Publications

Scheitz, J.; Villringer, A.; Mikail, N.; Gebhard, C.; Endres, M.: Bidirectional brain-heart interactions in health and disease. Nature Reviews Neurology (accepted)

Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.; Gaebler, M.: Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health. Trends in Neurosciences 48 (10), pp. 766 - 779 (2025)

Al, E.; Stephani, T.; Engelhardt, M.; Haegens, S.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Cardiac activity impacts cortical motor excitability. PLoS Biology 21 (11), e3002393 (2023)

Schaare, H. L.; Blöchl, M.; Kumral, D.; Uhlig, M.; Lemcke, L.; Valk, S. L.; Villringer, A.: Associations between mental health, blood pressure and the development of hypertension. Nature Communications 14 (1), 1953 (2023)

Kumral, D.; Al, E.; Cesnaite, E.; Kornej, J.; Sander, C.; Hensch, T.; Zeynalova, S.; Tautenhahn, S.; Hagendorf, A.; Laufs, U. et al.; Wachter, R.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Attenuation of the heartbeat-evoked potential in patients with atrial fibrillation. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 8 (10), pp. 1219 - 1230 (2022)

Kornej, J.; Friedrich, K.; Schroeter, M. L.; Witte, A. V.; Polyakova, M.; Villringer, A.; Löffler, M.; Zeynalova, S.: PR interval duration is associated with the presence of white matter hyperintensities: Insights from the epidemiologic LIFE-Adult Study. PLoS One 17 (6), e0269815 (2022)

Grund, M.; Al, E.; Pabst, M.; Dabbagh, A.; Stephani, T.; Nierhaus, T.; Gaebler, M.; Villringer, A.: Respiration, heartbeat, and conscious tactile perception. The Journal of Neuroscience 42 (4), pp. 643 - 656 (2022)

Al, E.; Iliopoulos, F.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Heartbeat and somatosensory perception. NeuroImage 238, 118247 (2021)

Villringer, A.; Laufs, U.: Heart failure, cognition, and brain damage. European Heart Journal 42 (16), pp. 1579 - 1581 (2021)

Stegmann, T.; Chu, M. L.; Witte, A. V.; Villringer, A.; Kumral, D.; Riedel-Heller, S. G.; Roehr, S.; Hagendorff, A.; Laufs, U.; Löffler, M. et al.; Wachter, R.; Zeynalova, S.: Heart failure is independently associated with white matter lesions: Insights from the population-based LIFE-Adult Study. ESC Heart Failure 8 (1), pp. 697 - 704 (2021)

Al, E.; Fivos, I.; Forschack, N.; Nierhaus, T.; Grund, M.; Motyka, P.; Gaebler, M.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.: Heart-brain interactions shape somatosensory perception and evoked potentials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (19), pp. 10575 - 10584 (2020)

Khalil, A.; Villringer, K.; Filleböck, V.; Hu, J.-Y.; Rocco, A.; Fiebach, J. B.; Villringer, A.: Non-invasive monitoring of longitudinal changes in cerebral hemodynamics in acute ischemic stroke using BOLD signal delay. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 40 (1), pp. 23 - 34 (2020)