Publications

highlighted in bold - current or former members of the working group

Current selection of 10 representative publications: 

1. Walther S, Maderthaner L, Chapellier V, von Känel S, Müller DR, Bohlhalter S, Baer M, Pavlidou A (2025). Gesture deficits in psychosis and the combination of group psychotherapy and transcranial magnetic stimulation: A randomized clinical trial. Molecular Psychiatry. 2025 Dec;30(12):5790-5799
2. Pavlidou A, Reiser F, Maderthaner L, von Känel S, Chapellier V, Malifatouratzis A, Walther S (2026).  Gesture Impairments in Schizophrenia: Distinct Roles of Negative Symptoms and Formal Thought Disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin in press
3. Pavlidou A, Tolev A, Reinhold D, Steinberg G, Müller TJ, Walther S (2026). Aberrant gesture use in autism spectrum disorders is unrelated to motor abnormalities. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience – in press.
4. Pavlidou A, Viher PV, Bachofner H, Weiss F, Shankman SA, Mittal VA, Walther S (2021). Hand gesture performance is impaired in major depressive disorder: a matter of working memory performance? Journal of Affective Disorders 292:81-88
5. Walther S, Mittal VA, Stegmayer K, Bohlhalter S (2020). Gesture deficits and apraxia in schizophrenia. Cortex 133:65-75
6. Walther S, Kunz M, Müller M, Zürcher C, Vladimirova I, Bachofner H, Scherer KA, Nadesalingam N, Stegmayer K, Bohlhalter S, Viher P (2020). Single session transcranial magnetic stimulation ameliorates hand gesture deficits in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Bulletin 46(2):286-293  
7. Viher PV, Abdulkadir A, Savadijev P, Stegmayer K, Kubicki M, Makris N, Karmacharya S, Federspiel A, Bohlhalter S, Vanbellingen T, Müri R, Wiest R, Strik W, Walther S (2020). Structural organization of the praxis network predicts gesture production: Evidence from healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia.  Cortex 132:322-333
8. Stegmayer K, Bohlhalter S, Vanbellingen T, Federspiel A, Wiest R, Müri R, Strik W, Walther S (2018). Limbic interference during social action planning in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 44(2):359-368
9. Walther S, Eisenhardt S, Bohlhalter S, Vanbellingen T, Müri R, Strik W, Stegmayer K (2016). Gesture performance in schizophrenia predicts functional outcome after 6 months. Schizophrenia Bulletin 42(6):1326-1333
10. Walther S, Stegmayer K, Sulzbacher J, Vanbellingen T, Müri R, Strik W, Bohlhalter S (2015). Nonverbal social communication and gesture control in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Bulletin 41(2): 338-345