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Symptom provocation and reduction in patients suffering from spider phobia: an fMRI study on exposure therapyAnne Schienle
Clinical Psychology, Karl Franzens Universitat Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, 8010 Graz, Austria
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 257:486-93. 2007..This brain region is crucial for the self-regulation of emotions and the relearning of stimulus-reinforcement associations...
Individual differences in disgust imagery: a functional magnetic resonance imaging studyAnne Schienle
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria
Neuroreport 19:527-30. 2008..g. insula, amygdala, parietal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex) during disgust imagery. This study provides first evidence that disgust propensity is associated with brain activation during imagery of repulsive scenes...- Disgust sensitivity in psychiatric disorders: a questionnaire studyAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:831-4. 2003 - Sex differences in the functional and structural neuroanatomy of dental phobiaAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, 8010, Graz, Austria
Brain Struct Funct 218:779-87. 2013..The consideration of such differences could contribute to greater effectiveness in treating dental phobia... - Binge-eating disorder: reward sensitivity and brain activation to images of foodAnne Schienle
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Biol Psychiatry 65:654-61. 2009..This functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study explored the neural correlates of visually induced food reward and loathing... - Long-term effects of cognitive behavior therapy on brain activation in spider phobiaAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Psychiatry Res 172:99-102. 2009..Activity to disorder-irrelevant pictures decreased across the sessions in the lateral OFC and in the insula, which most likely reflects general habituation... - Worry tendencies predict brain activation during aversive imageryAnne Schienle
University of Graz, Department of Psychology, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 461:289-92. 2009..Our preliminary findings encourage future imagery studies on generalized anxiety disorder patients, as one of the main symptoms of this disorder is excessive worrying... - Neural correlates of intolerance of uncertaintyAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 479:272-6. 2010..Moreover, IU correlated negatively with PFMC activity. This response pattern might reflect that uncertainty is threatening to individuals high in IU and that they lack adequate cognitive mechanism to cope with the uncertainty... - Localized gray matter volume abnormalities in generalized anxiety disorderAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, 8010, Graz, Austria
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261:303-7. 2011..This abnormality may represent either a predisposition for GAD or a consequence of disorder-specific behavior, such as chronic worrying. This issue should be addressed in future MRI studies... 
Source localization of late electrocortical positivity during symptom provocation in spider phobia: an sLORETA studyWilfried Scharmüller
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Brain Res 1397:10-8. 2011..Our findings are in good accordance with existing brain imaging studies and underline that source localization is a useful alternative for identifying phobia-relevant cortical regions...- Emotion recognition and experience in Huntington disease: a voxel-based morphometry studyRottraut Ille
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
J Psychiatry Neurosci 36:383-90. 2011..We investigated whether Huntington disease-related deficits in emotion recognition and experience are associated with specific changes in grey matter volume... - An event-related potential study on exposure therapy for patients suffering from spider phobiaVerena Leutgeb
University of Graz, Clinical Psychology, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Biol Psychol 82:293-300. 2009..The therapy effect consisted of a significant enhancement of late LPP amplitudes in response to spider pictures. Results are discussed in terms of reduced attentional avoidance... - Psychophysiology of spider phobia in 8- to 12-year-old girlsVerena Leutgeb
University of Graz, Department of Clinical Psychology, Austria
Biol Psychol 85:424-31. 2010..These aspects should be considered in psychotherapeutic treatment of childhood spider phobia... - Exposure therapy leads to enhanced late frontal positivity in 8- to 13-year-old spider phobic girlsVerena Leutgeb
University of Graz, Department of Clinical Psychology, Austria
Biol Psychol 90:97-104. 2012..Moreover, the girls showed a therapy-specific reduction in overall disgust proneness, as well as in experienced arousal and disgust when viewing disgust pictures. Thus, exposure therapy seems to have broad effects in children... - Are blood-injection-injury stimuli different from other negative categories? An ERP studyAxel Schäfer
Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 478:171-4. 2010..Moreover, our data indicate that processing of distinct stimulus categories, in particular that of BII stimuli, evolves differentially in time. Altogether, ERPs rather reflect the motivational relevance of stimuli and not simple arousal... - Frontal late positivity in dental phobia: a study on gender differencesAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Biol Psychol 88:263-9. 2011.... - Investigating phobic specificity with standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA)Wilfried Scharmüller
University of Graz, Institute of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Brain Res 1477:74-82. 2012..Our findings are in good accordance with existing brain imaging studies and underline that source localization is a useful alternative for identifying relevant cortical regions in subtypes of specific phobia... - Appetite regulation during food cue exposure: a comparison of normal-weight and obese womenWilfried Scharmüller
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 518:106-10. 2012..Our data point to an enhanced food cue reactivity and a more effortful strategy for appetite control in obese individuals... - Changes in facial electromyographic activity in spider-phobic girls after psychotherapyVerena Leutgeb
University of Graz, Department of Clinical Psychology, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
J Psychiatr Res 46:805-10. 2012..Results emphasize the role of disgust feelings in spider-phobic children and suggest that overall disgust proneness should also be targeted in therapy... - Propensity and sensitivity measures of fear and disgust are differentially related to emotion-specific brain activationAxel Schäfer
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 465:262-6. 2009..Thus, individuals high in disgust/anxiety sensitivity might have difficulties to successfully control the specific affective experience... - Affective inhibitory control in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: abnormalities in electrocortical late positivityAngelika Köchel
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 530:47-52. 2012..Interestingly, the reduced positivity correlated with lowered self-reported emotional intelligence in the ADHD group... - Auditory symptom provocation in dental phobia: a near-infrared spectroscopy studyAngelika Köchel
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 503:48-51. 2011..We found no indication of an emotional modulation of parietal and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activation... - Affective perception and imagery: A NIRS studyAngelika Köchel
Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Int J Psychophysiol 80:192-7. 2011..g. trait disgust) and oxygenation were nonsignificant, which might be due to the fact that those personality factors predominantly modulate the activation of subcortical limbic structures which are not accessible with NIRS... - Event-related potentials during exposure to aversion and its anticipation: the moderating effect of intolerance of uncertaintyMarkus Gole
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 507:112-7. 2012.... - Threat engagement, disengagement, and sensitivity bias in worry-prone individuals as measured by an emotional go/no-go taskMarkus Gole
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 43:532-9. 2012..The goal of the present study was to investigate a threat engagement, disengagement, and sensitivity bias in individuals suffering from pathological worry... - Altered state and trait disgust in borderline personality disorderAnne Schienle
Institute of Psychology, Karl Franzens University Graz, Graz, Austria
J Nerv Ment Dis 201:105-8. 2013..Consequently, the assessment of disgust reactivity should be introduced as a diagnostic tool for this disorder... - Voxel-based morphometry of disgust pronenessWilfried Scharmüller
Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Neurosci Lett 529:172-4. 2012..Our data implicate that only core disgust shows an association with the GMV of the gustatory cortex, whereas the reactivity to other disgust areas is linked with cognitive control areas... - In search of specificity: functional MRI in the study of emotional experienceAnne Schienle
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2 III, A 8010 Graz, Austria
Int J Psychophysiol 73:22-6. 2009..Combined information on the source as well as the exact temporal pattern of a neural affective response will help to improve our understanding of emotion-specific brain activation... - Elevated disgust proneness in schizophreniaRottraut Ille
Institute of Psychology
J Clin Psychol 66:1090-100. 2010..We found a positive relationship between disgust proneness and disgust sensitivity in controls and patients. The importance of disorder-specific disgust domains is discussed... - Emotion recognition and experience in Huntington's disease: is there a differential impairment?Rottraut Ille
Institute of Psychology, Karl Franzens University Graz, Austria
Psychiatry Res 188:377-82. 2011..We found no significant correlations between emotion experience/recognition ratings and CAG repeats, symptom duration and UHDRS Motor Assessment in the patient group... - Insulin and hippocampus activation in response to images of high-calorie food in normal weight and obese adolescentsSandra Wallner-Liebmann
Institute of Pathophysiology and Immunology, Center for Molecular Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1552-7. 2010..Interestingly, only the waist circumference, as a main indicator of abdominal obesity, correlated significantly with the hippocampal activation patterns, and not the BMI... - Regional grey matter volume abnormalities in bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorderAxel Schäfer
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Neuroimage 50:639-43. 2010..The bulimia-specific volume enlargement of the ventral striatum is discussed in the framework of negative reinforcement through purging and associated weight regulation... - Gender differences in the processing of disgust- and fear-inducing pictures: an fMRI studyAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroreport 16:277-80. 2005..This response pattern may reflect greater attention from males to cues of aggression in their environment. Further, the lateralization of brain activation was comparable in the two genders during both aversive picture conditions... - Hemodynamic responses to fear and disgust-inducing pictures: an fMRI studyRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394, Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 50:225-34. 2003..Thus, our data are in contrast with the idea of highly emotion-specific brain structures and rather suggest the existence of a common affective circuit... - Relationship between disgust sensitivity, trait anxiety and brain activity during disgust inductionAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychobiology 51:86-92. 2005..This points to the role of the amygdala as an integrative brain structure, whose activation can be modulated by different affective styles... - Hemodynamic brain correlates of disgust and fear ratingsRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 37:663-73. 2007..However, insula activations were only significantly correlated with subjective ratings of disgust, pointing to a specific role of this brain structure in the processing of disgust... - Stimulus type and design influence hemodynamic responses towards visual disgust and fear elicitorsAxel Schäfer
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:53-9. 2005..The face stimuli which were presented together with the more complex scenes in a passive viewing paradigm possibly were not salient enough to trigger emotional processing... - Diminished medial prefrontal cortex activity in blood-injection-injury phobiaAndrea Hermann
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10 H, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Biol Psychol 75:124-30. 2007..The latter response component might be a result of the elevated disgust sensitivity of BII phobics... - Influences of disgust sensitivity on hemodynamic responses towards a disgust-inducing film clipRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:61-7. 2005..The study stresses, in accordance to previous studies, the importance of considering personality traits when studying affective responses in fMRI studies... - Neural responses of OCD patients towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust-inducing and fear-inducing picturesAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:69-77. 2005..The increased insular reactivity of OCD patients during all aversive picture conditions might mirror their susceptibility to experience negative somatic states... - Influence of the stress hormone cortisol on fear conditioning in humans: evidence for sex differences in the response of the prefrontal cortexRudolf Stark
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 32:1290-8. 2006..In sum, these findings demonstrate that in humans cortisol mostly influences prefrontal brain activation during fear conditioning and that these effects appear to be modulated by sex... - fMRI responses to pictures of mutilation and contaminationAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 393:174-8. 2006..Our results are in disagreement with the idea of selective disgust processing at the insula. They point to a network of brain regions involved in the decoding of stimulus salience and the regulation of attention... - Brain activation of spider phobics towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust- and fear-inducing picturesAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 388:1-6. 2005..This points to an elevated sensitivity to repulsive and threatening stimuli in spider phobics and implicates the amygdala as a crucial neural substrate... - Anticipation of reward in a nonaversive differential conditioning paradigm and the brain reward system: an event-related fMRI studyPeter Kirsch
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging and Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 20:1086-95. 2003..The results are interpreted as reflecting the motivation-dependent reactivity of the brain reward system with highly motivating stimuli (monetary reward) leading to a stronger activation than those less motivating ones (verbal reward)... - Cerebellar and hippocampal activation during eyeblink conditioning depends on the experimental paradigm: a MEG studyPeter Kirsch
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
Neural Plast 10:291-301. 2003..The results reflect differential brain activation patterns during the two types of eyeblink conditioning... - Erotic and disgust-inducing pictures--differences in the hemodynamic responses of the brainRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Biol Psychol 70:19-29. 2005..The ventral striatum was specifically activated when subjects saw highly sexually arousing pictures. This indicates the involvement of the human reward system during the processing of visual erotica... - Hemodynamic effects of negative emotional pictures - a test-retest analysisRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychobiology 50:108-18. 2004..An additional analysis, which compared the emotion-related activation patterns during the two presentations, showed that the responses to the fear-inducing pictures were more stable than the responses to the disgust-inducing ones... - [Patterns of neuronal activity related to emotional stimulation in alexithymia]Frank Leweke
Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Justus Liebig Universität Giessen
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 54:437-44. 2004..g. medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulum) and affect generating structures (e. g. amygdala). Furthermore our findings confirm the hypothesis that alexithymia is a disorder of higher cerebral function... - Neurobiology of fear and disgustDieter Vaitl
Int J Psychophysiol 57:1-4. 2005