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Overview

Juergen Hennig is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work across clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. The scientist has also contributed to fields including cellular and molecular neuroscience and neurology.

The main topics explored in Hennig's research involve neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, eating disorders and behaviors, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additional work relates to COVID-19 and mental health and the long-term effects of COVID-19.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hennig include:

  • Aisha J. L. Munk
  • Norina M. Schmidt
  • Katrina Henkel
  • Jana Strahler
  • Andrea Hermann

Key publication venues where Hennig's work has appeared are:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hormones and Behavior
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Juergen Hennig include:

  • Covid-19-Beyond virology: Potentials for maintaining mental health during lockdown, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Common and dissociable effects of oxytocin and lorazepam on the neurocircuitry of fear, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Food cue-elicited brain potentials change throughout menstrual cycle: Modulation by eating styles, negative affect, and premenstrual complaints, 2020, Hormones and Behavior
  • Females' menstrual cycle and incentive salience: Insights on neural reaction towards erotic pictures and effects of gonadal hormones, 2020, Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Positive psychology interventions in in-patients with depression: influences of comorbidity and subjective evaluation of the training programme, 2021, BJPsych Open

Best Publications

  • Dopaminergic foundations of schizotypy as measured by the German version of the Oxford-Liverpool Inventory of Feelings and Experiences (O-LIFE)-a suitable endophenotype of schizophrenia.

    Phillip Grant;Yvonne Kuepper;Eva A. Mueller;Catrin Wielpuetz

  • Neural correlates of antinociception in borderline personality disorder.

    Christian Schmahl;Martin Bohus;Fabrizio Esposito;Rolf-Detlef Treede

  • Molecular genetics support Gray's personality theory: the interaction of COMT and DRD2 polymorphisms predicts the behavioural approach system

    Martin Reuter;Anja Schmitz;Philip Corr;Juergen Hennig

  • Gene-environment interactions predict cortisol responses after acute stress: implications for the etiology of depression.

    Nina Alexander;Yvonne Kuepper;Anja Schmitz;Roman Osinsky

  • COMT genetic variation affects fear processing: psychophysiological evidence.

    Christian Montag;Joshua W. Buckholtz;Peter Hartmann;Michael Merz

  • Association of the functional catechol-O-methyltransferase VAL158MET polymorphism with the personality trait of extraversion.

    Martin Reuter;Juergen Hennig

  • Changes in cortisol secretion during shiftwork: Implications for tolerance to shiftwork?

    Juergen Hennig;Peter Kieferdorf;Christoph Moritz;Sonja Huwe

  • Effects of genetic and early environmental risk factors for depression on serotonin transporter expression and methylation profiles

    M Wankerl;R Miller;C Kirschbaum;J Hennig

  • The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism affects HPA-axis reactivity to acute stress.

    Nina Alexander;Roman Osinsky;Anja Schmitz;Eva Mueller

  • Two types of aggression are differentially related to serotonergic activity and the A779C TPH polymorphism.

    J. Hennig;M. Reuter;P. Netter;C. Burk

  • Evidence for a common biological basis of the Absorption trait, hallucinogen effects, and positive symptoms: epistasis between 5-HT2a and COMT polymorphisms.

    Ulrich Ott;Martin Reuter;Juergen Hennig;Dieter Vaitl

  • How the brain codes intimacy: The neurobiological substrates of romantic touch.

    Ann-Kathrin Kreuder;Dirk Scheele;Lea Wassermann;Michael Wollseifer

  • Association between a polymorphism in the promoter region of the TPH2 gene and the personality trait of harm avoidance.

    Martin Reuter;Yvonne Kuepper;Juergen Hennig

  • The influence of the dopaminergic system on cognitive functioning: A molecular genetic approach.

    Martin Reuter;Kristina Peters;Katrin Schroeter;Wolfgang Koebke

  • MAOA-uVNTR genotype predicts interindividual differences in experimental aggressiveness as a function of the degree of provocation

    Yvonne Kuepper;Phillip Grant;Catrin Wielpuetz;Juergen Hennig

  • Aggression--interactions of serotonin and testosterone in healthy men and women

    Yvonne Kuepper;Nina Alexander;Roman Osinsky;Eva Mueller

  • Biological, emotional, behavioral, and coping reactions to examination stress in high and low state anxious subjects

    Sonja Huwe;Juergen Hennig;Petra Netter

  • Personality, Serotonin, and Noradrenaline

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  • Individual differences in neural correlates of fear conditioning as a function of 5-HTTLPR and stressful life events

    Tim Klucken;Nina Alexander;Jan Schweckendiek;Christian J. Merz

  • The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with altered hemodynamic responses during appetitive conditioning.

    Tim Klucken;Sina Wehrum;Jan Schweckendiek;Christian Josef Merz

  • Covid-19-Beyond virology: Potentials for maintaining mental health during lockdown.

    Aisha J L Munk;Norina M Schmidt;Nina Alexander;Katrina Henkel

  • Interaction of the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region and environmental adversity: increased amygdala-hypothalamus connectivity as a potential mechanism linking neural and endocrine hyperreactivity.

    Nina Alexander;Nina Alexander;Tim Klucken;Georgia Koppe;Georgia Koppe;Roman Osinsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Rudolf Stark
Rudolf Stark University of Giessen
Dieter Vaitl
Dieter Vaitl University of Giessen
Bertram Walter
Bertram Walter University of Giessen
René Hurlemann
René Hurlemann Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Oliver Mason
Oliver Mason University of Surrey
Christian J. Merz
Christian J. Merz Ruhr University Bochum
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Philip J. Corr
Philip J. Corr City, University of London

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