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Prof. Dr. Philipp Kanske

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Philipp Kanske is Professor for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at TUD Dresden University of Technology. 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, TUD Dresden University of Technology
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 TUD Dresden University of Technology (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 TUD Dresden University of Technology

Publications

163 Entries

2026

Neural correlates of social affect and social cognition as risk markers of bipolar disorderChoi, D., Förster, K., Hildebrandt, M. K., Maliske, L. Z., Lehmann, K., Kanske, P. & Jauk, E., Feb 2026, In: The British journal of psychiatry : BJPsych. 228, 2, p. 126-132, 7 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article

2025

What to target? Interventions to modulate key mechanisms underlying the trajectories of affective disorders in the transregional Collaborative Research Center 393Leehr, E. J., Groß, J., Hofmann, S. G., Kanske, P., Kircher, T., Nenadić, I., Rief, W. & 3 others, 27 Nov 2025, In: Der NervenarztElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Key mechanisms of affective disorders: CRC/TRR 393 project on mechanisms of emotion regulation, expectation, social cognition, and cognitive–behavioral rhythmsKanske, P., Alexander, N., Bernhardt, N., Ehrlich, S., Groß, J., Culmsee, C., Leehr, E. J. & 7 others, 10 Nov 2025, In: Der Nervenarzt. 2025Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Functional neural plasticity after compassion-based interventions: A scoping review of longitudinal neuroimaging studiesMekelburg, A., Maliske, L. Z., Kirby, J. N., Kanske, P. & Förster, K., 1 Nov 2025, In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 388, 119346Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Disease progression in bipolar disorder in relation to white matter microstructure: A comprehensive approach based on staging modelsThiel, K., Flinkenflügel, K., Grotegerd, D., Jurischka, C., Hubbert, J., Hahn, T., Leehr, E. J. & 19 others, 15 Sep 2025, In: European psychiatry. 68, 1, 11 p., e148Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
The SFB/TRR 393 Collaborative Research Centre: trajectories of affective disorders: Cognitive-emotional mechanisms of symptom changeKircher, T., Alexander, N., Bauer, M., Dannlowski, U., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Kanske, P., Wöhr, M. & 32 others, 12 Sep 2025, In: Der Nervenarzt. 2025, 115, 8 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Review article
Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS statement for human studiesPECANS Extended Working Group, Costa, C., Pezzetta, R., Toffalini, E., Grassi, M., Cona, G., Miniussi, C. & 44 others, 30 May 2025, In: Behavior research methods. 57, 7, 14 p., 182Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and otherPollerhoff, L., Saulin, A., Kurtz, M., Stietz, J., Peng, X., Hein, G., Tusche, A. & 3 others, 14 Apr 2025, In: Scientific reports. 15, 1, 12776Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
A computational framework to study the etiology of grandiose narcissismLöschner, D. M., Schoemann, M., Jauk, E., Herchenhahn, L., Schwöbel, S., Kanske, P. & Scherbaum, S., 18 Feb 2025, In: Scientific reports. 15 (2025), 1, 16 p., 5897Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
Neural correlates and plasticity of explicit emotion regulation following the experience of traumaKonrad, A. C., Miu, A. C., Trautmann, S. & Kanske, P., 2025, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 19, 1523035Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Short survey/Review