Verena Wüllhorst
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PhD student
NameVerena Wüllhorst M.Sc.
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Short Biography
Verena Wuellhorst became a research assistant in 2019 at the Chair of Addiction Research. In her doctoral thesis, she examines common and distinct mechanisms of social anxiety and alcohol use.
She studied psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a student assistant in the Prof. Dr. Norbert Kathmann's lab. For her master’s thesis, she examined the virtual role of thwarted belongingness in suicidal adolescents and young adults. From 2017 to 2018, she worked with Prof. Dr. Juergen Hoyer, focusing on behavioral activation in the treatment of depression. After that she has become a research assistant at the Chair of Addiction Research, working in the project C6 ”Cognitive Control in Impulsivity and Compulsivity“ of the German Collaborative Research Center 940 ”Volition and Cognitive Control“. From 2019 - 2020, she began her research first as a scholarship holder in the Program of Early-Career Female Scientists of TU Dresden, then as a research assistant. In 2022, she also obtained her license to practice as a psychological psychotherapist (behavioral therapy).
Research Interests
- Behavioral and neural correlates underlying comorbidities, such as:
- impulsivity, reward sensitivity, threat reactivity and performance monitoring in social anxiety and alcohol use
- Neural correlates of impulsivity, compulsivity and anxiety
Publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Verena-Wuellhorst