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Christine Heim is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their work spans a range of topics primarily within psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. The research includes a significant focus on clinical psychology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, and behavioral neuroscience.

The main areas of research conducted by Christine Heim cover:

  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Christine Heim has been published frequently in several scientific journals, with notable publication venues including:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Brain Behavior and Immunity
  • Neurobiology of Stress
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The effects of social isolation stress and discrimination on mental health," 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Early Social Adversity, Altered Brain Functional Connectivity, and Mental Health," 2022, Biological Psychiatry
  • "The pediatric buccal epigenetic clock identifies significant ageing acceleration in children with internalizing disorder and maltreatment exposure," 2021, Neurobiology of Stress
  • "Prospective association of maternal psychosocial stress in pregnancy with newborn hippocampal volume and implications for infant social-emotional development," 2021, Neurobiology of Stress
  • "Ambulatory assessment for precision psychiatry: Foundations, current developments and future avenues," 2021, Experimental Neurology

Christine Heim has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Sonja Entringer (29 coauthored publications)
  • Claudia Buß (25 coauthored publications)
  • Jennie G. Noll (18 coauthored publications)
  • Idan Shalev (17 coauthored publications)
  • Sibylle Winter (16 coauthored publications)

Best Publications

  • Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition

    Sonia J. Lupien;Bruce S. McEwen;Megan R. Gunnar;Christine Heim

  • The role of childhood trauma in the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders: preclinical and clinical studies

    Christine Heim;Charles B Nemeroff

  • Pituitary-Adrenal and Autonomic Responses to Stress in Women After Sexual and Physical Abuse in Childhood

    Christine Heim;Donald Jeffrey Newport;Stacey Heit;Yolanda P. Graham

  • The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders.

    Christine Heim;Ulrike Ehlert;Dirk H Hellhammer

  • The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans.

    Christine Heim;D. Jeffrey Newport;Tanja Mletzko;Andrew H. Miller

  • Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood abuse with risk of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults.

    Elisabeth B. Binder;Rebekah G. Bradley;Rebekah G. Bradley;Wei Liu;Michael P. Epstein

  • Allele-specific FKBP5 DNA demethylation mediates gene-childhood trauma interactions

    Torsten Klengel;Divya Mehta;Christoph Anacker;Monika Rex-Haffner

  • Current research trends in early life stress and depression: review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics.

    Christine Heim;Elisabeth B. Binder

  • Childhood Trauma Associated With Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Women With Major Depression

    Meena Vythilingam;Christine Heim;Christine Heim;Christine Heim;Jeffrey Newport;Jeffrey Newport;Jeffrey Newport;Andrew H. Miller;Andrew H. Miller;Andrew H. Miller

  • Differential responses to psychotherapy versus pharmacotherapy in patients with chronic forms of major depression and childhood trauma

    Charles B. Nemeroff;Christine M. Heim;Michael E. Thase;Daniel N. Klein

  • Increased Stress-Induced Inflammatory Responses in Male Patients With Major Depression and Increased Early Life Stress

    Thaddeus W.W. Pace;Tanja C. Mletzko;Oyetunde Alagbe;Dominique L. Musselman

  • Altered Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Responses to Provocative Challenge Tests in Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

    Christine Heim;D. Jeffrey Newport;Robert Bonsall;Andrew H. Miller

  • Influence of child abuse on adult depression: moderation by the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene.

    Rebekah G. Bradley;Elisabeth B. Binder;Michael P. Epstein;Yilang Tang

  • Neurobiological and psychiatric consequences of child abuse and neglect

    Christine Heim;Margaret Shugart;W. Edward Craighead;Charles B. Nemeroff

  • The impact of early adverse experiences on brain systems involved in the pathophysiology of anxiety and affective disorders

    Christine Heim;Charles B Nemeroff

  • Importance of studying the contributions of early adverse experience to neurobiological findings in depression

    Christine Heim;Paul M Plotsky;Charles B Nemeroff

  • Lower CSF oxytocin concentrations in women with a history of childhood abuse.

    C Heim;L J Young;D J Newport;T Mletzko

  • The role of early adverse experience and adulthood stress in the prediction of neuroendocrine stress reactivity in women: A multiple regression analysis

    Christine Heim;D. Jeffrey Newport;Dieter Wagner;M B A Molly Wilcox

  • Influence of maternal thyroid hormones during gestation on fetal brain development

    Nora K. Moog;Sonja Entringer;Christine Heim;Pathik D. Wadhwa

  • Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: Relevance of glucocorticoid signaling

    Anthony S. Zannas;Anthony S. Zannas;Janinez Arloth;Tania Carrillo-Roa;Stella Iurato

  • Abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder and alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in women with chronic pelvic pain.

    Christine Heim;Ulrike Ehlert;Jurgen P. Hanker;Dirk H. Hellhammer

  • Neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Christine Heim;Charles B. Nemeroff

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Elisabeth B. Binder
Elisabeth B. Binder Max Planck Society
Urs M. Nater
Urs M. Nater University of Vienna
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
Gunther Meinlschmidt
Gunther Meinlschmidt University Hospital of Basel
Ulrike Ehlert
Ulrike Ehlert University of Zurich
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Yee Lee Shing
Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt
Helen S. Mayberg
Helen S. Mayberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Michael S. Kobor
Michael S. Kobor University of British Columbia

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