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Michael T. Heneka

Michael T. Heneka

University Hospital Bonn
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
116
Citations
61382
World Ranking
432
National Ranking
31

Michael T. Heneka 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 Michael T. Heneka sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 466 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael T. Heneka 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 Michael T. Heneka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Michael T. Heneka is affiliated with the University Hospital Bonn in Germany and has a significant body of research in medicine and neuroscience, particularly focused on neurology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including neurology, physiology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Neurological Disease Mechanisms and Treatments

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Anja Schneider
  • Annika Spottke
  • Stefan Teipel
  • Josef Priller
  • Oliver Peters

Michael T. Heneka has published extensively in several venues known for neurology and dementia research. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Neurology

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads" (2022), published in Neuron
  • "Immediate and long-term consequences of COVID-19 infections for the development of neurological disease" (2020), published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Peripheral and central immune system crosstalk in Alzheimer disease - a research prospectus" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Neurology
  • "Microglia jointly degrade fibrillar alpha-synuclein cargo by distribution through tunneling nanotubes" (2021), published in Cell
  • "Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum" (2022), published in JAMA Neurology

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 2013.

Best Publications

  • Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease

    Michael T Heneka;Monica J Carson;Joseph El Khoury;Gary E Landreth

  • NLRP3 is activated in Alzheimer´s disease and contributes to pathology in APP/PS1 mice

    Michael T. Heneka;Markus P. Kummer;Andrea Stutz;Andrea Delekate

  • Microglia states and nomenclature: A field at its crossroads

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  • Innate immune activation in neurodegenerative disease

    Michael T. Heneka;Markus P. Kummer;Eicke Latz

  • NLRP3 inflammasome activation drives tau pathology

    Christina Ising;Carmen Venegas;Shuangshuang Zhang;Hannah Scheiblich

  • Microglia-derived ASC specks cross-seed amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease

    Carmen Venegas;Sathish Kumar;Bernardo S. Franklin;Tobias Dierkes

  • Inflammatory processes in Alzheimer's disease.

    Michael T. Heneka;M. Kerry O'Banion;M. Kerry O'Banion

  • Innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Michael T Heneka;Douglas T Golenbock;Eicke Latz

  • Microglia in Alzheimer’s disease

    Heela Sarlus;Michael T. Heneka;Michael T. Heneka

  • Inflammasome signalling in brain function and neurodegenerative disease

    Michael T Heneka;Róisín M McManus;Róisín M McManus;Eicke Latz

  • TREM2 mutations implicated in neurodegeneration impair cell surface transport and phagocytosis.

    Gernot Kleinberger;Yoshinori Yamanishi;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Eva Czirr

  • A guiding map for inflammation

    Mihai G Netea;Frances Balkwill;Michel Chonchol;Fabio Cominelli

  • Acute treatment with the PPARγ agonist pioglitazone and ibuprofen reduces glial inflammation and Aβ1–42 levels in APPV717I transgenic mice

    Michael T Heneka;Magdalena Sastre;Lucia Dumitrescu-Ozimek;Anne Hanke

  • Glial cells in (patho)physiology.

    Vladimir Parpura;Michael T. Heneka;Vedrana Montana;Stéphane H.R. Oliet

  • Antineoplastic effects of peroxisome proliferatoractivated receptor γ agonists

    Christian Grommes;Gary E Landreth;Michael T Heneka

  • Locus ceruleus controls Alzheimer's disease pathology by modulating microglial functions through norepinephrine

    Michael T. Heneka;Fabian Nadrigny;Tommy Regen;Ana Martinez-Hernandez

  • Immediate and long-term consequences of COVID-19 infections for the development of neurological disease.

    Michael T. Heneka;Michael T. Heneka;Douglas T. Golenbock;Eicke Latz;Eicke Latz;Dave Morgan

  • Contribution of inflammatory processes to Alzheimer's disease: molecular mechanisms.

    Magdalena Sastre;Thomas Klockgether;Michael T. Heneka

  • Neuroinflammatory processes in Alzheimer's disease.

    Michael T. Heneka;M. Kerry O’Banion;Dick Terwel;Markus Peter Kummer

  • sTREM2 cerebrospinal fluid levels are a potential biomarker for microglia activity in early‐stage Alzheimer's disease and associate with neuronal injury markers

    Marc Suárez-Calvet;Marc Suárez-Calvet;Gernot Kleinberger;Miguel Ángel Araque Caballero;Matthias Brendel

  • Protective action of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ agonist pioglitazone in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease

    T. Breidert;J. Callebert;M. T. Heneka;G. Landreth

  • Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs repress β-secretase gene promoter activity by the activation of PPARγ

    Magdalena Sastre;Ilse Dewachter;Steffen Rossner;Nenad Bogdanovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Jens Wiltfang
Jens Wiltfang University of Göttingen
Oliver Peters
Oliver Peters German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Josef Priller
Josef Priller Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Eicke Latz
Eicke Latz German Rheumatism Research Centre
Alfredo Ramirez
Alfredo Ramirez University of Cologne

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