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Amygdala activation to threat under attentional load in individuals with anxiety disorderThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Biol Mood Anxiety Disord 1:12. 2011..abstract:..
Eye movements and behavioral responses to threatening and nonthreatening stimuli during visual search in phobic and nonphobic subjectsWolfgang H R Miltner
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Emotion 4:323-39. 2004..Thus, threat seems to capture the attention of phobics only when it is part of a background that subjects are explicitly instructed to ignore...- Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learningW H Miltner
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Nature 397:434-6. 1999..In this way, coherence may be a signature for this and other types of learning... - Effects of constraint-induced movement therapy on patients with chronic motor deficits after stroke: a replicationW H Miltner
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Stroke 30:586-92. 1999.... - Rapid functional plasticity of the somatosensory cortex after finger amputationT Weiss
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Jena, Germany
Exp Brain Res 134:199-203. 2000..These results indicate that functional plasticity occurs within a period of 10 days after amputation... - Implementation of error-processing in the human anterior cingulate cortex: a source analysis of the magnetic equivalent of the error-related negativityWolfgang H R Miltner
Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller Universitat Jena, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Biol Psychol 64:157-66. 2003..These data converge with those from electrical recordings in implicating this brain structure in error-processing... - Electrophysiological correlates of threat processing in spider phobicsIris Tatjana Kolassa
Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Psychophysiology 42:520-30. 2005.... - Motor cortex plasticity during constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patientsJ Liepert
Department of Neurology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 250:5-8. 1998..The data therefore demonstrate a CNS correlate of therapy-induced recovery of function after nervous system damage in humans... - Treatment-induced cortical reorganization after stroke in humansJ Liepert
Department of Neurology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Stroke 31:1210-6. 2000..The aim of the present study was to evaluate reorganization in the motor cortex of stroke patients that was induced with an efficacious rehabilitation treatment... - Brain activation to phobia-related pictures in spider phobic humans: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging studyStefan Dilger
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Haus 1 Am Steiger 3, D-07743 Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 348:29-32. 2003..Our study confirms the role of the amygdala in fear processing and provides insights into brain activation patterns when animal phobics are confronted with phobia-related stimuli... 
Task-dependent neural correlates of the processing of verbal threat-related stimuli in social phobiaStephanie Schmidt
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Biol Psychol 84:304-12. 2010..In contrast, insula activation seems to be more important for direct processing of disorder-related words, especially in more severe cases of social phobia...- Adaptive AR modeling of nonstationary time series by means of Kalman filteringM Arnold
Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 45:553-62. 1998..An application with experimental EEG data supported observations that the development of coherences among cell assemblies of the brain is a basic element of associative learning or conditioning... - Differential amygdala activation to negative and positive emotional pictures during an indirect taskThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Behav Brain Res 191:285-8. 2008..Negative pictures elicited stronger amygdala activation than neutral or positive pictures, suggesting valence-specific amygdala responses under attentional load... - Neural representation of anxiety and personality during exposure to anxiety-provoking and neutral scenes from scary moviesThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 31:36-47. 2010..These results support models predicting cerebral hypoactivation in high sensation seekers during neutral stimulation, which may be compensated by more intense sensations such as watching scary movies... - Dissociation between singing and speaking in expressive aphasia: the role of song familiarityThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuropsychologia 46:1505-12. 2008..These findings propose that singing might help word phrase production in at least some cases of severe expressive aphasia. However, the association of melody and text in long-term memory seems to be responsible for this effect... - Dynamic activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during anticipatory anxietyThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 44:975-81. 2009.... - Decision-making under risk: an fMRI studyJohannes Hewig
Biology and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1642-52. 2009..These findings complement other results suggesting an important role of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in reward-based decision-making and conflict resolution... - An electrophysiological analysis of coaching in BlackjackJohannes Hewig
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Cortex 44:1197-205. 2008..teachers or parents to scholars or children. However, their advice is sometimes rejected. Here we show that a rejection of one's advice elicits the same negative potential as when one receives negative feedback about one's own behavior... - Drive for thinness and attention toward specific body parts in a nonclinical sampleJohannes Hewig
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Psychosom Med 70:729-36. 2008..We hypothesized that participants scoring high on the drive for thinness subscale would show increased attention to body regions, which are important in the assessment of body weight and thinness like the waist, hips, legs, and arms... - Modulation of the neural network involved in the processing of anger prosody: the role of task-relevance and social phobiaSusanne Quadflieg
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Biol Psychol 78:129-37. 2008..These results suggest a disorder-associated increased involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in response to threatening voices in social phobia... - Brain activation upon selective stimulation of cutaneous C- and Adelta-fibersThomas Weiss
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3 Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 41:1372-81. 2008.... - How do brain areas communicate during the processing of noxious stimuli? An analysis of laser-evoked event-related potentials using the Granger causality indexThomas Weiss
Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
J Neurophysiol 99:2220-31. 2008..This result was interpreted as a directed interaction between the anterior cingulate cortex and the secondary somatosensory cortex and the insula, structures that are significantly involved in the constitution of pain... - Do words hurt? Brain activation during the processing of pain-related wordsMaria Richter
Department of Neurology, Friedrich Schiller University Medical School Jena, Jena, Germany
Pain 148:198-205. 2010..Most remarkably, the differences in processing pain-related words compared to non-pain-related words are specific to the pain-relevance of the words and cannot simply be explained by their valence or arousal... - Deafferentation of the affected arm: a method to improve rehabilitation?Thomas Weiss
Biological and Clinical Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, and Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Am Steiger 3H1, Jena, D 07743, Germany
Stroke 42:1363-70. 2011.... - Dissociation of acquisition and expression of fear conditioned responses under working memory loadThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Emotion 11:209-13. 2011..If they are not experimentally separated, the effects of WML on the acquisition and expression of the CR may occur together, and the findings may be erroneously interpreted as indicating a lack of associative learning... - Attention to aversive emotion and specific activation of the right insula and right somatosensory cortexThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 54:2534-8. 2011..e. in areas implicated in self-awareness of a person's own body. These findings are in accordance with theories suggesting a crucial role of the perception of bodily states for emotional experiences... - Task requirements change signal strength of the primary somatosensory M50: Oddball vs. one-back tasksTheresa Götz
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Department of Neurology, Biomagnetic Center, Jena, Germany
Psychophysiology 48:569-77. 2011..This indicates that previously obtained conflicting results might be due to different central mechanisms induced by different task requirements... - Why humans deviate from rational choiceJohannes Hewig
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Psychophysiology 48:507-14. 2011..These findings support the idea that subjective emotional markers guide decision-making and that the anterior cingulate cortex integrates instances of reinforcement and punishment to provide such affective markers... - No impairment of recognition and experience of disgust in a patient with a right-hemispheric lesion of the insula and basal gangliaThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuropsychologia 48:1735-41. 2010.... - The volatility of the amygdala response to masked fearful eyesThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 31:1601-8. 2010..This finding questions the hypothesis that the amygdala processes context-free parts of the human face without awareness... - A new Kalman filter approach for the estimation of high-dimensional time-variant multivariate AR models and its application in analysis of laser-evoked brain potentialsThomas Milde
Institute of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 50:960-9. 2010..It can be demonstrated that the application of high-dimensional tvMVAR modelling will contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between structure and function... - Hypersensitivity to reward in problem gamblersJohannes Hewig
Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 67:781-3. 2010..However, direct evidence of a behavioral deficit and an accompanying neurofunctional deviation in a realistic gambling context such as Black Jack has not yet been reported... - Increased amygdala activation to averted versus direct gaze in humans is independent of valence of facial expressionThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 49:2680-6. 2010..This finding suggests a critical role of the amygdala in gaze processing independently of the valence of facial expression. Furthermore, the effect of gaze on amygdalar responses seems to be preserved across nonhuman and human primates... - Sex differences in brain activation to anticipated and experienced pain in the medial prefrontal cortexThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:689-98. 2009..The results suggest that women, as compared to men, show increased self-related attention during anticipation of pain and in response to intense pain... - Spatial discrimination learning of electrocutaneous stimuliThomas Weiss
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 427:83-7. 2007..The present study demonstrates that discrimination of electrocutaneous stimuli can be improved through training. Results illustrate that electrocutaneous stimuli are a possible and easy-to-apply tool for biofeedback settings... - Neural mechanisms of automatic and direct processing of phobogenic stimuli in specific phobiaThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 59:162-70. 2006..The study aimed to identify brain activation during direct and automatic processing of phobogenic stimuli in specific phobia... - Common and distinct brain activation to threat and safety signals in social phobiaThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, DE 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuropsychobiology 52:163-8. 2005..Little is known about the functional neuroanatomy underlying the processing of emotional stimuli in social phobia... - Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain activation in specific phobiaThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3, 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 29:125-35. 2006..These results propose that increased activation in the insula and ACC is associated with specific phobia, whereas an attenuation of these brain responses correlates with successful therapeutic intervention... - Reduction of somatosensory evoked fields in the primary somatosensory cortex in a one-back taskRalph Huonker
Department of Neurology, Biomagnetic Center, University Hospital Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, 07747, Jena, Germany
Exp Brain Res 168:98-105. 2006..We hypothesize that changes in the centre-periphery-relationship of receptive fields in the primary somatosensory cortex may account for this unexpected result... - Double stimulation of tiny skin areas in human subjects increases the number of C- and Adelta-fiber responsesThomas Weiss
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, D 07737 Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 386:165-9. 2005.... - Event-related brain potentials and affective responses to threat in spider/snake-phobic and non-phobic subjectsWolfgang H R Miltner
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:43-52. 2005.... - Rapid functional plasticity in the primary somatomotor cortex and perceptual changes after nerve blockThomas Weiss
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Am Steiger 3 Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Eur J Neurosci 20:3413-23. 2004.... - Effect of task conditions on brain responses to threatening faces in social phobics: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging studyThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 56:921-30. 2004..The aim of this study was to identify brain activation to socially threatening stimuli in social phobic subjects during different experimental conditions... - Brain activation to phobia-related words in phobic subjectsThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 372:204-8. 2004..Our results provide first insights into brain activation patterns when phobics are confronted with phobia-specific linguistic information und suggest a neural network for the processing of these threatening stimuli... - The influence of semantic priming on event-related potentials to painful laser-heat stimuli in migraine patientsThomas Weiss
Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Am Steiger 3, Haus 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neurosci Lett 340:135-8. 2003..It is suggested that pain-related semantic primes might pre-activate neural networks subserving pain memory and pain processing... - Medium-term effects of chemotherapy in older cancer patientsBarbara Eberhardt
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, 07743, Jena, Germany
Support Care Cancer 14:216-22. 2006..To address the lack of research in older cancer patients, the present study prospectively evaluated their cognitive functions across the first six months following diagnosis and chemotherapy... - Short-term monitoring of cognitive functions before and during the first course of treatmentBarbara Eberhardt
Institute of Psychology, Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1, 07743, Jena, Germany
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 132:234-40. 2006..Side effects of chemotherapy on cognitive functions in older patients have rarely been investigated. Addressing this lack of research, the present study evaluated cognitive functions in older cancer patients... - Decision-making in Blackjack: an electrophysiological analysisJohannes Hewig
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Cereb Cortex 17:865-77. 2007.... - Waiting for spiders: brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in spider phobicsThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 37:1427-36. 2007..Thus, activation in different ACC regions and the medial prefrontal cortex seems to be specifically associated with the severity of experienced anticipatory anxiety in subjects with spider phobia... - Time course of amygdala activation during aversive conditioning depends on attentionThomas Straube
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Am Steiger 3 1, D 07743 Jena, Germany
Neuroimage 34:462-9. 2007..The results suggest that the time course of amygdala activity during aversive associative learning is strongly modulated by an interaction of attention and time... - Brain responses to dynamic facial expressions of painDaniela Simon
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Pain 126:309-18. 2006..This sharp contrast in the response to male and female faces suggests potential differences in the socio-functional role of pain expression in males and females... - Attentional Blink to emotional and threatening pictures in spider phobics: electrophysiology and behaviorRalf H Trippe
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
Brain Res 1148:149-60. 2007..Based on recent theoretical accounts of the AB effect, results indicate a phobia-related post-perceptual consolidation bias of threatening information in spider phobic subjects... - A case of spider phobia in a congenitally blind personFrauke Musial
Institute of Psychology, Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Jena, Germany
Psychiatry Res 153:97-101. 2007..We report on a congenitally blind person with spider phobia, showing that the acquisition of spider phobia does not necessarily depend on visual cues... - Laser-evoked potentials to noxious stimulation during hypnotic analgesia and distraction of attention suggest different brain mechanisms of pain controlM Friederich
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Psychophysiology 38:768-76. 2001..Results indicate that hypnotic analgesia and distraction of attention represent different mechanisms of pain control and involve different brain mechanisms... - Association between therapy outcome and right-hemispheric activation in chronic aphasiaMaria Richter
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Am Steiger 3 1 D 07743 Jena, Germany
Brain 131:1391-401. 2008..Thus, right-hemispheric activation prior to aphasia therapy strongly predicts therapeutic success, suggesting that brain activation in chronic aphasia indicates the patients' potential for further language improvement... - Spatial discrimination learning of electrocutaneous stimuli is influenced by the type of stimulationKatrin Walter-Walsh
Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Brain Res 1281:47-57. 2009..Overall, results indicate that the improvement of spatial discrimination of electrocutaneous stimuli varies as a function of the type of stimulus presentation... 
Event-related potentials when identifying or color-naming threatening schematic stimuli in spider phobic and non-phobic individualsIris Tatjana Kolassa
Biological and Clinical Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
BMC Psychiatry 6:38. 2006....- Recognition and evaluation of emotional prosody in individuals with generalized social phobia: a pilot studySusanne Quadflieg
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Behav Res Ther 45:3096-103. 2007..The two groups did not differ in their processing of neutral, disgust, and anger prosody... - Psychophysiological correlates of face processing in social phobiaIris Tatjana Kolassa
Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Brain Res 1118:130-41. 2006.... - Psychobiology of altered states of consciousnessDieter Vaitl
Center for Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Psychol Bull 131:98-127. 2005..Besides these severe alterations, environmental stimuli, mental practices, and techniques of self-control can also temporarily alter brain functioning and conscious experience...