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Peter Schwenkreis

Peter Schwenkreis

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Neuroscience

D-Index
44
Citations
8123
World Ranking
7135
National Ranking
599

Overview

Peter Schwenkreis is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and neuroscience, focusing particularly on neurology and related subfields such as psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, cognitive neuroscience, and epidemiology.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics

Peter Schwenkreis has contributed to a number of scientific publications in various journals. The frequent publication venues include:

  • European Journal of Neurology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
  • BMJ Open

Some of their recent papers are:

  • The use of exoskeletons in the occupational context for primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of work-related musculoskeletal complaints, 2020, IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
  • Prospective observational cohort study on epidemiology, treatment and outcome of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in German BG hospitals, 2021, BMJ Open
  • Quantitative muscle magnetic resonance imaging depicts microstructural abnormalities but no signs of inflammation or dystrophy in post-COVID-19 condition, 2023, European Journal of Neurology
  • Chances and Challenges of Registry-Based Pharmacovigilance in Multiple Sclerosis: Lessons Learnt from the Implementation of the Multicenter REGIMS Registry, 2020, Drug Safety
  • Einsatz von Exoskeletten im beruflichen Kontext zur Primär-, Sekundär-, und Tertiärprävention von arbeitsassoziierten muskuloskelettalen Beschwerden, 2020, Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Schwenkreis include:

  • Martin Tegenthoff
  • Elena Enax-Krumova
  • Johannes Forsting
  • Ingo Schmehl
  • Oliver Höffken

The scope of Peter Schwenkreis's work integrates clinical research with neurophysiological approaches, emphasizing conditions such as traumatic brain injury, musculoskeletal complaints, and long-term effects associated with COVID-19. Their multidisciplinary focus covers epidemiological studies, rehabilitation robotics, and transcranial magnetic stimulation, underlining a broad engagement with both clinical and technological aspects of neurological health.

Best Publications

  • TMS and drugs revisited 2014

    Ulf Ziemann;Janine Reis;Peter Schwenkreis;Mario Rosanova

  • Sensorimotor Returning in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Parallels Pain Reduction

    Burkhard Pleger;Martin Tegenthoff;Patrick Ragert;Ann-Freya Förster

  • Bilateral motor cortex disinhibition in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I of the hand.

    P. Schwenkreis;F. Janssen;O. Rommel;B. Pleger

  • The glutamate antagonist Riluzole suppresses intracortical facilitation

    J. Liepert;P. Schwenkreis;M. Tegenthoff;J. P. Malin

  • Patterns of cortical reorganization parallel impaired tactile discrimination and pain intensity in complex regional pain syndrome

    Burkhard Pleger;Patrick Ragert;Peter Schwenkreis;Ann-Freya Förster

  • Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization.

    Hubert R. Dinse;Patrick Ragert;Burkhard Pleger;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Functional imaging of perceptual learning in human primary and secondary somatosensory cortex.

    Burkhard Pleger;Ann Freya Foerster;Patrick Ragert;Hubert R Dinse

  • Shifts in cortical representations predict human discrimination improvement.

    Burkhard Pleger;Hubert R. Dinse;Patrick Ragert;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex attenuates pain perception in complex regional pain syndrome type I.

    Burkhard Pleger;Frank Janssen;Peter Schwenkreis;Birgit Völker

  • Voluntary driven exoskeleton as a new tool for rehabilitation in chronic spinal cord injury: a pilot study.

    Mirko Aach;Oliver Cruciger;Matthias Sczesny-Kaiser;Oliver Höffken

  • Improvement of Tactile Discrimination Performance and Enlargement of Cortical Somatosensory Maps after 5 Hz rTMS

    Martin Tegenthoff;Patrick Ragert;Burkhard Pleger;Peter Schwenkreis

  • Influence of the N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist memantine on human motor cortex excitability

    Peter Schwenkreis;Katja Witscher;Frank Janssen;Adjoa Addo

  • Mean sustained pain levels are linked to hemispherical side-to-side differences of primary somatosensory cortex in the complex regional pain syndrome I.

    Burkhard Pleger;Martin Tegenthoff;Peter Schwenkreis;Frank Janssen

  • Efficacy of the NMDA-receptor antagonist memantine in patients with chronic phantom limb pain--results of a randomized double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.

    Christoph Maier;Roman Dertwinkel;Noushin Mansourian;Ingolf Hosbach

  • Riluzole suppresses motor cortex facilitation in correlation to its plasma level. A study using transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    P. Schwenkreis;J. Liepert;K. Witscher;W. Fischer

  • Impaired Tactile Acuity in Old Age Is Accompanied by Enlarged Hand Representations in Somatosensory Cortex

    Tobias Kalisch;Patrick Ragert;Peter Schwenkreis;Hubert R. Dinse

  • HAL® exoskeleton training improves walking parameters and normalizes cortical excitability in primary somatosensory cortex in spinal cord injury patients.

    Matthias Sczesny-Kaiser;Oliver Höffken;Mirko Aach;Oliver Cruciger

  • Improvement of tactile perception and enhancement of cortical excitability through intermittent theta burst rTMS over human primary somatosensory cortex

    Patrick Ragert;Stephanie Franzkowiak;Peter Schwenkreis;Martin Tegenthoff

  • Assessment of sensorimotor cortical representation asymmetries and motor skills in violin players

    Peter Schwenkreis;Susan El Tom;Patrick Ragert;Burkhard Pleger

  • Cortical disinhibition occurs in chronic neuropathic, but not in chronic nociceptive pain

    Peter Schwenkreis;Andrea Scherens;Anne-Kathrin Rönnau;Oliver Höffken

  • Bilateral somatosensory cortex disinhibition in complex regional pain syndrome type I.

    M. Lenz;O. Höffken;P. Stude;S. Lissek

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Tegenthoff
Martin Tegenthoff Ruhr University Bochum
Burkhard Pleger
Burkhard Pleger Ruhr University Bochum
Hubert R. Dinse
Hubert R. Dinse Ruhr University Bochum
Christoph Maier
Christoph Maier Ruhr University Bochum
Patrick Ragert
Patrick Ragert Leipzig University
Helmut Buchner
Helmut Buchner RWTH Aachen University
Antonio P. Strafella
Antonio P. Strafella University of Toronto
Onur Güntürkün
Onur Güntürkün Ruhr University Bochum
Markus Hausmann
Markus Hausmann Durham University
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen

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