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Head of department
Prof. Dr. Michael Nitsche
Secretariat
Lisa Göbel
Address
Ardeystr. 67
44139 Dortmund

Publications Psychology & Neurosciences

Pisano F, Rizzo G, Bilotta F:
Cognitive rehabilitation for patients with acquired brain injury. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 38(5): 591-597 (2025) doi: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001520
Yuan W, Nitsche MA, Yue T, Yu Y, Qi F:
Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with caffeine promotes executive function in healthy females. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 22(1): 2555249 (2025) doi: 10.1080/15502783.2025.2555249
Rivera-Urbina GN, Kemp NM, Nitsche MA, Molero-Chamizo A:
Differential Performance of Children and Adults in a Vision-Deprived Maze Spatial Navigation Task and Exploration of the Impact of tDCS over the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex on Performance in Adults. Life (Basel) 15(8): 1323 (2025) doi: 10.3390/life15081323
DeYoung CG, Hilger K, Hanson JL, Abend R, Allen TA, Beaty RE, Blain SD, Chavez RS, Engel SA, Feilong M, Fornito A, Genç E, Goghari V, Grazioplene RG, Homan P, Joyner K, Kaczkurkin AN, Latzman RD, Martin EA, Nikolaidis A, Pickering AD, Safron A, Sassenberg TA, Servaas MN, Smillie LD, Spreng RN, Viding E, Wacker J:
Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences. J Cogn Neurosci 37(6): 1023-1034 (2025) doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_02297.
Esfandeh K, Khatoonabadi AR, Karimi H, Nitsche M, Ebadi A:
The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation and fluency shaping techniques on enhancing speech fluency in adults who stutter: Protocol for a double-blind randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials Commun 47: 101534 (2025) doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101534
Zhang X, Zhang J, Nitsche MA, Yue T, Guo F, Qi F:
Intensity-dependent transcranial direct current stimulation effects on lower limb strength: optimizing acute and prolonged gains in explosive force and maximal strength. Neuroscience 583: 136-145 (2025) doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2025.08.002
Vicario CM, Nitsche MA, Lucifora C, Perconti P, Salehinejad MA, Tomaiuolo F, Massimino S, Avenanti A, Mucciardi M:
Timing matters! Academic assessment changes throughout the day. Front Psychol 16: 1605041 (2025) doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1605041
Fraenz C, Metzen D, Merz CJ, Selpien H, Friedrich P, Ocklenburg S, Axmacher N, Genç E:
Fear learning sculpts functional brain connectivity at rest beyond the traditional fear network. Behav Brain Res 495: 115764 (2025) doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2025.115764.
Stammen C, Penate JS, Metzen D, Hönscher MJ, Fraenz C, Schlüter C, Güntürkün O, Kumsta R, Genç E:
Neurite density but not myelination of specific fiber tracts links polygenic scores to general intelligence. Cereb Cortex 35(7): bhaf199 (2025) doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf199
Smith DJC, Furley P, Wunderlich F, Heuer H, Memmert D:
The perils of the first try: experimental evidence for visuomotor calibration in darts and hammering. Psychol Res 89(4): 126 (2025) doi: 10.1007/s00426-025-02161-w