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Katrin H. Preller

Katrin H. Preller

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
8837
World Ranking
5952
National Ranking
65

Overview

Katrin H. Preller is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their scholarly output includes significant work on psychedelics and their effects on brain function and behavior.

Their main fields of study encompass Psychology, with 86 publications, and Neuroscience, with 72 publications. Within these areas, their subfields of expertise include Clinical Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Organic Chemistry, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Key topics addressed in their research are:

  • Psychedelics and Drug Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

The scholar has contributed to several prominent scientific journals and venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 14 publications
  • Biological Psychiatry - 10 publications
  • Neuroscience Applied - 9 publications
  • Molecular Psychiatry - 4 publications
  • eLife - 4 publications

Their list of notable recent papers includes:

  • "Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders," 2020, Nature Reviews. Neuroscience
  • "Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy in major depressive disorder: a placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial," 2022, EClinicalMedicine
  • "The neural basis of psychedelic action," 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Hallucinogens in Mental Health: Preclinical and Clinical Studies on LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, and Ketamine," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Psilocybin Induces Time-Dependent Changes in Global Functional Connectivity," 2020, Biological Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Franz X. Vollenweider (43 joint publications)
  • Nathalie M. Rieser (25 joint publications)
  • Alan Anticevic (20 joint publications)
  • Flora Moujaes (19 joint publications)
  • Erich Seifritz (16 joint publications)

In addition to articles, Katrin H. Preller has a book publication titled Disruptive Psychopharmacology (2022), released through Springer Science+Business Media.

Best Publications

  • Psychedelic drugs: neurobiology and potential for treatment of psychiatric disorders.

    Franz X Vollenweider;Katrin H Preller

  • Acute Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in Healthy Subjects

    Yasmin Schmid;Florian Enzler;Peter Gasser;Eric Grouzmann

  • The Fabric of Meaning and Subjective Effects in LSD-Induced States Depend on Serotonin 2A Receptor Activation

    Katrin H. Preller;Marcus Herdener;Thomas Pokorny;Amanda Planzer

  • MDMA enhances emotional empathy and prosocial behavior

    Cédric M. Hysek;Yasmin Schmid;Linda D. Simmler;Gregor Domes

  • Changes in global and thalamic brain connectivity in LSD-induced altered states of consciousness are attributable to the 5-HT2A receptor.

    Katrin H Preller;Joshua B Burt;Jie Lisa Ji;Charles H Schleifer

  • Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy in major depressive disorder: A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial

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  • Psilocybin-Induced Decrease in Amygdala Reactivity Correlates with Enhanced Positive Mood in Healthy Volunteers

    Rainer Kraehenmann;Katrin H. Preller;Milan Scheidegger;Thomas Pokorny

  • The neural basis of psychedelic action

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  • Phenomenology, Structure, and Dynamic of Psychedelic States.

    Katrin H. Preller;Franz X. Vollenweider

  • Effective connectivity changes in LSD-induced altered states of consciousness in humans

    Katrin H. Preller;Adeel Razi;Peter Zeidman;Philipp Stämpfli

  • Hallucinogens in Mental Health: Preclinical and Clinical Studies on LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, and Ketamine.

    Danilo De Gregorio;Argel Aguilar-Valles;Katrin H. Preller;Boris Dov Heifets

  • Effect of Psilocybin on Empathy and Moral Decision-Making

    Thomas Pokorny;Katrin H Preller;Michael Kometer;Isabel Dziobek

  • Cognitive impairment in cocaine users is drug-induced but partially reversible: evidence from a longitudinal study.

    Matthias Vonmoos;Lea M Hulka;Katrin H Preller;Franziska Minder

  • Dreamlike effects of LSD on waking imagery in humans depend on serotonin 2A receptor activation

    Rainer Kraehenmann;Dan Pokorny;Leonie Vollenweider;Katrin H. Preller

  • Cognitive dysfunctions in recreational and dependent cocaine users: role of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, craving and early age at onset

    Matthias Vonmoos;Lea M. Hulka;Katrin H. Preller;Daniela Jenni

  • Effects of serotonin 2A/1A receptor stimulation on social exclusion processing

    Katrin H. Preller;Thomas Pokorny;Andreas Hock;Rainer Kraehenmann

  • Psilocybin Induces Time-Dependent Changes in Global Functional Connectivity

    Katrin H. Preller;Patricia Duerler;Joshua B. Burt;Jie Lisa Ji

  • Impaired emotional empathy and related social network deficits in cocaine users

    Katrin H. Preller;Lea M. Hulka;Matthias Vonmoos;Daniela Jenni

  • Psychedelic resting-state neuroimaging: A review and perspective on balancing replication and novel analyses

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  • Altered social and non-social decision-making in recreational and dependent cocaine users.

    L M Hulka;C Eisenegger;K H Preller;M Vonmoos

  • Modulatory effect of the 5-HT1A agonist buspirone and the mixed non-hallucinogenic 5-HT1A/2A agonist ergotamine on psilocybin-induced psychedelic experience

    Thomas Pokorny;Katrin H. Preller;Rainer Kraehenmann;Franz X. Vollenweider

  • ‘Verstehen’ (‘understand’) primes ‘stehen’ (‘stand’): Morphological structure overrides semantic compositionality in the lexical representation of German complex verbs

    Eva Smolka;Katrin H. Preller;Carsten Eulitz

  • Functional changes of the reward system underlie blunted response to social gaze in cocaine users.

    Katrin H. Preller;Marcus Herdener;Leonhard Schilbach;Philipp Stämpfli

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris B. Quednow
Boris B. Quednow University of Zurich
Franz X. Vollenweider
Franz X. Vollenweider University of Zurich
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Leonhard Schilbach
Leonhard Schilbach Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Isabel Dziobek
Isabel Dziobek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Philippe N. Tobler
Philippe N. Tobler University of Zurich
Frank Larøi
Frank Larøi University of Oslo
Renaud Jardri
Renaud Jardri University of Lille
Gregor Domes
Gregor Domes University of Trier
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg

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