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TOP 5 publications:

1. Löffler M, Levine SM, Usai K, Desch S, Kandic M, Nees F, Flor H. Corticostriatal circuits in the transition to chronic back pain: The predictive role of reward learning.Cell Rep Med. 2022 3(7):100677.
2. Heukamp NJ, Moliadze V, Mišić M, Usai K, Löffler M, Flor H, Nees F. Beyond the chronic pain stage: default mode network perturbation depends on years lived with back pain.Pain. 2025 166(1):160-170. Epub 2024 Jul 10.
3. Nees F, Löffler M, Usai K, Flor H. Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis feedback sensitivity in different states of back pain.Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 101:60-66. Epub 2018 Oct 26.
4. Heukamp NJ, Banaschewski T, Bokde AL, Desrivieres S, Grigis A, Garavan H, Gowland P, Heinz A, Kandic M, Brühl R, Martinot JL, Paillère Martinot ML, Artiges E, Papadopoulos Orfanos D, Lemaitre H, Löffler M, Poustka L, Hohmann S, Millenet S, Fröhner JH, Smolka MN, Usai K, Vaidya N, Walter H, Whelan R, Schumann G, Flor H, Nees F, IMAGEN Consortium . Adolescents' pain-related ontogeny shares a neural basis with adults' chronic pain in basothalamo-cortical organization.iScience. 2024 27(2):108954.
5. Schneider I, Schmitgen MM, Boll S, Roth C, Nees F, Usai K, Herpertz SC, Wolf RC. Oxytocin modulates intrinsic neural activity in patients with chronic low back pain.Eur J Pain. 2020 24(5):945-955. Epub 2020 Mar 9.