2023

11.23: Monday noon lab meeting

10.2023: New publication from Hilbert K. und Lueken U. with our contribution entitled: "Cortical and subcortical brain alterations in specific phobia and its animal and blood-injection-injury subtypes: a mega-analysis from the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group" accepted in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Mini Workshop: Neurorehabilitation and Multiple Sclerosis; Imaging Research; 15-16. August 2023: organized by Matthias Grothe (Neurology Greifswald) and Guy Nagels (Vrije University, Brüssel):
talks by Matthias Grothe, Martin Lotze, Pavel Hok, Delphine Van Laethem, Stijn Denissen and Guy Nagels.

OHBM Montreal 22-26 July 2023:
contributions from our group have been accepted for presentation;
"Biomarkers for chronic pain: a VBM study in a population-based cohort" by Neumann et al.,
"White matter integrity and chronic post-stroke upper limb function: An ENIGMA Stroke analysis" by Domin et al.,
"Functional and structural connectivity in complex regional pain syndrome: a multicentric study" by Hok et al.

5.7.23: AI-algorithm differentiates male and female brains with 92% correctness even if groups are balanced for brain size. New article in Neuroimage Reports entitled: "Classifying sex with volume-matched brain MRI".  
link for open access article: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S2666-9560(23)00026-0


27.6.23: Accepted Manuscript in "Brain Sciences": One year of outpatient dialectical behavioral therapy and its impact on neuronal correlates of attachment representation in patients with borderline personality disorder using a personalized fMRI task. Authors: Flechsig A.*, Bernheim D. *, Buchheim A., Domin M., Mentel R., Lotze M.
link for pdf: www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/7/1001/pdf

26.6.23: Accepted Manuscript in Stroke: White matter integrity and chronic post-stroke upper limb function: An ENIGMA Stroke Recovery analysis. by Domin M., Hordacre B, Hok P, 17 authors, Lotze M. (2023)

23.6.23: Accepted manuscript in Frontiers Physiology: The role of ipsilateral motor network in upper limb movement; by: Ding H., Seusing N., Nasseroleslami B., Anwar A.R., Strauss S., Lotze M., Grothe M., Groppa S., Muthuraman M.

7.6.23: Forschung vernetzt_Krupp Kolleg Greifswald; link: www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/allgemeines/veranstaltungskalender/veranstaltung/n/forschung-vernetzt-expertise-dialogue-ideas-2/

6.6.23: Acceptance of our study on overlapping grey matter alterations across different pain conditions by the European Journal of Pain. Authors: Neumann N., Domin M., Schmidt C.O., Lotze M. entitled: Chronic pain is associated with less gray matter volume in the anterior cingulum, anterior and posterior insula and hippocampus across three different chronic pain conditions.
link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejp.2153

fMRI-Symposium Olmütz/Tschechien from 30-31.3.2023:
"fMRI of emotional processing, control and its impact on pain chronicity and impairments in social interaction" (M. Lotze); "Interhemispheric parietal cortex connectivity reflects improvement in post-stroke spasticity due to treatment with botulinum toxin-A" (Pavel Hok) and "Biomarkers of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Revisited: A Bicentric Study" (Pavel Hok)
link:fmri2023.upol.cz/en/

22.3.23: Acceptance of the manuscript for Brain Communications entitled: Structural integrity of the insula and emotional facial recognition performance following stroke by Kai Klepzig, Martin Domin, Julia Wendt, Bettina von Sarnowski, Alexander Lischke, Alfons O. Hamm and Martin Lotze.
link: academic.oup.com/braincomms/advance-article/doi/10.1093/braincomms/fcad144/7146401?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=braincomms&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=bd0ba107-68f1-4dc2-b83d-4b011295d4fd

2.3.23: New manuscript accepted in the European Journal of Neurology entitled Modulation of bodily response to chill stimuli by impaired structural connectivity of the left insula- a functional and lesion quantification study in stroke patients. by Witt L.*, Klepzig K.*, von Sarnowski B., Horn U., Domin M., Hamm A., Lotze M. (*equal contribution).
Figure: Integrity of left ventral anterior structural connectivity (diffusion weighted tractography using fractional anisotropy quantification)
was related to bodily response during aversive chill processing in patients following stroke around the insula.

13.2.23: New manuscript accepted in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences entitled: Interhemispheric parietal cortex connectivity reflects improvement in post-stroke spasticity due to treatment with botulinum toxin-A by Veverka T., Hok P., Trnečková M., Otruba P., Zapletalová J., Tüdös Z., Lotze M., Kaňovský P., Hluštík P.

11.2.23: New manuscript with contributions of our group in Neurology by Liew S-L, several other coauthors including Domin M., Lotze M., and Thompson P.T. (2023) Association of brain age, lesion volume, and functional outcome in patients with stroke.

11.1.23: New statistical Review on conjunctions of functional imaging maps induced by fear conditioning and vestibular stimulation accepted in the Journal of Neurology entitled: Common neural correlates of vestibular stimulation and fear learning: an fMRI meta-analysis, von Neumann N., Fullana MA., Radua J., Brandt T., Dieterich M., Lotze M.