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Hartmut Schächinger

Hartmut Schächinger

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
9111
World Ranking
5943
National Ranking
281

Overview

Hartmut Schächinger is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on interdisciplinary areas bridging medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, with a strong emphasis on behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, cardiology, and experimental psychology.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics including stress responses and cortisol, heart rate variability and autonomic control, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, hormonal regulation and hypertension, neural and behavioral psychology studies, anxiety, depression and related psychometrics, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Recent publications by Hartmut Schächinger include the following:

  • "Cardiac cycle phases affect auditory-evoked potentials, startle eye blink and pre-motor reaction times in response to acoustic startle stimuli," 2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • "Disentangling sensorimotor and cognitive cardioafferent effects: A cardiac-cycle-time study on spatial stimulus-response compatibility," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Effects of rejection intensity and rejection sensitivity on social approach behavior in women," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Combining mental and physical stress: Synergy or interference?," 2021, Physiology & Behavior
  • "Modulation of startle and heart rate responses by fear of physical activity in patients with heart failure and in healthy adults," 2020, Physiology & Behavior

The scientist has frequently published in several academic venues. The most notable among these include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Physiology & Behavior
  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE

Hartmut Schächinger collaborates regularly with several co-authors in their research. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Johannes B. Finke
  • André Schulz
  • Claus Vögele
  • Mauro F. Larra
  • Jeremia Mark Hoffmann

In terms of research fields, the scientist is active in:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

The subfields within these areas that form the focus of their research include:

  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Psychiatry and Mental health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Best Publications

  • HPA axis activation by a socially evaluated cold-pressor test.

    Lars Schwabe;Leila Haddad;Hartmut Schachinger

  • Post-learning intranasal oxytocin modulates human memory for facial identity.

    Egemen Savaskan;Rike Ehrhardt;André Schulz;Marc Walter

  • Stress modulates the use of spatial versus stimulus-response learning strategies in humans.

    Lars Schwabe;Melly S. Oitzl;Christine Philippsen;Steffen Richter

  • The relation of flow-experience and physiological arousal under stress - can u shape it?

    Corinna Peifer;André Schulz;André Schulz;Hartmut Schächinger;Nicola Baumann

  • Effect of water deprivation on cognitive-motor performance in healthy men and women

    Gabor Szinnai;Hartmut Schachinger;Maurice J Arnaud;Lilly Linder

  • Reduced parasympathetic cardiac control in patients with hypertension at rest and under mental stress.

    Wolf Langewitz;Heinz Rüddel;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Effects of pre-learning stress on memory for neutral, positive and negative words: Different roles of cortisol and autonomic arousal.

    Lars Schwabe;Andreas Bohringer;Monischa Chatterjee;Hartmut Schachinger

  • Corticosteroids operate as a switch between memory systems

    Lars Schwabe;Hartmut Schächinger;E. Ron de Kloet;Melly S. Oitzl

  • Relevance of stress and female sex hormones for emotion and cognition.

    J. P. ter Horst;E. R. de Kloet;H. Schächinger;M. S. Oitzl

  • Chronic stress modulates the use of spatial and stimulus-response learning strategies in mice and man.

    Lars Schwabe;Sergiu Dalm;Hartmut Schächinger;Melly S. Oitzl

  • Rising Sound Intensity: An Intrinsic Warning Cue Activating the Amygdala

    Dominik R. Bach;Hartmut Schächinger;John G. Neuhoff;Fabrizio Esposito

  • Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity.

    Katja Bertsch;Katja Bertsch;Dirk Hagemann;Ewald Naumann;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Neural Processing of Auditory Looming in the Human Brain

    Erich Seifritz;John G. Neuhoff;Deniz Bilecen;Klaus Scheffler

  • Cardiovascular indices of peripheral and central sympathetic activation.

    Hartmut Schächinger;Markus Weinbacher;Alexander Kiss;Rudolf Ritz

  • Disordered calcium homeostasis of sepsis: association with calcitonin precursors

    B Müller;K L Becker;M Kränzlin;H Schächinger

  • Making sense of what you sense: Disentangling interoceptive awareness, sensibility and accuracy

    Thomas Forkmann;Anne Scherer;Judith Meessen;Matthias Michal

  • For whom the bell (curve) tolls: Cortisol rapidly affects memory retrieval by an inverted U-shaped dose–response relationship

    Thomas M. Schilling;Monika Kölsch;Mauro F. Larra;Carina M. Zech

  • Ten years of research with the Socially Evaluated Cold Pressor Test: Data from the past and guidelines for the future.

    Lars Schwabe;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Cold pressor stress induces opposite effects on cardioceptive accuracy dependent on assessment paradigm.

    André Schulz;Johanna Lass-Hennemann;Johanna Lass-Hennemann;Stefan Sütterlin;Hartmut Schächinger

  • Testing the cumulative stress and mismatch hypotheses of psychopathology in a rat model of early-life adversity.

    Nikolaos P. Daskalakis;Melly S. Oitzl;Hartmut Schächinger;Danielle L. Champagne

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Vögele
Claus Vögele University of Luxembourg
Lars Schwabe
Lars Schwabe Universität Hamburg
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
Stuart Brody
Stuart Brody Charles University
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Fabian Streit
Fabian Streit Heidelberg University
Katja Bertsch
Katja Bertsch Heidelberg University
Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs Radboud University
Gregor Domes
Gregor Domes University of Trier

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