Publications

Perinatal depression (PND) is a severe complication of pregnancy, but there are no established risk factors predicting the disease. Evening chronotype has been associated with unhealthy lifestyle habits and adverse outcomes during pregnancy. In this study, we aimed to clarify whether chronotype can predict symptoms and/or occurrence of PND. More information you can find at: […]

Abstract Digital acquisition of patients’ self-reports on individual risk factors and symptom severity represents a promising, cost-efficient, and increasingly prevalent approach for standardized data collection in psychiatric clinical routine. Yet, studies investigating digital data collection in patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder (PSSDs) are scarce. The objective of this study was to explore the feasibility

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 several research challenges. We propose a new framework encouraging future research to investigate not only individual differences in capacities relevant for social functioning and their underlying mechanisms, but also the flexibility

We are happy to share our new publication with contribution by Frieder M. Paulus. Most patients with Post COVID Syndrome (PCS) present with a plethora of symptoms without clear evidence of organ dysfunction. A subset of them fulfills diagnostic criteria of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Symptom severity of ME/CFS correlates with natural regulatory autoantibody

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) have an increased risk for Internet use disorders (IUD) compared to older individuals that may lead to functional impairments in daily life. To date, evidence-based brief interventions are lacking. This study aimed to test the efficacy of a low-threshold counseling approach based on Motivational Interviewing (MI) in a vocational school

Oral presentation Dr Alexandra Korda was being invited to give a talk on her recent advances in the identification of texture brain MRI abnormalities at the Centre for Brain, Behaviour, and Metabolism (CBBM) Research Day (University of Lübeck) on 30 September 2022. 

Special Collection “Hallucinations and Delusions” – call for submissions Hallucination is understood as the perception of something that is not there and delusion as the belief of something despite contrary evidence. Both are commonly associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, or bipolar disorder. However, they sometimes also manifest in neurotypicals, for example,

The behavioral and cognitive symptoms of severe psychotic disorders overlap with those seen in dementia. However, shared brain alterations remain disputed, and their relevance for patients in at-risk disease stages has not been explored so far. Click here for more information: Koutsouleris, N., …., Lencer, R., Borgwardt, S., … (2022). Exploring Links Between Psychosis and

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental disorder, comprised of heterogeneous psychological and neurobiological pathologies. Here, we propose a predictive processing (PP) account of BPD to integrate these seemingly unrelated pathologies. Reference: Herzog, P., Kube, T., & Fassbinder, E. (2022). How childhood maltreatment alters perception and cognition – the predictive processing account of borderline

Subtle subjective visual dysfunctions (VisDys) are reported by about 50% of patients with schizophrenia and are suggested to predict psychosis states. Deeper insight into VisDys, particularly in early psychosis states, could foster the understanding of basic disease mechanisms mediating susceptibility to psychosis, and thereby inform preventive interventions. In this study, we systematically investigated the relationship