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Overview

Volker Mall is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and has a multidisciplinary research profile spanning medicine and psychology. Their work predominantly focuses on clinical psychology, education, sociology and political science, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics cover several areas related to child and adolescent development, health, and mental well-being. These include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Volker Mall has contributed to numerous publications during their career. Recent papers include:

  • A cross-sectional investigation of psychosocial stress factors in German families with children aged 0-3 years during the COVID-19 pandemic: initial results of the CoronabaBY study, 2022, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Electronic Media and Early Childhood: A Review, 2021, Klinische Pädiatrie
  • De novo variants of NR4A2 are associated with neurodevelopmental disorder and epilepsy, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Clinical, neuroimaging, and molecular spectrum of TECPR2 -associated hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy with intellectual disability, 2021, Human Mutation
  • Population-based screening in children for early diagnosis and treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia: design of the VRONI study, 2022, European Journal of Public Health

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Volker Mall include:

  • Anna Friedmann
  • Ina Nehring
  • Andrea Hahnefeld
  • Nikolai H. Jung
  • Michael Zech

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with multiple articles appearing in:

  • Schwäbische Heimat
  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Children
  • Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
  • Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Best Publications

  • A practical guide to diagnostic transcranial magnetic stimulation: Report of an IFCN committee

    S. Groppa;A. Oliviero;A. Eisen;A. Quartarone

  • The updated European Consensus 2009 on the use of Botulinum toxin for children with cerebral palsy

    Florian Heinen;Kaat Desloovere;A. Sebastian Schroeder;Steffen Berweck

  • The Spastic Paraplegia Rating Scale (SPRS): A reliable and valid measure of disease severity

    R. Schüle;T. Holland-Letz;S. Klimpe;J. Kassubek

  • Monogenic variants in dystonia: an exome-wide sequencing study.

    Michael Zech;Robert Jech;Sylvia Boesch;Matej Škorvánek

  • Do patients with congenital hemiparesis and ipsilateral corticospinal projections respond differently to constraint-induced movement therapy?

    N Kuhnke;H Juenger;M Walther;S Berweck

  • Sleep recalibrates homeostatic and associative synaptic plasticity in the human cortex

    Marion Kuhn;Elias Wolf;Jonathan G. Maier;Florian Mainberger

  • Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation does not decrease the variability of motor-evoked potentials.

    Nikolai H. Jung;Igor Delvendahl;Nicola G. Kuhnke;Dieter Hauschke

  • Treatment of adductor spasticity with BTX-A in children with CP: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

    Volker Mall;Florian Heinen;Andrea Siebel;Christoph Bertram

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Children

    Marjorie A. Garvey;Volker Mall

  • Two types of exercise-induced neuroplasticity in congenital hemiparesis: a transcranial magnetic stimulation, functional MRI, and magnetoencephalography study.

    Hendrik Juenger;Nicola Kuhnke;Christoph Braun;Christoph Braun;Frank Ummenhofer

  • Cortical neuromodulation by constraint-induced movement therapy in congenital hemiparesis: an FMRI study.

    H. Juenger;M. Linder-Lucht;M. Walther;S. Berweck

  • Lovastatin improves impaired synaptic plasticity and phasic alertness in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1

    Florian Mainberger;Nikolai H Jung;Martin Zenker;Ute Wahlländer

  • Clinical impact of antibody formation to botulinum toxin A in children

    Jochen Herrmann;Katrin Geth;Volker Mall;Hans Bigalke

  • Impaired induction of long‐term potentiation‐like plasticity in patients with high‐functioning autism and Asperger syndrome

    Nikolai H Jung;Wibke G Janzarik;Igor Delvendahl;Alexander Münchau

  • Validation of the Gross Motor Function Measure for Use in Children and Adolescents With Traumatic Brain Injuries

    Michaela Linder-Lucht;Verena Othmer;Michael Walther;Julia Vry

  • Medium-term functional benefits in children with cerebral palsy treated with botulinum toxin type A: 1-year follow-up using gross motor function measure

    M. Linder;G. Schindler;U. Michaelis;S. Stein

  • Plasticity of motor threshold and motor-evoked potential amplitude--a model of intrinsic and synaptic plasticity in human motor cortex?

    Igor Delvendahl;Nikolai H. Jung;Nicola G. Kuhnke;Ulf Ziemann

  • Evaluation of botulinum toxin A therapy in children with adductor spasm by gross motor function measure.

    Volker Mall;Florian Heinen;Janbernd Kirschner;Michaela Linder

  • Motor cortex plasticity in ischemic perinatal stroke: a transcranial magnetic stimulation and functional MRI study.

    Michael Walther;Hendrik Juenger;Hendrik Juenger;Nicola Kuhnke;Marko Wilke;Marko Wilke

  • Changes in soleus H-reflex modulation after treadmill training in children with cerebral palsy

    Maike Hodapp;Julia Vry;Volker Mall;Michael Faist

  • Low Level of Intracortical Inhibition in Children Shown by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    V. Mall;S. Berweck;U. M. Fietzek;F.-X. Glocker

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Staudt
Martin Staudt University Children’s Hospital Basel
Martin Zenker
Martin Zenker Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Marko Wilke
Marko Wilke University of Tübingen
Josef Kessler
Josef Kessler University of Cologne
Gerhard Kluger
Gerhard Kluger Paracelsus Medical University
Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Paul L. Plener
Paul L. Plener Medical University of Vienna
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University
Tim M. Strom
Tim M. Strom Technical University of Munich

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