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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

2022

Altruism under Stress: Cortisol Negatively Predicts Charitable Giving and Neural Value Representations Depending on Mentalizing CapacitySchulreich, S., Tusche, A., Kanske, P. & Schwabe, L., 20 Apr 2022, In: The Journal of neuroscience. 42, 16, p. 3445-3460, 16 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
The Social Connectome – Moving Toward Complexity in the Study of Brain Networks and Their Interactions in Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceMaliske, L. & Kanske, P., 5 Apr 2022, In: Frontiers in psychiatry. 13, 13, 7 p., 845492Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Assessment of Reward-Related Brain Function After a Single Dose of Oxytocin in Autism: A Randomized Controlled TrialMayer, A. V., Preckel, K., Ihle, K., Piecha, F. A., Junghanns, K., Reiche, S., Rademacher, L. & 11 others, Apr 2022, In: Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 2, 2, p. 136-146, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
The Role of Socio-Affective and Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms in the Processing of Witnessed Traumatic EventsTrautmann, S., Wittgens, C., Muehlhan, M. & Kanske, P., 10 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in psychiatry. 13, 13, 6 p., 830218Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience samplingPollerhoff, L., Stietz, J., Depow, G. J., Inzlicht, M., Kanske, P., Li, S. & Reiter, A. M. F., 2 Mar 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 15 p., 3450Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Empathy, compassion, and theory of mind in obsessive‐compulsive disorderSalazar Kämpf, M., Kanske, P., Kleiman, A., Haberkamp, A., Glombiewski, J. & Exner, C., 1 Mar 2022, In: Psychology and Psychotherapy : Theory, Research and Practice. 95, 1, p. 1-17, 17 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Dissociating sub-processes of aftereffects of completed intentions and costs to the ongoing task in prospective memory: A mouse-tracking approachKurtz, M., Scherbaum, S., Walser, M., Kanske, P. & Möschl, M., 25 Feb 2022, In: Memory & Cognition. 50, 7, p. 1590-1613, 24 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Soundtrack to the social world: Emotional music enhances empathy, compassion, and prosocial decisions but not theory of mind.McDonald, B., Böckler, A. & Kanske, P., Feb 2022, In: Emotion. 22, 1, p. 19-29, 11 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2021

Interactions within the social brain: Co-activation and connectivity among networks enabling empathy and Theory of MindMaliske, L., Schurz, M. & Kanske, P., 29 Dec 2021Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Preprint/documentation/report > Preprint
Medication-enhanced psychotherapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: Recent findings on oxytocin’s involvement in the neurobiology and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorderPreckel, K., Trautmann, S. & Kanske, P., 23 Dec 2021, In: Clinical Psychology in Europe. 3, 4, e3645Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article