Trial and Proof-of-Concept Study, 2022, Nutrients

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Psychoneuroendocrinology, Scientific Reports, Stress, Journal of Neural Transmission, and Arabixiv (OSF Preprints).

They have collaborated extensively with a range of coauthors, with the most frequent including:

  • Maria Meier
  • Ulrike U. Bentele
  • Stephanie J. Dimitroff
  • Bernadette Denk
  • Annika Benz

Best Publications

  • Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change

    Jens C. Pruessner;Clemens Kirschbaum;Gunther Meinlschmid;Dirk H Hellhammer

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

    Florian Lederbogen;Peter Kirsch;Leila Haddad;Fabian Streit

  • Free Cortisol Levels after Awakening: A Reliable Biological Marker for the Assessment of Adrenocortical Activity

    J.C. Pruessner;O.T. Wolf;D.H. Hellhammer;A. Buske-Kirschbaum

  • Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene-childhood trauma interactions

    Torsten Klengel;Divya Mehta;Christoph Anacker;Monika Rex-Haffner

  • Burnout, perceived stress, and cortisol responses to awakening.

    Jens C. Pruessner;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines.

    Tobias Stalder;Clemens Kirschbaum;Brigitte M. Kudielka;Emma K. Adam

  • Dopamine Release in Response to a Psychological Stress in Humans and Its Relationship to Early Life Maternal Care: A Positron Emission Tomography Study Using [11C]Raclopride

    Jens C. Pruessner;Frances Champagne;Michael J. Meaney;Alain Dagher

  • Volumetry of Hippocampus and Amygdala with High-resolution MRI and Three-dimensional Analysis Software: Minimizing the Discrepancies between Laboratories

    J.C. Pruessner;L.M. Li;W. Serles;M. Pruessner

  • Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation.

    Pierrick Coupé;José V. Manjón;Vladimir S. Fonov;Jens C. Pruessner

  • The Montreal Imaging Stress Task : using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain

    Katarina Dedovic;Robert Renwick;Najmeh Khalili Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • The brain and the stress axis: the neural correlates of cortisol regulation in response to stress.

    Katarina Dedovic;Annie Duchesne;Julie Andrews;Veronika Engert;Veronika Engert

  • Deactivation of the Limbic System During Acute Psychosocial Stress: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

    Jens C. Pruessner;Katarina Dedovic;Najmeh Khalili-Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

    Claudia Buss;Elysia Poggi Davis;Babak Shahbaba;Jens C. Pruessner

  • Symmetric atlasing and model based segmentation: an application to the hippocampus in older adults

    Günther Grabner;Andrew L. Janke;Marc M. Budge;David Smith

  • Self-reported depressive symptoms and stress levels in healthy young men: associations with the cortisol response to awakening.

    Marita Pruessner;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Jens C. Pruessner;Sonia J. Lupien

  • Neuropathology of stress

    Paul J. Lucassen;Jens Pruessner;Nuno Sousa;Osborne F. X. Almeida

  • Focal Decline of Cortical Thickness in Alzheimer's Disease Identified by Computational Neuroanatomy

    Jason P. Lerch;Jens C. Pruessner;Alex Zijdenbos;Harald Hampel

  • Regional frontal cortical volumes decrease differentially in aging: an MRI study to compare volumetric approaches and voxel-based morphometry.

    Danielle J. Tisserand;Jens C. Pruessner;Ernesto J. Sanz Arigita;Martin P.J. van Boxtel

  • The cortisol response to awakening in relation to different challenge tests and a 12-hour cortisol rhythm.

    A. Schmidt-Reinwald;J.C. Pruessner;D.H. Hellhammer;I. Federenko

  • Cutting stress off at the pass: Reducing vigilance and responsiveness to social threat by manipulating attention.

    Stéphane D Dandeneau;Mark W Baldwin;Jodene R Baccus;Maya Sakellaropoulo

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia J. Lupien
Sonia J. Lupien University of Montreal
D. Louis Collins
D. Louis Collins McGill University
Veronika Engert
Veronika Engert Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Ridha Joober
Ridha Joober Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Robert-Paul Juster
Robert-Paul Juster University of Montreal
Alan C. Evans
Alan C. Evans McGill University
Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Alain Dagher
Alain Dagher Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
M. Mallar Chakravarty
M. Mallar Chakravarty McGill University
Ashok Malla
Ashok Malla McGill University

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