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Birgit Derntl is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience, with significant contributions across subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The scientist's work addresses major topics including Stress Responses and Cortisol, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Mental Health Research Topics, Menstrual Health and Disorders, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Frequent venues for Birgit Derntl's publications include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Psychoneuroendocrinology, PLoS ONE, and Scientific Reports.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Birgit Derntl include the following:

  • Neuroimaging the menstrual cycle: A multimodal systematic review (2020, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology)
  • Shaping of the Female Human Brain by Sex Hormones: A Review (2020, Neuroendocrinology)
  • Do I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy (2020, Cortex)
  • The impact of face masks on emotion recognition performance and perception of threat (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Intrinsic Connectivity Patterns of Task-Defined Brain Networks Allow Individual Prediction of Cognitive Symptom Dimension of Schizophrenia and Are Linked to Molecular Architecture (2020, Biological Psychiatry)

Birgit Derntl has collaborated frequently with several researchers, among them Lydia Kogler, Ute Habel, Inger Sundström Poromaa, Erika Comasco, and Ann-Christin S. Kimmig.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book-type publications, including a recent work titled Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Brain published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Multidimensional assessment of empathic abilities: Neural correlates and gender differences.

    Birgit Derntl;Andreas Finkelmeyer;Simon Eickhoff;Simon Eickhoff;Thilo Kellermann

  • The effect of strategies, goals and stimulus material on the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies

    Carmen Morawetz;Stefan Bode;Birgit Derntl;Hauke R Heekeren

  • Generalized deficit in all core components of empathy in schizophrenia.

    Birgit Derntl;Andreas Finkelmeyer;Timur K. Toygar;Anna Hülsmann

  • Psychosocial versus physiological stress - Meta-analyses on deactivations and activations of the neural correlates of stress reactions

    Lydia Kogler;Veronika I. Müller;Amy Chang;Simon B. Eickhoff

  • Emotion recognition accuracy in healthy young females is associated with cycle phase.

    Birgit Derntl;Ilse Kryspin-Exner;Eva Fernbach;Ewald Moser

  • The impact of facial emotional expressions on behavioral tendencies in women and men.

    Eva-Maria Seidel;Ute Habel;Michaela Kirschner;Ruben C. Gur

  • Amygdala activity to fear and anger in healthy young males is associated with testosterone

    Birgit Derntl;Christian Windischberger;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson;Ilse Kryspin-Exner

  • Facial emotion recognition and amygdala activation are associated with menstrual cycle phase.

    Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Christian Windischberger;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson;Elisabeth Lamplmayr

  • Amygdala activation and facial expressions: explicit emotion discrimination versus implicit emotion processing.

    Ute Habel;Christian Windischberger;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson

  • Neuroimaging the menstrual cycle: A multimodal systematic review.

    Manon Dubol;C. Neill Epperson;Julia Sacher;Belinda Pletzer

  • Amygdala activation at 3T in response to human and avatar facial expressions of emotions.

    Ewald Moser;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Simon Robinson;Bernhard Fink

  • How specific are emotional deficits? A comparison of empathic abilities in schizophrenia, bipolar and depressed patients

    Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Eva-Maria Seidel;Frank Schneider;Ute Habel

  • Facial emotion recognition in patients with bipolar I and bipolar II disorder

    Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Eva-Maria Seidel;Ilse Kryspin-Exner;Alexander Hasmann

  • The transsexual brain--A review of findings on the neural basis of transsexualism.

    Elke Stefanie Smith;Jessica Junger;Birgit Derntl;Ute Habel

  • Shaping of the Female Human Brain by Sex Hormones: A Review.

    Elisa Rehbein;Jonas Hornung;Inger Sundström Poromaa;Birgit Derntl

  • fMRI measurements of amygdala activation are confounded by stimulus correlated signal fluctuation in nearby veins draining distant brain regions

    Roland N. Boubela;Klaudius Kalcher;Wolfgang Huf;Eva-Maria Seidel

  • Inhibitory control and trait aggression: Neural and behavioral insights using the emotional stop signal task

    Christina M. Pawliczek;Birgit Derntl;Thilo Kellermann;Nils Kohn

  • Incongruence effects in crossmodal emotional integration.

    Veronika I. Müller;Ute Habel;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Frank Schneider

  • Association of menstrual cycle phase with the core components of empathy.

    Birgit Derntl;Ramona L. Hack;Ilse Kryspin-Exner;Ute Habel

  • Neural correlates of social approach and withdrawal in patients with major depression

    Birgit Derntl;Eva-Maria Seidel;Simon B. Eickhoff;Thilo Kellermann

  • General and specific responsiveness of the amygdala during explicit emotion recognition in females and males

    Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Ute Habel;Ute Habel;Christian Windischberger;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Ute Habel
Ute Habel RWTH Aachen University
Simon B. Eickhoff
Simon B. Eickhoff Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Frank Schneider
Frank Schneider Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Ilse Kryspin-Exner
Ilse Kryspin-Exner University of Vienna
Thilo Kellermann
Thilo Kellermann RWTH Aachen University
André Aleman
André Aleman University Medical Center Groningen
Renaud Jardri
Renaud Jardri University of Lille
Christian Windischberger
Christian Windischberger Medical University of Vienna
Oliver Gruber
Oliver Gruber Heidelberg University

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