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Overview

Ulrich Hegerl is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields primarily focusing on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions.

Their recent scholarly output includes a variety of topics mainly related to mental health, brain function, and public health concerns. Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Hegerl include:

  • Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis, 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • A Delphi-method-based consensus guideline for definition of treatment-resistant depression for clinical trials, 2021, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Associations of Suicide Rates With Socioeconomic Status and Social Isolation: Findings From Longitudinal Register and Census Data, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Alterations in rhythmic and non-rhythmic resting-state EEG activity and their link to cognition in older age, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Cohort Profile: The LIFE-Adult-Study, 2022, International Journal of Epidemiology

Frequent coauthors in Hegerl's work include:

  • Hanna Reich
  • Christian Sander
  • Tilman Hensch
  • Andreas Czaplicki
  • Brenda W.J.H. Penninx

Hegerl's publications have often appeared in recognized academic venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • European Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

The main fields of study for Hegerl are:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Subfields encompassing the body of Hegerl's research include:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • General Health Professions
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

The core topics frequently addressed throughout their publications are:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Best Publications

  • Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review.

    John J Mann;Alan Apter;Jose Bertolote;Annette Beautrais

  • Suicide prevention strategies revisited: 10-year systematic review

    Gil Zalsman;Gil Zalsman;Keith Hawton;Danuta Wasserman;Kees van Heeringen

  • Excess mortality in persons with severe mental disorders: a multilevel intervention framework and priorities for clinical practice, policy and research agendas

    Nancy H. Liu;Nancy H. Liu;Gail L. Daumit;Tarun Dua;Ralph Aquila

  • Integration of fMRI and simultaneous EEG: towards a comprehensive understanding of localization and time-course of brain activity in target detection

    Christoph Mulert;Lorenz Jäger;Robert Schmitt;Patrick Bussfeld

  • Intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials as an indicator of central serotonergic neurotransmission: a new hypothesis.

    Ulrich Hegerl;Georg Juckel

  • Event-related potentials: Do they reflect central serotonergic neurotransmission and do they predict clinical response to serotonin agonists?

    U. Hegerl;J. Gallinat;G. Juckel

  • Inflammatory cytokines in general and central obesity and modulating effects of physical activity.

    Frank M. Schmidt;Julia Weschenfelder;Christian Sander;Juliane Minkwitz

  • Accuracy of the PHQ-2 Alone and in Combination With the PHQ-9 for Screening to Detect Major Depression: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Brooke Levis;Brooke Levis;Ying Sun;Chen He;Yin Wu;Yin Wu

  • Sleep quality in the general population: psychometric properties of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, derived from a German community sample of 9284 people

    Andreas Hinz;Heide Glaesmer;Elmar Brähler;Elmar Brähler;Markus Löffler

  • Identifying depression in primary care: a comparison of different methods in a prospective cohort study

    Verena Henkel;Roland Mergl;Ralf Kohnen;Wolfgang Maier

  • Suicide methods in Europe: a gender-specific analysis of countries participating in the “European Alliance Against Depression”

    A Värnik;Kairi Kolves;C M van der Feltz-Cornelis;A Marusic

  • EEG-vigilance and BOLD effect during simultaneous EEG/fMRI measurement

    Sebastian Olbrich;Christoph Mulert;Susanne Karch;Maja Trenner

  • Equivalency of the diagnostic accuracy of the PHQ-8 and PHQ-9: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

    Yin Wu;Brooke Levis;Kira E. Riehm;Nazanin Saadat

  • The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

    Markus Loeffler;Christoph Engel;Peter Ahnert;Dorothee Alfermann

  • A cross-national study on gender differences in suicide intent

    Aislinné Freeman;Roland Mergl;Elisabeth Kohls;András Székely

  • The alliance against depression: 2-year evaluation of a community-based intervention to reduce suicidality

    Ulrich Hegerl;David Althaus;Armin Schmidtke;Guenter Niklewski

  • Best practice elements of multilevel suicide prevention strategies: a review of systematic reviews

    Christina M. van der Feltz-Cornelis;Marco Sarchiapone;Vita Postuvan;Daniëlle Volker

  • Neurochemical Substrates and Neuroanatomical Generators of the Event-Related P300

    Thomas Frodl-Bauch;Ronald Bottlender;Ulrich Hegerl

  • Auditory-evoked potentials as indicator of brain serotonergic activity--first evidence in behaving cats.

    Georg Juckel;Georg Juckel;Márk Molnár;Márk Molnár;Ulrich Hegerl;Ulrich Hegerl;Valéria Csépe;Valéria Csépe

  • What are reasons for the large gender differences in the lethality of suicidal acts? An epidemiological analysis in four European countries

    Roland Mergl;Nicole Koburger;Katherina Heinrichs;András Székely

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Mergl
Roland Mergl Bundeswehr University Munich
Oliver Pogarell
Oliver Pogarell Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Peter Schönknecht
Peter Schönknecht Leipzig University
Hans-Jürgen Möller
Hans-Jürgen Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
H.-J. Möller
H.-J. Möller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ella Arensman
Ella Arensman University College Cork
Dan Rujescu
Dan Rujescu Medical University of Vienna
Ina Giegling
Ina Giegling Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Thomas Frodl
Thomas Frodl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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