Another superb news! Clara Weber, currently doing a research stay at Yale School of Medicine, has received the University Lübeck medicine-informatics stipend for her MD project “Microstructural White Matter Alterations in Autism Spectrum Disorder”.
Great news! Laura Müller-Pinzler has received the 2021 Best Paper Award at the NeuroPsychoEconomics conference in Amsterdam for the presentation of her latest project in the symposium “Social Neuroeconomics” (Chair: Jan Engelmann). Abstract Biases in self-related belief formation and their association with self-conscious affect During everyday interactions people constantly receive feedback on their behavior, …
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As part of the international Neuroqualia taskforce “Social” we, as team led by Paul J. Eslinger, have successfully published our review on the “Neuroscience of social feelings”. The paper summarizes recent efforts in the field of social cognitive and affective neuroscience on concepts, methods and challenges in the field of social feelings research. Check out the publication …
New review paper on “Neuroscience of social feelings” published! Read More »
Abstract Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We examne the functional neuroanatomy and neurobiology of social feelings and their role in adaptive social functioning. Existing neuroscience literature is reviewed to identify concepts, methods and challenges that …
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Abstract Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by difficulties in social communication and interaction, which have been related to atypical neural processing of rewards, especially in the social domain. Since intranasal oxytocin has been shown to modulate activation of the brain’s reward circuit, oxytocin could be a useful tool to ameliorate the processing of social …
Abstract There is a bidirectional interaction between peripheral inflammatory processes and the brain. In the context of stress, top-down effects on the immune system have already been studied, but bottom-up effects of peripheral inflammation on neural processes are still unclear. In the present study, baseline plasma levels of the cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 were obtained as …
Huge congratulations to David Stolz for successfully defending his PhD! Back in October 2015 David started his PhD in the Social Neuroscience Lab based on a joke about his last name (Stolz = pride). Before 2015, several of our research projects centered around the neural processes underlying the unpleasant emotion of embarrassment (see e.g. “Neural …
Podcast-Diskussion mit Alexander Nusselt und Daniel Fürg von 48forward.com über Social Neuroscience, soziale Emotionen und Intuition Unsere Gefühle sind Teil dessen, was uns zu Menschen macht. Pandemie und Beschränkungen dauern nun schon über ein Jahr und wir haben den Eindruck, dass immer mehr Menschen stark von ihren Emotionen geleitet werden. Ein Blick in die …
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Abstract Abstract Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) entails severe impariments in interpersonal functioning that are likely driven by selfish and exploitative behavior. Here, we investigate the underlying motivational and neural mechanisms of prosocial decision-making by experimentally manipulating motivational conflict between selfish and prosocial incentives. One group of patients diagnosed with NPD and a group of healthy …
Reduced Frontal Cortical Tracking of Conflict between Selfish versus Prosocial Motives in Narcissistic Personality Disorder David S Stolz, Aline Vater, Björn H Schott, Stefan Roepke, Frieder M Paulus, Sören Krach Abstract Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) entails severe impariments in interpersonal functioning that are likely driven by selfish and exploitative behavior. Here, we investigate the underlying …
