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D-Index
49
Citations
13478
World Ranking
5881
National Ranking
490

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  • 2021 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Anatomy and Anthropology

Overview

Svenja Caspers is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. The research spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, genetics, psychiatry and mental health, as well as health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Their work explores multiple main topics, prominently featuring functional brain connectivity studies, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, as well as dementia and cognitive impairment research. Additional focus areas include neural dynamics and brain function, advanced MRI techniques and applications, glioma diagnosis and treatment, and the intersection of health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Recent papers highlight a range of studies within these domains:

  • Functional network reorganization in older adults: Graph-theoretical analyses of age, cognition and sex, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Cortical, subcortical, and cerebellar contributions to language processing: A meta-analytic review of 403 neuroimaging experiments, 2023, Psychological Bulletin
  • When your brain looks older than expected: combined lifestyle risk and BrainAGE, 2021, Brain Structure and Function
  • Effects of copy number variations on brain structure and risk for psychiatric illness: Large-scale studies from the ENIGMA working groups on CNVs, 2021, Human Brain Mapping
  • Resting-state networks in the course of aging-differential insights from studies across the lifespan vs. amongst the old, 2021, Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Christiane Jockwitz
  • Simon B. Eickhoff
  • Katrin Amunts
  • Susanne Moebus
  • Nóra Bittner

Publications have appeared prominently in key venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • NeuroImage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • GeroScience

In book publishing, Svenja Caspers has authored work released by Verlag Karl Alber, including the book Bildgebung in den Neurowissenschaften published in 2023.

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina award in 2021, linked to anatomy and anthropology.

Best Publications

  • ALE meta-analysis of action observation and imitation in the human brain.

    Svenja Caspers;Karl Zilles;Karl Zilles;Angela R. Laird;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Assignment of functional activations to probabilistic cytoarchitectonic areas revisited

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Tomas Paus;Tomas Paus;Svenja Caspers;Marie-Helene Grosbras;Marie-Helene Grosbras

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

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

  • Neural correlates of action: Comparing meta-analyses of imagery, observation, and execution

    Robert M. Hardwick;Svenja Caspers;Simon B. Eickhoff;Stephan P. Swinnen

  • The human inferior parietal cortex: Cytoarchitectonic parcellation and interindividual variability

    Svenja Caspers;Stefan Geyer;Axel Schleicher;Hartmut Mohlberg

  • Co-activation patterns distinguish cortical modules, their connectivity and functional differentiation

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Danilo Bzdok;Danilo Bzdok;Angela R. Laird;Christian Roski

  • Is There “One” DLPFC in Cognitive Action Control? Evidence for Heterogeneity From Co-Activation-Based Parcellation

    Edna C. Cieslik;Karl Zilles;Svenja Caspers;Christian Roski

  • Meta-analytical definition and functional connectivity of the human vestibular cortex.

    P. zu Eulenburg;Svenja Caspers;Christian Roski;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • The human inferior parietal lobule in stereotaxic space

    Svenja Caspers;Simon B Eickhoff;Stefan Geyer;Filip Scheperjans

  • Anatomical and functional connectivity of cytoarchitectonic areas within the human parietal operculum.

    Simon B. Eickhoff;Saad Jbabdi;Svenja Caspers;Angela R. Laird

  • Characterization of the temporo-parietal junction by combining data-driven parcellation, complementary connectivity analyses, and functional decoding

    Danilo Bzdok;Robert Langner;Leonhard Schilbach;Oliver Jakobs

  • Probabilistic fibre tract analysis of cytoarchitectonically defined human inferior parietal lobule areas reveals similarities to macaques.

    Svenja Caspers;Simon B. Eickhoff;Simon B. Eickhoff;Tobias Rick;Anette von Kapri

  • Organization of the Human Inferior Parietal Lobule Based on Receptor Architectonics

    Svenja Caspers;Axel Schleicher;Mareike Bacha-Trams;Mareike Bacha-Trams;Nicola Palomero-Gallagher

  • Cytoarchitecture, probability maps and functions of the human frontal pole

    Sebastian Bludau;Simon B. Eickhoff;Hartmut Mohlberg;Svenja Caspers

  • ALE meta-analysis on facial judgments of trustworthiness and attractiveness.

    Danilo Bzdok;Robert Langner;Robert Langner;Svenja Caspers;F Kurth

  • Whole-Body MR Imaging in the German National Cohort: Rationale, Design, and Technical Background.

    Fabian Bamberg;Hans-Ulrich Kauczor;Sabine Weckbach;Christopher L. Schlett

  • Functional Heterogeneity of Inferior Parietal Cortex during Mathematical Cognition Assessed with Cytoarchitectonic Probability Maps

    S. S. Wu;T. T. Chang;T. T. Chang;A. Majid;S. Caspers

  • The role of anterior midcingulate cortex in cognitive motor control: evidence from functional connectivity analyses.

    Felix Hoffstaedter;Christian Grefkes;Svenja Caspers;Christian Roski

  • Evaluation of non-negative matrix factorization of grey matter in age prediction

    Deepthi P. Varikuti;Sarah Genon;Aristeidis Sotiras;Holger Schwender

  • Studying variability in human brain aging in a population-based German cohort-rationale and design of 1000BRAINS.

    Svenja Caspers;Susanne Moebus;Silke Lux;Noreen Pundt

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Thomas W. Mühleisen
Thomas W. Mühleisen University of Basel
Robert Langner
Robert Langner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Peter T. Fox
Peter T. Fox The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Tomáš Paus
Tomáš Paus University of Toronto
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn

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