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| Matthias BrandSummaryAffiliation: University of Duisburg-Essen Country: Germany Publications
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Decision making with and without feedback: the role of intelligence, strategies, executive functions, and cognitive stylesMatthias Brand
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 31:984-98. 2009..Participants who performed the original GDT had higher net scores than those who performed the modified GDT. The benefit of feedback was moderated by participants' intelligence and strategy application...- Watching pornographic pictures on the Internet: role of sexual arousal ratings and psychological-psychiatric symptoms for using Internet sex sites excessivelyMatthias Brand
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Forsthausweg 2, Duisburg, Germany
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw 14:371-7. 2011..The study demonstrates the important role of subjective arousal and psychological symptoms as potential correlates of development or maintenance of excessive online sexual activity... - Interactions of age and cognitive functions in predicting decision making under risky conditions over the life spanMatthias Brand
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 35:9-23. 2013..The same pattern emerges for the interaction of age and logical thinking. Results demonstrate that age and cognitive functions act in concert in predicting the decision-making performance... - Functional brain imaging in 14 patients with dissociative amnesia reveals right inferolateral prefrontal hypometabolismMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Psychiatry Res 174:32-9. 2009..Hypometabolism in this brain region, known to be involved in retrieval of autobiographical memories and self-referential processing, may be a functional brain correlate of dissociative amnesia... - Do amnesic patients with Korsakoff's syndrome use feedback when making decisions under risky conditions? An experimental investigation with the Game of Dice Task with and without feedbackMatthias Brand
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Brain Cogn 69:279-90. 2009..Performance on both task versions was correlated with categorization and set-shifting. The findings indicate that amnesic patients do not profit from receiving feedback for their decisions in explicit risk conditions... - Dissociation of decisions in ambiguous and risky situations in obsessive-compulsive disorderKatrin Starcke
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Psychiatry Res 175:114-20. 2010..Results further emphasize dysfunctions of the orbitofrontal cortex, but indicate intact functioning of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in patients with OCD... - Decision making under risk condition in patients with Parkinson's disease: a behavioural and fMRI studyKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurol 23:131-43. 2010.... 
Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's diseaseMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurol 15:77-85. 2004....- The role of strategies in deciding advantageously in ambiguous and risky situationsMatthias Brand
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 10 01 31, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
Cogn Process 9:159-73. 2008..The results support the view that calculative processes and strategies may improve decision-making under explicit risk conditions... - Decision-making under risk conditions is susceptible to interference by a secondary executive taskKatrin Starcke
Department of General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Cogn Process 12:177-82. 2011.... - Cognitive estimation and affective judgments in alcoholic Korsakoff patientsMatthias Brand
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:324-34. 2003..g., information processing speed) and higher cognitive functions (executive functions and memory), suggesting a common basis in cognitive estimation and in affective judgments in Korsakoff syndrome... - Skin conductance responses during decisions in ambiguous and risky situations in obsessive-compulsive disorderKatrin Starcke
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, PO Box 100131, Bielefeld 33501, Germany
Cogn Neuropsychiatry 14:199-216. 2009..Disadvantageous decision making is accompanied by reduced skin conductance responses (SCRs) generated during task performance... - Judgment and memory performance for emotional stimuli in patients with alcoholic Korsakoff syndromeKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:224-35. 2008..Memory for emotional and neutral material was impaired to a similar degree. Thus, the facilitating effect of emotional valence on memory performance is absent in Korsakoff patients... - Executive functions and risky decision-making in patients with opiate dependenceMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Drug Alcohol Depend 97:64-72. 2008..Decision-making and other neuropsychological functioning should be considered in the treatment of opiate dependence... - Organic and psychogenic factors leading to executive dysfunctions in a patient suffering from surgery of a colloid cyst of the Foramen of MonroMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neurocase 10:420-5. 2004..The authors conclude that in this case decision-making deficits and executive dysfunctions are influenced by both organic and psychogenic factors... - Decision-making deficits of korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: associations with executive functionsMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychology 19:267-77. 2005..Results show that Korsakoff patients are strongly impaired in this explicit decision-making task and that these disturbances are correlated with specific executive functions... - Functional retrograde amnesia: a multiple case studyEsther Fujiwara
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Cortex 44:29-45. 2008..Moreover, studying more closely the interaction between social cognition, repressive personality style and memory inhibition in this disease seems worthwhile pursuing... - Susceptibility to false memories in patients with ACoA aneurysmSabine Borsutzky
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychologia 48:2811-23. 2010..Our results suggest that rupture of ACoA aneurysm leads to an increased susceptibility to a subset of false memories types... - Does stress alter everyday moral decision-making?Katrin Starcke
Department of General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:210-9. 2011.... - Anticipatory stress influences decision making under explicit risk conditionsKatrin Starcke
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Behav Neurosci 122:1352-60. 2008..Our results indicate that stress can lead to disadvantageous decision making even when explicit and stable information about outcome contingencies is provided... - Categorization abilities for emotional and nonemotional stimuli in patients with alcohol-related Korsakoff syndromeKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Cogn Behav Neurol 23:89-97. 2010..To investigate whether patients with alcohol-related Korsakoff syndrome (KR) have emotion-specific or general deficits in multicategoric classification performance... - Neural correlates of decision making with explicit information about probabilities and incentives in elderly healthy subjectsKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501, Bielefeld, Germany
Exp Brain Res 187:641-50. 2008.... - Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gamblingMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Psychiatry Res 133:91-9. 2005..Therefore, risky decisions of PG patients might be influenced by both dorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex dysfunctions... - Excessive Internet gaming and decision making: do excessive World of Warcraft players have problems in decision making under risky conditions?Mirko Pawlikowski
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
Psychiatry Res 188:428-33. 2011..Thus, these results suggest that excessive Internet gaming may be based on a myopia for the future, meaning that EIG prefer to play World of Warcraft despite the negative long-term consequences in social or work domains of life... - Neuropsychological correlates of decision-making in ambiguous and risky situationsMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neural Netw 19:1266-76. 2006..We also propose a new model of decision-making in risky situations and describe differences between decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk from a theoretical and clinical perspective... - Cognitive performance of detoxified alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome patients remains stable over two yearsEsther Fujiwara
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 30:576-87. 2008..In this sample of detoxified KS patients there was no indication of accelerated cognitive decline or onset of dementia-like symptoms over two years... - Executive functions, categorization of probabilities, and learning from feedback: what does really matter for decision making under explicit risk conditions?Johannes Schiebener
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 33:1025-39. 2011..Implicit feedback learning, as measured by the IGT, has little impact. Results suggest that good probability handling may compensate for the effects of weak executive functions in decisions under risk... - Confabulations in alcoholic Korsakoff patientsSabine Borsutzky
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychologia 46:3133-43. 2008..Thus, for a detailed description of the memory profile of KS patients, the screening of confabulation tendencies may be a useful supplementary clinical tool... - Decision making in patients with temporal lobe epilepsyKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychologia 47:50-8. 2009..Thus, our results demonstrate for the first time that presurgical patients with TLE can have selective reductions in decision making and that these deficits can result from hippocampal lesions without structural amygdala abnormalities... - Decision-making and neuroendocrine responses in pathological gamblersKirsten Labudda
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, P O Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Psychiatry Res 153:233-43. 2007..Accordingly, the increase of sAA--as an indirect marker of sympathetic nervous system activity--in those patients with less severe decision-making deficits could reflect the use of somatic markers biasing the decision-making process... - Decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk: correlations with executive functions and comparisons of two different gambling tasks with implicit and explicit rulesMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 29:86-99. 2007..Results have impact on the interpretation of deficient IGT performance in patients with frontal lobe dysfunctions... - Role of the amygdala in decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk: evidence from patients with Urbach-Wiethe diseaseMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychologia 45:1305-17. 2007..The results suggest that deciding advantageously under risk conditions involves both the use of feedback from previous trials, as required by decisions under ambiguity, and in addition, executive functions... - Aging and decision-making: a neurocognitive perspectiveMatthias Brand
University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
Gerontology 56:319-24. 2010..e. ambiguous or risky) in combination with the complexity of the decision-making task. In addition, we give a brief overview of methodological issues that should be taken into account in future studies on decision-making and aging... - Anchor effects in decision making can be reduced by the interaction between goal monitoring and the level of the decision maker's executive functionsJohannes Schiebener
General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Cogn Process 13:321-32. 2012..Anchor effects can be overcome by subjects with good cognitive abilities... - Psychogenic amnesia--a malady of the constricted selfAngelica Staniloiu
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Conscious Cogn 19:778-801. 2010..Furthermore functional and metabolic brain alterations involving regions that are agreed upon to exert crucial roles in memory processes were frequently found to accompany the psychogenic memory "loss"... - Does the feedback from previous trials influence current decisions? A study on the role of feedback processing in making decisions under explicit risk conditionsMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
J Neuropsychol 2:431-43. 2008.... - Neuropsychological correlates of decision making in patients with bulimia nervosaMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Neuropsychology 21:742-50. 2007..Neurocognitive functions should be considered in the treatment of BN... - Cognitive estimation in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and alcoholic Korsakoff patientsMatthias Brand
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, PO Box 100131, Bielefeld 33501, Germany
Neuropsychologia 41:575-84. 2003.... - Decision making under stress: a selective reviewKatrin Starcke
Department of General Psychology Cognition, University of Duisburg Essen, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36:1228-48. 2012..The results are discussed with respect to underlying psychological and neural mechanisms, implications for everyday decision making and future research directions...