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Peter Kirsch

Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Insitute of Mental Heath
Verified email at zi-mannheim.de
Cited by 22126

Oxytocin modulates neural circuitry for social cognition and fear in humans

P Kirsch, C Esslinger, Q Chen, D Mier, S Lis… - Journal of …, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
In non-human mammals, the neuropeptide oxytocin is a key mediator of complex emotional
and social behaviors, including attachment, social recognition, and aggression. Oxytocin …

Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine

A Meyer-Lindenberg, G Domes, P Kirsch… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
The neuropeptides oxytocin (OXT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are evolutionarily highly
conserved mediators in the regulation of complex social cognition and behaviour. Recent …

Test–retest reliability of resting-state connectivity network characteristics using fMRI and graph theoretical measures

…, A Heinz, S Erk, H Walter, N Seiferth, P Kirsch… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Characterizing the brain connectome using neuroimaging data and measures derived from
graph theory emerged as a new approach that has been applied to brain maturation, …

Common brain disorders are associated with heritable patterns of apparent aging of the brain

…, TL Jernigan, R Jonassen, EG Jönsson, P Kirsch… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Common risk factors for psychiatric and other brain disorders are likely to converge on biological
pathways influencing the development and maintenance of brain structure and function …

City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans

F Lederbogen, P Kirsch, L Haddad, F Streit, H Tost… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, making the creation of a healthy
urban environment a major policy priority 1 . Cities have both health risks and benefits 1 , but …

Brain function in carriers of a genome-wide supported bipolar disorder variant

…, CO von Boberfeld, C Esslinger, P Kirsch… - Archives of general …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Context The neural abnormalities underlying genetic risk for bipolar disorder, a severe,
common, and highly heritable psychiatric condition, are largely unknown. An opportunity to …

Remission of major depression under deep brain stimulation of the lateral habenula in a therapy-refractory patient

A Sartorius, KL Kiening, P Kirsch… - Biological …, 2010 - biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
Discussion. The DBS procedure resulted in a sustained full remission of depressive symptoms
in a patient who was therapyresistant to all standard treatments for at least 9 years and …

Neural substrates of pleiotropic action of genetic variation in COMT: a meta-analysis

D Mier, P Kirsch, A Meyer-Lindenberg - Molecular psychiatry, 2010 - nature.com
Genetic variation in catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), encoding an enzyme critical for
prefrontal dopamine flux, has been studied extensively using both behavioral and …

Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant

C Esslinger, H Walter, P Kirsch, S Erk, K Schnell… - Science, 2009 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a devastating, highly heritable brain disorder of unknown etiology. Recently,
the first common genetic variant associated on a genome-wide level with schizophrenia …

[HTML][HTML] Test–retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive–emotive fMRI test battery

…, H Tost, C Esslinger, P Colman, F Wilson, P Kirsch… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Even more than in cognitive research applications, moving fMRI to the clinic and the drug
development process requires the generation of stable and reliable signal changes. The …