TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koenig, Julian
A1  - Abler, Birgit
A1  - Agartz, Ingrid
A1  - akerstedt, Torbjorn
A1  - Andreassen, Ole A.
A1  - Anthony, Mia
A1  - Baer, Karl-Juergen
A1  - Bertsch, Katja
A1  - Brown, Rebecca C.
A1  - Brunner, Romuald
A1  - Carnevali, Luca
A1  - Critchley, Hugo D.
A1  - Cullen, Kathryn R.
A1  - de Geus, Eco J. C.
A1  - de la Cruz, Feliberto
A1  - Dziobek, Isabel
A1  - Ferger, Marc D.
A1  - Fischer, Hakan
A1  - Flor, Herta
A1  - Gaebler, Michael
A1  - Gianaros, Peter J.
A1  - Giummarra, Melita J.
A1  - Greening, Steven G.
A1  - Guendelman, Simon
A1  - Heathers, James A. J.
A1  - Herpertz, Sabine C.
A1  - Hu, Mandy X.
A1  - Jentschke, Sebastian
A1  - Kaess, Michael
A1  - Kaufmann, Tobias
A1  - Klimes-Dougan, Bonnie
A1  - Koelsch, Stefan
A1  - Krauch, Marlene
A1  - Kumral, Deniz
A1  - Lamers, Femke
A1  - Lee, Tae-Ho
A1  - Lekander, Mats
A1  - Lin, Feng
A1  - Lotze, Martin
A1  - Makovac, Elena
A1  - Mancini, Matteo
A1  - Mancke, Falk
A1  - Mansson, Kristoffer N. T.
A1  - Manuck, Stephen B.
A1  - Mather, Mara
A1  - Meeten, Frances
A1  - Min, Jungwon
A1  - Mueller, Bryon
A1  - Muench, Vera
A1  - Nees, Frauke
A1  - Nga, Lin
A1  - Nilsonne, Gustav
A1  - Ordonez Acuna, Daniela
A1  - Osnes, Berge
A1  - Ottaviani, Cristina
A1  - Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.
A1  - Ponzio, Allison
A1  - Poudel, Govinda R.
A1  - Reinelt, Janis
A1  - Ren, Ping
A1  - Sakaki, Michiko
A1  - Schumann, Andy
A1  - Sorensen, Lin
A1  - Specht, Karsten
A1  - Straub, Joana
A1  - Tamm, Sandra
A1  - Thai, Michelle
A1  - Thayer, Julian F.
A1  - Ubani, Benjamin
A1  - van Der Mee, Denise J.
A1  - van Velzen, Laura S.
A1  - Ventura-Bort, Carlos
A1  - Villringer, Arno
A1  - Watson, David R.
A1  - Wei, Luqing
A1  - Wendt, Julia
A1  - Schreiner, Melinda Westlund
A1  - Westlye, Lars T.
A1  - Weymar, Mathias
A1  - Winkelmann, Tobias
A1  - Wu, Guo-Rong
A1  - Yoo, Hyun Joo
A1  - Quintana, Daniel S.
T1  - Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan
BT  - a cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis
JF  - Psychophysiology : journal of the Society for Psychophysiological Research
N2  - Understanding the association between autonomic nervous system [ANS] function and brain morphology across the lifespan provides important insights into neurovisceral mechanisms underlying health and disease. Resting-state ANS activity, indexed by measures of heart rate [HR] and its variability [HRV] has been associated with brain morphology, particularly cortical thickness [CT]. While findings have been mixed regarding the anatomical distribution and direction of the associations, these inconsistencies may be due to sex and age differences in HR/HRV and CT. Previous studies have been limited by small sample sizes, which impede the assessment of sex differences and aging effects on the association between ANS function and CT. To overcome these limitations, 20 groups worldwide contributed data collected under similar protocols of CT assessment and HR/HRV recording to be pooled in a mega-analysis (N = 1,218 (50.5% female), mean age 36.7 years (range: 12-87)). Findings suggest a decline in HRV as well as CT with increasing age. CT, particularly in the orbitofrontal cortex, explained additional variance in HRV, beyond the effects of aging. This pattern of results may suggest that the decline in HRV with increasing age is related to a decline in orbitofrontal CT. These effects were independent of sex and specific to HRV; with no significant association between CT and HR. Greater CT across the adult lifespan may be vital for the maintenance of healthy cardiac regulation via the ANS-or greater cardiac vagal activity as indirectly reflected in HRV may slow brain atrophy. Findings reveal an important association between CT and cardiac parasympathetic activity with implications for healthy aging and longevity that should be studied further in longitudinal research.
KW  - aging
KW  - autonomic nervous system
KW  - cortical thickness
KW  - heart rate
KW  - heart
KW  - rate variability
KW  - sex
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13688
SN  - 0048-5772
SN  - 1469-8986
VL  - 58
IS  - 7
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koenig, Tobias
A1  - Tsukruk, Vladimir V.
A1  - Santer, Svetlana
T1  - Controlled topography change of subdiffraction structures based on photosensitive polymer films induced by surface plasmon polaritons
JF  - ACS applied materials & interfaces
N2  - We discuss the controlled subdiffraction modulations of photosensitive polymer films that are induced by surface plasmon interference in striking contrast to well-known conventional microscopic gratings. The near-field light intensity patterns were generated at the nanoslits fabricated in a silver layer with the photosensitive polymer film placed above. We observed that the topographical modulations can be excited only when the polarization is perpendicular to the nanoslits. Moreover, we have shown that light with certain wavelengths resulted in a characteristic topographical pattern with the periodicity three times smaller than the wavelength of incoming light. A combination of experimental observations with simulations showed that the unique subdiffraction topographical patterns are caused by constructive interference between two counter-propagating surface plasmon waves generated at neighboring nanoslits in the metal layer beneath the photosensitive polymer film. The light intensity distribution was simulated to demonstrate strong dependency upon the slit array periodicity as well as wavelength and polarization of incoming light.
KW  - azobenzene photosensitive polymer films
KW  - surface plasm on polaritons
KW  - silver nanoslits
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1021/am400712r
SN  - 1944-8244
VL  - 5
IS  - 13
SP  - 6009
EP  - 6016
PB  - American Chemical Society
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Koenig, Tobias
A1  - Goldenberg, Leonid M.
A1  - Kulikovska, Olga
A1  - Kulikovsky, Lazar
A1  - Stumpe, Joachim
A1  - Santer, Svetlana
T1  - Reversible structuring of photosensitive polymer films by surface plasmon near field radiation
JF  - Soft matter
N2  - We report on the fabrication and characterisation of a novel type of hybrid azo-modified photosensitive polymer film with a nanoscale metallic structuring integrated into the substrate. The metal structures permit to generate surface plasmon near fields when irradiated by UV-light from the rear without directly illuminating the polymer. This allows establishment of a localized, complex-shape intensity distribution at sub-wavelength resolution with a corresponding impact on the photosensitive polymer. The possibilities of exploiting this setup are manifold. We find that just by using the change of polarization of the incident light as means of control, the topography can be driven to change between various patterns reversibly. These results are confirmed by numerical simulations and compared with in situ recorded topography changes.
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm01164a
SN  - 1744-683X
VL  - 7
IS  - 9
SP  - 4174
EP  - 4178
PB  - Royal Society of Chemistry
CY  - Cambridge
ER  -