Klaas Enno Stephan
Full Professor
Leads translational neuromodeling and computational psychiatry, building generative models of brain connectivity and Bayesian model selection for individual disease mechanisms.
Klaas Enno Stephan's lab at ETH Zurich works on medical imaging & healthcare AI, neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces and generative & foundation models. 59 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly Nature Methods. 7 PhD students and 2 master's students. 49 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 2%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 49
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 20 papers2025 · T1 0
- 18 papers2024 · T1 1
- 15 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nature Methods
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces8 papers
- Generative & foundation models3 papers
- Medical imaging & healthcare AI1 paper
- model selection0 papers
- individual0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- Curr BiolCoherent oscillations across the human brain, spinal cord, and muscle network (opens in a new tab)
- Mol PsychiatryDelay discounting correlates with depression but does not predict relapse after antidepressant discontinuation (opens in a new tab)
- —Estimating Interoceptive Sensitivity from Physiological Breathing Parameters. J R Soc N Z.; 56(3):e70050. doi: 10.1002/snz2.70050 [ (opens in a new tab)
- Clin Neurophysiol.Experiences of ictal OP-MEG (opens in a new tab)
- —It Is What It Isn't: Introducing a Constraint-Based Approach to Structure Learning. Entropy (Basel) (2026); 28(5):534. doi: 10.3390/e28050534. [ (opens in a new tab)
- J R Soc N Z.The Effect of an Acute Bout of Self-Selected Intensity Exercise on State Anxiety and Anxiety Sensitivity in Moderately Anxious Individuals (opens in a new tab)
202520 papers
- Eur J Neurosci.Anatomically Veridical On-Scalp Sensor Topographies (opens in a new tab)
- Nat Neurosci.Author Correction: The architecture of the human default mode network explored through cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow (opens in a new tab)
- Computational PsychiatryBayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry (opens in a new tab)
- Imaging NeurosciCombining video telemetry and wearable MEG for naturalistic imaging (opens in a new tab)
- Imaging NeurosciDistinguishing the activity of adjacent somatosensory nuclei within the brainstem using 3T fMRI (opens in a new tab)
- Front Hum NeurosciEarly insights into eyeblink conditioning using optically pumped magnetometer-based MEG (opens in a new tab)
- Transl PsychiatryExploring when to exploit: the cognitive underpinnings of foraging-type decisions in relation to psychopathy (opens in a new tab)
- Eur J Neurosci.Gender Differences in the Association Between Anxiety and Interoceptive Insight (opens in a new tab)
- Scientific ReportsInvestigation of flow state occurrence during robotic virtual reality operations (opens in a new tab)
- JAMA Netw OpenMachine Learning Model for Response to Internet-Delivered CBT vs Antidepressant Medication (opens in a new tab)
- TranslModel-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression (opens in a new tab)
- BMJ OpenPredictive modelling of clinically significant depressive symptoms after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: protocol for a multicentre observational study in two Swiss hospitals (the PsyCor study) (opens in a new tab)
202418 papers
- Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsA computationally informed distinction of interoception and exteroception (opens in a new tab)
- Front PsycholA systematic review of brief respiratory, embodiment, cognitive, and mindfulness interventions to reduce state anxiety (opens in a new tab)
- JAMA PsychiatryAmygdala Reactivity, Antidepressant Discontinuation, and Relapse (opens in a new tab)
- Commun Psychol.Asymmetric cognitive learning mechanisms underlying the persistence of intergroup bias (opens in a new tab)
- J Psychiatr Res.Attachment and borderline personality disorder as the dance unfolds: A quantitative analysis of a novel paradigm (opens in a new tab)
- Prog Neurobiol.Atypical connectome topography and signal flow in temporal lobe epilepsy (opens in a new tab)
- PLoSBeliefs, compulsive behavior and reduced confidence in control (opens in a new tab)
- Biol PsychiatryComputational phenotyping of aberrant belief updating in individuals with schizotypal traits and schizophrenia (opens in a new tab)
- Brain Behav ImmunCOVID-19 may Enduringly Impact Cognitive Performance and Brain Haemodynamics in Undergraduate Students (opens in a new tab)
- Commun Psychol.Diminished pain sensitivity mediates the relationship between psychopathic traits and reduced learning from pain (opens in a new tab)
- Brain Struct FunctDynamic causal modelling highlights the importance of decreased self-inhibition of the sensorimotor cortex in motor fatigability (opens in a new tab)
- ?Emotion-induced frontal (opens in a new tab)
202315 papers
- Data in BriefA tightly controlled fMRI dataset for receptive field mapping in human visual cortex, (opens in a new tab)
- Nicotine Tob ResAcute stress enhances memory and preference for smoking-related associations in smokers (opens in a new tab)
- eLifeAn observational treatment study of metacognition in anxious-depression (opens in a new tab)
- NatBlocking D2/D3 dopamine receptors in male participants increases volatility of beliefs when learning to trust others (opens in a new tab)
- Front Hum NeurosciEditorial: Frontiers in psychodynamic neuroscience (opens in a new tab)
- Psychon Bull RevEvidence or Confidence: What Is Really Monitored during a Decision? (opens in a new tab)
- Cell MetabHabitual daily intake of a sweet and fatty snack modulates reward processing in humans (opens in a new tab)
- Eur J NeurosciInteroceptive and metacognitive facets of fatigue in multiple sclerosis (opens in a new tab)
- Nat Metab.Liraglutide restores impaired associative learning in individuals with obesity (opens in a new tab)
- NeuroImagePredicting Future Depressive Episodes from Resting-State fMRI with Generative Embedding (opens in a new tab)
- SportsThe Effect of Acute Exercise on State Anxiety: A Systematic Review (opens in a new tab)
- ERJ Open Res.The effect of d-cycloserine on brain processing of breathlessness over pulmonary rehabilitation: an experimental medicine study (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went49 listed
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