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Cornelia Exner

Cornelia Exner

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Psychology

D-Index
32
Citations
5106
World Ranking
10847
National Ranking
526

Overview

Cornelia Exner is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health. Their research addresses a variety of topics related to mental health, cognitive processes, and emotional behavior.

The main areas covered in Exner's work include:

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research

Exner has contributed to numerous scientific publications and their recent papers are representative of their research scope. Selected papers include:

  • "A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation and Social Affect and Cognition" (2023), published in Clinical Psychological Science
  • "Metacognitive therapy versus exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder - A pilot randomized trial" (2021), published in Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • "Are you looking or looking away? Visual exploration and avoidance of disgust- and fear-stimuli: An eye-tracking study." (2021), published in Emotion
  • "Empathy, compassion, and theory of mind in obsessive-compulsive disorder" (2021), published in Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice
  • "Mechanisms and Effectiveness of Imagery Strategies in Reducing Disgust in Contamination-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Comparing Imagery Rescripting, Imagery Self-compassion and Mood-Focused Imagery" (2021), published in Cognitive Therapy and Research

Frequent collaborators in Exner's research include Jakob Fink-Lamotte, Jana Hansmeier, Anke Haberkamp, Julia Anna Glombiewski, and Christian Stierle.

Exner's research has been published repeatedly in several key venues, notably:

  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders
  • Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie
  • Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Besides journal articles, Exner has a forthcoming book titled Ekelbezogene Störungen, which is set to be published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Facilitation of Implicit Motor Learning by Weak Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Primary Motor Cortex in the Human

    Michael A. Nitsche;Astrid Schauenburg;Nicolas Lang;David Liebetanz

  • Hyperactivity in patients with anorexia nervosa and in semistarved rats: evidence for a pivotal role of hypoleptinemia.

    J. Hebebrand;C. Exner;K. Hebebrand;C. Holtkamp

  • Leptin suppresses semi-starvation induced hyperactivity in rats: implications for anorexia nervosa.

    C Exner;J Hebebrand;H Remschmidt;C Wewetzer

  • Estimated prevalence of compulsive buying in Germany and its association with sociodemographic characteristics and depressive symptoms.

    Astrid Mueller;James E. Mitchell;Ross D. Crosby;Olaf Gefeller

  • The Effect of State Anxiety on Paranoid Ideation and Jumping to Conclusions. An Experimental Investigation

    Tania M. Lincoln;Jennifer Lange;Julia Burau;Cornelia Exner

  • The epidemiology of the proposed DSM-5 hoarding disorder: exploration of the acquisition specifier, associated features, and distress.

    Kiara R. Timpano;Cornelia Exner;Heide Glaesmer;Winfried Rief

  • Cerebellar lesions in the PICA but not SCA territory impair cognition.

    Cornelia Exner;Godehard Weniger;Eva Irle

  • The Differential Role of Premotor Frontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia in Motor Sequence Learning: Evidence From Focal Basal Ganglia Lesions

    Cornelia Exner;Janka Koschack;Eva Irle

  • Reduced size of the pre-supplementary motor cortex and impaired motor sequence learning in first-episode schizophrenia.

    Cornelia Exner;Cornelia Exner;Godehard Weniger;Carsten Schmidt-Samoa;Eva Irle

  • Implicit and explicit memory after focal thalamic lesions.

    Cornelia Exner;Godehard Weniger;Eva Irle

  • Attributional Style and Persecutory Delusions. Evidence for an Event Independent and State Specific External-Personal Attribution Bias for Social Situations

    Tania M. Lincoln;Stephanie Mehl;Cornelia Exner;Johannes Lindenmeyer

  • Impaired implicit learning and reduced pre-supplementary motor cortex size in early-onset major depression with melancholic features

    Cornelia Exner;Claudia Lange;Eva Irle

  • Impaired emotional learning and reduced amygdala size in schizophrenia: a 3-month follow-up.

    Cornelia Exner;Katrin Boucsein;Detlef Degner;Eva Irle

  • A taxometric exploration of the latent structure of hoarding.

    Kiara R. Timpano;Joshua J. Broman-Fulks;Heide Glaesmer;Cornelia Exner

  • Is fear of others linked to an uncertain sense of self? The relevance of self-worth, interpersonal self-concepts, and dysfunctional beliefs to paranoia.

    Tania M. Lincoln;Stephanie Mehl;Michael Ziegler;Marie-Luise Kesting

  • Deutsche Adaptation der Restraint Scale zur Erfassung gezügelten Essverhaltens

    Andreas Dinkel;Hendrik Berth;Cornelia Exner

  • Looking beyond the importance of life goals. The personal goal model of subjective well-being in neuropsychological rehabilitation

    Nico Conrad;Bettina K Doering;Winfried Rief;Cornelia Exner

  • Hoarding and the multi-faceted construct of impulsivity: a cross-cultural investigation.

    Kiara R. Timpano;Jessica Rasmussen;Cornelia Exner;Winfried Rief

  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Ventromedial Frontal Lesions: Clinical and Neuropsychological Findings

    Eva Irle;Cornelia Exner;Karsten Thielen;Godehard Weniger

  • Selective attention deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the role of metacognitive processes.

    Julia Koch;Cornelia Exner

  • Clinical Neuropsychology. A Practical Guide to Assessment and Management for Clinicians, Laura H Goldstein, Jane E McNeil (Eds.). Wiley, Chichester (2004), £34.95, 434 pages

    Cornelia Exner

Frequent Co-Authors

Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Tania M. Lincoln
Tania M. Lincoln Universität Hamburg
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Kiara R. Timpano
Kiara R. Timpano University of Miami
Heide Glaesmer
Heide Glaesmer Leipzig University
Andreas Widmann
Andreas Widmann Leipzig University
Michael Rufer
Michael Rufer University of Zurich
Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Kerstin Konrad
Kerstin Konrad RWTH Aachen University

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