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Stefan Borgwardt

Stefan Borgwardt

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44044
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9906
National Ranking
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Overview

Stefan Borgwardt is affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany. Their research focuses on multiple fields within medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, contributing extensively to subfields such as cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their scholarly work spans numerous topics with a significant emphasis on functional brain connectivity studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, and mental health research topics. Additional research interests include advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, the role of tryptophan in brain disorders, mental health and psychiatry, and neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior.

Frequent publication venues for Borgwardt's work include Frontiers in Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Bulletin, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuroscience Applied, and Biological Psychiatry.

Recent research papers associated with their work include:

  • Prevention of Psychosis, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Workflows for Prediction of Psychosis in Patients With Clinical High-Risk Syndromes and Recent-Onset Depression, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

Borgwardt has collaborated frequently with notable co-authors including Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Paolo Brambilla, Christos Pantelis, Stephan Ruhrmann, and Rachel Upthegrove.

They have also contributed to book publications, including the title "Specific Macroscopic Brain Changes in Psychotic Disorders," published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Molecular Mechanisms of Depression: Perspectives on New Treatment Strategies

    Undine E. Lang;Stefan Borgwardt

  • The Psychosis High-Risk State: A Comprehensive State-of-the-Art Review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Bechdolf;Jean Addington

  • Predicting Psychosis: Meta-analysis of Transition Outcomes in Individuals at High Clinical Risk

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Ilaria Bonoldi;Alison R. Yung;Stefan Borgwardt

  • Cognitive Functioning in Prodromal Psychosis: A Meta-analysis

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Giacomo Deste;Renata Smieskova;Stefano Barlati

  • Opposite effects of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on human brain function and psychopathology.

    Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Paul D Morrison;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Rocio Martin-Santos

  • Progressive brain changes in schizophrenia related to antipsychotic treatment? A meta-analysis of longitudinal MRI studies

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;R Smieskova;Matthew Kempton;B C Ho

  • Distinct effects of {delta}9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol on neural activation during emotional processing.

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;José Alexandre de Souza Crippa;Sagnik Bhattacharyya;Stefan J. Borgwardt

  • Accelerated Brain Aging in Schizophrenia and Beyond: A Neuroanatomical Marker of Psychiatric Disorders

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Christos Davatzikos;Stefan Borgwardt;Christian Gaser

  • Heterogeneity of Psychosis Risk Within Individuals at Clinical High Risk: A Meta-analytical Stratification

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Paolo Fusar-Poli;Marco Cappucciati;Marco Cappucciati;Stefan Borgwardt;Scott W. Woods

  • Acute Effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide in Healthy Subjects

    Yasmin Schmid;Florian Enzler;Peter Gasser;Eric Grouzmann

  • Prevention of Psychosis: Advances in Detection, Prognosis, and Intervention

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo;Gonzalo Salazar de Pablo;Christoph U. Correll;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Neuroanatomy of vulnerability to psychosis: a voxel-based meta-analysis.

    P. Fusar-Poli;S. Borgwardt;S. Borgwardt;A. Crescini;G. Deste

  • Neuroimaging predictors of transition to psychosis—A systematic review and meta-analysis

    R. Smieskova;P. Fusar-Poli;P. Allen;K. Bendfeldt

  • Neurofunctional correlates of vulnerability to psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Jorge Perez;Matthew Broome;Stefan Borgwardt

  • Prediction Models of Functional Outcomes for Individuals in the Clinical High-Risk State for Psychosis or with Recent-Onset Depression: A Multimodal, Multisite Machine Learning Analysis

    Nikolaos Koutsouleris;Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic;Stephan Ruhrmann;Marlene Rosen

  • Multimodal meta-analysis of structural and functional brain changes in first episode psychosis and the effects of antipsychotic medication

    Joaquim Radua;S Borgwardt;A Crescini;David Mataix-Cols

  • Regional gray matter volume abnormalities in the at risk mental state

    Stefan J. Borgwardt;Anita Riecher-Rössler;Paola Dazzan;Xavier Chitnis

  • Ventral striatal activation during reward processing in psychosis: A neurofunctional meta-analysis

    Joaquim Radua;André Schmidt;André Schmidt;Stefan Borgwardt;Stefan Borgwardt;Andreas Heinz;Andreas Heinz

  • Neuroanatomical maps of psychosis onset: voxel-wise meta-analysis of antipsychotic-naive VBM studies.

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Joaquim Radua;Philip McGuire;Stefan Borgwardt;Stefan Borgwardt

  • Efficacy of using cognitive status in predicting psychosis: a 7-year follow-up.

    Anita Riecher-Rössler;Marlon O. Pflueger;Jacqueline Aston;Stefan J. Borgwardt

Frequent Co-Authors

Anita Riecher-Rössler
Anita Riecher-Rössler University of Basel
Paolo Fusar-Poli
Paolo Fusar-Poli King's College London
André Schmidt
André Schmidt University of Basel
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Nikolaos Koutsouleris Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paul Allen
Paul Allen Royal Holloway University of London
Stephen J. Wood
Stephen J. Wood University of Melbourne
Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan
Christos Pantelis
Christos Pantelis University of Melbourne
Stephan Ruhrmann
Stephan Ruhrmann University of Cologne

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