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Martin J. Herrmann

Martin J. Herrmann

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Neuroscience

D-Index
66
Citations
15550
World Ranking
3010
National Ranking
263

Psychology

D-Index
66
Citations
12599
World Ranking
2744
National Ranking
115

Overview

Martin J. Herrmann is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans several disciplines within neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. They have also contributed to psychiatry and mental health, behavioral neuroscience, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their study topics emphasize anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Herrmann has additionally explored memory and neural mechanisms, functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, stress responses and cortisol, mental health research topics, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Herrmann has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publications have appeared in:

  • Behavioural Brain Research
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Stimulation

Notable recent papers include:

  • Clinical predictors of treatment response towards exposure therapy in virtuo in spider phobia: A machine learning and external cross-validation approach, 2021, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Impaired fear learning and extinction, but not generalization, in anxious and non-anxious depression, 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • The mere physical presence of another person reduces human autonomic responses to aversive sounds, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Effect of bariatric surgery on cardio-psycho-metabolic outcomes in severe obesity: A randomized controlled trial, 2023, Metabolism
  • Behavioral and Magnetoencephalographic Correlates of Fear Generalization Are Associated With Responses to Later Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Spider Phobia, 2021, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Frequent co-authors in Herrmann's collaborations include:

  • Ulrike Lueken
  • Jürgen Deckert
  • Elisabeth J. Leehr
  • Joscha Böhnlein
  • Niklas Siminski

Herrmann's interdisciplinary expertise intersects across neuroscience, psychology, and medicine, grounded in an array of experimental and clinical research approaches. The breadth of their research topics highlights a focus on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying anxiety and mood disorders, as well as treatment responses and psychometric evaluation.

Best Publications

  • Source localization (LORETA) of the error-related-negativity (ERN/Ne) and positivity (Pe).

    Martin J. Herrmann;Josefine Römmler;Ann-Christine Ehlis;Anke Heidrich

  • Neural correlates of epigenesis

    Turhan Canli;Maolin Qiu;Kazufumi Omura;Eliza Congdon

  • Event-related functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): are the measurements reliable?

    Michael M. Plichta;Martin J. Herrmann;C. G. Baehne;Ann-Christine Ehlis

  • 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

  • Transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation (tES and TMS) for addiction medicine: A consensus paper on the present state of the science and the road ahead

    Hamed Ekhtiari;Hosna Tavakoli;Giovanni Addolorato;Chris Baeken

  • Early cortical processing of natural and artificial emotional faces differs between lower and higher socially anxious persons

    Andreas Mühlberger;Matthias J. Wieser;Martin J. Herrmann;Peter Weyers

  • Early stages (P100) of face perception in humans as measured with event-related potentials (ERPs).

    M. J. Herrmann;A.-C. Ehlis;H. Ellgring;A. J. Fallgatter

  • Reduced lateral prefrontal activation in adult patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) during a working memory task: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

    Ann-Christine Ehlis;Christina G. Bähne;Christian P. Jacob;Martin J. Herrmann

  • Repeated exposure of flight phobics to flights in virtual reality.

    Andreas Mühlberger;Martin J Herrmann;Georg Wiedemann;Heiner Ellgring

  • Altered response control and anterior cingulate function in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder boys

    Andreas J Fallgatter;Ann-Christine Ehlis;Juergen Seifert;Werner Konrad Strik

  • Frontal activation during a verbal-fluency task as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy.

    M.J. Herrmann;A.-C. Ehlis;A.J. Fallgatter

  • Regional Brain Activation Changes and Abnormal Functional Connectivity of the Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Working Memory Processing in Adults With Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

    Robert C. Wolf;Michael M. Plichta;Fabio Sambataro;Andreas J. Fallgatter

  • Revise the revised? New dimensions of the neuroanatomical hypothesis of panic disorder

    Thomas Dresler;Thomas Dresler;Anne Guhn;Sara V. Tupak;Ann-Christine Ehlis

  • Far field potentials from the brain stem after transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation.

    A. J. Fallgatter;B. Neuhauser;M. J. Herrmann;A.-C. Ehlis

  • Increased EEG power density in alpha and theta bands in adult ADHD patients

    S. Koehler;P. Lauer;T. Schreppel;C. Jacob

  • Cerebral oxygenation changes in the prefrontal cortex: Effects of age and gender

    M.J. Herrmann;A. Walter;A.-C. Ehlis;A.J. Fallgatter

  • Multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy detects specific inferior-frontal activation during incongruent Stroop trials.

    A.-C. Ehlis;M.J. Herrmann;A. Wagener;A.J. Fallgatter

  • Source Localization of Early Stages of Face Processing

    Martin J. Herrmann;Ann-Christine Ehlis;Andreas Muehlberger;Andreas J. Fallgatter

  • Cortical activation during two verbal fluency tasks in schizophrenic patients and healthy controls as assessed by multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy

    Ann-Christine Ehlis;Martin J. Herrmann;Michael M. Plichta;Andreas J. Fallgatter

  • Face-specific event-related potential in humans is independent from facial expression.

    Martin J Herrmann;Derlis Aranda;Heiner Ellgring;Thomas J Mueller

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Ann-Christine Ehlis
Ann-Christine Ehlis University of Tübingen
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt
Andreas Mühlberger
Andreas Mühlberger University of Regensburg
Thomas Dresler
Thomas Dresler University of Tübingen
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Christian Jacob
Christian Jacob University of Würzburg
Michael M. Plichta
Michael M. Plichta Goethe University Frankfurt

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