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Suffel, A., Nagels, A., Steines, M., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (accepted). Feeling addressed! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Human Brain Mapping Background: The feeling of being addressed is the first step in a complex processing stream enabling successful social communication. Social impairments are a relevant characteristic of … More Paper accepted! Feeling addressed! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Congratulations Anne!!!

Ridderbusch I.C., Yang, Y., Weber, H., Reif, A., Herterich, S., Ströhle, A., Pfleiderer, B., Arolt, V., Wittchen, H.-U., Lueken, U., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (accepted). Neural correlates of NOS1 ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction in fMRI. NeuroImage: Clinical IF: 3.943 Abstract: Neuronal nitric oxide synthase (NOS-I) … More Paper accepted!!! Neural correlates of NOS1 ex1f-VNTR allelic variation in panic disorder and agoraphobia during fear conditioning and extinction in fMRI. Congratulations Isabelle

04/2020 – 04/2022: Funding by Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg GmbH. Cooperation contract, Title: Development and neurobiological investigation of a social-cognitive intervention program to improve social dysfunction in schizophrenia. PI: Dr. Florian Bitsch, Dr. Yifei He, & Prof. Dr. Benjamin Straube

Yang, Y., Lueken, U., Richter, J., Hamm, A., Wittmann, A., Konrad, C., … Kircher, T. (2020). Effect of CBT on Biased Semantic Network in Panic Disorder: A Multicenter fMRI Study Using Semantic Priming. American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(3), 254–264. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.19020202

Uhlmann, L., Pazen, M., van Kemenade, B., Steinsträter, O., Harris, L.R., Kircher, T. & Straube, B. (accepted). Seeing your own or someone else’s hand moving in accordance with your action: The neural interaction of agency and hand identity. Human Brain Mapping Forward models can predict sensory consequences of self-action, which is reflected by less neural … More Paper accepted!! Seeing your own or someone else’s hand moving in accordance with your action… Congratulations Lukas!

Riedl L, Nagels A, Sammer G, Straube B (2020) A multimodal speech-gesture training intervention for patients with schizophrenia and its neural underpinnings – the study protocol of a randomized controlled pilot trial. Front Psychiatry 11:110 Available at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00110/abstract Dysfunctional social communication is one of the most stable characteristics in patients with schizophrenia that also affects … More Paper accepted! A multimodal speech-gesture training intervention for patients with schizophrenia … Congratulations Lydia

Krautheim, J.T., Steines, M., Dannlowski, U., Neziroğlu, G., Acosta, H., Sommer, J., Straube, B.* & Kircher, T.* (2020). Emotion specific neural activation for the production and perception of facial expressions. Cortex accepted. *contributed equally The distinction between different facial emotions is crucial for interpersonal communication. Shared neural circuits for facial emotion production and perception are … More Paper accepted: Emotion specific neural activation for the production and perception of facial expressions. Congratulations Johannes

Steines, M., Krautheim, J.T., Neziroğlu, G., Kircher, T. & Straube, B. (accepted). Conflicting group memberships modulate neural activation in an emotional production-perception network. Cortex, Special issue: Understanding others Abstract Social group membership modulates the neural processing of emotional facial expressions, which, in turn, recruits part of the neural production system. However, little is known about … More Paper accepted! Conflicting group memberships modulate neural activation in an emotional production-perception network! Congratulations Miriam

Wroblewski, A., He, Y., & Straube, B. (accepted). Dynamic Causal Modelling suggests impaired effective connectivity in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders during gesture-speech integration. Schizophrenia Research IF: 4.569 Abstract Integrating visual and auditory information during gesture-speech integration (GSI) is important for successful social communication, which is often impaired in schizophrenia. Several studies suggested the posterior … More Paper accepted! Impaired effective connectivity in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders during gesture-speech integration. Congratulations Adrian