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Peter Dechent is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Neurology, and Physiology.

The researcher's work covers a range of main topics: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Nutritional Studies and Diet, and Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism.

Peter Dechent has published frequently in several venues, with a notable presence in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer s Research & Therapy
  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Scientific Meeting and Exhibition/Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Scientific Meeting and Exhibition
  • Neurology

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Annika Spottke
  • Jens Wiltfang
  • Klaus Fließbach
  • Oliver Peters
  • Josef Priller

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Dechent include:

  • "Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers, and Brain Atrophy in Old Age," 2021, Neurology
  • "Novelty-Related fMRI Responses of Precuneus and Medial Temporal Regions in Individuals at Risk for Alzheimer Disease," 2022, Neurology
  • "Soluble TAM receptors sAXL and sTyro3 predict structural and functional protection in Alzheimer's disease," 2022, Neuron
  • "Improving 3D convolutional neural network comprehensibility via interactive visualization of relevance maps: evaluation in Alzheimer's disease," 2021, Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften (ZB MED)
  • "Cholinergic white matter pathways along the Alzheimer's disease continuum," 2022, Brain

Best Publications

  • High-resolution maps of magnetization transfer with inherent correction for RF inhomogeneity and T1 relaxation obtained from 3D FLASH MRI.

    Gunther Helms;Henning Dathe;Kai Kallenberg;Peter Dechent

  • The neural basis of the egocentric and allocentric spatial frame of reference.

    Tino Zaehle;Kirsten Jordan;Torsten Wüstenberg;Jürgen Baudewig

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex during fMRI.

    Andrea Antal;Rafael Polania;Carsten Schmidt-Samoa;Peter Dechent

  • Folate Receptor Alpha Defect Causes Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency: A Treatable Neurodegenerative Disorder Associated with Disturbed Myelin Metabolism

    Robert Steinfeld;Marcel Grapp;Ralph Kraetzner;Steffi Dreha-Kulaczewski

  • Increase of total creatine in human brain after oral supplementation of creatine-monohydrate.

    P. Dechent;P. J. W. Pouwels;B. Wilken;F. Hanefeld

  • Imaging the Brain Activity Changes Underlying Impaired Visuospatial Judgments: Simultaneous fMRI, TMS, and Behavioral Studies

    Alexander T. Sack;Axel Kohler;Sven Bestmann;David E. J. Linden

  • Functional somatotopy of finger representations in human primary motor cortex

    Peter Dechent;Jens Frahm

  • Reduced amygdalar and hippocampal size in adults with generalized social phobia.

    Eva Irle;Mirjana Ruhleder;Claudia Lange;Ulrich Seidler-Brandler

  • Individual voxel-based subtype prediction can differentiate progressive supranuclear palsy from idiopathic Parkinson syndrome and healthy controls.

    Niels K Focke;Gunther Helms;Sebstian Scheewe;Pia M Pantel

  • Differentiating unipolar and bipolar depression by alterations in large-scale brain networks.

    Roberto Goya-Maldonado;Katja Brodmann;Maria Keil;Sarah Trost

  • Mediterranean Diet, Alzheimer Disease Biomarkers and Brain Atrophy in Old Age.

    Tommaso Ballarini;Debora Melo van Lent;Debora Melo van Lent;Julia Brunner;Alina Schröder

  • Behavioral correlates of negative BOLD signal changes in the primary somatosensory cortex.

    Andreas Kastrup;Jürgen Baudewig;Sonja Schnaudigel;Ralph Huonker

  • Imaging artifacts induced by electrical stimulation during conventional fMRI of the brain

    Andrea Antal;Marom Bikson;Abhishek Datta;Belen Lafon

  • Neural correlates of tinnitus related distress: an fMRI-study.

    Dennis Golm;Carsten Schmidt-Samoa;Peter Dechent;Birgit Kröner-Herwig

  • Multi-site voxel-based morphometry--not quite there yet.

    Niels K Focke;Gunther Helms;Susanne Kaspar;Christine Diederich

  • Voluntary pelvic floor muscle control--an fMRI study.

    S. Seseke;Jürgen Baudewig;Kai Kallenberg;R.-H. Ringert

  • Increased SNR and reduced distortions by averaging multiple gradient echo signals in 3D FLASH imaging of the human brain at 3T.

    Gunther Helms;Peter Dechent

  • Current intensity- and polarity-specific online and aftereffects of transcranial direct current stimulation: An fMRI study.

    Asif Jamil;Giorgi Batsikadze;Hsiao‐I. Kuo;Raf L. J. Meesen

  • Proton MRS profile of cerebral metabolic abnormalities in Krabbe disease.

    K. Brockmann;P. Dechent;B. Wilken;O. Rusch

  • Predicting Response to Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients With Schizophrenia Using Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Multisite Machine Learning Analysis.

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Thomas Wobrock;Birgit Guse;Berthold Langguth

  • Succinate in dystrophic white matter: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy finding characteristic for complex II deficiency.

    Knut Brockmann;Alf Bjornstad;Peter Dechent;Christoph G. Korenke

  • Is the human primary motor cortex involved in motor imagery? (vol 19, pg 138, 2004)

    P. Dechent;K. D. Merboldt;J. Frahm

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Baudewig
Jürgen Baudewig German Primate Center
Oliver Gruber
Oliver Gruber Heidelberg University
Birgit Ertl-Wagner
Birgit Ertl-Wagner University of Toronto
Walter Paulus
Walter Paulus University of Göttingen
Andrea Schmitt
Andrea Schmitt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Christoph Laske
Christoph Laske University of Tübingen
Veit Roessner
Veit Roessner TU Dresden
Michael T. Heneka
Michael T. Heneka University Hospital Bonn
Alkomiet Hasan
Alkomiet Hasan University of Augsburg
Katharina Buerger
Katharina Buerger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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