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Christine Esslinger
Researcher at Heidelberg University
Publications - 41
Citations - 5078
Christine Esslinger is an academic researcher from Heidelberg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Schizophrenia & Functional magnetic resonance imaging. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 41 publications receiving 4674 citations. Previous affiliations of Christine Esslinger include University of Giessen & Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans
Peter Kirsch,Christine Esslinger,Qiang Chen,Daniela Mier,Stefanie Lis,Sarina Siddhanti,Harald Gruppe,Venkata S. Mattay,Bernd Gallhofer,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg +9 more
TL;DR: It is shown that human amygdala function is strongly modulated by oxytocin, and this results indicate a neural mechanism for the effects of Oxytocin in social cognition in the human brain and provide a methodology and rationale for exploring therapeutic strategies in disorders in which abnormal amygdala function has been implicated, such as social phobia or autism.
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Test–retest reliability of resting-state connectivity network characteristics using fMRI and graph theoretical measures
Urs Braun,Michael M. Plichta,Christine Esslinger,Carina Sauer,Leila Haddad,Oliver Grimm,Daniela Mier,Sebastian Mohnke,Andreas Heinz,Susanne Erk,Henrik Walter,Nina Y. Seiferth,Peter Kirsch,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg +13 more
TL;DR: This study provides methodological recommendations which allow the computation of sufficiently robust markers of network organization using graph metrics derived from fMRI data at rest using several commonly used measures from the field of graph theory.
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Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant.
Christine Esslinger,Henrik Walter,Peter Kirsch,Susanne Erk,Knut Schnell,Claudia Arnold,Leila Haddad,Daniela Mier,Carola Opitz von Boberfeld,Kyeon Raab,Stephanie H. Witt,Marcella Rietschel,Sven Cichon,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg +13 more
TL;DR: These findings establish disturbed connectivity as a neurogenetic risk mechanism for psychosis supported by genome-wide association, show that rs1344706 or variation in linkage disequilibrium is functional in human brain, and validate the intermediate phenotype strategy in psychiatry.
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Test–retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive–emotive fMRI test battery
Michael M. Plichta,Adam J. Schwarz,Oliver Grimm,Katrin Morgen,Daniela Mier,Leila Haddad,Antje B. M. Gerdes,Carina Sauer,Heike Tost,Christine Esslinger,Christine Esslinger,P. Colman,Frederick Wilson,Peter Kirsch,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg +14 more
TL;DR: All three tasks in the combined three-task fMRI battery targeting three systems of wide applicability in clinical and cognitive neuroscience are well suited to between-subject designs, including imaging genetics.
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Test–retest reliability of fMRI-based graph theoretical properties during working memory, emotion processing, and resting state
Hengyi Cao,Michael M. Plichta,Axel Schäfer,Leila Haddad,Oliver Grimm,Michael Schneider,Christine Esslinger,Peter Kirsch,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg,Heike Tost +9 more
TL;DR: The test-retest reliability of brain graphs calculated from 26 healthy participants with three established fMRI experiments and two parcellation schemes for node definition are studied to inform the choice of processing strategies, brain atlases and outcome properties for fMRI studies using active tasks, graph theory methods and within-subject designs.