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Dr Julian Konzok

Career

Career

03-2019 -Additional qualification in child and adolescent psychotherapy, Working Group for Behaviour Modification, Regensburg
11/2016 - 01/2022Dissertation "Towards a biobehavioral understanding of trait externalisation: neural and endocrine responses during acute stress and reactive aggression within the non-clinical range" at the University of Regensburg
10/2013 - 03/2019Training as a psychological psychotheraputic (behavioural therapy), Working Group for Behavioural Modification, Regensburg
10/2008 - 09/2013Degree in Psychology, University of Regensburg

Professional career

04/2024 -Assistant professor, Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Prof. Dr Mühlberger, University of Regensburg
01/2022 - 03/2024Assistant professor, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Prof. Dr Dr Michael Leitzmann, University of Regensburg
11/2020 - 01/2022Ward psychologist, Parsberg District Hospital, Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
11/2016 - 11/2020Assistant professor, Chair of Medical Psychology, Psychological Diagnostics and Methodology, Prof. Dr Brigitte M. Kudielka, University of Regensburg
01/2014 - 11/2016Ward psychologist, Mainkofen District Hospital, Forensic Clinic

[Translate to English:] Publikationen

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Artikel (peer-reviewed)

Peruchet-Noray, L., Dimou, N., Cordova, R., Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Gan, Q., ... Konzok, J., ... Carreras-Torres, R. (2025). Nature or nurture: genetic and environmental predictors of adiposity gain in adults. EBioMedicine, 111.

Giglberger, M., Peter, H. L., Henze, G. I., Bärtl, C., Konzok, J., Kirsch, P., ... Wüst, S. (2025). Associations Between the Neural Stress Response and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 103(1), e70019.

Bohmann, P., Stein, M. J., Weber, A., Konzok, J., Fontvieille, E., Peruchet-Noray, L., ... Sedlmeier, A. M. (2025). Body Shapes of Multiple Anthropometric Traits and All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality in the UK Biobank. Epidemiology, 36(2), 264-274.

Bohmann, P., Stein, M. J., Amadou, A., Baurecht, H., Fervers, B., Fontvieille, E., ... Konzok, J., ... Weber, A. (2025). WHO guidelines on waist circumference and physical activity and their joint association with cancer risk. British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Peruchet-Noray, L., Sedlmeier, A. M., Dimou, N., Baurecht, H., Fervers, B., Fontvieille, E., ... Konzok, J., ... Freisling, H. (2024). Tissue-specific genetic variation suggests distinct molecular pathways between body shape phenotypes and colorectal cancer. Science Advances, 10(16), eadj1987.

Konzok, J., Gorski, M., Winkler, T. W., Baumeister, S. E., Warrier, V., Leitzmann, M. F., \& Baurecht, H. (2024). Child maltreatment as a transdiagnostic risk factor for the externalizing dimension: a Mendelian randomization study. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-7.

Klinger-König, J., Erhardt, A., Streit, F., Völker, M. P., Schulze, M. B., Keil, T., ... Konzok, J., ... Pischon, T. (2024). Childhood Trauma and Somatic and Mental Illness in Adulthood: Findings of the NAKO Health Study. Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 121(1), 1.

Giglberger, M., Peter, H. L., Henze, G.-I., Kraus, E., Bärtl, C., Konzok, J., ... Wüst, S. (2024). Brain activation changes as predictors for perceived stress and cortisol awakening responses over a 13-months stress period. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106798.

Bärtl, C., Henze, G.-I., Peter, H. L., Giglberger, M., Bohmann, P., Speicher, N., Konzok, J.,. . . Kudielka, B. M. (2024). Neural and cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 161, 106926.

Amadou, A., Freisling, H., Sedlmeier, A. M., Bohmann, P., Fontvieille, E., Weber, A., Konzok, J., ... Fervers, B. (2024). Multi-trait body shape phenotypes and breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women: a causal mediation analysis in the UK Biobank cohort. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 1-13.

Streit, F., Völker, M. P., Klinger-König, J., Zillich, L., Frank, J., Reinhard, I., ... Konzok, J., ... Becher, H. (2023). The interplay of family history of depression and early trauma: associations with lifetime and current depression in the German national cohort (NAKO). Frontiers in Epidemiology, 3, 1099235.

Konzok, J., Baumeister, S.-E., Winkler, T. W., Leitzmann, M. F., & Baurecht, H. (2023). Effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels on the internalising dimension as a transdiagnostic risk factor: Mendelian randomisation study. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 222(6), 257-263.

Henze, G. I., Konzok, J., Kudielka, B. M., Wüst, S., Nichols, T. E., \& Kreuzpointner, L. (2023). Associations between cortisol stress responses and limbic volume and thickness in young adults: An exploratory study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(9), 3962-3980.

Henze, G.-I., Rosenbaum, D., Bärtl, C., Laicher, H., Konzok, J., Kudielka, B. M., ... Kreuzpointner, L. (2023). Comparing two psychosocial stress paradigms for imaging environments–ScanSTRESS and fNIRS-TSST: Correlation structures between stress responses. Behavioural Brain Research, 436, 114080.

Bohmann, P., Stein, M. J., Konzok, J., Tsoi, L. C., Elder, J. T., Leitzmann, M. F., ... Baurecht, H. (2023). Relationship between genetically proxied vitamin D and psoriasis risk: a Mendelian randomization study. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 48(6), 642-647.

Konzok, J., Henze, G.-I., Kreuzpointner, L., Peter, H. L., Giglberger, M., Bärtl, C., ... Kudielka, B. M. (2022). Dissociation of behavioral and neural responses to provocation during reactive aggression in healthy adults with high versus low externalization. Cognitive, Affective, \& Behavioral Neuroscience, 22(5), 1130-1144.

Giglberger, M., Peter, H. L., Kraus, E., Kreuzpointner, L., Zänkert, S., Henze, G.-I., ... Konzok, J., ...Wüst, S. (2022). Daily life stress and the cortisol awakening response over a 13-months stress period–Findings from the LawSTRESS project. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 141, 105771.

Bärtl, C., Henze, G.-I., Giglberger, M., Peter, H. L., Konzok, J., Wallner, S., ... Kudielka, B. M. (2022). Higher allostatic load in work-related burnout: The Regensburg Burnout Project. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 143, 105853.

Konzok, J., Henze, G. I., Peter, H., Giglberger, M., Bärtl, C., Massau, C., ... Kudielka, B. M. (2021). Externalizing behavior in healthy young adults is associated with lower cortisol responses to acute stress and altered neural activation in the dorsal striatum. Psychophysiology, 58(12), e13936.

Henze, G.-I., Konzok, J., Kreuzpointner, L., Bärtl, C., Giglberger, M., Peter, H., . . . Wüst, S. (2021). Sex-specific interaction between cortisol and striato-limbic responses to psychosocial stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(9), 972-984.

Konzok, J., Kreuzpointner, L., Henze, G.-I., Wagels, L., Kärgel, C., Weidacker, K., . . . Kudielka, B. M. (2020). Validation of a monetary Taylor Aggression Paradigm: associations with trait aggression and role of provocation sequence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 88, 103960.

Henze, G.-I., Konzok, J., Kreuzpointner, L., Bärtl, C., Peter, H., Giglberger, M., . . . Wüst, S. (2020). Increasing deactivation of limbic structures over psychosocial stress exposure time. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5(7), 697-704.

Wagels, L., Votinov, M., Kellermann, T., Konzok, J., Jung, S., Montag, C., . . . Habel, U. (2019). Exogenous testosterone and the monoamine-oxidase A polymorphism influence anger, aggression and neural responses to provocation in males. Neuropharmacology, 156, 107491. 

Schecklmann, M., Engelhardt, K., Konzok, J., Rupprecht, R., Greenlee, M. W., Mokros, A., . . . Poeppl, T. B. (2015). Sexual motivation is reflected by stimulus-dependent motor cortex excitability. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10(8), 1061-1065.

Dr. Julian Konzok Psychologischer Psychotherapeut

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