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Hemodynamic responses to fear and disgust-inducing pictures: an fMRI studyRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394, Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 50:225-34. 2003..Thus, our data are in contrast with the idea of highly emotion-specific brain structures and rather suggest the existence of a common affective circuit...
Differential activation of the lateral premotor cortex during action observationSebastian Pilgramm
Institute of Sport Science, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Kugelberg 62, 35394 Giessen, Germany
BMC Neurosci 11:89. 2010..This study examined how the level of motor expertise (expert vs. novice) in ballroom dancing and the visual viewpoint (internal vs. external viewpoint) influence this activation within different parts of this area of the brain...- Hemodynamic effects of negative emotional pictures - a test-retest analysisRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychobiology 50:108-18. 2004..An additional analysis, which compared the emotion-related activation patterns during the two presentations, showed that the responses to the fear-inducing pictures were more stable than the responses to the disgust-inducing ones... - Influences of disgust sensitivity on hemodynamic responses towards a disgust-inducing film clipRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:61-7. 2005..The study stresses, in accordance to previous studies, the importance of considering personality traits when studying affective responses in fMRI studies... - Erotic and disgust-inducing pictures--differences in the hemodynamic responses of the brainRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Biol Psychol 70:19-29. 2005..The ventral striatum was specifically activated when subjects saw highly sexually arousing pictures. This indicates the involvement of the human reward system during the processing of visual erotica... - Influence of the stress hormone cortisol on fear conditioning in humans: evidence for sex differences in the response of the prefrontal cortexRudolf Stark
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 32:1290-8. 2006..In sum, these findings demonstrate that in humans cortisol mostly influences prefrontal brain activation during fear conditioning and that these effects appear to be modulated by sex... - Hemodynamic brain correlates of disgust and fear ratingsRudolf Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 37:663-73. 2007..However, insula activations were only significantly correlated with subjective ratings of disgust, pointing to a specific role of this brain structure in the processing of disgust... - Effects of paced respiration on heart period and heart period variabilityR Stark
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
Psychophysiology 37:302-9. 2000..Because this decrease was not accompanied by changes in any of the HPV frequency components, their validity as measures of autonomic control needs to be questioned... 
ADHD related behaviors are associated with brain activation in the reward systemR Stark
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10H, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychologia 49:426-34. 2011..Thus, our data support current aetiological models of ADHD which assume that deficits in the reward system might be responsible for many of the ADHD related behaviors...- Atmospheric electromagnetism: individual differences in brain electrical response to simulated sfericsA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 21:177-88. 1996..This absence of a response is interpreted as an adaptational deficit in reaction to variations in atmospheric parameters... - Neural correlates of disgust- and fear-conditioned responsesT Klucken
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Neuroscience 201:209-18. 2012..Finally, the findings regarding disgust sensitivity are discussed with respect to vulnerability factors for certain psychiatric disorders... - Personality and emotion: test of Gray's personality theory by means of an fMRI studyM Reuter
Department of Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10F, D 35394 Giessen, Germany
Behav Neurosci 118:462-9. 2004.... - The insula is not specifically involved in disgust processing: an fMRI studyA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroreport 13:2023-6. 2002..Since during the fear condition the insula was also involved, our findings do not fit the idea of the insula as a specific disgust processor... - Effects of low-frequency magnetic fields on electrocortical activity in humans: a sferics simulation studyA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Int J Neurosci 90:21-36. 1997..With these results a general electrocortical sensitivity towards sferics as well as individual differences in sferics reactivity could be demonstrated... - Differential activation of pre-SMA and SMA proper during action observation: effects of instructionsK Zentgraf
University of Giessen, Institute for Sports Science, Kugelberg 62, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 26:662-72. 2005..Pre-SMA activity can be differentially modulated by instructions related to the observation task... - Neural, electrodermal and behavioral response patterns in contingency aware and unaware subjects during a picture-picture conditioning paradigmT Klucken
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10 H, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroscience 158:721-31. 2009..g. subjective ratings and SCRs) which are affected by contingency awareness. As a unique finding in human aversive conditioning, we discuss the role of the nucleus accumbens as well as practical implications for affective learning models... - Geophysical variables and behavior: LXXXVIII. Atmospheric electromagnetism: the possible disturbing influence of natural sferics on ESPJ M Houtkooper
Center for Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine, University of Giessen, Germany
Percept Mot Skills 89:1179-92. 1999.... - Sferics provoke changes in EEG powerA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Otto Behagel Strasse 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Int J Neurosci 107:87-102. 2001..Sferics had no effect on the subjective state and could not be perceived consciously... - Natural very-low-frequency sferics and headacheD Vaitl
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany
Int J Biometeorol 45:115-23. 2001..than by the sferics activity itself... - Anticipation of reward in a nonaversive differential conditioning paradigm and the brain reward system: an event-related fMRI studyPeter Kirsch
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging and Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 20:1086-95. 2003..The results are interpreted as reflecting the motivation-dependent reactivity of the brain reward system with highly motivating stimuli (monetary reward) leading to a stronger activation than those less motivating ones (verbal reward)... - Latent inhibition and schizophrenia: Pavlovian conditioning of autonomic responsesD Vaitl
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, D 35394 Giessen, Germany
Schizophr Res 55:147-58. 2002..Furthermore LI was found to be correlated with the duration of illness: it was attenuated in patients who had suffered their first psychotic episode... - Perceptibility of simulated VLF-sfericsR Klopper
Institute for Pychobiology and Behavioral Medicine, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany
Percept Mot Skills 92:1109-21. 2001..The total number of correct judgements did not differ from a random run and no learning occurred. Subjects who reported fewer bodily complaints in their recent past had higher scores in the discrimination task... - Covariation bias and paranormal beliefA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
Psychol Rep 78:291-305. 1996..This response pattern was absent in the group of skeptics. It is concluded that covariation bias as a psychophysiological concept plays an important role in the maintenance of paranormal belief... - Electrocortical responses of headache patients to the simulation of 10 kHz sfericsA Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
Int J Neurosci 97:211-24. 1999..The alpha power enhancement was still present at parietal sites at the end of registration (20 minutes after the end of exposure). The stimulation did not induce headache symptoms... - N-terminal protease of pestiviruses: identification of putative catalytic residues by site-directed mutagenesisT Rumenapf
Institut für Virologie FB Veterinärmedizin, Justus Liebig Universitat, Giessen, Germany
J Virol 72:2544-7. 1998..While it remains speculative whether Glu22-His49-Cys69 actually build a catalytic triad, these results invalidate the assumption that Npro is a papain-like cysteine protease... - Neural activation in cognitive motor processes: comparing motor imagery and observation of gymnastic movementsJörn Munzert
Institute for Sport Science, University of Giessen, Kugelberg 62, 35394, Giessen, Germany
Exp Brain Res 188:437-44. 2008..We argue that differential activity between S-states relates to task-specific and modal information processing... - Differential engagement of anterior cingulate and adjacent medial frontal cortex in adept meditators and non-meditatorsBritta K Hölzel
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 421:16-21. 2007..The increased activation in the medial prefrontal cortex may reflect that meditators are stronger engaged in emotional processing... - Diminished medial prefrontal cortex activity in blood-injection-injury phobiaAndrea Hermann
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10 H, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Biol Psychol 75:124-30. 2007..The latter response component might be a result of the elevated disgust sensitivity of BII phobics... - Relationship between regional hemodynamic activity and simultaneously recorded EEG-theta associated with mental arithmetic-induced workloadGebhard Sammer
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 28:793-803. 2007..This binding process may form the source of surface-recorded EEG theta... - The embodied nature of motor imagery: the influence of posture and perspectiveBritta Lorey
Institute for Sports Science, University of Giessen, Kugelberg 62, 35394, Giessen, Germany
Exp Brain Res 194:233-43. 2009..Thus, proprioceptive information on actual body posture is more relevant for 1PP imagery processes. Results support the embodied nature of 1PP imagery and indicate possible applications in athletic training or rehabilitation... - Contingency learning in human fear conditioning involves the ventral striatumTim Klucken
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Hum Brain Mapp 30:3636-44. 2009..VS involvement seems to be important for the transition from a contingency unaware to a contingency aware state. Implications for fear conditioning models as well as for the contingency awareness debate are discussed... - Emotion regulation in spider phobia: role of the medial prefrontal cortexAndrea Hermann
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:257-67. 2009..These two forms of phobic emotion regulation deficits are associated with altered activity in different medial prefrontal cortex subregions... - Acquisition of typical EEG waveforms during fMRI: SSVEP, LRP, and frontal thetaGebhard Sammer
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10F, D 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 24:1012-24. 2005..The source of these differences requires further exploration. The high concordance of activation patterns with published results demonstrates that EPI-images could be acquired during EEG recording without significant distortion... - Neural activations of the acquisition of conditioned sexual arousal: effects of contingency awareness and sexTim Klucken
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10H, Giessen, Hessen, Germany
J Sex Med 6:3071-85. 2009..Learning processes like classical conditioning are involved in mediating sexual behavior. Yet, the neural bases underlying these processes have not been investigated so far... - Your mind's hand: motor imagery of pointing movements with different accuracyBritta Lorey
University of Giessen, Germany, Institute for Sports Science, Germany
Neuroimage 49:3239-47. 2010..We suggest that the functional equivalence of action states is due mostly to internal estimations of the expected sensory feedback in both motor control and motor imagery... - Neural responses to BEGIN- and END-stimuli of the smoking ritual in nonsmokers, nondeprived smokers, and deprived smokersBastian Stippekohl
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 35:1209-25. 2010..While BEGIN-stimuli generally seem to activate the addiction network, END-stimuli presumably have some inhibitory properties. This new finding might add to a more differentiated understanding of cue reactivity and addiction... - Weaving the (neuronal) web: fear learning in spider phobiaJan Schweckendiek
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Neuroimage 54:681-8. 2011.... - Imaging gene-substance interactions: the effect of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the dopamine agonist bromocriptine on the brain activation during the anticipation of rewardPeter Kirsch
Center for Psychiatry, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Am Steg 28, D 35385 Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 405:196-201. 2006.... - The role of own-body representations in action observation: a functional MRI studySebastian Pilgramm
Institute for Sports Science and bBender Institute of Neuroimaging, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Neuroreport 20:997-1001. 2009..These findings suggest a tight interplay between body representations and action observation... - Relationship between disgust sensitivity, trait anxiety and brain activity during disgust inductionAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Neuropsychobiology 51:86-92. 2005..This points to the role of the amygdala as an integrative brain structure, whose activation can be modulated by different affective styles... - Neural responses of OCD patients towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust-inducing and fear-inducing picturesAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Germany, Department of Psychology, University of Trier, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:69-77. 2005..The increased insular reactivity of OCD patients during all aversive picture conditions might mirror their susceptibility to experience negative somatic states... - Hemodynamic responses of the amygdala, the orbitofrontal cortex and the visual cortex during a fear conditioning paradigmKatharina Tabbert
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10, 35394 at the University of Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 57:15-23. 2005..Additionally, the results indicate that statistical analyses comprising a temporal variation of hemodynamic responses are more likely to detect amygdala activation... - Gender differences in the processing of disgust- and fear-inducing pictures: an fMRI studyAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neuroreport 16:277-80. 2005..This response pattern may reflect greater attention from males to cues of aggression in their environment. Further, the lateralization of brain activation was comparable in the two genders during both aversive picture conditions... - [Patterns of neuronal activity related to emotional stimulation in alexithymia]Frank Leweke
Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Justus Liebig Universität Giessen
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 54:437-44. 2004..g. medial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulum) and affect generating structures (e. g. amygdala). Furthermore our findings confirm the hypothesis that alexithymia is a disorder of higher cerebral function... - Brain activation of spider phobics towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust- and fear-inducing picturesAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 388:1-6. 2005..This points to an elevated sensitivity to repulsive and threatening stimuli in spider phobics and implicates the amygdala as a crucial neural substrate... - fMRI responses to pictures of mutilation and contaminationAnne Schienle
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, 35394 Giessen, Germany
Neurosci Lett 393:174-8. 2006..Our results are in disagreement with the idea of selective disgust processing at the insula. They point to a network of brain regions involved in the decoding of stimulus salience and the regulation of attention... - Dissociation of neural responses and skin conductance reactions during fear conditioning with and without awareness of stimulus contingenciesKatharina Tabbert
Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Strasse 10 H, 35394, Germany
Neuroimage 32:761-70. 2006..These results support a model of fear conditioning that distinguishes between a more cognitive level of learning, reflected in contingency awareness and differential SCRs, and the awareness independent activation of a fear network... - Positive and negative spatial priming in schizophreniaMark Zimmermann
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 28:706-20. 2006..The data support the notion that automatic (implicit) mechanisms of learning are unimpaired in schizophrenia patients unless symptoms exceed a certain critical level... - Shifts in blood volume alter the perception of posture: further evidence for somatic graviceptionDieter Vaitl
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10, D 35394 Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 44:1-11. 2002..This phenomenon of graviception needs to be further elucidated with respect to the origins of the afferent inputs and the site and type of graviceptors (mechanoreceptors) involved... - Atmospheric electromagnetism: attempted replication of the correlation between natural sferics and ESPJ M Houtkooper
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany
Percept Mot Skills 93:754-6. 2001..In these studies ESP scores and the level of sferics activity were not significantly correlated. The result for all combined data is significant but with a quite low effect size. Other trends in the data could not be confirmed... - Headache and sfericsD Vaitl
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Justus-Liebig, University of Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10, D-35394 Giessen, Germany
Headache 41:845-53. 2001..In summer, tension-type headaches were associated with other weather parameters such as temperature (r = 0.36, P<.01) and vapor pressure (r = 0.27, P<.05)... - Disgust sensitivity in psychiatric disorders: a questionnaire studyAnne Schienle
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Germany
J Nerv Ment Dis 191:831-4. 2003 - Perception of posture and cerebral blood flowR Saborowski
Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Giessen, Otto Behaghel Str 10 F, D 35394, Giessen, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 43:167-75. 2002.... - Pursuit of the emerging dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: clinical and research perspectivesManfred E Beutel
Int J Psychoanal 85:1493-6. 2004 - An interfering Go/No-go task does not affect accuracy in a Concealed Information TestWolfgang Ambach
Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 68:6-16. 2008..g. inhibition) was found. Subjects' performance in the Go/No-go parallel task did not contribute to the detection of concealed information. Generalizability needs further investigations of different variations of the parallel task... - On framing effects in decision making: linking lateral versus medial orbitofrontal cortex activation to choice outcome processingSabine Windmann
University of Plymouth, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 18:1198-211. 2006..American Psychologist, 39, 341-350, 1984]. Specialized processing of unsteady rewards (involving caudolateral OFC) may have developed during evolution in support of goal-related thinking, prospective planning, and problem solving... - Neuroimaging of emotion: empirical effects of proportional global signal scaling in fMRI data analysisMarkus Junghofer
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Germany
Neuroimage 25:520-6. 2005..Taken together, the unwarranted use of PGSS might contribute to conflicting results in affective neuroscience fMRI studies, in particular with respect to limbic and paralimbic structures... - Neurobiology of fear and disgustDieter Vaitl
Int J Psychophysiol 57:1-4. 2005