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Thomas Kammer

Thomas Kammer

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Neuroscience

D-Index
36
Citations
6485
World Ranking
8960
National Ranking
751

Overview

Thomas Kammer is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Paleontology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's main research topics involve studies on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, with a focus on both basic and clinical applications. Other significant areas of study include Functional Brain Connectivity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Neural and Behavioral Psychology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Pain Management, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Thomas Kammer has published extensively in various scientific journals, contributing to research on brain stimulation, neuroplasticity, and psychiatric disorders. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nervenheilkunde
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • InFo Neurologie + Psychiatrie
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • BMC Psychiatry

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Kammer include:

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial, 2023, The Lancet
  • Vision modulation, plasticity and restoration using non-invasive brain stimulation - An IFCN-sponsored review, 2020, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Evolution and Development at the Origin of a Phylum, 2020, Current Biology
  • Factors related to age at depression onset: the role of SLC6A4 methylation, sex, exposure to stressful life events and personality in a sample of inpatients suffering from major depression, 2021, BMC Psychiatry
  • Treatment of major depressive disorder with bilateral theta burst stimulation: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter trial (TBS-D), 2021, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Thomas Kammer frequently collaborates with several researchers including Christian Plewnia, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Gerrit Burkhardt, Claus Normann, and Lukas Frase.

Best Publications

  • Proinflammatory cytokines in serum of patients with acute cerebral ischemia: kinetics of secretion and relation to the extent of brain damage and outcome of disease

    Klaus Fassbender;Siegbert Rossol;Thomas Kammer;Michael Daffertshofer

  • Motor thresholds in humans: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study comparing different pulse waveforms, current directions and stimulator types

    Thomas Kammer;Sandra Beck;Axel Thielscher;Ulrike Laubis-Herrmann

  • Electric field properties of two commercial figure-8 coils in TMS: calculation of focality and efficiency.

    Axel Thielscher;Thomas Kammer

  • Long-lasting modulation of feature integration by transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Frank Scharnowski;Frank Scharnowski;Johannes Rüter;Jacob Jolij;Frouke Hermens;Frouke Hermens

  • Linking physics with physiology in TMS: A sphere field model to determine the cortical stimulation site in TMS

    Axel Thielscher;Thomas Kammer

  • Antidepressant effects of augmentative transcranial magnetic stimulation: randomised multicentre trial.

    Uwe Herwig;Andreas J. Fallgatter;Jacqueline Höppner;Gerhard W. Eschweiler

  • A 30-Minute Physical Education Program Improves Students' Executive Attention

    Sabine Kubesch;Laura Walk;Manfred Spitzer;Thomas Kammer

  • Mechanisms and applications of theta-burst rTMS on the human motor cortex.

    Lizbeth Cárdenas-Morales;Dennis A. Nowak;Thomas Kammer;Robert C. Wolf

  • Phosphenes and transient scotomas induced by magnetic stimulation of the occipital lobe: their topographic relationship.

    Thomas Kammer

  • The influence of current direction on phosphene thresholds evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Thomas Kammer;Sandra Beck;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Dopaminergic modulation of semantic network activation

    U. Kischka;Th. Kammer;S. Maier;M. Weisbrod

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the visual system. II. Characterization of induced phosphenes and scotomas

    Thomas Kammer;Thomas Kammer;Klaas Puls;Michael Erb;Wolfgang Grodd

  • Time Slices: What Is the Duration of a Percept?

    Michael H. Herzog;Thomas Kammer;Frank Scharnowski

  • Electroencephalographic response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in children: Evidence for giant inhibitory potentials.

    Stephan Bender;Kristine Basseler;Imke Sebastian;Franz Resch

  • The Fröhlich effect: a consequence of the interaction of visual focal attention and metacontrast.

    Kuno Kirschfeld;Thomas Kammer

  • Changes in interoceptive processes following brain stimulation.

    Olga Pollatos;Beate M. Herbert;Sandra Mai;Thomas Kammer

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation in the visual system: I. The psychophysics of visual suppression

    Thomas Kammer;Thomas Kammer;Klaas Puls;Hans Strasburger;N. Jeremy Hill

  • Associations between music education, intelligence, and spelling ability in elementary school.

    Katrin Hille;Kilian Gust;Urlich Bitz;Thomas Kammer

  • Cortical inhibition in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: new insights from the electroencephalographic response to transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Sarah Bruckmann;Daniela Hauk;Veit Roessner;Franz Resch

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation as an additional treatment to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in adults with major depressive disorder in Germany (DepressionDC): a triple-blind, randomised, sham-controlled, multicentre trial

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  • The value of neuronavigated rTMS for the treatment of depression.

    C. Schönfeldt-Lecuona;J.-P. Lefaucheur;L. Cardenas-Morales;R.C. Wolf

  • Anisotropy in the visual cortex investigated by neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Thomas Kammer;Michael Vorwerg;Michael Vorwerg;Bärbel Herrnberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Spitzer
Manfred Spitzer University of Ulm
Michael H. Herzog
Michael H. Herzog École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Georg Grön
Georg Grön University of Ulm
Uwe Herwig
Uwe Herwig University of Zurich
Berthold Langguth
Berthold Langguth University of Regensburg
Axel Thielscher
Axel Thielscher Technical University of Denmark
Frank Padberg
Frank Padberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Matthias Weisbrod
Matthias Weisbrod Heidelberg University
Markus Kiefer
Markus Kiefer University of Ulm

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