Research
I want to understand what in vivo brain imaging measures biologically. I relate imaging findings – in typical development and in psychiatric disorders – to maps of the brain's molecular and cellular makeup, from neurotransmitter systems to gene expression, and I develop open tools for this, such as NiSpace. My goal is a methodological gold standard for such spatial correlation analyses – validated methods, and the reference maps of known biology they depend on.
Selected Preprints
Linking human brain functional connectivity to underlying neurotransmission
Lotter LD, Shafiei G, Larabi D, Koushik A, Dipasquale O, ..., Koenig J, Patil KR, Paquola C, Eickhoff SB, Dukart J (2026). bioRxiv.
Selected Publications
Methodological considerations: integrating measures across assessment modalities
Lotter LD, Dukart J (2025). Book chapter in: Neurobehavioral Individual Differences (Springer).
Regional patterns of human cortex development correlate with underlying neurobiology
Lotter LD, Saberi A, Hansen JY, Misic B, Paquola C, ..., IMAGEN Consortium, Nees F, Banaschewski T, Eickhoff SB, Dukart J (2024). Nature Communications.
Temporal dissociation between local and global functional adaptations of the maternal brain to childbirth - A longitudinal assessment
Lotter LD, Nehls S, Losse E, Dukart J, Chechko N (2024). Neuropsychopharmacology.
Revealing the neurobiology underlying interpersonal neural synchronization with multimodal data fusion
Lotter LD, Kohl SH, Gerloff C, Bell L, Niephaus A, Kruppa JA, Dukart J, Schulte-Rüther M, Reindl V, Konrad K (2023). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Recovery-Associated Resting-State Activity and Connectivity Alterations in Anorexia Nervosa
Lotter LD, von Polier G, Offermann J, Buettgen K, Stanetzky L, Eickhoff SB, Konrad K, Seitz J*, & Dukart J* (2021). Biological Psychiatry - Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging.
The many-to-many problem of endophenotypes in psychiatry - a biological perspective
Dukart J, Lotter LD, Paquola C, Eickhoff SB, Schilbach L (2026). Molecular Psychiatry.
Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling
Saberi A, Wischnewski KJ, Jung K, Lotter LD, ..., Popovych OV, Eickhoff SB, Valk SL (2025). Science Advances.
Beware 'persuasive communication devices' when writing and reading scientific articles
Corneille O, Havemann J, Henderson EL, Ijzerman H, Hussey I, Orban de Xivry J, Jussim L, Holmes NP, Pilacinski A, Beffara B, Carroll H, Outa NO, Lush P, Lotter LD (2023). eLife.
*shared authorships
