Verena Wüllhorst
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PhD student
NameVerena Wüllhorst M.Sc.
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Short Biography
Verena Wuellhorst received the scholarship of the Program of Early-Career Female Scientists of TU Dresden in July 2019. In her research, 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 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“.
Research Interests
- Impulsivity, reward sensitivity, threat reactivity and performance monitoring in social anxiety and alcohol use
- Neural correlates of impulsivity, compulsivity and anxiety
- Social exclusion and suicidality
Publications
Riesel, A., Kathmann, N., Wüllhorst, V., Banica, I., & Weinberg, A. (2019). Punishment has a persistent effect on error-related brain activity in highly anxious individuals twenty-four hours after conditioning. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 146, 63-72. doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.09.014
Hoyer, J., Hoefler, M., & Wuellhorst, V. (2020). Activity and subsequent depression levels: a causal analysis of behavioural activation group treatment with weekly assessments over 8 weeks. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy. doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2430