A5080767076- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Family Support in Illness
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Infant Health and Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2016-2025
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
2016-2025
Freie Universität Berlin
2018-2025
St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus
2019-2021
Leipzig University
2007-2012
Universität Hamburg
2010-2012
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2010-2012
The association between maternal depression and adverse outcomes in children is well established. Similar links have been found for childhood abuse. One proposed pathway of risk transmission reduced emotional availability. Our aim was to investigate whether sensitive parenting impaired mothers with remission, among these abuse has an additional impact.The mother-child interaction 188 dyads assessed during a play situation using the Emotional Availability Scales, which measure overall...
Background While hemispheric specialization of language processing is well established, lateralization emotion still under debate. Several conflicting hypotheses have been proposed, including right hemisphere hypothesis, valence asymmetry hypothesis and region-specific hypothesis. However, experimental evidence for these remains inconclusive, partly because direct comparisons between hemispheres are scarce. Methods The present fMRI study systematically investigated functional during...
Abstract Background Maternal depression is associated with difficulties in understanding and adequately responding to children’s emotional signals. Consequently, the interaction between mother child often disturbed. However, little known about neural correlates of these parenting difficulties. Motivated by increasing evidence amygdala’s important role mediating maternal behavior, we investigated amygdala responses sad happy faces mothers remitted major disorder (rMDD) relative healthy...
Learning of associations between aversive stimuli and predictive cues is the basis Pavlovian fear conditioning driven by a mismatch expectation outcome. To investigate whether serotonin modulates formation such cue-outcome associations, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dietary tryptophan depletion to reduce brain (5-HT) levels in healthy human subjects. In paradigm, 5-HT depleted subjects compared non-depleted control group exhibited attenuated autonomic responses...
A number of studies have shown that emotionally arousing stimuli are preferentially processed in the human brain. Whether or not this preference persists under increased perceptual load associated with a task at hand remains an open question. Here we manipulated two possible determinants attentional selection process, foreground and emotional valence concurrently presented task-irrelevant distractors. As direct measure sustained resource allocation early visual cortex used steady-state...
A central controversy in the field of attention is how brain deals with emotional distractors and to what extent they capture attentional processing resources reflexively due their inherent significance for guidance adaptive behavior survival. Especially, time course competitive interactions early visual areas whether masking briefly presented stimuli can inhibit biasing these currently unknown. We recorded frequency-tagged potentials evoked by a flickering target detection task foreground...
Background Early life maltreatment (ELM), borderline personality disorder (BPD) and major depressive (MDD) have been shown to increase the potential of abuse. Emotion regulation is an identified mediator for association ELM BPD with abuse potential. Until now, there has no study account co-occurrence these risk factors in one analysis, although MDD are known as common sequelae ELM. This paired a lack studies investigating effects on child well-being. Aims Our aims at (a) disentangling...
Recent studies have suggested that the extent to which primary task demands draw on attentional resources determines whether or not task-irrelevant emotional stimuli are processed. Another important factor can bias task-relevant and stimulus competition is bottom-up of salience. Here, we investigated effect salience associated with a motion processing face distractors. Faces different valences were presented within context randomly moving dots. Subjects had detect short intervals coherent...
Abstract Background Early life maltreatment (ELM), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and major depressive (MDD) have been associated with empathy deficits in different domains. Lack of maternal has also related to child behavioral problems. As ELM, BPD, MDD often co-occur, we aimed identify dissociable effects on due these three factors. In addition, investigate their indirect via psychopathology. Methods We included 251 mothers without (in remission), BPD ELM children, aged 5–12. used...
<h3>Background:</h3> The maintenance of harmful alcohol use can be considered a reiterated decision in favour concrete drinking occasions. These decisions are often made despite an intention to quit or reduce consumption. We tested if hyperactive reward system and/or impaired cognitive control contribute such unfavourable decision-making. <h3>Methods:</h3> In this fMRI study, men with modest behaviour, which was measured using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), repeatedly...
Maternal sensitive behavior depends on recognizing one's own child's affective states. The present study investigated distinct and overlapping neural responses of mothers to sad happy facial expressions their child (in comparison an unfamiliar child).We used functional MRI measure dissociable activation patterns in 27 healthy response happy, neutral school-aged a gender- age-matched child. To investigate differential compared faces child, we interaction contrasts. During the scan, had...