2016

Bühler-Colloquium of the Department OF PSYCHOLOGY

Amit Bernstein (University of Haifa, ISR)
Attentional bias in psychopathology vulnerability: Translational implications of a dynamic process perspective

Tim Hahn (Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, D)
The emerging field of predictive analytics in mental health: Applications, challenges and perspectives

Michelle Craske (University of California in Los Angeles, USA)
Optimizing exposure therapy for anxiety disorders: an inhibitory learning and inhibitory regulation approach

Silke Behrendt (TU Dresden, D)
Determining the developmental specificity of risk factors for substance use disorders over the life span

Ron Rapee (University of Sydney, AUS)
Reducing a lifetime of distress – the development and prevention of emotional disorders

Mathias Pessiglione (ICM Paris, FRA)
Why not trying harder? A neurocomputational approach to motivation deficits

Henrik Ehrsson (Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, NOR)
Cognitive neuroscience of body self-perception

Christian Büchel (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, D)
The neural basis of pain and pain expectation

Birte Forstmann (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Strategic decision-making in the human subcortex measured with ultra-high resolution magnetic imaging

NIC-Colloquium

(speakers affiliated to TU Dresden unless mentioned otherwise)

Richard Grunzke (ZIH) & Dirk Müller (Faculty of Medicine)
The CRC 940 Information Infrastructure Project (INF): Current Status and Future Plans

Holger Mohr (Faculty of Psychology)
Introduction to multiple testing correction in SPM, and discussion of Eklund et al., PNAS 2016

Peter Birkholz (Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
How MRI data can turn into a synthetic voice

Stefan Kiebel, Dimitrije Markovic & Dario Cuevas Rivera (Faculty of Psychology)
Goal-directed behaviour under uncertainty: The active inference framework

Fernando Bravo (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)
Neurocognitive systems underlying music’s affective impact in film

Neuroscience driven psychological treatments for anxiety and depression

(Lecture series at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy)

Michelle Craske (University of California in Los Angeles, USA)

Threat sensitivity in anxiety and depression: neural, psychophysiological cognitive and behavioral features
Implications of threat sensitivity for exposure therapy
Review of cognitive bias modification
Review of interruption of reconsolidation and fear memory erasure
Reward sensitivity in anxiety and depression: neural, psychophysiological, cognitive and behavioral features
Implications for positive affect training

THESIS DEFENSES AT THE Department OF PSYCHOLOGY

(only those relevant for CRC 940)

Judith Buse
The neuroanatomical network underlying impaired sensorimotor gating and altered processing of predictions in pediatric patients with Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder

Susann Schade
Der gestresste Präfrontale Kortex: Effekte von akutem und chronischem Stress auf kognitive Kontrollprozesse

Witold Chmielewski
The effects of task complexity and automated response tendencies on response inhibition processes

Joseph King
Closing the performance monitoring – cognitive control loop: Investigations of the neural implementation of behavioral adjustments following errors and conflicts

Sarah Jurk
Cognitive control, personality, and alcohol use: development, prediction, and consequences throughout adolescence

Christina Heitmann
Differential flexibility in goal pursuit: better ability to switch goals than means

Holger Mohr
Methods for an integrative view of distributed neural processes

Krutika Gohil
Investigation of extrinsic and intrinsic determinants modulating task goal processing during action cascading

Ilka Böhm
Neural signatures of anorexia nervosa: Insights into the motivational reward and cognitive control system

Habilitations at the School of Science