K Maurer

Summary

Affiliation: Frankfurt am Main
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Paintings of an artist with Alzheimer's disease: visuoconstructural deficits during dementia
    K Maurer
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic of Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 111:235-45. 2004
  2. ncbi Historical background of Alzheimer's research done 100 years ago
    K Maurer
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 113:1597-601. 2006
  3. ncbi Apoptosis of CD4+ T and natural killer cells in Alzheimer's disease
    K Schindowski
    Institute of Pharmacology, Biocenter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    Pharmacopsychiatry 39:220-8. 2006
  4. ncbi Multimodal imaging of residual function and compensatory resource allocation in cortical atrophy: a case study of parietal lobe function in a patient with Huntington's disease
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University of Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 90:67-75. 1999
  5. ncbi [Dementia and suicide]
    B Schneider
    Zentrum der Psychiatrie, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie I, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt Main
    Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 69:164-9. 2001
  6. ncbi Multimodal imaging of residual function and compensatory resource allocation in cortical atrophy: a case study of parietal lobe function in a patient with Huntington's disease
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University of Frankfurt Main, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 84:27-35. 1998
  7. ncbi Generators of brain electrical activity in patients with Wilson's disease
    T Dierks
    Dept of Psychiatry I, University of Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 249:15-20. 1999
  8. ncbi Bias in computerized neuropsychological assessment of depressive disorders caused by computer attitude
    B Weber
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, J W Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 105:126-30. 2002
  9. ncbi Event-related potentials and psychopharmacology. Cholinergic modulation of P300
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry I, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    Pharmacopsychiatry 27:72-4. 1994
  10. ncbi Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 is associated with an increased vulnerability to cell death in Alzheimer's disease
    C Frey
    Department of Pharmacology, Biocenter, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 113:1753-61. 2006

Detail Information

Publications25

  1. ncbi Paintings of an artist with Alzheimer's disease: visuoconstructural deficits during dementia
    K Maurer
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic of Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 111:235-45. 2004
    ..Carolus Horn's artwork lets us see the world through the patient's eyes and by that it helps us to better understand the consequences of visuospatial and cognitive changes in AD...
  2. ncbi Historical background of Alzheimer's research done 100 years ago
    K Maurer
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 113:1597-601. 2006
  3. ncbi Apoptosis of CD4+ T and natural killer cells in Alzheimer's disease
    K Schindowski
    Institute of Pharmacology, Biocenter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    Pharmacopsychiatry 39:220-8. 2006
    ..Immunotherapy appears to be a potent treatment against Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the mechanisms underlying neural-immune interaction are still not known...
  4. ncbi Multimodal imaging of residual function and compensatory resource allocation in cortical atrophy: a case study of parietal lobe function in a patient with Huntington's disease
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University of Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 90:67-75. 1999
    ..We propose that fMRI should be considered as a tool for the assessment of functionality of morphologically abnormal cortex and for the investigation of compensatory resource allocation in neurodegenerative disorders...
  5. ncbi [Dementia and suicide]
    B Schneider
    Zentrum der Psychiatrie, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie I, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt Main
    Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 69:164-9. 2001
    ..This review comprehensively presents the association between cognitive deficits, insight in early stages of dementia and suicidality and possible confounders which have not systematically been investigated up to now...
  6. ncbi Multimodal imaging of residual function and compensatory resource allocation in cortical atrophy: a case study of parietal lobe function in a patient with Huntington's disease
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, University of Frankfurt Main, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 84:27-35. 1998
    ..We propose that fMRI should be considered as a tool for the assessment of functionality of morphologically abnormal cortex and for the investigation of compensatory resource allocation in neurodegenerative disorders...
  7. ncbi Generators of brain electrical activity in patients with Wilson's disease
    T Dierks
    Dept of Psychiatry I, University of Frankfurt Main, Frankfurt
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 249:15-20. 1999
    ....
  8. ncbi Bias in computerized neuropsychological assessment of depressive disorders caused by computer attitude
    B Weber
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, J W Goethe University, Frankfurt Main, Germany
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 105:126-30. 2002
    ..Psychiatric patients are increasingly confronted to computerized psychological and psychopathological assessment. Patients' attitude to computers was reported to affect acceptance of computerized assessment...
  9. ncbi Event-related potentials and psychopharmacology. Cholinergic modulation of P300
    T Dierks
    Department of Psychiatry I, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    Pharmacopsychiatry 27:72-4. 1994
    ....
  10. ncbi Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 is associated with an increased vulnerability to cell death in Alzheimer's disease
    C Frey
    Department of Pharmacology, Biocenter, University of Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 113:1753-61. 2006
    ..Therefore, it is likely that circulating A beta is not responsible for the observed effects, which might rather reflect an ongoing systemic response in AD, e.g. an increase in CD95 expression...
  11. ncbi Alois Alzheimer revisited: differences in origin of the disease carrying his name
    K Maurer
    Clinic for Psychiatry, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    J Neural Transm 113:1645-58. 2006
    ..Alois Alzheimer may have been so prescient to assume most of this 100 years ago...
  12. ncbi Intensity dependence of auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) as biological marker for cerebral serotonin levels: effects of tryptophan depletion in healthy subjects
    T Dierks
    Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 146:101-7. 1999
    ..The intensity dependence of the auditory evoked potentials (AEP) has been suggested to be a specific biological marker of central serotonergic activity...
  13. ncbi Functional imaging of visuospatial processing in Alzheimer's disease
    D Prvulovic
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
    Neuroimage 17:1403-14. 2002
    ..We furthermore suggest that local cerebral atrophy should be considered as a covariate in functional imaging studies of neurodegenerative disorders...
  14. ncbi Subclinical hyperthyroidism in dementia and correlation of the metabolic index in FDG-PET
    N Döbert
    Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
    Acta Med Austriaca 30:130-3. 2003
    ..Thyroid hormone status and thyroid antibodies were evaluated in patients suffering from dementia for further study of an association of hyperthyroidism with AD and vascular dementia (VD), respectively...
  15. ncbi Acute effects of treatment for prodromal symptoms for people putatively in a late initial prodromal state of psychosis
    S Ruhrmann
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of the University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50924 Cologne, Germany
    Br J Psychiatry Suppl 51:s88-95. 2007
    ..People in a putatively late prodromal state not only have an enhanced risk for psychosis but already suffer from mental and functional disturbances...
  16. ncbi Changes in negative symptoms and EEG in schizophrenic patients after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): an open-label pilot study
    M Jandl
    Division of Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy I, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
    J Neural Transm 112:955-67. 2005
    ..Although we are aware of the limitations of this study, we assume a slight improvement in NS. The EEG findings refer to a possible neurophysiologic correlate of their improvement after rTMS...
  17. ncbi Elevated cytokine expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of victims of suicide
    L H Tonelli
    Mood and Anxiety Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
    Acta Psychiatr Scand 117:198-206. 2008
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  18. ncbi First onset and early symptomatology of schizophrenia. A chapter of epidemiological and neurobiological research into age and sex differences
    H Hafner
    Central Institute of Mental Health, W Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 242:109-18. 1992
    ..Apparently, estrogens raise the vulnerability threshold until menopause and have a slight neuroleptic-like effect on the symptomatology in acute schizophrenic episodes...
  19. ncbi Enhanced ROS-generation in lymphocytes from Alzheimer's patients
    S Leutner
    Department of Pharmacology, Biocenter, J. W. Goethe University of Frankfurt, Marie-Curie-Str. 9, 60439 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    Pharmacopsychiatry 38:312-5. 2005
    ..DISCUSSION: The data suggest that the defect(s) responsible for enhanced ROS production in AD may involve different or additional biological pathways than those involved in enhanced ROS generation during aging...
  20. ncbi [Effect of daily living-related cognitive training on attention and memory performance of persons with dementia]
    T Bernhardt
    , 60528 Frankfurt, Germany
    Z Gerontol Geriatr 35:32-8. 2002
    ..We can show significant improvements of attention and memory performance in our experimental group in comparison to the control group...
  21. ncbi The experimental combination of rTMS and fMRI reveals the functional relevance of parietal cortex for visuospatial functions
    A T Sack
    Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging, , Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, DE-60590 Frankfurt, Germany
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 13:85-93. 2002
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  22. ncbi A comparison of qEEG and HMPAO-SPECT in relation to the clinical severity of Alzheimer's disease
    T J Müller
    Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Wurzburg, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 247:259-63. 1997
    ..Whereas SPECT is a well-established tool for the diagnosis of dementia, the present study indicates qEEG as a potential marker for the staging of the cognitive decline in DAT...
  23. ncbi When and how does schizophrenia produce social deficits?
    H Hafner
    Schizophrenia Research Unit, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 246:17-28. 1995
    ..The unfavourable early course in men was due mainly to their significantly lower age at onset. These results raise questions concerning an earlier therapeutic and rehabilitative intervention...
  24. ncbi Integrity of the blood-CSF barrier in dementia of Alzheimer type: CSF/serum ratios of albumin and IgG
    L Frolich
    Department of Psychiatry, University of Wurzburg, Federal Republic of Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 240:363-6. 1991
    ..The data do not support the hypothesis that a pathological leakage through the blood-CSF barrier facilitates the entry of extraneuronal proteins to the CNS, which might contribute to the pathophysiological process in DAT...
  25. ncbi Safety and efficacy of galantamine in subjects with mild cognitive impairment
    B Winblad
    Karolinska Institutet, Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden
    Neurology 70:2024-35. 2008
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