In der Sektion für Medizinische Psychologie der Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Universitätsklinikums Bonn ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende Stelle in Teilzeit (6...

Laboratory stress tasks are widely used to assess individual differences in acute stress reactivity, yet it remains unclear how these responses correspond to stress experienced in everyday life. Here,...

The recoverability, reliability, and generalizability of reward processing parameters and relation to mental health symptoms - Volume 56

Translational Psychiatry - Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits

The vagus nerve transmits vital signals between organ systems of the body and the brain. Despite growing interest in non-invasive transcutaneous vagus…

Stress evokes a complex repertoire of psychological and physiological responses. This paper introduces the Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task (LSST), a pa…

hBayesDM 2.0 — modernize stack & toolchain Top-to-bottom refactor of both the R and Python packages onto current Stan tooling, plus the supporting work to keep behavior, docs, and CI in sync. H...

Schulz et al. show that anhedonia in depression, as measured by a scale often equated with loss of pleasure, reflects reduced anticipation of food rewards rather than impaired enjoyment itself. Linkin...

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DeepCor is a deep-learning-based denoising approach for task-based and resting-state fMRI data that can be used even for single participants.

Motivation and Emotion - Blunted anticipatory and consummatory pleasure has been linked to depression symptoms, particularly anhedonic depression. The current study (1) investigated whether such...

Ultrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories.

Signals from the body profoundly influence cognition. This process is known as interoception, and has been extensively studied in the cardiac, respira…

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a promising tool to modulate motivation and affect, with prior studies showing greater pupil dilation compared to sham. However, sensory dif...

Adolescence is a period of heightened sensation-seeking, risk-taking, and reward sensitivity, characterized by structural and functional changes in the brain. Developmental changes in functional connectivity between cortical and subcortical regions may refine communication within reward-related circ …

Antidepressant treatment shouldn't be a guessing game. RELMED is working towards using advanced research to predict which medication is most likely to help each person along their individual path to recovery.

Combining MEG, eye-tracking, and representational similarity analysis, this study shows that readers rapidly and sequentially extract orthographic and semantic information from upcoming words before fixation, supporting efficient reading.

Adaptive stress responses are dependent on the availability of energy and the body's effectiveness in metabolizing glucose as fuel. However, it is not well understood if glucose levels contribute to t...