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Overview

Josef Zihl is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, with a research focus spanning neuroscience and medicine. Their work predominantly addresses cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, epidemiology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, as well as neurology.

Their research topics primarily cover visual perception and processing mechanisms, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, aging and gerontology research, dementia and cognitive impairment research, neural and behavioral psychology studies, vestibular and auditory disorders, and ophthalmology and eye disorders.

Zihl has published extensively, with notable frequent appearances in the journal Aging Brain, contributing three papers. Other publication venues include the British Journal of Visual Impairment, Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie, and Vierteljahresschrift für Heilpädagogik und ihre Nachbargebiete.

Recent publications include:

  • The aging mind: A complex challenge for research and practice, 2022, Aging Brain
  • Aging and the rehabilitation of homonymous hemianopia: The efficacy of compensatory eye-movement training techniques and a five-year follow up, 2021, Aging Brain
  • Visual and cognitive profiles in children with and without cerebral visual impairment, 2023, British Journal of Visual Impairment
  • Kurzfassung der S1-Leitlinie "Rehabilitation bei Störungen der Raumkognition" (AWMF-030/126), 2020, Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie
  • Adapting to the adaptive brain - Tapping into the brain's plasticity and reserves for successful coping with ageing and neurorehabilitation, 2021, Aging Brain

Zihl frequently collaborates with a range of researchers, including Simone Reppermund, Robert W. Kentridge, Florian Pargent, C.A. Heywood, and Lydia Unterberger. These co-authorships indicate interdisciplinary work within their fields of study.

The scientist's contribution is reflected especially in the area of aging and neurorehabilitation, exploring how plasticity and brain reserves can facilitate coping mechanisms in the context of age-related decline. Research on visual impairment rehabilitation, particularly compensatory eye-movement training for hemianopia, further highlights their work in applied clinical contexts.

Best Publications

  • Use of NeuroEyeCoach™ to Improve Eye Movement Efficacy in Patients with Homonymous Visual Field Loss.

    Arash Sahraie;Nicola Smania;Josef Zihl

  • SELECTIVE DISTURBANCE OF MOVEMENT VISION AFTER BILATERAL BRAIN DAMAGE

    J. Zihl;D. Von Cramon;N. Mai

  • Leitlinien für Diagnostik und Therapie in der Neurologie

    H. C. Diener;C. Weimar;P. Berlit;G. Deuschl

  • Visual field recovery from scotoma in patients with postgeniculate damage. A review of 55 cases.

    J. Zihl;D. Von Cramon

  • Cognitive impairment in unipolar depression is persistent and non-specific: further evidence for the final common pathway disorder hypothesis

    S. Reppermund;M. Ising;S. Lucae;J. Zihl

  • Restitution of visual function in patients with cerebral blindness.

    J Zihl;D von Cramon

  • Disturbance of movement vision after bilateral posterior brain damage. Further evidence and follow up observations.

    J. Zihl;D. Von Cramon;N. Mai;Ch. Schmid

  • Gray Matter Increase Induced by Practice Correlates with Task-Specific Activation: A Combined Functional and Morphometric Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Rüdiger Ilg;Afra M. Wohlschläger;Christian Gaser;Yasmin Liebau

  • Overweight and Obesity Affect Treatment Response in Major Depression

    Stefan Kloiber;Marcus Ising;Simone Reppermund;Sonja Horstmann

  • Visual scanning behavior in patients with homonymous hemianopia

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  • Eye movement patterns in hemianopic dyslexia

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  • Residual motion perception in a "motion-blind" patient, assessed with limited-lifetime random dot stimuli

    C. L. Baker;R. F. Hess;J. Zihl

  • Impaired divided attention predicts delayed response and risk to relapse in subjects with depressive disorders.

    M. Majer;M. Ising;H. Künzel;E. B. Binder

  • "Blindsight": improvement of visually guided eye movements by systematic practice in patients with cerebral blindness.

    Josef Zihl

  • Clinical and neurobiological effects of tianeptine and paroxetine in major depression.

    Thomas Nickel;Annette Sonntag;Julia Schill;Astrid W. Zobel

  • Neuropsychological assessments before and aftertreatment in patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimianervosa

    Christoph J Lauer;Birgit Gorzewski;Monika Gerlinghoff;Herbert Backmund

  • Persistent cognitive impairment in depression: the role of psychopathology and altered hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) system regulation

    Simone Reppermund;Josef Zihl;Susanne Lucae;Sonja Horstmann

  • Telephone-based screening tools for mild cognitive impairment and dementia in aging studies: a review of validated instruments.

    Teresa C. Castanho;Liliana Patrícia Carvalho Amorim;Joseph Zihl;Joana Almeida Palha

  • Recovery of visual functions in patients with cerebral blindness. Effect of specific practice with saccadic localization.

    J. Zihl

  • The contribution of the 'second' visual system to directed visual attention in man.

    J. Zihl;D.Von Cramon

  • Progesterone reduces wakefulness in sleep EEG and has no effect on cognition in healthy postmenopausal women

    P. Schüssler;M. Kluge;A. Yassouridis;M. Dresler

  • The brain activity related to residual motion vision in a patient with bilateral lesions of V5

    S. Shipp;B. M. de Jong;J. Zihl;R. S. J. Frackowiak

  • Subcortical control of visual thresholds in humans: Evidence for modality specific and retinotopically organized mechanisms of selective attention

    W. Singer;J. Zihl;E. Pöppel

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustavo Deco
Gustavo Deco Pompeu Fabra University
Charles A. Heywood
Charles A. Heywood Durham University
Robert W. Kentridge
Robert W. Kentridge Durham University
Hans-Otto Karnath
Hans-Otto Karnath University of Tübingen
Ernst Pöppel
Ernst Pöppel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
Claus-W. Wallesch
Claus-W. Wallesch Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Georg Kerkhoff
Georg Kerkhoff Saarland University
Wolfram Ziegler
Wolfram Ziegler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen

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