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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

2016

Decoding the charitable brain: Empathy, perspective taking, and attention shifts differentially predict altruistic givingTusche, A., Böckler, A., Kanske, P., Trautwein, F. & Singer, T., 27 Apr 2016, In: Journal of Neuroscience. 36, 17, p. 4719-4732, 14 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Thinking about thinking: Neural mechanisms and effects on memoryBonhage, C., Weber, F., Exner, C. & Kanske, P., 15 Feb 2016, In: NeuroImage. 127, p. 203–214Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Socio-Cognitive Phenotypes Differentially Modulate Large-Scale Structural Covariance NetworksValk, S. L., Bernhardt, B. C., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F., Kanske, P. & Singer, T., 4 Jan 2016, In: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 27, 2, p. 1358-1368, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Integration of intention and outcome for moral judgment in frontotemporal dementia:: Brain structural signaturesBaez, S., Kanske, P., Matallana, D., Montañes, P., Reyes, P., Slachevsky, A., Matus, C. & 4 others, 2016, In: Neurodegenerative Diseases. 16, 3-4, p. 206-217Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2015

Models, mechanisms and moderators dissociating empathy and theory of mindKanske, P., Böckler, A. & Singer, T., 20 Nov 2015, Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. Springer Verlag, Vol. 30. p. 193-206, 14 p., (Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; vol. 30)Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Chapter in book/Anthology/Report
Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of MindKanske, P., Böckler, A., Trautwein, F. & Singer, T., 15 Nov 2015, In: NeuroImage. 122, p. 6-19Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Neural correlates of valence generalization in an affective conditioning paradigmSchick, A., Adam, R., Vollmayr, B., Kuehner, C., Kanske, P. & Wessa, M., 1 Oct 2015, In: Behavioural brain research. 292, p. 147-56, 10 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Emotion and goal-directed behavior: ERP evidence on cognitive and emotional conflictZinchenko, A., Kanske, P., Obermeier, C., Schröger, E. & Kotz, S. A., 28 Apr 2015, In: Social cognitive and affective neuroscience. 10, 11, p. 1577-1587, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Increased impulsivity as a vulnerability marker for bipolar disorder: Evidence from self-report and experimental measures in two high-risk populationsWessa, M., Kollmann, B., Linke, J., Schönfelder, S. & Kanske, P., 27 Feb 2015, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 178, p. 18-24, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Impaired regulation of emotion: Neural correlates of reappraisal and distraction in bipolar disorder and unaffected relativesKanske, P., Schönfelder, S., Forneck, J. & Wessa, M., 20 Jan 2015, In: Translational psychiatry. 5, 1, 9 p., e497Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article