Publications of Sofie L. Valk

Puhlmann, L. M.; Vrticka, P.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Serum BDNF increase after 9-month contemplative mental training is associated with decreased cortisol secretion and increased dentate gyrus volume: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 5 (2), 100414 (2025)

John, A.; Hettwer, M.; Schaare, H. L.; Saberi, A.; Bayrak, S.; Wan, B.; Royer, J.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Valk, S. L.: A multimodal characterization of low-dimensional thalamocortical structural connectivity patterns. Communications Biology 8 (1), 185 (2025)

Wan, B.; Saberi, A.; Paquola, C.; Schaare, H. L.; Hettwer, M.; Royer, J.; John, A.; Dorfschmidt, L.; Bayrak, S.; Bethlehem, R. A. I. et al.; Eickhoff, S. B.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Valk, S. L.: Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex. Nature Communications 15 (1), 10124 (2024)

Hardikar, S.; Mckeown, B.; Schaare, H. L.; Wallace, R. S.; Xu, T.; Lauckener, M. E.; Valk, S. L.; Margulies, D. S.; Turnbull, A.; Bernhardt, B. C. et al.; de Wael, R. V.; Villringer, A.; Smallwood, J.: Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits. eLife 13, RP93689 (2024)

Hardikar, S.; McKeown, B.; Turnbull, A.; Xu, T.; Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Margulies, D. S.; Milham, M. P.; Jefferies, E.; Leech, R. et al.; Villringer, A.; Smallwood, J.: Personality traits vary in their association with brain activity across situations. Communications Biology 7 (1), 1498 (2024)

Valk, S. L.; Engert, V.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Caldairou, B.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. eLife 12, RP87634 (2024)

Küchenhoff, S.; Bayrak, S.; Zsido, R.; Saberi, A.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Weis, S.; Schaare, H. L.; Sacher, J.; Eickhoff, S.; Valk, S. L.: Relating sex differences in cortical and hippocampal microstructure to sex hormones. Nature Communications 15 (1), 7279 (2024)

Schaefer, J. K.; Engert, V.; Valk, S. L.; Singer, T.; Puhlmann, L. M.: Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 38, 100781 (2024)

Wan, B.; Hong, S.-J.; Bethlehem, R. A. I.; Floris, D. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Valk, S. L.: Diverging asymmetry of intrinsic functional organization in autism. Molecular Psychiatry 28 (10), pp. 4331 - 4341 (2023)

Fan, Y.-S.; Xu, Y.; Bayrak, S.; Shine, J. M.; Wan, B.; Li, H.; Li, L.; Yang, S.; Meng, Y.; Valk, S. L. et al.; Chen, H.: Macroscale thalamic functional organization disturbances and underlying core cytoarchitecture in early-onset schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 49 (5), pp. 1375 - 1386 (2023)

Valk, S. L.; Kanske, P.; Park, B.-y.; Hong, S.-J.; Böckler, A.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.: Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. eLife 12, e85188 (2023)

Schaare, H. L.; Blöchl, M.; Kumral, D.; Uhlig, M.; Lemcke, L.; Valk, S. L.; Villringer, A.: Associations between mental health, blood pressure and the development of hypertension. Nature Communications 14, 1953 (2023)

Wan, B.; Bayrak, S.; Xu, T.; Schaare, H. L.; Bethlehem, R. A. I.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Valk, S. L.: Heritability and cross-species comparisons of human cortical functional organization asymmetry. eLife 11, e77215 (2022)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Vrticka, P.; Vos de Wael, R.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Caldairou, B.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P. et al.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.; Engert, V.: Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage 236, 118011 (2021)

Hong, S.-J.; Valk, S. L.; Di Martino, A.; Milham, M. P.; Bernhardt, B. C.: Multidimensional neuroanatomical subtyping of autism spectrum disorder. Cerebral Cortex 28 (10), pp. 3578 - 3588 (2018)

Lumma, A.-L.; Valk, S. L.; Böckler, A.; Vrticka, P.; Singer, T.: Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior 8 (4), e00940 (2018)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Böckler, A.; Kanske, P.; Guizard, N.; Collins, D. L.; Singer, T.: Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances 3 (10), e1700489 (2017)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: Socio-cognitive phenotypes differentially modulate large-scale structural covariance networks. Cerebral Cortex 27 (2), pp. 1358 - 1368 (2017)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network. Human Brain Mapping 37 (10), pp. 3388 - 3399 (2016)

Valk, S. L.; DiMartino, A.; Milham, M.i.; Bernhardt, B. C.: Multi-center mapping of structural network alterations in autism. Human Brain Mapping 36 (6), pp. 2364 - 2373 (2015)