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Publikationen 2024

Aspöck, L., Fels, J., Frank, M., Bertsch, M., Mühlberger, A., Kroczek, L., Roßkopf, S., Seeber, B. U., Llorca-Bofí, J., Vorländer, M., Sladeczek, C., Bergner, J., Hock, K., Rodigast, R., Bös, J., Zotter, F., Sharma, G. K., Stellbrink, M., Weinzierl, S., Amengual Garí, S. V. (2024). Anwendungen der Virtuellen Akustik. Akustik Journal,1,16-26.

Schröder, B., Kroczek, A., Kroczek, L. O. H., Ehlis, A. C., Batra, A., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Cigarette craving in virtual reality cue exposure in abstainers and relapsed smokers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 7538.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-58168-7

Boehme, S., Herrmann, M. J., & Mühlberger, A. (2024). Good moments to stimulate the brain–A randomized controlled double-blinded study on anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex on two different time points in a two-day fear conditioning paradigm. Behavioural Brain Research, 460, 114804.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114804

Unterholzner, J., Kautzky, A., Reed, M. B., Wechsler, T. F., Popper, V., Spurny-Dworak, B., Stöhrmann, P., Klöbl, M., Varghese, N., Mühlberger, A., Eckert, A., Frey, R., Rujescu, D., Lanzenberger, R. & Vanicek, T. (2024). Effects of lockdowns on neurobiological and psychometric parameters in unipolar depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. Translational psychiatry, 14(1), 42.
doi.org/10.1038/s41398-024-02733-1

Publikationen 2023

Kroczek, A., Schröder, B., Diemer, J., Mühlberger, A., Ahlis, A.-C., & Batra, A. (2023). Studienprotokoll für eine randomisiert-kontrollierte Studie zur Untersuchung der Cue-Exposure in der virtuellen Realität. SUCHT, 69(2), 56-64.
https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000812

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Public speaking training in front of a supportive audience in Virtual Reality improves performance in real-life. Scientific Reports, 13, 13968.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41155-9

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Time to Smile: How Onset Asynchronies Between Reciprocal Facial Expressions Influence the Experience of Responsiveness of a Virtual Agent. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1-16.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00430-z

Schröder, B., & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Measuring attentional bias in smokers during and after psychosocial stress induction with a Trier Social Stress Test in virtual reality via eye tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1129422. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1129422

Schroën, J. A., Gunter, T. C., Numssen, O., Kroczek, L. O. H., Hartwigsen, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(47), e2306279120.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306279120

Roßkopf, S., Wechsler, T. F., Tucha, S. & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Effects of facial biofeedback on hypomimia, emotion recognition, and affect in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of the international Neuropsychological Society, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617723000747

Wechsler, T. F., Kocur, M., Schumacher, S., Rubenbauer, M., Ruider, A., Brockelmann, M., Lankes, M., Wolff, C. & Mühlberger, A. (2023). Looking fear in the eye: Gamified virtual reality exposure towards spiders for children using attention based feedback. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
doi.org/10.1177/13591045231194103

Publikationen 2022

Schröder, B., & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Assessing the attentional bias of smokers in a virtual reality anti-saccade task using eye tracking. Biological Psychology, 172, 108381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108381

Aster H.-C., Romanos, M., Walitza, S., Gerlach, M., Mühlberger, A., Rizzo A, Andreatta, M., Hasenauer, N., Hartrampf, P. E., Nerlich, K., Reiners, C., Lorenz, R., Buck, A. K. and Deserno, L. (2022) Responsivity of the Striatal Dopamine System to Methylphenidate—A Within-Subject I-123-β-CIT-SPECT Study in Male Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Front. Psychiatry 13:804730.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.804730

Brunner, L. M., Maurer, F., Weber, K., Weigl, J., Milenkovic, V. M., Rupprecht, R., ... &
Mühlberger, A. (2022). Differential effects of the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) ligand etifoxine and the benzodiazepine alprazolam on startle response to predictable threat in a NPU-threat task after acute and short-term treatment. Psychopharmacology, 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-022-06111-x

Kroczek, L.O.H., Böhme, S. & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Face masks reduce interpersonal distance in virtual reality. Scientific Reports, 12, 2213.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06086-x

Kroczek, L. O., & Mühlberger, A. (2022). Returning a smile: Initiating a social interaction with a facial emotional expression influences the evaluation of the expression received in return. Biological Psychology, 108453.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108453

Reichenberger, J., Wechsler, T.F., Diemer, J., Mühlberger, A., & Notzon, S. (2022). Fear,
psychophysiological arousal, and cognitions during a virtual social skills training in social anxiety disorder while manipulating gaze duration. Biological psychology, 175, 108432.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108432

Reitmaier, J., Schiller, A., Mühlberger, A., Pfaller, M., Meyer, M. and Shiban, Y. (2022), Effects of
rhythmic eye movements during a virtual reality exposure paradigm for spider-phobic patients. Psychol Psychother Theory Res Pract, 95: 57-78.
https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12363

Wechsler, T.F., Schmidmeier, M., Biehl, S. et al. Individual changes in stress, depression,
anxiety, pathological worry, posttraumatic stress, and health anxiety from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic in adults from Southeastern Germany. BMC Psychiatry 22, 528 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04148-y

Zänkert, S., Lindl, A., Schmitz, A., Kudielka, B. M., Mühlberger, A., & Wüst, S. (2022). Sustained
threat and phasic fear in the laboratory and cognitive-emotional processes of anxiety in everyday life-An ambulatory assessment study. International journal of psychophysiology, 175, 8-17.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.02.009

Publikationen 2021

Wechsler, T.F., Pfaller, M., Eickels, R.E.v, Schulz, L.H. & Mühlberger, A. (2021) Look at the Audience? A Randomized Controlled Study of Shifting Attention From Self-Focus to Nonsocial vs. Social External Stimuli During Virtual Reality Exposure to Public Speaking in Social Anxiety. Front. Psychiatry 12:751272.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.751272

Pfaller, M., Kroczek, L.O.H., Lange, B., Fülöp, R., Müller, M. & Mühlberger, A. (2021) Social Presence as a Moderator of the Effect of Agent Behavior on Emotional Experience in Social Interactions in Virtual Reality. Front. Virtual Real. 2:741138.
doi: 10.3389/frvir.2021.741138

Kroczek L.O.H., Lingnau A., Schwind V., Wolff C., Mühlberger A. (2021). Angry facial expressions bias towards aversive actions. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0256912.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256912

Ma, L., Mor, S., Anderson, P., Baños, R., Botella, C., Bouchard, S., Cárdenas, G., Donker, T., Fernández-Álvarez, J., Lindner, P., Mühlberger, A., Powers, M., Quero, S., Rothbaum, B., Wiederhold, B., & Carlbring, P. (in press). Integrating Virtual Realities and Psychotherapy: SWOT Analysis on VR and MR Based Treatments of Anxiety and Stress-related Disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 50(6), 509-526.
doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2021.1939410

Kroczek, L. O.H., & Gunter, T. C. (2021). The time course of speaker-specific language processing. Cortex, 141, 311-321.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.017

Biehl, S. C., Schmidmeier, M., Wechsler, T. F., Kroczek, L. O. H., & Mühlberger, A. (2021). Widespread Recommendations Can Change Our Habits of Hand-Washing and Physical Distance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 3(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.3061

Bahr, L.-M., Maurer, F., Weigl, J., Weber, K., Melchner, D., Dörfelt, A.,... Nothdurfter, C. (2021). Dissociation of endocrine responses to the Trier Social Stress Test in Virtual Reality (VR-TSST) by the benzodiazepine alprazolam and the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) ligand etifoxine. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 124, 105100.
doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105100

Publikationen 2020

Probst, T., Mühlberger, A., Kühner, J., Eifert, G. H., Pieh, C., Hackbarth, T., & Mander, J. (2020). Development and Initial Validation of a Brief Questionnaire on the Patients’ View of the In-Session Realization of the Six Core Components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2(3), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v2i3.3115

Kroczek, L. O. H., Pfaller, M., Lange, B., Müller, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2020). Interpersonal Distance During Real-Time Social Interaction: Insights From Subjective Experience, Behavior, and Physiology. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 561. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00561

Kroczek, L. O. H., & Gunter, T. C. (2020). Distinct neural networks relate to common and speaker specific language priors. Cerebral Cortex Communications, tgaa021.
doi:10.1093/texcom/tgaa021

Levine, S. M., Alahäivälä, A. L., Wechsler, T. F., Wackerle, A., Rupprecht, R., & Schwarzbach, J. V (2020). Linking Personality Traits to Individual Differences in Affective Spaces. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 448.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00448

Biehl, S. C., Keil, J., Naumann, E., & Svaldi, J. (2020). ERP and oscillatory differences in overweight/obese and normal-weight adolescents in response to food stimuli. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8(1), 1-11.

Mühlberger, A., Jekel, K., Probst, T., Schecklmann, M., Conzelmann, A., Andreatta, M., Rizzo, A. A., Pauli, P., & Romanos, M. (2020). The Influence of Methylphenidate on Hyperactivity and Attention Deficits in Children with ADHD: A Virtual Classroom Test. Journal of Attention Disorders, 24(2), 277-289.
doi: 10.1177/1087054716647480

Reichenberger, J., Pfaller, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2020). Gaze Behavior in Social Fear Conditioning: An Eye-Tracking Study in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology 11:35 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00035

Publikationen 2019

Naumann, E., Biehl, S. C., & Svaldi, J. (2019). Eye-tracking study on the effects of happiness and sadness on body dissatisfaction and selective visual attention during mirror exposure in bulimia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52(8), 895-903.
doi: 10.1002/eat.23127

Biehl, S.C., Ansorge, U., Naumann, E., & Svaldi, J. (2019). Altered Processing of Visual Food Stimuli in Adolescents with Loss of Control Eating. Nutrients 11, 210.
doi: 10.3390/nu11020210.

Böhme, S., Biehl, S.C., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation. Brain Sciences, 9, 225.
doi: 10.3390/brainsci9090225

Fernández-Álvarez, J., Rozental, A., Carlbring, P., Colombo, D., Riva, G., Anderson, P. L., Bañosh, R. M. Benbow, A. A., Bouchard, S., Bretón-López, J. M., Cárdenas, G., Difede, J., Emmelkamp, P., García-Palacios, A., Guillén, V., Hoffman, H.,  Kampann, I., Moldovan, R.,  Mühlberger, A.,  North, M., Pauli, P.,  Castros, W. P.,  Quero, S.,  Tortella-Feliu, M., Wyka, K., & Botella, C. (2019). Deterioration rates in Virtual Reality Therapy: An individual patient data level meta-analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 61, 3-17.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.06.005

Herrmann, M. J., Mühlberger, A., Ehlis, A. C., Deckert, J. & Polak, T. (2019). Nicht invasive Hirnstimulation und Furchtextinktion: Ein systematisches Review. Nervenheilkunde, 36(08), 537-541.

Kroczek, L.O.H., Gunter, T.C., Rysop, A.U., Friederici, A.D., and Hartwigsen, G. (2019). Contributions of left frontal and temporal cortex to sentence comprehension: Evidence from simultaneous TMS-EEG. Cortex 115, 86-98.
doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.010.

Probst, T., Jank, R., Dreyer, N., Seel, S., Wagner, R., Hanshans, K., Reyersbach, R., Mühlberger , A., Lahmann, C., & Christoph Pieh, C. (2019). Early Changes in Pain Acceptance Predict Pain Outcomes in Interdisciplinary Treatment for Chronic Pain. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8, 1373.
doi: 10.3390/jcm809137

Probst, T., O’Rourke, T., Decker, V., Kießling, E., Meyer, S., Bofinger, C., Niklewski, G., Mühlberger, A., & Pieh, C. (2019). Effectiveness of a five-week inpatient dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder in psychiatry. Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 25, 192-198.
doi: 10.1097/PRA0000000000000383

Raber, J., Arzy, S., Bertolus, J.B., Depue, B., Haas, H.E., Kangas, M., Kensinger, E., Lowry, C.A., Marusak, H.A., Minnier, J., Mouly, A.-M., Mühlberger, A., Norrholm, S.D., Peltonen, K., Pinna, G., Rabinak, C., Shiban, Y., Soreq, H., van der Kooij, M.A., Lowe, L., Weingast, L.T., Yamashita, P., & Boutros, S.W. (2019). Current understanding of fear learning and memory in humans and animal models and the value of a linguistic approach for analyzing fear learning and memory in humans. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 105, 136-177.
doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.03.015.

Reichenberger, J., Pfaller, M., Forster, D., Gerczuk, J., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger , A. (2019). Men Scare Me More: Gender Differences in Social Fear Conditioning in Virtual Reality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1617.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01617.

Santl, J., Shiban, Y., Plab, A., Wüst, A., Kudielka, B. M., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Gender Differences in Stress Responses during a Virtual Reality Trier Social Stress Test. International Journal of Virtual Reality, 19(2), 1-8.
doi: 10.20870/IJVR.2019.19.2.2912

Wechsler, T. F., Kümpers, F., & Mühlberger, A. (2019). Inferiority or Even Superiority of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Phobias?—A Systematic Review and Quantitative Meta-Analysis on Randomized Controlled Trials Specifically Comparing the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure to Gold Standard in vivo Exposure in Agoraphobia, Specific Phobia, and Social Phobia. Front. Psychol., 10:1758.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01758

Publikation 2018

Fehlner, K., Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2018). The premenstrual syndrome and the partner relationship: How it affects both partners in different ways. J Pregnancy Reprod, 2(1), 1-8.
doi: 10.15761/JPR.1000134

Gromer, D., Madeira, O., Gast, P., Nehfischer, M., Jost, M., Müller, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2018). Height Simulation in a Virtual Reality CAVE System: Validity of Fear Responses and Effects of an Immersion Manipulation. Frontiers Human Neuroscience, 12:372.
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00372

Levine, S. M., Pfaller, M., Reichenberger, J., Shiban, Y., Mühlberger, A., Rupprecht, R., & Schwarzbach, J. V. (2018). Relating experimentally-induced fear to pre-existing phobic fear in the human brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 164-172.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsx147

Preis, M., Vögtle, E., Dreyer, N., Seel, S., Wagner, R., Hanshans, K., Reyersbach, R., Pieh, C., Mühlberger, A., Probst, T. (2018). Long-term outcomes of a multimodal day-clinic treatment for chronic pain under the conditions of routine care. Pain Research and Management.
doi: 10.1155/2018/9472104

Probst, T., Decker, V., Kiessling, E., Meyer, S., Bofinger, C., Niklewski, G., Mühlberger, A., Pieh, C.(2018). Suicidal ideation and skill use during in-patient dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder. A diary card study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9:152.

Shiban, Y., Brütting-Schick, J., Pauli, P., Domschke, K., & Mühlberger , A. (2018). Does caffeine facilitate exposure therapy for specific phobia? A randomized clinical trial. Resonanzen – E-Journal für biopsychosoziale Dialoge in Psychosomatischer Medizin, Psychotherapie, Supervision und Beratung, 6(2), 3-25.

Shiban, E., Lehmberg, J., Hoffmann, U., Thiel, J., Probst, T., Friedl, M., Mühlberger, A., Meyer, B., & Shiban, Y. (2018). Peritraumatic distress fully mediates the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms preoperative and three months postoperative in patients undergoing spine surgery. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 9.
doi: 10.1080/20008198.2018.1423824

Publikationen 2017

Deckert, J., Weber, H., Villmann, C., Lonsdorf, T.B., Richter, J., Andreatta, M., Arias-Vasquez, A., Hommers, L., Kent, L., Schartner, C., Cichon, S., Wolf, C., Schaefer, N.,  von Collenberg C.R.,  Wachter, B., Blum, R., Schümann, D.,  Scharfenort, R.,  Schumacher, J., Forstner, A.J., Baumann, C.,  Schiele, M.A.,  Notzon, S.,  Zwanzger, P.,  Janzing, J.G.E.,  Galesloot, T., Kiemeney, L.A.,  Gajewska, A., Glotzbach-Schoon, E.,  Mühlberger, A.,  Alpers, G.,  Fydrich, T.,  Fehm, L., Gerlach, A.L.,  Kircher, T., Lang, T., Ströhle, A., Arolt, V., Wittchen, H.-U., Kalisch, R., Büchel, C.,  Hamm, A,. Nöthen, M.M., Romanos, M., Domschke, K., Pauli, P., & Reif, A.(2017). GLRB allelic variation associated with agoraphobic cognitions, increased startle response and fear network activation: a potential neurogenetic pathway to panic disorder. Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 1431-1439.
doi: 10.1038/mp.2017.2

Lonsdorf, T.B., Menz, M.M., Andreatta, M., Fullana, M.A., Golkar, A., Haaker, J., Heitland, I., Hermann, A., Kuhn, M., Kruse, O., Drexler, S.M., Meulders, A., Nees, F., Pittig, A., Richter, J., Römer, S., Shiban, Y., Schmitz, A., Straube, B., Vervliet, B., Wendt, J., Baas, J.M.P., & Merz, C.J. (2017). Don’t fear ‘fear conditioning’: Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 77, 247-285.
doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.026

Mayer, G., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger , A. (2017). Modelling Human Behaviour in Escape and Evacuation Simulation. Research and Advanced Technology in Fire Safety, 69-83.

Probst, T., Geib, C., Güroff, E., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Training the social skill “being able to demand” vs. training the social skill “being able to say no”. A randomized controlled trial with healthy individuals. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 57, 1-5.
doi: 20.1016/j.jbtep.2017.01.006

Reichenberger, J., Diemer, J., Zwanzger, P., Notzon, S., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Soziales Kompetenztraining in Virtueller Realität bei sozialer Angst: Validierung relevanter Interaktionssituationen. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 46, 236-247.
doi: 10.1026/1616-3443/a000444

Reichenberger, J., Porsch, S., Wittmann, J., Zimmermann V., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Social Fear Conditioning Paradigm in Virtual Reality: Social vs. Electrical Aversive Conditioning. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:1979.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01979 

Rodrigues, J., Müller, M., Mühlberger, A., & Hewig, J. (2017). Mind the movement: Frontal asymmetry stands for behavioral motivation, bilateral frontal activation for behavior. Psychophysiology, 1-19.
doi: 10.1111/psyp.12908

Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Müller, J., Brütting-Schick, J., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2017). Diaphragmatic breathing during virtual reality exposure therapy for aviophobia: functional coping strategy or avoidance behavior? BMC Psychiatry, 17, 1-10.
doi: 10.1186/s12888-016-1181-2

Weeth, A., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). Was it less painful for knights? Influence of appearance in pain perception. European Journal of Pain.
doi: 10.1002/ejp.108

Zimmermann, V., Wittmann, J., Sparrer, D., Mühlberger, A., & Shiban, Y. (2017). The generalization of conditioned startle responses from known to unknown lies. Learning and Motivation, 59, 64-69.
doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2017.05.002

Publikationen 2016 

Ahrens, L. M., Pauli, P., Reif, A., Mühlberger, A., Langs, G., Aalderink, T., & Wieser, M. J. (2016). Fear conditioning and stimulus generalization in patients with social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 44, 36-46.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.10.003

Andreatta, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2016). When does pleasure start after the end of pain? The time course of relief. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 524, 1653-1667.
doi:10.1002/cne.23872

Asthana, M. K., Brunhuber, B., Mühlberger, A., Reif, A., Schneider, S., & Herrmann, M. J. (2016). Preventing the Return of Fear Using Reconsolidation Update Mechanisms Depends on the Met-allele of the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 19, 1-9.
doi: 10.1093/ijnp/pyv137

Diemer, J., Lohkamp, N., Mühlberger, A., Zwanzger, P. (2016). Fear and physiological arousal during a virtual height challenge - effects in patients with acrophobia and healthy controls. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 37, 30-39.
doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2015.10.007

Kuhn, M., Haaker, J., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Schümann, D., Andreatta, M., Mechias, M. L., Raczka, K., Gartmann, N., Büchel, C., Deckert, J., Mühlberger, A., Pauli, P., Reif, A., Kalisch, T.B., &  Lonsdorf, T. B. (2016). Converging evidence for an impact of a functional NOS gene variation on anxiety-related processes Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, 803-812.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsv151

Peperkorn, H.M., Diemer, J., Alpers, G.W., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Representation of Patients’ Hand Modulates Fear Reactions of Patients with Spider Phobia in Virtual Reality. Front. Psychol. 7:268.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00268

Shiban, Y., Diemer, J., Brandl, S., Zack, R., Mühlberger, A., & Wüst, A. (2016). Trier Social Stress Test in vivo and in virtual reality: Dissocation of response domains. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 110, 47-55.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.10.008

Shiban, Y., Fruth, M.B., Pauli, P., Kinateder, M., Reichenberger, J., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Treatment effect on biases in size estimation in spider phobia. Biological Psychology, 121, Part B, 146-152.
doi: 10.1016/biopsycho.2016.03.005

Shiban, Y., Peperkorn, H., Alpers, G.W., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2016). Influence of perceptual cues and conceptual information on the activation and reduction of claustrophobic fear. J of Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry, 51, 19-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.11.002

Vierheilig, N., Mühlberger, A., Polak, T., & Herrmann, H. J. (2016). Transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex increases attention to visual target stimuli. Journal of Neural Transmission, 1-9.
doi: 10.1007/s00702-016-1542-5

Walz, N., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2016). A human open field test reveals thigmotaxis related to agoraphobic fear. Biological Psychiatry, 80, 390-397. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.016  

Publikationen 2015

Ahrens, L. M., Mühlberger, A., Pauli, P., & Wieser, M. J. (2015). Impaired visuocortical discrimination learning of socially conditioned stimuli in social anxiety. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci, 7, 929-37.
doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu140

Andreatta, M., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Mühlberger, A., Schulz, S. M., Wiemer, J., & Pauli, P. (2015). Initial and sustained brain responses to contextual conditioned anxiety in humans. Cortex, 63, 352-363.
doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.09.014

Andreatta, M., Leombruni, E., Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Generalization of Contextual Fear in Humans. Behavior Therapy, 46, 583-596. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2014.12.008

Diemer, J., Alpers, G. W., Peperkorn, H. M., Shiban, Y., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The impact of perception and presence on emotional reactions: a review of research in virtual reality. Front Psychol, 6, 26.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00026

Domschke, K., Winter, B., Gajewska, A., Unterecker, S., Warrings, B., Dlugos, A., Notzon, S., Nienhaus, K., Markulin, F., Gieselmann, A., Jacob, C., Herrmann, M. J., Arolt, V., Mühlberger, A., Reif, A., Pauli, P., Deckert, J., & Zwanzger, P. (2015). Multilevel impact of the dopamine system on the emotion-potentiated startle reflex. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 11, 1983-1993.
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Glotzbach-Schoon, E., Andreatta, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2015). Reinstatement of contextual anxiety in humans: effects of state anxiety. Int J of Psychophysiol, 98, 557-566.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.07.013

Kinateder, M., Gromer, D., Gast, P., Buld, S., Müller, M., Jost, M., Nehfischer, M., Mühlberger, A., & Pauli, P. (2015). The effect of dangerous goods transporters on hazard perception and evacuation behavior – A virtual reality experiment on tunnel emergencies. Fire Safety Journal, 78, 24-30.
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Mühlberger, A., Kinateder, M., Brütting, J., Eder, S., Müller, M., Gromer, D., & Pauli, P. (2015). Influence of Information and Instructions on Human Behavior in Tunnel Accidents: A Virtual Reality Study. Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting, 12. doi: urn:nbn:de:0009-6-42521

Notzon, S., Deppermann, S., Fallgatter, A., Diemer, J., Kroczek, A., Domschke, K., Zwanzger, P., Ehlis, A.-C. (2015). Psychophysiological effects of an iTBS modulated virtual reality challenge including participants with spider phobia. Biological Psychology, 112, 66-76.
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Peperkorn, H. M., Diemer, J., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Temporal dynamics in the relation between presence and fear in virtual reality. Computers in Human Behavior, 48, 542-547.
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Ronchi, E., Kinateder, M., Müller, M., Jost, M., Nehfischer, M., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Evacuation travel paths in virtual reality experiments for tunnel safety analysis. Fire Safety Journal, 71, 257-267.
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Schroeder, P. A., Mühlberger, A., & Plewnia, C. (2015). Expositionstherapie. Virtuelle Welten für die psychiatrische Anwendung. NeuroTransmitter, 10.
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Seibt, B., Mühlberger, A., Likowski, K. U., & Weyers, P. (2015). Facial mimicry in its social setting. Front Psychol.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01122

Shiban, Y., Brütting, J., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Fear reactivation prior to exposure therapy: Does it facilitate the effects of VR exposure in a randomized clinical sample? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 46, 133-140.
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Shiban, Y., Reichenberger, J., Neumann, I. D., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Social conditioning and extinction paradigm: A translational study in virtual reality. Front Psychol, 6, 400.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00400

Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Jobst, V., Hörnlein, A., Puppe, F., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). The Appearance Effect: Influences of virtual agent features on performance and motivation. Computers in Human Behavior, 49, 5-11.
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Shiban, Y., Schelhorn, I., Pauli, P., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Effect of combined multiple contexts and multiple stimuli exposure in spider phobia: A randomized clinical trial in virtual reality. Behav Res Ther, 71, 45-53.
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Shiban, Y., Wittmann, J., Weißinger, M., & Mühlberger, A. (2015). Gradual extinction reduces Reinstatement. Front Behav Neurosci, 9, 254.
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