Lisa Weckesser

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Dr. Lisa Weckesser

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Falkenbrunnen, 3. Etage, Raum 338 Chemnitzer Str. 46a

01187 Dresden

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Short Biography

Licensed psychological psychotherapist 2024; since October 2019 postdoc at the Chair of Addiction Research at the TUD; 2018/19 psychiatry year at Dresden University Hospital (addiction ward/memory outpatient clinic); 2017 PhD at the Chair of Biopsychology at the TUD; two periods of parental leave; study of psychology in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Dresden and London.

Professional career

2024 Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist (BT)
2021 & 2017/2018 Parental leaves
2017 PhD at the Chair of Biopsychology, TU Dresden
2013 Diploma in psychology , TU Dresden
2007/2008 Voluntary social year

Main research interests
Stress, cognition, psychopharmacology, stress and alcohol consumption;

Research interests
I am looking for models that can explain the effects of stress on human cognitive performance and contribute to a better understanding of their role in the development and maintenance of alcohol use disorders.

Research funds and awards

Research Grant, German Research Foundation (WE-6465/4-1, ~260.000,00 €)
Research Grant, German Research Foundation (WE-6465/2-1; ~265.000 €)
Maria-Reiche scholarship for Postdocs, Technische Universität Dresden (~87.000 €)
Centralized research and equal opportunity fund, Technische Universität Dresden (~10.000€)
Scholarship for PhD completion; Graduate Academy Dresden
Travel Award for attending the 46^th ISPNE conference in Miami, USA; DAAD
Travel Award for attending the 44^th ISPNE conference in Montreal, CA; Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Technische Universität Dresden
Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler Awards for outstanding diploma and PhD theses
Certification for the administration and scoring of the “Bayle Scale of Infant and Toddler Development TM (III)”, Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge

Preprints

Weckesser, L.J., Pilhatsch, M., Muehlhahn, M., Endraß, T., & Miller, R. A meta-analysis on the relation between acute stress exposure, alcohol consumption and cortisol levels in individuals with a personal, familial or no alcohol use disorder. https://osf.io/53tmh/?view_only=c3538f18f2444ce58f1f4e9bfb9869ab
Weckesser, L.J., Endraß, T., Weber, B., Grosskopf, C., Soylu, S., & Miller, R. Performance in dual, rapid-serial-visual presentation, switch and stop-signal tasks after acute stress exposure, atomoxetine and hydrocortisone administration provides little support for four influential stress effect models. https://osf.io/53tmh/?view_only=c3538f18f2444ce58f1f4e9bfb9869ab

Publications

Soylu, S., Miller, R., Pilhatsch, M., Endrass, T., & Weckesser, L.J. (2024). Memory under pressure: The impact of acute stress across different memory tasks. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107246.
Möschl, M., Schmidt, K., Enge, S., Weckesser, L. J., & Miller, R. (2022). Chronic stress and executive functioning: A specification-curve analysis. Physiology & behavior, 243, 113639.
Weckesser, L. J. , Schmidt, K., Möschl, M., Kirschbaum, C., Enge, S., & Miller, R. (2021). Temporal stability and effect dynamics between executive functions, perceived chronic stress and hair cortisol concentrations. Developmental Psychology, 57(7),1149.
Weckesser, L. J. , Miller, R. & Kirschbaum, C. (2020). Trier Social Stress Test. In: Gellman M.D., Turner J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY
Muehlhan, M., Alexander, N., Trautmann, S., Weckesser, L. J., Vogel, S., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2020). Cortisol secretion predicts functional macro-scale connectivity of the visual cortex: A data-driven Multivoxel Pattern Analysis (MVPA). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 104695.
Weckesser, L. J., Dietz, F., Schmidt, K., Grass, J., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2019). The psychometric properties and temporal dynamics of subjective stress, retrospectively assessed by different informants and questionnaires, and hair cortisol concentrations. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 1098.
Miller, R., Wojtyniak, J. G., Weckesser, L. J., Alexander, N. C., Engert, V., & Lehr, T. (2018). How to disentangle psychobiological stress reactivity and recovery: A comparison of model-based and non-compartmental analyses of cortisol concentrations. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 90, 194-210.
Weckesser, L. J., Enge, S., Riedel, P., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2017). NMDA receptor modulation by dextromethorphan and acute stress selectively alters electroencephalographic indicators of partial report processing. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 27(10), 1042-1053.
Weckesser, L. J., Alexander, N. C., Kirschbaum, C., Mennigen, E., & Miller, R. (2016). Hydrocortisone counteracts adverse stress effects on dual-task performance by improving visual sensory processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(11), 1784-1803.
Miller, R.*, Weckesser, L. J.*, Smolka, M. N., Kirschbaum, C., & Plessow, F. (2015). Hydrocortisone accelerates the decay of iconic memory traces: On the modulation of executive and stimulus-driven constituents of sensory information maintenance. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 53, 148-158. (*shared first authorship)
Weckesser, L. J., Plessow, F., Pilhatsch, M., Muehlhan, M., Kirschbaum, C., & Miller, R. (2014). Do venepuncture procedures induce cortisol responses? A review, study, and synthesis for stress research. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 46, 88-99.