Otto, Alexandra

Education

Training as a psychological psychotherapist in behavioural therapy

Additional training: Group therapy

Training Institute for Behavior Therapy Regensburg (AVR)

Master of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Bachelor of Science Psychology

University of Regensburg

Professional Activity

Research associate (doctoral candidate) at the Department
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

University Hospital Regensburg

Student and research assistant at the Department of
Experimental Psychology and Methodology

University of Regensburg

Research Interests

Clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, borderline personality disorder, non-suicidal self-injurious behavior, emotion perception, multisensory perception

Publications

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., & Otto, A. (2023). The German COVID-19 Questionnaire for Anorexia Nervosa (COV-AN). 

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

Frank, S. M., Otto, A., Volberg, G., Peter, U. T., Watanabe, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2022). Transfer of tactile learning from trained to untrained body parts supported by cortical coactivation in primary somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0301-22.2022

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., & Jarvers, C. (2022, April 26). The Alexithymia Questionnaire for Children – German version (AQC-G). 
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ra65t

Kandsperger S, Jarvers I, Ecker A, Schleicher D, Madurkay J, Otto A and 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 12:634346.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.634346