Jürgen Finsterbusch

This study uses fMRI to show that conditioned pain modulation involves reduced spinal activity and increased descending pain modulation during pain suppression in humans.

This study uses ultra-high-field fMRI to reveal layer-specific responses in the human spinal cord during heat-pain stimulation, identifying phasic and tonic response components in dorsal horn layers.

This study examines how early visual deprivation affects the excitatory/inhibitory ratio in the visual cortex of humans using MRS and EEG, finding altered E/I ratios and associations with visual acuity.

The paper introduces EPISeg, a deep learning model for automated spinal cord segmentation on gradient-echo EPI data, showing improved performance over existing methods.

This study shows body size parameters significantly correlate with brain and spinal cord MRI metrics and should be included in neuroimaging studies.

This study evaluates the reliability of task-based fMRI in the human spinal cord, finding poor reliability of BOLD responses across days but good reliability of autonomic responses.

This study demonstrates the feasibility of BOLD fMRI in detecting neuronal activation in the lumbosacral cord during lower extremity motor tasks and shows TE-dependent effects on BOLD signal.

The paper shows brainstem arousal systems and pupil size correlate with cortical interactions during flexible decision-making.

The paper investigates neural correlates of conditioned pain modulation (CPM) using fMRI and finds reduced activation in parietal operculum and posterior insula associated with CPM.

This study assesses the reliability of resting-state functional connectivity in the human spinal cord, finding reliable connectivity between dorsal and ventral horns but poor reliability in segmental and within-hemicord connections.

This paper develops automated methods for slice-specific z-shimming in spinal cord fMRI to improve signal quality and reproducibility.

This study investigates resting-state functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord at 3T, finding robust dorsal and ventral horn connectivity, replicating findings from higher field strength studies.