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Overview

Birgit Völlm is affiliated with the University of Rostock in Germany and has published extensively in the fields of psychology, clinical psychology, and psychiatry. Their research focuses predominantly on forensic psychiatry, personality disorders, and mental health care services.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry

Birgit Völlm's expertise spans multiple subfields with a strong emphasis on clinical psychology, supported by contributions in general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, and philosophy. The concentration on clinical psychology aligns with the majority of their published works.

Key recent publications include:

  • "Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder," 2020, published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: a focused systematic review and meta-analysis," 2022, published in The British Journal of Psychiatry
  • "Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder," 2020, published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Pharmacological interventions for people with borderline personality disorder," 2022, published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • "Forensic mental health in Europe: some key figures," 2020, published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, European Psychiatry, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Psychiatrische Praxis, and Forensische Psychiatrie Psychologie Kriminologie. Frontiers in Psychiatry is noted as the most frequent publication venue with 17 works.

Collaborative research is a significant aspect of Birgit Völlm's career, with frequent co-authors including Jack Tomlin, Peggy Walde, Najat Khalifa, Kate Walker, and Jen Yates, indicating active engagement with other researchers in forensic psychiatry and clinical psychology.

Best Publications

  • Neuronal correlates of theory of mind and empathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task

    Birgit A. Völlm;Alexander N. W. Taylor;Paul Richardson;Rhiannon Corcoran

  • The QCAE: A Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy

    Renate L. E. P. Reniers;Rhiannon Corcoran;Richard Drake;Nick M. Shryane

  • Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder

    Claire Binks;Mark Fenton;Lucy McCarthy;Tracey Lee

  • Pharmacotherapy for borderline personality disorder: Cochrane systematic review of randomised trials.

    Klaus Lieb;Birgit Völlm;Gerta Rücker;Antje Timmer

  • Acute SSRI administration affects the processing of social cues in healthy volunteers.

    C J Harmer;Z Bhagwagar;D I Perrett;B A Völlm

  • Pharmacological interventions for borderline personality disorder

    Jutta Stoffers;Birgit A Völlm;Gerta Rücker;Antje Timmer

  • Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder

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  • Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder

    Simon Gibbon;Conor Duggan;Jutta M Stoffers;Nick Huband

  • Neurobiological substrates of antisocial and borderline personality disorder: preliminary results of a functional fMRI study

    Birgit Vollm;Paul Richardson;John Stirling;John Stirling;Rebecca Elliott

  • Methamphetamine Activates Reward Circuitry in Drug Naïve Human Subjects

    Birgit A Völlm;Ivan E de Araujo;Philip J Cowen;Edmund T Rolls

  • Moral decision-making, ToM, empathy and the default mode network

    Renate L.E.P. Reniers;Rhiannon Corcoran;Birgit A. Völlm;Asha Mashru

  • Antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy in women: a literature review on the reliability and validity of assessment instruments.

    Mairead Dolan;Birgit Völlm

  • Serotonergic modulation of neuronal responses to behavioural inhibition and reinforcing stimuli: an fMRI study in healthy volunteers

    Birgit Völlm;Paul Richardson;Shane McKie;Rebecca Elliott

  • Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: a focused systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Neuronal correlates of reward and loss in Cluster B personality disorders: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Birgit Vollm;Paul Richardson;Shane McKie;Rebecca Elliott

  • European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on forensic psychiatry: evidence based assessment and treatment of mentally disordered offenders

    Birgit A. Völlm;Martin Clarke;Vicenç Tort Herrando;Allan O. Seppänen

  • Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder

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  • Inpatient forensic-psychiatric care: Legal frameworks and service provision in three European countries

    Rachel Edworthy;Stephanie Sampson;Birgit Völlm

  • Forensic mental health in Europe: some key figures

    Jack Tomlin;Ilaria Lega;Peter Braun;Harry G Kennedy

  • Neuronal correlates and serotonergic modulation of behavioural inhibition and reward in healthy and antisocial individuals.

    Birgit Völlm;Paul Richardson;Shane McKie;Renate Reniers;Renate Reniers

  • Co-operation with another player in a financially rewarded guessing game activates regions implicated in theory of mind

    R Elliott;BA Vollm;A Drury;Shane Mckie

  • A mixed-methods study exploring the characteristics and needs of long-stay patients in high and medium secure settings in England: implications for service organisation

    Birgit Völlm;Birgit Völlm;Rachel Edworthy;Jessica Holley;Emily Talbot

  • Personality types and mental health experiences of those who volunteer for helplines

    Hannah Paterson;Renate Reniers;Birgit Völlm

  • Characteristics and needs of long-stay forensic psychiatric inpatients: A rapid review of the literature

    Nick Huband;Vivek Furtado;Sandra Schel;Mareike Eckert

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Conor Duggan
Conor Duggan University of Nottingham
Rebecca Elliott
Rebecca Elliott University of Manchester
Ian M. Anderson
Ian M. Anderson University of Manchester
Rhiannon Corcoran
Rhiannon Corcoran University of Liverpool
Pamela J. Taylor
Pamela J. Taylor Cardiff University
Vincent Egan
Vincent Egan University of Nottingham
John Francis William Deakin
John Francis William Deakin University of Manchester
Erik Simonsen
Erik Simonsen University of Copenhagen
Anne Lingford-Hughes
Anne Lingford-Hughes Imperial College London

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