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Peter Fuhr is a researcher affiliated with the University Hospital of Basel in Switzerland. The primary fields of study encompass Neuroscience and Medicine, with a detailed focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of Peter Fuhr's research work include:

  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Retinal Development and Disorders

Frequent publication venues for Fuhr's work include Clinical Neurophysiology with 10 publications, Neurobiology of Aging and Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders with 3 publications each, as well as Alzheimer's & Dementia and Neurology also with multiple publications.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Fuhr include:

  • Encephalitis with Autoantibodies against the Glutamate Kainate Receptors GluK2, 2021, Annals of Neurology
  • Functional Brain Dysconnectivity in Parkinson's Disease: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study, 2022, Movement Disorders
  • Identification of Parkinson's Disease Subtypes from Resting-State Electroencephalography, 2023, Movement Disorders
  • Abnormal cortical neural synchronization mechanisms in quiet wakefulness are related to motor deficits, cognitive symptoms, and visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease patients: an electroencephalographic study, 2020, Neurobiology of Aging
  • Abnormalities of resting-state EEG in patients with prodromal and overt dementia with Lewy bodies: Relation to clinical symptoms, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology

Peter Fuhr has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Ute Gschwandtner (36 co-authored works), Andrea H. Meyer (14 co-authored works), Claudio Babiloni (12 co-authored works), Görsev Yener (12 co-authored works), and Bahar Güntekin (11 co-authored works).

Best Publications

  • Spinal motor neuron excitability during the silent period after cortical stimulation.

    Peter Fuhr;Rocco Agostino;Mark Hallett

  • Topographic mapping of the human motor cortex with magnetic stimulation: factors affecting accuracy and reproducibility.

    Joaquim P. Brasil-Neto;Lisa M. McShane;Peter Fuhr;Mark Hallett

  • Directional deep brain stimulation: an intraoperative double-blind pilot study.

    Claudio Pollo;Alain Kaelin-Lang;Markus F. Oertel;Lennart Stieglitz

  • Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on ipsilateral muscles

    Eric M. Wassermann;Peter Fuhr;Leonardo G. Cohen;Mark Hallett

  • Clinical features, pathogenesis, and treatment of myasthenia gravis: a supplement to the Guidelines of the German Neurological Society.

    Nico Melzer;Tobias Ruck;Peter Fuhr;Ralf Gold

  • The clinical and laboratory features of chronic sensory ataxic neuropathy with anti-disialosyl IgM antibodies.

    H J Willison;C P O'Leary;J Veitch;L D Blumhardt

  • Anesthetic drugs in status epilepticus: Risk or rescue? A 6-year cohort study

    Raoul Sutter;Stephan Marsch;Peter Fuhr;Peter W. Kaplan

  • Reproducibility of functional connectivity and graph measures based on the phase lag index (PLI) and weighted phase lag index (wPLI) derived from high resolution EEG.

    Martin Hardmeier;Florian Hatz;Habib Bousleiman;Christian Schindler

  • TNF-alpha expression in painful and nonpainful neuropathies

    M. Empl;S. Renaud;B. Erne;P. Fuhr

  • Thrombolysis in Stroke Mimics: Frequency, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcome

    David T. Winkler;Felix Fluri;Peter Fuhr;Stephan G. Wetzel

  • Visual and motor evoked potentials in the course of multiple sclerosis

    P. Fuhr;A. Borggrefe-Chappuis;C. Schindler;L. Kappos

  • Rituximab in the treatment of polyneuropathy associated with anti-MAG antibodies.

    Susanne Renaud;Michael Gregor;Peter Fuhr;Delia Lorenz

  • Pathologic gambling in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Ute Gschwandtner;Jacqueline Aston;Susanne Renaud;Peter Fuhr

  • Physiological analysis of motor reorganization following lower limb amputation.

    Peter Fuhr;Leonardo G. Cohen;Nguyet Dang;Thomas W. Findley

  • Olfactory Impairment Predicts Brain Atrophy in Parkinson's Disease

    Elise Wattendorf;Antje Welge-Lüssen;Klaus Fiedler;Deniz Bilecen

  • Mortality and recovery from refractory status epilepticus in the intensive care unit: A 7‐year observational study

    Raoul Sutter;Stephan Marsch;Peter Fuhr;Stephan Rüegg

  • Magnetic stimulation of the human cerebral cortex, an indicator of reorganization in motor pathways in certain pathological conditions.

    Leonardo G. Cohen;Bradley J. Roth;Eric M. Wassermann;Helge Topka

  • IgM deposits on skin nerves in anti-myelin-associated glycoprotein neuropathy.

    Raffaella Lombardi;Beat Erne;Giuseppe Lauria;Davide Pareyson

  • Topographic maps of human motor cortex in normal and pathological conditions: mirror movements, amputations and spinal cord injuries.

    L G Cohen;S Bandinelli;H R Topka;P Fuhr

  • Continuous video-EEG monitoring increases detection rate of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in the ICU

    Raoul Sutter;Peter Fuhr;Leticia Grize;Leticia Grize;Stephan Marsch

  • Functional imaging of the cerebral olfactory system in patients with Parkinson’s disease

    B Westermann;E Wattendorf;U Schwerdtfeger;A Husner

Frequent Co-Authors

Ute Gschwandtner
Ute Gschwandtner University of Basel
Claudio Babiloni
Claudio Babiloni Sapienza University of Rome
Flavio Nobili
Flavio Nobili University of Genoa
Giovanni B. Frisoni
Giovanni B. Frisoni University of Geneva
Andrea Soricelli
Andrea Soricelli Parthenope University of Naples
Roberta Lizio
Roberta Lizio Sapienza University of Rome
Görsev Yener
Görsev Yener Dokuz Eylül University
Francesco Orzi
Francesco Orzi Sapienza University of Rome
Franco Giubilei
Franco Giubilei Sapienza University of Rome
Bahar Güntekin
Bahar Güntekin Istanbul Medipol University

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