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Anette Kersting

Anette Kersting

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Psychology

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64
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13772
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National Ranking
132

Overview

Anette Kersting is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and medicine. Their body of work spans multiple subfields, prominently including clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in Kersting's research include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access

Several frequent collaborators appear in their work, reflecting consistent partnerships within the academic community. These co-authors include:

  • Thomas Suslow
  • Julia Treml
  • Michaela Nagl
  • Charlott Maria Bodenschatz
  • Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

Kersting has published repeatedly in certain academic journals, indicating a focus and specialization in specific venues. These frequent publication outlets are:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Anette Kersting include the following:

  • "Attentional biases to emotional information in clinical depression: A systematic and meta-analytic review of eye tracking findings," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Depression, anxiety and health status across different BMI classes: A representative study in Germany," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "The association between therapeutic alliance and outcome in internet-based psychological interventions: A meta-analysis," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Pre-loss grief and preparedness for death among caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients: A systematic review," 2021, Social Science & Medicine
  • "Assessing prolonged grief disorder: A systematic review of assessment instruments," 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of complicated grief in a representative population-based sample

    Anette Kersting;Elmar Brähler;Heide Glaesmer;Birgit Wagner

  • Body Dissatisfaction in Individuals with Obesity Compared to Normal-Weight Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Natascha-Alexandra Weinberger;Anette Kersting;Steffi G. Riedel-Heller;Claudia Luck-Sikorski

  • Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments for binge eating disorder.

    Silja Vocks;Brunna Tuschen-Caffier;Reinhard Pietrowsky;Stephan Jeff Rustenbach

  • Abortion Stigma: A Systematic Review.

    Franz Hanschmidt;Katja Linde;Anja Hilbert;Steffi G Riedel-Heller

  • Complicated grief after perinatal loss.

    Anette Kersting;Birgit Wagner

  • Automatic mood-congruent amygdala responses to masked facial expressions in major depression.

    Thomas Suslow;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Daniel Rumstadt

  • The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

    Markus Loeffler;Christoph Engel;Peter Ahnert;Dorothee Alfermann

  • Maternal posttraumatic stress response after the birth of a very low-birth-weight infant.

    A Kersting;M Dorsch;U Wesselmann;K Lüdorff

  • Risk of completed suicide after bariatric surgery: a systematic review.

    C. Peterhänsel;D. Petroff;G. Klinitzke;A. Kersting

  • Reduced amygdala-prefrontal coupling in major depression: association with MAOA genotype and illness severity.

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Carsten Konrad;Katharina Domschke

  • Functional anatomy of visuo-spatial working memory during mental rotation is influenced by sex, menstrual cycle, and sex steroid hormones.

    S. Schöning;A. Engelien;A. Engelien;H. Kugel;S. Schäfer

  • Inflammatory markers in major depression and melancholia.

    Matthias Rothermundt;Volker Arolt;Marion Peters;Heike Gutbrodt

  • Brief Internet-Based Intervention Reduces Posttraumatic Stress and Prolonged Grief in Parents after the Loss of a Child during Pregnancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Anette Kersting;Ruth Dölemeyer;Jana Steinig;Franziska Walter

  • 5-HTTLPR Biases Amygdala Activity in Response to Masked Facial Expressions in Major Depression

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Jochen Bauer;Jurgen Deckert;Jurgen Deckert

  • The Stigma of Suicide Survivorship and Related Consequences-A Systematic Review

    Franz Hanschmidt;Franziska Lehnig;Steffi G. Riedel-Heller;Anette Kersting

  • Predicting suicidal ideation by interpersonal variables, hopelessness and depression in real-time. An ecological momentary assessment study in psychiatric inpatients with depression.

    N. Hallensleben;H. Glaesmer;T. Forkmann;D. Rath

  • Women's greater ability to perceive happy facial emotion automatically: gender differences in affective priming.

    Uta-Susan Donges;Anette Kersting;Thomas Suslow;Thomas Suslow

  • Weight Bias Internalization Scale: Psychometric Properties and Population Norms

    Anja Hilbert;Sabrina Baldofski;Markus Zenger;Bernd Löwe

  • Cognitive impairment and in vivo metabolites in first-episode neuroleptic-naive and chronic medicated schizophrenic patients: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    Patricia Ohrmann;Ansgar Siegmund;Thomas Suslow;Anya Pedersen

  • Serotonergic genes modulate amygdala activity in major depression

    U. Dannlowski;P. Ohrmann;J. Bauer;H. Kugel

  • Association of the functional -1019C/G 5-HT1A polymorphism with prefrontal cortex and amygdala activation measured with 3 T fMRI in panic disorder.

    Katharina Domschke;Katharina Domschke;Miriam Braun;Patricia Ohrmann;Thomas Suslow

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Suslow
Thomas Suslow Leipzig University
Heide Glaesmer
Heide Glaesmer Leipzig University
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Boris Egloff
Boris Egloff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Anja Hilbert
Anja Hilbert Leipzig University
Michael Rufer
Michael Rufer University of Zurich
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Thomas Forkmann
Thomas Forkmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg

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