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Spatial processing of facial emotion in patients with unipolar depression: a longitudinal studyThomas Suslow
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
J Affect Disord 83:59-63. 2004..In this study, a face-in-the-crowd task was applied to examine the spatial detection of facial emotion as a function of depression and comorbid anxiety in the course of a psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment...- Reduced awareness of others' emotions in unipolar depressed patientsUta-Susan Donges
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, , , Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 193:331-7. 2005..Acutely depressed patients seem not to be impaired in the complexity of their own emotional experience, but they exhibit a reduction in the ability to empathize with other persons... 
Limbic scars: long-term consequences of childhood maltreatment revealed by functional and structural magnetic resonance imagingUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Strasse 11, Munster, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 71:286-93. 2012....- [Neurogenetics of emotional processes. Neuroimaging findings as endophenotypes for depression]U Dannlowski
Klinik und Poliklinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitatsklinikum, Albert Schweitzer Strasse 11, 48149 Munster
Nervenarzt 81:24-31. 2010..Evidence is reviewed suggesting that potential risk-alleles for depression are associated with functional cortico-limbic abnormalities, which frequently occur in patients with major depression... 
Amygdala reactivity to masked negative faces is associated with automatic judgmental bias in major depression: a 3 T fMRI studyUdo Dannlowski
Dannlowski, Ohrmann, Bauer, Arolt, Kersting, Suslow Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Germany
J Psychiatry Neurosci 32:423-9. 2007..In the present study, we extended the paradigm to a sample of 35 inpatients suffering from depression to investigate the effect of amygdala reactivity on automatic negative judgmental bias and clinical characteristics in depression...- Serotonergic genes modulate amygdala activity in major depressionU Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, GermanyIZKF Research Group 4, IZKF Münster, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Genes Brain Behav 6:672-6. 2007..Our data suggest that the genetic susceptibility for major depression might be transported via dysfunctional neural activity in brain regions critical for emotion processing... - Amygdala reactivity predicts automatic negative evaluations for facial emotionsUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
Psychiatry Res 154:13-20. 2007..This finding might shed some light on how amygdala hyperresponsivity contributes to negative cognitive biases commonly observed in affective disorders... - Subliminal affective priming in clinical depression and comorbid anxiety: a longitudinal investigationUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
Psychiatry Res 143:63-75. 2006..Direction and strength of affective priming was directly associated with anxiety level at both times. The affective priming paradigm provides evidence for differential group effects regarding unconscious emotional information processing... - Unimpaired automatic processing of verbal information in the course of clinical depressionUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Depress Anxiety 23:325-30. 2006..Size of priming was not associated with depression severity, anxiety level, intelligence, medication, or clinical features. We conclude that depression is not characterized by dysfunctional automatic processing of verbal information... - Neuropeptide-S (NPS) receptor genotype modulates basolateral amygdala responsiveness to aversive stimuliUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 36:1879-85. 2011..Thereby, NPSR rs324981 apparently causes an indirect effect on anxiety-related traits and potentially contributes to the pathogenesis of anxiety disorders by shaping fear-related limbic activity... - Emotion specific modulation of automatic amygdala responses by 5-HTTLPR genotypeUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
Neuroimage 53:893-8. 2010..We conclude that 5-HTTLPR genotype predominantly impacts the central processing predominantly of negative environmental cues but not of emotionally salient stimuli in general... - Masked facial affect priming is associated with therapy response in clinical depressionUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Strasse 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 256:215-21. 2006..An enhanced sensitivity for sad facial expressions and a negatively biased automatic processing of neutral and happy facial affect appears to be associated with depression persistence... - Test-retest reliability of subliminal facial affective primingUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Munster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, 48149 Munster, Germany
Psychol Rep 98:153-8. 2006..Acceptable test-retest correlations (rs) of up to .74 were found for the affective priming scores. Although measured almost 2 mo. apart, subliminal affective priming seems to be a temporally stable effect... - Automatic brain response to facial emotion as a function of implicitly and explicitly measured extraversionT Suslow
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Neuroscience 167:111-23. 2010..Research on the neurobiology of extraversion could benefit from the application of implicit in addition to explicit measurement instruments when automatic neural responses are investigated... - Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion facesMaraike Reker
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Germany
Cortex 46:658-67. 2010.... - Neural correlates of trait anxiety in fear extinctionC Sehlmeyer
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Muenster, Germany
Psychol Med 41:789-98. 2011..In this study we investigated whether individual differences in trait anxiety affect amygdala and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) activation during fear conditioning and extinction... - Alexithymic features and automatic amygdala reactivity to facial emotionHarald Kugel
Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Neurosci Lett 435:40-4. 2008..Low spontaneous reactivity of the amygdala to sad faces could implicate less engagement in the encoding of negative emotional stimuli... - Increased amygdala activation during automatic processing of facial emotion in schizophreniaAstrid Veronika Rauch
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Muenster, Albert Schweitzer Str 11, Muenster, Germany
Psychiatry Res 182:200-6. 2010..Heightened automatic amygdala responsivity could be involved in the development and maintenance of negative symptoms in schizophrenia... - 5-HTTLPR biases amygdala activity in response to masked facial expressions in major depressionUdo Dannlowski
1 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany 2 2IZKF Research Group 4, IZKF Münster, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 33:418-24. 2008..This might indicate that genetic variations of the serotonin transporter could increase the risk for depression chronification via altering limbic neural activity on a preattentive level of emotion processing... - Attachment avoidance modulates neural response to masked facial emotionThomas Suslow
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:3553-62. 2009..Our data are consistent with the idea that people who withdraw from close relationships respond spontaneously to a lesser extent to negative interpersonal emotional signals than securely attached individuals... - fMRI data visualization with BrainBlend and BlenderMartin Pyka
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
Neuroinformatics 8:21-31. 2010..BrainBlend is particularly suitable for the visual exploration of interactions between functional networks, for time-resolved animations of BOLD changes and meets high demands on visual quality in images and animations... - Automatic mood-congruent amygdala responses to masked facial expressions in major depressionThomas Suslow
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, 48149 Munster, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 67:155-60. 2010..Assessing neurobiological substrates of automatic emotion processing might be a more sensitive challenge for automatic negative bias in depression than behavioral measures... - Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) gene: impact on antidepressant treatment response and emotion processing in major depressionKatharina Domschke
Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Germany
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 18:751-9. 2008..This analysis provides preliminary support for a role of CNR1 gene variation in depression and anxiety, potentially mediated by subcortical hypo-responsiveness to social reward stimuli... - Reduced amygdala-prefrontal coupling in major depression: association with MAOA genotype and illness severityUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Germany
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 12:11-22. 2009..We conclude that genetic variation in the MAOA gene may affect the course of major depression by disrupting cortico-limbic connectivity... - Working-memory fMRI reveals cingulate hyperactivation in euthymic major depressionSonja Schöning
Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:2746-56. 2009..This could reflect a different speed of normalization in prefrontal and limbic cortices, persistent systematic changes in neuronal networks after an episode of MDD, or a compensatory mechanism to maintain working-memory performance... - Neuroimaging differences in spatial cognition between men and male-to-female transsexuals before and during hormone therapySonja Schöning
Department of Psychiatry, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
J Sex Med 7:1858-67. 2010..However, these results have not consistently been confirmed. Furthermore, studies on cognitive effects of cross-sex hormone therapy also yield heterogeneous results... - Adjunctive antidepressant treatment with quetiapine in agitated depression: positive effects on symptom reduction, psychopathology and remission ratesUdo Dannlowski
Department of Psychiatry, University of Munster, Germany
Hum Psychopharmacol 23:587-93. 2008..To investigate the adjunctive effects of quetiapine on overall treatment response and on specific symptoms in agitated depression...