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Multidimensional assessment of empathic abilities: neural correlates and gender differencesBirgit Derntl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:67-82. 2010....
Menstrual cycle phase and duration of oral contraception intake affect olfactory perceptionBirgit Derntl
Institute for Applied Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Chem Senses 38:67-75. 2013..Hence, our data show that odor performance is affected by menstrual cycle phase and duration of oral contraception intake and thus can be modulated by hormonal changes...- Association of menstrual cycle phase with the core components of empathyBirgit Derntl
Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Horm Behav 63:97-104. 2013.... - How specific are emotional deficits? A comparison of empathic abilities in schizophrenia, bipolar and depressed patientsBirgit Derntl
Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Schizophr Res 142:58-64. 2012..Our results suggest disorder-specific impairments in emotional competencies that enable better characterization of the patient groups investigated and indicate different psychotherapeutic interventions... - Amygdala activity to fear and anger in healthy young males is associated with testosteroneBirgit Derntl
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:687-93. 2009..We conclude that these findings add to our understanding of emotion processing and its modulation by neuroendocrine factors... - Generalized deficit in all core components of empathy in schizophreniaBirgit Derntl
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Schizophr Res 108:197-206. 2009..The results suggest that all domains of empathy are affected in schizophrenia and have to be addressed independently in behavioral therapies, thereby offering a possibility to improve socio-occupational life... - Facial emotion recognition and amygdala activation are associated with menstrual cycle phaseBirgit Derntl
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:1031-40. 2008.... 
Emotion recognition accuracy in healthy young females is associated with cycle phaseBirgit Derntl
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Horm Behav 53:90-5. 2008..Our results indicate a significant association of menstrual cycle phase and thus ovarian hormone concentration on facial emotion recognition, with progesterone exerting a special influence on this social-emotional ability...- Culture but not gender modulates amygdala activation during explicit emotion recognitionBirgit Derntl
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
BMC Neurosci 13:54. 2012..Therefore, we investigated 24 Asians students (12 females) and 24 age-matched European students (12 females) during an explicit emotion recognition task, using Caucasian facial expressions only, on a high-field MRI scanner... - General and specific responsiveness of the amygdala during explicit emotion recognition in females and malesBirgit Derntl
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Lazarettgasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria
BMC Neurosci 10:91. 2009..Stimuli were color photographs of emotional Caucasian and African American faces... - Amygdala activation and facial expressions: explicit emotion discrimination versus implicit emotion processingUte Habel
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Aachen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 45:2369-77. 2007..A significant correlation between amygdala activation and emotion recognition, but not age discrimination performance, emphasizes the amygdala's enhanced role during conscious emotion processing... - Neural correlates of the core facets of empathy in schizophreniaBirgit Derntl
Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Schizophr Res 136:70-81. 2012..Since empathy is related to psychosocial functioning and hence of high clinical relevance in schizophrenia, a more detailed understanding of the exact nature of these impairments is mandatory... - Implicit and explicit behavioral tendencies in male and female depressionEva Maria Seidel
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Psychiatry Res 177:124-30. 2010..Our data suggest that a cognitive bias negatively influences the unimpaired automatic reactions to emotional expressions in depressed patients, and this bias may result in the characteristic social withdrawal... - Risk or resilience? Empathic abilities in patients with bipolar disorders and their first-degree relativesEva Maria Seidel
Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
J Psychiatr Res 46:382-8. 2012..This has important implications for prevention strategies. Furthermore, changes in affective responsiveness in first-degree relatives show a potential resilience marker... - The differential contribution of facial expressions, prosody, and speech content to empathyChristina Regenbogen
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Cogn Emot 26:995-1014. 2012..Especially neutralised speech content has gained little attention with regards to influencing the perception of other emotional cues... - Amygdala activation during recognition of emotions in a foreign ethnic group is associated with duration of stayBirgit Derntl
Medical University of Vienna, and University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria
Soc Neurosci 4:294-307. 2009..We conclude that exposure to a foreign culture and duration of stay affect the behavioral and neural response to facial expressions of emotions... - Incongruence effects in crossmodal emotional integrationVeronika I Müller
Department of Psychiatry und Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Neuroimage 54:2257-66. 2011..Furthermore in audiovisual pairing amygdala responses seem to signal also the absence of any neutral feature rather than only the presence of an emotionally charged one... - Neural correlates of social approach and withdrawal in patients with major depressionBirgit Derntl
Institute of Clinical, Biological, and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Soc Neurosci 6:482-501. 2011.... - The impact of facial emotional expressions on behavioral tendencies in women and menEva Maria Seidel
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:500-7. 2010..Moreover, our results highlight the importance of gender of poser effects when applying emotional expressions as stimuli... - Who is to blame? Neural correlates of causal attribution in social situationsEva Maria Seidel
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Soc Neurosci 5:335-50. 2010..Analysis of the self-serving bias yielded activation in the dorsal anterior cingulate and in the dorsal striatum, suggesting a rewarding value of these attributions... - Deficits in social cognition: a marker for psychiatric disorders?Birgit Derntl
Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 261:S145-9. 2011..On the other hand, results are needed that particularly address the disorder specificity of these impairments, as well as their potential as endophenotypes via analyzing people at high-risk and their relatives... - Amygdala activation at 3T in response to human and avatar facial expressions of emotionsEwald Moser
MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
J Neurosci Methods 161:126-33. 2007..However, the finding of differences between human and avatar faces in face-sensitive regions indicates the presence of mechanisms by which human brains can differentiate between them. This mechanism merits further investigation... - Facial emotion recognition in patients with bipolar I and bipolar II disorderBirgit Derntl
Faculty of Psychology, Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Br J Clin Psychol 48:363-75. 2009..Methods and design: Sixty-two stable bipolar out-patients (37 females; 25 males) and 62 matched healthy controls participated in the study. Explicit facial emotion recognition accuracy was measured with a computerized task... - Empathic behavioral and physiological responses to dynamic stimuli in depressionDaniel Schneider
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Psychiatry Res 200:294-305. 2012..Our findings support the dissociation of autonomic and subjective emotional responses which may account for interpersonal as well as emotional deficits in depression... - Neural correlates of depressive realism--an fMRI study on causal attribution in depressionEva Maria Seidel
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
J Affect Disord 138:268-76. 2012..Whereas depressed patients interpret events negatively, healthy people show a self-serving bias (internal attribution of positive events and external attribution of negative events)... - Recognition of emotional expressions is affected by inversion and presentation timeBirgit Derntl
Institute for Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Perception 38:1849-62. 2009..Hence, emotion recognition is affected by inversion--an indicator for configural processing, and presentation time--an indicator for cognitive effort of processing...