Prof. Thomas Kinfe

2024

• Bozhkov, Y., Feulner, J., Buchfelder, M., Kleiß, M., Brandner, S., & Kinfe, T.M. (2024). Efficacy of Subperiosteal Drains in Chronic Subdural Hematoma: A Prospective Randomized Single-Center Study. Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A: Central European Neurosurgery. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2418-3682
• Riera, C., Souza de Oliveira, D., 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-024-00670-x
• Russo, M.A., Chakravarthy, K., & Kinfe, T.M. (2024). Vagus nerve stimulation for the management of chronic pain. Elsevier.
• Seufert, C., Borutta, M., Regensburger, M., Zhao, Y., & Kinfe, T.M. (2024). New Perspectives for Spinal Cord Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease-Associated Gait Impairment: A Systematic Review. Biomedicines, 12(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12081824
• Simpetru, R., Arkudas, A., Braun, D., Oßwald, M., Souza de Oliveira, D., Eskofier, B.,... Del Vecchio, A. (2024). Learning a Hand Model from Dynamic Movements Using High-Density EMG and Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1109/TBME.2024.3432800
• Souza de Oliveira, D., Ponfick, M., Braun, D., Oßwald, M., Sierotowicz, M., Chatterjee, S.,... 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae088
• Stadlbauer, A., Nikolic, K., Oberndorfer, S., Marhold, F., Kinfe, T.M., Meyer-Bäse, A.,... Dörfler, 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). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers16061102

2023

• Borutta, M., Köhn, J., Souza de Oliveira, D., Del Vecchio, A., Engelhorn, T., Schwab, S.,... Kinfe, T.M. (2023). The Impact of Burst Motor Cortex Stimulation on Cardiovascular Autonomic Modulation in Chronic Pain: A Feasibility Study for a New Approach to Objectively Monitor Therapeutic Effects. Pain and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-023-00541-x
• Casolo, A., Maeo, S., Balshaw, T.G., Lanza, M.B., Martin, N.R.W., Nuccio, S.,... Del Vecchio, A. (2023). Non-invasive estimation of muscle fibre size from high-density electromyography. The Journal of Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1113/JP284170
• Del Vecchio, A., Marconi Germer, C., Kinfe, T.M., Nuccio, S., Hug, F., Eskofier, B.,... Enoka, R.M. (2023). The Forces Generated by Agonist Muscles during Isometric Contractions Arise from Motor Unit Synergies. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43(16), 2860-2873. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1265-22.2023
• Kinfe, T.M. (2023). MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound for chronic pain: where do we stand? Expert review of neurotherapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2023.2246659
• Kipele, M.W., Buchfelder, M., Taudte, R.V., Stadlbauer, A., Kinfe, T.M., & Bozhkov, Y. (2023). Immunometabolic Profiling of Chronic Subdural Hematoma through Untargeted Mass Spectrometry Analysis: Preliminary Findings of a Novel Approach. Diagnostics, 13(21). https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13213345
• Meyer-Baese, A., Jütten, K., Meyer-Baese, U., Amani, A.M., Malberg, H., Stadlbauer, A.,... Na, C.H. (2023). Controllability and Robustness of Functional and Structural Connectomic Networks in Glioma Patients. Cancers, 15(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15102714
• Qassim, H., Zhao, Y., Ströbel, A., Regensburger, M., Buchfelder, M., Souza de Oliveira, D.,... Kinfe, T.M. (2023). Deep Brain Stimulation for Chronic Facial Pain: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis. Brain Sciences, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13030492
• Regensburger, M., & Kinfe, T.M. (2023). Role of the adipocyte immune brain axis in Parkinson's disease: friend or foe? Neural Regeneration Research, 18(11), 2399-2400. https://doi.org/10.4103/1673-5374.369112
• Regensburger, M., Rasul Chaudhry, S., Yasin, H., Zhao, Y., Stadlbauer, A., Buchfelder, M., & Kinfe, T.M. (2023). Emerging roles of leptin in Parkinson's disease: Chronic inflammation, neuroprotection and more? Brain Behavior and Immunity, 107, 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.09.010
• Runge, J., Nagel, J.M., Blahak, C., Kinfe, T.M., Heissler, H.E., Schrader, C.,... Krauss, J.K. (2023). Does Temporary Externalization of Electrodes After Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Result in a Higher Risk of Infection? Neuromodulation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2023.08.004

2022

• Brandner, S., Aicher, S., Schröter, S., Swierzy, I., Kinfe, T.M., Buchfelder, M.,... Stadlbauer, A. (2022). Real-time imaging of glutamate transients in the extracellular space of acute human brain slices using a single-wavelength glutamate fluorescence nanosensor. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07940-8
• Cakici, A., Oßwald, M., Souza de Oliveira, D., Braun, D., Simpetru, R., Kinfe, T.M.,... Del Vecchio, A. (2022). A Generalized Framework for the Study of Spinal Motor Neurons Controlling the Human Hand During Dynamic Movements. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2022 (pp. 4115-4118). Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, GB: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
• Cakici, A.L., Oßwald, M., Souza de Oliveira, D., Braun, D., Simpetru, R.C., Kinfe, T.M.,... Del Vecchio, A. (2022). A Generalized Framework for the Study of Spinal Motor Neurons Controlling the Human Hand During Dynamic Movements. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS (pp. 4115-4118). Glasgow, GBR: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
• Del Vecchio, A., Jones, R.H., Schofield, I.S., Kinfe, T.M., Ibáñez, J., Farina, D., & Baker, S.N. (2022). Interfacing Motor Units in Nonhuman Primates Identifies a Principal Neural Component for Force Control Constrained by the Size Principle. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42(39), 7386-7399. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0649-22.2022
• Kinfe, T.M., Chakravarthy, K., & Deer, T.R. (2022). Editorial: Cerebral localization and neurostimulation for pain. Frontiers in Neurology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.1019162
• Kinfe, T.M., Del Vecchio, A., Nüssel, M., Zhao, Y., Stadlbauer, A., & Buchfelder, M. (2022). Deep brain stimulation and stereotactic-assisted brain graft injection targeting fronto-striatal circuits for Huntington's disease: an update. Expert review of neurotherapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2022.2091988
• Kinfe, T.M., Zhao, Y., & Viviani, B. (2022). A Clarion Call for Neuroinflammatory Assays in Brain Stimulation for Chronic Pain. Brain Sciences, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12030364
• Meyer-Baese, A., Juetten, K., Meyer-Baese, U., Stadlbauer, A., Kinfe, T.M., & Na, C.H. (2022). Dynamical graph networks may aid in phenotyping prognostically different brain tumor types. In Giovanni Volpe, Joana B. Pereira, Daniel Brunner, Aydogan Ozcan (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. San Diego, CA, USA: SPIE.
• Nüssel, M., Zhao, Y., Knorr, C., Regensburger, M., Stadlbauer, A., Buchfelder, M.,... Kinfe, T.M. (2022). Deep Brain Stimulation, Stereotactic Radiosurgery and High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Targeting the Limbic Pain Matrix: A Comprehensive Review. Pain and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-022-00381-1
• Runge, J., Nagel, J.M., Ascencao, L.C., Blahak, C., Kinfe, T.M., Schrader, C.,... Krauss, J.K. (2022). Are Transventricular Approaches Associated With Increased Hemorrhage? A Comparative Study in a Series of 624 Deep Brain Stimulation Surgeries. Operative Neurosurgery, 23(2), E108-E113. https://doi.org/10.1227/ons.0000000000000275
• Souza de Oliveira, D., Casolo, A., Balshaw, T.G., Maeo, S., Lanza, M.B., Martin, N.R.W.,... Del Vecchio, A. (2022). Neural decoding from surface high-density EMG signals: influence of anatomy and synchronization on the number of identified motor units. Journal of Neural Engineering, 19(4). https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/ac823d
• Stadlbauer, A., Marhold, F., Oberndorfer, S., Heinz, G., Buchfelder, M., Kinfe, T.M., & Meyer-Bäse, A. (2022). Radiophysiomics: Brain Tumors Classification by Machine Learning and Physiological MRI Data. Cancers, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14102363

2021

• Abdallat, M., Saryyeva, A., Blahak, C., Wolf, M.E., Weigel, R., Loher, T.J.,... Krauss, J.K. (2021). Centromedian-Parafascicular and Somatosensory Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Neuropathic Pain: A Contemporary Series of 40 Patients. Biomedicines, 9(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9070731
• Chaudhry, S.R., Kahlert, U.D., Kinfe, T.M., Endl, E., Dolf, A., Niemela, M.,... Muhammad, S. (2021). Differential polarization and activation dynamics of systemic T helper cell subsets after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and during post-SAH complications. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92873-x
• Chaudhry, S.R., Stadlbauer, A., Buchfelder, M., & Kinfe, T.M. (2021). Melatonin moderates the triangle of chronic pain, sleep architecture and immunometabolic traffic. Biomedicines, 9(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9080984
• Fröhlich, K., Siedler, G., Stoll, S., Macha, K., Kinfe, T.M., Dörfler, A.,... Knott, M. (2021). The anesthetic approach for endovascular recanalization therapy depends on the lesion site in acute ischemic stroke. Neuroradiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-021-02762-3
• Kinfe, T.M., Buchfelder, M., & Stadlbauer, A. (2021). Can we use the dynamic and complex interplay between pain and sleep to quantify neuromodulation responsiveness for chronic pain? Expert review of neurotherapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2021.1865805
• Runge, J., Ascencao, L.C., Blahak, C., Kinfe, T.M., Schrader, C., Wolf, M.E.,... Krauss, J.K. (2021). Deep brain stimulation in patients on chronic antiplatelet or anticoagulation treatment. Acta Neurochirurgica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04931-y
• Stadlbauer, A., Heinz, G., Oberndorfer, S., Zimmermann, M., Kinfe, T.M., Buchfelder, M.,... Marhold, F. (2021). Physiological MRI of microvascular architecture, neovascularization activity, and oxygen metabolism facilitate early recurrence detection in patients with IDH-mutant WHO grade 3 glioma. Neuroradiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-021-02740-9
• Stadlbauer, A., Kinfe, T.M., Eyüpoglu, I.Y., Zimmermann, M., Kitzwoegerer, M., Podar, K.,... Marhold, F. (2021). Tissue hypoxia and alterations in microvascular architecture predict glioblastoma recurrence in humans. Clinical Cancer Research, 27(6), 1641-1649. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-3580
• Stadlbauer, A., Marhold, F., Oberndorfer, S., Heinz, G., Zimmermann, M., Buchfelder, M.,... Kinfe, T.M. (2021). Metabolic tumor microenvironment characterization of contrast enhancing brain tumors using physiologic mri. Metabolites, 11(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11100668
• Stadlbauer, A., Oberndorfer, S., Heinz, G., Zimmermann, M., Kinfe, T.M., Dörfler, A.,... Marhold, F. (2021). Hypoxia and microvascular alterations are early predictors of IDH-mutated anaplastic glioma recurrence. Cancers, 13(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers13081797

2020

• Chaudhry, S.R., Kahlert, U.D., Kinfe, T.M., Lamprecht, A., Niemelä, M., Hänggi, D., & Muhammad, S. (2020). Elevated systemic Il-10 levels indicate immunodepression leading to nosocomial infections after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21051569
• Chaudhry, S.R., Kinfe, T.M., Lamprecht, A., Niemelä, M., Dobreva, G., Hänggi, D., & Muhammad, S. (2020). Elevated level of cerebrospinal fluid and systemic chemokine CCL5 is a predictive biomarker of clinical outcome after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). Cytokine, 133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cyto.2020.155142
• Kinfe, T.M., Stadlbauer, A., Bozhkov, Y., Kremenevski, N., Brandner, S., Buchfelder, M., & Chaudhry, S.R. (2020). The Diagnostic and Therapeutic Role of Leptin and Its Receptor ObR in Glioblastoma Multiforme. Cancers, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers12123691
• Kinfe, T.M., Stadlbauer, A., Winder, K., Hurlemann, R., & Buchfelder, M. (2020). Incisionless MR-guided focused ultrasound: technical considerations and current therapeutic approaches in psychiatric disorders. Expert review of neurotherapeutics. https://doi.org/10.1080/14737175.2020.1779590
• Kinfe, T.M., von Willebrand, N., Stadlbauer, A., Buchfelder, M., Yearwood, T.L., Muhammad, S.,... Magerl, W. (2020). Quantitative sensory phenotyping in chronic neuropathic pain patients treated with unilateral L4-dorsal root ganglion stimulation. Journal of Translational Medicine, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12967-020-02566-8
• Kremenevski, N., Schlaffer, S.-M., Coras, R., Kinfe, T.M., Graillon, T., & Buchfelder, M. (2020). Skull Base Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas. Neuroendocrinology, 110(9-10), 836-847. https://doi.org/10.1159/000509386
• Lindemann, J., Rakers, C., Matuskova, H., Simon, B.J., Kinfe, T.M., & Petzold, G.C. (2020). Vagus nerve stimulation reduces spreading depolarization burden and cortical infarct volume in a rat model of stroke. PLoS ONE, 15(7), e0236444-. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236444
• Nuessel, M., Hamperl, M., Maslarova, A., Chaudhry, S.R., Kohn, J., Stadlbauer, A.,... Kinfe, T.M. (2020). Burst Motor Cortex Stimulation Evokes Sustained Suppression of Thalamic Stroke Pain: A Narrative Review and Single-Case Overview. Pain and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-020-00221-0
• Saryyeva, A., Capelle, H.-H., Kinfe, T.M., Schrader, C., & Krauss, J.K. (2020). Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients with Prior Bilateral Pallidotomy and Selective Peripheral Denervation for Treatment of Dystonia. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1159/000509822
• Stadlbauer, A., Kinfe, T.M., Zimmermann, M., Eyüpoglu, I.Y., Brandner, N., Buchfelder, M.,... Brandner, S. (2020). Association between tissue hypoxia, perfusion restrictions, and microvascular architecture alterations with lesion-induced impairment of neurovascular coupling. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. https://doi.org/10.1177/0271678X20947546