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Daniela Mier is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany and is active in research spanning psychology and medicine. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, social psychology, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

The key topics explored in their research include psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, action observation and synchronization, functional brain connectivity studies, schizophrenia research and treatment, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and face recognition and perception.

Frequent coauthors in Daniela Mier's projects are Stephanie Schmidt, Michael Odenwald, Matthias Burghart, Joachim Haß, and Alexander H. J. Sahm. Their work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, including Der Nervenarzt, Psychological Medicine, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniela Mier include:

  • No feelings for me, no feelings for you: A meta-analysis on alexithymia and empathy in psychopathy, 2022, Personality and Individual Differences
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for patients with post-COVID-19 condition (CBT-PCC): a feasibility trial, 2023, Psychological Medicine
  • Effective connectivity of the human mirror neuron system during social cognition, 2022, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • fMRI adaptation reveals: The human mirror neuron system discriminates emotional valence, 2020, Cortex
  • Dynamic Causal Modeling for fMRI With Wilson-Cowan-Based Neuronal Equations, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Their research outputs reflect a focus on clinical and cognitive dimensions of psychology, combining neuroimaging methods and therapeutic approaches. This is reflected in multiple papers addressing brain connectivity and social cognition as well as therapeutic interventions in psychiatry.

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans

    Peter Kirsch;Christine Esslinger;Qiang Chen;Daniela Mier

  • Neural substrates of pleiotropic action of genetic variation in COMT: a meta-analysis

    Daniela Mier;Peter Kirsch;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Neural mechanisms of a genome-wide supported psychosis variant.

    Christine Esslinger;Henrik Walter;Peter Kirsch;Susanne Erk

  • Test–retest reliability of resting-state connectivity network characteristics using fMRI and graph theoretical measures

    Urs Braun;Michael M. Plichta;Christine Esslinger;Carina Sauer

  • Test–retest reliability of evoked BOLD signals from a cognitive–emotive fMRI test battery

    Michael M. Plichta;Adam J. Schwarz;Oliver Grimm;Katrin Morgen

  • Genome-wide association-, replication-, and neuroimaging study implicates HOMER1 in the etiology of major depression.

    Marcella Rietschel;Manuel Mattheisen;Josef Frank;Jens Treutlein

  • Superior ‘theory of mind’ in borderline personality disorder: An analysis of interaction behavior in a virtual trust game

    Nele Franzen;Meike Hagenhoff;Nina Baer;Ariane Schmidt

  • Effects of a genome-wide supported psychosis risk variant on neural activation during a theory-of-mind task

    H Walter;K Schnell;K Schnell;S Erk;S Erk;C Arnold

  • The involvement of emotion recognition in affective theory of mind

    Daniela Mier;Stefanie Lis;Kerstin Neuthe;Carina Sauer

  • Neuronal correlates of social cognition in borderline personality disorder

    Daniela Mier;Stefanie Lis;Christine Esslinger;Carina Sauer

  • On Framing Effects in Decision Making: Linking Lateral versus Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Activation to Choice Outcome Processing

    Sabine Windmann;Peter Kirsch;Daniela Mier;Rudolf Stark

  • Health anxiety and hypochondriasis in the light of DSM-5

    Josef Bailer;Tobias Kerstner;Michael Witthöft;Carsten Diener

  • Evidence for a general face salience signal in human amygdala.

    Andreia Santos;Daniela Mier;Peter Kirsch;Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  • Amygdala habituation: a reliable fMRI phenotype.

    Michael M. Plichta;Oliver Grimm;Katrin Morgen;Daniela Mier

  • Cognitive state and connectivity effects of the genome-wide significant psychosis variant in ZNF804A.

    Christine Esslinger;Peter Kirsch;Leila Haddad;Daniela Mier

  • Imaging gene-substance interactions: the effect of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the dopamine agonist bromocriptine on the brain activation during the anticipation of reward.

    Peter Kirsch;Martin Reuter;Daniela Mier;Tina Lonsdorf

  • Ventral striatal activation during attribution of stimulus saliency and reward anticipation is correlated in unmedicated first episode schizophrenia patients.

    Christine Esslinger;Susanne Englisch;Dragos Inta;Franziska Rausch

  • The influence of antipsychotic treatment on brain reward system reactivity in schizophrenia patients.

    Peter Kirsch;S. Ronshausen;Daniela Mier;Bernd Gallhofer

  • Simultaneous EEG and fMRI reveals a causally connected subcortical-cortical network during reward anticipation

    Michael M Plichta;Isabella Wolf;Sarah Hohmann;Sarah Baumeister

  • Advantages in functional imaging of the brain.

    Walter Mier;Daniela Mier

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Michael Witthöft
Michael Witthöft Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Stefanie Lis
Stefanie Lis Heidelberg University
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Michael M. Plichta
Michael M. Plichta Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Rudolf Stark
Rudolf Stark University of Giessen
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn

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