Kandsperger, Stephanie

Appointment as adjunct professor

University of Regensburg

Habilitation in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy

Topic of habilitation: "Psychiatric Emergency Care for Children and Adolescents: Results from Clinical Care Research"

University of Regensburg

Medicine

University of Regensburg

Medical Director (acting)
Chief Physician, Day Clinics & Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic Center
Chief Physician (acting), Inpatient Care Center
at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics & Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg

Regensburg District Hospital

Senior physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg

Regensburg District Hospital

Further training as a specialist at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg and at the
Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics at the Mainkofen District Clinic

Regensburg and Mainkofen District Hospital

Schleicher, D., Käss, C., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., & Brunner, R. (2026). Measuring proactive-instrumental aggression in adolescents and young adults—Development and preliminary validity evidence for the Degree-of-Quiz-Difficulty Paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1876347. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1876347 (external link, opens in a new window) 

Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., & Brunner, R. (2026). Post-traumatic stress following social media war violence: Role of empathy and emotional awareness in youth. BJPsych Open, 12(4), e150. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2026.12014 (external link, opens in a new window)

Goetz, L., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Neumann, I. D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2026). Relationship of oxytocin and cortisol response to psychosocial stress in children and adolescents with anxiety disorders. Scientific Reports, 16(1), 10496. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-44831-8 (external link, opens in a new window)

Otto, A., Jacob, R., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., & Brunner, R. (2026). Relationship between emotional competence, dissociative symptoms and borderline personality disorder traits in female adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-026-01067-8 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jacob, R., Otto, A., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Malloni, W. M., Neumann, I. D., & Brunner, R. (2026). The influence of psychosocial stress on functional connectivity and neuroendocrine markers in adolescents with depressive and comorbid anxiety disorders: A study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 26, 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-025-07689-0 (external link, opens in a new window)

von Perponcher, E., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Characterisation of a university student sample with a lifetime history of non-suicidal self-injury: mixed-methods analysis of stress factors, coping mechanisms and reasons for self-injury. BJPsych Open, 11(6), e279. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2025.10893 (external link, opens in a new window)

Ecker, A., Preece, D. A., Schleicher, D., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Emotional blind spots and dark minds: How alexithymia and mindfulness shape the link between Dark Triad personality traits and psychopathology. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1677305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1677305 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers, I., Degmayr, R., Otto, A., Jacob, R., Malloni, W., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wiesinger, I., Wendl, C., Greenlee, M., & Brunner, R. (2025). The relationship between precuneus thickness and psychopathology in adolescent females with anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24591 (external link, opens in a new window)

Hornstein, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Dark Triad traits, alexithymia, and emotion regulation as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress in clinical and non-clinical samples. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1674630. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1674630 (external link, opens in a new window)

Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Temperament and personality: Preliminary evidence of possible relationships with multifactorial stress reactivity in healthy adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1613000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1613000 (external link, opens in a new window)

Niebler, M., Jarvers, I., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2025). Short-chain carnitines in adolescent major depressive disorder: Associations and biomarker potential. Journal of Affective Disorders, 390, 119832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.119832 (external link, opens in a new window)

Rodríguez-Toscano, E., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Exploring the mental health impact of COVID-19 on parents of young children: Anxiety, depression, and contributing factors. BMC Public Health, 25, 2174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23467-9 (external link, opens in a new window)

Baumann, N., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Preece, D. A., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The relationship between alexithymia, non-suicidal self-injury, and emotion regulation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 384, 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.05.009 (external link, opens in a new window)

Hauke-Gleißner, J., Jarvers, I., Jordan, S., Gerling, S., Kabesch, M., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2025). Neurocognitive and emotional long-term effects of COVID-19 infections in children and adolescents: Results from a clinical survey in Bavaria, Germany. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25, 411. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10813-w (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers, I., Heidingsfelder, E., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Characteristics of self-injurious behaviour and early traumatic experiences: Associations with emotional reactivity, depression and aggression in university students. BJPsych Open, 11(2), e45. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.862 (external link, opens in a new window)

Ecker, A., Fritsch, C., Schleicher, D., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1503379. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1503379 (external link, opens in a new window)

Otto, A., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Bosek, R., Schwarzbach, J., Brunner, R., & Volberg, G. (2024). Altered emotion regulation at the earliest stage of visual perception in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Affective Disorders, 372, 572–581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.12.055 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Donabauer, P., Kampa, K., Weißenbacher, M., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ludwig, B. (2024). M.I.N.I.-KID interviews with adolescents: A corpus-based language analysis of adolescents with depressive disorders and the possibilities of continuation using Chat GPT. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1425820 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Brandstetter, S., Kabesch, M., Köninger, A., Melter, M., Kerzel, S., Kittel, J., Apfelbacher, C., & Brunner, R. (2024). Longitudinal predictors for internalizing and externalizing symptomatology at age 4: KUNO-Kids cohort study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1449108 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers I., Kormann E., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Kandsperger, S. & Brunner, R. (2024). Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0310244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310244 (external link, opens in a new window)

Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R. & Schleicher, D. (2024). Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106681.
doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106681
(EDITOR’S CHOICE ARTICLE)

Kick, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2024). Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a metaanalysis. Front. Psychiatry, 15:1412229. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1412229 (external link, opens in a new window)

Krempel, R., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2024). Sleep quality and the cortisol and alpha-amylase awakening responses in adolescents with depressive disorders. BJPsych Open, 10(5), e140. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.730 (external link, opens in a new window)

Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ecker, A. (2024). Does it need an app?–Differences between app-guided breathing and natural relaxation in adolescents after acute stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107148 (external link, opens in a new window)

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Anorexia nervosa during COVID-19: loss of personal control and alexithymia as important contributors to symptomatology in adolescent girls. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11, 180.
doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00905-w

Otto, A., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Reichl, C., Ando, A., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2023). Stress-induced alterations in resting-state functional connectivity among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 162-171. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.032

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2023). Impact of preschool attendance, parental stress and parental mental health on internalizing and externalizing problems during COVID-19 lockdown measures in preschool children. PLoS One 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281627

Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., With, M., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: comparison of clinical characteristics of involuntary and voluntar admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02154-3

Schleicher, D., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Non-suicidal self-injury and emotional burden among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional online survey. BJPsych Open, 9(1), E1.
www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., Jarvers, I.: Treatment Motivation and Burden of Stress among Parents of Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Psychopathology 2022.
doi.org/10.1159/000526611

Schleicher, D.*, Ecker, A.*, Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., Götz, L., Otto, A. H., Kandsperger, S. and Brunner, R. (2020). Psychosocial stress induction in vivo vs. in virtuo and the influence of a health app on the acute stress reaction in youths: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 23, 847 (2022).
doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06758-z

Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ando, A., Resch, F., Koenig, J., ... & Brunner, R. (2022). The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years. NeuroImage: Clinical, 36, 103195.
doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103195

Ecker A., Jarvers I., Schleicher D., Kandsperger S., Schelhorn I., Meyer M., Borchert T., Lüdtke M. and Shiban Y. (2022). Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Front. Psychol. 13:901249.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901249

Kandsperger S., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Keck F., Bentheimer S., Brunner R. and Jarvers I. (2022) Emotional Reactivity in Adolescents With Non-suicidal Self-injury and Its Predictors: A Longitudinal Study. Front. Psychiatry 13:902964.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: Study protocol. BJPsych Open, 8(2), E57.
doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29 

Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wirth, M., & Brunner, R. (2021). Suicidality presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry emergency service: Increasing rate and changing characteristics. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 1195.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Madurkay, J., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2021). Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 913.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208