Publications

Evidence for a shared genetic contribution to loneliness and borderline personality disorder.

Schulze, A., Streit, F., Zillich, L. et al.

Transl Psychiatry 13, 398

Häusliche Gewalt und ihre psychischen Folgen während der COVID-19-Pandemie – Zentrale Befunde aus dem deutschsprachigen Rau [Domestic violence and its psychological consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic-key findings from German-speaking countries].

Lotzin, A., Flechsenhar, A., Garthus-Niegel, S., Georg, A. K., Holl, J., von Hülsen, L., Kenntemich, L., Kliem, S., Kröger, C., Mack, J. T., Mojahed, A., Nunius, S., Schröder, J., Seitz, K., von Thadden, A., Volkert, J., Zrnic Novakovic, I., Lueger-Schuster, B.

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz, 66(8), 920–929

Psychological, endocrine and polygenic predictors of emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in a longitudinal birth cohort.

Nguyen, T., Zillich, L., Cetin, M., Hall, A. S. M., Foo, J. C., Sirignano, L., Frank, J., Send, T. S., Gilles, M., Rietschel, M., Deuschle, M., Witt, S. H., Streit, F.

Stress: Vol 26, 1

Negative affect provides a context for increased distrust in the daily lives of individuals with a history of childhood maltreatment.

Schmitz, S. E., Niedtfeld, I., Lane, S. P., Seitz, K. I., & Hepp, J.

Journal of Traumatic Stress, 00, 1– 12

The impact of childhood traumatization on diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) risk in World War II refugees and their offspring.

Wildenberg, K. S., Zillich, L., Streit, F., Maier, B. C. L., Distel, D., Hammes, H.-P., Witt, S. H., Deuschle, M.

Psychosom Med. 2023 May 18

Negative and protective experiences influencing the well-being of refugee children resettling in Germany: a qualitative study.

Abdelhamid, S., Lindert, J., Fischer, J., Steinisch, M.

BMJ Open, 13(4)

The importance of high quality real-life social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Monninger, M., Aggensteiner, PM., Pollok, T.M. et al.

Scientific Reports

Your smile won't affect me: Association between childhood maternal antipathy and adult neural reward function in a transdiagnostic sample

Seitz, K. I., Ueltzhöffer, K., Rademacher, L., Paulus, F. M., Schmitz, M., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K.

Translational Psychiatry

The impact of traumatic childhood experiences on interoception: disregarding one's own body.

Schmitz, M., Back, S. N., Seitz, K. I., Harbrecht, N. K., Streckert, L., Schulz, A., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

ChatGPT in Research: Balancing Ethics, Transparency and Advancement

Graf, A., Bernardi, R. E.

Neuroscience

Acute and long-term sex-dependent effects of social instability stress on anxiety-like and social behaviours in Wistar rats

Graf, A., Murray, S. H., Eltahir, A., Patel, S., Hansson, A. C., Spanagel, R., McCormick, C. M.

Behavioural Brain Research

A Prospective Study of the Impact of Severe Childhood Deprivation on Brain White Matter in Adult Adoptees: Widespread Localized Reductions in Volume But Unaffected Microstructural Organization.

Mackes, N. K., Mehta, M. A., Beyh, A., Nkrumah, R. O., Golm, D. Sarkar, S., Fairchild, G., Dell’Acqua, F., Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S.

eNeuro 14, 9 (6)

Incidental learning of faces during threat: No evidence for enhanced physiological responses to former threat identities.

Schellhaas, S., Schmahl, C., & Bublatzky, F.

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Real-time individual benefit from social interactions before and during the lockdown: the crucial role of personality, neurobiology and genes.

Monninger, M., Aggensteiner, PM., Pollok, T.M. et al.

Transl. Psychiatry 12, 28

The association between psychopathology, childhood trauma, and emotion processing

Flechsenhar, A., Seitz, K. I., Bertsch, K., & Herpertz, S. C.

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy

Social threat and safety learning in individuals with adverse childhood experiences: electrocortical evidence on face processing, recognition, and working memory.

Schellhaas, S., Schmahl, C., & Bublatzky, F.

European Journal of Psychotraumatology,

The mere sight of loved ones does not inhibit psychophysiological defense mechanisms when threatened

Bublatzky, F., Schellhaas, S., & Guerra, P.

Scientific Reports

Aversive anticipations modulate electrocortical correlates of decision-making and reward reversal learning, but not behavioral performance

Bublatzky, F., Schellhaas, S., & Paret, C.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Persistent muscle hyperalgesia after adolescent stress is exacerbated by a mild-nociceptive input in adulthood and is associated with microglia activation

Singaravelu, S. K., Goitom, A. D., Graf, A. P., Moerz, H., Schilder, A., Hoheisel, U., Spanagel, R., & Treede, R.-D.

Scientific Reports

Social Touch, Social Isolation, and Loneliness in Borderline Personality Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Schulze, A., Biermann, M., Atanasova, K., Unterseher, F., Winkler, L., Bohus, M., & Lis, S.

Frontiers in Psychiatry

On the interplay of borderline personality features, childhood trauma severity, attachment types, and social support

Schulze, A., Cloos, L., Zdravkovic, M., Lis, S., & Krause-Utz, A.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Neural Cue Reactivity Does Not Differ between Female and Male Patients with Alcohol Dependence

Gerhardt, S., Hoffmann, S., Tan, H., Gerchen, M.F., Kirsch, P., Vollstädt-Klein, S., Kiefer, F., Bach, P.*, Lenz, B.*

Frontiers in Behav Neurosci

Lack of amygdala habituation to negative emotional faces in alcohol use disorder - and the relation to adverse childhood experience

Gerhardt, S.*, Berhe, O.*, Moessnang, C., Horning, M., Kiefer, F., Tost, H.*, Vollstädt-Klein, S.*

Addiction Biology

Neurostructural traces of early life adversities: A meta-analysis exploring age- and adversity-specific effects.

Pollok TM., Kaiser A., Kraaijenvanger EJ., Monninger M., Brandeis D., Banaschewski T., Eickhoff SB., Holz NE.

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2022

Adverse childhood experiences and late-life diurnal HPA axis activity: associations of different childhood adversity types and interaction with timing in a sample of older East Prussian World War II refugees.

Maier, B., Zillich, L., Streit, F., Wildenberg, K., Rietschel, M., Hammes, H. P., Witt, S., Deuschle, M.

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Affective and cognitive theory of mind in posttraumatic stress, major depressive, and somatic symptom disorders: Association with childhood trauma

Seitz, K.I., Ehler, N., Schmitz, M., Schmitz, S.E., Dziobek, I., Herpertz, S.C. and Bertsch, K.

British Journal of Clinical Psychology

Childhood maltreatment and borderline personality disorder: The mediating role of difficulties with emotion regulation

Bertele, N., Talmon, A., Gross, J. J., Schmahl, C., Schmitz, M., & Niedtfeld, I.

J Pers Disord, 36(3), 264-276

Reduced vagal activity in borderline personality disorder is unaffected by intranasal oxytocin administration, but predicted by the interaction between childhood trauma and attachment insecurity

Back, S. N., Schmitz, M., Koenig, J., Zettl, M., Kleindienst, N., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K.

Journal of Neural Transmission

A History of Childhood Maltreatment Has Substance- and Sex-Specific Effects on Craving During Treatment for Substance Use Disorders

Gerhardt, S., Eidenmueller, K., Hoffmann, S., Bekier, N. K., Bach, P., Hermann, D., . . . Vollstädt-Klein, S.

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Vulnerability for alcohol use disorder after adverse childhood experiences (AUDACE): protocol for a longitudinal fMRI study assessing neuropsychobiological risk factors for relapse

Türkmen, C., Machunze, N., Tan, H., Gerhardt, S., Kiefer, F., & Vollstädt-Klein, S.

BMJ Open

The effects of nalmefene on the impulsive and reflective system in alcohol use disorder: A resting-state fMRI study

Grundinger, N., Gerhardt, S., Karl, D., Mann, K., Kiefer, F., & Vollstädt-Klein, S.

Psychopharmacology

Measuring types and timing of childhood maltreatment: The psychometric properties of the KERF-40+

Seitz, K.I., Gerhardt, S., von Schröder, C., Panizza, A., Thekkumthala, D., Bertsch, K., Herpertz, S.C., Schmahl, C., Schalinski, I.

PLOS ONE

The Interplay of Biopsychosocial Factors and Quality of Life in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Network Analysis. Journal of clinical gastroenterology

Thomann, A. K., Knödler, L. L., Karthikeyan, S., Atanasova, K., Bernstein, C. N., Ebert, M. P., Lis, S., & Reindl, W.

Journal of clinical gastroenterology, 10.1097/MCG.0000000000001625.

Adverse social experiences in adolescent rats result in persistent sex-dependent effects on alcohol-seeking behavior

Surakka, A., Vengeliene, V., Skorodumov, I., Meinhardt, M., Hansson, A.C. & Spanagel, R.

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 1468– 1478.

Rat dorsal horn neurons primed by stress develop a long-lasting manifest sensitization after a short-lasting nociceptive low back input

Singaravelu S.K., Hoheisel U., Mense S., & Treede R.D.

Pain Reports, 6(1), e904

Long-term sensitization of rat spinal neurons induced by adolescent psychophysical stress is further enhanced by a mild-nociceptive lumbar input

Singaravelu, S. K., Goitom, A. D., Surakka, A., Moerz, H., Schilder, A., Hansson, A. C., . . . Treede, R.-D.

bioRxiv

An eye-tracking study of interpersonal threat sensitivity and adverse childhood experiences in borderline personality disorder

Seitz, K. I., Leitenstorfer J., Krauch, M., Hillmann, K., Boll, S., Ueltzhoeffer, K., Neukel, C., Kleindienst, N., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 8(1), 1-12

A prospective study of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in childhood trauma-exposed individuals: Social support matters

Seitz, K. I., Bertsch, K., & Herpertz, S. C.

Journal of Traumatic Stress. 34(1), 477–486

Brain structural correlates of upward social mobility in ethnic minority individuals

Schweiger, J. I., Capraz, N., Akdeniz, C., Braun, U., ...Berhe, O.,... & Tost, H.

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1-11

The effect of momentary mood on appraisal of facial affect and distrust: An experimental approach using ambulatory assessment

Schmitz, S.E., Hepp, J., Lane, S.P., Niedtfeld, I.

Cognition and Emotion. 1-8

Heartbeat evoked potentials in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder: an unaltered neurobiological regulation system?

Schmitz, M., Müller, L.E., Seitz, K., Schulz, A., Steinmann, S., Herpertz, S.C., Bertsch, K.

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Nov 17;12(1):1987686

Body connection mediates the relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and impaired emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder

Schmitz, M., Bertsch, K., Löffler, A., Steinmann, S., Herpertz, S. C., & Bekrater-Bodmann, R.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 8(1), 1-13

Ambulatory assessment for precision psychiatry: Foundations, current developments and future avenues

Reichert, M., Gan, G., Renz, M., Braun, U., Brüßler, S., Timm, I., Ma, R., ... & Meyer-Lindenberg, A.

Experimental Neurology, 113807

The influence of perceived stress and self-control on efficacy of repeated transcranial direct current stimulation in non-treatment-seeking smokers

Müller, T., Shevchenko, Y., Gerhardt, S., Kiefer, F., & Vollstädt-Klein, S.

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 226

Coping under stress: Prefrontal control predicts stress burden during the COVID-19 crisis

Monninger, M., Pollok, T. M., Aggensteiner, P.-M., Kaiser, A., Reinhard, I., Hermann, A., . . . Holz, N. E.

European Neuropsychopharmacology: The Journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology 56, 13–23

P495 The interplay of biopsychosocial factors and quality of life in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: a network analysis

Knödler, L. L., Thomann, A., Karthikeyan, S., Atanasova, K., Bernstein, C., Ebert, M., . . . & Reindl, W.

Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, 15(Supplement_1), 478-480

Childhood maltreatment is associated with distrust and negatively biased emotion processing

Hepp, J., Schmitz, S. E., Urbild, J., Zauner, K., & Niedtfeld, I.

Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 8(5), 1-14

Association between functional and structural brain connectivity of the default mode network in non-treatment seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder

Gerhardt, S., Karl, D., Mann, K., Kiefer, F., & Vollstädt-Klein, S. (2021)

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Stop what you’re doing! - An fMRI Study on Comparisons of Neural Subprocesses of Response Inhibition in ADHD and Alcohol Use Disorder.

Gerhardt, S., Luderer, M., Bumb, M., Sobanski, E., Moggi, F., Kiefer, F., Vollstädt-Klein, S.

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Neural correlates of affective benefit from real-life social contact and implications for psychiatric resilience

Gan, G., Ma, R., Reichert, M., Giurgiu, M., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Tost, H.

JAMA Psychiatry, 78(7), 790–792

An fMRI investigation of the intention-outcome interactions in second- and third-party punishment

Feng, C., Yang, Q., Azem, L., Atanasova, K. M., Gu, R., Luo, W., Hoffman, M., Lis, S., & Krueger, F.

Brain Imaging & Behavior

Common and distinct neural connectivity in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder and alcohol use disorder studied using resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging.

Farré‐Colomés, À., Gerhardt, S., Luderer, M., Sobanski, E., Kiefer, F., & Vollstädt‐Klein, S.

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 45(5), 948-960

E. Hyper-coordinated DNA methylation is altered in schizophrenia and associated with brain function

Chen, J., Schwarz, K., Zang, Z., Braun, U., Harneit, A., Kremer, T., Ma, R., Schweiger, J., Moessnang, C., Geiger, L., Cao, H., Degenhardt, F., Noethen, M., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Schwarz

Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 2021; sgab036

Trustworthiness appraisals of faces wearing a surgical mask during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany: An experimental study.

Biermann, M., Schulze, A., Unterseher, F., Atanasova, K., Watermann, P., Krause-Utz, A., . . . Lis, S. (2021).

PLoS One, 16(5).

Clinical outcomes of severe forms of early social stress.

Berhe, O., Gerhardt, S., Schmahl, C. (2021)

In Current Topics in Behavioural Neurosciences, 35th volume, Neuroscience of Social Stress

Rapid neural representations of personally relevant faces.

Bayer, M., Berhe, O., Dziobek, I., & Johnstone, T. (2021).

Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). Advance online publication.

Multidimensional assessment of interoceptive abilities, emotion processing and the role of early life stress in inflammatory bowel diseases.

Atanasova, K., Lotter, T., Reindl, W., & Lis, S. (2021).

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12 (1020).

A Multinomial Modelling Approach to Face Identity Recognition during Instructed Threat.

Arnold, N.R., González Cruz, H., Schellhaas, S., & Bublatzky, F. (2021).

Cognition and Emotion, 1-18.

Interaction between behavioral inhibition and neural alcohol cue-reactivity in ADHD and alcohol use disorder

Vollstädt-Klein, S*., Gerhardt, S*., Lee, A., Strosche, A., Sharafi, G., Nuriyeva, R., Seidt, J., Hennig, O., Alm, B., Hermann, D., Sommer, W.H., Kiefer, F., Luderer, M., & Sobanski, E.

Psychopharmacology, 237(6), 1691-1707

Help or flight? Increased threat imminence promotes defensive helping in humans

Vieira, J. B., Schellhaas, S., Enström, E., & Olsson, A.

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287(1933), 20201473

Heart and brain: Cortical representation of cardiac signals is disturbed in borderline personality disorder, but unaffected by oxytocin administration

Schmitz, M., Müller, L.E., Schulz, A., Kleindienst, N., Herpertz, S.C., & Bertsch, K.

Journal of Affective Disorders, 264, 24-28

Contextual source information modulates neural face processing in the absence of conscious recognition: A threat-of-shock study

Schellhaas, S., Arnold, N., Schmahl, C., & Bublatzky, F.

A neural mechanism for affective well-being: Subgenual cingulate cortex mediates real-life effects of nonexercise activity on energy

Reichert, M., Braun, U., Gan, G., Reinhard, I., Giurgiu, M., Ma, R., ... & Meyer-Lindenberg, A.

Science Advances, 6(45)

Impact of early life adversities on human brain functioning: A coordinate-based meta-analysis

Kraaijenvanger, E. J., Pollok, T. M., Monninger, M., Kaiser, A., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., & Holz, N. E.

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 113, 62-76

Negativity on two sides: Individuals with borderline personality disorder form negative first impressions of others and are perceived negatively by them

Hepp, J., Kieslich, P.J., Schmitz, M., Schmahl, C., & Niedtfeld, I.

Do I trust you when you smile? Effects of sex and emotional expression on facial trustworthiness appraisal

Galinsky, D. F., Erol, E., Atanasova, K., Bohus, M., Krause-Utz, A., & Lis, S.

PLoS One, 15(12), e0243230

Association of a reproducible epigenetic risk profile for schizophrenia with brain methylation and function

Chen, J., Zang, Z., Braun, U., Schwarz, K., Harneit, A., Kremer, T., Ma, R., Schweiger, J., Moessnang, C., Geiger, L., Cao, H., Degenhardt, F., Noethen, M., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Schwarz, E. (2020)

JAMA psychiatry, 77(6), 628-636

The SyBil-AA real-time fMRI neurofeedback study: protocol of a single-blind randomized controlled trial in alcohol use disorder

Gerchen, M. F., Kirsch, M., Bahs, N., Halli, P., Gerhardt, S., Schäfer, A., Sommer, W.H., Kiefer, F., Kirsch, P.

BMC Psychiatry, 18:12

Deficient amygdala habituation to threatening stimuli in borderline personality disorder relates to adverse childhood experiences

Bilek, E., Itz, M. L., Stößel, G., Ma, R., Berhe, O., Clement, L., ... & Tost, H. (2019)

Biological Psychiatry, 86(12), 930-938

The long-term impact of early life stress on orbitofrontal cortical thickness

Monninger, M., Kraaijenvanger, E.J., Pollok, T.M., Boecker-Schlier, R., Jennen-Steinmetz, C., Baumeister, S., Esser, G., Schmidt, M., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Laucht, M., Brandeis, D.,Banaschewski, T., & Holz, N.E.

Cerebral Cortex 30(3), 1307-1317