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Philipp G. Sämann

Philipp G. Sämann

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Neuroscience

D-Index
54
Citations
15414
World Ranking
4848
National Ranking
404

Overview

Philipp G. Sämann is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made significant contributions to neuroscience, psychology, and medicine through extensive research and publication. Their work spans multiple subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and biological psychiatry.

The primary topics of their research include functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, stress responses and cortisol, tryptophan and brain disorders, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes, as well as health, environment, and cognitive aging. They have also contributed to research on the treatment of major depression.

Some recent papers by Philipp G. Sämann include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Brain structural abnormalities in obesity: relation to age, genetic risk, and common psychiatric disorders (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Altered resting-state functional connectome in major depressive disorder: a mega-analysis from the PsyMRI consortium (2021, Translational Psychiatry)
  • FreeSurfer-based segmentation of hippocampal subfields: A review of methods and applications, with a novel quality control procedure for ENIGMA studies and other collaborative efforts (2020, Human Brain Mapping)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Philipp G. Sämann are:

  • Michael Czisch
  • Elisabeth B. Binder
  • Tanja Brückl
  • Victor I. Spoormaker
  • Udo Dannlowski

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Human Brain Mapping
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Applied

Philipp G. Sämann's research is characterized by a focus on neuroimaging methods and large consortium-based studies, particularly addressing brain structure and function in relation to psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder and obesity. Their work contributes to understanding brain aging, functional brain connectivity, and the methodologies applied to brain segmentation and imaging quality control.

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder : findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    Tiffany C. Ho;Boris Gutman;Elena Pozzi;Hans J. Grabe

  • Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures.

    Derrek P. Hibar;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein;Miguel E. Renteria;Alejandro Arias-Vasquez

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

    Paul M. Thompson;Jason L. Stein;Sarah E. Medland;Derrek P. Hibar

  • Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

    Jason L Stein;Sarah E Medland;Sarah E Medland;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Alejandro Arias Vasquez;Derrek P Hibar

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Development of the Brain's Default Mode Network from Wakefulness to Slow Wave Sleep

    Philipp G. Sämann;Renate Wehrle;David Hoehn;Victor I. Spoormaker

  • ENIGMA and Global Neuroscience: A Decade of Large-Scale Studies of the Brain in Health and Disease Across More Than 40 Countries

    Paul Thompson

  • White matter disturbances in major depressive disorder: a coordinated analysis across 20 international cohorts in the ENIGMA MDD working group

    Laura S. van Velzen;Sinead Kelly;Sinead Kelly;Dmitry Isaev;Andre Aleman

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume

    Derrek Hibar;Hieab H.H. Adams;Neda Jahanshad;Ganesh Chauhan

  • Neural Correlates of Dream Lucidity Obtained from Contrasting Lucid versus Non-Lucid REM Sleep: A Combined EEG/fMRI Case Study

    Martin Dresler;Renate Wehrle;Victor I. Spoormaker;Stefan P. Koch

  • Development of a Large-Scale Functional Brain Network during Human Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep

    Victor I. Spoormaker;Manuel S. Schröter;Pablo M. Gleiser;Katia C. Andrade

  • q-Space Deep Learning: Twelve-Fold Shorter and Model-Free Diffusion MRI Scans

    Vladimir Golkov;Alexey Dosovitskiy;Jonathan I. Sperl;Marion I. Menzel

  • Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

    L. Schmaal;D.J. Veltman;T.G.M. van Erp;P.G. Sämann

  • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals

    Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Claudia L. Satizabal;Hieab H.H. Adams;Derrek Hibar;Charles C. White;Charles C. White

  • Novel genetic loci underlying human intracranial volume identified through genome-wide association

    Hieab H H Adams;Derrek P. Hibar;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Jason L. Stein;Jason L. Stein

  • Dreamed Movement Elicits Activation in the Sensorimotor Cortex

    Martin Dresler;Stefan P. Koch;Renate Wehrle;Victor I. Spoormaker

  • Sleep spindles and hippocampal functional connectivity in human NREM sleep.

    Katia C. Andrade;Victor I. Spoormaker;Martin Dresler;Renate Wehrle

  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing

    Lianne Schmaal;Elena Pozzi;Tiffany C Ho;Tiffany C Ho;Laura S van Velzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Czisch
Michael Czisch Max Planck Society
Victor I. Spoormaker
Victor I. Spoormaker Max Planck Society
Paul M. Thompson
Paul M. Thompson University of Southern California
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Bertram Müller-Myhsok
Bertram Müller-Myhsok Max Planck Society
Lianne Schmaal
Lianne Schmaal University of Melbourne
Margaret J. Wright
Margaret J. Wright University of Queensland
Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel

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