Publications of Burkhard Pleger

Pleger, B., Wilimzig, C., Nicolas, V., Kalisch, T., Ragert, P., Tegenthoff, M., & Dinse, H. R. (2016). A complementary role of intracortical inhibition in age-related tactile degradation and its remodelling in humans. Scientific Reports, 6. doi:10.1038/srep27388

Taubert, M., Mehnert, J., Pleger, B., & Villringer, A. (2016). Rapid and specific gray matter changes in M1 induced by balance training. NeuroImage, 133, 399–407.

Kumar, S., Grundeis, F., Brand, C., Hwang, H.-J., Mehnert, J., & Pleger, B. (2016). Differences in insula and pre-/frontal responses during reappraisal of food in lean and obese humans. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00233

Melasch, J., Rullmann, M., Hilbert, A., Luthardt, J., Becker, G. A., Patt, M., … Pleger, B. (2016). The central nervous norepinephrine network links a diminished sense of emotional well-being to an increased body weight. International Journal of Obesity, 40, 779–787.

Pleger, B. (2016). The structure of facial spasms. Clinical Neurophysiology, 127, 1003–1004.

Mathar, D., Horstmann, A., Pleger, B., Villringer, A., & Neumann, J. (2016). Is it worth the effort?: Novel insights into obesity-associated alterations in cost-benefit decision-making. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00360

Mueller, K., Möller, H. E., Horstmann, A., Busse, F. P., Lepsien, J., Blüher, M., … Pleger, B. (2015). Physical exercise in overweight to obese individuals induces metabolic- and neurotrophic-related structural brain plasticity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00372

Goltz, D., Gundlach, C., Nierhaus, T., Villringer, A., Müller, M., & Pleger, B. (2015). Connections between intraparietal sulcus and a sensorimotor network underpin sustained tactile attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 7938–7949.

Preusser, S., Thiel, S. D., Rook, C., Roggenhofer, E., Kosatschek, A., Draganski, B., … Pleger, B. (2015). The perception of touch and the ventral somatosensory pathway. Brain, 138, 540–548.

Ritter, P., Born, J., Brecht, M., Dinse, H., Heinemann, U., Pleger, B., … Kempter, R. (2015). State-dependencies of learning across brain scales. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 9. doi:10.3389/fncom.2015.00001

Nierhaus, T., Pach, D., Huang, W., Long, X., Napadow, V., Roll, S., … Witt, C. M. (2015). Differential cerebral response to somatosensory stimulation of an acupuncture point vs. two non-acupuncture points measured with EEG and fMRI. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00074

Mueller, K., Horstmann, A., Möller, H. E., Anwander, A., Lepsien, J., Schroeter, M. L., … Pleger, B. (2014). Obesity associated cerebral gray and white matter alterations are interrelated in the female brain. PLoS One, 9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114206

Macher, K., Boehringer, A., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2014). Cerebellar-parietal connections underpin phonological storage. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34, 5029–5037.

Thiel, S. D., Bitzer, S., Nierhaus, T., Kalberlah, C., Preusser, S., Neumann, J., … Pleger, B. (2014). Hysteresis as an implicit prior in tactile spatial decision making. PLoS One, 9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089802

Pleger, B., Draganski, B., Schwenkreis, P., Lenz, M., Nicolas, V., Maier, C., & Tegenthoff, M. (2014). Complex regional pain syndrome type I affects brain structure in prefrontal and motor cortex. PLoS One, 9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085372

Goltz, D., Pleger, B., Thiel, S. D., Villringer, A., & Müller, M. M. (2013). Sustained spatial attention to vibrotactile stimulation in the flutter range: Relevant brain regions and their interaction. PLoS One, 8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084196

Horstmann, A., Kovacs, P., Kabisch, S., Böttcher, Y., Schlögl, H., Tönjes, A., … Villringer, A. (2013). Common genetic variation near MC4R has a sex-specific impact on human brain structure and eating behavior. PLoS One, 8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074362

Böhringer, A., Macher, K., Dukart, J., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2013). Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates verbal working memory. Brain Stimulation, 6, 649–653.

Kalberlah, C., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2013). Dynamic causal modeling suggests serial processing of tactile vibratory stimuli in the human somatosensory cortex: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 74, 164–171.

Nierhaus, T., Gundlach, C., Goltz, D., Thiel, S., Pleger, B., & Villringer, A. (2013). Internal ventilation system of MR scanners induces specific EEG artifact during simultaneous EEG-fMRI. NeuroImage, 74, 70–76.