Heike Tost

Neurostructural correlates of real-life social drinking risk in alcohol use disorder

The paper examines neurostructural correlates of social drinking risk in alcohol use disorder using ecological momentary assessment and MRI.

Exposure to childhood adversity and adult alcohol, nicotine, and illicit drug use in Germany: a cross-sectional analysis of the German National Cohort (NAKO)

This study examines the association between childhood adversity and adult substance use in Germany, finding stronger links with opioid and stimulant use and identifying distinct substance use profiles.

Generating Synthetic Task-based Brain Fingerprints for Population Neuroscience Using Deep Learning

The paper introduces DeepTaskGen, a deep learning method that generates synthetic task-based contrast maps from resting-state fMRI data, outperforming benchmarks and enabling biomarker development for cognitive tasks.

Patterns of connectome variability in autism across five functional activation tasks. Findings from the LEAP project

The paper identifies patterns of neural variability in autism using fMRI across tasks, finding greater global connectivity deviations and similar spatial patterns in autistic individuals compared to controls.

Autism is associated with inter-individual variations of gray and white matter morphology

The paper identifies a multimodal brain pattern associated with autism by integrating gray and white matter morphology data and linking it to clinical symptoms.

Real-time individual benefit from social interactions before and during the lockdown: The crucial role of personality, neurobiology and genes.

The paper examines how social interactions affect well-being before and during the pandemic, finding that personality, neurobiology, and genes moderate these effects.

Atypical brain asymmetry in autism - a candidate for clinically meaningful stratification

The paper identifies atypical brain asymmetry in autism as a potential neurophenotype for stratification, showing individualized patterns linked to symptom severity and language delay.

Attenuated Anticipation of Social and Monetary Rewards in Autism Spectrum Disorders

This study investigates reward processing in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and finds generalized hypoactivity in the ventral striatum during anticipation of both social and monetary rewards.

Neural network-based alterations during repeated heat pain stimulation in major depression

The paper identifies reduced functional connectivity in a neural network related to pain processing in major depressive disorder using fMRI during heat pain stimulation.

Brain state stability during working memory is explained by network control theory, modulated by dopamine D1/D2 receptor function, and diminished in schizophrenia

The paper shows working memory involves brain-wide state switching, with dopamine D1/D2 receptor expression affecting stability and state transitions, and schizophrenia linked to altered network control properties.

Generative network models identify biological mechanisms of altered structural brain connectivity in schizophrenia

The paper uses generative network models to identify spatial and topological mechanisms underlying altered structural brain connectivity in schizophrenia and its relatives.