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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · 21h

🧩 New article!
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated to treatment outcome in anxiety disorders

Now published in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #Expectancy

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · 21h

😊 New publication!
Joy Beyond Fear: Positive Emotions After Exposure in Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Link to Threat Expectancy and Treatment Outcome

Now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #ExposureTherapy #PositiveEmotions #Expectancy

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · 21h

🧠 New paper investigated how childhood maltreatment shapes structural brain connectivity across affective and psychotic disorders.

Now out in European Neuropsychopharmacology:
🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

#Neuroscience #Psychiatry #BrainConnectivity #ChildhoodMaltreatment

ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · 28d

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · 29d

The CRC/TRR 393 aims to unravel trajectories of depression & bipolar disorder by combining mobile assessments, neuroimaging, -omics & interventions in >1500 participants.

A 12-year effort to decode mechanisms of recurrence & remission.

Overview:
🔗 rdcu.be/eGtBy

The SFB/TRR 393 Collaborative Research Centre: trajectories of affective disorders

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Yifei He 何奕菲 @yifeihe.bsky.social · Sep 11

🥳 Our study led by @edwardody.bsky.social from the @tnm-lab.bsky.social is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Take a look if you are interested in action-perception transition, readiness potential, and voluntariness of action!

📍https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70236

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DYNAMIC @loewe-dynamic.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎥 LOEWE DYNAMIC in 2 ½ min

Not brand new, but still relevant: In this video introduction, Winfried Rief explains what the LOEWE Research Center DYNAMIC is all about – and how dynamic networks can help improve treatments.

▶️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6F... (English subtitles available)

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications

A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · Aug 22

🧠 New paper out!
Rashid, Kircher & Straube (2025) investigate temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active vs. passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

📄 Schizophrenia:
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · Jul 18

@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie

Homepage

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · Jul 16

🧠🗣️ I’m co-editing a Neuropsychologia Special Issue:
“Language in Psychosis – A Multidisciplinary Approach”

We welcome contributions on:
• neural mechanisms
• predictive processing
• cognitive, computational & clinical perspectives

📅 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Neuropsychologia | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Neuropsychologia | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Neuropsychologia at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Feeling excluded can distort your decisions!

New study shows tDCS can buffer against the effects of social exclusion on decision-making.

🔗 academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
#neuroscience #tDCS #socialexclusion #mentalhealth

Transcranial direct current stimulation alleviates the negative impact of immediate and chronic social exclusion on intertemporal decision-making

Abstract. Social exclusion impairs decision-making, affecting social functioning. This study examines how social exclusion, in both immediate, experimental

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · Jul 6

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas SA Wallis, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @tsawallis.bsky.social

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S...

When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...

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Yifei He 何奕菲 @yifeihe.bsky.social · Jun 2

New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!

Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️

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Benjamin Straube @straubeb.bsky.social · May 22

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#science #clustersofexcellence #exstra #excellence #germany #psychology… | Roland Fleming | 12 comments

It's funded! 🎉 YES! Our proposal for an Excellence Cluster, "The Adaptive Mind" (TAM) is among 70 projects across all Germany and all disciplines that will receive funding for 7 years, ...

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 22

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · May 7

🧠✨ New publication in Brain Communications!
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders & motor preparation:
Aberrant pre-movement fMRI patterns in insula, putamen, cerebellum & angular gyrus
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
#Schizophrenia #fMRI #ActionAwareness #CognitiveNeuroscience #Psychiatry

Aberrant preparation of hand movement in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: an fMRI study

Rashid et al. investigated preparatory neural processes in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) during active and passive hand movements using functional

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 New in Molecular Psychiatry 🚨
DNA methylation as a potential marker for anxiety disorders & psychotherapy response:
Longitudinal EWAS reveals epigenetic signatures linked to disease risk and CBT outcomes.
📖 doi.org/10.1038/s413...
#Anxiety #Epigenetics #CBT #Psychiatry #PrecisionMedicine

Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome

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TNM-Lab @tnm-lab.bsky.social · Apr 17

How do patients with schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder perceive causality? We show altered reliance on spatial vs. temporal cues—and a growing bias to repeat prior choices over time.
➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Schizophrenia #Perception #Cognition #Neuroscience

Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder - Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia - Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

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SFB/TRR 393 @trr393.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join the #SFBTRR393 in Marburg! Two open PhD positions (65%) in A04, investigating inflection signals in #depression using MRI, EMA & EEG. You’re passionate about translational #psychiatry and want to work in an interdisciplinary environment? Apply by April 27 via the official portal ⬇️ #ResearchJob

Qualifizierungsstellen mit dem Ziel der Promotion

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Lisa Leehr @lisaleehr.bsky.social · Apr 9

@trr393.bsky.social und @dpk-kongress.bsky.social
Herzliche Einladung zu unserem Symposium zu den Schlüsselmechanismen der Trajektorien affektiver Erkrankungen

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James Trujillo @jamestrujillo.bsky.social · Apr 4

When listening to a story, earlier parts of the story (context) and the speaker's gestures help us predict and understand what they are saying. In a new preprint we show context and gestures have a push-pull synergy on neural response to linguistic information 👇🧵

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SFB/TRR 393 @trr393.bsky.social · Apr 2

In the light of #worldbipolarday, Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Bauer, the #sfbtrr393 local spokesperson at @tudresden.bsky.social was interviewed about current developments in #bipolardisorder research:

www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/n...

Between highs and lows

A life between extremes - Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Bauer investigates bipolar disorder as part of the SFB/TRR 393 and sheds light on the subject

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Yifei He 何奕菲 @yifeihe.bsky.social · Apr 1

And here the poster!

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Yifei He 何奕菲 @yifeihe.bsky.social · Apr 1

If you are at #CNS2025, check out this brilliant poster #F98 from @edwardody.bsky.social @straubeb.bsky.social where we probed for action-specific "quasi-predictive" effect independent of probability-based expectations!

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