Die Konzeptualisierung der psychiatrischen Diagnose Posttraumatic-Stress Disorder geht im Wesentlichen auf die Auseinandersetzung mit und Erforschung von psychischen Beschwerden ehemaliger Vietnamkriegsveteranen in den USA ......

The prevention and treatment of age-related memory impairment requires the early detection of underlying pathological changes and the availability of effective risk modifying intervention. This, in turn, demands research ...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse und Interpretation der 1997 im Rahmen einer monozentrischen Volontärsstudie zur körperlichen und psychologischen Nachuntersuchung von Frühgeborenen im Schulalter der ...

Vor dem Hintergrund neuerer Ansätze aus Biomarker-Forschung und Psychoneuroimmunologie zur Ätiologie der Suizidalität setzt sich die folgende Arbeit mit dem Einfluss von Entzündungsparametern, Lipiden sowie psychischer ...

Food decisions are inevitable, frequent, and complex decisions with a high impact on our health. Understanding the mechanisms that underly food decisions has become a multidisciplinary endeavor over the last decades, ...

Loneliness is a painful condition with detrimental effects on physical and mental health. However, it is still unclear which mechanisms hinder lonely individuals from forming new social relationships which might alleviate ...

In this thesis, epilepsy- and surgery-related factors were investigated for their effects on postoperative seizure and cognitive outcome in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
As a first ...

Study I: Manipulated by Marketing and Hormones? The relevance of Oxytocin for Marketing Placebo Effects on Food Product Perception
What consumers expect from food products and how they experience ...

The sex hormone estradiol and the neuropeptide oxytocin induce a variety of behavioral and neural effects, but possible underlying interactions have not been tested in a sample involving both sexes. Thus, the current thesis ...