Kristina Herfert

@Herfert_lab

Associate Professor for Functional and Metabolic Brain Imaging
isct.uni-tuebingen.de/wsic/group/sta…

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen Joined March 2021

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Kristina Herfert @Herfert_lab Oct 31, 2024

🔥Happy to share our latest work just published in Science Advances! Our team explored the dopaminergic system and its role in brain function by combining fMRI with [18F]FDG-fPET and optogenetic stimulations.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

www.science.org Functional PET/MRI reveals active inhibition of neuronal activity during optogenetic activation of... Optogenetic functional PET sheds light on molecular mechanisms of fMRI neuronal activity.

Kristina Herfert @Herfert_lab Jul 24, 2024

🧠 Excited to share our new paper in @eLife! We've applied a novel method, Molecular Connectivity (MC), to map serotonin transporters and study the impact of MDMA on the brain.
Read more: elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Kristina Herfert @Herfert_lab Jul 15, 2024

📣🧠Super happy to anounce the amazing work by @Fernando Bravo and colleagues! Our study shows that dissonant music while watching films leads to more negative emotional interpretations, with tonal dissonance affecting early visual processing. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn….

Kristina Herfert @Herfert_lab Mar 26, 2024

📣Exciting breakthrough! Our team's new preprint unveils a high-affinity PET tracer for alpha-synuclein aggregates, key in synucleinopathies, such as #MSA and #Parkinson. A leap towards better diagnosis & understanding!
Read more: researchsquare.com/article/rs-218…
#AlphaSynuclein

www.researchsquare.com [11C]MODAG 005 – a novel PET tracer targeting alpha-synuclein aggregates in the brain Synucleinopathies are neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the presence of brain inclusions containing the pathologically aggregated protein α-synuclein (αSYN). The development of a positron...

Kristina Herfert @Herfert_lab Feb 9, 2024

📣📣📣Happy to share our recent work by @TudorIo1 Mapping Serotonergic Dynamics using Drug-Modulated Molecular Connectivity biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

www.biorxiv.org Mapping Serotonergic Dynamics using Drug-Modulated Molecular Connectivity Brain imaging plays a critical role in unraveling the complex functional architecture of animal and human brains. However, individual imaging modalities often face limitations confining them to...