A5052554262- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Free Will and Agency
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Ethics in Business and Education
MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical University
2019-2022
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2008-2021
Freie Universität Berlin
2010-2021
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2004-2018
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
2018
University of Rostock
2010
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
2010
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2006-2009
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
2007-2009
Humboldt State University
2009
Receiving social feedback such as praise or blame for one's character traits is a key component of everyday human interactions. It has been proposed that humans are positively biased when integrating into their self-concept. However, mechanistic description how process self-relevant lacking. Here, participants received from peers after real-life interaction. Participants processed in way, i.e., they changed self-evaluations more toward desirable than undesirable feedback. Using functional...
To investigate how individual differences in moral judgment competence are reflected the human brain, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, while 23 participants made either socio-normative or grammatical judgments. Participants with lower recruited left ventromedial prefrontal cortex and posterior superior temporal sulcus more than greater this domain when identifying social norm violations. Moreover, scores were inversely correlated activity right dorsolateral...
Dietary modifications such as caloric restriction (CR) have been suggested a means to improve memory and prevent age-related decline. However, it is unclear whether those effects remain stable over time or are related specifically negative energy balance during the weight loss phase of CR. Using randomized interventional design, we investigated changes in recognition neural correlates postmenopausal obese women (n = 19): 1) after intense course 12-week low-caloric diet (reduced body balance)...
Dementia due to Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease for which treatment strategies at an early stage are of great clinical importance. So far, there still lack non-invasive diagnostic tools sensitively detect AD in stages and predict individual progression. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) the brain may be promising novel tool. In this proof-of-concept study, we investigated whether multifrequency-MRE (MMRE) can differences hippocampal stiffness between patients with...
Abstract To investigate the mechanisms by which oxytocin improves socioaffective processing, we measured behavioral and pupillometric data during a dynamic facial emotion recognition task. In double‐blind between‐subjects design, 47 men received either 24 IU intranasal ( OXT ) or placebo PLC ). Participants in group recognized all expressions at lower intensity levels than did participants group. Improved performance was accompanied increased task‐related pupil dilation, indicating an...
A major controversy in the social cognitive neurosciences evolved around question whether activity posterior superior temporal sulcus and adjacent temporoparietal junction (pSTS/TPJ-region) evoked by various tasks represents a common process or distinct processes. To investigate this question, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while participants performed Biological Motion (BM), Theory-of-Mind (ToM) Moral Judgment (MJ) tasks. Importantly, for each task used same newly...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Psychol., 12 November 2012Sec. Emotion Science Volume 3 - 2012 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00482
OBJECTIVE. In the present study, we aimed to investigate influence of concurrently presented emotional stimuli on cognitive task processing in violent criminal offenders primarily characterized by affective instability. METHODS. Fifteen male with antisocial and borderline personality disorder (ASPD BPD) 17 healthy controls underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while performing a working memory low high load. second experimental run, interaction emotion cognition, emotionally...
Speaking a late-acquired second language (L2) involves increased cognitive demands, as has been shown mainly in young and middle-aged adults. To investigate grammatical inflection older L2 speakers, we acquired behavioral functional magnetic resonance imaging data, while L1 speakers performed grammaticality judgment task. showed higher error rates than native specifically when incorrect forms had to be rejected. Poorer performance was accompanied by activity the medial superior frontal gyrus...
Going back to Kohlberg, moral development research affirms that people progress through different stages of reasoning as cognitive abilities mature. Individuals at a lower level judge issues mainly based on self-interest (personal interests schema) or adherence laws and rules (maintaining norms schema), whereas individuals the post-conventional deeper principles shared ideals. However, extent which is reflected in structural brain architecture remains unknown. To investigate this question,...
Dietary modifications leading to weight loss have been suggested as a means improve brain health. In morbid obesity, bariatric surgery (BARS)-including different procedures, such vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), gastric banding (GB), or Roux-en-Y bypass (RYGB) surgery-is performed induce rapid loss. Combining reduced food intake and malabsorption of nutrients, RYGB might be most effective, but requires life-long follow-up treatment. Here, we tested 40 patients before six months after (BARS...
Head motion during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) induces image artifacts that affect virtually every brain measure. In parallel, cross-sectional observations indicate a correlation of head with age, psychiatric disease status and obesity, raising the possibility systematic artifact-induced bias in neuroimaging outcomes these conditions, due to differences motion. Yet, causal link between obesity has not been tested an experimental design. Here, we show change body mass index (BMI) (i.e.,...
Recent approaches suggest that emotional reactivity can be used to differentiate between subgroups of individuals who are at risk for showing elevated levels aggression and violence. In this study, we examined how emotion governs decision making within two antisocial criminal offenders with either hypo- or hyper-reactivity compared healthy, noncriminal controls. Offenders were recruited from high-security forensic treatment facilities penal institutions underwent functional magnetic...