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2010

 

Takashi Nakaoa, Takahiro Osumi, Hideki Ohira, Yukinori Kasuya, Jun Shinoda,
Jitsuhiro Yamada, Georg Northoff

Medial prefrontalcortex–dorsalanteriorcingulatecortexconnectivityduring
behavior selectionwithoutanobjectivecorrectanswer

Neuroscience Letters, article in press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.07.041

 

Zierhut K, Bogerts B, Schott B, Fenker D, Walter M, Albrecht D, Steiner J, Schütze H, Northoff G, Düzel E, Schiltz K

The role of hippocampus dysfunction in deficient memory encoding and positive
symptoms in schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, article in press

 

Pengmin Qin, Haibo Di, Yijun Lui, Senming Yu, Qiyong Gong, Niall Duncan, Xuchu Weng, Steven Laureys, Georg Northoff

Anterior Cingulate Activity and the Self in Disorders of Consciousness

Human Brain Mapping, article in press

DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20989

 

Georg Northoff, Pengmin Qin and Takashi Nakao

Rest-stimulus interaction in the brain: a review

Trends in Neurosciences, article in press

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2010.02.006

 

Georg Northoff

Humans, Brains, and Their Environment: Marriage between Neuroscience and Anthropology?

Neuron 65, March 25, 2010

DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.02.024

 

Bastian Sajonz, Thorsten Kahnt, Daniel S. Margulies, Soyoung Q. Park, André Wittmann, Meline Stoy, Andreas Ströhle, Andreas Heinz, Georg Northoff, Felix Bermpohl

Delineating self-referential processing from episodic memory retrieval: Common and dissociable networks

Neuroimage 2010, article in press

DOI:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.087

 

Todd E Feinberg, Annalena Venneri, Anna Maria Simone, Yan Fan, Georg Northoff

The neuroanatomy of asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010, 81: 276-281

DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.188946

 

de Greck M, Enzi B, Prösch U, Gantman A, Tempelmann C, Northoff G.

Decreased neuronal activity in reward circuitry of pathological gamblers during processing of personal relevant stimuli.

Human Brain Mapping 2010 Feb 16

 

Antonio Alcaro, Jaak Panksepp, Jan Witczak, Dave J. Hayes, Georg Northoff

Is subcortical-cortical midline activity in depression mediated by glutamate and GABA? A cross-species translational approach

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 34, 2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.11.023

 

Christine Wiebking, Andre Bauer, Moritz de Greck, Niall W. Duncan, Claus Tempelmann, Georg Northoff

Abnormal body perception and neural activity in the insula in
depression: An fMRI study of the depressed “material me”

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry; Early Online Feb 2010, 1–12

DOI: 10.3109/15622970903563794

 

2009

 

B. Enzi, M. de Greck, U. Prösch, C. Tempelmann, G. Northoff

Is Our Self Nothing but Reward? Neuronal Overlap and Distinction between Reward and Personal Relevance and Its Relation to Human Personality

PLoS ONE, Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2009

 

Georg Northoff

What is neuroethics? Empirical and theoretical neuroethics

Current Opinion in Psychiatry, Sep 2009

DOI:10.1097/YCO.0b013e32832e088b

 

Todd E Feinberg, Annalena Venneri, Anna M Simone, Yan Fan, Georg Northoff

The neuroanatomy of asomatognosia and somatoparaphrenia

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. Published Online First: 24 September 2009

DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.188946

 

Georg Northoff

What Are the Subjective Processes in Our Brain? Empirical and Ethical Implications of a Relational Concept of the Brain
The American Journal of Bioethics,9:9,27-28, Sep 2009

DOI: 10.1080/15265160903098390

 

Shihui Han, Georg Northoff

Understanding the self: a cultural neuroscience approach
Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 178, Aug 2009

ISSN 0079-6123

DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17814-7

 

Alexander Heinzel, Georg Northoff

Emotional feeling and the orbitomedial prefrontal cortex: Theoretical and empirical considerations

Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 22, No. 4, August 2009, 443–464

DOI: 10.1080/09515080903153592

 

Felix Bermpohl, Martin Walter, Bastian Sajonz, Christian Lücke, Claudia Hägele, Philipp Sterzer, Mazda Adli, Andreas Heinz, Georg Northoff

Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing in patients with major
depression—Alterations in prefrontal cortical regions

Neuroscience Letters 2009 Oct 2;463(2):108-13. Epub 2009 Jul 24

 

Alexander Heinzel, Georg Northoff

Kripke’s modal argument is challenged by his implausible conception of introspection

Journal of Philosophy 2009, 22: 13–31

 

Heinzel A, Grimm S, Beck J, Schuepbach D, Hell D, Boesiger P, Boeker H, Northoff G.

Segregated neural representation of psychological and somatic-vegetative symptoms in severe major depression

Neuroscience Letters 2009 Jun 5;456(2):49-53. Epub 2009 Apr 5

 

Simone Grimm, Jutta Ernst, Peter Boesiger, Daniel Schuepbach, Daniel Hell, Heinz Boeker, Georg Northoff

Increased Self-Focus in Major Depressive Disorder Is Related to Neural Abnormalities in Subcortical-Cortical Midline Structures
Human Brain Mapping 2009 Aug;30(8):2617-27

 

Walter M, Henning A, Grimm S, Schulte RF, Beck J, Dydak U, Schnepf B, Boeker H, Boesiger P, Northoff G.

The relationship between aberrant neuronal activation in the pregenual anterior cingulate, altered glutamatergic metabolism, and anhedonia in major depression.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2009 May;66(5):478-86.

 

Moritz de Greck, Alexander Supady, Rene Thiemann, Claus Tempelmann, Bernhard Bogerts, Lukas Forschner, Klaus v. Ploetz, Georg Northoff

Decreased Neural Activity in Reward Circuitry During Personal Reference in Abstinent Alcoholics––A fMRI Study
Human Brain Mapping 2009 May;30(5):1691-704

 

Georg Northoff

Depression and the Brain's Input: Intrinsic Brain Activity and Difference-based Coding

Commentary in Neuropsychoanalysis 2009, 11 (1), p 85-86

 

Jaak Panksepp, Georg Northoff

The trans-species core SELF: The emergence of active cultural and neuro-ecological agents through
self-related processing within subcortical-cortical midline networks

Consciousness and Cognition 2009 Mar;18(1):193-215. Epub 2008 May 15

 

Simone Grimm, Peter Boesiger, Johannes Beck, Daniel Schuepbach, Felix Bermpohl, Martin Walter, Jutta Ernst, Daniel Hell, Heinz Boeker, Georg Northoff

Altered Negative BOLD Responses in the Default-Mode Network during Emotion Processing in Depressed Subjects
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009 Mar;34(4):932-843. Epub 2008 Jun 4

 

Georg Northoff, Felix Schneider, Michael Rotte, Christian Matthiä, Claus Tempelmann, Christine Wiebking, Felix Bermpohl, Alexander Heinzel, Peter Danos, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Bernhard Bogerts, Martin Walter, Jaak Panksepp

Differential parametric modulation of self-relatedness and emotions in different brain regions
Hum Brain Mapp. 2009, 30: 369-382

 

2008

 

Felix Bermpohl, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Felipe Fregni, Jana Wrase, Florian Schlagenhauf, Michael Bauer, Andreas Heinz, Gottfried Schlaug, Georg Northoff

Novelty seeking modulates medial prefrontal activity during the anticipation of emotional stimuli
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 164 (2008) 81–85


Felix Schneider, Felix Bermpohl, Alexander Heinzel, Michael Rotte, Martin Walter, Claus Tempelmann, Christine Wiebking, Henrik Dobrowolny, Hans Jochen Heinze, Georg Northoff

The resting brain and our Self: Self-relatedness modulates resting state neural activity in cortical midline structures
Neuroscience 2008 Nov 11;157(1):120-31. Epub 2008 Aug 19


Shihui Han and Georg Northoff

Culture-sensitive neural substrates of human cognition: a transcultural neuroimaging approach
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 Aug;9(8):646-54


Alexander Heinzel, Rainer Steinke, Thorsten Dirk Poeppel, Oliver Grosser, Bernhard Bogerts, Hans Otto and Georg Northoff

S-ketamine and GABA-A-receptor interaction in humans:
an exploratory study with I-123-iomazenil SPECT

Hum Psychopharmacol Clin Exp 2008; 23: 1–6


Georg Northoff, Jaak Panksepp

The trans-species concept of self and the subcortical–cortical midline system
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2008, Available online 12 June 2008


M. Walter, F. Bermpohl, H. Mouras, K. Schiltz, C. Tempelmann, M. Rotte, H.J. Heinze, B. Bogerts, G. Northoff

Distinguishing specific sexual and general emotional effects in fMRI—Subcortical and cortical arousal during erotic picture viewing
Neuroimage 40, 2008, 1482 - 1494, doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.040


Georg Northoff

Is Appraisal ‘Embodied’ and ‘Embedded’? A Neurophilosophical Investigation of Emotions
Journal of Consciousness Studies 2008, 15 (5):68-99


Joachim Witzel, Martin Walter, Bernhard Bogerts, Georg Northoff

Neurophilosophical perspectives of neuroimaging in forensic psychiatry - giving way to a paradigm shift?

Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Volume 26 Issue 1, Pages 113-130

 

Georg Northoff

Are our emotional feelings relational? A neurophilosophical investigation of the James–Lange theory
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 2008, 7 (4)


Georg Northoff

Neuropsychiatry– an old discipline in a new gestalt bridging biological psychiatry, neuropsychology, and cognitive neurology
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2008


Simone Grimm, Johannes Beck, Daniel Schuepbach, Daniel Hell, Peter Boesiger, Felix Bermpohl, Ludwig Niehaus, Heinz Boeker, and Georg Northoff

Imbalance between Left and Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Major Depression
Is Linked to Negative Emotional Judgment: An fMRI Study in Severe Major Depressive Disorder

Biol Psychiatry 2008; 63(4):369-76


M. de Greck, M. Rotte, R. Paus, D. Moritz, R. Thiemann, U. Proesch, U. Bruer, S. Moerth, C. Tempelmann, B. Bogerts, and G. Northoff

Is our self based on reward? Self-relatedness recruits neural activity in the reward system
Neuroimage 2008; 39(4):2066-75


M. Walter, J. Stadler, C. Tempelmann, O. Speck, G. Northoff

High resolution fMRI of subcortical regions during visual erotic stimulation at 7 T
Magn Reson Mater Phy 2008

 

2007

 

Martin Walter, Christian Matthiä, Christine Wiebking, Michael Rotte, Claus Tempelmann, Bernhard Bogerts, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Georg Northoff

Preceding attention and the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex: Process specificity versus domain dependence
Hum Brain Mapp. 2007


Georg Northoff, Martin Walter, Rolf F Schulte, Johannes Beck, Ulrike Dydak, Anke Henning, Heinz Boeker, Simone Grimm & Peter Boesiger

GABA concentrations in the human anterior cingulate cortex predict negative BOLD responses in fMRI
Nature Neurosc 2007; 10(12):1515-7


Georg Northoff

Psychopathology and pathophysiology of the self in depression - Neuropsychiatric hypothesis
Journal of Affective Disorders, 2007; 104:1-14


Georg Northoff, Felix Bermpohl, Frank Schoeneich, Heinz Boeker

How Does Our Brain Constitute Defense Mechanisms? First-Person Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Psychother Psychosom 2007; 76:141–153


Kolja Schiltz, Joachim Witzel, Georg Northoff, Kathrin Zierhut, Udo Gubka, Hermann Fellmann, Joörn Kaufmann, Claus Tempelmann, Christine Wiebking, Bernhard Bogerts

Brain Pathology in Pedophilic Offenders Evidence of Volume Reduction in the Right Amygdala and Related Diencephalic Structures
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2007; 64:737-746


Martin Walter, Joachim Witzel, Christine Wiebking, Udo Gubka, Michael Rotte, Kolja Schiltz, Felix Bermpohl, Claus Tempelmann, Bernhard Bogerts, Hans Jochen Heinze, and Georg Northoff

Pedophilia Is Linked to Reduced Activation in Hypothalamus and Lateral Prefrontal Cortex During Visual Erotic Stimulation
Biol Psychiatry 2007; 62(6):698-701

 

2006

 

Felix Bermpohl, Felipe Fregni, Paulo S. Boggio, Gregor Thut, Georg Northoff, Patricia T.M. Otachi, Sergio P. Rigonatti, Marco A. Marcolin, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Effect of low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation on an affective go/no-go task in patients with major depression: role of stimulation site and depression severity.
Psychiatry Res, 2006 Jan 30;141(1):1-13. Epub 2005 Dec 13. PMID: 16352348


Felix Bermpohl, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Felipe Fregni, Nadine Gaab, David Alsop, Gottfried Schlaug, Georg Northoff

Dissociable networks for the expectancy and perception of emotional stimuli in the human brain.
Neuroimage, 2006 Apr 1;30(2):588-600. Epub 2005 Nov 7 PMID: 16275018


Heinz Boeker, Matthias Kleiser, Doerte Lehman, Lutz Jaenke, Bernhard Bogerts, Georg Northoff

Executive dysfunction, self, and ego pathology in schizophrenia:an exploratory study of neuropsychology and personality
Compr Psychiatry, 2006 Jan-Feb;47(1):7-19.PMID: 16324897


Simone Grimm, Conny F. Schmidt, Felix Bermpohl, Alexander Heinzel, Yuliya Dahlem, Michael Wyss, Daniel Hell, Peter Boesiger, Heinz Boeker, Georg Northoff

Segregated neural representation of distinct emotion dimensions in the prefrontal cortex-an fMRI study.
Neuroimage, 2006 Mar;30(1):325-40. Epub 2005 Oct 14. PMID: 16230029


Alexander Heinzel, Martin Walter, Felix Schneider, Michael Rotte, Christian Matthiae, Claus Tempelmann, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Bernhard Bogerts, Georg Northoff

Self-related processing in the sexual domain: parametric event-related fMRI study reveals neural activity in ventral cortical midline structures.
Social Neuroscience, 2006, 1 (1), 41-51


Georg Northoff

Neuroscience of decision making and informed consent: an investigation in neuroethics.
J Med Ethics, 2006;32;70-73 doi:10.1136/jme.2005.011858


Georg Northoff, Felix Bermpohl, Frank Schoenreich, Heinz Boeker

How does our brain constitute defense mechanisms? First-person Neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
Psychother Psychosom, 2006 Jun


G. Northoff, H. Boeker

Principles of Neuronal Integration and Defense Mechanisms: Neuropsychoanalytic Hypothesis
Neuro-Psychoanalysis, 2006, 8(1), 69-84


G. Northoff, H. Boeker, B. Bogerts

Subjektives Erleben und neuronale Integration im Gehirn: Benötigen wir eine Erste-Person-Neurowissenschaft?
Fortschr Neurol Psychiat 2006; 74: 627-633


Georg Northoff, Simone Grimm, Heinz Boeker, Conny Schmidt, Felix Bermpohl, Alexander Heinzel, Daniel Hell, Peter Boesiger

Affective judgment and beneficial decision making: ventromedial prefrontal activity correlates with performance in the Iowa Gambling Task.
Hum Brain Mapp, 2006 Jul; 27(7), 572-87. PMID: 16372256


Georg Northoff, Alexander Heinzel

First-Person Neuroscience: A new methodological approach for linking mental and neuronal states.
Philos Ethics Humanit Med, 2006 Mar 17;1(1):3. PMID: 16759399


Georg Northoff, Alexander Heinzel, Moritz de Greck, Felix Bermpohl, Henrik Dobrowolny, Jaak Panksepp

Self-referential processing in our brain--a meta-analysis of imaging studies on the self.
Neuroimage, 2006 May 15;31(1):440-57. Epub 2006 Feb 7. PMID: 16466680


Georg Northoff, Kristina Musholt

How Can Searle Avoid Property Dualism? Epistemic-OntologicalInference and Autoepistemic Limitation
Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 5, October 2006, pp. 1-17


G. Northoff, J. Witzel, B. Bogerts

Was ist "Neuroethik" – eine Disziplin der Zukunft?
Nervenarzt, 2006 77:5–11


Christine Wiebking, Joachim Witzel, Martin Walter, Udo Gubka, Georg Northoff

Vergleich der emotionalen und sexuellen Prozessierung zwischen Gesunden und Patienten mit einer Pädophilie – eine kombinierte Studie aus Neuropsychologie und fMRT
Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Werkstattschriften (WsFPP), Pabst Science Publishers 13. Jahrgang 2006, Heft 2, 79-93

 

2005

 

Raiko Bark, Silvia Dieckmann, Bernhard Bogerts, Georg Northoff

Deficit in decision making in catatonic schizophrenia: an exploratory study.
Psychiatry Res, 2005 Apr 15;134(2):131-41. PMID: 15840414


Felix Bermpohl, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Felipe Fregni, Nadine Gaab, David Alsop, Gottfried Schlaug, Georg Northoff

Attentional modulation of emotional stimulus processing: An fMRI study using emotional expectancy.
Hum Brain Mapp, 2005 Nov 29; [Epub ahead of print].PMID: 16317710


Felix Bermpohl, Felipe Fregni, Paulo S. Boggio, Gregor Thut, Georg Northoff, Patricia T. M. Otachi, Sergio P. Rigonatti, Marco A. Marcolin, Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Left prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation impairs performance in affective go/no-go task.
Neuroreport, 2005 Apr 25;16(6):615-9. PMID: 15812319


Heinz Böker, Georg Northoff

Desymbolisierung in der schweren Depression und das Problem der Hemmung: Ein neuropsychoanalytisches Modell der Störung des emotionalen Selbstbezugs Depressiver
Psyche-Z Psychoanal 59, Sept/Okt 2005,


Peter Danos, Andrea Schmidt, Bruno Baumann, Hans-Gert Bernstein, Georg Northoff, Renate Stauch, Dieter Krell, Bernhard Bogerts

Volume and neuron number of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in schizophrenia: a replication study.
Psychiatry Res, 2005 Dec 30;140(3):281-9. Epub 2005 Nov 16. PMID: 16297604


Alexander Heinzel, Felix Bermpohl, Robert Niese, Andrea Pfennig, Alvaro Pascual-Leonea, Gottfried Schlaug, Georg Northoff

How do we modulate our emotions? Parametric fMRI reveals cortical midline structures as regions specifically involved in the processing of emotional valences
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 2005 Sep;25(1):348-58.PMID: 16081255


Georg Northoff

Is emotion regulation self-regulation?
Trends Cogn Sci, 2005 Sep;9(9):408-9; author reply 409-10.PMID: 15967705


Georg Northoff, Andre Richter, Felix Bermpohl, Simone Grimm, Ernst Martin, Valentine Leslie Marcar, Constance Wahl, Daniel Hell, Heinz Boeker

NMDA hypofunction in the posterior cingulate as a model for schizophrenia: an exploratory ketamine administration study in fMRI.
Schizophr Res, 2005 Jan 1;72(2-3):235-48. PMID: 15560968

 

2004

 

Georg Northoff

Why do we need a philosophy of the brain?
Trends Cogn Sci, 2004 Nov;8(11):484-5. PMID: 15491901


Georg Northoff, Felix Bermpohl

Cortical midline structures and the self.
Trends Cogn Sci, 2004 Mar;8(3):102-7. PMID: 15301749


Georg Northoff, Alexander Heinzel, Felix Bermpohl, Robert Niese, Andrea Pfennig, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Gottfried Schlaug

Reciprocal modulation and attenuation in the prefrontal cortex: an fMRI study on emotional-cognitive interaction.
Hum Brain Mapp, 2004 Mar;21(3):202-12. PMID: 14755839


Georg Northoff, Rolf Kötter, Frank Baumgart, Peter Danos, Heinz Boeker, Thomas Kaulisch, Florian Schlagenhauf, Henrik Walter, Alexander Heinzel, Thomas Witzel, Bernhard Bogerts

Orbitofrontal Cortical Dysfunction in Akinetic Catatonia: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study During Negative Emotional Stimulation
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 30(2):405-427,2004

 

2003

 

Georg Northoff

Qualia and the Ventral Prefrontal Cortical Function - Neurophenomenological Hypothesis
Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2003; 8:14-48


G. Thut, G. Northoff, J.R. Ives, Y. Kamitani, A. Pfennig, F. Kampmann, D.L. Schomer, A. Pascual-Leone

Effects of single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on functional brain activity: a combined event-related TMS and evoked potential study
Clin Neurophysiol, 2003 Nov;114(11):2071-80. PMID: 14580605


G. Thut, H. Théoret, A. Pfennig, J. Ives, F. Kampmann, G. Northoff, A. Pascual-Leone

Differential effects of low-frequency rTMS at the occipital pole on visual-induced alpha desynchronization and visual-evoked potentials.
Neuroimage, 2003 Feb;18(2):334-47. PMID: 12595187

 

2002

 

Georg Northoff

Catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome: psychopathology and pathophysiology
J Neural Transm, 2002 109, 1453–1467


Georg Northoff

What catatonia can tell us about “top-down modulation”: A neuropsychiatric hypothesis
Behav Brain Sci, 2002 25, 555–604


Georg Northoff, Thomas Witzel, Andre Richter, Matthias Gessner, Florian Schlagenhauf, Jürgen Fell, Frank Baumgart, Thomas Kaulisch, Claus Tempelmann, Alexander Heinzel, Rolf Kötter, Tilman Hagner, Bela Bargel, Hermann Hinrichs, Bernhard Bogerts, Henning Scheich, Hans-Jochen Heinze

GABA-ergic modulation of prefrontal spatio-temporal activation pattern during emotional processing: a combined fMRI/MEG study with placebo and lorazepam
Cogn Neurosci, 2002 Apr 1;14(3):348-70. PMID: 11970797

 

2000

 

G. Northoff, A. Pfennig, M. Krug, P. Danos, A. Leschinger, A. Schwarz, B. Bogerts

Delayed onset of late movement-related cortical potentials and abnormal response to lorazepam in catatonia
Schizophr Res, 2000 Sep 1;44(3):193-211. PMID: 10962222


Georg Northoff, Andre Richter, Matthias Gessner, Florian Schlangenhauf, Jürgen Fell, Frank Baumgart, Thomas Kaulisch, Rolf Kötter, Klaas E. Stephan, Andreas Leschinger, Tilman Hagner, Bela Bargel, Thomas Witzel, Hermann Hinrichs, Bernhard Bogerts, Henning Scheich, Hans-Jochen Heinze

Funtional Dissociation between Medial and Lateral Prefrontal Cortical Spatiotemporal Activation in Negative and Positive Emotions: A Combined fMRI/MEG Study
Cereb Cortex, 2000 Jan;10(1):93-107. PMID: 10639399


G. Northoff, R. Steinke, D. Nagel, C. Czerwenka, O. Grosser, P. Danos, A. Genz, R. Krause, H. Bösker, H. J. Otto and B. Bogerts

Right lower prefronto-parietal cortical dysfunction in akinetic catatonia: a combined study of neuropsychology and regional cerebral blood flow.
Psych Med, 2000, 30, 583-596.


G. Northoff

Brain Imaging in Catatonia: Current Findings and a Pathophysiologic Model
CNS Spectrums, 2000; 5(7): 34-46


H. Böker, G. Northoff, C. Lenz, C. von Schmeling, A. Eppel, F. Härtling, H. Will, G. Lempa, M. Meier, D. Hell

Die Rekonstruktion der Sprachlosigkeit
Psychiat Prax, 2000; 27: 389-396

 

1999

 

G. Northoff, D. Nagel, P. Danos, A. Leschinger, J. Lerche, B. Bogerts

Impairment in visual–spatial function in catatonia: a neuropsychological investigation
Schizophr Res, 1999 May 25;37(2):133-47. PMID: 10374649


Georg Northoff, Reiner Steinke, Christian Czcervenka, Reiner Krause, Sven Ulrich, Peter Danos, Dieter Kropf, HansJürgen Otto, Bernhard Bogerts

Decreased density of GABA-A receptors in the left sensorimotor cortex in akinetic catatonia: investigation of in vivo benzodiazepine receptorbinding
J Neurol Neurosurg, Psychiatry 1999;67;445-450 PMID: 10486389


G. NORTHOFF, D.F. BRAUS, A. SARTORIUS, D. KHORAM-SEFAT, M. RUSS, J. ECKERT, M. HERRIG, A. LESCHINGER, B. BOGERTS, F.A. HENN

Reduced activation and altered laterality in two neuroleptic-naive catatonic patients during a motor task in functional MRI
Psychological Medicine, 1999, 29, 997-1002.


G. Northoff, H. Lins, H. Böker, P. Danos, B. Bogerts

Therapeutic Efficacy of N-Methyl D-Aspartate Antagonist Amantadine in Febrile Catatonia
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Volume 19(5), October 1999, pp 484-486


Georg Northoff, Andreas Koch, Jens Wenke, Joachim Eckert, Heinz Böker, Burkhard Pflug and Bernhard Bogerts

Catatonia as a Psychomotor Syndrome: A Rating Scale and Extrapyramidal Motor Symptoms
Movement Disorders, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1999, pp. 404–416


Georg Northoff, Hagen Waters, Ingeborg Mooren, Uwe Schlüter, Silvia Diekmann, Peter Falkai and Bernhard Bogerts

Cortical sulcal enlargement in catatonic schizophrenia: a planimetric CT study
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Section 91 pp. 45–54

 

1995-1998

 

G. Northoff, W. Krill, J. Wenke, B. Gille, M. Russ, J. Eckert, U. Pester, B. Bogerts, B. Pflug

Major Differences in Subjective Experience of Akinetic States in Catatonic and Parkinsonian Patients
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY, 1998, 3 (3 ), 161-178


G. Northoff, J. Eckert, J. Fritze

Glutamatergic dysfunction in catatonia? Successful treatment of three acute akinetic catatonic patients with the NMDA antagonist amantadine
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 62:404-406


Georg Northoff, Lothar Demisch, Jens Wenke, Burkhard Pflug

Plasma Homovanillic Acid Concentrations in Catatonia
BIOL PSYCHIATRY 1996; 39:436-443


Georg Northoff

Do brain tissue transplants alter personal identity? Inadequacies of some "standard" arguments
Journal of Medical Ethics, 1996; 22:174-180


G. Northoff, J. Wenke, B. Pflug

Increase of serum creatine phosphokinase in catatonia: an investigation in 32 acute catatonic patients
Psychological Medicine 1996; 26:547-553


G. Northoff

Ethische Probleme bei Hirngewebstransplantationen
Ethik in der Medizin 1995; 7:87-98


G. Northoff, J. Wenke, L. Demisch, J. Eckert, B. Gille, B. Pflug

Catatonia: short-term response to lorazepam and dopaminergic metabolism
Psychopharmacology 1995; 122:182-186


G. Northoff, J. Wenke, W. Krill, B. Pflug

Ball Experiments in 32 Acute Akinetic Catatonic Patients: Deficits of Internal Initiation and Generation of Movements
Movement Disorders 1995; 10(5):589-595