H J Markowitsch

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Affiliation: University of Bielefeld
Country: Germany

Publications

  1. ncbi Cognitive performance of detoxified alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome patients remains stable over two years
    Esther Fujiwara
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:576-87. 2008
  2. ncbi Neuroscience and crime
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neurocase 14:1-6. 2008
  3. ncbi Amnesic disorders
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Lancet 380:1429-40. 2012
  4. ncbi Psychogenic amnesia
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuroimage 20:S132-8. 2003
  5. ncbi Amygdala in action: relaying biological and social significance to autobiographical memory
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 49:718-33. 2011
  6. ncbi Memory, autonoetic consciousness, and the self
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Conscious Cogn 20:16-39. 2011
  7. ncbi Functional retrograde amnesia--mnestic block syndrome
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 38:651-4. 2002
  8. ncbi Massive impairment in executive functions with partial preservation of other cognitive functions: the case of a young patient with severe degeneration of the prefrontal cortex
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Exp Brain Res 133:94-102. 2000
  9. ncbi Autobiographical memory: a biocultural relais between subject and environment
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:98-103. 2008
  10. ncbi Short-term memory deficit after focal parietal damage
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 21:784-97. 1999

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Publications61

  1. ncbi Cognitive performance of detoxified alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome patients remains stable over two years
    Esther Fujiwara
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:576-87. 2008
    ..In this sample of detoxified KS patients there was no indication of accelerated cognitive decline or onset of dementia-like symptoms over two years...
  2. ncbi Neuroscience and crime
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neurocase 14:1-6. 2008
    ..The articles in this issue devoted to highlighting the latest neuroscience research related to criminal behavior underline the power of this new approach...
  3. ncbi Amnesic disorders
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Lancet 380:1429-40. 2012
    ..In line with the view that memory is not a unity but is organised into several systems, amnesia is described as a multifaceted disease with a frequently poor prognosis...
  4. ncbi Psychogenic amnesia
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuroimage 20:S132-8. 2003
    ..Such an impairment may be identified at the brain level using functional imaging techniques...
  5. ncbi Amygdala in action: relaying biological and social significance to autobiographical memory
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 49:718-33. 2011
    ..With respect to memory processing, we propose that the amygdala's role is to charge cues so that mnemonic events of a specific emotional significance can be successfully searched within the appropriate neural nets and re-activated...
  6. ncbi Memory, autonoetic consciousness, and the self
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Conscious Cogn 20:16-39. 2011
    ....
  7. ncbi Functional retrograde amnesia--mnestic block syndrome
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 38:651-4. 2002
  8. ncbi Massive impairment in executive functions with partial preservation of other cognitive functions: the case of a young patient with severe degeneration of the prefrontal cortex
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Exp Brain Res 133:94-102. 2000
    ..Though a number of neurological examinations were performed, no plausible cause for the damage was established...
  9. ncbi Autobiographical memory: a biocultural relais between subject and environment
    Hans J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:98-103. 2008
    ..Consequently, both brain tissue damage and an altered hormonal status can have the same consequences, namely severe retrograde amnesia, which is either named organic or dissociative amnesia...
  10. ncbi Short-term memory deficit after focal parietal damage
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 21:784-97. 1999
    ....
  11. ncbi [Memory and brain imaging]
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiologische Psychologie, Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr 76:S3-7. 2008
    ..Consequently, after the field of neurologically caused, also psychiatrically caused disturbances become available for functional brain imaging...
  12. ncbi Psychic trauma causing grossly reduced brain metabolism and cognitive deterioration
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 36:77-82. 1998
    ..Psychic shock may cause lasting reductions in brain metabolism with the consequence of severe intellectual malfunctioning...
  13. ncbi Impaired episodic memory retrieval in a case of probable psychogenic amnesia
    H J Markowitsch
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 74:119-26. 1997
    ..Compared to the results of previous functional imaging studies on episodic memory retrieval, our findings suggest an underlying functional disturbance of brain areas previously demonstrated to be involved in episodic memory retrieval...
  14. ncbi Neuroimaging and behavioral correlates of recovery from mnestic block syndrome and other cognitive deteriorations
    H J Markowitsch
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychol Behav Neurol 13:60-6. 2000
    ..We conducted a follow-up study on a patient with enduring psychic shock-induced cognitive impairment to study by neuropsychological and functional imaging methods the degree of his recovery process on the brain and cognitive levels...
  15. ncbi Neural correlates of episodic and semantic memory retrieval in borderline personality disorder: an fMRI study
    Christoph Mensebach
    Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel, Ev Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 171:94-105. 2009
    ..Our findings suggest that BPD patients may need to engage larger brain areas to reach a level of performance in episodic and semantic retrieval tasks that is comparable to that of healthy controls...
  16. ncbi Mnestic block syndrome
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 35:219-30. 1999
    ..Whether depression contributes to this syndrome is uncertain from FA's cognitive performance, but may be a possibility...
  17. ncbi Functional brain imaging in 14 patients with dissociative amnesia reveals right inferolateral prefrontal hypometabolism
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 174:32-9. 2009
    ..Hypometabolism in this brain region, known to be involved in retrieval of autobiographical memories and self-referential processing, may be a functional brain correlate of dissociative amnesia...
  18. ncbi Specific role of medial prefrontal cortex in retrieving recent autobiographical memories: an fMRI study of young female subjects
    Silvia Oddo
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 46:29-39. 2010
    ..The data show time-modulated neural substrates during recent and remote memories in women and suggest that a specific MPFC activation underlies the autonoetic, emotional and self-related character of recent AMs...
  19. ncbi Differential impairments in recalling people's names: a case study in search of neuroanatomical correlates
    M Reinkemeier
    University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 35:677-84. 1997
    ..A time-limited, but prolonged engagement of interconnected left medial and adjacent lateral temporal lobe structures in ecphory is stressed for context-restricted information such as proper names...
  20. ncbi Functional retrograde amnesia: a multiple case study
    Esther Fujiwara
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 44:29-45. 2008
    ..Moreover, studying more closely the interaction between social cognition, repressive personality style and memory inhibition in this disease seems worthwhile pursuing...
  21. ncbi Decision-making deficits of korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: associations with executive functions
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychology 19:267-77. 2005
    ..Results show that Korsakoff patients are strongly impaired in this explicit decision-making task and that these disturbances are correlated with specific executive functions...
  22. ncbi Amygdala, affect and cognition: evidence from 10 patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease
    Michaela Siebert
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Brain 126:2627-37. 2003
    ..This suggests that the human amygdala influences both negative and positive emotional processing...
  23. ncbi Retrograde amnesia for world knowledge and preserved memory for autobiographic events. A case report
    H J Markowitsch
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 35:243-52. 1999
    ..It is hypothesized that the sparing of autobiographical memories can be linked to the integrity of the right frontal and temporo-polar cortices...
  24. ncbi Brain correlates of functional retrograde amnesia in three patients
    E Fujiwara
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Brain Cogn 54:135-6. 2004
  25. ncbi Decision making in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
    Kirsten Labudda
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 47:50-8. 2009
    ..Thus, our results demonstrate for the first time that presurgical patients with TLE can have selective reductions in decision making and that these deficits can result from hippocampal lesions without structural amygdala abnormalities...
  26. ncbi Confabulations in alcoholic Korsakoff patients
    Sabine Borsutzky
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 46:3133-43. 2008
    ..Thus, for a detailed description of the memory profile of KS patients, the screening of confabulation tendencies may be a useful supplementary clinical tool...
  27. ncbi Executive functions and risky decision-making in patients with opiate dependence
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Drug Alcohol Depend 97:64-72. 2008
    ..Decision-making and other neuropsychological functioning should be considered in the treatment of opiate dependence...
  28. ncbi Judgment and memory performance for emotional stimuli in patients with alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
    Kirsten Labudda
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:224-35. 2008
    ..Memory for emotional and neutral material was impaired to a similar degree. Thus, the facilitating effect of emotional valence on memory performance is absent in Korsakoff patients...
  29. ncbi Do amnesic patients with Korsakoff's syndrome use feedback when making decisions under risky conditions? An experimental investigation with the Game of Dice Task with and without feedback
    Matthias Brand
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Brain Cogn 69:279-90. 2009
    ..Performance on both task versions was correlated with categorization and set-shifting. The findings indicate that amnesic patients do not profit from receiving feedback for their decisions in explicit risk conditions...
  30. ncbi Anticipatory stress influences decision making under explicit risk conditions
    Katrin Starcke
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Behav Neurosci 122:1352-60. 2008
    ..Our results indicate that stress can lead to disadvantageous decision making even when explicit and stable information about outcome contingencies is provided...
  31. ncbi Emotion and consciousness in adolescent psychogenic amnesia
    Nadine Reinhold
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    J Neuropsychol 1:53-64. 2007
    ..Finally, we discuss the contribution of (self-)consiousness, the current emotional state and emotional processing skills as possible factors, maintaining the condition of psychogenic amnesia...
  32. ncbi Retrograde episodic memory and emotion: a perspective from patients with dissociative amnesia
    Nadine Reinhold
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 47:2197-206. 2009
    ..On the basis of these cases and supportive results from further cases we will conclude by pointing out similarities and differences of patients with organic and dissociative (psychogenic) amnesia...
  33. ncbi Engagement of lateral and medial prefrontal areas in the ecphory of sad and happy autobiographical memories
    Hans J Markowitsch
    University of Bielefeld, Physiological Psychology, Bielefeld, Germany
    Cortex 39:643-65. 2003
    ..These findings point to the importance of the orbitofrontal cortex for affect-laden information processing and to the existence of distinct neural nets for the re-activation of positively and negatively viewed autobiographic episodes...
  34. ncbi Alterations of decision making and underlying neural correlates after resection of a mediofrontal cortical dysplasia: A single case study
    Kirsten Labudda
    Mara Hospital, Bethel Epilepsy Center, MRI Unit, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neurocase 16:59-73. 2010
    ..In contrast to healthy subjects the patient exhibited no activation within the dysplastic anterior cingulate cortex but left-sided orbitofrontal activation on the fMRI task suggesting early reorganization processes...
  35. ncbi Susceptibility to false memories in patients with ACoA aneurysm
    Sabine Borsutzky
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 48:2811-23. 2010
    ..Our results suggest that rupture of ACoA aneurysm leads to an increased susceptibility to a subset of false memories types...
  36. ncbi Looking at comorbidity through the glasses of neuroscientific memory research: a brain-network perspective
    Angelica Staniloiu
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, D 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Behav Brain Sci 33:170-1. 2010
    ....
  37. ncbi Psychogenic amnesia--a malady of the constricted self
    Angelica Staniloiu
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Conscious Cogn 19:778-801. 2010
    ..Furthermore functional and metabolic brain alterations involving regions that are agreed upon to exert crucial roles in memory processes were frequently found to accompany the psychogenic memory "loss"...
  38. ncbi Neural correlates of decision making with explicit information about probabilities and incentives in elderly healthy subjects
    Kirsten Labudda
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
    Exp Brain Res 187:641-50. 2008
    ....
  39. ncbi The role of strategies in deciding advantageously in ambiguous and risky situations
    Matthias Brand
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 10 01 31, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
    Cogn Process 9:159-73. 2008
    ..The results support the view that calculative processes and strategies may improve decision-making under explicit risk conditions...
  40. ncbi Differential remoteness and emotional tone modulate the neural correlates of autobiographical memory
    Martina Piefke
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Brain 126:650-68. 2003
    ..We conclude that the brain regions involved in autobiographical memory retrieval are influenced by the triggered memories' emotional significance and their relationship to the individual time axis...
  41. ncbi Cognitive estimation and affective judgments in alcoholic Korsakoff patients
    Matthias Brand
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:324-34. 2003
    ..g., information processing speed) and higher cognitive functions (executive functions and memory), suggesting a common basis in cognitive estimation and in affective judgments in Korsakoff syndrome...
  42. ncbi [Neurocognition of psychiatric patients]
    Matthias Brand
    Physiologische Psychologie, Universitat Bielefeld
    Psychiatr Prax 31:S200-9. 2004
    ..Furthermore, structural or functional changes of hippocampal formation, anterior cingulate gyrus, amygdala, and different thalamic nuclei are also involved in neurocognitive disturbances of psychiatric patients...
  43. ncbi Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 133:91-9. 2005
    ..Therefore, risky decisions of PG patients might be influenced by both dorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex dysfunctions...
  44. ncbi Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Behav Neurol 15:77-85. 2004
    ....
  45. ncbi Organic and psychogenic factors leading to executive dysfunctions in a patient suffering from surgery of a colloid cyst of the Foramen of Monro
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neurocase 10:420-5. 2004
    ..The authors conclude that in this case decision-making deficits and executive dysfunctions are influenced by both organic and psychogenic factors...
  46. ncbi Bi-hemispheric engagement in the retrieval of autobiographical episodes
    Marie M P Vandekerckhove
    University of Bielefeld, Physiological Psychology, P O Box 10 01 31, D 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Behav Neurol 16:203-10. 2005
    ..Consequently, autobiographical memory integration should be viewed as based on distributed bi-hemispheric neural networks supporting multi-modal, emotionally coloured components of personal episodes...
  47. ncbi Neuropsychological correlates of decision-making in ambiguous and risky situations
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neural Netw 19:1266-76. 2006
    ..We also propose a new model of decision-making in risky situations and describe differences between decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk from a theoretical and clinical perspective...
  48. ncbi Neuropsychological correlates of decision making in patients with bulimia nervosa
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychology 21:742-50. 2007
    ..Neurocognitive functions should be considered in the treatment of BN...
  49. ncbi Decision-making and neuroendocrine responses in pathological gamblers
    Kirsten Labudda
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
    Psychiatry Res 153:233-43. 2007
    ..Accordingly, the increase of sAA--as an indirect marker of sympathetic nervous system activity--in those patients with less severe decision-making deficits could reflect the use of somatic markers biasing the decision-making process...
  50. ncbi Cognitive estimation in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and alcoholic Korsakoff patients
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, PO Box 100131, Bielefeld 33501, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 41:575-84. 2003
    ....
  51. ncbi Role of the amygdala in decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk: evidence from patients with Urbach-Wiethe disease
    Matthias Brand
    Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
    Neuropsychologia 45:1305-17. 2007
    ..The results suggest that deciding advantageously under risk conditions involves both the use of feedback from previous trials, as required by decisions under ambiguity, and in addition, executive functions...
  52. ncbi Ganser syndrome with work-related onset in a patient with a background of immigration
    Angelica Staniloiu
    Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld D 33501, Germany
    Cogn Neuropsychiatry 14:180-98. 2009
    ..Here we describe a patient with a background of immigration, who, after an objectively minor work-related head injury, developed severe and persistent psychiatric symptoms, with features of Ganser syndrome...
  53. ncbi Posttraumatic stress disorder and fMRI activation patterns of traumatic memory in patients with borderline personality disorder
    Martin Driessen
    Center of Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Gilead Hospital Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany, Bielefeld
    Biol Psychiatry 55:603-11. 2004
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Dependent on absence or presence of additional PTSD different neural networks seem to be involved in the traumatic memory of patients with BPD...
  54. ncbi Functional neuroimaging correlates of functional amnesia
    H J Markowitsch
    University of Bielefeld, Germany
    Memory 7:561-83. 1999
    ....
  55. ncbi Towards a bio-psycho-social model of autobiographical memory
    Harald Welzer
    Institute of Cultural Sciences, Essen, Germany
    Memory 13:63-78. 2005
    ....
  56. ncbi A new test battery to assess aphasic disturbances and associated cognitive dysfunctions -- German normative data on the aphasia check list
    Elke Kalbe
    Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany
    J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 27:779-94. 2005
    ..The ACL cognition part revealed additional neuropsychological dysfunction in the aphasia group. We present the patterns of these dysfunctions and their correlations with language deficits...
  57. ncbi Vestibular loss causes hippocampal atrophy and impaired spatial memory in humans
    Thomas Brandt
    Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
    Brain 128:2732-41. 2005
    ..g. without any actual vestibular or somatosensory stimulation...
  58. ncbi Gender differences in the functional neuroanatomy of emotional episodic autobiographical memory
    Martina Piefke
    Institute of Medicine, Research Center Julich, Julich, Germany
    Hum Brain Mapp 24:313-24. 2005
    ..We suggest that the differential activations may reflect gender-specific cognitive strategies during access to autobiographical memories that do not necessarily affect the behavioral level of memory performance and emotionality...
  59. ncbi Mirror neuron and theory of mind mechanisms involved in face-to-face interactions: a functional magnetic resonance imaging approach to empathy
    Martin Schulte-Rüther
    Research Center Julich, Germany
    J Cogn Neurosci 19:1354-72. 2007
    ..An interplay between ToM and mirror neuron mechanisms may hold for the maintenance of a self-other distinction during empathic interpersonal face-to-face interactions...
  60. ncbi Spatial memory and hippocampal volume in humans with unilateral vestibular deafferentation
    Katharina Hüfner
    Department of Neurology, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
    Hippocampus 17:471-85. 2007
    ..Volumetry did not reveal any atrophy of the hippocampus in either patient group...
  61. ncbi The neuropsychology of human memory
    Giuseppe Vallar
    University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy
    Neurocase 11:151-3. 2005