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Overview

Anke Karl is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, specializing in the field of psychology with a focus on clinical and experimental subfields. Their research portfolio includes significant contributions to clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, psychiatry, and mental health.

The scientist's work frequently appears in peer-reviewed journals such as the European Journal of Psychotraumatology, Frontiers in Psychology, Mindfulness, Behaviour Research and Therapy, and Research in Developmental Disabilities.

Key research topics addressed by Anke Karl include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Frequent collaborators in their research endeavors include Tamsin Ford, Mengya Zhao, Stanley Zammit, Janet Smithson, and Peng Wang.

Notable recent publications by Anke Karl include:

  • Heightened risk of posttraumatic stress disorder in adults with autism spectrum disorder: The role of cumulative trauma and memory deficits (2021) in Research in Developmental Disabilities
  • Self-compassion in Chinese Young Adults: Specific Features of the Construct from a Cultural Perspective (2021) in Mindfulness
  • Abuse in Childhood and Cardiometabolic Health in Early Adulthood: Evidence From the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (2021) in Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Understanding bipolar disorder within a biopsychosocial emotion dysregulation framework (2020) in Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
  • Rejection sensitivity and vulnerable attachment: associations with social support and PTSD symptoms in trauma survivors (2022) in European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of structural brain abnormalities in PTSD.

    Anke Karl;Michael Schaefer;Loretta S Malta;Denise Dörfel

  • Reorganization of motor and somatosensory cortex in upper extremity amputees with phantom limb pain.

    Anke Karl;Niels Birbaumer;Niels Birbaumer;Werner Lutzenberger;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Examining the factor structures of the five facet mindfulness questionnaire and the self-compassion scale.

    Matthew J. Williams;Tim Dalgleish;Anke Karl;Willem Kuyken

  • Examining the factor structure of the 39-item and 15-item versions of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire before and after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for people with recurrent depression.

    Jenny Gu;Clara Strauss;Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer

  • Examining the Factor Structure of the Self-Compassion Scale in Four Distinct Populations: Is the Use of a Total Scale Score Justified?

    Kristin D Neff;Tiffany A Whittaker;Anke Karl

  • Meta-analytic review of event-related potential studies in post-traumatic stress disorder

    Anke Karl;Loretta S. Malta;Andreas Maercker

  • The relationship of perceptual phenomena and cortical reorganization in upper extremity amputees.

    S.M Grüsser;C Winter;W Mühlnickel;C Denke

  • Posttraumatic growth in accident survivors: openness and optimism as predictors of its constructive or illusory sides

    Tanja Zoellner;Sirko Rabe;Anke Karl;Andreas Maercker

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on 'compassion focused imagery'.

    Helen Rockliff;Anke Karl;Kirsten McEwan;Jean Gilbert

  • The association between childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation: Two different mechanisms contributing to depression?

    Heather A. O’Mahen;Anke Karl;Nick Moberly;Gina Fedock

  • Altered spontaneous low frequency brain activity in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

    Suzannah K. Helps;Samantha J. Broyd;Christopher J. James;Anke Karl;Anke Karl

  • Soothing Your Heart and Feeling Connected: A New Experimental Paradigm to Study the Benefits of Self-Compassion:

    Hans Kirschner;Hans Kirschner;Willem Kuyken;Willem Kuyken;Kim Wright;Henrietta Roberts

  • Neural correlates of posttraumatic growth after severe motor vehicle accidents.

    Sirko Rabe;Tanja Zöllner;Andreas Maercker;Anke Karl

  • Distinct brain networks in recognition memory share a defined region in the precuneus

    Denise Dörfel;Annett Werner;Michael Schaefer;Rüdiger Von Kummer

  • Retracted: Physical Activity within a CBT Intervention Improves Coping with Pain in Traumatized Refugees: Results of a Randomized Controlled Design

    Alexandra Liedl;Alexandra Liedl;Julia Müller;Naser Morina;Anke Karl

  • Neuroelectric source imaging of steady-state movement-related cortical potentials in human upper extremity amputees with and without phantom limb pain.

    Anke Karl;Werner Mühlnickel;Ralf Kurth;Herta Flor

  • Attachment-security priming attenuates amygdala activation to social and linguistic threat

    Luke Norman;Natalia Lawrence;Andrew Iles;Abdelmalek Benattayallah

  • Regional brain electrical activity in posttraumatic stress disorder after motor vehicle accident.

    Sirko Rabe;André Beauducel;Tanja Zöllner;Andreas Maercker

  • A neural substrate for nonpainful phantom limb phenomena.

    Herta Flor;Werner Mühlnickel;Anke Karl;Claudia Denke

  • Role of endocrine and inflammatory alterations in comorbid somatic diseases of post-traumatic stress disorder.

    N Rohleder;A Karl

  • Post-traumatic growth as outcome of a cognitive-behavioural therapy trial for motor vehicle accident survivors with PTSD.

    Tanja Zoellner;Sirko Rabe;Anke Karl;Andreas Maercker

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Maercker
Andreas Maercker University of Zurich
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Willem Kuyken
Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Thomas R. Lynch
Thomas R. Lynch University of Southampton
Catherine Crane
Catherine Crane University of Oxford
Nicolas Rohleder
Nicolas Rohleder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christine Knaevelsrud
Christine Knaevelsrud Freie Universität Berlin
Natalia Lawrence
Natalia Lawrence University of Exeter
Manuela Barreto
Manuela Barreto University of Exeter

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