Volker A. Coenen

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
187 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

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Volker A. Coenen is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker A. Coenen has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Neurology, 86 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 46 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Volker A. Coenen's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (119 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (49 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (36 papers). Volker A. Coenen is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (119 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (49 papers) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (36 papers). Volker A. Coenen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Volker A. Coenen's co-authors include Burkhard Mädler, Thomas E. Schläepfer, Horst Urbach, Peter C. Reinacher, Bettina H. Bewernick, Sarah Kayser, Niels Allert, Jaak Panksepp, Máté D. Döbrössy and Trevor A. Hurwitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Volker A. Coenen

176 papers receiving 5.6k citations

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Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of mouse and human microglia at single-cell resolution

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Volker A. Coenen Germany	36	3.2k	1.8k	1.7k	1.3k	1.2k	187	5.7k
Sergio Barbieri Italy	39	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	263 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	134	5.2k
Lili‐Naz Hazrati Canada	37	3.9k 1.2×	3.3k 1.8×	839 0.5×	303 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	110	6.6k
Doris Lenartz Germany	33	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	996 0.6×	200 0.1×	1.4k 1.2×	60	4.9k
Reiner Benecke Germany	38	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	380 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	101	5.5k
S. Blond France	36	3.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	496 0.3×	375 0.3×	421 0.3×	163	4.8k
Haruhiko Kishima Japan	37	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	921 0.5×	683 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	303	4.8k
Antonella Conte Italy	38	2.5k 0.8×	965 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	270 0.2×	1.2k 1.0×	210	4.8k
Abbas F. Sadikot Canada	48	2.4k 0.7×	3.2k 1.8×	639 0.4×	918 0.7×	1.4k 1.2×	120	7.4k
Ivan Rektor Czechia	46	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	996 0.6×	361 0.3×	2.6k 2.1×	244	6.0k
Yaroslau Compta Spain	41	4.5k 1.4×	1.0k 0.6×	683 0.4×	821 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	132	6.0k

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Coenen, Volker A., et al.. (2025). Acute and chronic gene expression activation following medial forebrain bundle DBS and selective dopamine pathway stimulation. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 7131–7131. 1 indexed citations

Coenen, Volker A., Mircea Polosan, Thomas E. Schläepfer, et al.. (2025). Deconstructing a common pathway concept for Deep Brain Stimulation in the case of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Molecular Psychiatry. 30(9). 4274–4285.

Straehle, Jakob, Amir El Rahal, Daniel Erny, et al.. (2025). Intraoperative classification of CNS lymphoma and glioblastoma by AI-based analysis of Stimulated Raman Histology (SRH). Brain and Spine. 5. 104187–104187. 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.

Coenen, Volker A., Bastian Sajonz, Peter C. Reinacher, et al.. (2024). Joint Anatomical, Histological, and Imaging Investigation of the Midbrain Target Region for Superolateral Medial Forebrain Bundle Deep Brain Stimulation. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 103(1). 1–13.

Sajonz, Bastian, Marco Reisert, Nils Schröter, et al.. (2024). Cerebral Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage due to Implantation of Electrodes for Deep Brain Stimulation: Insights from a Large Single-Center Retrospective Cross-Sectional Analysis. Brain Sciences. 14(6). 612–612. 2 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

Hirsch, Martin, Volker A. Coenen, & Andreas Schulze‐Bonhage. (2023). Termination of seizures by ictal transcranial focal cortex stimulation. Epilepsia Open. 8(2). 673–677. 8 indexed citations

Coenen, Volker A., Akiya Watakabe, Henrik Skibbe, et al.. (2023). Tomographic tract tracing and data driven approaches to unravel complex 3D fiber anatomy of DBS relevant prefrontal projections to the diencephalic-mesencephalic junction in the marmoset. Brain stimulation. 16(2). 670–681. 8 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Lisa, et al.. (2022). Optogenetic stimulation of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons in a female rodent model of depression: The effect of different stimulation patterns. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 100(3). 897–911. 10 indexed citations

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Roelz, Roland, Volker A. Coenen, Carolin Jenkner, et al.. (2021). Stereotactic cisternal lavage in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage with urokinase and nimodipine for the prevention of secondary brain injury (SPLASH): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 22(1). 285–285. 9 indexed citations

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Coenen, Volker A., Thomas E. Schläepfer, Bastian Sajonz, et al.. (2020). Tractographic description of major subcortical projection pathways passing the anterior limb of the internal capsule. Corticopetal organization of networks relevant for psychiatric disorders. NeuroImage Clinical. 25. 102165–102165. 52 indexed citations

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Doostkam, Soroush, et al.. (2020). Freiburg Neuropathology Case Conference:. Clinical Neuroradiology. 30(4). 879–884. 1 indexed citations

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Döbrössy, Máté D., et al.. (2020). Neuromodulation in Psychiatric disorders: Experimental and Clinical evidence for reward and motivation network Deep Brain Stimulation: Focus on the medial forebrain bundle. European Journal of Neuroscience. 53(1). 89–113. 28 indexed citations

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Coenen, Volker A., Bettina H. Bewernick, Sarah Kayser, et al.. (2019). Superolateral medial forebrain bundle deep brain stimulation in major depression: a gateway trial. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(7). 1224–1232. 118 indexed citations

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Piroth, Tobias, et al.. (2019). An Easy-to-Use and Fast Assessment of Patient-Specific DBS-Induced Changes in Hand Motor Control in Parkinson’s Disease. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 27(10). 2155–2163. 7 indexed citations

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Reinacher, Peter C., Bálint Várkuti, Marie T. Krüger, et al.. (2019). Automatic Segmentation of the Subthalamic Nucleus: A Viable Option to Support Planning and Visualization of Patient-Specific Targeting in Deep Brain Stimulation. Operative Neurosurgery. 17(5). 497–502. 13 indexed citations

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Coenen, Volker A., et al.. (2016). Electrophysiologic Validation of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Tractography during Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 37(8). 1470–1478. 18 indexed citations

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Schläepfer, Thomas E., Bettina H. Bewernick, Sarah Kayser, Burkhard Mädler, & Volker A. Coenen. (2013). Rapid Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Major Depression. Biological Psychiatry. 73(12). 1204–1212. 388 indexed citations

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Coenen, Volker A., Thomas E. Schläepfer, Niels Allert, & Burkhard Mädler. (2012). Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Neuromodulation. International review of neurobiology. 107. 207–234. 47 indexed citations

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