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Luise Poustka is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has made notable contributions to the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their research has a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and genetics.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include functional brain connectivity studies, autism spectrum disorder research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and child development in relation to digital technology.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric services after 1 year (February/March 2021): ESCAP CovCAP survey (2021, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment (2021, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • The future of General Movement Assessment: The role of computer vision and machine learning - A scoping review (2021, Research in Developmental Disabilities)
  • Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Identifying predictive features of autism spectrum disorders in a clinical sample of adolescents and adults using machine learning (2020, Scientific Reports)

Poustka frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors, including Tobias Banaschewski, Frauke Nees, Sylvane Desrivières, Andreas Heinz, and Michael N. Smolka. These collaborations have resulted in numerous publications.

Common publication venues for Poustka's work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Scientific Reports. The scientist also contributed a book titled Trajectories in Developmental Disabilities: Infancy - Childhood - Adolescence, published by Frontiers Media in 2022.

Best Publications

  • The Brain’s Response to Reward Anticipation and Depression in Adolescence: Dimensionality, Specificity, and Longitudinal Predictions in a Community-Based Sample

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil;Eric Artiges;Hervé Lemaitre

  • Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

    Tulio Guadalupe;Samuel R. Mathias;Theo G.M. vanErp;Christopher D. Whelan;Christopher D. Whelan

  • Early Cannabis Use, Polygenic Risk Score for Schizophrenia and Brain Maturation in Adolescence

    Leon French;Courtney Gray;Gabriel Leonard;Michel Perron;Michel Perron

  • Emotional availability in a sample of mothers with a history of abuse.

    Eva Moehler;Zeynep Biringen;Luise Poustka

  • Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent psychiatric services after 1 year (February/March 2021): ESCAP CovCAP survey.

    Alexis Revet;Johannes Hebebrand;Dimitris Anagnostopoulos;Laura A. Kehoe

  • Determinants of Early Alcohol Use In Healthy Adolescents: The Differential Contribution of Neuroimaging and Psychological Factors

    Frauke Nees;Jelka Tzschoppe;Christopher J Patrick;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

  • Use of early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder across Europe

    Erica Salomone;Štěpánka Beranová;Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault;Marlene Briciet Lauritsen

  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment.

    Matthew D Albaugh;Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez;Amanda Sidwell;Claude Lepage

  • Neuropsychological correlates of emotional lability in children with ADHD

    Tobias Banaschewski;Christine Jennen-Steinmetz;Daniel Brandeis;Daniel Brandeis;Jan K. Buitelaar

  • Diagnostic accuracy of the ADOS and ADOS-2 in clinical practice

    Inge Kamp-Becker;K Albertowski;J Becker;Mardjan Ghahreman

  • Impact of ADHD symptoms on autism spectrum disorder symptom severity

    Linda Sprenger;Eva Bühler;Luise Poustka;Christiane Bach

  • The future of General Movement Assessment: The role of computer vision and machine learning - A scoping review

    Nelson Silva;Dajie Zhang;Tomas Kulvicius;Alexander Gail

  • The locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system as pacemaker of attention - a developmental mechanism of derailed attentional function in autism spectrum disorder.

    Nico Bast;Nico Bast;Luise Poustka;Luise Poustka;Christine M. Freitag

  • Fronto-temporal disconnectivity and symptom severity in children with autism spectrum disorder

    Luise Poustka;Christine Jennen-Steinmetz;Romy Henze;Kilian Vomstein

  • Blunted ventral striatal responses to anticipated rewards foreshadow problematic drug use in novelty-seeking adolescents

    Christian Büchel;Jan Peters;Tobias Banaschewski;Arun L W Bokde

  • A Novel Way to Measure and Predict Development: A Heuristic Approach to Facilitate the Early Detection of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

    Peter B . Marschik;Peter B . Marschik;Florian B. Pokorny;Florian B. Pokorny;Robert Peharz;Dajie Zhang

  • Grey matter volume differences associated with extremely low levels of cannabis use in adolescence.

    Catherine Orr;Catherine Orr;Philip Spechler;Zhipeng Cao;Zhipeng Cao;Matthew Albaugh

  • Neurofeedback in autism spectrum disorders.

    Martin Holtmann;Sabina Steiner;Sarah Hohmann;Luise Poustka

  • Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment.

    Nicholas Judd;Bruno Sauce;John Wiedenhoeft;Jeshua Tromp

  • Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents in Germany: national trends in the rates of inpatients, 2000-2007.

    Martin Holtmann;Eftichia Duketis;Luise Poustka;Florian Daniel Zepf;Florian Daniel Zepf

  • Mapping adolescent reward anticipation, receipt, and prediction error during the monetary incentive delay task.

    Zhipeng Cao;Zhipeng Cao;Marc Bennett;Catherine Orr;Ilknur Icke

  • Negative association between plasma cortisol levels and aggression in a high-risk community sample of adolescents

    Luise Poustka;Athanasios Maras;Erika Hohm;Johannes Fellinger

  • Childhood behavioral inhibition and maternal symptoms of depression.

    E. Moehler;J. Kagan;P. Parzer;R. Brunner

Frequent Co-Authors

Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal

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