A5050271835- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Face Recognition and Perception
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Migraine and Headache Studies
- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2013-2024
Brain (Germany)
2021-2024
Giessen School of Theology
2005-2023
Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center
2022-2023
Philipps University of Marburg
2022
fMRI studies have shown that the perception of facial disgust expressions specifically activates insula. The present study investigated whether this structure is also involved in processing visual stimuli depicting non-mimic elicitors compared to fear-inducing and neutral scenes. Twelve female subjects were scanned while viewing alternating blocks 40 disgust-inducing, affectively pictures, for 1.5 s each. Afterwards, affective ratings assessed. rated as highly repulsive, induced activation...
We examined whether males and females differ in the intensity laterality of their hemodynamic responses towards visual disgust fear stimuli. Forty-one female, 51 male subjects viewed disgust-inducing, fear-inducing neutral pictures an fMRI block design. Self-report data indicated that target emotions had been elicited successfully with women responding stronger than men. While viewing pictures, which depicted attacks by humans or animals, men exhibited greater activation bilateral amygdala...
Background and aims Numerous studies have provided evidence for orthorexia nervosa (ON), an eating pattern characterized by almost manic obsession fixation on healthy eating, to be of epidemiological relevance. However, there is scientific debate whether it merely a behavioral or lifestyle phenomenon as compared mental disorder. Aim this cross-sectional study was explore ON clinical relevance, can distinguished from other health disorders features. Methods An online survey including measure...
Abstract. The main goal of this study was to estimate the correlation between various psychophysiological variables and self-reported disgust during a picture perception paradigm. We further studied sensitivity (DS) as possible moderator variable for relationship. Forty-seven subjects (23 females) were presented with total 36 pictures different intensities. Each shown 8s which physiological parameters registered: heart rate (HR), skin conductance response (SCR), electromyographic activity...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bislang existierte noch kein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Ekelempfindlichkeit in deutscher Sprache. Fragestellung: Entwicklung eines solchen Instrumentes. Methode: Ein vorläufiger wurde an 235 Probanden vergeben. Mit den Daten eine Hauptachsenanalyse mit obliquer Rotation gerechnet. Die Überprüfung Faktorenstruktur erfolgte mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse (n = 501). Ergebnisse: Der (FEE) besteht aus 37 Items, die fünf Skalen bilden: Tod,...
Two correlates of outcome processing in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) have been proposed literature: One hypothesis suggests that lateral/medial division relates to representation valence (negative vs. positive), and other medial OFC maintains steady stimulus-outcome associations, whereas lateral represents changing (unsteady) outcomes prepare for response shifts. These two hypotheses were contrasted by comparing original with inverted version Iowa Gambling Task an event-related functional...
Phobic responses are strong emotional reactions towards phobic objects, which can be described as a deficit in the automatic regulation of emotions. Difficulties voluntary cognitive control these emotions suggest further phobia-specific effortful emotion mechanisms. The actual study is based on this conceptualization specific phobias. aim to investigate neural correlates two deficits spider phobics. Sixteen females participated functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) they were asked...
Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Bislang existierte noch kein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Ekelempfindlichkeit in deutscher Sprache. Fragestellung: Entwicklung eines solchen Instrumentes. Methode: Ein vorläufiger wurde an 235 Probanden vergeben. Mit den Daten eine Hauptachsenanalyse mit obliquer Rotation gerechnet. Die Überprüfung Faktorenstruktur erfolgte mittels konfirmatorischer Faktorenanalyse (n = 501). Ergebnisse: Der (FEE) besteht aus 37 Items, die fünf Skalen bilden: Tod,...
Abstract This naturalistic study aimed to determine whether the initial degree of alexithymia can predict treatment outcome psychodynamically oriented multimodal therapy. The Toronto Alexithymia Scale–26, Global Severity Index (GSI), and Depression subscale Symptom Checklist-90-Revised were administered at hospital admission discharge 480 inpatients with various psychological disorders. GSI depressive symptoms decreased significantly during treatment. High total scores predicted outcome,...
Fear acquisition and extinction are crucial mechanisms in the etiology maintenance of anxiety disorders. Moreover, they might play a pivotal role conveying influence genetic environmental factors on development (more or less) stronger proneness for, resilience against psychopathology. There only few insights neurobiology genetically environmentally based individual differences fear learning extinction. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, 74 healthy subjects were...
We examined the influence of disgust sensitivity and trait anxiety on processing via functional magnetic resonance imaging. Data 63 healthy females were combined across four studies, where same disgusting affectively neutral pictures had been presented. The pictures, rated as highly repulsive, provoked activation in occipital cortex, left prefrontal cortex both amygdalae. Disgust positively, independently from each other, correlated with right amygdala. This points to role amygdala an...
Although it is known that there are fundamental personality differences in the behavioral responses to emotional stimuli, traits have scarcely been investigated this context by means of functional imaging studies. To maximize variance with respect personality, authors tested 12 control subjects and who had sadomasochistic experiences relationship between J. A. Gray's (1970) dimensions, approach system (BAS) inhibition (BIS), brain activity regions interest. The BIS was associated numerous...