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 ...

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 ...

Background: The effect of humor intervention in a palliative care setting could prove beneficial and is worth investigating. However, data on humor interventions for palliative care patients are scarce. ...

The proportion of individuals suffering from age-associated noncommunicable diseases is expected to rise rapidly in the next decades. To maintain health, well-being and socioeconomic stability in an ageing society, identifying ...

The field of digital psychiatry and psychotherapy has generated increasing interest given its potential to improve mental health care, for instance, by enhancing accessibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. In ...