Prof. Dr. med. Marc Sollberger

Dodich, Alessandra, Panzavolta, Andrea, Funghi, Giulia, Meli, Claudia, Festari, Cristina, Chatzikostopoulos, Thanos, Chicherio, Christian, Clarens, Florencia, de Oliveira, Fabricio Ferreira, Filardi, Marco, Ibanez, Agustin, Invernizzi, Laura, Lebouvier, Thibaud, Logroscino, Giancarlo, MacPherson, Sarah E., Manca, Riccardo, Marra, Camillo, Matias-Guiu, Jordi A., Montembeault, Maxime, et al. (2025). International consensus for the assessment of social cognition in neurocognitive disorders: framework definition and clinical recommendations of the SIGNATURE initiative. Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13195-025-01908-2

Semenkova, Anna, Piguet, Olivier, Johnen, Andreas, Schroeter, Matthias L., Godulla, Jannis, Linnemann, Christoph, Baumgartner, Markus, Otto, Markus, Felbecker, Ansgar, Wezel, Steven, Kressig, Reto W., Berres, Manfred, & Sollberger, Marc. (2025). Reference‐Group Adjusted Behavioural Dysfunction Questionnaire Score Discriminates Highly Behavioural‐Variant Frontotemporal Dementia From Major Depressive Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia. European Journal of Neurology, 32(11). https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.70424

Cerami, Chiara, Boccardi, Marina, Meli, Claudia, Panzavolta, Andrea, Funghi, Giulia, Festari, Cristina, Cappa, Stefano F., Chatzikostopoulos, Thanos, Chicherio, Christian, Clarens, Florencia, de Oliveira, Fabricio Ferreira, Di Lorenzo, Francesco, Filardi, Marco, Ibanez, Agustin, Girtler, Nicola, Lebouvier, Thibaud, Logroscino, Giancarlo, Luca, Antonella, MacPherson, Sarah E., et al. (2025). Understanding barriers and optimizing socio‐cognitive assessment in the diagnosis of neurocognitive disorders. Journal of Neuropsychology, 19(3), 603–618. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12431

Felbecker, Ansgar, Rouaud, Olivier, Lathuiliere, Aurelien, Allali, Gilles, Sollberger, Marc, Meyer-Heim, Tatjana, Monsch, Andreas U., Lövblad, Karl-Olof, Becker, Stefanie, Barro-Belaygues, Nadège, Popp, Julius, Bürge, Markus, Lindheimer, Kathrin, Gietl, Anton, Jung, Hans H., Georgescu, Dan, Meyer, Rafael, & Frisoni, Giovanni B. (2025). Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease: Intersocietal Recommendations for Their Appropriate Use in Switzerland. Neurodegenerative Diseases, 25(3), 114–125. https://doi.org/10.1159/000545799

König, Rahel Susanne, Paris, Daniel Henry, Sollberger, Marc, & Tschopp, Rea. (2024). Identifying the mental health burden in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) patients in Switzerland: A pilot study. Heliyon, 10(5). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27031

Savaskan, Egemen, Georgescu, Dan, Becker, Stefanie, Benkert, Brigitte, Blessing, Andreas, Bürge, Markus, Felbecker, Ansgar, Hatzinger, Martin, Hemmeter, Ulrich Michael, Hirsbrunner, Therese, Klöppel, Stefan, Latour Erlinger, Gabriela, Lornsen, Finn Jacob, Ngamsri, Theofanis, Peter, Jessica, Schlögl, Mathias, Sollberger, Marc, Verloo, Henk, Vögeli, Samuel, & Zúñiga, Franziska. (2024). Recommendations for the diagnostic and therapy of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Praxis, 113(2), 34–43.

Beltrani, Selina, Funk, Janosch, Lieb, Johanna, Ehrensperger, Michael M., & Sollberger, Marc. (2024). An arachnoid cyst mimicking a symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. Nervenarzt, 95, 560–563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-024-01638-0

Menne, F., Henzen, N. A., Sollberger, M., Monsch, A. U., & Schipke, C. G. (2023). Influence of preanalytical and analytical factors on the quantification of six regulatory serum proteins. Bioanalysis, 15(19), 1157–1167. https://doi.org/10.4155/bio-2023-0132

Semenkova, Anna, Piguet, Olivier, Johnen, Andreas, Schroeter, Matthias L., Godulla, Jannis, Linnemann, Christoph, Mühlhauser, Markus, Sauer, Thomas, Baumgartner, Markus, Anderl-Straub, Sarah, Otto, Markus, Felbecker, Ansgar, Kressig, Reto W., Berres, Manfred, & Sollberger, Marc. (2023). The Behavioural Dysfunction Questionnaire discriminates behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer’s disease dementia and major depressive disorder. Journal of Neurology, 270(7), 3433–3441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11666-6

Jarsch M, Piguet O, Berres M, Sluka C, Semenkova A, Kressig RW, Monsch AU, McDonald S, & Sollberger M. (2023). Development of the Basel Version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test – Theory of Mind (BASIT-ToM) in healthy adults. Journal of Neuropsychology, 17(1), 125–145. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12290

Jansen WJ, Janssen O, Tijms BM, Vos SJB, Ossenkoppele R, Visser PJ, Amyloid Biomarker Study Group, Aarsland D, Alcolea D, Altomare D, von Arnim C, Baiardi S, Baldeiras I, Barthel H, Bateman RJ, Van Berckel B, Binette AP, Blennow K, Boada M, et al. (2022). Prevalence Estimates of Amyloid Abnormality Across the Alzheimer Disease Clinical Spectrum. JAMA Neurology, 79(3), 228–243. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.5216

Jarsch, Marianne, Semenkova, Anna, Monsch, Andreas U., Kressig, Reto W., & Sollberger, Marc. (2022). A Gap that Needs to be Closed: The Assessment of Social-Cognitive Abilities in German-Speaking Memory Clinics. Zeitschrift Fur Neuropsychologie, 33, 129–137. https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264x/a000358

Jarsch M., Bartsch K, Berres M, Ryf I, Jurisic K, Sluka C, Kressig RW, Monsch AU, McDonald S, Piguet O, & Sollberger M. (2022). The Basel Version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test-Emotion Recognition (BASIT-ER): Preliminary Validation Analyses in Healthy Adults. Neuropsychology, 36(2), 175–184. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000786

Gerber C., Lulé D., , Braun N., Schweikert K., Weber M., Kressig R.W., Piguet O., & Sollberger M. (2021). Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis without Behavioural Disorders Are not Impaired in Recognising Negative Facial Emotions. In MDPI (Ed.), 113th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society: Vol. 5(3) (p. 22). https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3390/ctn5030022

Jarsch M., Piguet O., Sluka C., Huber N., Kressig R.W., Monsch A.U., Berres M., & Sollberger M. (2021). The Basel Version of the Awareness of Social Inference Test–Theory of Mind (BASIT-ToM): Preliminary Validation Analyses in Healthy Subjects. In MDPI (Ed.), 113th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society,: Vol. 5(3) (p. 22).

Semenkova A., Piguet O., Johnen A., , Bruchmann S., Schroeter M.L., Linnemann C., Mühlhauser M., Sauer T., , Baumgartner M., Anderl-Straub S., , Otto M., , Zimmerer S., , Felbecker A., Kressig R.W., Berres M., & Sollberger M. (2021). The Behavioural Dysfunction Questionnaire Highly Discriminates Early-Stage Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia from Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia and Major Depressive Disorder. In MDPI (Ed.), 113th Annual Meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society: Vol. 5(3) (p. 22).

Bartsch K., Jarsch M., Monsch A.U., Kressig R.W., & Sollberger M. (2020). The context effect in facial emotion perception increases with age. In Alzheimer’s Association (Ed.), Alzheimer’s Association International Conference: Vol. 16(Suppl. 6) (p. e040309). https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.040309

Sollberger M., Toller G., Miller B., & Rankin K.P. (2020). Distinct neural substrates of receptive and responsive aspects of empathy in patients with neurodegenerative disease. In Alzheimer’s Association (Ed.), Alzheimer’s Association International Conference: Vol. 16(S1). https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.043272

Leyhe T, Jucker M., Nef T., Sollberger M., Riese F., Haba-Rubio J., Verloo H., Luthi R., Becker S., & Popp J. (2020). Conference report: dementia research and care and its impact in Switzerland. Swiss Medical Weekly, 150, w20376. https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20376

Kirov, Ivan I., Sollberger, Marc, Davitz, Matthew S., Glodzik, Lidia, Soher, Brian J., Babb, James S., Monsch, Andreas U., Gass, Achim, & Gonen, Oded. (2020). Global brain volume and N-acetyl-aspartate decline over seven decades of normal aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 98, 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2020.10.024

Skachokova, Zhiva, Martinisi, Alfonso, Flach, Martin, Sprenger, Frederik, Naegelin, Yvonne, Steiner-Monard, Viviane, Sollberger, Marc, Monsch, Andreas U., Goedert, Michel, Tolnay, Markus, & Winkler, David T. (2019). Cerebrospinal fluid from Alzheimer’s disease patients promotes tau aggregation in transgenic mice. Acta Neuropathologica Communications, 7(1), 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-019-0725-3

Toller G, Brown J, Sollberger M, Shdo SM, Bouvet L, Sukhanov P, Seeley WW, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2018). Individual differences in socioemotional sensitivity are an index of salience network function. Cortex, 103, 211–223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.02.012

Chiu, Isabelle, Piguet, Olivier, Diehl-Schmid, Janine, Riedl, Lina, Beck, Johannes, Leyhe, Thomas, Holsboer-Trachsler, Edith, Kressig, Reto W., Berres, Manfred, Monsch, Andreas U., & Sollberger, Marc. (2018). Facial Emotion Recognition Performance Differentiates Between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 79(1), e1–e7. https://doi.org/10.4088/jcp.16m11342

Chiu, I., Piguet, O., Diehl-Schmid, J., Riedl, L., Beck, J., Leyhe, T., Holsboer-Trachsler, E., Berres, M., Monsch, A. U., & Sollberger, M. (2016). Combined intensity ratings of congruent and incongruent facial emotions highly discriminate between behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia and major depressive disorder. 138, 266. WILEY-BLACKWELL.

Chiu, Isabelle, Piguet, Olivier, Diehl-Schmid, Janine, Riedl, Lina, Beck, Johannes, Leyhe, Thomas, Holsboer-Trachsler, Edith, Berres, Manfred, Monsch, Andreas U., & Sollberger, Marc. (2016). Dissociation in Rating Negative Facial Emotions between Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Major Depressive Disorder. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(11), 1017–1027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2016.06.011

Chiu I., Gfrorer R.I., Piguet O., Berres M., Monsch A.U., & Sollberger M. (2015). “Now i see it, now i don’t”: Determining Threshold Levels of Facial Emotion Recognition for Use in Patient Populations. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 21(7), 568–572. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617715000557

Egli, Simone C., Hirni, Daniela I., Taylor, Kirsten I., Berres, Manfred, Regeniter, Axel, Gass, Achim, Monsch, Andreas U., & Sollberger, Marc. (2015). Varying Strength of Cognitive Markers and Biomarkers to Predict Conversion and Cognitive Decline in an Early-Stage-Enriched Mild Cognitive Impairment Sample. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 44(2), 33–625. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-141716

Glodzik, Lidia, Sollberger, Marc, Gass, Achim, Gokhale, Amit, Rusinek, Henry, Babb, James S., Hirsch, Jochen G., Amann, Michael, Monsch, Andreas U., & Gonen, Oded. (2015). Global N-Acetylaspartate in Normal Subjects, Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease Patients. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 43(3), 47–939. https://doi.org/10.3233/jad-140609

Egli, Simone C, Beck, Irene R, Berres, Manfred, Foldi, Nancy S, Monsch, Andreas U, & Sollberger, Marc. (2014). Serial position effects are sensitive predictors of conversion from MCI to Alzheimer’s disease dementia. Alzheimer’s & Dementia : The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, 10(5 Suppl), S420–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2013.09.012

Shany-Ur T, Lin N, Rosen HJ, Sollberger M, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2014). Self-awareness in neurodegenerative disease relies on neural structures mediating reward-driven attention. Brain, 137(8), 2368–2381. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awu161

Sollberger M, Rosen HJ, Shany-Ur T, Ullah J, Stanley CM, Laluz V, Weiner MW, Wilson SM, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2014). Neural substrates of socioemotional self-awareness in neurodegenerative disease. Brain and Behavior, 4(2), 201–214. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.211

Sturm VE, Sollberger M, Seeley WW, Rankin KP, Ascher EA, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, & Levenson RW. (2013). Role of right pregenual anterior cingulate cortex in self-conscious emotional reactivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(4), 468–474. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss023

Douaud G, Menke RA, Gass A, Monsch AU, Rao A, Whitcher B, Zamboni G, Matthews PM, Sollberger M, & Smith S. (2013). Brain microstructure reveals early abnormalities more than two years prior to clinical progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(5), 2147–2155. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4437-12.2013

Davidson JE, Lockhart A, Amos L, Stirnadel-Farrant HA, Mooser V, Sollberger M, Regeniter A, Monsch AU, & Irizarry MC. (2012). Plasma lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 activity in Alzheimer’s disease, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and cognitively healthy elderly subjects: A cross-sectional study. Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy, 4(6), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/alzrt154

Glodzik L, Wu WE, Babb JS, Achtnichts L, Amann M, Sollberger M, Monsch AU, Gass A, & Gonen O. (2012). The whole-brain N-acetylaspartate correlates with education in normal adults. Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, 204(1), 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.04.013

Wu WE, Gass A, Glodzik L, Babb JS, Hirsch J, Sollberger M, Achtnichts L, Amann M, Monsch AU, & Gonen O. (2012). Whole brain N-acetylaspartate concentration is conserved throughout normal aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 33(10), 2440–2447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.12.008

Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Ketelle R, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Neuhaus J, Kramer JH, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2012). Neuropsychological correlates of dominance, warmth, and extraversion in neurodegenerative disease. Cortex, 48(6), 674–682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.03.001

Goodkind MS, Sollberger M, Gyurak A, Rosen HJ, Rankin KP, Miller B, & Levenson R. (2012). Tracking emotional valence: The role of the orbitofrontal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 33(4), 753–762. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21251

Regeniter A, Kuhle J, Baumann T, Sollberger M, Herdener M, Kunze U, Camuso MC, & Monsch AU. (2012). Biomarkers of dementia: Comparison of electrochemiluminescence results and reference ranges with conventional ELISA. Methods, 56(4), 494–499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.03.019

Sollberger M, Neuhaus J, Ketelle R, Stanley CM, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2011). Interpersonal traits change as a function of disease type and severity in degenerative brain diseases. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 82(7), 732–739. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2010.205047

Taylor K.I., Herdener M., Sollberger M., Gass A., Matthews P.M., Mancilla B.G., & Monsch A.U. (2010). IMPAIRED CROSSMODAL INTEGRATION OF AUDIOVISUAL OBJECTS IS RELATED TO ANTEROMEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE ATROPHY IN AMNESTIC MCI AND ALZHEIMER PATIENTS. In Alzheimer’s Association (Ed.), Alzheimer’s Association International Conference: Vol. 7(6) (p. S441). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2010.05.1470

Schlaeger R, & Sollberger M. (2010). An unusual cause of isolated vomiting. Neurology, 75(14), 1303. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181f61354

Sollberger M, Rankin KP, & Miller BL. (2010). Social cognition. CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 16(4), 69–85. https://doi.org/10.1212/01.con.0000368261.15544.7c

Baumann, Thomas P., Duyar, Hüseyin, Sollberger, Marc, Kuhle, Jens, Regeniter, Axel, Gomez-Mancilla, Baltazar, Schmidtke, Klaus, & Monsch, Andreas U. (2010). CSF-tau and CSF-Abeta(1-42) in posterior cortical atrophy. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 29(6), 3–530. https://doi.org/10.1159/000314679

Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Wilson SM, Gyurak A, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Weiner MW, Miller BL, & Rankin KP. (2009). Neural basis of interpersonal traits in neurodegenerative diseases. Neuropsychologia, 47(13), 2812–2827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.006

Rankin KP, Salazar A, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sollberger M, Wilson SM, Pavlic D, Stanley CM, Glenn S, Weiner MW, & Miller BL. (2009). Detecting sarcasm from paralinguistic cues: Anatomic and cognitive correlates in neurodegenerative disease. NeuroImage, 47(4), 2005–2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.05.077

Sollberger, M, & Fuhr, P. (2008). Flexor myoclonus of the arm due to posttraumatic cervico-thoracic syringomyelia. Journal of Neurology, 255(8), 7–1275. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-008-0894-7

Sollberger M, Lyrer P., Baumann T., Radü EW, Steck A.J., & Wetzel SG. (2005). Isolated bilateral abducent nerve palsy due to a spontaneous left-side dural carotid cavernous fistula Type Barrow C [8]. Journal of Neurology, 252(3), 372–373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-005-0657-7

Sollberger M, Fluri F, Baumann T, Sonnet S, Tamm M, Steck AJ, & Brutsche M. (2004). Successful treatment of steroid-refractory neurosarcoidosis with infliximab [5] (Patent No. 6). Journal of Neurology, 251(6), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-004-0432-1

Sollberger M, Erne B, Sansano S, Steck AJ, & Schaeren-Wiemers N. (2002). Characterization of human nerve basal lamina for their binding properties of anti-MAG antibodies. Journal of Neurocytology, 31(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022518113385