Scientific Focus
ADHD, Reward processing
Methods
EEG, tDCS, fNIRS, fMRI
Selected Publications
Plichta MM, Scheres A, 2014 Ventral-striatal responsiveness during reward anticipation in ADHD and its relation to trait impulsivity in the healthy population: a meta-analytic review of the fMRI literature. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 38, 125-134
Plichta MM, Wolf I, Hohmann S, Baumeister S, Boecker R, Schwarz AJ, Zangl M, Mier D, Diener C, Meyer P, Holz N, Ruf M, Gerchen MF, Bernal-Casas D, Kolev V, Yordanova J, Flor H, Laucht M, Banaschewski T, Kirsch P, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Brandeis D (2013) Simultaneous EEG and fMRI reveals a causally connected subcortical-cortical network during reward anticipation. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 14526-14533
Plichta, MM, Schwarz, AJ, Grimm, O, Morgen, K, Mier, D, Haddad, L, Gerdes, ABM, Sauer, C, Tost, H, Esslinger, C, Colman, P, Wilson, F, Kirsch, P, Meyer-Lindenberg, A, 2012. Test-retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive-emotive fMRI test battery. NeuroImage 60, 1746-1758.
Plichta, MM, Gerdes, ABM, Alpers, GW, Harnisch, W, Brill, S, Wieser, MJ, Fallgatter, AJ, 2011. Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. NeuroImage 55, 1200-1207.
Plichta, MM, Vasic, N, Wolf, RC, Lesch, KP, Brummer, D, Jacob, C, Fallgatter, AJ, Grön, G, 2009. Neural Hyporesponsiveness and Hyperresponsiveness During Immediate and Delayed Reward Processing in Adult ADHD. Biological Psychiatry 65, 7-14.