Axel Steiger

12.7k total citations
259 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Axel Steiger is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Steiger has authored 259 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 96 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 91 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Axel Steiger's work include Sleep and Wakefulness Research (145 papers), Sleep and related disorders (84 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (55 papers). Axel Steiger is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and Wakefulness Research (145 papers), Sleep and related disorders (84 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (55 papers). Axel Steiger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Axel Steiger's co-authors include Martin Dresler, Harald Murck, P. Schüssler, Michael Kluge, Alexander Yassouridis, Irina Antonijevic, Lisa Genzel, Manfred Uhr, K. Held and U. von Bardeleben and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Axel Steiger

251 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Axel Steiger	4.4k	3.7k	3.3k	1.6k	1.2k	259	9.2k
Sérgio Tufik	3.6k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	699 0.4×	2.0k 1.7×	404	9.6k
Horst L. Fehm	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	188	8.4k
Manfred Hallschmid	2.6k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	3.1k 1.0×	335 0.2×	2.6k 2.1×	155	9.5k
Thomas Pollmächer	2.5k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	973 0.8×	181	6.8k
J. Christian Gillin	4.5k 1.0×	4.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	843 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	164	9.6k
Anantha Shekhar	4.1k 0.9×	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	2.6k 1.7×	808 0.7×	199	10.9k
Christian Benedict	1.9k 0.4×	2.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.8×	283 0.2×	3.0k 2.5×	178	9.1k
J. Christian Gillin	4.6k 1.1×	4.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.6×	590 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	138	9.9k
Howard P. Roffwarg	3.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	844 0.5×	778 0.6×	106	7.4k
Alexander Yassouridis	1.4k 0.3×	818 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	170	8.8k

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Nakagawa, Jo Anne, et al.. (2025). Sleep Neurophysiology in Depression. Biological Psychiatry. 98(11). 842–853.

Adelhöfer, Nico, Reto Huber, Axel Steiger, et al.. (2024). Fractal cycles of sleep: a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles. Sleep Medicine. 115. S19–S20.

Pereira, Mariana, Frederik D. Weber, David A. Neville, et al.. (2024). Divergent Associations of Slow‐Wave Sleep versus Rapid Eye Movement Sleep with Plasma Amyloid‐Beta. Annals of Neurology. 96(1). 46–60. 10 indexed citations

Adelhöfer, Nico, et al.. (2024). Fractal cycles of sleep, a new aperiodic activity-based definition of sleep cycles. eLife. 13. 5 indexed citations

Weber, Frederik D., Zsófia Zavecz, Björn Rasch, et al.. (2023). Sustained polyphasic sleep restriction abolishes human growth hormone release. SLEEP. 47(2). 3 indexed citations

Weber, Frederik D., et al.. (2022). Increased Aperiodic Neural Activity During Sleep in Major Depressive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 3(4). 1021–1029. 20 indexed citations

Kluge, Michael, et al.. (2013). Ghrelin suppresses nocturnal secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in patients with major depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 47(9). 1236–1239. 24 indexed citations

Yassouridis, Alexander, Tonia Ludwig, Axel Steiger, & Friedrich Leisch. (2012). A New Way of Identifying Biomarkers in Biomedical Basic-Research Studies. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e35741–e35741. 4 indexed citations

Pawlowski, Marcel, Martin Dresler, Herta Flor, & Axel Steiger. (2011). Cordance as a biomarker in sleep-EEG for depression: responders versus non-responders: a naturalistic study after antidepressant medication. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 21. 1 indexed citations

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Dresler, Martin, et al.. (2011). A double dissociation of memory impairments in major depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 45(12). 1593–1599. 26 indexed citations

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Künzel, Heike, Harald Murck, Günter K. Stalla, & Axel Steiger. (2011). Changes in the sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) during male to female transgender therapy. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 36(7). 1005–1009. 17 indexed citations

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Kluge, Michael, P. Schüssler, & Axel Steiger. (2007). Duloxetine increases stage 3 sleep and suppresses rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in patients with major depression. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 17(8). 527–531. 48 indexed citations

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Kluge, Michael, P. Schüssler, Martin Dresler, et al.. (2006). Effects of progesterone on sleep and cognition in healthy postmenopausal women. Journal of Sleep Research. 15. 192–192. 1 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel, et al.. (2004). GHRH impairs sleep in young normal women. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 369. 1 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel, et al.. (2002). Arginine improves sleep in elderly men. SLEEP. 25. 5 indexed citations

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Held, K., Heike Künzel, Marcus Ising, et al.. (2002). Treatment with the CRH1-receptor-antagonist NBI-30775/R121919 improves sleep-EEG in patients with depression. Pharmacopsychiatry. 35(5). 1 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel, et al.. (2002). Ghrelin stimulates appetite in normal controls. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg s Archives of Pharmacology. 365. 414–414. 3 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel. (1999). Unterschiede in den Wirkungen von Antidepressiva auf den Schlaf.. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 3. 91–95. 1 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel, et al.. (1997). Nocturnal secretion of prolactin and cortisol and the sleep EEG in patients with major endogenous depression during an acute episode and after full remission. Psychiatry Research. 72(2). 81–88. 37 indexed citations

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Steiger, Axel, U. von Bardeleben, Peter Falkai, et al.. (1990). Course of biological markers during psychiatric disorders. Pharmacopsychiatry. 23. 227–228. 1 indexed citations

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