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Thomas Ethofer is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health. Their expertise also extends into radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and genetics.

The scientist's investigative topics emphasize functional brain connectivity studies and neural and behavioral psychology studies. Other important areas of their work include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, epilepsy research and treatment, bipolar disorder and treatment, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Ethofer has contributed to various publications across multiple venues. Frequent places of publication include:

  • Epilepsia Open
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Brain Sciences
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Brain and Spine

Prominent recent papers authored or co-authored by Ethofer are:

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Evidence for similar structural brain anomalies in youth and adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a machine learning analysis, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Individuals at increased risk for development of bipolar disorder display structural alterations similar to people with manifest disease, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Prediction of estimated risk for bipolar disorder using machine learning and structural MRI features, 2023, Psychological Medicine
  • EEG Data Quality: Determinants and Impact in a Multicenter Study of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), 2021, Brain Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ethofer are:

  • Andreas J. Fallgatter
  • Andreas Reif
  • Jürgen Honegger
  • Holger Lerche
  • Georgios Naros

Best Publications

  • Identification of emotional intonation evaluated by fMRI.

    Dirk Wildgruber;Axel Riecker;Ingo Hertrich;Michael Erb

  • Brain Imaging of the Cortex in ADHD: A Coordinated Analysis of Large-Scale Clinical and Population-Based Samples

    Martine Hoogman;Ryan Muetzel;Joao P. Guimaraes;Elena Shumskaya

  • Cerebral processing of linguistic and emotional prosody: fMRI studies.

    D Wildgruber;H Ackermann;B Kreifelts;T Ethofer

  • Mapping Aesthetic Musical Emotions in the Brain

    Wiebke Trost;Thomas Ethofer;Thomas Ethofer;Marcel Zentner;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Audiovisual integration of emotional signals in voice and face: an event-related fMRI study.

    Benjamin Kreifelts;Thomas Ethofer;Wolfgang Grodd;Michael Erb

  • Cerebral pathways in processing of affective prosody: a dynamic causal modeling study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Cornelia Herbert

  • Decoding of Emotional Information in Voice-Sensitive Cortices

    Thomas Stefan Ethofer;Thomas Stefan Ethofer;Dimitri Van De Ville;Klaus R. Scherer;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Comparison of longitudinal metabolite relaxation times in different regions of the human brain at 1.5 and 3 Tesla.

    Thomas Ethofer;Irina Mader;Uwe Seeger;Gunther Helms

  • Flow of affective information between communicating brains

    Silke Anders;Silke Anders;Jakob Heinzle;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Thomas Ethofer

  • Global brain atrophy and corticospinal tract alterations in ALS, as investigated by voxel‐based morphometry of 3‐D MRI

    Jan Kassubek;Alexander Unrath;Hans-Jürgen Huppertz;Dorothée Lulé

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

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Emotional Voice Areas: Anatomic Location, Functional Properties, and Structural Connections Revealed by Combined fMRI/DTI

    Thomas Stefan Ethofer;Johanes Bretscher;Markus A. Gschwind;Benjamin Kreifelts

  • Cerebral processing of emotional prosody—influence of acoustic parameters and arousal

    Sarah Wiethoff;Dirk Wildgruber;Benjamin Kreifelts;Hubertus Becker

  • Guilt-Specific Processing in the Prefrontal Cortex

    Ullrich Wagner;Karim Babacar Joseph Ndiaye;Thomas Stefan Ethofer;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups

    Premika S W Boedhoe;Daan van Rooij;Martine Hoogman;Jos W R Twisk

  • Amygdala activation during reading of emotional adjectives—an advantage for pleasant content

    Cornelia Herbert;Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Markus Junghofer

  • Impact of voice on emotional judgment of faces: an event-related fMRI study.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Michael Erb;Christina Droll

  • Differential influences of emotion, task, and novelty on brain regions underlying the processing of speech melody

    Thomas Ethofer;Benjamin Kreifelts;Sarah Wiethoff;Jonathan Wolf

  • Association of trait emotional intelligence and individual fMRI-activation patterns during the perception of social signals from voice and face

    Benjamin Kreifelts;Thomas Ethofer;Elisabeth Huberle;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Effects of prosodic emotional intensity on activation of associative auditory cortex.

    Thomas Ethofer;Silke Anders;Sarah Wiethoff;Michael Erb

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Wildgruber
Dirk Wildgruber University of Tübingen
Michael Erb
Michael Erb Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Klaus Scheffler
Klaus Scheffler Max Planck Society
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Grodd
Wolfgang Grodd Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt
Neil A. Harrison
Neil A. Harrison Cardiff University
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Jaap Oosterlaan
Jaap Oosterlaan University of Amsterdam

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