Dr. Anna Plachti

Scientific staff

Aging, Information Processing

+49 231 1084-325

plachti@ifado.de

Head of department

Prof. Dr. Edmund Wascher

wascher@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-362

Secretariat

Judith Geiger

geiger@ifado.de

+49 231 1084-361

Address

Ardeystr. 67
44139 Dortmund

since 2025
Post-doc at Leibniz Institut für Arbeitsforschung (IfaDo), Department for Ergonomics
2023-2025
Post-doc at Research Centre Jülich, Brain and Behavior (INM-7), Jülich
2020-2023
Research Assistant (Post-doc), Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Hvidovre, Denmark
2020
Research Assistant, University Hospital Düsseldorf
2020
Dr.rer.nat. in Psychology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
2016
Master of Science in Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Cologne
2014
Master of Science in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
2011
Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg

Here you will find the Publications from 2010 onwards.

Sadeghi N, van der Velpen IF, Baker BT, Batta I, Cahill KJ, Genon S, McCormick E, Michel LC, Moraczewski D, Seraji M, Shaw P, Silva RF, Soleimani N, Sprooten E, Sørensen Ø, Thomas AG, Thurm A, Zhou ZX, Calhoun VD, Kievit R, Plachti A, Zuo XN, White T:

The interplay between brain and behavior during development: A multisite effort to generate and share simulated datasets. Sci Data 12(1): 473 (2025) doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-04740-3

Maleki Balajoo S, Plachti A, Nicolaisen-Sobesky E, Dong D, Hoffstaedter F, Meuth SG, Melzer N, Eickhoff SB, Genon S:

Discovery, Replicability, and Generalizability of a Left Anterior Hippocampus' Morphological Network Linked to Self-Regulation. Hum Brain Mapp 45(18):e70099 (2024) doi: 10.1002/hbm.70099

Plachti A, Baaré WFC, Johansen LB, Thompson WK, Siebner HR, Madsen KS:

Stability of associations between neuroticism and microstructural asymmetry of the cingulum during late childhood and adolescence: Insights from a longitudinal study with up to 11 waves. Hum Brain Mapp 44(4): 1548-1564 (2023) doi: 10.1002/hbm.26157

Lövdén M, Pagin A, Bartrés-Faz D, Boraxbekk CJ, Brandmaier AM, Demnitz N, Drevon CA, Ebmeier KP, Fjell AM, Ghisletta P, Gorbach T, Lindenberger U, Plachti A, Walhovd KB, Nyberg L:

No moderating influence of education on the association between changes in hippocampus volume and memory performance in aging. Aging Brain 4: 100082 (2023) doi: 10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100082

Maleki Balajoo S, Eickhoff SB, Masouleh SK, Plachti A, Waite L, Saberi A, Bahri MA, Bastin C, Salmon E, Hoffstaedter F, Palomero-Gallagher N, Genon S. Hippocampal metabolic subregions and networks:

Behavioral, molecular, and pathological aging profiles. Alzheimers Dement 19(11): 4787-4804 (2023) doi: 10.1002/alz.13056

Nyberg L, Andersson M, Lundquist A, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Bertram L, Boraxbekk CJ, Brandmaier AM, Demnitz N, Drevon CA, Duezel S, Ebmeier KP, Ghisletta P, Henson R, Jensen DEA, Kievit RA, Knights E, Kühn S, Lindenberger U, Plachti A, Pudas S, Roe JM, Madsen KS, Solé-Padullés C, Sommerer Y, Suri S, Zsoldos E, Fjell AM, Walhovd KB:

Individual differences in brain aging: heterogeneity in cortico-hippocampal but not caudate atrophy rates. Cereb Cortex 33(9): 5075-5081 (2023) doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhac400

Plachti A, Latzman RD, Balajoo SM, Hoffstaedter F, Madsen KS, Baare W, Siebner HR, Eickhoff SB, Genon S:

Hippocampal anterior-posterior shift in childhood and adolescence. Prog Neurobiol 225: 102447 (2023) doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2023.102447

Binnewies J, Nawijn L, Brandmaier AM, Baaré WFC, Bartrés-Faz D, Drevon CA, Düzel S, Fjell AM, Han LKM, Knights E, Lindenberger U, Milaneschi Y, Mowinckel AM, Nyberg L, Plachti A, Madsen KS, Solé-Padullés C, Suri S, Walhovd KB, Zsoldos E, Ebmeier KP, Penninx BWJH:

Associations of depression and regional brain structure across the adult lifespan: Pooled analyses of six population-based and two clinical cohort studies in the European Lifebrain consortium. Neuroimage Clin 36: 103180 (2022) doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103180

Plachti A, Kharabian S, Eickhoff SB, Maleki Balajoo S, Hoffstaedter F, Varikuti DP, Jockwitz C, Caspers S, Amunts K, Genon S:

Hippocampus co-atrophy pattern in dementia deviates from covariance patterns across the lifespan. Brain 143(9): 2788-2802 (2020) doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa222

Pläschke RN, Patil KR, Cieslik EC, Nostro AD, Varikuti DP, Plachti A, Lösche P, Hoffstaedter F, Kalenscher T, Langner R, Eickhoff SB:

Age differences in predicting working memory performance from network-based functional connectivity. Cortex 132: 441-459 (2020) doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.08.012