A5011083460- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Neurological disorders and treatments
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Hormonal and reproductive studies
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
Universität Ulm
2016-2025
University Hospital Ulm
2012-2022
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
2009-2020
Medical University of Vienna
2019
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
2015
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
2015
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
2015
Technische Hochschule Ulm
2009
McLean Hospital
2006
Harvard University
2006
Zusammenfassung. Eines der ersten validierten Instrumente zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Emotionsregulationsprozessen, stellt englischsprachige Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) Gross und John (2003) dar. Dieser erlaubt es, Präferenzen für zwei häufig angewandte Strategien Emotionsregulation, nämlich Unterdrückung (suppression) Neubewertung (reappraisal) zu erfassen. Die deutsche Version wurde in drei Übersetzungsschritten an jeweils einer Gruppe Studenten (n = 113/167/174)...
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has been proposed as a new treatment option for depression. Previous studies were performed with low sample sizes in single centres and reported heterogeneous results.To investigate the efficacy of rTMS augmentative depression.In randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled multicentre trial 127 patients moderate to severe depressive episodes randomly assigned real or sham 3 weeks addition simultaneously initiated antidepressant medication.We...
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is highly prevalent in adolescence and has been suggested as an autonomous diagnosis the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM-5). Social rejection potential risk-factor for NSSI depression adolescence. Objectives of this study were to identify differences neural processing social depressed adolescents with without co-morbid healthy controls. Participants 28 (14 NSSI, 79% females) 15 controls, average age 15.2 years (SD=1.8). exclusion was implemented using...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common psychiatric disease with changes in neural circuitries. Neurobiological models conceptualize the symptoms of PTSD as correlates dysfunctional reaction to traumatic events. Functional imaging studies showed an increased amygdala and decreased prefrontal cortex response patients. As psychotherapeutic approaches represent gold standard for treatment, it important examine its underlying neurobiological correlates.Studies published until August...
Psychological considerations suggest that the omission of rewards in humans comprises two effects: first, an allocentric effect triggering learning and behavioural changes potentially processed by dopaminergic neurons according to prediction error theory; second, egocentric representing individual's emotional reaction, commonly called frustration. We investigated this second context monetary reward with functional magnetic resonance imaging. As expected, contrast relative receipt led a...
Previous studies have demonstrated variable influences of sexual hormonal states on female brain activation and the necessity to control for these in neuroimaging studies. However, systematic investigations influences, particularly those contraceptives as compared physiological menstrual cycle are scarce. In present study, we investigated modulation neural correlates erotic processing a group females under (C group; N = 12), different (nC 12) not taking during their mid-follicular mid-luteal...
Investigating adolescents and young adults may provide a unique opportunity to understand developmental aspects of the neurobiology depression. During adolescence, considerable physiologic reorganization both grey white matter brain takes place, it has been suggested that differences in grey-matter volumes during adolescence reflect different maturational processes.We investigated comparatively large sample (n = 103) (aged 12 27 years), 60 them with diagnosis current depression.Replicating...
Treatment with dopamine receptor agonists has been associated impulse control disorders and pathological gambling (PG) secondary to medication in previously unaffected patients Parkinson's disease or restless legs syndrome (RLS). In a within-subjects design, we investigated the underlying neurobiology RLS using functional magnetic resonance imaging. We scanned 12 female without history of PG. All were twice: once whilst taking their regular low dose after washout phase interval. They...
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, NSSI often occurs independently BPD. Altered neural processing social exclusion has been shown in adolescents with and adults BPD additional alterations during inclusion patients. Aims this study were to investigate differences situations between young NSSI.Using fMRI, positive negative (paradigm: "Cyberball") was explored. Participants 14 NSSI, but without (Mage = 15.4; SD 1.9), 15 23.3; 4.1), as...
Understanding the association between autonomic nervous system [ANS] function and brain morphology across lifespan provides important insights into neurovisceral mechanisms underlying health disease. Resting-state ANS activity, indexed by measures of heart rate [HR] its variability [HRV] has been associated with morphology, particularly cortical thickness [CT]. While findings have mixed regarding anatomical distribution direction associations, these inconsistencies may be due to sex age...
Background: Dissociative symptoms are suggested to compete with the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic treatment and frequently co-occur early life trauma self-harm patterns, including self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, which characteristic for borderline personality disorder (BPD).Objective: We explore connections between dissociation other BPD features like childhood traumatization examine impact trait on both immediate follow-up psychotherapy outcomes.Method: In this...