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Thorsten Bartsch

Thorsten Bartsch

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Neuroscience

D-Index
43
Citations
8980
World Ranking
7338
National Ranking
613

Thorsten Bartsch publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thorsten Bartsch sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 113 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Thorsten Bartsch D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thorsten Bartsch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thorsten Bartsch is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and neuroscience. Their research primarily focuses on neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health, with a notable emphasis on physiological and cellular and molecular neuroscience aspects.

The scientist's main topics of research cover a range of areas including autoimmune neurological disorders and treatments, dementia and cognitive impairment research, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and gut microbiota and health.

They have a significant publication record, with a total of 44 publications in medicine and 19 in neuroscience. The subfields most frequently addressed include neurology with 22 publications, followed by cognitive neuroscience with 7, psychiatry and mental health with 6, physiology with 5, and cellular and molecular neuroscience with 4.

Thorsten Bartsch has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • Neurological Research and Practice
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • European Journal of Neurology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thorsten Bartsch include:

  • Effects of exergaming on hippocampal volume and brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in Parkinson's disease, 2021, European Journal of Neurology
  • Management of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis Due to Adenoviral COVID-19 Vaccination, 2022, Annals of Neurology
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: New Data and Quantitative Meta-Analysis, 2022, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Motor, cognitive and mobility deficits in 1000 geriatric patients: protocol of a quantitative observational study before and after routine clinical geriatric treatment - the ComOn-study, 2020, BMC Geriatrics
  • Microbiome and Metabolome Insights into the Role of the Gastrointestinal-Brain Axis in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease: Unveiling Potential Therapeutic Targets, 2022, Metabolites

Collaboration is a notable part of Bartsch's research activity, with frequent co-authors including Daniela Berg, Frank Leypoldt, Sarah Philippen, Oliver Granert, and Annika Hanert. The highest number of collaborations is with Daniela Berg, followed by Frank Leypoldt and others in descending order of joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Stimulation of the greater occipital nerve induces increased central excitability of dural afferent input

    Thorsten Bartsch;Peter J Goadsby

  • Central neuromodulation in chronic migraine patients with suboccipital stimulators: a PET study.

    Manjit S Matharu;Thorsten Bartsch;Nick Ward;Richard S J Frackowiak

  • Increased responses in trigeminocervical nociceptive neurons to cervical input after stimulation of the dura mater.

    T Bartsch;P J Goadsby

  • The hippocampus in aging and disease: From plasticity to vulnerability

    T. Bartsch;P. Wulff

  • CA1 neurons in the human hippocampus are critical for autobiographical memory, mental time travel, and autonoetic consciousness

    Thorsten Bartsch;Juliane Döhring;Axel Rohr;Olav Jansen

  • The trigeminocervical complex and migraine: current concepts and synthesis.

    T. Bartsch;Peter J. Goadsby

  • Differential modulation of nociceptive dural input to [hypocretin] orexin A and B receptor activation in the posterior hypothalamic area.

    T Bartsch;M J Levy;Y E Knight;P J Goadsby

  • Transient global amnesia: functional anatomy and clinical implications.

    Thorsten Bartsch;Günther Deuschl

  • Evaluation of cognitive deficits and structural hippocampal damage in encephalitis with leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1 antibodies

    Carsten Finke;Harald Prüss;Josephine Heine;Sigrid Reuter

  • Imaging of autoimmune encephalitis – Relevance for clinical practice and hippocampal function

    J. Heine;H. Prüss;T. Bartsch;C.J. Ploner

  • Selective affection of hippocampal CA-1 neurons in patients with transient global amnesia without long-term sequelae

    T. Bartsch;K. Alfke;R. Stingele;A. Rohr

  • Activation of 5‐HT1B/1D receptor in the periaqueductal gray inhibits nociception

    T. Bartsch;Yolande E. Knight;Peter J. Goadsby

  • P/Q-type calcium-channel blockade in the periaqueductal gray facilitates trigeminal nociception: a functional genetic link for migraine?

    Yolande E. Knight;Thorsten Bartsch;Holger Kaube;Peter J. Goadsby

  • Focal Lesions of Human Hippocampal CA1 Neurons in Transient Global Amnesia Impair Place Memory

    T. Bartsch;R. Schönfeld;F. J. Müller;K. Alfke

  • An Electronic Version of Pavlov's Dog

    Martin Ziegler;Rohit Soni;Timo Patelczyk;Marina Ignatov

  • Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation for cluster headache: experience from a new multicase series

    T Bartsch;MO Pinsker;D Rasche;T Kinfe

  • Selective Neuronal Vulnerability of Human Hippocampal CA1 Neurons: Lesion Evolution, Temporal Course, and Pattern of Hippocampal Damage in Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging:

    Thorsten Bartsch;Juliane Döhring;Sigrid Reuter;Carsten Finke

  • Animal models of migraine: looking at the component parts of a complex disorder

    A Bergerot;Philip Holland;S Akerman;T Bartsch

  • Transient amnesic syndromes

    Thorsten Bartsch;Christopher Butler

  • Neurostimulation approaches to primary headache disorders.

    Thorsten Bartsch;Koen Paemeleire;Peter J Goadsby

  • Evolution of hippocampal CA-1 diffusion lesions in transient global amnesia.

    Thorsten Bartsch;Karsten Alfke;Guenther Deuschl;Olav Jansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Deuschl
Günther Deuschl Kiel University
Peter J. Goadsby
Peter J. Goadsby King's College London
Olav Jansen
Olav Jansen Kiel University
Daniela Berg
Daniela Berg University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Carsten Finke
Carsten Finke Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Wilfrid Jänig
Wilfrid Jänig Kiel University
Jens Volkmann
Jens Volkmann University of Würzburg
Karsten Witt
Karsten Witt Kiel University
Jan Born
Jan Born University of Tübingen
Hermann Kohlstedt
Hermann Kohlstedt Kiel University

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