Publications of Burkhard Pleger

Wang, B. A., & Pleger, B. (2020). Confidence in decision-making during probabilistic tactile learning related to distinct thalamo-prefrontal pathways. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 4677–4688.

Hankir, M. K., Al-Bas, S., Rullmann, M., Chakaroun, R., Seyfried, F., & Pleger, B. (2020). Homeostatic, reward and executive brain functions after gastric bypass surgery. Appetite, 146. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.104419

Rullmann, M., Preusser, S., & Pleger, B. (2019). Prefrontal and posterior parietal contributions to the perceptual awareness of touch. Scientific Reports, 9. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-53637-w

Weise, C., Bachmann, T., & Pleger, B. (2019). Brain structural differences in monozygotic twins discordant for body mass index. NeuroImage, 201. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.07.019

Hankir, M. K., Rullmann, M., Seyfried, F., Preusser, S., Poppitz, S., Heba, S., … Pleger, B. (2019). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery progressively alters radiologic measures of hypothalamic inflammation in obese patients. JCI Insight, 4. doi:10.1172/jci.insight.131329

Rullmann, M., Preusser, S., Poppitz, S., Heba, S., Gousias, K., Hoyer, J., … Pleger, B. (2019). Adiposity related brain plasticity induced by bariatric surgery. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00290

Pleger, B. (2018). Invasive and non-invasive stimulation of the obese human brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12. doi:10.3389/fnins.2018.00884

Kumar, S., Grundeis, F., Brand, C., Hwang, H.-J., Mehnert, J., & Pleger, B. (2018). Satiety-induced enhanced neuronal activity in the frontal operculum relates to the desire for food in the obese female brain. Experimental Brain Research, 236, 2553–2562.

Wistehube, T., Rullmann, M., Wiacek, C., Braun, P., & Pleger, B. (2018). Fat perception in the human frontal operculum, insular and somatosensory cortex. Scientific Reports, 8. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-30366-0

Rullmann, M., Preusser, S., Poppitz, S., Heba, S., Hoyer, J., Schütz, T., … Pleger, B. (2018). Gastric-bypass surgery induced widespread neural plasticity of the obese human brain. NeuroImage, 172, 853–863.

Hellrung, L., Dietrich, A., Hollmann, M., Pleger, B., Kalberlah, C., Roggenhofer, E., … Horstmann, A. (2018). Intermittent compared to continuous real-time fMRI neurofeedback boosts control over amygdala activation. NeuroImage, 166, 198–208.

Kuehn, E., Haggard, P., Villringer, A., Pleger, B., & Sereno, M. I. (2018). Visually-driven maps in area 3b. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 1295–1310.

Kuehn, E., Doehler, J., & Pleger, B. (2017). The influence of vision on tactile Hebbian learning. Scientific Reports, 7. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-09181-6

Grundeis, F., Brand, C., Kumar, S., Rullmann, M., Mehnert, J., & Pleger, B. (2017). Non-invasive prefrontal/frontal brain stimulation is not effective in modulating food reappraisal abilities or calorie consumption in obese females. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11. doi:10.3389/fnins.2017.00334

Weise, C. M., Piaggi, P., Reinhardt, M., Chen, K., Savage, C. R., Krakoff, J., & Pleger, B. (2017). The obese brain as a heritable phenotype: A combined morphometry and twin study. International Journal of Obesity, 41, 458–466.

Long, X., Huang, W., Napadow, V., Liang, F., Pleger, B., Villringer, A., … Pach, D. (2016). Sustained effects of acupuncture stimulation investigated with centrality mapping analysis. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00510

Taubert, M., Stein, T., Kreutzberg, T., Stockinger, C., Hecker, L., Focke, A., … Pleger, B. (2016). Remote effects of non-invasive cerebellar stimulation on error processing in motor re-learning. Brain Stimulation, 9, 692–699.

Nierhaus, T., Pach, D., Huang, W., Long, X., Napadow, V., Roll, S., … Witt, C. M. (2016). Difficulties choosing control points in acupuncture research. Response: Commentary: Differential cerebral response, measured with both an EEG and fMRI, to somatosensory stimulation of a single acupuncture point vs. two non-acupuncture points. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00404

Melasch, J., Rullmann, M., Hilbert, A., Luthardt, J., Becker, G. A., Patt, M., … Pleger, B. (2016). Sex differences in serotonin–hypothalamic connections underpin a diminished sense of emotional well-being with increasing body weight. International Journal of Obesity, 40, 1268–1277.

Schlögl, H., Mueller, K., Horstmann, A., Miehle, K., Püschel, J., Villringer, A., … Faßhauer, M. (2016). Leptin substitution in patients with lipodystrophy: Neural correlates for long-term success in the normalization of eating behavior. Diabetes, 65, 2179–2186.