Selected recent publications by members of Neurology Department (since 2013)

Jawinski, P.; Forstbach, H.; Kirsten, H.; Beyer, F.; Villringer, A.; Witte, A. V.; Scholz, M.; Ripke, S.; Markett, S.: Genome-wide analysis of brain age identifies 59 associated loci and unveils relationships with mental and physical health. Nature Aging 5 (10), pp. 2086 - 2103 (2025)

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)

Stephani, T.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Excitability modulations of somatosensory perception do not depend on feedforward neuronal population spikes. The Journal of Neuroscience 45 (23), e2280242025 (2025)

Gippert, M.; Shih, P.-C.; Heed, T.; Howard, I. S.; Jamshidi Idaji, M.; Villringer, A.; Sehm, B.; Nikulin, V. V.: Motor imagery enhances performance beyond the imagined action. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (20), e2423642122 (2025)

Binns, T. S.; Köhler, R. M.; Vanhoecke, J.; Chikermane, M.; Gerster, M.; Merk, T.; Pellegrini, F.; Busch, J. L.; Habets, J. G. V.; Cavallo, A. et al.; Beyer, J.-C.; Al-Fatly, B.; Li, N.; Horn, A.; Krause, P.; Faust, K.; Schneider, G.-H.; Haufe, S.; Kühn, A. A.; Neumann, W.-J.: Shared pathway-specific network mechanisms of dopamine and deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Nature Communications 16 (1), 3587 (2025)

Jensen, D.; Ebmeier, K. P.; Akbaraly, T.; Jansen, M. G.; Singh-Manoux, A.; Kivimäki, M.; Zsoldos, E.; Klein-Flügge, M. C.; Suri, S.: Association of diet and waist-to-hip ratio with brain connectivity and memory in aging. JAMA Network Open 8 (3), e250171 (2025)

Prinsen, J.; Villringer, A.; Sacher, J.: The monthly rhythm of the brain-heart connection. Science Advances 11 (10), eadt1243 (2025)

Luo, X.; Rechardt, A.; Sun, G.; Nejad, K. K.; Yáñez, F.; Yilmaz, B.; Lee, K.; Cohen, A. O.; Borghesani, V.; Pashkov, A. et al.; Marinazzo, D.; Nicholas, J.; Salatiello, A.; Sucholutsky, I.; Minervini, P.; Razavi, S.; Rocca, R.; Yusifov, E.; Okalova, T.; Gu, N.; Ferianc, M.; Khona, M.; Patil, K. R.; Lee, P.-S.; Mata, R.; Myers, N. E.; Bizley, J. K.; Musslick, S.; Bilgin, I. P.; Niso, G.; Ales, J. M.; Gaebler, M.; Ratan Murty, N. A.; Loued-Khenissi, L.; Behler, A.; Hall, C. M.; Dafflon, J.; Bao, S. D.; Love, B. C.: Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results. Nature Human Behaviour 9 (2), pp. 305 - 315 (2025)

Asseyer, S.; Panagoulas, E.; Maidhof, J.; Villringer, K.; Al, E.; Chen, X.; Krause, T.; Hardikar, S.; Villringer, A.; Jungehülsing, G. J.: Prediction of central post‐stroke pain by quantitative sensory testing. Annals of Neurology (2024)

Hardikar, S.; Mckeown, B.; Schaare, H. L.; Wallace, R. S.; Xu, T.; Lauckener, M. E.; Valk, S. L.; Margulies, D. S.; Turnbull, A.; Bernhardt, B. C. et al.; de Wael, R. V.; Villringer, A.; Smallwood, J.: Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits. eLife 13, RP93689 (2024)

Herzog, N.; Hartmann, H.; Janssen, L.; Kanyamibwa, A.; Waltmann, M.; Kovacs, P.; Deserno, L.; Fallon, S.; Villringer, A.; Horstmann, A.: Working memory gating in obesity is moderated by striatal dopaminergic gene variants. eLife 13, RP93369 (2024)

Küchenhoff, S.; Bayrak, S.; Zsido, R.; Saberi, A.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Weis, S.; Schaare, H. L.; Sacher, J.; Eickhoff, S.; Valk, S. L.: Relating sex differences in cortical and hippocampal microstructure to sex hormones. Nature Communications 15 (1), 7279 (2024)

Jensen, D.; Ebmeier, K. P.; Suri, S.; Rushworth, M. F. S.; Klein-Flügge, M. C.: Nuclei-specific hypothalamus networks predict a dimensional marker of stress in humans. Nature Communications 15 (1), 2426 (2024)

Medawar, E.; Beyer, F.; Thieleking, R.; Haange, S.-B.; Rolle-Kampczyk, U.; Reinicke, M.; Chakaroun, R.; von Bergen, M.; Stumvoll, M.; Villringer, A. et al.; Witte, A. V.: Prebiotic diet changes neural correlates of food decision-making in overweight adults: A randomised controlled within-subject cross-over trial. Gut 73 (2), pp. 298 - 310 (2024)

Lehmann, N.; Aye, N.; Kaufmann, J.; Heinze, H.-J.; Düzel, E.; Ziegler, G.; Taubert, M.: Changes in cortical microstructure of the human brain resulting from long-term motor learning. The Journal of Neuroscience 43 (50), pp. 8637 - 8648 (2023)

Studenova, A.; Forster, C.; Engemann, D. A.; Hensch, T.; Sanders, C.; Mauche, N.; Hegerl, U.; Loeffler, M.; Villringer, A.; Nikulin, V. V.: Event-related modulation of alpha rhythm explains the auditory P300-evoked response in EEG. eLife 12, RP88367 (2023)

Zsido, R.; Williams, A. N.; Barth, C.; Serio, B.; Kurth, L.; Mildner, T.; Trampel, R.; Beyer, F.; Witte, A. V.; Villringer, A. et al.; Sacher, J.: Ultra-high-field 7T MRI reveals changes in human medial temporal lobe volume in female adults during menstrual cycle. Nature Mental Health (1), pp. 761 - 771 (2023)

Kluger, D. S.; Forster, C.; Abbasi, O.; Chalas, N.; Villringer, A.; Gross, J.: Modulatory dynamics of periodic and aperiodic activity in respiration-brain coupling. Nature Communications 14 (1), 4699 (2023)

Scholz, R.; Villringer, A.; Martins, M.: Distinct hippocampal and cortical contributions in the representation of hierarchies. eLife (2023)

Lammer, L.; Beyer, F.; Luppa, M.; Sanders, C.; Baber, R.; Engel, C.; Wirkner, K.; Loffler, M.; Riedel-Heller, S. G.; Villringer, A. et al.; Witte, A. V.: Impact of social isolation on grey matter structure and cognitive functions: A population-based longitudinal neuroimaging study. eLife 12, e83660 (2023)