Willkommen am Lehrstuhl für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie

Seit Juli 2018 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und –psychotherapie und Ärztlicher Direktor der Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universität Regensburg am Bezirksklinikum Regensburg

2008-2018Leiter der Sektion „Störungen der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung“, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

2014-2018 Chair der Sektion Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie der European Psychiatric Association (EPA)

2013-2014Fellow im Marsilius-Kolleg der Universität Heidelberg, Exzellenzcluster der Bundesregierung

2005-2018Leitender Oberarzt und stellvertretender Ärztlicher Direktor, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

2009Professor (apl) für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie, Universität Heidelberg

2005Habilitation (venia legendi), Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

1998-2004Oberarzt

1990-1998Arzt im Praktikum und Assistenzarzt an den Universitäten Wien, Göttingen und Heidelberg

Präventions- und Therapieforschung bei Jugendlichen mit selbstschädigenden und suizidalen Verhaltensweisen, neurobiologische Korrelate belastungsreaktiver Störungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen (Dissoziative Störungen und Konversionsstörungen, Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung); Bildgebende Untersuchungen zur Hirnreifung in der Kindheit/Jugendalter sowie umschriebenen Krankheitsbildern (Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung, Schizophrene Störungen), generationsübergreifende Transmissionsfaktoren psychischer Störungen.

2009 – 2012 7. EU-Rahmenprogramm: Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE): Promoting health through the prevention of risk-taking and self-destructive behaviours. Gemeinschaftsprojekt 11 europäischer Länder. Studienleitung für Deutschland: Brunner

2010 – 2013 7. EU-Rahmenprogramm: Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY). Gemeinschaftsprojekt 5 europäischer Länder. Studienleitung für Deutschland: Brunner

2012 – 2015 DFG, Klinische Forschergruppe 256: Pathomechanismen der Emotionsdysregulation bei der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung; Co-Studienleiter im Zentralprojekt: Brunner

2013 - 2018 NHMRC Victoria, Australia: The role of the neuroendocrinological stress response system in the development of stress vulnerability among youth with first-presentation borderline personality disorders, Orygen Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Co-Studienleiter: Brunner

2012 – 2016 BMBF, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung: Understanding and Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse (UBICA): Den Teufelskreislauf der Traumatisierung verstehen und unterbrechen – Neurobiologische Mechanismen und psychotherapeutische Interventionen bei Müttern mit traumatischen Lebenserfahrungen und ihren Kindern; Brunner (Koordinator)

2013 – 2017 Dietmar-Hopp-Stiftung: Gehirnentwicklung in der Pubertät – Entwicklung neuronaler Netzwerke und soziale-emotionale Entwicklung in der Adoleszenz; Studienleiter: Brunner

2015 Minerva Stiftung der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: International Summer School „The intergenerational transmission of childhood adversity” (Minerva-Gentner-Symposium) Brunner

2015 Exzellenzinitiative II der Bundesregierung Deutschland: Universität Heidelberg: Exzellenzinitiative II / Maßnahme 7 / Internationale Gastwissenschaftlerin Prof. Catherine J. Harmer, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, England; Brunner

2016 – 2019 Dietmar-Hopp-Stiftung: Neurobiogenetic predictors of the development of self-injurious and risk behavior among adolescents. Co-Studienleiter: Brunner

2018 - 2020 Dietmar-Hopp-Stiftung: Zum Einfluss von körperlich-sportlichen Aktivitäten in der Kindheit auf die Gehirnentwicklung und -funktion: Perspektiven für eine neurobiologisch fundierte Gesundheitsförderung; Studienleiter: Brunner

2017 – 2021 BMBF, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung: STAR – Selbstverletzendes Verhalten: Mechanismen, Intervention, Beendigung. TP4: Diagnostik, Prädiktoren für den Verlauf,
Co-Studienleiter: Brunner

2019 - 2023 BMBF, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung: Understanding and breaking the intergenerational cycle of abuse in families enrolled in routine mental health and welfare services (UBICA-II): Brunner (Ko-Koordinator)

2020 - 2021 Follow-up von Coronavirusinfektionen bei Kindern in Bayern zur Erkennung und frühzeitigen Behandlung von Pädiatrischem Multiorgan Immunsydrom (PMIS) (Follow CoKiBa), Gesamtleitung: Univ. Prof. Dr. med. univ. M. Kabesch, KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig, KH Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg; Teilprojekt Neuropsychologie: Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Dr. med. S. Kandsperger) Förderer: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst 

2021 - 2023 Langzeiteffekte von Coronavirus-Infektionen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen in Bayern: Erkennung und frühzeitige Behandlung von Folgeerkrankungen (Post Covid Kids Bavaria Studie, PoCO), Gesamtleitung: Univ. Prof. Dr. med. univ. M. Kabesch, KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig, KH Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg; Teilprojekt Neuropsychiatrie Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Dr. med. S. Kandsperger); Förderer: Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Gesundheit und Pflege 

2022 International Presidential Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Ass. Professor Jonathan Levy, Ph.D., Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), Israel & Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineerung, Aalto University, Finnland, Neuronale Korrelate der Empathiefähigkeit. Förderer: Universität Regensburg

WS 22/23 Konstruktion eines Chatbots zur Einschätzung von Depressivität und Suizidalität bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. (Dr. phil. I. Jarvers, Dr. med. Kandsperger, Prof. R. Brunner, Prof. Ludwig, Lehrstuhl für Informationswissenschaft, A.Ecker, M.Sc); Interne Forschungsförderung der Universität Regensburg: Förderprogramm "UR Fellows"

2023 - 2026 Graduiertenkolleg 2174.2: "Neurobiology of Social and Emotional Dysfunction" (Sprecherin: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Inga. D. Neumann; Lehrstuhl für Neurobiologie und Tierphysiologie, Universität Regensburg) Teilprojekt: Identification of adolescents at high versus low risk for anxiety and depressive disorders using neuroendocrine and imaging connectome markers (Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. I. D. Neumann; Förderer: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2024

1. 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

2023

1. Gaertner, V. D., Malfertheiner, S. F., Postpischil, J., Brandstetter, S., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Apfelbacher, C., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., KUNO-Kids study group & Kerzel, S. (2023). Implementation of safe infant sleep recommendations during night-time sleep in the first year of life in a German birth cohort. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 875. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28008-1

2. 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).
   doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281627

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

4. Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Josi, J., Koenig, J., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2023). Resting-state functional connectivity predicting clinical improvement following treatment in female adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of affective disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.117

5. 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. https://www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

6. 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

7. 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. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00905-w

2022

1. Brunner, R. (2022). Rezension: Adolescent Risk Behavior and Self-Regulation. A Cybernetic Perspective. Zeitschrift für Kinder - und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 50(6), 506-507. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000878

2. Brunner, R., & Resch, F. (2022). Diätverhalten und Körperbild im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. In Handbuch Essstörungen und Adipositas (pp. 9-15). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63544-5_2

3. Cavelti, M., Rinnewitz, L., Walter, M., van der Venne, P., Parzer, P., Josi, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., & Kaess, M. (2022). Psychobiological Correlates of Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychopathology, 55(1), 37-48.
   doi.org/10.1159/000520228

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

5. Kaess, M., Schnyder, N., Michel, C., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Sarchiapone, N., Hoven, C. W., Wasserman, C., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Varnik, A., Resch, F., ... Wasserman, D. (2022) . Zwelve-month service use, suicidality and mental health problems of European adolescents after a school-based screening for current suicidality. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 31(2), 229-238.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01681-7

6. Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Keck, F., Bentheimer, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2022) Emotional reactivity in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and its predctors: a longitudinal study. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13.
   doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

7. Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner R., & Jarvers, I. (2022). 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, 1-14.
   doi.org/10.1159/000526611

8. Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological acompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: study protocol. BJPsych Open, 8(2), e57. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29

9. Lustig, S., Kaess, M., Schnyder, N., Michel, C., Brunner, R., Tubiana, A., Kahn, J., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cozman, D., Cotter, P., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, T., ... & Wasserman, D. (2022). The impact of school-based screening on service use in adolescents at risk for mental health problems and risk-behaviour. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01990-z

10. Mayer, J., Brandstetter, S., Tischer, C., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Malfertheiner, S. F., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2022). Utilisation of supplementary prenatal screening and diagnostics in Germany; cross-sectional study using data from the KUNO Kids Health Study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22(1), 1-11.
    doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04692-1

11. Meier, S. A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Zimmermann, P. (2022). Persönlichkeitsmodelle im Kontext der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie - Entwicklung, Veränderung, Stabilität und Forschungsperspektiven. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 71(1), 2-22.
    doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2022.71.1.2

12. Moehler, E., Brunner, R., & Sharp, C. (2022). Editorial Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 601.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.883753

13. Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Koenig, J., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2022). Altered Resting-State Networks in Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury - A Graph Therory Analysis. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, nsac007. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac007

14. Schär, S., Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Slavova, N., Lerch, S., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., Koenig, J., & Kaess, M. (2022). Pituitary volume in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: Preliminary evidence for alterations in pituitary maturation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 138, 105662.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105662

15. Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., Götz, L., Otto, A., Kandsperger, S., & Brunner, R. (2022). 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(1), 1-15.
    doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06758-z

 2021

1. Ando, A., Parzer, P., Kaess, M., Schell, S., Henze, R., Delorme, S., Stieltjes, B., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Koenig, J. (2021). Calendar age and pubertyrelated development of regional gray matter volume and white matter tracts during adolescence. Brain Structure and Function, 226(3), 927-937.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00429-020-02208-1

2. Brandstetter, S:, Böhmer, M. M., Pawellek, M., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2021). Parents' intention to get vaccinated and to have their child vaccinated against COVID-19: cross-sectional analyses using data from the KUNO-Kids health study. European journal of pediatrics, 180(11), 3405-3410. doi.org/10.1007/s00431-021-04094-z

3. Brunner, R., Jägle, H., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). Dissociative Visual Loss in Children and Adolescents. Dissoziative Sehstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 238(10), 1084-1091.
   doi.org/10.1055/a-1617-3193

4. Brunner, R., Mikan, K., Niebler, M., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). International perspectives on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). In D. Wasserman (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention (2nd ed., pp. 105-112). Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry.
   doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198834441.003.0015

5. Cavelti, M., Rinnewitz, L., Walter, M., van der Venne, P., Parzer, P., Josi, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., Kaess, M. (2022). Psychobiological Correlates of Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychopathology, 55(1), 37-48. doi.org/10.1159/000520228

6. Götz, L., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Mikan, K., Brunner, R., Kandsperger, S., (2021). The role of the endogenous oxytocin system under psychosocial stress conditions in adolescents suffering from anxiety disorder: study protocol for a parallel group controlled trial. BMC Psychology 9(1):61.
   doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00564-z.d

7. Kaess, M., Klar, J., Kindler, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Barzilay, S., Bobes, J., Cozman, D., Gomboc, V., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., Meszaros, G., Musa, G. J., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P., Sisak, M., Varnik, P., Resch, F., Wasserman, D. (2021). Excessive and pathological Internet use - Risk behavior or psychopathology? Addictive behaviors, 123, 107045. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107045

8. 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, 913.
   doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

9. Kandsperger, S., Jarver, 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, 1195.
   doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

10. Koenig, J., Abler, B., Agartz, I., Akerstedt, T., Andreassen, O. A., Anthony, M., Bär, K. J., Bertsch, K., Brown, R. C., Brunner, R., Varnevali, L., Vritchley, H. D., Cullen, K. R., de Geus, E. J. C., de la Cruz, F., Dziobek, I., Ferger, M. D., Fischer, H., Flor, H., Gaebler, M., Gianaros, P. J., Giummarra, M. J., Greening, S. G., Guendelman, S., Heathers, J. A. J., Herpertz, S. C., Hu, M. X., Jentschke, S., Kaess, M., Kaufmann, T., ... Quintana, D. S. (2021). Corticsl thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis.Psychophysiology, 58(7). doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13688

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

12. Neukel, C., Bermpohl, F., Kaess, M., Taubner, S:, Boedeker, K., Williams, K., Dempfle, A., & Herpertz, S.C. (2021). Unterstanding and breaking the intergenerational cycle of abuse in families enrolled in routine mental health services: study protocol for a randomized controlled trail and two non-interventional trials investigating mechanisms of change within the UBICA II consortium. Trials, 22(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05653-3

13. Pinker, V., Brandstetter, S., Tischer, C., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2021). Determinants of maternal health four weeks after delivery: cross-sectional findings from the KUNO-kids health study. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-18. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11667-y

14. Rausch, J., Flach, E., Panizza, A., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C., Kaess, M., Bertsch, K. (2021). Associations between age and cortisol awakening response in patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Neural Transmission, 128(9), 1425-1432. doi.org/10.1007/s00702-021-02402-3

15. Schneider, I., Neukel, C., Bertsch, K., Fuchs, A., Möhler, E., Zietlow, A. L., Brunner, R., Wolf, R. C., Herpertz, S. C. (2021) Early life maltreatment affects intrinsic neural function in mothers. Journal of Psychiatric research, 142, 176-182.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.004

16. Sigrist, C., Reichl, C., Schmidt, S. J., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., & Koenig, J. (2021). Cardiac autonomic functioning and clinical outcome in adolescent borderline personality disorder over two years. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 111, 110336. doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110336

17. Thieme, D. T., Brunner, R., Kandsperger, S., Jägle, H. (2021). Colour Vision Disorder due to Conversion Disorders in Childhood. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 238(10), 1077-1083. doi.org/10.1055/a-1645-1616

18. Wartberg, L., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Kriston, L., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Carli, C., Wasserman, D., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Kaess, M. (2021). Longitudinal predictors of problematic alcohol use in adolescence: A 2-year follow-up study. Addictive Behaviors,120, 106952. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106952

2020

1. Benatov, J., Klomek, A. B., Apter, A., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hoven, S. WW., Sarchiapone, M., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran, P., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J., Keeley, H., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Sisask, M., Varnik, A., & Wasserman, D. (2020). Doing nothing is sometimes worse: Comparing avoidant versus approach coping strategies with peer victimization and their association to depression and suicide ideation. Journal of school violence, 19(4), 456-469.
   doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2020.1738941

2. Edinger, A., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Resch, R., & Kaess, M. (2020). The impact of adverse childhood experiences on therapy outcome in adolescents engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11.
   doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.505661 ;

3. Kahn, J. P., Cohen, R. F., Tubiana, A., Legrand, K., Wasserman, ., Carli, V., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Baralla, F., Barzilai, S., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran, R., Cosman, D., Guillemin, F., Haring, C., Kaess, M., Bitenc, U. M., Mészaros, G., McMahon, E., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P., Varnik, A., Varnik, P., Sarchiapone,m., Hoven, Wasserman, D. (2020). Influence of coping strategies on the efficacy of YAM (Youth Aware of Mental Health): a universal school-based suicide preventive program. European child & adolescent psychiatry 29(12), 1-11.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01476-w

4. Kluczniok, D., Bertsch, K., Attar, C. H., Neukel, C., Fuchs, A., Jaite, C., Dittrich, K., Bödeker, K., Heinz, A., Winter, S., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C., Bermpohl, F. (2020). Early life maltreatment and depression_ mediating effect of maternal hair cortisol concentration on child abuse potential. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 120, 104791.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104791

5. Mürner-Lavanchy, I. M., Koenig, J., Ando, A., Henze, R., Schell, S., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Kaess, M. (2020). Neuropsychological development in adolescents: Longitudinal associations with white matter microstructure. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 45, 100812. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100812

2019

1. Baldofski, S., Kohls, E., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Bilic, S., Eschenbeck, H., Kaess, M., Moessner, M., Salize, H. J., Diestelkamp, S., Voß, E., & Rummel-Kluge, C. (2019). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of two online interventions for children and adolescents at risk for depression (E. motion trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3156-8

2. Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Snir, A., Carli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, m., Hadlaczky, G., Balazs, J., Kereszteny, A., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Baner, R., McMahon, E., Keeley, H., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Podlogar, T., Sisask, M., Varnik, A., Wasserman, D. (2019): A longitudinal examination of the interpersonal theory of suicide and effects of school-based suicide prevention interventions in a multinational study of adolescents. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 60(10), 1104-111.
   doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13119

3. Bauer, S., Bilic, S., Reetz, C., Ozer, F., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Kaess, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H., Diestelkamp, S., & Moessner, M. (2019). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Internet-based selective eating disorder prevention: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11. doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3161-y

4. Bödeker, K., Fuchs, A., Führer, D., Kluczniok, D., Dittrich, K., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, e., Neukel, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Lehmkuhl, U., WInter, S. M., Herpertz, S., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., Resch, F. (2019). Impact of Maternal Early Life Maltreatment and Maternal Hisotry of Depression on Child Psychopathology: Mediating Role of Maternal Sensitivity? Child Psychiatry & Human development, 50(2), 278-290.
   doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0839-z

5. Brunstein Klomek, A., Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Varli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Hadlaczky, G., Balazs, J., Kereszteny, AA., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Banzer, R., McMahon, E., Keeley, H., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Podlogar, T., Sisadk, M., Varnik A., Wasserman, D. (2019). Bi-directional longitudinal associations between different types of bullying victimization, suicide ideation / attempts, and depression among a large sample of European adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 60(2), 209-215. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12951

6. Diestelkamp, S., Wartberg, L., Kaess, M., Bauer, S., Rummel-Kluge, C., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Salize, H., Moessner, M., Baldus, C., Arnaud, N., Thomasius, R., & ProHEAD consortium (2019). Effectiveness of a web-based screening and brief intervention with weekly text-message-initiated individualised prompts for reducing risky alcohol use among teenagers: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-14.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3160-z

7. Dittrich, K., Bermpohl, F., Kluczniok, D., Hindi Attar, C., Jaite, C., Fuchs, A., Neukel, C., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S. M., Roepke, S., Kaess, M. Heim, C., Boedeker, K. (2019): Alterations of empathy in mothers with a hisotry of early life maltreatment, depression and borderline personality disorder and their effects on child psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 50(7), 1182-1190.
   doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719001107

8. Eschenbeck, H., Lehner, L., Hofmann, H., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Diestelkamp, S., Kaess, M., Moessner, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H. J., & ProHEAD Consortium (2019). School-based mental health promotion in children and adolescents with StresSOS using online or face-to-face interventions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials 20(1), 1-12.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3159-5

9. Ghinea, D., Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Wasserman, D., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Longitudinal development of risk-taking and self-injurious behavior in association with late adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms. Psychiatry Research 273, 127-133.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.010

10. Kaess, M., Edinger, A., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Parzer, R., Brunner, R., Resch, F. (2019). Effectiveness of a brief psychotherapeutic intervention compared with treatment as usual for adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: a single-centre, randomised controlled trial. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 29(6), 881-891. doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01399-1

11. Kaess, M., eppelmann, L., Brunner, R., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Barzilay, S., Bobes, J., Cosman, D., Horvath, L. O., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., McMahon, E., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Tubiana, A.,Varnik, A., Wasserman, D. (2019). Life events predicting the first onset of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior - a prospective multicenter study. Journal of adolescent health, 66(2), 195-201.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.08.018

12. Kaess, M., Ritter, S., Lustig, S., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Moessner, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H., Thomasius, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., & ProHEAD consortium (2019). Promoting Help-seeking using E-technology for adolescents with mental health problems: study protocol for a randomized controlled trail within the ProHEAD Consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11.
    doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3157-7

13. Kästner, D., Buchholz, I., Weigel, A., Brunner, R., Voderholzer, U., Gumz, A., & Löwe, B. (2019). Facilitators and barriers in anorexia nervosa treatment initiation (FABIANA): study protocol for a mixed-methods and multicentre study. BJPsych open, 5(6). doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.77

14. Klar, J., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Relationship between (pathological) Internet Use and Sleep Problems in a Longitudinal Study. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 68(2), 146-159. doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2019.68.2.146

15. Neukel, C., Hillmann, K., Bertsch, K., Bermphl, G., Kluczniok, D., Möhler, E., Reck, V., Resch, F., Kaess, M., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C. (2019). Impact of early life maltreatment of women on the mother-child relationship: Data from mother-child dyads from Heidelberg and Berlin. Nervenarzt 90(3), 235-242.
    doi.org/10.1007/s00115-018-0662-6

16. Reichl, C., Brunner, R., Bender, N., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury and cortisol response to the retrieval of adversity: A sibling study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 110, 104460.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104460

17. Reichl, C., Kaess, M., Fuchs, A., Bertsch, K., Bödeker, K., Zietlow, A. L., Dittrich, K., Hartmann, A. M., Rujescu, D., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Bermpohl, F., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R. (2019). Childhood adversity and parenting behavior: the role of oxytocin receptor gene polymorphisms. Journal of Neural Transmission, 126(6), 777-787. doi.org/10.1007/s00702-019-02009-9

18. Rinnewitz, L., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). A Biobehavioral Validation of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm in Female Adolescents. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 7036. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43456-4

2018

1. Ahern, S., Burke, J. A., McElroy, B., Corcoran, P., McMahon, R. M., Keeley, H., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kaess, M., Kahn, J. P., Kereszteny, A., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Varnik, P., & Wasserman, D. (2018). A cost-effectiveness analysis of school-based suicide prevention prgrammes. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 27(10), 1295-1304.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1120-5

2. Ando, A., Reichl, C., Scheu, F., Bykova, A., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2018). Regional grey matter volume reduction in adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 280, 48-55.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.08.005 ;

3. Balasz, J., Miklósi, M., Kereszteny, A., Hoven, C. W., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hadlaczky, G., Apter, A., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran P., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Kaess, M., Varnik, A., Sarchiapone, M., & Wasserman, D. (2018). Comorbidity of Physical and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescent: Functional Impairment, Self-Rated Health and Subjective Well-being. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(8), 1698.
   doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081698

4. Bödeker, K., Fuchs, A., Führer, D., Kluczniok, D., Dittrich, K., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, E., Neukel, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Lehmkuhl, U., Winter, S. M., Herpertz, S., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., & Resch, F. (2018). Impact of Maternal Early Life Maltreatment and Maternal History of Depression on Child Psychopathology: Mediating Role of Maternal Sensitivity? Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50(2), 278-290.
   doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0839-z

5. Dittrich, K., Boedeker, K., Kluczniok, D., Jaite, C., Hindi Attar, C., Führer, D., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S. M., Heinz, A., Roepe, S., Heim, S., & Bermpohl, F. (2018). Child abuse potential in mothers with early life maltreatment, borderline personality disorder and depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 213(1), 412-418. doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.74

6. Dittrich, K., Fuchs, A., Bermpohl, F., Meyer, J., Führer, D., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kluczniok, D., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, E., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Winter, S. M., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Bödeker, K., & Resch, F. (2018). Effects of maternal history of depression and early life maltreatment on children's health-related quality of life. Journal of Affective Disorders, 225, 280-288.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.053

7. Fuchs, A., Jaite, C., Neukel, C., Dittrich, K., Bertsch, K., Kluczniok, D., Möhler, E., Attar, C. H., Brunner, R., Bödeker, K., Resch, F., Bermpohl, F., & Kaess, M. (2018). Link between children's hair cortisol and psychopathology or quality of life moderated by childhood adversity risk. Psychoneuroendocrinology 90, 52-60.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.003

8. Gambadauro, P., Carli, V., Hadlaczky, G., Sarchiapone, M., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Cosman, D., Farkas, L., Haring, C., Hoven, C. W., Kaess, M., Kahn, J. P., McMahon, E., Postuvan, V., Sisask, M., Värnik, A., Zadravec Sedivy, N., & Wasserman, D. (2018). Correlates of sexual initiation among European adolescents. PLoS One 13(2), e0191451. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191451

9. Klusczniok, D., Bödeker, K., Hindi Attar, C., Jaite, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Führer, D., Pätz, L., Dittrich, K., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S., Heinz, A., Roepke, S., Heim, C., & Bermpohl, F. (2018). Emotional availability in mothers with borderline personality disorder and mothers with remitted major depression is differently associated with psychopathology among school-aged children. Journal of Affective Disorders, 231, 63-73. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.02.001

10. Koenig, J., Brunner, R., Parzer, P., Resch, F., & Kaess, M. (2018a). Tphysiological orienting response in female adolescents with borderline personality disorder. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 86, 287-293.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.04.012

11. Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Reichl, C., Ando, A., Thayer, J. F., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2018b). Cortical thickness, resting state heart rate, and heart rate variability in female adolescents. Psychophysiology, 55(5), e13043. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13043

12. Krauch, M., Ueltzhöffer, K., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Hensel, S., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K. (2018). Heightened Salience of Anger and Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder - A Script-based fMRI Study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 57. doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00057

13. Neukel, C., Bertsch, K., Fuchs, A., Zietlow, A. L., Reck, C., Möhler, E., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., & Herpertz, S. C. (2018). The maternal barin in women with a history of early-life maltreatment: an imagination-based fMRI study of conflictual versus pleasant interactions with children. Journal of Psychiatry and  Neuroscience, 43(4), 273-282. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.170026

14. Rinnewitz, L., Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Resch, F., & Kaess, M. (2018): Childhood Adversity and Psychophysiological Reactivity to Pain in Adolescent Nonduicidal Self-Injury. Psychopathology 51(5), 346-352.
    doi.org/10.1159/000491702