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Klaus Fliessbach is affiliated with the University Hospital Bonn in Germany. Their research spans the fields of medicine and neuroscience, with a significant focus on psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, physiology, neurology, and radiology including nuclear medicine and imaging. This multidisciplinary approach informs their studies on neurological conditions and cognitive disorders.

The scientist's main topics of work include dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neurological disease mechanisms and treatments, as well as memory and neural mechanisms.

Fliessbach's recent publications cover a range of topics related to neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers, and Brain Atrophy in Old Age" (2021, Neurology)
  • "Plasma extracellular vesicle tau and TDP-43 as diagnostic biomarkers in FTD and ALS" (2024, Nature Medicine)
  • "Minor neuropsychological deficits in patients with subjective cognitive decline" (2020, Neurology)
  • "Advanced glycation end products and protein carbonyl levels in plasma reveal sex-specific differences in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease" (2020, Redox Biology)
  • "Subjective cognitive decline and stage 2 of Alzheimer disease in patients from memory centers" (2022, Alzheimer s & Dementia)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fliessbach include Anja Schneider, Jens Wiltfang, Annika Spottke, Josef Priller, and Stefan Teipel. These collaborations suggest consistent interdisciplinary work within the neurodegenerative disease research community.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues specializing in neurodegenerative and cognitive disorders. Notable publication venues with multiple contributions are Alzheimer s & Dementia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer s Research & Therapy, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, and Neurology.

Best Publications

  • Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum

    Klaus Fliessbach;Bernd Weber;P. Trautner;Thomas Dohmen

  • Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum

    Klaus Fliessbach;Bernd Weber;P. Trautner;Thomas J. Dohmen

  • Persistent cognitive impairment, hippocampal atrophy and EEG changes in sepsis survivors

    Alexander Semmler;Catherine Nichols Widmann;Thorsten Okulla;Horst Urbach

  • Locus coeruleus imaging as a biomarker for noradrenergic dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases

    Matthew J Betts;Matthew J Betts;Evgeniya Kirilina;Evgeniya Kirilina;Maria C G Otaduy;Dimo Ivanov

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • The effect of word concreteness on recognition memory.

    Klaus Fliessbach;Susanne Weis;Peter Klaver;Christian Erich Elger

  • Design and first baseline data of the DZNE multicenter observational study on predementia Alzheimer's disease (DELCODE).

    Frank Jessen;Frank Jessen;Annika Spottke;Annika Spottke;Henning Boecker;Henning Boecker;Frederic Brosseron

  • The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism impacts parahippocampal and amygdala volume in healthy humans: incremental support for a genetic risk factor for depression.

    C Montag;B Weber;K Fliessbach;C Elger

  • Relative versus absolute income, joy of winning, and gender: Brain imaging evidence

    Thomas J. Dohmen;Armin Falk;Klaus Fliessbach;Uwe Sunde

  • Mutant valosin‐containing protein causes a novel type of frontotemporal dementia

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  • Networks of tau distribution in Alzheimer's disease.

    Merle C Hoenig;Gérard N Bischof;Joseph Seemiller;Jochen Hammes

  • Plasma extracellular vesicle tau and TDP-43 as diagnostic biomarkers in FTD and ALS

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  • Organic labeling influences food valuation and choice.

    Nicolas S. Linder;G. Uhl;Klaus Fliessbach;Klaus Fliessbach;Peter Trautner;Peter Trautner

  • Age-related functional changes in domain-specific medial temporal lobe pathways.

    David Berron;David Berron;Katja Neumann;Anne Maass;Hartmut Schütze

  • Different neuroinflammatory profile in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia is linked to the clinical phase.

    Patrick Oeckl;Patrick Weydt;Petra Steinacker;Sarah Anderl-Straub

  • Long-term survival with favorable cognitive outcome after chemotherapy in primary central nervous system lymphoma.

    Annika Juergens;Hendrik Pels;Sabine Rogowski;Klaus Fliessbach

  • Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age.

    Tommaso Ballarini;Debora Melo van Lent;Debora Melo van Lent;Julia Brunner;Alina Schröder

  • Neuropsychological outcome after chemotherapy for primary CNS lymphoma A prospective study

    K. Fliessbach;C. Helmstaedter;H. Urbach;A. Althaus

  • Chitotriosidase (CHIT1) is increased in microglia and macrophages in spinal cord of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and cerebrospinal fluid levels correlate with disease severity and progression

    Petra Steinacker;Federico Verde;Federico Verde;Lubin Fang;Emily Feneberg;Emily Feneberg

  • Serum neurofilament light chain in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

    Petra Steinacker;Sarah Anderl-Straub;Janine Diehl-Schmid;Elisa Semler

  • In vivo Patterns of Tau Pathology, Amyloid-β Burden, and Neuronal Dysfunction in Clinical Variants of Alzheimer's Disease.

    Julian Dronse;Klaus Fliessbach;Klaus Fliessbach;Gérard N. Bischof;Boris von Reutern

  • A key role for experimental task performance: effects of math talent, gender and performance on the neural correlates of mental rotation.

    Christian Hoppe;Klaus Fliessbach;Sven Stausberg;Jelena Stojanovic

  • Impact of tau and amyloid burden on glucose metabolism in Alzheimer's disease.

    Gérard N Bischof;Frank Jessen;Klaus Fliessbach;Julian Dronse

  • Which features of subjective cognitive decline are related to amyloid pathology? Findings from the DELCODE study.

    Lisa Miebach;Lisa Miebach;Steffen Wolfsgruber;Steffen Wolfsgruber;Alexandra Polcher;Alexandra Polcher;Oliver Peters;Oliver Peters

  • Effort increases sensitivity to reward and loss magnitude in the human brain

    Julen Hernandez Lallement;Katarina Kuss;Peter Trautner;Bernd Weber

  • MTX-induced white matter changes are associated with polymorphisms of methionine metabolism

    M. Linnebank;H. Pels;N. Kleczar;S. Farmand

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Michael T. Heneka
Michael T. Heneka University Hospital Bonn
Birgit Ertl-Wagner
Birgit Ertl-Wagner University of Toronto
Stefan J. Teipel
Stefan J. Teipel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Klaus Scheffler
Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Society
Robert Perneczky
Robert Perneczky Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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