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Kerstin Konrad is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, focusing extensively on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health. The scientist's work also touches on social psychology and the use of radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging techniques.

Their research interests cover a range of topics with significant attention to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, functional brain connectivity studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, autism spectrum disorder research, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent publications by Kerstin Konrad include:

  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap, 2023, Molecular Psychiatry
  • The Potential of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Neurofeedback-A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Best Practice, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Consortium neuroscience of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: The ENIGMA adventure, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Brain and motor synchrony in children and adolescents with ASD-a fNIRS hyperscanning study, 2020, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Maturation of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Children and Adolescents, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association

Kerstin Konrad frequently collaborates with several researchers including Christine M. Freitag, Gregor Kohls, Graeme Fairchild, Stéphane A. De Brito, and Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann.

Their publications are commonly found in journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Is the ADHD brain wired differently? A review on structural and functional connectivity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Kerstin Konrad;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • HHS Public Access

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Sex Differences and the Impact of Steroid Hormones on the Developing Human Brain

    Susanne Neufang;Karsten Specht;Markus Hausmann;Onur Güntürkün

  • Anticipation of monetary and social reward differently activates mesolimbic brain structures in men and women

    Katja N. Spreckelmeyer;Sören Krach;Gregor Kohls;Lena Rademacher

  • Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples

    Martine Hoogman;Ryan Muetzel;Joao P. Guimaraes;Elena Shumskaya

  • Dysfunctional Attentional Networks in Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Evidence from an Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

    Kerstin Konrad;Susanne Neufang;Charlotte Hanisch;Gereon R. Fink

  • Brain-to-brain synchrony in parent-child dyads and the relationship with emotion regulation revealed by fNIRS-based hyperscanning

    Vanessa Reindl;Vanessa Reindl;Christian Gerloff;Wolfgang Scharke;Kerstin Konrad

  • Brain development during adolescence: neuroscientific insights into this developmental period.

    Kerstin Konrad;Christine Firk;Peter J. Uhlhaas

  • Development of attentional networks: An fMRI study with children and adults

    Kerstin Konrad;Susanne Neufang;Christiane M. Thiel;Karsten Specht

  • The role of the right temporoparietal junction in attention and social interaction as revealed by ALE meta-analysis

    S C Krall;Claudia Rottschy;E Oberwelland;Danilo Bzdok

  • Structural brain abnormalities in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Sarah Brieber;Susanne Neufang;Nicole Bruning;Inge Kamp-Becker

  • Overweight and obesity in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

    K Holtkamp;K Konrad;B Müller;N Heussen

  • Morphometric Brain Abnormalities in Boys With Conduct Disorder

    Thomas Huebner;Timo D. Vloet;Ivo Marx;Kerstin Konrad

  • Annual research review: Reaction time variability in ADHD and autism spectrum disorders: measurement and mechanisms of a proposed trans-diagnostic phenotype.

    Sarah L. Karalunas;Hilde M. Geurts;Kerstin Konrad;Kerstin Konrad;Stephan Bender

  • Day-patient treatment after short inpatient care versus continued inpatient treatment in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (ANDI): a multicentre, randomised, open-label, non-inferiority trial

    Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann;Reinhild Schwarte;Melanie Krei;Karin Egberts

  • Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders

    Gregor Kohls;Martin Schulte-Rüther;Barbara Nehrkorn;Kristin Müller

  • Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap

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  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Emotional processing in male adolescents with childhood-onset conduct disorder

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Thomas Huebner;Ivo Marx;Timo D. Vloet

  • Impact of anxiety disorders on attentional functions in children with ADHD.

    Timo D. Vloet;Kerstin Konrad;Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann;Georg G. Polier

  • Inhibitory control in children with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

    Kerstin Konrad;Siegfried Gauggel;Andrea Manz;Melanie Schöll

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Christine M. Freitag
Christine M. Freitag Goethe University Frankfurt
Graeme Fairchild
Graeme Fairchild University of Bath
David Coghill
David Coghill University of Melbourne
Arne Popma
Arne Popma University of Amsterdam
Ute Habel
Ute Habel RWTH Aachen University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Barbara Franke
Barbara Franke Radboud University
Klaus Willmes
Klaus Willmes RWTH Aachen University

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