Publications
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2025
Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale over 3.5 Years
Journal of Personality Assessment
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24 Jun 2025
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doi:10.1080/00223891.2025.2513936
Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale Over 3.5 Years
Center for Open Science
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05 Jun 2025
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/mubgv_v4
Assessing the long-term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory trait scale over 3.5 Years
Center for Open Science
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29 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/mubgv_v3
Assessing the long-term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory trait scale over 3.5 Years
Center for Open Science
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29 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/mubgv_v2
How Temporal Predictability of Threat and Action Preparation Affect Defensive Freezing Responses
Center for Open Science
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28 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/p84qz_v1
There is no research on a dead planet – Fostering ecologically sustainable open science practices in neuroscience
Center for Open Science
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08 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31219/osf.io/rju75_v1
2024
many faces of early life adversity - Content overlap in validated assessment instruments as well as in fear and reward learning research
Meta-Psychology
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07 Aug 2024
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doi:10.15626/MP.2023.3958
How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms
eLife
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16 Jul 2024
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doi:10.7554/eLife.92700
Neuropsychobiology of fear-induced bradycardia in humans: progress and pitfalls
Molecular Psychiatry
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11 Jun 2024
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doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02600-x
How to Measure Fear Generalization? Reliability and Validity of Commonly Used Indices
Center for Open Science
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17 May 2024
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/fk26y
2023
Bad days build better days: mental health improvement after the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with psychosocial distress
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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11 Oct 2023
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doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3410491/v1
Within-subject reliability, occasion specificity, and validity of fluctuations of the Stroop and Go/No-Go tasks in ecological momentary assessment
Center for Open Science
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18 Sep 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/g6qku
Recent advances in studying brain‐behavior interactions using functional imaging: The primary startle response pathway and its affective modulation in humans
Psychophysiology
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04 Jul 2023
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14364
The many faces of early life adversity - Content overlap in validated assessment instruments as well as in fear and reward learning research
Center for Open Science
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24 May 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/m9abu
The many faces of early life adversity - Content overlap in validated assessment instruments as well as in fear and reward learning research
Center for Open Science
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24 May 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/m9abu_v1
How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms
Center for Open Science
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17 May 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/nfpbj
How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms
Center for Open Science
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17 May 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/nfpbj_v1
Prediction of Changes in Negative Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Experimental Fear Conditioning and Generalization Measures
Zeitschrift für Psychologie
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01 May 2023
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doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000523
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Mar 2023
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2023.104256
Quality research needs good working conditions
Nature Human Behaviour
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08 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01508-2
Watching with Argus eyes: Characterization of emotional and physiological responding in adults exposed to childhood maltreatment and/or recent adversity
Psychophysiology
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02 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14253
2022
Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear
eLife
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13 Sep 2022
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doi:10.7554/eLife.78717
Data sharing in experimental fear and anxiety research: From challenges to a dynamically growing database in 10 simple steps
Center for Open Science
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22 Jul 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/8crk3
A data multiverse analysis investigating non‐model based SCR quantification approaches
Psychophysiology
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02 Jul 2022
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14130
Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Jun 2022
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2022.104072
Recent advances in studying brain-behaviour interactions using functional imaging: The primary startle response pathway and its affective modulation in humans
Center for Open Science
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13 May 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/gtasm
Assessing the long-term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory trait scale over 3.5 Years
Center for Open Science
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06 May 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/mubgv
Watching with Argus Eyes: Characterization of emotional and physiological responding in adults exposed to childhood maltreatment and/or recent adversity
Center for Open Science
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27 Apr 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/wjeyg
Watching with Argus Eyes: Characterization of emotional and physiological responding in adults exposed to childhood maltreatment and/or recent adversity
Center for Open Science
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27 Apr 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/wjeyg_v1
Navigating the manyverse of skin conductance response quantification approaches – A direct comparison of trough‐to‐peak , baseline correction, and model‐based approaches in Ledalab and PsPM
Psychophysiology
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02 Apr 2022
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14058
Open and reproducible science practices in psychoneuroendocrinology: opportunities to foster scientific progress
Center for Open Science
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30 Mar 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/d2zvc
Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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18 Mar 2022
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doi:10.1101/2022.03.15.484434
2021
Effects of intolerance of uncertainty on subjective and psychophysiological measures during fear acquisition and delayed extinction
Center for Open Science
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25 Nov 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/hj5gt
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans
Center for Open Science
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15 Nov 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/65njk
Mehr als nur fragwürdig: Reproduzierbarkeit und Open Science in der Lehre aus Sicht der Biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie
Center for Open Science
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08 Sep 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/cp52v
A data multiverse analysis investigating non-model based SCR quantification approaches
Center for Open Science
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28 Jun 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/q24t8
Navigating the manifold of skin conductance response quantification approaches – a direct comparison of Trough-to-Peak, Baseline-correction and model-based approaches in Ledalab and PsPM
Center for Open Science
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30 Apr 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/9h2kd
Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research
Center for Open Science
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03 Mar 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/2z6pd
2020
Revisiting potential associations between brain morphology, fear acquisition and extinction through new data and a literature review
Scientific Reports
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16 Nov 2020
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doi:10.1038/s41598-020-76683-1
Experimental boundary conditions of reinstatement‐induced return of fear in humans: Is reinstatement in humans what we think it is?
Psychophysiology
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19 Feb 2020
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doi:10.1111/psyp.13549
2019
Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research
eLife
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16 Dec 2019
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doi:10.7554/eLife.52465
Experimental boundary conditions of reinstatement induced return of fear in humans: Is reinstatement in humans what we think it is?
Center for Open Science
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03 Dec 2019
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/4myk8
Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research
Center for Open Science
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02 Sep 2019
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/6m72g
Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?
Biological Psychiatry
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01 Jun 2019
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doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011
The neurofunctional basis of affective startle modulation in humans – evidence from combined facial EMG-fMRI
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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05 Mar 2019
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doi:10.1101/567032
Orexin in the anxiety spectrum: association of a HCRTR1 polymorphism with panic disorder/agoraphobia, CBT treatment response and fear-related intermediate phenotypes
Translational Psychiatry
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04 Feb 2019
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doi:10.1038/s41398-019-0415-8
2018
Latency of skin conductance responses across stimulus modalities
Psychophysiology
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21 Nov 2018
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doi:10.1111/psyp.13307
Does US expectancy mediate the additive effects of CS-US pairings on contingency instructions? Results from subjective, psychophysiological and neural measures
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Nov 2018
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2018.09.003
Visual Complexity and Affect: Ratings Reflect More Than Meets the Eye
Frontiers in Psychology
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18 Jan 2018
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doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02368
2017
An elevated plus-maze in mixed reality for studying human anxiety-related behavior
BMC Biology
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01 Dec 2017
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doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0463-6
Modulation of defensive reactivity by GLRB allelic variation: converging evidence from an intermediate phenotype approach.
Translational psychiatry
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05 Sep 2017
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pmid:28872638
More than just noise: Inter-individual differences in fear acquisition, extinction and return of fear in humans - Biological, experiential, temperamental factors, and methodological pitfalls.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
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29 Jul 2017
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pmid:28764976
Effects of an Anxiety-Specific Psychometric Factor on Fear Conditioning and Fear Generalization
Zeitschrift für Psychologie
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01 Jul 2017
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doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000304
Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
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03 Mar 2017
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pmid:28263758
GLRB allelic variation associated with agoraphobic cognitions, increased startle response and fear network activation: a potential neurogenetic pathway to panic disorder.
Molecular psychiatry
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07 Feb 2017
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pmid:28167838
Where There is Smoke There is Fear-Impaired Contextual Inhibition of Conditioned Fear in Smokers.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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25 Jan 2017
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pmid:28120933
2016
Don't startle me-Interference of startle probe presentations and intermittent ratings with fear acquisition.
Psychophysiology
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15 Sep 2016
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pmid:27628268
State anxiety modulates the return of fear.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
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03 Aug 2016
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pmid:27496367
Adversity-induced relapse of fear: neural mechanisms and implications for relapse prevention from a study on experimentally induced return-of-fear following fear conditioning and extinction.
Translational psychiatry
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19 Jul 2016
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pmid:27434492
Converging evidence for an impact of a functional NOS gene variation on anxiety-related processes.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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08 Jan 2016
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pmid:26746182
2015
Contextual Change After Fear Acquisition Affects Conditioned Responding and the Time Course of Extinction Learning-Implications for Renewal Research.
Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience
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08 Dec 2015
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pmid:26696855
Neural correlates of and processes underlying generalized and differential return of fear.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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25 Nov 2015
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pmid:26612681
Mismatch or allostatic load? Timing of life adversity differentially shapes gray matter volume and anxious temperament.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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13 Nov 2015
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pmid:26568620
Sex differences in conditioned stimulus discrimination during context-dependent fear learning and its retrieval in humans: the role of biological sex, contraceptives and menstrual cycle phases.
Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN
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01 Nov 2015
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pmid:26107163
Deficient inhibitory processing in trait anxiety: Evidence from context-dependent fear learning, extinction recall and renewal.
Biological psychology
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26 Jul 2015
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pmid:26219601
Effects of post-extinction l-DOPA administration on the spontaneous recovery and reinstatement of fear in a human fMRI study.
European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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21 Jul 2015
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pmid:26238968
Fear expression and return of fear following threat instruction with or without direct contingency experience.
Cognition & emotion
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12 May 2015
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pmid:25966279
MicroRNA hsa-miR-4717-5p regulates RGS2 and may be a risk factor for anxiety-related traits.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
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02 Apr 2015
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pmid:25847876
2014
A review on human reinstatement studies: an overview and methodological challenges.
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)
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15 Aug 2014
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pmid:25128533
BDNFval66met affects neural activation pattern during fear conditioning and 24 h delayed fear recall.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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07 Aug 2014
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pmid:25103087
Attention biases and habituation of attention biases are associated with 5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
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01 Mar 2014
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pmid:23943515
Higher anxiety and larger amygdala volumes in carriers of a TMEM132D risk variant for panic disorder.
Translational psychiatry
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04 Feb 2014
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pmid:24495968
Long-term expression of human contextual fear and extinction memories involves amygdala, hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: a reinstatement study in two independent samples.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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03 Feb 2014
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pmid:24493848
2013
No evidence for enhanced extinction memory consolidation through noradrenergic reuptake inhibition-delayed memory test and reinstatement in human fMRI.
Psychopharmacology
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06 Nov 2013
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pmid:24193372
Multimodal assessment of long-term memory recall and reinstatement in a combined cue and context fear conditioning and extinction paradigm in humans.
PloS one
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07 Oct 2013
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pmid:24116095
Single dose of L-dopa makes extinction memories context-independent and prevents the return of fear.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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10 Jun 2013
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pmid:23754384
2012
Distinct contributions of the dorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex during emotion regulation.
PloS one
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07 Nov 2012
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pmid:23144849
2011
A review on experimental and clinical genetic associations studies on fear conditioning, extinction and cognitive-behavioral treatment.
Translational psychiatry
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20 Sep 2011
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pmid:22832657
Conditioned pain modulation is associated with common polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene.
PloS one
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28 Mar 2011
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pmid:21464942
Perception of thermal pain and the thermal grill illusion is associated with polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene.
PloS one
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15 Mar 2011
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pmid:21423614
5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met genotype gate amygdala reactivity and habituation.
Biological psychology
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26 Feb 2011
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pmid:21356267
2010
The COMTval158met polymorphism is associated with symptom relief during exposure-based cognitive-behavioral treatment in panic disorder.
BMC psychiatry
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26 Nov 2010
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pmid:21110842
Amygdala-dependent fear conditioning in humans is modulated by the BDNFval66met polymorphism.
Behavioral neuroscience
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01 Feb 2010
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pmid:20141276
2009
The symptomatic profile of panic disorder is shaped by the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
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12 Aug 2009
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pmid:19683026
Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR, rs25531) influences the analgesic response to the short acting opioid Remifentanil in humans.
Molecular pain
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01 Jul 2009
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pmid:19570226
Increased sensitivity to thermal pain following a single opiate dose is influenced by the COMT val(158)met polymorphism.
PloS one
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23 Jun 2009
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pmid:19547755
Genetic gating of human fear learning and extinction: possible implications for gene-environment interaction in anxiety disorder.
Psychological science
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23 Jan 2009
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pmid:19175757
2006
Imaging gene-substance interactions: the effect of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the dopamine agonist bromocriptine on the brain activation during the anticipation of reward.
Neuroscience letters
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08 Aug 2006
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pmid:16901644