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Overview

Katja Bertsch is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and focuses on research in psychology, particularly clinical psychology. Their work covers topics related to personality disorders, psychosocial and emotional development in children and adolescents, psychosomatic disorders, trauma, neuroendocrine regulation, mental health, and psychotherapy techniques.

Bertsch's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Within psychology, their prominent subfields are:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Philosophy

The main topics Bertsch has focused on in their research are:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bertsch include:

  • "Understanding Brain Mechanisms of Reactive Aggression," 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports

Bertsch frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Sabine C. Herpertz
  • Corinne Neukel
  • K. Seitz
  • Sarah N. Back
  • Michael Kaess

The scientist has published extensively in various academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Blood
  • Psychiatry Research

Best Publications

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

    Katja Bertsch;Matthias Gamer;Brigitte Schmidt;Ilinca Schmidinger

  • Stability of heart rate variability indices reflecting parasympathetic activity.

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

  • Reduced plasma oxytocin levels in female patients with borderline personality disorder

    Katja Bertsch;Ilinca Schmidinger;Inga D. Neumann;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • Mechanisms of disturbed emotion processing and social interaction in borderline personality disorder: state of knowledge and research agenda of the German Clinical Research Unit

    Christian Schmahl;Sabine C Herpertz;Katja Bertsch;Gabriele Ende

  • Resting cerebral blood flow, attention, and aging

    Katja Bertsch;Dirk Hagemann;Michael Hermes;Christof Walter

  • fMRI Neurofeedback of Amygdala Response to Aversive Stimuli Enhances Prefrontal-Limbic Brain Connectivity

    Christian Paret;Matthias Ruf;Martin Fungisai Gerchen;Rosemarie Kluetsch

  • Cortical Representation of Afferent Bodily Signals in Borderline Personality Disorder: Neural Correlates and Relationship to Emotional Dysregulation

    Laura E. Müller;André Schulz;Martin Andermann;Andrea Gäbel

  • Aggression in borderline personality disorder: a multidimensional model

    Falk Mancke;Sabine C. Herpertz;Katja Bertsch

  • The social-cognitive basis of personality disorders.

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Katja Bertsch

  • A New Perspective on the Pathophysiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Model of the Role of Oxytocin.

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Katja Bertsch

  • Brain volumes differ between diagnostic groups of violent criminal offenders

    Katja Bertsch;Michel Grothe;Kristin Prehn;Knut Vohs

  • Understanding Brain Mechanisms of Reactive Aggression

    Katja Bertsch;Katja Bertsch;Julian Florange;Sabine C Herpertz

  • The relationship between basal and acute HPA axis activity and aggressive behavior in adults

    Robina Böhnke;Katja Bertsch;Menno R. Kruk;Ewald Naumann

  • Morphometric differences in central stress-regulating structures between women with and without borderline personality disorder

    Andrea Kuhlmann;Katja Bertsch;Ilinca Schmidinger;Philipp A. Thomann

  • Brain Mechanisms Underlying Reactive Aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder-Sex Matters.

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Krisztina Nagy;Kai Ueltzhöffer;Ruth Schmitt

  • Increased testosterone levels and cortisol awakening responses in patients with borderline personality disorder: gender and trait aggressiveness matter.

    Juliane Rausch;Andrea Gäbel;Krisztina Nagy;Nikolaus Kleindienst

  • Time course of facial emotion processing in women with borderline personality disorder: an ERP study

    Natalie A. Izurieta Hidalgo;Rieke Oelkers-Ax;Krisztina Nagy;Falk Mancke

  • Exogenous cortisol enhances aggressive behavior in females, but not in males

    Robina Böhnke;Katja Bertsch;Menno R. Kruk;Steffen Richter

  • Emotional neglect in childhood shapes social dysfunctioning in adults by influencing the oxytocin and the attachment system: Results from a population-based study.

    Laura E. Müller;Katja Bertsch;Konstatin Bülau;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • The impact of COVID-19 related lockdown measures on self-reported psychopathology and health-related quality of life in German adolescents.

    Julian Koenig;Julian Koenig;Elisabeth Kohls;Markus Moessner;Sophia Lustig;Sophia Lustig

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Corinna Reck
Corinna Reck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Franz Resch
Franz Resch Heidelberg University
Felix Bermpohl
Felix Bermpohl Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University

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