Publications and Funding MCNN

Dr. Rolf M. Schwiete-Stiftung:

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound-Technologie (HiFu), Thomas Kinfe, 2,85 Millionen

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):

Forschungsharmonisierung: Zwicker-Ton und computergestützte Modellierung für ein fortgeschrittenes Verständnis von Tinnitus(Sachbeihilfen), Achim Schilling, Patrick Krauss, ca. 600.000€

• Shaik, J., Zhang, W., Zentsch, V., Buhmann, C., Hidding, U., Kinfe, T. M., ... & Koeglsperger, T. (2026). Remote deep brain stimulation programming for Parkinson’s disease: a prospective, randomized, controlled, multicentre, open-label, non-inferiority trial. Clinical Neurophysiology, 186, 2111644.
• Shaik, J., Zentsch, V., Buhmann, C., Hidding, U., Kinfe, T., Regensburger, M., ... & Koeglsperger, T. (2026). EV0098 EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF REMOTE DBS PROGRAMMING IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE-INTERIM ANALYSIS FROM THE REMOTE TRIAL. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 29(1), S83.
• Miller, J. P., Sweet, J., Kinfe, T., Rahimpour, S., Konrad, P., & Pouratian, N. (2026). Introduction. Restorative neurosurgery and machine interface. Neurosurgical Focus, 60(2), E2.
• Olamazadeh, A., Brenner, S., Souza de Oliveira, D., Regensburger, M., Del Vecchio, A., & Kinfe, T. M. (2026). Differential Effects of High and Low Frequency Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation on Force Steadiness in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: An Exploratory Study. Neurology and Therapy, 1-13.
• Koelsch, C., Mirlach, T., Kinfe, T. M., Hurlemann, R., Mutz, J., Selaskowski, B., & Kiebs, M. (2026). Adverse effects of non-invasive brain stimulation as a treatment for mental disorders: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open, 16(1), e107577.
• Brenner, S., & Kinfe, T. (2026). Ten-Year Follow-Up of Burst Precentral Cortex Stimulation for Thalamic Poststroke Pain: A Case Report. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface.
• Stadlbauer, A., Oberndorfer, S., Heinz, G., Marhold, F., Kinfe, T. M., Dorostkar, M., ... & Meyer-Bäse, A. (2026). Machine-Learning-Based Survival Prediction in Glioblastoma Using Graph-Theoretical Analysis of Structural Network Alterations. Cancers, 18(7), 1161.
• Kinfe, T., Ratliff, M., Stadlbauer, A., Miller, J., Rahimpour, S., Fautz, H. P., ... & Brenner, S. (2026). Low-field strength MRI (0.55 T) for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery using deep learning-based reconstruction algorithm: Preliminary experiences. American Journal of Neuroradiology.
• Metzner, C., Kinfe, T., Maier, A., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2026). Illuminating the black box of reservoir computing. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 15500.
• Brenner, S., Schilling, A., Krauss, P., Mohamed, S., Fauth, J., Niroomand, Z., & Kinfe, T. M. (2026). Supraspinal Correlates of Patients with Chronic Pain Under Burst Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Proof-of-Concept Functional MRI Study. Pain and Therapy, 1-14.
• Kölbl, N., Tziridis, K., Maier, A., Kinfe, T., Chavarriaga, R., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2026). The predictive brain: Neural correlates of word expectancy align with large language model prediction probabilities. NeuroImage, 121966.
• Kissane, H., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2026). Analysis and visualisation of linguistic structures in neural language models: neural representations of verb-particle constructions in BERT. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1-21.
• Schulze, H., & Schilling, A. (2026). A Unified Theory for the Development of Tinnitus Perception and Hyperacusis Based on Associative Plasticity in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus. Brain Sciences, 16(4), 395.
• Kissane, H., Tziridis, K., Schilling, A., Herbst, T., & Krauss, P. (2026). Cognitive dynamics of verb-particle constructions: an eye-tracking study on phrasal verbs and verb-preposition combinations. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1676341.
• Kölbl, N., Rampp, S., Kaltenhäuser, M., Tziridis, K., Maier, A., Kinfe, T., ... & Schilling, A.* (2026). Prediction, Syntax and Semantic Grounding in the Brain and Large Language Models. Scientific Reports
• Kinfe, T., Pandey, S., Regensburger, M., Zaubitzer, M., Schilling, A., & Brenner, S. (2026). Deep Brain Stimulation for Post‐Stroke Movement Disorders of Various Etiologies: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta‐Analysis. Brain and Behavior, 16(2), e71270.

• Russo, M. A., Chakravarthy, K., & Kinfe, T. M. (2025). Vagus nerve stimulation for the management of chronic pain. In Vagus Nerve Stimulation (pp. 195-202). Academic Press.
• Bozhkov, Y., Feulner, J., Buchfelder, M., Kleiss, M., Brandner, S., & Kinfe, T. M. (2025). Efficacy of subperiosteal drains in chronic subdural hematoma: a prospective randomized single-center study. Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery, 86(04), 390-396.
• Zhao, Y., Bozhkov, Y., Chen, X., Fuchs, K., Buchfelder, M., Fester, L., ... & Kinfe, T. (2025). First German experience using augmented reality for neuroanatomy education in undergraduate medical students: a feasibility and questionnaire-based study. Educational technology research and development, 73(2), 1025-1041.
• Kinfe, T., Brenner, S., & Etminan, N. (2025). Brain–computer interfaces re-shape functional neurosurgery. Neural Regeneration Research, 21(3), 1122.
• Stadlbauer, A., Nikolic, K., Marhold, F., Doerfler, A., Kinfe, T. M., Meyer-Bäse, A., ... & Oberndorfer, S. (2025). Microvascular Perfusion MRI Improves Therapy Monitoring and Detects Early Recurrences of Gliomas: A Large-Scale Trial of 2000 Follow-Up Examinations. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 46(12), 2561-2569.
• Kinfe, T. M., Coenen, V. A., & Krauss, J. K. (2025). The Rise of Stereotactic Neurosurgery in Germany. Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery, 86(S 01), S15-S22.
• Runge, J., Nagel, J. M., Blahak, C., Kinfe, T. M., Heissler, H. E., Schrader, C., ... & Krauss, J. K. (2024). Does temporary externalization of electrodes after deep brain stimulation surgery result in a higher risk of infection?. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, 27(3), 565-571.
• Kinfe, T. (2025). The role of the cingulum in deep brain stimulation of the limbic pain matrix. Brain Communications, 7(4), fcaf225.
• Hermann, E. J., Hertz, S., Nakamura, M., Terkamp, C., Kinfe, T. M., Stolle, S., ... & Krauss, J. K. (2025). Cabergoline-induced cerebrospinal fluid fistulae in macroprolactinomas. Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, 410(1), 151.
• Krauss, P., Surendra, K., Stoewer, P., Maier, A., Metzner, C., & Schilling, A. (2025). Word Class and Syntax Rule Representations Spontaneously Emerge in Recurrent Language Models. In Recent Advances in Deep Learning Applications (pp. 106-122). Chapman and Hall/CRC.
• Krauss, P., & Schilling, A. (2025, June). Author-Specific Linguistic Patterns Unveiled: A Deep Learning Study on Word Class Distributions. In 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
• Hildebrandt, F., Maier, A., Krauss, P.*, & Schilling, A.* (2025, June). Refusal behavior in large language models: A nonlinear perspective. In 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
• Tziridis, K., Heep, L., Piwonski, N., Nguyen, K., Kölbl, N., Schilling, A., & Schulze, H. (2025). Phase II Clinical Study on Low-Intensity-Noise Tinnitus Suppression (LINTS) for Tinnitus Treatment. Brain Sciences, 15(11), 1222.
• Immertreu, M., Schilling, A., Maier, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Probing for consciousness in machines. Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 8, 1610225.
• Kissane, H., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2025, May). Probing internal representations of multi-word verbs in large language models. In Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025) (pp. 7-13).
• Metzner, C., Schilling, A., Maier, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Organizational regularities in recurrent neural networks. Frontiers in Complex Systems, 3, 1636222.
• Metzner, C., Schilling, A., Maier, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Nonlinear neural dynamics and classification accuracy in reservoir computing. Neural Computation, 1-36.
• Tziridis, K., Neubert, B., Seehaus, A., Krauss, P., Schilling, A., Brüggemann, P., ... & Schulze, H. (2025). Correlation of non-auditory comorbidities and hearing loss in chronic subjective tinnitus patients: a retrospective database study. Frontiers in Neurology, 16, 1596274.
• Ramezani, P., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Analysis of argument structure constructions in a deep recurrent language model. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 19, 1474860.
• Stoewer, P., Schilling, A., Ramezani, P., Kissane, H., Maier, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Multi-modal cognitive maps for language and vision based on neural successor representations. Neurocomputing, 631, 129662.
• Ramezani, P., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2025). Analysis of argument structure constructions in the large language model BERT. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 8, 1477246.

• Riera, C., de Oliveira, D. S., Borutta, M., Regensburger, M., Zhao, Y., Brenner, S., ... & Kinfe, T. M. (2024). Unaltered Responses of Distal Motor Neurons to Non-Targeted Thoracic Spinal Cord Stimulation in Chronic Pain Patients. Pain and Therapy, 13(6), 1645-1658.
• Seufert, C. G., Borutta, M. C., Regensburger, M., Zhao, Y., & Kinfe, T. (2024). New perspectives for spinal cord stimulation in Parkinson’s disease-associated gait impairment: a systematic review. Biomedicines, 12(8), 1824.
• Stadlbauer, A., Nikolic, K., Oberndorfer, S., Marhold, F., Kinfe, T. M., Meyer-Bäse, A., ... & Doerfler, A. (2024). Machine learning-based prediction of glioma IDH gene mutation status using physio-metabolic MRI of oxygen metabolism and neovascularization (A bicenter study). Cancers, 16(6), 1102.
• Sîmpetru, R. C., Arkudas, A., Braun, D. I., Osswald, M., De Oliveira, D. S., Eskofier, B., Kinfe, T. & Del Vecchio, A. (2024). Learning a hand model from dynamic movements using high-density EMG and convolutional neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 71(12), 3556-3568.
• Oliveira, D. S., Ponfick, M., Braun, D. I., Osswald, M., Sierotowicz, M., Chatterjee, S., ... Kinfe, T.& Del Vecchio, A. (2024). A direct spinal cord–computer interface enables the control of the paralysed hand in spinal cord injury. Brain, 147(10), 3583-3595.
• Oikonomou, E., Juli, Y., Kolan, R. R., Kern, L., Gruber, T., Alzheimer, C., Krauss, P., Maier, A., & Huth, T. (2024). A deep learning approach to real-time Markov modeling of ion channel gating. Communications Chemistry, 7(1), 280.
• Schneider, L. S., Krauss, P., Schiering, N., Syben, C., Schielein, R., & Maier, A. (2024). Data-driven modeling in metrology–A short introduction, current developments and future perspectives. tm-Technisches Messen, 91(9), 480-503.
• Schilling, A., Gerum, R., Boehm, C., Rasheed, J., Metzner, C., Maier, A., ... & Krauss, P. (2024). Deep learning based decoding of single local field potential events. NeuroImage, 120696.
• Kölbl, N., Tziridis, K., Krauss, P., & Schilling, A. (2024). Methodological Considerations in the Analysis of Acoustically Evoked Neural Signals: A Comparative Study of Active EEG, Passive EEG and MEG. In 2024 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC, pp. 1-7). IEEE.
• Metzner, C., Schilling, A., Maier, A., & Krauss, P. (2024). Recurrence resonance-noise-enhanced dynamics in recurrent neural networks. Frontiers in Complex Systems, 2, 1479417.
• Tziridis, K., Maul, A., Rasheed, J., Krauss, P., Schilling, A., & Schulze, H. (2024). Tinnitus is associated with increased extracellular matrix density in the auditory cortex of Mongolian gerbils. BMC neuroscience, 25(1), 1-12.
• Schüller, A., Schilling, A., Krauss, P., & Reichenbach, T. (2024). The Early Subcortical Response at the Fundamental Frequency of Speech Is Temporally Separated from Later Cortical Contributions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(3), 475-491.
• Metzner, C., Yamakou, M. E., Voelkl, D., Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2024). Quantifying and maximizing the information flux in recurrent neural networks. Neural Computation, 36(3), 351-384.
• Schilling, A., & Krauss, P. (2024). The Bayesian brain: world models and conscious dimensions of auditory phantom perception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 132(2), 317-318. (Editorial Focus)