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 …
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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 …
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 …
Together with colleagues from King’s College London, University of Oxford, Virginia Tech, Temple University, University Medical Center Groningen and the University of Amsterdam Lena Rademacher published a new meta-analysis of functional MRI studies using the social incentive delay (SID) paradigm (see Spreckelmeyer et al., 2009; Rademacher et al., 2010). Check out the publication here: …
After several years, next to working as a physician at the Klinikum Neukölln (Berlin) in the field of neurology, Banafsche Sayyad has finally finished her MD in our lab! Congratulations! In her thesis, Banafsche examined how “sex/gender” is operationalised in functional MRI research and what consequences and implications such operationalisations carry. Therefore Banafsche analysed 34 …
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With strong effort and methodological expertise from David S. Stolz and Robert Glosemeyer, but also many other colleagues, we have finally managed to publish our sleep study data dating back to our time at Marburg University (2010-2015). Using polysomnography and next-morning fMRI we show that selective suppression of REM sleep impacts amygdala activity and connectivity during a classic social …
We are very happy to share that our paper “Spinach in the teeth: how ego- and allocentric perspectives modulate neural correlates of embarrassment in the face of others’ public mishaps” has now been published in Cortex. The paper is part of the Special Issue “Understanding Others” and we compared to types of observers’ perspectives on …
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Clara Weber, PhD student at the Social Neuroscience Lab, has been granted a scholarship to examine the microstructural and functional correlates of autism at the Yale School of Medicine. At Yale School of medicine she will be supervised by Professor Sam Payabvash.
