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Ronny Redlich is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's research focuses primarily on functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, treatment of major depression, and advanced neuroimaging techniques. Other key areas include electroconvulsive therapy studies, investigations into anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, and studies related to health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Recent publications by Ronny Redlich include the following:

  • Genetic variants associated with longitudinal changes in brain structure across the lifespan, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Quantifying Deviations of Brain Structure and Function in Major Depressive Disorder Across Neuroimaging Modalities, 2022, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Systematic misestimation of machine learning performance in neuroimaging studies of depression, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Subcortical shape alterations in major depressive disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • A Systematic Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder, 2024, JAMA Psychiatry

Ronny Redlich frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Udo Dannlowski
  • Nils Opel
  • Susanne Meinert
  • Dominik Grotegerd
  • Jonathan Repple

Best Publications

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder : An MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group

    D P Hibar;L T Westlye;L T Westlye;N T Doan;N T Doan;N Jahanshad

  • Brain morphometric biomarkers distinguishing unipolar and bipolar depression. A voxel-based morphometry-pattern classification approach.

    Ronny Redlich;Jorge J. R. Almeida;Dominik Grotegerd;Nils Opel

  • Childhood maltreatment is associated with an automatic negative emotion processing bias in the amygdala.

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Franziska Huber;Anja Stuhrmann

  • Prediction of Individual Response to Electroconvulsive Therapy via Machine Learning on Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data

    Ronny Redlich;Nils Opel;Dominik Grotegerd;Katharina Dohm

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Hippocampal atrophy in major depression: a function of childhood maltreatment rather than diagnosis?

    Nils Opel;Ronny Redlich;Peter Zwanzger;Dominik Grotegerd

  • Quantifying Deviations of Brain Structure and Function in Major Depressive Disorder Across Neuroimaging Modalities.

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  • Volume of the human Hippocampus and clinical response following Electroconvulsive Therapy

    Leif Oltedal;Katherine L. Narr;Christopher Abbott;Amit Anand

  • Obesity and major depression: Body-mass index (BMI) is associated with a severe course of disease and specific neurostructural alterations.

    Nils Opel;Ronny Redlich;Dominik Grotegerd;Katharina Dohm

  • Reward Processing in Unipolar and Bipolar Depression: A Functional MRI Study.

    Ronny Redlich;Katharina Dohm;Dominik Grotegerd;Nils Opel

  • Using structural MRI to identify bipolar disorders – 13 site machine learning study in 3020 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorders Working Group

    Abraham Nunes;Hugo G. Schnack;Christopher R.K. Ching;Christopher R.K. Ching;Ingrid Agartz

  • Mediation of the influence of childhood maltreatment on depression relapse by cortical structure: a 2-year longitudinal observational study

    Nils Opel;Ronny Redlich;Katharina Dohm;Dario Zaremba

  • Amygdala excitability to subliminally presented emotional faces distinguishes unipolar and bipolar depression: an fMRI and pattern classification study.

    Dominik Grotegerd;Anja Stuhrmann;Harald Kugel;Simone Schmidt

  • Mood-congruent amygdala responses to subliminally presented facial expressions in major depression: associations with anhedonia

    Anja Stuhrmann;Katharina Dohm;Harald Kugel;Peter Zwanzger

  • The Limbic System in Youth Depression: Brain Structural and Functional Alterations in Adolescent In-patients with Severe Depression

    Ronny Redlich;Nils Opel;Christian Bürger;Katharina Dohm

  • Systematic misestimation of machine learning performance in neuroimaging studies of depression.

    Claas Flint;Micah Cearns;Micah Cearns;Nils Opel;Ronny Redlich

  • Brain Changes Induced by Electroconvulsive Therapy Are Broadly Distributed

    Olga Therese Ousdal;Miklos Argyelan;Katherine L. Narr;Christopher Abbott

  • Brain structural effects of treatments for depression and biomarkers of response: a systematic review of neuroimaging studies.

    Verena Enneking;Elisabeth J Leehr;Udo Dannlowski;Ronny Redlich

  • Disadvantage of Social Sensitivity: Interaction of Oxytocin Receptor Genotype and Child Maltreatment on Brain Structure

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Dominik Grotegerd;Ronny Redlich

  • Prefrontal gray matter volume mediates genetic risks for obesity.

    N Opel;R Redlich;C Kaehler;D Grotegerd

Frequent Co-Authors

Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Jonathan Repple
Jonathan Repple University Hospital Frankfurt
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Thomas Suslow
Thomas Suslow Leipzig University
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Rhoshel K. Lenroot
Rhoshel K. Lenroot University of New South Wales
Janice M. Fullerton
Janice M. Fullerton University of New South Wales
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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