Jens C. Pruessner

36.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
277 papers, 26.6k citations indexed

About

Jens C. Pruessner is a scholar working on Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens C. Pruessner has authored 277 papers receiving a total of 26.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 67 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 54 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Jens C. Pruessner's work include Stress Responses and Cortisol (132 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (42 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (33 papers). Jens C. Pruessner is often cited by papers focused on Stress Responses and Cortisol (132 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (42 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (33 papers). Jens C. Pruessner collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Jens C. Pruessner's co-authors include Dirk H. Hellhammer, Clemens Kirschbaum, Sonia Lupien, D. Louis Collins, Katarina Dedovic, Veronika Engert, Marita Pruessner, Alan C. Evans, Alain Dagher and Michael J. Meaney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Jens C. Pruessner

270 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Two formulas for computation of the area under the curve represent measures of total hormone concentration versus time-dependent change

2003 3.0k citations Jens C. Pruessner, Dirk H. Hellhammer et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology profile →
Free Cortisol Levels after Awakening: A Reliable Biological Marker for the Assessment of Adrenocortical Activity

1997 1.1k citations Jens C. Pruessner, Dirk H. Hellhammer et al. profile →
City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans

2011 1.1k citations Jens C. Pruessner et al. profile →
Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene–childhood trauma interactions

2012 999 citations Jens C. Pruessner, Helen S. Mayberg et al. profile →
Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines

2015 761 citations Jens C. Pruessner, Dirk H. Hellhammer et al. Psychoneuroendocrinology profile →
Burnout, Perceived Stress, and Cortisol Responses to Awakening

1999 652 citations Jens C. Pruessner, Dirk H. Hellhammer et al. Psychosomatic Medicine profile →
Volumetry of Hippocampus and Amygdala with High-resolution MRI and Three-dimensional Analysis Software: Minimizing the Discrepancies between Laboratories

2000 603 citations Jens C. Pruessner profile →
Dopamine Release in Response to a Psychological Stress in Humans and Its Relationship to Early Life Maternal Care: A Positron Emission Tomography Study Using [¹¹C]Raclopride

2004 556 citations Jens C. Pruessner et al. profile →
The Montreal Imaging Stress Task: using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain

2005 509 citations Katarina Dedovic, Veronika Engert et al. profile →
Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: Application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation

2010 501 citations Pierrick Coupé, José V. Manjón et al. profile →
Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

2012 483 citations Claudia Buß, Elysia Poggi Davis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jens C. Pruessner Canada	79	9.7k	6.3k	5.6k	4.7k	4.1k	277	26.6k
J. Douglas Bremner United States	98	8.8k 0.9×	6.9k 1.1×	15.1k 2.7×	3.5k 0.7×	4.8k 1.2×	361	35.2k
Oliver T. Wolf Germany	86	11.6k 1.2×	8.4k 1.3×	4.0k 0.7×	6.4k 1.4×	2.3k 0.6×	412	25.0k
Rajita Sinha United States	90	4.8k 0.5×	6.1k 1.0×	7.5k 1.3×	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	349	26.5k
Israel Liberzon United States	81	6.3k 0.6×	12.5k 2.0×	8.1k 1.4×	4.4k 0.9×	2.9k 0.7×	330	26.9k
Klaus‐Peter Lesch Germany	101	6.5k 0.7×	8.1k 1.3×	7.3k 1.3×	6.7k 1.4×	7.8k 1.9×	635	42.3k
Ned H. Kalin United States	81	7.0k 0.7×	6.8k 1.1×	4.3k 0.8×	5.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.4×	291	20.3k
Kerry J. Ressler United States	99	9.8k 1.0×	8.4k 1.3×	9.5k 1.7×	5.5k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	444	35.0k
Sonia Lupien Canada	66	11.7k 1.2×	3.8k 0.6×	5.5k 1.0×	5.9k 1.2×	2.0k 0.5×	238	24.5k
Stephen B. Manuck United States	86	5.3k 0.5×	3.3k 0.5×	4.2k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	351	24.0k
Michael R. Irwin United States	101	8.0k 0.8×	6.3k 1.0×	6.2k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	4.9k 1.2×	593	40.0k

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Juster, Robert‐Paul, et al.. (2024). Inducing Death Thoughts Reduces the Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress Similar to the Effects of Early-life Adversity: A Life-history Perspective. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 10(2). 182–210.

Burkart, Martin, et al.. (2024). Early life adversity blunts the subjective and physiological relaxation response in healthy adults. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 27992–27992.

Meier, Maria, et al.. (2023). Estimation of antibody levels after COVID-19 vaccinations: Preliminary evidence for immune interoception. Biological Psychology. 182. 108636–108636. 1 indexed citations

Meier, Maria, et al.. (2023). Relaxing effects of virtual environments on the autonomic nervous system indicated by heart rate variability: A systematic review. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 88. 102035–102035. 17 indexed citations

Meier, Maria, et al.. (2023). Challenges and opportunities of diagnostic markers of Alzheimer's disease based on structural magnetic resonance imaging. Brain and Behavior. 13(3). e2925–e2925. 11 indexed citations

Kuhlmann, Tim, et al.. (2021). Psychometrische Kennwerte einer deutschen Übersetzung des Parental Bonding Instrument. PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie. 72(1). 34–44. 5 indexed citations

Pruessner, Jens C., et al.. (2020). Acute Stress Reduces the Social Amplification of Risk Perception. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 7845–7845. 13 indexed citations

Unternäehrer, Eva, et al.. (2019). In search of a standardized protocol for parasympathetic nervous system activation. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

Hellhammer, Dirk H., Gunther Meinlschmidt, & Jens C. Pruessner. (2018). Conceptual endophenotypes: A strategy to advance the impact of psychoneuroendocrinology in precision medicine. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 89. 147–160. 19 indexed citations

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Juster, Robert‐Paul, Jens C. Pruessner, Olivier Bourdon, et al.. (2016). Sex and Gender Roles in Relation to Mental Health and Allostatic Load. Psychosomatic Medicine. 78(7). 788–804. 93 indexed citations

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Jones, Alexander, Russell Jones, Jennifer A. Steeden, et al.. (2013). Habitual alcohol consumption is associated with lower cardiovascular stress responses – a novel explanation for the known cardiovascular benefits of alcohol?. Stress. 16(4). 369–376. 17 indexed citations

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Coupé, Pierrick, Simon Fristed Eskildsen, José V. Manjón, et al.. (2012). SNIPE: A New Method to Identify Imaging Biomarker for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Buß, Claudia, Jens C. Pruessner, Helen S. Mayberg, et al.. (2012). Larger amygdala volumes after childhood trauma associated with depression and cortisol response to psychosocial stress in adulthood. European journal of psychotraumatology. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

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Buß, Claudia, Elysia Poggi Davis, Jens C. Pruessner, et al.. (2011). Increased Risk for Affective Disorders Programmed In Utero? High Prenatal Maternal Cortisol Concentrations and Volumes of the Amygdala and Hippocampus in the Offspring at 6-9 Years of Age. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 2. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Alexander, Jennifer A. Steeden, Jens C. Pruessner, et al.. (2011). Detailed assessment of the hemodynamic response to psychosocial stress using real‐time MRI. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 33(2). 448–454. 24 indexed citations

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Dedovic, Katarina, Veronika Engert, Annie Duchesne, et al.. (2010). Cortisol Awakening Response and Hippocampal Volume: Vulnerability for Major Depressive Disorder?. Biological Psychiatry. 68(9). 847–853. 67 indexed citations

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Dedovic, Katarina, et al.. (2009). The role of sex and gender socialization in stress reactivity.. Developmental Psychology. 45(1). 45–55. 123 indexed citations

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Fortin, M., Patrice Voss, Catherine Lord, et al.. (2008). Wayfinding in the blind: larger hippocampal volume and supranormal spatial navigation. Brain. 131(11). 2995–3005. 120 indexed citations

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Bowles, Ben, Seyed M. Mirsattari, Susan Pigott, et al.. (2007). Impaired familiarity with preserved recollection after anterior temporal-lobe resection that spares the hippocampus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(41). 16382–16387. 254 indexed citations

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Grabner, Günther, Andrew L. Janke, Marc M. Budge, et al.. (2006). Symmetric atlasing and model based segmentation: An application to the hippocampus in older adults. Lecture notes in computer science. 58–66. 1 indexed citations

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