Complete Publications

Gerhards, S.K.; Luppa, M.; Zülke, A.; Sander, C.; Schomerus, G.; Buechner, R.; Wirkner, K.; Reusche, M.; Zeynalova, S.; Lehmann, J. et al.; Baber, R.; Obrig, H.; Herzig, S.; Thöne-Otto, A.; Witte, A. V.; Villringer, A.; Fricke, C.; Then Bergh, F.; Saur, D.; Schroeter, M. L.; Löffler, M.; Engel, C.; Riedel-Heller, S.G.: Depressive and anxiety symptoms in individuals with Long-COVID: Does social network matter? – Results of a German Long-COVID study. Journal of Affective Disorders 401, 121272 (2026)

Kaeja, M.; Gajiyeva, L.; Iturria-Medina, Y.; Villringer, A.; Sehm, B.; Steele, C.: Patterns of structural disconnection driving proprioceptive deficits in chronic stroke. Stroke 57 (3), pp. 732 - 744 (2026)

May, E.; Comasco, E.; Tiepolt, S.; Strauß, M.; Kundakovic, M.; Hesse, S.; Sabri, O.; Villringer, A.; Sacher, J.: Timing matters: Leveraging positron emission tomography imaging and hormonal cycles for precision psychiatry in female mental health. Biological Psychiatry (2026)

Zülke, A. E.; Beyer, F.; Luppa, M.; Mildner, T.; Frese, T.; Gensichen, J.; Kaduszkiewicz, H.; Czock, D.; König, H.-H.; Wiese, B. et al.; Hoffmann, W.; Thyrian, J. R.; Villringer, A.; Riedel-Heller, S. G.; Witte, A. V.: Evaluating MRI correlates of lifestyle-based dementia risk reduction: Results from the AgeWell.de imaging study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2026)

Hu, F.; Tong, J.; Gardner, M.; Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium; Villringer, A.; Chen, A. A.; Bethlehem, R. A. I.; Seidlitz, J.; Li, H.; Alexander-Bloch, A. et al.; Chen, Y.; Shinohara, R. T.: dGAMLSS: An exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts. Bioinformatics 42 (1), btaf625 (2026)

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

Lee, Y.; Akan, A.; Önel, D.; Medawar, E.; Jensen, D.; Villringer, A.; Witte, A. V.: Impacts of lifestyle and microbiota‐targeted interventions for overweight and obesity on the human gut microbiome: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, e70037 (2025)

Schroeter, M. L.; Girbardt, J.; Luck, T.; Rodriguez, F. S.; Plant, G. T.; Wicklein, B.; Wirkner, K.; Engel, C.; Kynast, J.; Girbardt, C. et al.; Wang, M.; Polyakova, M.; Hinz, A.; Witte, A. V.; Kirsten, T.; Loeffler, M.; Villringer, A.; Riedel-Heller, S. G.; Elze, T.; Rauscher, F. G.: Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness is associated with attention and predicts risk states of dementia. Brain Communications 7 (6), fcaf464 (2025)

Gerster, M.; Waterstraat, G.; Binns, T. S.; Darcy, N.; Wiest, C.; Köhler, R. M.; Vanhoecke, J.; West, T. O.; Sure, M.; Todorov, D. et al.; Radzinski, L.; Habets, J.; Busch, J. L.; Feldmann, L. K.; Krause, P.; Faust, K.; Schneider, G.-H.; Ashkan, K.; Pereira, E.; Akram, H.; Zrinzo, L.; Blankertz, B.; Villringer, A.; Tan, H.; Hirschmann, J.; Kühn, A. A.; Florin, E.; Schnitzler, A.; Oswal, A.; Litvak, V.; Neumann, W.-J.; Curio, G.; Nikulin, V. V.: Beyond beta rhythms: Subthalamic aperiodic broadband power scales with Parkinson's disease severity: A cross-sectional multicentre study. EBioMedicine 122, 105988 (2025)

Jung, F. U.; Bleck, F.; Pabst, A.; Schladitz, K.; Luppa, M.; Hussenoeder, F. S.; Engel, C.; Loeffler, M.; Hinz, A.; Glaesmer, H. et al.; Reyes, N.; Zachariae, S.; Zeynalova, S.; Wirkner, K.; Kirsten, T.; Villringer, A.; Riedel-Heller, S. G.; Löbner, M.: Depressive symptoms in individuals with overweight and obesity: Results from the LIFE-adult-study. Journal of Affective Disorders 390, 119792 (2025)

Hoffmann, K. C.; Zsido, R. G.; Villringer, A.; Hesse, S.; Sabri, O.; Engert, V.; Sacher, J.: Exploring the cortisol awakening response in premenstrual dysphoric disorder and in healthy females across the menstrual cycle. British Journal of Psychiatry (2025)

Schrimpf, A.; van der Ryn, M.; McGarvey, S. T.; Villringer, A.; Gaebler, M.: Differences in stress coping between individuals from Germany and American Samoa and their relation to obesity, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 44 (1), 392 (2025)

Lammer, L.; Beyer, F.; Riedel-Heller, S.; Sacher, J.; Glaesmer, H.; Villringer, A.; Witte, A. V.: Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health. European Journal of Epidemiology 40 (11), pp. 1323 - 1343 (2025)

Haslacher, D.; Reber, P.; Cavallo, A.; Rosenthal, A.; Pangratz, E.; Beck, A.; Romanczuk-Seiferth, N.; Nikulin, V. V.; Villringer, A.; Soekadar, S. R.: Heartbeat perception is causally linked to frontal delta oscillations. Communications Biology 8 (1), 1466 (2025)

Belger, J.; Peters, L. P.; Jakober, J.; Wagner, S.; Preim, B.; Villringer, A.; Thöne-Otto, A. I. T.: Virtual reality eye movement training for neglect rehabilitation. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology: IJCHP 25 (4), 100630 (2025)

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)

Vartanian, M.; Jahanitabesh, A.; Christensen, J. F.; Staub, H.; Jensen, D.; Villringer, A.; Witte, A. V.: Neural responses to visual food cues according to weight and hunger state: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 177, 106301 (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)

Fourcade, A.; Malandrone, F.; Roellecke, L.; Ciston, A.; de Mooij, J.; Villringer, A.; Carletto, S.; Gaebler, M.: AffectTracker: Real-time continuous rating of affective experience in immersive virtual reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality 6, 1567854 (2025)

Dermody, N.; Lorenz, R.; Goddard, E.; Villringer, A.; Woolgar, A.: Spatial and feature-selective attention interact to drive selective coding in frontoparietal cortex. Neuropsychologia 216, 109172 (2025)