Publications

Series of publications on systemic psychotherapy

2025, Clinical, Meta-Science (Implications) /

Three new papers and/or book chapters on discrimination critique in systemic psychotherapy by Jonathan Czollek have been published!  Check it out: Czollek, J. (2025). Ein vorläufiges Modell Diskriminierungskritischer Psychotherapie und Beratung. eine intersektionale und diversitätspsychologische Perspektive. In S. Saase, A. Namdiero-Walsh, S. Schlör & K. Dücker (Hrsg.), Intersektionalität in Therapie und Beratung: (Un)Möglichkeiten (S. 331-348). Nomos Verlag. Czollek, J., Dücker, […]

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The impact of memory training on abstinence among individuals with alcohol use disorder

2025, Clinical /

New paper by Maurice Cabanis et al. on “The impact of memory training on abstinence among individuals with alcohol use disorder‘!   Background: Chronic excessive alcohol consumption is associated with cognitive deficits. Patients with cognitive impairment, particularly memory deficits, may have difficulties in acquiring new semantic and procedural information which could affect the effectiveness of clinical

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Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line

2025, Meta-Science (Implications) /

Abstract Research funding is a key determinant of scientific progress. However, current allocation procedures for third-party funding are criticized due to high costs and biases in the selection. Here, we present data from a large German funding organization on an implementation of a lottery-first approach followed by peer review to allocate funding. We examine the

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Altered association of plasmatic oxytocin with affective stress response in alcohol use disorder

Clinical, Hormones/Neuromodulators, Social Cognition /

New publication in Translational Psychiatry by Annalina Mayer and team members! In this study we examined whether baseline plasma oxytocin levels are associated with stress responses in early-abstinent individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and compared them to healthy controls. While oxytocin concentrations did not differ between groups, their associations with affective stress responses diverged:

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Initial expectations and confidence affect the formation of novel self-beliefs and their revision

2025, Social Learning /

Another long journey comes to a successful end with this publication!  Congratulations to Alexander Schröder for this great collaborative effort, which brings together Susanne Diekelmann (as part of the DFG-funded Research Group “Information abstraction during sleep”), Christoph Korn (University of Heidelberg; expert in computational modeling and belief updating), Lei Zhang (our group’s teacher and advisor

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Commentary on Cropp et al. (2025) Interpersonal Dynamics

2025, Clinical, Social Emotions, Social Learning /

Affected beliefs in interpersonal dynamics The target article “Interpersonal Dynamics” presents the centrality of interpersonal processes in the formation and maintenance of psychological dysfunction, as well as in therapeutic change. The authors emphasize that interpersonal patterns are not static traits but should rather be viewed and understood as dynamic, reciprocal processes shaped by past experiences

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Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility: An [18F]Fallypride PET Study

2025, Hormones/Neuromodulators /

New paper by Lena Rademacher, published in Journal of Nuclear Medicine, from our group!   Abstract Cognitive flexibility is the ability to appropriately adapt one’s thinking and behavior to changing environmental demands and is conceptualized as an aspect of executive function. The dopamine system has been implicated in cognitive flexibility; however, a direct, that is,

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Contracted functional connectivity profiles in autism

2024, Clinical /

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 Neurological Institute, McGill University in Canada.    Objective Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition that is associated with atypical brain network organization, with prior work suggesting differential connectivity

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Altered physiological, affective, and functional connectivity responses to acute stress in patients with alcohol use disorder

2024, Clinical, Hormones/Neuromodulators /

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 manifested simultaneously across different stress parameters and which neural processes are involved. The present study examined physiological and affective responses to stress and functional connectivity in AUD. Methods Salivary cortisol

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The Human Affectome

2023, Social Cognition, Social Emotions, Social Reward /

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 differences in metaphysical and mechanistic assumptions about human affective phenomena (what they are and how they work) which, shaped by academic motivations and values, have determined the affective constructs and

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