Dr. Fabio Bernardoni
Contact information
Technische Universität Dresden
Faculty of Medicine
Fetscherstraße 74
01307 Dresden
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)351 - 458 5245
E-Mail:
Research Statement
My research aims to describe the origin of mental dysfunctions as aberrant computations executed in the processes of learning and decision making. Subsequently I combine behavioral models with fMRI and sMRI to seek the neural underpinnings of these aberrations.
Scientific Education
| 11/2005 - 06/2010 | PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad de Valencia and Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular |
| 09/2000 - 07/2005 | Master in Physics at the Universita degli Studi di Milano |
Professional Experience
| 06/2014 - present | Postdoc at Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany |
| 07/2010 - 09/2013 | Postdoc at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
DGPPN-Posterpreis 2014, Rapid reversal of cortical thinning in anorexia nervosa following short-term weight restoration: a longitudinal study
| 2006 - 2010 | FPU Grant from Spanish Ministry for Education and Science |
| 2009 | Grant for short research stay at KEK, Tsukuba, Japan |
| 2008 | Grant for short research stay at DESY, Zeuthen, Germany |
| 2007 | Grant for short research stay at Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT), Seattle, USA |
Selected Publications
King JA, Geisler D, Bernardoni F, Ritschel F, Boehm I, Seidel M, Mennigen E, Ripke S, Smolka MN, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Altered Neural Efficiency of Decision Making During Temporal Reward Discounting in Anorexia Nervosa, J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 Nov;55(11):972-979
Pfuhl G, King JA, Geisler D, Roschinski B, Ritschel F, Seidel M, Bernardoni F, Müller DK, White T, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Preserved white matter microstructure in young patients with anorexia nervosa? , Hum Brain Mapp. 2016 Nov;37(11):4069-4083
Bernardoni F, King JA, Geisler D, Stein E, Jaite C, Naetsch D, Tam FI, Boehm I, Seidel M, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Weight restoration therapy rapidly reverses cortical thinning in anorexia nervosa: A longitudinal study, Neuroimage. 2016 Apr 15;130:214-22
Seidel M, Petermann J, Diestel S, Ritschel F, Boehm I, King JA, Geisler D, Bernardoni F, Roessner V, Goschke T, Ehrlich S. A Naturalistic Examination of Negative Affect and Disease-related Rumination in Anorexia Nervosa, Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2016 Nov;25(11):1207-1216
Boehm I, Geisler D, Tam F, King JA, Ritschel F, Seidel M, Bernardoni F, Murr J, Goschke T, Calhoun VD, Roessner V, Ehrlich S. Partially restored resting-state functional connectivity in women recovered from anorexia nervosa, J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2016 Oct;41(6):377-385
Walton E, Hass J, Liu J, Roffman J, Bernardoni F, Roessner V, Kirsch M, Schackert G, Calhoun V, Ehrlich S. Correspondence of DNA methylation between blood and brain tissue and its application to schizophrenia research, Schizophrenia Bull. 2016 Mar;42(2):406-14