Prof. Dr. Andrea Reiter
Contact information
Universitätsklinikum Würzburg
W1-Professur für Lernprozesse in der Entwicklungspsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Prävention
97080 Würzburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)931-20178050
E-Mail: Reiter_A2@ukw.de
Research Statement
I am interested in inter- and intra-individual differences in how humans come to their decisions. This includes alterations of decision-making processes in clinical populations (i.e., when behavioral control goes awry) and associated risk factors as well as changes across the lifespan. I also investigate intra-individual shifts in decision-making, e.g. provoked by stress and social influences. To this end, I use computational modeling of participants‘ behavior, also in combination with modeling-informed fMRI and EEG.
Scientific Education
| June 2016 | Dr. rer. nat. (“summa cum laude”), Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, University of Leipzig |
| Since October 2012 | Master of Advanced Studies in Psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Since January 2012 | Postgraduate Training in Psychotherapy (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie, Tübingen, Germany |
| January 2012 | Diplom in Psychology; Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany |
| April 2008-October 2012 | Study of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies of Modern Languages (Romance & English studies) and Educational Sciences, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany |
| April 2006-January 2012 | Study of Psychology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany |
Professional Experience
| Since 2015 | esearch position, Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience Department, Technical University of Dresden (Prof. Shu-Chen Li & Assistant Prof. Ben Eppinger), Dresden, Germany |
| Since 2015 | Guest researcher, Department of Neurology (Prof. Arno Villringer), Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012 - 2015 | Phd Candidate, International Max-Planck -Research-School NeuroCom, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012 | Clinical Psychologist, Psychiatry at Kreiskrankenhaus Tauberbischofsheim |
Other Scientific Activities, Honors, Awards
| 2016 | Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: “Grant for young scientists” (travel grant for conference ‘Dopamine 2016’) |
| 2014 | Poster Award, 4th IMPRS NeuroCom Summer School, ICN London, UK 2014-07. |
| 2013 | Karrierepreis der DZ Banken 2013 |
| 2012 - 2015 | International Max Planck Research School: PhD stipend |
Selected Publications
Reiter, A. M. F., Heinze, H.J., Schlagenhauf, F., Deserno, L. (2016). Impaired flexible reward-based decision-making in Binge Eating Disorder – evidence from computational modeling and functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2016 Nov 16.
Reiter, A. M. F., Deserno, L., Kallert, T., Heinze, H. J., Heinz, A., & Schlagenhauf, F. (2016). Behavioral and Neural Signatures of Reduced Updating of Alternative Options in Alcohol-Dependent Patients during Flexible Decision-Making. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(43), 10935-10948.
Reiter, A. M. F., Heinze, H.J., Schlagenhauf, F., Deserno, L. (in press). Impaired flexible reward-based decision-making in Binge Eating Disorder – evidence from computational modeling and functional neuroimaging. Neuropsychopharmacology.
Reiter, A. M. F., Koch, S. P., Schröger, E., Hinrichs, H., Heinze, H-J., Deserno, L., & Schlagenhauf, F. (2016). The Feedback-Related Negativity codes components of abstract inference during reward-based decision-making. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00957
Deserno, L., Wilbertz, T., Reiter, A. M. F., Horstmann, A., Neumann, J., Villringer, A., Heinze, J.H., & Schlagenhauf, F. (2015). Lateral prefrontal model-based signatures are reduced in healthy individuals with high trait impulsivity. Translational Psychiatry, 5, e659; doi: 10.1038/tp.2015.139
Mussel, P., Reiter, A. M.F., Osinsky, R., & Hewig, J. (2015). State-and trait-greed, its impact on risky decision-making and underlying neural mechanisms. Social Neuroscience, 10(2), 126-134. doi:10.1080/17470919.2014.965340
Reiter, A.M.F. (2013). Vom Homo Oeconomicus zum Homo Emotionalis. Marketing intern 3, 32-33.