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5HTT is associated with the phenotype psychological flexibility: results from a randomized clinical trial

scientific article

A comprehensive look at phobic fear in inhibition of return: Phobia-related spiders as cues and targets

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A genome-wide association meta-analysis of prognostic outcomes following cognitive behavioural therapy in individuals with anxiety and depressive disorders

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Abnormal affective responsiveness in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: subtype differences

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Acquisition of behavioral avoidance: task-irrelevant conditioned stimuli trigger costly decisions

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Affective pain modulation in fibromyalgia, somatoform pain disorder, back pain, and healthy controls

scientific article published on 27 August 2007

Ambulatory assessment in panic disorder and specific phobia

scientific article published on December 2009

And yet they correlate: psychophysiological activation predicts self-report outcomes of exposure therapy in claustrophobia

scientific article published on 21 November 2007

Angstsensitivität bei Kindern mit Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/ Hyperaktivitätsstörung

Another Look at “Look-Alikes”

scientific article published in January 2006

Anxiety and rumination moderate menstrual cycle effects on mood in daily life

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Attention and amygdala activity: an fMRI study with spider pictures in spider phobia

scientific article published on 26 August 2008

Auditory cortex activation is modulated by emotion: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study

scientific article published on 12 January 2011

Automatic Facial Expression Recognition in Standardized and Non-standardized Emotional Expressions

scientific article published on 05 May 2021

Automatic behavioural responses to valence: Evidence that facial action is facilitated by evaluative processing

scientific article published in June 2005

Automatic facial responses to near-threshold presented facial displays of emotion: imitation or evaluation?

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

Avoidant decision making in social anxiety: the interaction of angry faces and emotional responses

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Avoidant decision-making in social anxiety disorder: A laboratory task linked to in vivo anxiety and treatment outcome

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Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits

scientific article published in 2022

Binocular rivalry between emotional and neutral stimuli: a validation using fear conditioning and EEG.

scientific article published in July 2005

Body image and noticeable self-inflicted scars

scientific article published in December 2013

Brain Activations to Emotional Pictures are Differentially Associated with Valence and Arousal Ratings

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Categorization and evaluation of emotional faces in psychopathic women

scientific article published on 18 April 2008

Cognitive and emotional processing in narratives of women abused by intimate partners

scientific article published in November 2007

Data from the Master theses Hengen and Müller: Approaching feared stimuli: Behavioral, self-reported, and physiological changes after a spider approach task

Data from the paper: A comprehensive look at phobic fear in inhibition of return: Phobia-related spiders as cues and targets

Data from the paper: Acquisition of behavioral avoidance: Task-irrelevant conditioned stimuli trigger costly decisions

Data from the paper: Avoidant decision making in social anxiety: the interaction of angry faces and emotional responses

Data from the paper: Face-to-face: Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing

Data from the paper: Facing two faces: Defense activation varies as a function of personal relevance

Data from the paper: From avoidance to approach: The influence of threat-of-shock on reward-based decision making

Data from the paper: Inhibition of Return in Fear of Spiders: Discrepant Eye Movement and Reaction Time Data

Data from the paper: Social and emotional relevance in face processing: Happy faces of future interaction partners enhance the LPP.

Data from the paper: The cost of fear: Avoidant decision making in a spider gambling task

Data from the paper: The persistence of socially instructed threat: Two threat-of-shock studies

Data from the paper: Valence and Arosual: A comparison of two sets of Emotional Facial Expressions

Defensive activation during the rubber hand illusion: Ownership versus proprioceptive drift

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

Development and evaluation of a standardized peer-training in the context of peer review for quality assurance in work capacity evaluation.

scientific article

Diagnostik psychopathischer Persönlichkeitszüge bei Straftätern

Die Effekte interozeptiver Expositionsübungen in der Kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie von Panikstörung mit Agoraphobie

article published in 2015

Different patients, different preferences: A multicenter assessment of patients' personality traits and anxiety in shared decision making

scientific article published in 2022

Dimensional structure of bodily panic attack symptoms and their specific connections to panic cognitions, anxiety sensitivity and claustrophobic fears

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Diminished cooperativeness of psychopaths in a prisoner's dilemma game yields higher rewards

scientific article published in May 2008

Dissociation of rated emotional valence and Stroop interference in observer-rated alexithymia

scientific article published in August 2006

Does prior traumatization affect the treatment outcome of CBT for panic disorder? The potential role of the MAOA gene and depression symptoms

scientific article published on 15 July 2017

Dynamics of defensive reactivity in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia: implications for the etiology of panic disorder

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Early attentional deficits in an attention-to-prepulse paradigm in ADHD adults

scientific article published in August 2010

Effekte therapeutenbegleiteter versus patientengeleiteter Exposition bei Panikstörung mit Agoraphobie

Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: dissociation between early neuronal processing and explicit ratings

scientific article published on 5 December 2005

Emotional pictures and sounds: a review of multimodal interactions of emotion cues in multiple domains

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Emotional pictures predominate in binocular rivalry

Emotional scenes and facial expressions elicit different psychophysiological responses

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Emotional sounds modulate early neural processing of emotional pictures

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Energy and macronutrient intake in bulimia nervosa

scientific article published on July 2004

Enhancement of activity of the primary visual cortex during processing of emotional stimuli as measured with event-related functional near-infrared spectroscopy and event-related potentials

scientific article published in January 2008

Evaluation of an internet support group for women with primary breast cancer

scientific article published in March 2003

Evaluation of computerized text analysis in an Internet breast cancer support group

scientific article published in March 2005

Evidenzbasierte Psychotherapie der Panikstörung mit und ohne Agoraphobie

scientific article published in November 2011

Exposure to heights in a theme park: fear, dizziness, and body sway

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Eye-catching: right hemisphere attentional bias for emotional pictures

scientific article published in March 2008

Face-to-face: Perceived personal relevance amplifies face processing

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Facing two faces: Defense activation varies as a function of personal relevance

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Fear of flying in the wake of September 11: No evidence for an increase in a German sample

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Fear of negative evaluation and the hypervigilance-avoidance hypothesis: an eye-tracking study

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From avoidance to approach: The influence of threat-of-shock on reward-based decision making

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Gender differences in associations of glutamate decarboxylase 1 gene (GAD1) variants with panic disorder

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Gender-specific association of variants in the AKR1C1 gene with dimensional anxiety in patients with panic disorder: additional evidence for the importance of neurosteroids in anxiety?

scientific article published on 3 January 2014

Genome-wide association study of panic disorder reveals genetic overlap with neuroticism and depression

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Happy mouth and sad eyes: Scanning emotional facial expressions ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Here is looking at you: emotional faces predominate in binocular rivalry

scientific article published in August 2007

High altitudes, anxiety, and panic attacks: is there a relationship?

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How others perceive orthognathic patients: an eye-tracking study

scientific article published in January 2010

Impact of facial asymmetry in visual perception: a 3-dimensional data analysis

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Influence of perceptual cues and conceptual information on the activation and reduction of claustrophobic fear

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Inhibition of return in fear of spiders: discrepant eye movement and reaction time data

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Is eye to eye contact really threatening and avoided in social anxiety?--An eye-tracking and psychophysiology study

scientific article published on 2 May 2008

Körperbildstörungen bei Trauma und sozialer Ängstlichkeit

scientific article published in January 2015

Lab meets real life: A laboratory assessment of spontaneous thought and its ecological validity

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Larger than life: overestimation of object size is moderated by personal relevance in obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 7 May 2011

MAOA and mechanisms of panic disorder revisited: from bench to molecular psychotherapy

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Mechanism of action in CBT (MAC): methods of a multi-center randomized controlled trial in 369 patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia

scientific article published in November 2009

Memory bias in patients with hypochondriasis and somatoform pain disorder

scientific article published in January 2002

Meta-analysis argues for a female-specific role of MAOA-uVNTR in panic disorder in four European populations

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Motor-Incompatibility of Facial Reactions

Musically induced arousal affects pain perception in females but not in males: a psychophysiological examination.

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Negative feelings and the desire to eat in bulimia nervosa

scientific article published in December 2001

Negative self-focused cognitions mediate the effect of trait social anxiety on state anxiety

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Neuropeptide S receptor gene -- converging evidence for a role in panic disorder

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Nightmares affect the experience of sleep quality but not sleep architecture: an ambulatory polysomnographic study

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Orexin in the anxiety spectrum: association of a HCRTR1 polymorphism with panic disorder/agoraphobia, CBT treatment response and fear-related intermediate phenotypes

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Panic disorder with agoraphobia from a behavioral neuroscience perspective: Applying the research principles formulated by the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative

scientific article published on March 2016

Perception of children's faces with unilateral coronal synostosis--an eye-tracking investigation

scientific article published on August 2015

Persons with cleft lip and palate are looked at differently

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

Phenomenology of Panic and Phobic Disorders

article published in 2008

Psychological treatment for panic disorder with agoraphobia: a randomized controlled trial to examine the role of therapist-guided exposure in situ in CBT.

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Psychophysiological assessment during exposure in driving phobic patients

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RGS2 ggenetic variation: association analysis with panic disorder and dimensional as well as intermediate phenotypes of anxiety

scientific article published on 4 March 2015

Representation of Patients' Hand Modulates Fear Reactions of Patients with Spider Phobia in Virtual Reality

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Salivary cortisol response during exposure treatment in driving phobics

scientific article published in July 2003

Shortened night sleep impairs facial responsiveness to emotional stimuli

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Social and emotional relevance in face processing: happy faces of future interaction partners enhance the late positive potential

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Specific fear modulates attentional selectivity during visual search: electrophysiological insights from the N2pc

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Specificity of homework compliance effects on treatment outcome in CBT: evidence from a controlled trial on panic disorder and agoraphobia

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Spiders are special: fear and disgust evoked by pictures of arthropods

article by Antje B.M. Gerdes et al published January 2009 in Evolution and Human Behavior

The cost of fear: avoidant decision making in a spider gambling task.

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality

scientific article

The impact of visual flow stimulation on anxiety, dizziness, and body sway in individuals with and without fear of heights

scientific article published on 14 February 2009

The persistence of socially instructed threat: two threat-of-shock studies

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

The phenomenology of the first panic attack in clinical and community-based samples.

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

The role of safety behaviors in exposure-based treatment for panic disorder and agoraphobia: associations to symptom severity, treatment course, and outcome

scientific article published on 5 October 2014

The role of scar origin in shaping men's body image

scientific article published on 30 April 2014

The role of treatment delivery factors in exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder with agoraphobia

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Timing matters: change depends on the stage of treatment in cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder with agoraphobia

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Toward and away from spiders: eye-movements in spider-fearful participants

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Triggers of fear: perceptual cues versus conceptual information in spider phobia

scientific article published on 18 December 2013

Two facets of being bothered by bodily sensations: anxiety sensitivity and alexithymia in psychosomatic patients

scientific article published on 27 April 2006

Valence and arousal: a comparison of two sets of emotional facial expressions

scientific article published in January 2010

Validierung der deutschen Übersetzung des Psychopathy Personality Inventory (PPI)

scientific article published in July 2007

Verbal instructions override the meaning of facial expressions

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Visual face perception of adults with unilateral cleft lip and palate in comparison to controls--an eye-tracking study

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

What the future holds: Machine learning to predict success in psychotherapy

scientific article published in 2022

When spiders appear suddenly: spider-phobic patients are distracted by task-irrelevant spiders

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Where have they gone? Tracking movement patterns to document the process of situational exposure in agoraphobia

Why do you smile at me while I'm in pain? --Pain selectively modulates voluntary facial muscle responses to happy faces

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

You can see pain in the eye: pupillometry as an index of pain intensity under different luminance conditions

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

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