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Overview

Franz Resch is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on psychology and medicine. Within these, their work concentrates on clinical psychology and psychiatry and mental health, alongside specialties in social psychology, sociology and political science, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their primary topics of investigation include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Resch has contributed to numerous papers, some of the more recent and cited works being:

  • Association of Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Measures With Psychosis Onset in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Developing Psychosis, 2021, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Non-suicidal self-injury disorder as a stand-alone diagnosis in a consecutive help-seeking sample of adolescents, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Pain sensitivity and plasma beta-endorphin in adolescent non-suicidal self-injury, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • High-frequency ecological momentary assessment of emotional and interpersonal states preceding and following self-injury in female adolescents, 2020, European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Excessive and pathological Internet use - Risk-behavior or psychopathology?, 2021, Addictive Behaviors

The scientist often publishes in several venues, prominently including:

  • Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Michael Kaess
  • Julian Koenig
  • Peter Parzer
  • Romuald Brunner
  • Stefan Lerch

Best Publications

  • Adolescent subthreshold-depression and anxiety: psychopathology, functional impairment and increased suicide risk

    Judit Balázs;Mónika Miklósi;Ágnes Keresztény;Christina W. Hoven

  • Maternal depressive symptoms in the postnatal period are associated with long-term impairment of mother-child bonding.

    Eva Moehler;Romuald Brunner;A. Wiebel;Corinna Reck

  • Prevalence of pathological internet use among adolescents in Europe: demographic and social factors

    Tony Durkee;Michael Kaess;Vladimir Carli;Peter Parzer

  • Prevalence and Psychological Correlates of Occasional and Repetitive Deliberate Self-harm in Adolescents

    Romuald Brunner;Peter Parzer;Johann Haffner;Rainer Steen

  • Life-time prevalence and psychosocial correlates of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior: a comparative study of findings in 11 European countries.

    Romuald Brunner;Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Gloria Fischer

  • Adverse childhood experiences and their impact on frequency, severity, and the individual function of nonsuicidal self-injury in youth

    Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Margarete Mattern;Paul L. Plener

  • Prevalence of mental health problems among children and adolescents in Germany: results of the BELLA study within the National Health Interview and Examination Survey

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer;Nora Wille;Michael Erhart;Susanne Bettge

  • Entwicklungspsychopathologie des Kindes- und Jugendalters

    Franz Resch;Peter Parzer;Romuald M. Brunner;Johann Haffner

  • Pathological Internet use among European adolescents: psychopathology and self-destructive behaviours

    Michael Kaess;Tony Durkee;Romuald Brunner;Vladimir Carli

  • Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE): a randomized controlled trial

    Danuta Wasserman;Vladimir Carli;Vladimir Carli;Camilla Wasserman;Alan Apter

  • Alterations in the neuroendocrinological stress response to acute psychosocial stress in adolescents engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury

    Michael Kaess;Markus Hille;Peter Parzer;Christiane Maser-Gluth

  • Estrogen, menstrual cycle phases, and psychopathology in women suffering from schizophrenia.

    Niels Bergemann;Peter Parzer;Benno Runnebaum;Franz Resch

  • Reduced prefrontal and orbitofrontal gray matter in female adolescents with borderline personality disorder: is it disorder specific?

    Romuald Brunner;Romy Henze;Romy Henze;Peter Parzer;Jasmin Kramer

  • Explaining gender differences in non-fatal suicidal behaviour among adolescents: a population-based study.

    Michael Kaess;Michael Kaess;Peter Parzer;Johann Haffner;Rainer Steen

  • Dissociative symptomatology and traumatogenic factors in adolescent psychiatric patients.

    Romuald Brunner;Peter Parzer;Volker Schuld;Franz Resch

  • Electroencephalographic response to transcranial magnetic stimulation in children: Evidence for giant inhibitory potentials.

    Stephan Bender;Kristine Basseler;Imke Sebastian;Franz Resch

  • Psychosocial support for war‐traumatized child and adolescent refugees: evaluation of a short‐term treatment program

    Heike Möhlen;Peter Parzer;Franz Resch;Romuald Brunner

  • Butterbur root extract and music therapy in the prevention of childhood migraine: An explorative study

    Rieke Oelkers-Ax;Anne Leins;Peter Parzer;Thomas Hillecke

  • Plasma concentrations of estradiol in women suffering from schizophrenia treated with conventional versus atypical antipsychotics

    Niels Bergemann;Christoph Mundt;Peter Parzer;Iris Jannakos

  • Axis I and II comorbidity and psychosocial functioning in female adolescents with borderline personality disorder.

    Michael Kaess;Ina-Alexandra von Ceumern-Lindenstjerna;Peter Parzer;Andrew Chanen

  • Early Life Stress

    Eva Möhler;Franz Resch

  • Pathological Internet use among European adolescents: psychopathology and self-destructive behaviours Michael KaessTony DurkeeRomuald BrunnerVladimir CarliPeter ParzerCamilla Wasserman • Marco SarchiaponeChristina HovenAlan ApterJudit BalazsMaria BalintJulio Bobes • Renaud CohenDoina CosmanPadraig CotterGloria FischerBirgitta FloderusMiriam Iosue • Christian HaringJean-Pierre KahnGeorge J. MusaBogdan NemesVita PostuvanFranz Resch • Pilar A. SaizMerike SisaskAvigal SnirAiri VarnikJanina ZibernaDanuta Wasserman

    M. Kaess;R. Brunner;Parzer G. Fischer;F. Resch

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Parzer
Peter Parzer University Hospital Heidelberg
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University
Corinna Reck
Corinna Reck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jörg M. Fegert
Jörg M. Fegert University of Ulm
Christoph Mundt
Christoph Mundt Heidelberg University
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Alan Apter
Alan Apter Reichman University
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Christine M. Freitag
Christine M. Freitag Goethe University Frankfurt

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