Publications
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Contracted functional connectivity profiles in autism
A new publication by Clara F. Weber from her time at the Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Laboratory (head: Prof Boris Bernhardt) at the Montreal ...
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Altered physiological, affective, and functional connectivity responses to acute stress in patients with alcohol use disorder
Background There is evidence that the processing of acute stress is altered in alcohol use disorder (AUD), but little is known about how this is ...
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The Human Affectome
Abstract Over the last decades, the interdisciplinary field of the affective sciences has seen proliferation rather than integration of theoretical perspectives. This is due to ...
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Rethink funding by putting the lottery first
Rethink funding Researchers propose a new way to restructure grant allocation, promoting inclusivity, innovation, and cost reduction. LÜBECK UNIVERSITY, Germany – The allocation process of ...
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On the potentials of interaction breakdowns for HRI
Abstract How do we switch between “playing along” and treating robots as technical agents? We propose interaction breakdowns to help solve this “social artifact puzzle”: ...
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Your smile won’t affect me: Association between childhood maternal antipathy and adult neural reward function in a transdiagnostic sample
Abstract Aberrant activation in the ventral striatum (VS) during reward anticipation may be a key mechanism linking adverse childhood experiences (ACE) to transdiagnostic psychopathology. This ...
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Individual differences in resilience to stress are associated with affective flexibility
Abstract Cognitive flexibility is frequently linked to resilience because of its important contribution to stress regulation. In this context, particularly affective flexibility, defined as the ...
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Neurocomputational mechanisms of affected beliefs
Abstract The feedback people receive on their behavior shapes the process of belief formation and self-efficacy in mastering a particular task. However, the neural and ...
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Intracranial human recordings reveal association between neural activity and perceived intensity for the pain of others in the insula
Abstract Based on neuroimaging data, the insula is considered important for people to empathize with the pain of others. Here we present intracranial electroencephalographic (iEEG) ...
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The (un)learning of social functions and its significance for mental health
Abstract Social interactions are dynamic, context-dependent, and reciprocal events that influence prospective strategies and require constant practice and adaptation. This complexity of social interactions creates ...
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Neural correlates of affective task switching and asymmetric affective task switching costs
Abstract The control of emotions is of potentially great clinical relevance. Accordingly, there has been increasing interest in understanding the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability ...
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Dysregulated autoantibodies targeting vaso- and immunoregulatory receptors in Post COVID Syndrome correlate with symptom severity
Abstract Most patients with Post COVID Syndrome (PCS) present with a plethora of symptoms without clear evidence of organ dysfunction. A subset of them fulfills ...
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Age-dependent white matter microstructural disintegrity in autism spectrum disorder
Abstract There has been increasing evidence of White Matter (WM) microstructural disintegrity and connectome disruption in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We evaluated the effects of ...
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Mapping Research Domain Criteria using a transdiagnostic mini-RDoC assessment in mental disorders
Abstract This study aimed to build on the relationship of well-established self-report and behavioral assessments to the latent constructs positive (PVS) and negative valence systems ...
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Association of stress-related neural activity and baseline interleukin-6 plasma levels in healthy adults
Abstract Several studies suggest a link between acute changes in inflammatory parameters due to an endotoxin or (psychological) stressor and the brain’s stress response. The ...
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Age-related topographic map of magnetic resonance diffusion metrics in neonatal brains.
Abstract Accelerated maturation of brain parenchyma close to term-equivalent age leads to rapid changes in diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics of ...
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Determinants of motivated behavior are linked to fatigue and its perturbation by SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
Abstract Background Fatigue has an adaptive function and serves as a temporary signal to rest and save energy often in response to immune activation. It may, ...
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The contribution of sleep to the neuroendocrine regulation of rhythms in human leukocyte traffic
Abstract Twenty-four-hour rhythms in immune parameters and functions are robustly observed phenomena in biomedicine. Here, we summarize the important role of sleep and associated parameters ...
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Neurocomputational mechanisms of affected beliefs
We are truely excited about our new preprint on #affectedbeliefs! What are affected beliefs? Beliefs are never neutral – they always depend on the context, ...
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Assessment of reward-related brain function after a single-dose of oxytocin in autism: a randomized controlled trial
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by difficulties in social communication and interaction, which have been related to atypical neural processing of rewards, especially ...
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