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MN Smolka
Researcher at Dresden University of Technology
Publications - 17
Citations - 241
MN Smolka is an academic researcher from Dresden University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Facial expression & Autism. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 15 publications receiving 184 citations.
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A comparison of region-of-interest measures for extracting whole brain data using survival analysis in alcoholism as an example.
Iris Reinhard,Tagrid Leménager,Mira Fauth-Bühler,Derik Hermann,Sabine Hoffmann,A. Heinz,Falk Kiefer,MN Smolka,Stefan Wellek,Karl Mann,Sabine Vollstädt-Klein +10 more
TL;DR: It seems that fMRI cue-reactivity, especially in the VS, can be used as prognostic factor for relapse in abstinent alcohol-dependent patients, and data-aggregation measures that take both spatial extent and intensity of cue-induced brain activation into account make better biomarkers for predicting relapse than measures that consider an activation's spatial extent or intensity alone.
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EFhd2/Swiprosin-1 is a common genetic determinator for sensation-seeking/low anxiety and alcohol addiction.
Dirk Mielenz,Martin Reichel,Tianye Jia,Erin Burke Quinlan,T Stöckl,M Mettang,D Zilske,Elif Kirmizi-Alsan,P Schönberger,Marc Praetner,Sabine E. Huber,Davide Amato,Marc Schwarz,Pavitra Purohit,Sebastian Brachs,Joachim Spranger,Andreas Hess,Christian Büttner,Arif B. Ekici,Francesc Pérez-Brangulí,Beate Winner,Verena Rauschenberger,Tobias Banaschewski,Arun L.W. Bokde,Christian Büchel,Patricia J. Conrod,Patricia J. Conrod,Sylvane Desrivières,Herta Flor,Vincent Frouin,Juergen Gallinat,Hugh Garavan,Penny A. Gowland,Andreas Heinz,J.L. Martinot,Herve Lemaitre,Frauke Nees,Tomáš Paus,MN Smolka,Alexandra Schambony,Tobias Bäuerle,Volker Eulenburg,Christian Alzheimer,Anbarasu Lourdusamy,Gunter Schumann,Christian P. Müller +45 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that EFhd2 is a conserved resilience factor against alcohol consumption and its escalation, working through Pax6/Eomes, which may be related to cortex function.
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BDNF Val66Met and reward-related brain function in adolescents: Role for early alcohol consumption
Frauke Nees,Stephanie H. Witt,Ramona Dinu-Biringer,Anbarasu Lourdusamy,Jelka Tzschoppe,Sabine Vollstädt-Klein,Sabina Millenet,Christiane Bach,Luise Poustka,Tobias Banaschewski,Gareth J. Barker,Arun L.W. Bokde,Uli Bromberg,Christian Büchel,Patricia J. Conrod,Patricia J. Conrod,Josef Frank,Vincent Frouin,Juergen Gallinat,Hugh Garavan,Hugh Garavan,Penny A. Gowland,Andreas Heinz,Bernd Ittermann,Karl Mann,J.L. Martinot,J.L. Martinot,Tomáš Paus,Tomáš Paus,Zdenka Pausova,Trevor W. Robbins,MN Smolka,M. Rietschel,Gunter Schumann,Herta Flor +34 more
TL;DR: A possible effect of BDNF Val66Met on alcohol addiction-related phenotypes in adolescence is indicated by a significantly lower response in the putamen to reward anticipation in adolescent Met carriers with high versus low levels of alcohol consumption.
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The Arf6 activator Efa6/PSD3 confers regional specificity and modulates ethanol consumption in Drosophila and humans
Dante A. Gonzalez,Tianye Jia,Tianye Jia,Jorge H. Pinzon,Summer F. Acevedo,Shamsideen A. Ojelade,Bing Xu,Bing Xu,Nicole Tay,Nicole Tay,Sylvane Desrivières,J. L. Hernandez,Tobias Banaschewski,Christian Büchel,Arun L.W. Bokde,Patricia J. Conrod,Patricia J. Conrod,Herta Flor,Vincent Frouin,Juergen Gallinat,Hugh Garavan,Penny A. Gowland,Andreas Heinz,Bernd Ittermann,Mark Lathrop,J.L. Martinot,J.L. Martinot,T. Paus,T. Paus,T. Paus,MN Smolka,Aylin R. Rodan,Aylin R. Rodan,Gunter Schumann,Adrian Rothenfluh,Adrian Rothenfluh +35 more
TL;DR: The translational analysis suggests that PSD3 confers regional specificity to ubiquitous Arf6 in the PFC to modulate human alcohol-drinking behaviors.
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Global Genetic Variations Predict Brain Response to Faces
Erin W. Dickie,Amir M. Tahmasebi,Leon French,Natasa Kovacevic,Tobias Banaschewski,Gareth J. Barker,Arun L.W. Bokde,Christian Büchel,Patricia J. Conrod,Herta Flor,Hugh Garavan,Jürgen Gallinat,Penny A. Gowland,Andreas Heinz,Bernd Ittermann,Claire Lawrence,Karl Mann,Jean-Luc Martinot,Frauke Nees,Thomas E. Nichols,Mark Lathrop,Eva Loth,Zdenka Pausova,M. Rietschel,MN Smolka,Andreas Ströhle,Roberto Toro,Gunter Schumann,Tomáš Paus +28 more
TL;DR: A significant proportion of the brain response to facial expressions is predicted by common genetic variance in a subset of regions constituting a face network, suggesting that the genetic model captures variations across the adolescent brains in co-opting these regions into the face network.