Peer-reviewed journal articles

Bodden C, von Kortzfleisch V, Karwinkel F, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH (2019): Heterogenising study samples across testing time improves reproducibility of behavioural data. Scientific Reports, 9, 8247.

Melotti L, Kästner N, Eick AK, Schnelle AL, Palme R, Sachser N, Kaiser S, Richter SH (2019): Can live with ‘em, can live without ‘em: pair housed male C57BL/6J mice show low aggression and increasing sociopositive interactions  with age, but can adapt to single housing if separated. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 214, 79-88.

Richter SH, Hintze S (2019): From the individual to the population - and back again? Emphasising the role of the individual in animal welfare science. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 212, 1-8.

Von Kortzfleisch V, Kästner N, Prange L, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH (2019): Have I been here before? Effects of repeated testing and age on the results of behavioural tests. Behavioural Brain Research, 367, 143-148.

Bodden C, Siestrup S, Palme R, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH (2018): Evidence-based severity assessment: Impact of repeated versus single open-field testing on welfare in C57BL/6J mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 336, 261-268.

Kästner N, Richter SH, Bodden C, Palme R, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2018): Varying social experiences in adulthood do not differentially affect anxiety-like behavior but stress hormone levels. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 72.

Kafkafi N, Agassi J, Chesler EJ, Crabbe JC, Crusio WE, Eilam D, Gerlai R, Golani I, Gomez-Marin A, Heller R, Iraqi F, Jaljuli I, Karp NA, Morgan H, Nicholson G, Pfaff DW, Richter SH, Stark PB, Stiedl O, Stodden V, Tarantino LM, Tucci V, Valdar W, Williams RW, Würbel H, Benjamini Y (2018): Reproducibility and replicability of rodent phenotyping in preclinical studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 87, 218-232.

Kästner N, Richter SH, Gamer M, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2017). What a difference a day makes—female behaviour is less predictable near ovulation. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160998.

Meyer N, Jenikejew J, Richter SH, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2017): Social experiences during adolescence affect anxiety-like behavior but not aggressiveness in male mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 326, 147-153.

Richter SH (2017): Systematic heterogenization for better reproducibility in animal experimentation. Lab Animal NY, 46, 343 - 349.

Richter SH, Kästner N, Loddenkemper DH, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2016): A time to wean? Impact of weaning age on anxiety-like behaviour and stability of behavioural traits in full adulthood. PLoS ONE, 11, e0167652.

Remmes J, Bodden C, Richter SH, Lesting J, Sachser N, Pape H-C, Seidenbecher T (2016): Impact of life history on fear memory and extinction. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience, 10, 185.

Graulich DM, Kaiser S, Sachser N, Richter SH (2016): Looking on the bright side of bias - validation of an affective bias test for laboratory mice. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 181, 173-181.

Meyer N, Richter SH, Schreiber RS, Kloke V, Kaiser S, Lesch KP, Sachser N (2016): The unexpected effects of beneficial and adverse social experiences during adolescence on anxiety and aggression and their modulation by genotype. Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences, 10, 97.

Mallien AS, Palme R, Richetto J, Muzzillo C, Richter SH, Vogt MA, Inta D, Riva MA, Vollmayr B, Gass P (2016): Daily exposure to a touchscreen-paradigm and associated food restriction evokes an increase in adrenocortical and neural activity in mice. Hormones and Behavior, 81, 97-105.

Richter SH, Kästner N, Kriwet M, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2016): Play matters - the surprising relationship between juvenile playfulness and anxiety in later life. Animal Behaviour, 114, 261-271.

Macri S, Richter SH (2015): The Snark was a Boojum - reloaded. Frontiers in Zoology, 12, S20.

Sachser N, Richter SH (2015): Animals can tell us more. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, 44-45.

Bodden C, Richter SH, Schreiber RS, Kloke V, Gerss J, Palme R, Lesch K-P, Lewejohann L, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2015): Benefits of adversity?! How life history affects the behavioral profile of mice varying in serotonin transporter genotype. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9, 47.

Kästner N, Richter SH, Lesch KP, Schreiber RS, Kaiser S, Sachser N (2015): Benefits of a "vulnerability gene"? A study in serotonin transporter knockout mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 283, 116-120.

Richter SH, Sartorius A, Gass P, Vollmayr B (2014): A matter of timing: harm reduction in learned helplessness. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 10, 41.

Richter SH, Gass P, Fuss J (2014): Resting is rusting: Rodent wheel-running as a model of human exercise? The Neuroscientist, 20, 313-325.

Lima-Ojeda JM, Vogt M, Richter SH, Dormann C, Schneider M, Gass P, Inta D (2014): Lack of protracted behavioral abnormalities following intermittent or continuous chronic mild hypoxia in perinatal C57BL/6 mice. Neuroscience Letters, 577C, 77-82.

Richter SH, Wollmann E, Schmidt M, Zillmann U, Hellweg R, Sprengel R, Gass P (2014): The effects of neonatal cryoanaesthesia-induced hypothermia on adult emotional behaviour and stress markers in C57BL/6 mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 270, 300-306.

Richter SH*, Vogel AS*, Ueltzhöffer K, Muzzillo C, Vogt MA, Lankisch K, Armbruster-Genc DJ, Riva MA, Fiebach CJ, Gass P, Vollmayr B (2014): Touchscreen-paradigm for mice reveals cross-species evidence for an antagonistic relationship of cognitive flexibility and stability. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 154, *authors contributed equally to this work.

Hoyer C, Richter SH, Brandwein C, Riva MA, Gass P (2013): Preconceptional paternal exposure to a single traumatic event affects postnatal growth of female but not male offspring. NeuroReport, 24, 856-860.

Richter SH, Zeuch B, Riva M, Gass P, Vollmayr B (2013): Environmental enrichment ameliorates depressive-like symptoms in young rats bred for learned helplessness. Behavioural Brain Research, 252, 287-292.

Würbel H, Richter SH, Garner JP (2013): Reply to: "Reanalysis of Richter et al. (2010) on reproducibility". Nature Methods, 10, 374.

Richter SH, Zeuch B, Lankisch K, Durstewitz D, Gass P, Vollmayr B (2013): Where have I been? Where should I go? Spatial memory on a radial arm maze with temporal delay in a rat model of depression. PLoS ONE, 8, e62458.

Fuss J*, Richter SH*, Steinle J, Deubert G, Hellweg R, Gass P (2013): Are you real? Visual simulation of social housing by mirror image stimulation in single housed mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 243, 191-198, *authors contributed equally to this work.

Pignatelli M, Vollmayr B, Richter SH, Middei S, Matrisciano F, Molinaro G, Nasca C, Battaglia G, Ammassari-Teule M, Feligioni M, Nisticò R, Nicoletti F, Gass P (2013): Enhanced mGlu5-receptor dependent long-term depression at the Schaffer collateral-Ca1 synapse of congenitally learned helpless rats. Neuropharmacology, 66, 339-347.

Gross AN, Richter SH, Engel AKJ, Würbel H (2012): Cage-induced stereotypies, perseveration and the effects of environmental enrichment in laboratory mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 234, 61-68.

Richter SH, Schick A, Hoyer C, Lankisch K, Gass P, Vollmayr B (2012): A glass full of optimism: Enrichment effects on cognitive bias in a rat model of depression. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 527-542.

Hoyer C, Vogt MA, Richter SH, Zaun G, Zahedi Y, Maderwald S, Ladd ME, Winterhager E, Grümmer R, Gass P (2012): Repetitive exposure to a 7 Tesla static magnetic field of mice in utero does not cause alterations in basal emotional and cognitive behavior in adulthood. Reproductive Toxicology, 34, 86-92.

Engel AK, Gross AN, Richter SH, Würbel H (2011): Variation in stress reactivity affects cage-induced stereotypies in female CD-1 (ICR) mice. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 133, 101-108.

Chourbaji S, Hoyer C, Richter SH, Brandwein C, Pfeiffer N, Vogt MA, Vollmayr B, Gass P (2011). Differences in mouse maternal care behavior - is there a genetic impact of the glucocorticoid receptor? PLoS ONE, 6, e19218.

Richter SH, Garner JP, Zipser B, Lewejohann L, Sachser N, Touma C, Schindler B, Chourbaji S, Brandwein C, Gass P, van Stipdonk N, van der Harst J, Spruijt B, Voikar V, Wolfer DP, Würbel H (2011): Effect of population heterogenization on the reproducibility of mouse behavior: A multi-laboratory study. PLoS ONE, 6, e16461.

Gross AN, Engel AKJ, Richter SH, Garner JP, Würbel H (2011): Cage-induced stereotypies in female ICR CD-1 mice do not correlate with recurrent perseveration. Behavioural Brain Research, 216, 613-620.

Richter SH, Garner JP, Auer C, Kunert J, Würbel H (2010): Systematic variation improves reproducibility of animal experiments. Nature Methods, 7, 167-168.

Richter SH, Garner JP, Würbel H (2009): Environmental standardization: cure or cause of poor reproducibility in animal experiments? Nature Methods, 6, 257-261.

Ambrée O, Richter SH, Sachser N, Lewejohann L, Dere E, de Souza Silva MA, Herring A, Keyvani K, Paulus W, Schäbitz WR (2009): Levodopa ameliorates learning and memory deficits in a murine model of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 30, 1192-1207.

Richter SH, Ambrée O, Lewejohann L, Herring A, Keyvani K, Paulus W, Palme R, Touma C, Schäbitz WR, Sachser N. (2008): Wheel-running in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: protection or symptom? Behavioural Brain Research, 190, 74-84.

Book contributions

Richter SH, Sachser N, Kaiser S (2018): Emotionen (Kapitel 11). In: Handbuch Tierethik by Ach JS, Borchers D (Eds), J.B. Metzler Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, 64-69.

Sachser N, Richter SH, Kaiser S (2018): Artgerecht/tiergerecht (Kapitel 26). In: Handbuch Tierethik by Ach JS, Borchers D (Eds), J.B. Metzler Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, 155-160.

Richter SH (2018): "Never replicate a successful experiment" - Gedanken über Unschärfe im Tierversuch. In: Unschärfe - der Umgang mit fehlender Eindeutigkeit by Freitag S, Geierhos M, Asmani R, Haug JI (Eds), erschienen in der Reihe: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste - Junges Kolleg, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn, 93-110.

Richter SH, Spinello C, Macrì S (2016): Improving external validity of experimental animal data. In: Animal Models for Human Cancer: Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics by Martic-Kehl MI, Schubiger PA (Eds), within the series "Methods and Principles in Medical Chemistry" edited by R. Mannhold, H. Kubinyi, G. Folkers, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 41-60.

Richter SH (2004): Was ist Glück? In: Heller B (Ed): Glück. Ein philosophischer Streifzug. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 10-11.

Other Publications

Richter SH (2018): Editorial, Biologie in unserer Zeit (BIUZ), 48, 23.

Richter SH (2011): Illusion der perfekten Kontrolle. Vet Journal, 12/11, 46-49.

Richter SH (2011): Illusion der perfekten Kontrolle. Bild der Wissenschaft plus, 20-23.

Richter SH (2004): Schönheit und Partnerwahl bei Falterfischen der Gattung Chaetodon. In: Korallenriff-Ökologie Mangrove Bay, Rotes Meer, Abteilung Evolutionsbiologie, Münster Unterwasserforschungspreis 2004/2005, Gruppenbewerbung, 9-11.