Peter Kirsch

19.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
196 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Kirsch is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Kirsch has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 57 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 54 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Peter Kirsch's work include Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (64 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (47 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (28 papers). Peter Kirsch is often cited by papers focused on Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (64 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (47 papers) and Schizophrenia research and treatment (28 papers). Peter Kirsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Peter Kirsch's co-authors include Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Daniela Mier, Christine Esslinger, Markus Heinrichs, Gregor Domes, Stefanie Lis, B. Gallhofer, Leila Haddad, Heike Tost and Marcella Rietschel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Kirsch

191 papers receiving 11.6k 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.

Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine

2011 1.2k citations Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Peter Kirsch et al. profile →
Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans

2005 1.2k citations Peter Kirsch, Christine Esslinger et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
City living and urban upbringing affect neural social stress processing in humans

2011 1.1k citations Peter Kirsch, Fabian Streit et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Kirsch	5.1k	3.6k	3.1k	2.3k	2.3k	196	11.9k
Ute Habel	6.0k 1.2×	2.5k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	326	11.8k
B. J. Casey	7.0k 1.4×	1.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	4.3k 1.9×	2.5k 1.1×	80	14.1k
David H. Zald	8.4k 1.6×	2.1k 0.6×	4.8k 1.5×	3.9k 1.7×	2.8k 1.2×	188	18.0k
Kevin S. LaBar	12.1k 2.3×	2.5k 0.7×	4.1k 1.3×	2.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	176	16.8k
Katharina Domschke	2.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	368	11.4k
Jill M. Goldstein	4.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 1.0×	4.5k 2.0×	203	13.8k
Tilo Kircher	8.5k 1.7×	3.2k 0.9×	4.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	4.0k 1.7×	407	15.3k
Richard D. Lane	8.6k 1.7×	4.0k 1.1×	6.6k 2.1×	5.1k 2.2×	5.4k 2.4×	212	21.2k
Eric E. Nelson	4.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	4.3k 1.4×	4.7k 2.0×	1.6k 0.7×	136	11.1k
Todd A. Hare	9.1k 1.8×	3.0k 0.8×	4.5k 1.4×	5.1k 2.2×	1.5k 0.7×	77	17.1k

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Bärtl, Christoph, T. Krause, Lea Waller, et al.. (2025). The Ups and Downs of Brain Stress: Extending the Triple Network Hypothesis. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.

Koppe, Georgia, et al.. (2025). Self-referential belief shares common neural correlates with general belief. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 2137–2137.

Kraus, Elisabeth, Christoph Bärtl, Sandra Zänkert, et al.. (2024). - Brain activation changes as predictors for perceived stress and cortisol awakening responses over a 13-months stress period. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 160. 106798–106798. 1 indexed citations

Felice, Sara De, Tara Chand, Ilona Croy, et al.. (2024). Relational neuroscience: Insights from hyperscanning research. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 169. 105979–105979. 9 indexed citations

Gerchen, Martin Fungisai, Martina Kirsch, Sabine Hoffmann, et al.. (2024). Cue-exposure treatment influences resting-state functional connectivity—a randomized controlled fMRI study in alcohol use disorder. Psychopharmacology. 241(3). 513–524. 3 indexed citations

Eckstein, Monika, et al.. (2023). Neural responses to instructed positive couple interaction: an fMRI study on compliment sharing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 18(1). 3 indexed citations

Gerchen, Martin Fungisai, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Peter Kirsch, et al.. (2023). Reactivation strength during cued recall is modulated by graph distance within cognitive maps. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Gerchen, Martin Fungisai, Patrick Bach, Oliver Hummel, et al.. (2023). Decoding fMRI alcohol cue reactivity and its association with drinking behaviour. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 26(1). e300639–e300639. 3 indexed citations

Santis, Silvia De, Alejandro Cosa‐Linan, Raquel García‐Hernández, et al.. (2020). Chronic alcohol consumption alters extracellular space geometry and transmitter diffusion in the brain. Science Advances. 6(26). eaba0154–eaba0154. 41 indexed citations

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Bach, Patrick, Sabine Hoffmann, Derik Hermann, et al.. (2019). Incubation of neural alcohol cue reactivity after withdrawal and its blockade by naltrexone. Addiction Biology. 25(1). e12717–e12717. 69 indexed citations

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Eckstein, Monika, Anna‐Lena Zietlow, Martin Fungisai Gerchen, et al.. (2019). The NeMo real-time fMRI neurofeedback study: protocol of a randomised controlled clinical intervention trial in the neural foundations of mother–infant bonding. BMJ Open. 9(7). e027747–e027747. 5 indexed citations

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Zamoscik, Vera, et al.. (2019). Mindfulness-based focused attention training versus progressive muscle relaxation in remitted depressed patients: Effects on salivary cortisol and associations with subjective improvements in daily life. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 113. 104555–104555. 8 indexed citations

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Lydon‐Staley, David M., Christine Kuehner, Vera Zamoscik, et al.. (2019). Repetitive negative thinking in daily life and functional connectivity among default mode, fronto-parietal, and salience networks. Translational Psychiatry. 9(1). 234–234. 75 indexed citations

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Zamoscik, Vera, et al.. (2018). Respiration pattern variability and related default mode network connectivity are altered in remitted depression. Psychological Medicine. 48(14). 2364–2374. 25 indexed citations

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Bilek, Edda, Matthias Ruf, Axel Schäfer, et al.. (2015). Information flow between interacting human brains: Identification, validation, and relationship to social expertise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(16). 5207–5212. 122 indexed citations

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Eisenacher, Sarah, Franziska Rausch, Daniela Mier, et al.. (2015). Investigation of metamemory functioning in the at-risk mental state for psychosis. Psychological Medicine. 45(15). 3329–3340. 30 indexed citations

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Rausch, Franziska, Daniela Mier, Sarah Eifler, et al.. (2015). Reduced activation in the ventral striatum during probabilistic decision-making in patients in an at-risk mental state. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 40(3). 163–173. 23 indexed citations

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Ubl, Bettina, Christine Kuehner, Peter Kirsch, et al.. (2015). Neural reward processing in individuals remitted from major depression. Psychological Medicine. 45(16). 3549–3558. 24 indexed citations

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Erk, Susanne, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Christine Esslinger, et al.. (2011). Hippocampal Function in Healthy Carriers of theCLUAlzheimer's Disease Risk Variant. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(49). 18180–18184. 38 indexed citations

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Kirsch, Peter, Christine Esslinger, Qiang Chen, et al.. (2005). Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 25(49). 11489–11493. 1176 indexed citations breakdown →

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