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Overview

Gregor Domes is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work spans several subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as stress responses and cortisol, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, neural and behavioral psychology studies, functional brain connectivity studies, face recognition and perception, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, and broader mental health research.

Gregor Domes has contributed to a range of publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as Psychoneuroendocrinology, Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), Stress, Psychology Archives, and Scientific Reports. In particular, Psychoneuroendocrinology features prominently among their publication venues.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The effects of acute stress and stress hormones on social cognition and behavior: Current state of research and future directions (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • Enhancing precision in human neuroscience (2023, eLife)
  • Evaluation of an eye tracking setup for studying visual attention in face-to-face conversations (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Effects of a 6-Week Internet-Based Stress Management Program on Perceived Stress, Subjective Coping Skills, and Sleep Quality (2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • Time-dependent effects of acute stress on working memory performance: A systematic review and hypothesis (2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology)

Collaborative work involves frequent co-authors who have contributed to a significant portion of their publications, including Bernadette von Dawans, Antonia Vehlen, Christian Frings, Markus Heinrichs, and Patrick Zimmer.

Gregor Domes has also contributed to book publications; one notable book titled Ratgeber Stress und Stressbewältigung was published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg;Gregor Domes;Peter Kirsch;Markus Heinrichs

  • Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans.

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Andre Michel;Christoph Berger

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Amygdala Responses to Emotional Faces Regardless of Valence

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Jan Gläscher;Christian Büchel

  • Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior.

    Markus Heinrichs;Bernadette von Dawans;Gregor Domes

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on emotional face processing in women.

    Gregor Domes;Gregor Domes;Alexander Lischke;Christoph Berger;Annette Grossmann

  • Neuropeptides and social behaviour: effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans

    Markus Heinrichs;Gregor Domes

  • Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder - a review of the literature

    Gregor Domes;Lars Schulze;Sabine C Herpertz

  • The Neural Correlates of Sex Differences in Emotional Reactivity and Emotion Regulation

    Gregor Domes;Lars Schulze;Moritz Böttger;Annette Grossmann

  • MDMA enhances emotional empathy and prosocial behavior

    Cédric M. Hysek;Yasmin Schmid;Linda D. Simmler;Gregor Domes

  • Recognition of facial affect in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Gregor Domes;Daniela Czieschnek;Franziska Weidler;Christoph Berger

  • Neuronal Correlates of Cognitive Reappraisal in Borderline Patients with Affective Instability

    Lars Schulze;Gregor Domes;Alexander Krüger;Christoph Berger

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on the neural basis of face processing in autism spectrum disorder

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Ekkehardt Kumbier;Annette Grossmann

  • Oxytocin and Reduction of Social Threat Hypersensitivity in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder

    Katja Bertsch;Matthias Gamer;Brigitte Schmidt;Ilinca Schmidinger

  • Intranasal oxytocin enhances emotion recognition from dynamic facial expressions and leaves eye-gaze unaffected.

    Alexander Lischke;Christoph Berger;Kristin Prehn;Markus Heinrichs

  • Oxytocin increases amygdala reactivity to threatening scenes in females

    Alexander Lischke;Alexander Lischke;Matthias Gamer;Christoph Berger;Annette Grossmann

  • Progression to dementia in clinical subtypes of mild cognitive impairment.

    P. Alexopoulos;T. Grimmer;R. Perneczky;G. Domes

  • The influence of emotions on inhibitory functioning in borderline personality disorder.

    Gregor Domes;Britta Winter;Knut Schnell;Knut Vohs

  • Oxytocin increases recognition of masked emotional faces.

    Lars Schulze;Alexander Lischke;Alexander Lischke;Jonas Greif;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • Oxytocin Promotes Facial Emotion Recognition and Amygdala Reactivity in Adults with Asperger Syndrome

    Gregor Domes;Ekkehardt Kumbier;Markus Heinrichs;Sabine C Herpertz

  • Oxytocin Modulates Neural Reactivity to Children's Faces as a Function of Social Salience

    Dina Wittfoth-Schardt;Johanna Gründing;Matthias Wittfoth;Heinrich Lanfermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Jürgen Barth
Jürgen Barth University of Zurich
Martin Hautzinger
Martin Hautzinger University of Tübingen
Matthias Gamer
Matthias Gamer University of Würzburg
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Frank Padberg
Frank Padberg Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier
Brunna Tuschen-Caffier University of Freiburg
Oliver Tüscher
Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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