Helmut Laufs

15.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
113 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Helmut Laufs is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Helmut Laufs has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 17 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Helmut Laufs's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (67 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (65 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Helmut Laufs is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (67 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (65 papers) and EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces (44 papers). Helmut Laufs collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Helmut Laufs's co-authors include Enzo Tagliazucchi, Andreas Kleinschmidt, Afraim Salek‐Haddadi, Karsten Krakow, Frederic von Wegner, Evelyn Eger, Louis Lemieux, John S. Duncan, Astrid Morzelewski and Khalid Hamandi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Helmut Laufs

113 papers receiving 9.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electroencephalographic signatures of attentional and cognitive default modes in spontaneous brain activity fluctuations at rest

2003 796 citations Helmut Laufs, Afraim Salek‐Haddadi et al. profile →
EEG-correlated fMRI of human alpha activity

2003 783 citations Helmut Laufs, Andreas Kleinschmidt et al. NeuroImage profile →
Decoding Wakefulness Levels from Typical fMRI Resting-State Data Reveals Reliable Drifts between Wakefulness and Sleep

2014 486 citations Enzo Tagliazucchi, Helmut Laufs Neuron profile →
On the Stability of BOLD fMRI Correlations

2016 372 citations Enzo Tagliazucchi, Helmut Laufs et al. profile →
Increased Global Functional Connectivity Correlates with LSD-Induced Ego Dissolution

2016 315 citations Enzo Tagliazucchi, Leor Roseman et al. Current Biology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Helmut Laufs	7.5k	2.2k	1.2k	961	887	113	9.4k
Christine Fennema‐Notestine	5.1k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	3.3k 2.6×	654 0.7×	824 0.9×	158	10.1k
Lauri A. Laitinen	5.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	751 0.8×	981 1.1×	64	11.7k
Vesa Kiviniemi	5.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.3×	827 0.7×	988 1.0×	745 0.8×	134	7.6k
Kiralee M. Hayashi	5.1k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	3.1k 2.5×	1.4k 1.4×	833 0.9×	46	10.6k
Peter Kochunov	7.8k 1.0×	4.1k 1.9×	2.4k 1.9×	914 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	281	12.7k
Jerzy Bodurka	6.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	521 0.5×	2.2k 2.5×	161	9.6k
Roberto Toro	5.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	878 0.7×	467 0.5×	807 0.9×	76	7.4k
Erbil Akbudak	6.2k 0.8×	3.4k 1.6×	998 0.8×	454 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	40	9.5k
Anderson M. Winkler	5.1k 0.7×	3.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	525 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	112	9.0k
Tobias Kaufmann	3.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	835 0.7×	866 0.9×	912 1.0×	169	7.1k

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Wegner, Frederic von, et al.. (2025). Higher-order EEG microstate syntax and surrogate testing. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 193. 110367–110367. 1 indexed citations

Perl, Yonatan Sanz, Carla Pallavicini, Athéna Demertzi, et al.. (2023). Low-dimensional organization of global brain states of reduced consciousness. Cell Reports. 42(5). 112491–112491. 16 indexed citations

Deco, Gustavo, et al.. (2022). Data-driven discovery of canonical large-scale brain dynamics. Cerebral Cortex Communications. 3(4). tgac045–tgac045. 5 indexed citations

Escrichs, Anira, Yonatan Sanz Perl, Carme Uribe, et al.. (2022). Unifying turbulent dynamics framework distinguishes different brain states. Communications Biology. 5(1). 638–638. 34 indexed citations

Laufs, Helmut, et al.. (2021). Unconsciousness reconfigures modular brain network dynamics. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 31(9). 93117–93117. 7 indexed citations

Perl, Yonatan Sanz, Carla Pallavicini, Athéna Demertzi, et al.. (2021). Perturbations in dynamical models of whole-brain activity dissociate between the level and stability of consciousness. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(7). e1009139–e1009139. 44 indexed citations

Stevner, Angus, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Helmut Laufs, et al.. (2021). Decoding brain states on the intrinsic manifold of human brain dynamics across wakefulness and sleep. Communications Biology. 4(1). 854–854. 32 indexed citations

Hahn, Gerald J., Gorka Zamora‐López, Lynn Uhrig, et al.. (2020). Signature of consciousness in brain-wide synchronization patterns of monkey and human fMRI signals. NeuroImage. 226. 117470–117470. 33 indexed citations

Perl, Yonatan Sanz, Federico Zamberlán, Helmut Laufs, et al.. (2020). Generative embeddings of brain collective dynamics using variational autoencoders. Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 24 indexed citations

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Deco, Gustavo, Joana Cabral, Victor M. Saenger, et al.. (2017). Perturbation of whole-brain dynamics in silico reveals mechanistic differences between brain states. NeuroImage. 169. 46–56. 59 indexed citations

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Tagliazucchi, Enzo, Leor Roseman, Mendel Kaelen, et al.. (2016). Increased Global Functional Connectivity Correlates with LSD-Induced Ego Dissolution. Current Biology. 26(8). 1043–1050. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tagliazucchi, Enzo, Michael Siniatchkin, Helmut Laufs, & Dante R. Chialvo. (2016). The Voxel-Wise Functional Connectome Can Be Efficiently Derived from Co-activations in a Sparse Spatio-Temporal Point-Process. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 10. 381–381. 51 indexed citations

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Brodbeck, Verena, et al.. (2014). A stochastic model for EEG microstate sequence analysis. NeuroImage. 104. 199–208. 37 indexed citations

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Thornton, John S., Serge Vulliémoz, Roman Rodionov, et al.. (2011). Epileptic networks in focal cortical dysplasia revealed using electroencephalography–functional magnetic resonance imaging. Annals of Neurology. 70(5). 822–837. 96 indexed citations

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Laufs, Helmut, et al.. (2007). A seizure-modulating area in human focal epilepsy revealed by FMRI and pet. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Thornton, John S., Helmut Laufs, R. Rodionov, et al.. (2007). Correlation of pre-surgical EEG fMRI and post-surgical imaging and outcome in patients with focal epilepsy. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Tiège, Xavier De, Sue Harrison, Helmut Laufs, et al.. (2007). Impact of interictal epileptic activity on normal brain function in epileptic encephalopathy: An EEG-fMRI study. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology. 104. 1 indexed citations

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Giraud, Anne-Lise, Andreas Kleinschmidt, David Poeppel, et al.. (2007). Endogenous Cortical Rhythms Determine Cerebral Specialization for Speech Perception and Production. Neuron. 56(6). 1127–1134. 324 indexed citations

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Lemieux, Louis, Helmut Laufs, David W. Carmichael, et al.. (2007). Noncanonical spike‐related BOLD responses in focal epilepsy. Human Brain Mapping. 29(3). 329–345. 75 indexed citations

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Laufs, Helmut, Khalid Hamandi, Afraim Salek‐Haddadi, et al.. (2006). Temporal lobe interictal epileptic discharges affect cerebral activity in “default mode” brain regions. Human Brain Mapping. 28(10). 1023–1032. 255 indexed citations

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