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Michael A. Rapp

Michael A. Rapp

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
10852
World Ranking
4065
National Ranking
181

Overview

Michael A. Rapp is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany, focusing primarily on research at the intersection of medicine and psychology. Their work covers multiple subfields, including clinical psychology, general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and epidemiology.

Their investigations address key topics in mental health research, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and access to mental health treatment. Additional research areas include health disparities and outcomes, functional brain connectivity studies, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • Nature Mental Health
  • Das Gesundheitswesen
  • Addiction Biology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael A. Rapp include:

  • Effects of urban living environments on mental health in adults, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Outcomes of a Delirium Prevention Program in Older Persons After Elective Surgery, 2021, JAMA Surgery
  • The IMAGEN study: a decade of imaging genetics in adolescents, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Reward Versus Nonreward Sensitivity of the Medial Versus Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Relates to the Severity of Depressive Symptoms, 2020, Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Psychosocial burden in nurses working in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study with quantitative and qualitative data, 2022, BMC Health Services Research

Among frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are Andreas Heinz, Tobias Banaschewski, Michael N. Smolka, Mira Tschorn, and Frauke Nees.

Best Publications

  • Increased Hippocampal Plaques and Tangles in Patients With Alzheimer Disease With a Lifetime History of Major Depression

    Michael A. Rapp;Michal Schnaider-Beeri;Hillel T. Grossman;Mary Sano

  • Cities and Mental Health.

    Oliver Gruebner;Michael A. Rapp;Mazda Adli;Ulrike Kluge

  • Striatal dysfunction during reversal learning in unmedicated schizophrenia patients

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

  • Neuropsychological differences between late-onset and recurrent geriatric major depression.

    Michael A. Rapp;Karen Dahlman;Mary Sano;Hillel T. Grossman

  • Attention and executive control predict Alzheimer disease in late life: Results from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE)

    Michael A. Rapp;Michael A. Rapp;Friedel M. Reischies

  • Drug and Exercise Treatment of Alzheimer Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Effects on Cognition in Randomized Controlled Trials.

    Andreas Ströhle;Dietlinde K. Schmidt;Florian Schultz;Nina Fricke

  • Animal-Assisted Therapy and Agitation and Depression in Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: A Matched Case–Control Trial

    Tomislav Majic;Hans Gutzmann;Andreas Heinz;Undine E. Lang

  • Reward feedback alterations in unmedicated schizophrenia patients: relevance for delusions.

    Florian Schlagenhauf;Philipp Sterzer;Katharina Schmack;Martina Ballmaier

  • Elaboration on Premorbid Intellectual Performance in Schizophrenia Premorbid Intellectual Decline and Risk for Schizophrenia

    Abraham Reichenberg;Mark Weiser;Michael A. Rapp;Jonathan Rabinowitz

  • Dimensional psychiatry: reward dysfunction and depressive mood across psychiatric disorders

    Claudia Hägele;Florian Schlagenhauf;Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael Rapp;Philipp Sterzer

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

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

  • Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer effects in the nucleus accumbens relate to relapse in alcohol dependence

    Maria Garbusow;Daniel J. Schad;Miriam Sebold;Eva Friedel

  • When Habits Are Dangerous: Alcohol Expectancies and Habitual Decision Making Predict Relapse in Alcohol Dependence

    Miriam Sebold;Miriam Sebold;Stephan Nebe;Maria Garbusow;Matthias Guggenmos

  • Cognitive decline in patients with dementia as a function of depression.

    Michael A. Rapp;Michael A. Rapp;Michal Schnaider-Beeri;Michael Wysocki;Michael Wysocki;Elizabeth Guerrero-Berroa;Elizabeth Guerrero-Berroa

  • 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

  • Working Memory and Postural Control: Adult Age Differences in Potential for Improvement, Task Priority, and Dual Tasking

    Michail Doumas;Michael A. Rapp;Ralf Thomas Krampe

  • Working memory training improvements and gains in non-trained cognitive tasks in young and older adults

    Stephan Heinzel;Stefanie Schulte;Johanna Onken;Quynh-Lam Duong

  • Coronary artery disease is associated with Alzheimer disease neuropathology in APOE4 carriers

    M. S. Beeri;M. Rapp;J. M. Silverman;J. Schmeidler

  • Depression in middle-aged and older first generation migrants in Europe: Results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

    M.C. Aichberger;M. Schouler-Ocak;A. Mundt;M.A. Busch

  • Adaptive Task Prioritization in Aging: Selective Resource Allocation to Postural Control Is Preserved in Alzheimer Disease

    Michael A. Rapp;Michael A. Rapp;Ralf Th. Krampe;Paul B. Baltes

  • Working Memory Load-Dependent Brain Response Predicts Behavioral Training Gains in Older Adults

    Stephan Heinzel;Robert C. Lorenz;Robert C. Lorenz;Wolf-Rüdiger Brockhaus;Torsten Wüstenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Anne Beck
Anne Beck Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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