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Torsten Wüstenberg

Torsten Wüstenberg

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Neuroscience

D-Index
42
Citations
8927
World Ranking
7566
National Ranking
633

Overview

Torsten Wüstenberg is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a notable focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics including Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Digital Mental Health Interventions, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wüstenberg include Andreas Heinz, Anne Beck, Julia Dewald-Kaufmann, Barbara B. Barton, and Stephan Goerigk.

The scientist has published multiple papers in several venues, with repeat contributions to Scientific Reports. Other notable publication outlets comprise Nature Protocols, BMC Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, and the European Journal of Neuroscience.

  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus (2022, Nature Protocols)
  • Depression and fatigue in active IBD from a microbiome perspective-a Bayesian approach to faecal metagenomics (2022, BMC Medicine)
  • Neurocan genome-wide psychiatric risk variant affects explicit memory performance and hippocampal function in healthy humans (2020, European Journal of Neuroscience)
  • Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity (2024, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Dynamics of the immediate behavioral response to partial social exclusion (2021, Scientific Reports)

Best Publications

  • Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenia.

    Georg Juckel;Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael Koslowski;Torsten Wüstenberg;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Dysfunction of reward processing correlates with alcohol craving in detoxified alcoholics

    Jana Wrase;Florian Schlagenhauf;Thorsten Kienast;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Women and men exhibit different cortical activation patterns during mental rotation tasks.

    Kirsten Jordan;Torsten Wüstenberg;Hans Jochen Heinze;Michael Peters

  • Ventral striatal activation during reward anticipation correlates with impulsivity in alcoholics

    A Beck;F Schlagenhauf;T Wüstenberg;J Hein

  • Phonetic perception and the temporal cortex.

    Lutz Jäncke;Torsten Wüstenberg;Henning Scheich;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Dysfunction of ventral striatal reward prediction in schizophrenic patients treated with typical, not atypical, neuroleptics

    Georg Juckel;Georg Juckel;Florian Schlagenhauf;Michael Koslowski;Dimitri Filonov

  • The neural basis of the egocentric and allocentric spatial frame of reference.

    Tino Zaehle;Kirsten Jordan;Torsten Wüstenberg;Jürgen Baudewig

  • Effect of Brain Structure, Brain Function, and Brain Connectivity on Relapse in Alcohol-Dependent Patients

    Anne Beck;Torsten Wüstenberg;Alexander Genauck;Jana Wrase

  • The stress-buffering effect of acute exercise: Evidence for HPA axis negative feedback

    Elisabeth Zschucke;Elisabeth Zschucke;Elisabeth Zschucke;Babette Renneberg;Fernando Dimeo;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Reduced prefrontal-parietal effective connectivity and working memory deficits in schizophrenia.

    Lorenz Deserno;Lorenz Deserno;Philipp Sterzer;Torsten Wüstenberg;Andreas Heinz

  • Short-term functional plasticity in the human auditory cortex: an fMRI study.

    L Jäncke;N Gaab;T Wüstenberg;H Scheich

  • Plasticity of Cortical Activation Related to Working Memory During Training

    Albrecht Hempel;Frederik L. Giesel;Nohazarahit M. Garcia Caraballo;Michael Amann

  • Scanning silence: Mental imagery of complex sounds

    Nico Bunzeck;Torsten Wuestenberg;Kai Lutz;Hans-Jochen Heinze

  • Evidence for rapid auditory perception as the foundation of speech processing: a sparse temporal sampling fMRI study.

    Tino Zaehle;T Wüstenberg;T Wüstenberg;Martin Meyer;Lutz Jäncke

  • Spatial Attention Related SEP Amplitude Modulations Covary with BOLD Signal in S1—A Simultaneous EEG—fMRI Study

    Ruth Schubert;Petra Ritter;Torsten Wüstenberg;Claudia Preuschhof

  • Long-term training affects cerebellar processing in skilled keyboard players.

    Susan Koeneke;Kai Lutz;Torsten Wüstenberg;Lutz Jäncke

  • Asymmetric hemodynamic responses of the human auditory cortex to monaural and binaural stimulation

    L Jäncke;T Wüstenberg;K Schulze;H.J Heinze

  • Working Memory Load-Dependent Brain Response Predicts Behavioral Training Gains in Older Adults

    Stephan Heinzel;Robert C. Lorenz;Robert C. Lorenz;Wolf-Rüdiger Brockhaus;Torsten Wüstenberg

  • Higher volume of ventral striatum and right prefrontal cortex in pathological gambling

    Saskia Koehler;Saskia Koehler;Eva Hasselmann;Torsten Wüstenberg;Andreas Heinz;Andreas Heinz

  • Cue reactivity and its inhibition in pathological computer game players

    Robert C. Lorenz;Jenny-Kathinka Krüger;Jenny-Kathinka Krüger;Britta Neumann;Björn H. Schott;Björn H. Schott

  • Asymmetry of cortical activation during maximum and convenient tapping speed

    K Lutz;S Koeneke;T Wüstenberg;L Jäncke

Frequent Co-Authors

Björn H. Schott
Björn H. Schott University of Göttingen
Lutz Jäncke
Lutz Jäncke University of Zurich
Hans-Jochen Heinze
Hans-Jochen Heinze Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Florian Schlagenhauf
Florian Schlagenhauf Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Emrah Düzel
Emrah Düzel German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Constanze I. Seidenbecher
Constanze I. Seidenbecher Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Anne Beck
Anne Beck Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Jana Wrase
Jana Wrase Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum

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