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Katja Petrowski is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding mental and physical health.

Their work is especially concentrated in the fields of psychology (121 publications), medicine (93 publications), and neuroscience (73 publications). Within these broad areas, Petrowski has made contributions to several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, general health professions, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The main research topics covered by Petrowski include stress responses and cortisol, heart rate variability and autonomic control, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, tryptophan and brain disorders, health psychology and well-being, and eating disorders and behaviors.

The notable recent publications by Petrowski include:

  • Noise and mental health: evidence, mechanisms, and consequences (2024), Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Depression, anxiety and health status across different BMI classes: A representative study in Germany (2020), Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) psychometric properties in migrants and native Germans (2020), BMC Psychiatry
  • High/low cortisol reactivity and food intake in people with obesity and healthy weight (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • Does stress eat away at you or make you eat? EMA measures of stress predict day to day food craving and perceived food intake as a function of trait stress-eating (2020), Psychology and Health

Petrowski frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Some of the most frequent co-authors include Benedict Herhaus, Bjarne Schmalbach, Elmar Brähler, Ileana Schmalbach, and Andreas Hinz.

The venues where Petrowski has most often published include Frontiers in Psychology, Translational Psychiatry, Psychoneuroendocrinology, BMC Medical Research Methodology, and Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

Best Publications

  • A pilot study on the effects of heart rate variability biofeedback in patients with depression and in healthy subjects.

    Martin Siepmann;Volkan Aykac;Jana Unterdörfer;Katja Petrowski

  • Reduced olfactory bulb volume and olfactory sensitivity in patients with acute major depression.

    S. Negoias;I. Croy;J. Gerber;S. Puschmann

  • Psychometric analysis of the brief symptom inventory 18 (BSI-18) in a representative German sample

    Gabriele Helga Franke;Susanne Jaeger;Heide Glaesmer;Claus Barkmann

  • Factor structure and psychometric properties of the trier inventory for chronic stress (TICS) in a representative german sample

    Katja Petrowski;Sören Paul;Cornelia Albani;Elmar Brähler

  • A striking pattern of cortisol non-responsiveness to psychosocial stress in patients with panic disorder with concurrent normal cortisol awakening responses.

    Katja Petrowski;Ulf Herold;Peter Joraschky;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Cortisol stress response in post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, and major depressive disorder patients

    Susann Wichmann;Clemens Kirschbaum;Carsten Böhme;Katja Petrowski

  • Stress disorders following prolonged critical illness in survivors of severe sepsis.

    Gloria-Beatrice Wintermann;Frank Martin Brunkhorst;Katja Petrowski;Bernhard Strauss

  • Frequency of somatic symptoms in the general population: Normative values for the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 (PHQ-15).

    Andreas Hinz;Jochen Ernst;Heide Glaesmer;Elmar Brähler

  • A Stepwise Psychotherapy Intervention for Reducing Risk in Coronary Artery Disease (SPIRR-CAD): Results of an Observer-Blinded, Multicenter, Randomized Trial in Depressed Patients With Coronary Artery Disease.

    Christoph Herrmann-Lingen;Manfred E. Beutel;Alexandra Bosbach;Hans-Christian Deter

  • Psychometric Properties of Two Brief Versions of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist: HSCL-5 and HSCL-10.

    Bjarne Schmalbach;Markus Zenger;Ana Nanette Tibubos;Sören Kliem

  • Blunted salivary and plasma cortisol response in patients with panic disorder under psychosocial stress

    Katja Petrowski;Gloria-Beatrice Wintermann;Marco Schaarschmidt;Stefan R. Bornstein

  • Depression, anxiety and health status across different BMI classes: A representative study in Germany.

    Benedict Herhaus;Anette Kersting;Elmar Brähler;Katja Petrowski

  • Cortisol Response to Repeated Psychosocial Stress

    Katja Petrowski;Gloria-Beatrice Wintermann;Martin Siepmann

  • A stepwise psychotherapy intervention for reducing risk in coronary artery disease (SPIRR-CAD) - rationale and design of a multicenter, randomized trial in depressed patients with CAD.

    Christian Albus;Manfred E. Beutel;Hans-Christian Deter;Kurt Fritzsche

  • Effects of an early intervention on perceived stress and diurnal cortisol in pregnant women with elevated stress, anxiety, and depressive symptomatology.

    Judith Richter;Antje Bittner;Katja Petrowski;Juliane Junge-Hoffmeister

  • The type-D scale (DS14) – Norms and prevalence of type-D personality in a population-based representative sample in Germany

    Gesine Grande;Matthias Romppel;Heide Glaesmer;Katja Petrowski

  • Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) psychometric properties in migrants and native Germans.

    Christina Diane Bastianon;Eva M. Klein;Ana Nanette Tibubos;Elmar Brähler

  • The Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) - the first trial of a German version

    Hendrik Berth;Katja Petrowski;Friedrich Balck

  • High/low cortisol reactivity and food intake in people with obesity and healthy weight

    Benedict Herhaus;Enrico Ullmann;Enrico Ullmann;Enrico Ullmann;George Chrousos;Katja Petrowski

  • [Mood in the German population: norms of the Multidimensional Mood Questionnaire MDBF]

    Andreas Hinz;Isolde Daig;Katja Petrowski;Elmar Brähler

  • Symptom-Checklist-K-9: Norm values and factorial structure in a representative German sample.

    Katja Petrowski;Bjarne Schmalbach;Bjarne Schmalbach;Sören Kliem;Andreas Hinz

Frequent Co-Authors

Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Andreas Hinz
Andreas Hinz Leipzig University
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Martina de Zwaan
Martina de Zwaan Hannover Medical School
Walton T. Roth
Walton T. Roth Stanford University
Anna Buchheim
Anna Buchheim University of Innsbruck
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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