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Prof. Dr. Philipp Kanske

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Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at Technische Universität Dresden. He explores the emotional and cognitive processes that enable social behavior and their alterations in psychopathology. In his work he uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to describe the underlying neuronal mechanisms.

I support the Open Science Initiative of the Faculty of Psychology.

Academic experience

since 2017	Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden
2012 – 2017	Group Leader „Psychopathology of the Social Brain” at the Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
2011 – 2012	Research staff at Heidelberg University, Department of Psychiatry, Section of Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Heidelberg
2009 – 2011	PostDoc at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Mannheim

Education

2014	Habilitation at Heidelberg University
2011	Licensed Psychotherapist (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT)
2008	Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Leipzig (summa cum laude)
2005	Dipl.-Psych. at Technische Universität Dresden (funded by ev. Studienwerk Villigst)
2004	M.Sc. at the University of Oregon, USA (funded by Fulbright)

Honors and awards

2023	ERC consolidator grant "INTERACT - The interplay of neural networks enabling social interaction"
2017	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Research Foundation
2015 - 2020	Member of the Young Academy at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2019 - 2020 Speaker, 2018 - 2020 Member of the Board)
2013	Lilly Young Investigator Fellowship in Bipolar Disorder at the International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
2013	Young Investigator Award of the European Brain and Behaviour Society
2013	„Rising Star” of the Association for Psychological Science
2012	Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Psychophysiology and its Application
2008	Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society
2006	Werner Straub Award of the Department of Psychology at Technische Universität Dresden

Publications

157 Entries

2017

Social decision making in narcissism: Reduced generosity and increased retaliation are driven by alterations in perspective-taking and angerBöckler, A., Sharifi, M., Kanske, P., Dziobek, I. & Singer, T., Jan 2017, In: Personality and individual differences. 104, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2016

Behavioral Assessment of Mindfulness Difficulties in Borderline Personality DisorderScheibner, H. J., Spengler, S., Kanske, P., Roepke, S. & Bermpohl, F., 1 Dec 2016, In: Mindfulness. 7, 6, p. 1316-1326, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Stimulus-Driven Reorienting Impairs Executive Control of Attention: Evidence for a Common Bottleneck in Anterior InsulaTrautwein, F. M., Singer, T. & Kanske, P., 17 Oct 2016, In: Cerebral cortex. 26, 11, p. 4136-4147, 12 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Clinical trial of modulatory effects of oxytocin treatment on higher-order social cognition in autism spectrum disorder: A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind and crossover trialPreckel, K., Kanske, P., Singer, T., Paulus, F. M. & Krach, S., 21 Sep 2016, In: BMC psychiatry. 16, 1, 10 p., 329Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Are strong empathizers better mentalizers? Evidence for independence and interaction between the routes of social cognitionKanske, P., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F. M., Lesemann, F. H. & Singer, T., 1 Sep 2016, In: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. 11, 9, p. 1383-1392, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
The wandering mind in borderline personality disorder: Instability in self- and other-related thoughtsKanske, P., Schulze, L., Dziobek, I., Scheibner, H., Roepke, S. & Singer, T., 30 Aug 2016, In: Psychiatry research. 242, p. 302-310, 9 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Empathy in depression: Egocentric and altercentric biases and the role of alexithymiaHoffmann, F., Banzhaf, C., Kanske, P., Gärtner, M., Bermpohl, F. & Singer, T., 15 Jul 2016, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 199, p. 23-29, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Where the depressed mind wanders: Self-generated thought patterns as assessed through experience sampling as a state marker of depressionHoffmann, F., Banzhaf, C., Kanske, P., Bermpohl, F. & Singer, T., 1 Jul 2016, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 198, p. 127-134, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Neural correlates of metacognitive ability and of feeling confident: A large-scale fMRI study.Molenberghs, P., Trautwein, F., Boeckler, A., Singer, T. & Kanske, P., Jul 2016, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 11, 12, p. 1942-1951, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing networkValk, S. L., Bernhardt, B. C., Böckler, A., Kanske, P. & Singer, T., 6 May 2016, In: Human brain mapping. 37, 10, p. 3388-3399, 12 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article