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D-Index
35
Citations
4403
World Ranking
9223
National Ranking
774

Lorenz Deserno publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lorenz Deserno sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 107 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Lorenz Deserno D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lorenz Deserno sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lorenz Deserno is affiliated with the University of Wurzburg in Germany. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with notable contributions in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, psychiatry, and mental health.

Their work covers several key research topics including:

  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

They have published extensively with a strong presence in scientific journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • eLife
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lorenz Deserno include:

  • Maria Waltmann
  • Marcel Romanos
  • Annette Horstmann
  • Nadine Herzog
  • Andreas Heinz

Representative research papers authored or co-authored by Lorenz Deserno include:

  • "Sufficient reliability of the behavioral and computational readouts of a probabilistic reversal learning task", 2022, Behavior Research Methods
  • "Reliance on model-based and model-free control in obesity", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Corona Health", 2021, KiDokS
  • "Loss of control over eating: A systematic review of task based research into impulsive and compulsive processes in binge eating", 2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Associations of Menstrual Cycle and Progesterone-to-Estradiol Ratio With Alcohol Consumption in Alcohol Use Disorder: A Sex-Separated Multicenter Longitudinal Study", 2024, American Journal of Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Ventral striatal dopamine reflects behavioral and neural signatures of model-based control during sequential decision making

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Quentin J. M. Huys;Rebecca Boehme;Ralph Buchert

  • Striatal dysfunction during reversal learning in unmedicated schizophrenia patients

    Florian Schlagenhauf;Quentin J. M. Huys;Lorenz Deserno;Michael A. Rapp

  • Urbanicity, social adversity and psychosis

    Andreas Heinz;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Ulrich Reininghaus

  • Reduced prefrontal-parietal effective connectivity and working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Philipp Sterzer;Torsten Wüstenberg;Andreas Heinz

  • Model-based and model-free decisions in alcohol dependence

    Miriam Sebold;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Stephan Nebe;Daniel J Schad

  • Dissecting psychiatric spectrum disorders by generative embedding

    Kay H. Brodersen;Kay H. Brodersen;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Florian Schlagenhauf;Florian Schlagenhauf;Zhihao Lin;Zhihao Lin

  • Addiction Research Consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake (ReCoDe)-From trajectories to mechanisms and interventions.

    Andreas Heinz;Falk Kiefer;Michael N. Smolka;Tanja Endrass

  • Response inhibition and its relation to multidimensional impulsivity.

    Tilmann Wilbertz;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Annette Horstmann;Annette Horstmann;Jane Neumann;Jane Neumann

  • The interaction of acute and chronic stress impairs model-based behavioral control

    Christoph Radenbach;Andrea M.F. Reiter;Veronika Engert;Zsuzsika Sjoerds

  • Ventral striatal prediction error signaling is associated with dopamine synthesis capacity and fluid intelligence

    Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael A. Rapp;Quentin J. M. Huys;Quentin J. M. Huys;Anne Beck

  • Impaired Flexible Reward-Based Decision-Making in Binge Eating Disorder: Evidence from Computational Modeling and Functional Neuroimaging.

    Andrea M F Reiter;Andrea M F Reiter;Hans-Jochen Heinze;Hans-Jochen Heinze;Hans-Jochen Heinze;Florian Schlagenhauf;Florian Schlagenhauf;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno

  • Reinforcement learning and dopamine in schizophrenia: dimensions of symptoms or specific features of a disease group?

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Rebecca Boehme;Andreas Heinz;Florian Schlagenhauf;Florian Schlagenhauf

  • Volatility Estimates Increase Choice Switching and Relate to Prefrontal Activity in Schizophrenia.

    Lorenz Deserno;Rebecca Boehme;Christoph Mathys;Teresa Katthagen

  • Devaluation and sequential decisions: linking goal-directed and model-based behavior

    Eva Friedel;Stefan P. Koch;Jean Wendt;Andreas Heinz

  • Aberrant Salience Is Related to Dysfunctional Self-Referential Processing in Psychosis

    Anne Pankow;Teresa Katthagen;Sarah Diner;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno

  • Behavioral and neural signatures of reduced updating of alternative options in alcohol-dependent patients during flexible decision-making

    Andrea M F Reiter;Andrea M F Reiter;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Thomas Kallert;Hans-Jochen Heinze;Hans-Jochen Heinze;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Sufficient reliability of the behavioral and computational readouts of a probabilistic reversal learning task

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  • Lateral prefrontal model-based signatures are reduced in healthy individuals with high trait impulsivity

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;T. Wilbertz;Andrea Reiter;Annette Horstmann;Annette Horstmann

  • Dissociating neural learning signals in human sign- and goal-trackers.

    Daniel J Schad;Daniel J Schad;Michael A Rapp;Maria Garbusow;Stephan Nebe;Stephan Nebe

  • Dopaminergic modulation of hemodynamic signal variability and the functional connectome during cognitive performance.

    Mohsen Alavash;Mohsen Alavash;Sung-Joo Lim;Sung-Joo Lim;Christiane M. Thiel;Bernhard Sehm

  • Prefrontal and Striatal Glutamate Differently Relate to Striatal Dopamine: Potential Regulatory Mechanisms of Striatal Presynaptic Dopamine Function?

    Tobias Gleich;Lorenz Deserno;Robert Christian Lorenz;Rebecca Boehme

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Andreas Heinz
Andreas Heinz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Annette Horstmann
Annette Horstmann University of Helsinki
Michael A. Rapp
Michael A. Rapp University of Potsdam
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London
Anne Beck
Anne Beck Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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