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Here is looking at you: emotional faces predominate in binocular rivalryGeorg W Alpers
Bioilogical Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, D 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Emotion 7:495-506. 2007..This is not caused by physical stimulus properties or by response-biases. This novel approach supports that emotionally significant visual stimuli are preferentially perceived...
Attention and amygdala activity: an fMRI study with spider pictures in spider phobiaGeorg W Alpers
Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, Würzburg 97070, Germany
J Neural Transm 116:747-57. 2009..These results challenge the notion that amygdala activation in response to briefly presented phobic cues is independent from attention...- And yet they correlate: psychophysiological activation predicts self-report outcomes of exposure therapy in claustrophobiaGeorg W Alpers
Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, Wurzburg, Germany
J Anxiety Disord 22:1101-9. 2008..Because self-reported fear turned out not to be a reliable predictor of the outcome, this is interpreted as evidence for the incremental validity of physiological measures of fear... - Salivary cortisol response during exposure treatment in driving phobicsGeorg W Alpers
Stanford University School of Medicine, and VAPA Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
Psychosom Med 65:679-87. 2003..We addressed this issue by measuring cortisol in situational phobics during exposure treatment... - Energy and macronutrient intake in bulimia nervosaGeorg W Alpers
Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, Julius Maximilians Universitat Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, Wuerzburg D 97070, Germany
Eat Behav 5:241-9. 2004..Also, there was no evidence that carbohydrate craving drives binge eating. The implications for models of BN and for treatments targeting eating behavior are discussed... - Psychophysiological assessment during exposure in driving phobic patientsGeorg W Alpers
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:126-39. 2005..Thus, selected respiratory and autonomic measures are valid diagnostic and therapeutic outcome criteria for this situational phobia... - Binocular rivalry between emotional and neutral stimuli: a validation using fear conditioning and EEGGeorg W Alpers
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:25-32. 2005..This is discussed in terms of subcortical mechanisms supporting the efficient processing of threatening information... - Exposure to heights in a theme park: fear, dizziness, and body swayGeorg W Alpers
University of Wurzburg, Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, Marcusstrasse 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
J Anxiety Disord 22:591-601. 2008..The results underline the importance of cognitive factors, like anticipatory anxiety and overestimation of bodily symptoms, in fear of heights... - Eye-catching: right hemisphere attentional bias for emotional picturesGeorg W Alpers
University of Wurzburg, Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, Wurzburg, Germany
Laterality 13:158-78. 2008..This study adds to the evidence that overt attention to visual stimuli is boosted by emotion and that there is a right hemisphere advantage for orienting to emotional cues... - Early attentional deficits in an attention-to-prepulse paradigm in ADHD adultsAnnette Conzelmann
Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
J Abnorm Psychol 119:594-603. 2010..Attention deficits in ADHD patients may reflect not general derangements in information processing or ability to attend but, rather, selective disturbances of controlled attention during early information processing... - Why do you smile at me while I'm in pain? --Pain selectively modulates voluntary facial muscle responses to happy facesAntje B M Gerdes
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Germany Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 85:161-7. 2012..That happy faces are processed differently during pain may bear important implications for social interactions during acute and possibly even chronic pain states... - When spiders appear suddenly: spider-phobic patients are distracted by task-irrelevant spidersAntje B M Gerdes
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, D 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Behav Res Ther 46:174-87. 2008..These data do not support automatic capture of attention by phobic cues but suggest that phobic patients fail to disengage attention from spiders... - Is eye to eye contact really threatening and avoided in social anxiety?--An eye-tracking and psychophysiology studyMatthias J Wieser
University of Wurzburg, Department of Psychology, Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Germany
J Anxiety Disord 23:93-103. 2009..Additionally, further research is needed to clarify the role of gaze perception in social anxiety... - Fear of negative evaluation and the hypervigilance-avoidance hypothesis: an eye-tracking studyMatthias J Wieser
Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstr 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
J Neural Transm 116:717-23. 2009..Further research should clarify the meaning of happy facial expressions as well as the influence of the sex of the observed face in social anxiety... - Toward and away from spiders: eye-movements in spider-fearful participantsAntje B M Gerdes
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
J Neural Transm 116:725-33. 2009..Instead, they had difficulties to disengage attention from fear-relevant information. This disengagement deficit could be a cause, a correlate, or the result of phobic fear... - Meta-analysis argues for a female-specific role of MAOA-uVNTR in panic disorder in four European populationsAndreas Reif
Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 159:786-93. 2012..However, epigenetic mechanisms might obfuscate the genetic association, calling for ascertainment in larger samples as well as assessment of the MAOA promoter methylation status therein... - Musically induced arousal affects pain perception in females but not in males: a psychophysiological examinationRamona Kenntner-Mabiala
University of Wurzburg, Germany
Biol Psychol 75:19-23. 2007..Also, participants' arousal ratings, their respiratory rate and heart rate were accelerated by the fastest tempo. The modulation of pain perception by the tempo of music seems to be mediated by the listener's arousal... - Emotional scenes and facial expressions elicit different psychophysiological responsesGeorg W Alpers
School of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 80:173-81. 2011..Although arousal differences may account for some differences in physiological responding this shows that not all emotional material that is decoded similarly leads to the same psychophysiological output... - 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 potentialsMartin J Herrmann
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 29:28-35. 2008..Although positive as well as negative stimuli lead to significantly higher decrease in deoxygenated haemoglobin than neutral stimuli, this was not found for the oxygenated haemoglobin... - Valence and arousal: a comparison of two sets of emotional facial expressionsDirk Adolph
University of Wurzburg, Germany
Am J Psychol 123:209-19. 2010..We conclude that less intense female expressions but more intense male expressions may be more potent in inducing emotional responses. This study may encourage researchers to further compare the properties of picture sets... - Emotion processing in Parkinson's disease: dissociation between early neuronal processing and explicit ratingsMatthias J Wieser
Department of Psychology, Biological Pyschology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Clin Neurophysiol 117:94-102. 2006..Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) have a diminished ability to discriminate facial expressions of emotion. We investigated early emotion discrimination deficits in PD by means of event-related potentials (ERPs)... - Categorization and evaluation of emotional faces in psychopathic womenHedwig Eisenbarth
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Psychiatry Res 159:189-95. 2008..Results shed light on the mechanism possibly underlying the emotional deficits in psychopathic women... 
Brain Activations to Emotional Pictures are Differentially Associated with Valence and Arousal RatingsAntje B M Gerdes
Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany
Front Hum Neurosci 4:175. 2010..Reward-related structures like the caudate and NAcc primarily respond to pleasant stimuli, the stronger the more positive the valence of these stimuli is...- Abnormal affective responsiveness in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: subtype differencesAnnette Conzelmann
Department of Psychology Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Marcusstrasse 9 11, Wurzburg, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 65:578-85. 2009..This study examined the affective modulation of the startle reflex in a large sample of ADHD patients. The aim was to compare subtypes of ADHD... - You can see pain in the eye: pupillometry as an index of pain intensity under different luminance conditionsMarion Höfle
University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 70:171-5. 2008..Even under different luminance conditions, pupillometry can serve as an objective indicator of pressure pain intensity. Thus, it seems promising to use pupillometry with complex experimental designs combining pain and pictorial stimuli... - Ambulatory assessment in panic disorder and specific phobiaGeorg W Alpers
Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, D 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Psychol Assess 21:476-85. 2009..Therefore, ambulatory assessment can yield useful information about the psychopathology of anxiety disorders, and it can be used to monitor change during clinical interventions... - Negative self-focused cognitions mediate the effect of trait social anxiety on state anxietyStefan M Schulz
Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215 2002, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:438-49. 2008..Furthermore, trait social anxiety predicted increased startle amplitudes. These findings support a central assumption of the cognitive model of social anxiety... - Two facets of being bothered by bodily sensations: anxiety sensitivity and alexithymia in psychosomatic patientsJochen Mueller
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
Compr Psychiatry 47:489-95. 2006..The purpose of the present study is to investigate if both constructs are distinct or overlapping in a sample of psychosomatic inpatients... - High altitudes, anxiety, and panic attacks: is there a relationship?Walton T Roth
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Depress Anxiety 16:51-8. 2002..We suggest some improvements that could be made in the design of future studies, possible tests of some of the theoretical causal links, and possible treatment applications, such as systematic exposure of panic patients to high altitude... - Impact of facial asymmetry in visual perception: a 3-dimensional data analysisPhilipp Meyer-Marcotty
Department of Orthodontics, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop 137:168.e1-8; discussion 168-9. 2010.... - How others perceive orthognathic patients: an eye-tracking studyPhilipp Meyer-Marcotty
Department of Orthodontics, Dental Clinic of the Medical Faculty, Pleicherwall 2, D 97070 Wuerzburg, Germany
World J Orthod 11:153-9. 2010..To test the hypothesis that the faces of patients with a severe Class III are contemplated differently from and assessed more negatively than skeletal Class I patients in direct face-to-face interaction... - Memory bias in patients with hypochondriasis and somatoform pain disorderPaul Pauli
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of, Tubingen, Germany
J Psychosom Res 52:45-53. 2002..A memory bias enhances memory for disorder congruent information. The experimental evaluation of such biases in somatoform disorders may improve our understanding of these disorders... - Gender differences in associations of glutamate decarboxylase 1 gene (GAD1) variants with panic disorderHeike Weber
Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
PLoS ONE 7:e37651. 2012..In a recent association study in depression, which is highly comorbid with panic disorder, GAD1 risk allele associations were restricted to females... - Dissociation of rated emotional valence and Stroop interference in observer-rated alexithymiaJochen Mueller
Department of Psychology, University of Wurzburg, 97070 Wurzburg, Germany
J Psychosom Res 61:261-9. 2006..The performance of patients high and that of patients low in alexithymia was tested in a computerized emotional Stroop task... - Affective pain modulation in fibromyalgia, somatoform pain disorder, back pain, and healthy controlsBettina S Arnold
Klinikum Bad Bocklet, Frankenstrasse 36, 97708 Bad Bocklet
Eur J Pain 12:329-38. 2008..There was no interaction of priming and group. Affective modulation of pain was not specifically altered in FM and SF, but SF were more sensitive to pressure pain than BP and HC...