Research

• Neurophysiological correlates of stress and working memory
• Neuro-hemodynamic correlates of feature response binding

Cognitive Psychology

Research at ICAN

• Neural underpinnings of feature response binding
• Hyperbinding in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

Clinical and Biological Psychology

Research at ICAN

• Neurophysiological basis of social cognition
• Impairment of social cognition in mental and developmental disorders
• Interaction of cognition and emotion in cluster B personality disorders
• Neurobiological basis of stress and stress management

Clinical and Biological Psychology

Research

• Stress and stress protection (social support, touch, sports, oxytocin)
• Stress management in children and adults
• Effects of stress on health and social behavior in children and adults
• Psychobiology of social interaction
• Clinical psychology of social interaction (personality disorders, social phobia, burnout)
• Methods of stress induction and stress measurement

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Research

• Neural basis of task switching in childhood
• Metamemory development across childhood and adolescence
• Differentlial effects of curiosity on memory across childhood and adolescence
• Pubertal hormones and brain plasticity in adolescence
• False memory in aging

Neurocognitive Psychology

Research

• Basic mechanisms of memory
• Age-related memory changes
• Memory in clinical populations
• Attention and executive function

Neurobehavioral Genetics

Research

• The neurosocial phenotype of the Triple X Syndrome
• Causative genes and psychosocial stress in Primary Hyperhidrosis

General Psychology: Cognition, Emotion, Action Regulation

Research

• Emotional information processing
• Emotion and Behavior
• Implicit Social Cognition

Cognitive Psychology

Research

• Electrophysiological correlates of Binding and Retrieval in Action Control
• The role of midfrontal theta oscillations in conflict detection and cognitive control
• Electrophysiological correlates of retrieval practice

Heisenberg Professor for General Psychology

Research

• Motor functions & action control
• Error processing
• Avoidance Behavior
• Rules, rule breaking, lying
• Statistics & Research Methods

Clinical Psychophysiology

Research

• Effects of stress and stress hormones on psychophysiological and cognitive processes
• Interoception and cognitive effects related to the activity changes in visceral afferent neurotraffic 'in vivo'
• Human startle eye blink, and prepulse inhibition (PPI)

Electrical Engeneering

Research

• Electrical diagnostic: Spatial diagnostics and artifact reduction
• Artifact and signal transmission models for bioelectric signal derivation systems
• Measuring set-up for the investigation of the influences of mechanical stress on artifacts in measuring cables and electrodes
• Development of models to describe the coupling of electromagnetic artifacts in electrophysiological measurements

Logopedics

Research

• Association language, numbers and space
• Symbol learning
• Typical and atypical language processing
• Digital devices in early literacy development
• Therapeutic games
• Digital diagnostics

University of Luxembourg & CLIPSLAB

Research

• Interoceptive brain network stimulation as intervention method to reduce stress and somatic symptoms (INSTIM)
• Interoception in medically unexplained symptoms (INMEDEX)
• Interoception and chronic stress (INSTRESS)
• Stress effects on interoceptive learning and memory as a mechanism of somatic symptom generation (INMEMO)

Biopsychology - University of Luxemburg

Reseach

• Stress
• Gene-environment interaction
• Epigenetics
• Developmental psychopathology
• Mental health
• Oxytocin

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Medical Director at Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Trier

Radiology, Neuroradiology, Sonography and Nuclear Medicine
at the Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Trier

Research

• The neurosocial phenotype of the Triple X Syndrome

Gynecologic Cancer Center; Obstrectics and Gynegology
at the Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromäerinnen in Trier