Common genetic variants influence human subcortical brain structures

…, MA Carless, S Cichon, A Corvin, JE Curran, M Czisch… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The highly complex structure of the human brain is strongly shaped by genetic influences 1 .
Subcortical brain regions form circuits with cortical areas to coordinate movement 2 , …

Development of the brain's default mode network from wakefulness to slow wave sleep

…, H Peters, C Tully, F Holsboer, M Czisch - Cerebral …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Falling asleep is paralleled by a loss of conscious awareness and reduced capacity to
process external stimuli. Little is known on sleep-associated changes of spontaneously …

The brain's hemodynamic response function rapidly changes under acute psychosocial stress in association with genetic and endocrine stress response markers

…, VI Spoormaker, M Czisch… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Ample evidence links dysregulation of the stress response to the risk for psychiatric disorders.
However, we lack an integrated understanding of mechanisms that are adaptive during …

Disentangling reward anticipation with simultaneous pupillometry/fMRI

M Schneider, L Leuchs, M Czisch, PG Sämann… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
The reward system may provide an interesting intermediate phenotype for anhedonia in
affective disorders. Reward anticipation is characterized by an increase in arousal, and previous …

[HTML][HTML] The biological classification of mental disorders (BeCOME) study: a protocol for an observational deep-phenotyping study for the identification of biological …

…, A Tontsch, ME Keck, L Schilbach, M Czisch… - BMC psychiatry, 2020 - Springer
Background A major research finding in the field of Biological Psychiatry is that symptom-based
categories of mental disorders map poorly onto dysfunctions in brain circuits or …

Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes

…, RM Cantor, MA Carless, A Corvin, M Czisch… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Identifying genetic variants influencing human brain structures may reveal new biological
mechanisms underlying cognition and neuropsychiatric illness. The volume of the …

[HTML][HTML] Subcortical brain alterations in major depressive disorder: findings from the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder working group

…, K Hegenscheid, H Völzke, D Hoehn, M Czisch… - Molecular …, 2016 - nature.com
The pattern of structural brain alterations associated with major depressive disorder (MDD)
remains unresolved. This is in part due to small sample sizes of neuroimaging studies …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive …

…, N Opel, W Heindel, H Kugel, D Hoehn, M Czisch… - Molecular …, 2017 - nature.com
The neuro-anatomical substrates of major depressive disorder (MDD) are still not well
understood, despite many neuroimaging studies over the past few decades. Here we present the …

[HTML][HTML] The ENIGMA Consortium: large-scale collaborative analyses of neuroimaging and genetic data

…, B Crespo-Facorro, JE Curran, M Czisch… - Brain imaging and …, 2014 - Springer
The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) Consortium is a
collaborative network of researchers working together on a range of large-scale studies that …

Neural correlates of dream lucidity obtained from contrasting lucid versus non-lucid REM sleep: a combined EEG/fMRI case study

…, F Holsboer, A Steiger, H Obrig, PG Sämann, M Czisch - Sleep, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… Sämann, Michael Czisch, Neural Correlates of Dream Lucidity Obtained from Contrasting
Lucid versus Non-Lucid REM Sleep: A Combined EEG/fMRI Case Study, Sleep, Volume 35, …