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  • 2000 - Warren Alpert Foundation Prize For their research that contributed to the development of a drug that effectively treats chronic megelogenous leukemia and other forms of cancer.

Overview

Otto W. Witte is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on several subfields including Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their scholarly work has contributed to various key topics in neuroscience and medicine, particularly in areas such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

Recent publications by Otto W. Witte include:

  • Surface-based analysis increases the specificity of cortical activation patterns and connectivity results, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Burden During the COVID-19 Pandemic in People with Parkinson's Disease in Germany, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Multimodal treatment of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness, 2020, Brain and Behavior
  • Adult Neurogenesis and Stroke: A Tale of Two Neurogenic Niches, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Experience-dependent structural plasticity in the adult brain: How the learning brain grows, 2020, NeuroImage

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Otto W. Witte include:

  • Carsten M. Klingner
  • Julian Großkreutz
  • Tino Prell
  • Christiane Frahm
  • Stefan Brodoehl

The scientist's work appears regularly in several publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cells
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Otto W. Witte has been recognized with an award, the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize in 2000, granted for research contributing to the development of a drug treating chronic megelogenous leukemia and other cancer forms.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Wouter van Rheenen;Aleksey Shatunov;Annelot M. Dekker;Russell L. McLaughlin

  • Anticoagulant reversal, blood pressure levels, and anticoagulant resumption in patients with anticoagulation-related intracerebral hemorrhage.

    Joji B. Kuramatsu;Stefan T. Gerner;Peter D. Schellinger;Jörg Glahn

  • Handedness and Asymmetry of Hand Representation in Human Motor Cortex

    J. Volkmann;A. Schnitzler;O. W. Witte;H.-J. Freund

  • Neuronal hyperexcitability and reduction of GABAA-receptor expression in the surround of cerebral photothrombosis.

    Klaus Schiene;Claus Bruehl;Karl Zilles;Meishu Qu

  • The continuum of spreading depolarizations in acute cortical lesion development: Examining Leão's legacy

    Jed A Hartings;C William Shuttleworth;Sergei A Kirov;Cenk Ayata

  • Lymphocytic Infiltration and Expression of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 in Photochemically Induced Ischemia of the Rat Cortex

    Sebastian Jander;Matthias Kraemer;Michael Schroeter;Otto W. Witte

  • Recording, analysis, and interpretation of spreading depolarizations in neurointensive care: Review and recommendations of the COSBID research group

    Jens P. Dreier;Martin Fabricius;Cenk Ayata;Oliver W. Sakowitz

  • Local immune responses in the rat cerebral cortex after middle cerebral artery occlusion

    Michael Schroeter;Sebastian Jander;Otto W. Witte;Guido Stoll

  • Functional differentiation of multiple perilesional zones after focal cerebral ischemia.

    Otto W. Witte;Hans-J. Bidmon;Klaus Schiene;Christoph Redecker

  • Increased long-term potentiation in the surround of experimentally induced focal cortical infarction

    Georg Hagemann;Christoph Redecker;Tobias Neumann-Haefelin;Hans-Joachim Freund

  • Identification of ischemic regions in a rat model of stroke.

    Anke Popp;Nadine Jaenisch;Otto W. Witte;Christiane Frahm

  • Electrophysiological Transcortical Diaschisis After Cortical Photothrombosis in Rat Brain

    Irmgard Buchkremer-Ratzmann;Matthias August;Georg Hagemann;Otto W. Witte

  • Acute Cerebrovascular Disease in the Young The Stroke in Young Fabry Patients Study

    Arndt Rolfs;Franz Fazekas;Ulrike Grittner;Martin Dichgans

  • Prefrontal asymmetric interictal glucose hypometabolism and cognitive impairment in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

    H Jokeit;RJ Seitz;Hans J. Markowitsch;N Neumann

  • Intrinsic optical signals in rat neocortical slices measured with near- infrared dark-field microscopy reveal changes in extracellular space

    K Holthoff;OW Witte

  • Transfer of maternal psychosocial stress to the fetus

    Florian Rakers;Sven Rupprecht;Michelle Dreiling;Christoph Bergmeier

  • Long-term anticonvulsant therapy leads to low bone mineral density--evidence for direct drug effects of phenytoin and carbamazepine on human osteoblast-like cells.

    J. Feldkamp;A. Becker;O. W. Witte;D. Scharff

  • Changes in neocortical and hippocampal GABAA receptor subunit distribution during brain maturation and aging.

    Zhi-Yuan Yu;Zhi-Yuan Yu;Wei Wang;Jean-Marc Fritschy;Otto W. Witte

  • Neurofilament markers for ALS correlate with extent of upper and lower motor neuron disease.

    Koen Poesen;Maxim De Schaepdryver;Beatrice Stubendorff;Benjamin Gille

  • Cortical spreading depression induces proinflammatory cytokine gene expression in the rat brain.

    Sebastian Jander;Michael Schroeter;Oliver Peters;Otto W. Witte

  • Lesion-induced plasticity as a potential mechanism for recovery and rehabilitative training.

    Otto W. Witte

  • Common and rare variant association analyses in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology

    Wouter van Rheenen;Rick A. A. van der Spek;Mark K. Bakker;Joke J. F. A. van Vugt

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian Grosskreutz
Julian Grosskreutz University of Lübeck
Stefan Isenmann
Stefan Isenmann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Matthias Schwab
Matthias Schwab University of Tübingen
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jens Haueisen
Jens Haueisen Ilmenau University of Technology
Alois Ebner
Alois Ebner Bethel University
Jürgen R. Reichenbach
Jürgen R. Reichenbach Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Christian Gaser
Christian Gaser Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Alfons Schnitzler
Alfons Schnitzler Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Rüdiger J. Seitz
Rüdiger J. Seitz Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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