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Thomas E. Schlaepfer

Thomas E. Schlaepfer

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Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
18769
World Ranking
19176
National Ranking
1007

Overview

Thomas E. Schlaepfer is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Neurology and Clinical Psychology within these domains.

Their work is concentrated on several main topics including:

  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "Deep brain stimulation for refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): emerging or established therapy?", 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a crisis of access", 2022, Nature Medicine
  • "Tractographic description of major subcortical projection pathways passing the anterior limb of the internal capsule. Corticopetal organization of networks relevant for psychiatric disorders", 2020, NeuroImage Clinical
  • "Neuromodulation in Psychiatric disorders: Experimental and Clinical evidence for reward and motivation network Deep Brain Stimulation: Focus on the medial forebrain bundle", 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • "The psychological burden of a two-stage exchange of infected total hip and knee arthroplasties", 2020, Journal of Health Psychology

The frequent co-authors with whom Thomas E. Schlaepfer has collaborated include:

  • Volker A. Coenen
  • Peter C. Reinacher
  • Bastian Sajonz
  • Marco Reisert
  • Máté D. Döbrössy

Their work is often published in prominent venues such as:

  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Brain Stimulation
  • Nature Medicine
  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • European Journal of Neuroscience

Thomas E. Schlaepfer's research portfolio is marked by in-depth studies in neurological disorders and neurostimulation techniques, with a notable emphasis on obsessive-compulsive disorder and its treatments. This includes contributions to the understanding of deep brain stimulation approaches and neuroimaging methods relevant to psychiatric illnesses.

Best Publications

  • Deep brain stimulation: current challenges and future directions

    Andres M. Lozano;Nir Lipsman;Hagai Bergman;Peter Brown

  • Deep brain stimulation to reward circuitry alleviates anhedonia in refractory major depression.

    Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Michael X. Cohen;Michael X. Cohen;Caroline Frick;Markus Mathaus Kosel

  • Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation decreases ratings of depression and anxiety in treatment-resistant depression.

    Bettina H. Bewernick;René Hurlemann;Andreas Matusch;Sarah Kayser

  • Rapid effects of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant major depression.

    Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Bettina H. Bewernick;Sarah Kayser;Burkhard Mädler

  • Efficacy and safety of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for major depression: a prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial

    Yechiel Levkovitz;Moshe Isserles;Frank Padberg;Sarah H. Lisanby

  • Effect of Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Preliminary Study

    Benjamin D. Greenberg;Mark S. George;Juliet D. Martin;Jonathan Benjamin

  • Decreased Regional Cortical Gray Matter Volume in Schizophrenia

    Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Gordon J. Harris;Allen Y. Tien;Luon W. Peng

  • Long-term effects of nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation in treatment-resistant depression: evidence for sustained efficacy.

    Bettina H Bewernick;Sarah Kayser;Volker Sturm;Thomas E Schlaepfer;Thomas E Schlaepfer

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of depression. Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    José Luis R. Martin;Manuel J. Barbanoj;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Elinor Thompson

  • Safety and feasibility of magnetic seizure therapy (MST) in major depression: randomized within-subject comparison with electroconvulsive therapy.

    Sarah H Lisanby;Bruce Luber;Thomas E Schlaepfer;Harold A Sackeim

  • Structural differences in the cerebral cortex of healthy female and male subjects: a magnetic resonance imaging study

    Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Gordon J. Harris;Allen Y. Tien;Luon Peng

  • Cross-species affective functions of the medial forebrain bundle-implications for the treatment of affective pain and depression in humans.

    Volker A. Coenen;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Burkhard Maedler;Jaak Panksepp

  • Oxytocin Facilitates the Extinction of Conditioned Fear in Humans

    Monika Eckstein;Benjamin Becker;Dirk Scheele;Claudia Scholz

  • Magnetic seizure therapy of major depression.

    Sarah H. Lisanby;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Hans-Ulrich Fisch;Harold A. Sackeim

  • Vagus nerve stimulation for depression: efficacy and safety in a European study.

    T. E. Schlaepfer;C. Frick;A. Zobel;W. Maier

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation activates specific regions in rat brain

    Ru-Rong Ji;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Carlos D. Aizenman;Charles M. Epstein

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a putative add-on treatment for major depression in elderly patients.

    Urs P. Mosimann;Wolfgang Schmitt;Benjamin D. Greenberg;Markus Kosel

  • Good vibrations: Cross-frequency coupling in the human nucleus accumbens during reward processing

    Michael X. Cohen;Nikolai Axmacher;Doris Lenartz;Christian E. Elger

  • Psycho-Informatics: Big Data shaping modern psychometrics

    Alexander Markowetz;Konrad Błaszkiewicz;Christian Montag;Christina Switala

  • Sex Differences in Schizophrenia

    Godfrey D. Pearlson;Thomas E. Schlaepfer

Frequent Co-Authors

René Hurlemann
René Hurlemann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Volker A. Coenen
Volker A. Coenen University of Freiburg
Godfrey D. Pearlson
Godfrey D. Pearlson Yale University
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Volker Sturm
Volker Sturm University of Cologne
Sarah H. Lisanby
Sarah H. Lisanby Arizona State University
Joseph J. Fins
Joseph J. Fins Cornell University
Nikolai Axmacher
Nikolai Axmacher Ruhr University Bochum
Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Michael X Cohen
Michael X Cohen Radboud University

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