Publications of Burkhard Pleger

Schlögl, H., Kabisch, S., Horstmann, A., Lohmann, G., Mueller, K., Lepsien, J., … Stumvoll, M. (2013). Exenatide-induced reduction in energy intake is associated with increase in hypothalamic connectivity. Diabetes Care, 36, 1933–1940.

Pleger, B., & Villringer, A. (2013). The human somatosensory system: From perception to decision making. Progress in Neurobiology, 103, 76–97.

Hollmann, M., Pleger, B., Villringer, A., & Horstmann, A. (2013). Brain imaging in the context of food perception and eating. Current Opinion in Lipidology, 24, 18–24.

Hollmann, M., Hellrung, L., Pleger, B., Schlögl, H., Kabisch, S., Stumvoll, M., … Horstmann, A. (2012). Neural correlates of the volitional regulation of the desire for food. International Journal of Obesity, 36, 648–655.

Kabisch, S., Pleger, B., Villringer, A., & Horstmann, A. (2012). Geschlechtsabhängige Einflüsse von Übergewicht auf Hirnfunktion und -struktur. Adipositas: Ursachen, Klinik, Folgeerkrankungen, 6, 168–172.

Horstmann, A., Busse, F. P., Mathar, D., Mueller, K., Lepsien, J., Schlögl, H., … Pleger, B. (2011). Obesity-related differences between women and men in brain structure and goal-directed behavior. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2011.00058

Mueller, K., Anwander, A., Möller, H. E., Horstmann, A., Lepsien, J., Busse, F. P., … Pleger, B. (2011). Sex-dependent influences of obesity on cerebral white matter investigated by diffusion-tensor imaging. PLoS One, 6. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018544

Lohmann, G., Margulies, D. S., Horstmann, A., Pleger, B., Lepsien, J., Goldhahn, D., … Turner, R. (2010). Eigenvector centrality mapping for analyzing connectivity patterns in fMRI data of the human brain. PLoS One, 5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010232

Schneider, S. A., Pleger, B., Draganski, B., Cordivari, C., Rothwell, J. C., Bhatia, K. P., & Dolan, R. J. (2010). Modulatory effects of 5Hz rTMS over the primary somatosensory cortex in focal dystonia: An fMRI-TMS study. Movement Disorders, 25, 76–83.

Lissek, S., Wilimzig, C., Stude, P., Pleger, B., Kalisch, T., Maier, C., … Dinse, H. R. (2009). Immobilization impairs tactile perception and shrinks somatosensory cortical maps. Current Biology, 19, 837–842.

Obermann, M., Pleger, B., de Greiff, A., Stude, P., Kaube, H., Diener, H.-C., & Katsarava, Z. (2009). Temporal summation of trigeminal pain in human anterior cingulate cortex. NeuroImage, 46, 193–200.

Pleger, B., Ruff, C. C., Blankenburg, F., Klöppel, S., Driver, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2009). Influence of dopaminergically mediated reward on somatosensory decision-making. PLoS Biology, 7. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000164

Pleger, B., Blankenburg, F., Ruff, C. C., Driver, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2008). Reward facilitates tactile judgments and modulates hemodynamic responses in human primary somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 8161–8168.

Petrovic, P., Pleger, B., Seymour, B., Klöppel, S., De Martino, B., Critchley, H. D., & Dolan, R. J. (2008). Blocking central opiate function modulates hedonic impact and anterior cingulate response to rewards and losses. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 10509–10516.

Wiech, K., Kalisch, R., Weiskopf, N., Pleger, B., Stephan, K. E., & Dolan , R. J. (2006). Anterolateral prefrontal cortex mediates the analgesic effect of expected and perceived control over pain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 11501–11509.

Tegenthoff, M., Ragert, P., Pleger, B., Schwenkreis, P., Förster, A.-F., Nicolas, V., & Dinse, H. R. (2005). Improvement of Tactile Discrimination Performance and Enlargement of Cortical Somatosensory Maps after 5 Hz rTMS. PLoS Biology, 3. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030362.

Macher, K., Boehringer, A., Dukart, J., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2013). Virtual cerebellar lesions influence verbal working memory: A tDCS study. In J. L. Pons, D. Torricelli, & M. Pajaro (Eds.), Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation (pp. 529–532). Heidelberg: Springer.

Pleger, B., Mueller, K., Poppitz, S., Preusser, S., Schütz, T., Dietrich, A., … Rullmann, M. (2019). Metabolism and inflammation related neural plasticity of the obese human brain induced by bariatric surgery. In Clinical Neurophysiology (Vol. 130). Amsterdam: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2019.04.651

Schloegel, H., Mueller, K., Horstmann, A., Pleger, B., Miehle, K., Möller, H. E., … Stumvoll, M. (2014). Leptin-substitution in patients with congenital lipodystrophy increases connectivity in reward-related brain structures: An fMRI study. In Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes (Vol. 122). Leipzig: J.A. Barth. doi:10.1055/s-0034-1371982

Macher, K., Boehringer, A., Dukart, J., Villringer, A., & Pleger, B. (2012). Virtuelle cerebelläre Läsionen beeinflussen das verbale Kurzzeitgedächtnis: Eine tDCS-Studie. In Neurologie & Rehabilitation (Vol. 18, pp. 379–379). Bad Honnef: Hippocampus Verl.