Lars Frings

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Lars Frings is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Frings has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 29 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 24 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Lars Frings's work include Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (23 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (19 papers). Lars Frings is often cited by papers focused on Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research (28 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (23 papers) and Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (19 papers). Lars Frings collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Lars Frings's co-authors include Philipp T. Meyer, Sabine Hellwig, Kathrin Wagner, Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage, Ganna Blazhenets, Cornelius Weiller, Joachim Spreer, Gerta Rücker, Ulrike Halsband and Tobias Bormann and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and Brain.

In The Last Decade

Lars Frings

89 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Cognitive impairment and altered cerebral glucose metabolism in the subacute stage of COVID-19

2021 230 citations Jonas A. Hosp, Ganna Blazhenets et al. Brain profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lars Frings Germany	27	793	716	710	420	359	93	2.3k
Joel H. Kramer United States	25	1.4k 1.7×	719 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	407 1.0×	1.2k 3.2×	51	3.5k
Etsuko Imabayashi Japan	29	761 1.0×	342 0.5×	836 1.2×	469 1.1×	710 2.0×	83	2.5k
Marco Pagani Italy	33	748 0.9×	1.3k 1.9×	827 1.2×	359 0.9×	660 1.8×	121	3.7k
Daniel R. Kramer United States	16	400 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	745 1.0×	324 0.8×	243 0.7×	61	3.2k
Roberto Gasparotti Italy	36	985 1.2×	1.7k 2.4×	1.4k 2.0×	499 1.2×	639 1.8×	171	5.2k
Bertil Rydenhag Sweden	32	1.3k 1.6×	952 1.3×	521 0.7×	305 0.7×	279 0.8×	125	3.2k
Enrico Premi Italy	31	803 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	740 1.0×	483 1.1×	944 2.6×	116	2.8k
Roser Sala‐Llonch Spain	29	744 0.9×	736 1.0×	2.1k 2.9×	597 1.4×	545 1.5×	71	3.5k
María Mataró Spain	28	390 0.5×	625 0.9×	444 0.6×	184 0.4×	152 0.4×	71	1.9k
Freimut D. Juengling Germany	29	433 0.5×	830 1.2×	597 0.8×	249 0.6×	229 0.6×	76	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Lars Frings

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Frings

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Schröter, Nils, Michel Rijntjes, Jonas A. Hosp, et al.. (2025). Domain-specific brain regions are associated with cognitive impairment in progressive supranuclear palsy. Neuroimage Reports. 5(1). 100247–100247. 1 indexed citations

Volz, Christian, Volker A. Coenen, Lars Frings, et al.. (2025). [18F]FDG-PET reveals early postoperative cortical dysfunction after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 53(3). 1980–1990.

Rau, Alexander, Lars Frings, Marco Reisert, et al.. (2025). Hippocampus and basal forebrain degeneration differentially impact cognition in Lewy body spectrum disorders. Brain. 148(8). 2772–2784.

Hellwig, Sabine, Lars Frings, Nils Schroeter, et al.. (2025). [ ¹⁸ F]Fluorodeoxyglucose position emission tomography for differential diagnosis of depressive cognitive impairment: incremental value compared with clinical diagnosis. The British Journal of Psychiatry. 228(4). 332–339.

Brumberg, Joachim, Nils Schröter, Ganna Blazhenets, et al.. (2025). [¹⁸F]Florzolotau PET for the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonism in Patients with Suspected 4-Repeat Tauopathies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 66(6). 926–931. 2 indexed citations

Frings, Lars, Ganna Blazhenets, Joachim Brumberg, et al.. (2024). Deformation-based morphometry applied to FDG PET data reveals hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20030–20030. 4 indexed citations

Frings, Lars, et al.. (2023). More extensive hypometabolism and higher mortality risk in patients with right- than left-predominant neurodegeneration of the anterior temporal lobe. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 11–11. 8 indexed citations

Schröter, Nils, Tobias Bormann, Michel Rijntjes, et al.. (2023). Cognitive Deficits in Parkinson's Disease Are Associated with Neuronal Dysfunction and Not White Matter Lesions. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 10(7). 1066–1073. 6 indexed citations

Blazhenets, Ganna, et al.. (2023). Pharmacokinetic analysis of striatal D2R availability with F-18-DMFP PET in a rodent model of depression. Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine. 62(2). 104–105. 1 indexed citations

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Rau, Alexander, Nils Schröter, Ganna Blazhenets, et al.. (2023). The metabolic spatial covariance pattern of definite idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: an FDG PET study with principal components analysis. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 15(1). 202–202. 2 indexed citations

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Frings, Lars, et al.. (2021). DAT SPECT Predicts Survival in Patients Assessed for Differential Diagnosis of Dementia. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 82(1). 215–220. 4 indexed citations

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Blazhenets, Ganna, et al.. (2020). Validation of the Alzheimer’s dementia conversion-related pattern as a biomarker of neurodegeneration within the NIA-AA research framework. Nuklearmedizin - NuclearMedicine. 59.

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Sörensen, A, et al.. (2020). Amyloid biomarkers as predictors of conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s dementia: a comparison of methods. Alzheimer s Research & Therapy. 12(1). 155–155. 11 indexed citations

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Weber, Juliane, Lars Frings, Michel Rijntjes, et al.. (2019). Chorea-Acanthocytosis Presenting as Autosomal Recessive Epilepsy in a Family With a Novel VPS13A Mutation. Frontiers in Neurology. 9. 1168–1168. 8 indexed citations

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Hellwig, Sabine, Simone Brioschi, Sandra Dieni, et al.. (2015). Altered microglia morphology and higher resilience to stress-induced depression-like behavior in CX3CR1-deficient mice. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 55. 126–137. 196 indexed citations

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Klöppel, Stefan, Jessica Peter, Sabrina Maier, et al.. (2015). Applying Automated MR-Based Diagnostic Methods to the Memory Clinic: A Prospective Study. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 47(4). 939–954. 50 indexed citations

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Frings, Lars, Irina Mader, & Michael Hüll. (2010). Watching TV news as a memory task – brain activation and age effects. BMC Neuroscience. 11(1). 106–106. 9 indexed citations

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Frings, Lars, et al.. (2008). Early detection of behavioral side effects of antiepileptic treatment using handheld computers. Epilepsy & Behavior. 13(2). 402–406. 17 indexed citations

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Frings, Lars, Kathrin Wagner, Ulrike Halsband, et al.. (2008). Lateralization of hippocampal activation differs between left and right temporal lobe epilepsy patients and correlates with postsurgical verbal learning decrement. Epilepsy Research. 78(2-3). 161–170. 59 indexed citations

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Wagner, Kathrin, Lars Frings, Ulrike Halsband, et al.. (2007). Hippocampal functional connectivity reflects verbal episodic memory network integrity. Neuroreport. 18(16). 1719–1723. 40 indexed citations

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