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Overview

Katja Wingenfeld is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research spans psychology, medicine, and neuroscience, with significant contributions in clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's main research topics focus on stress responses and cortisol, anxiety and depression including psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes, personality disorders and psychopathology, hormonal regulation and hypertension, tryptophan and brain disorders, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Frequent publication venues for Katja Wingenfeld include:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Wingenfeld are:

  • Sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7), 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Antidepressant and neurocognitive effects of serial ketamine administration versus ECT in depressed patients, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Blunted salivary cortisol response to psychosocial stress in women with posttraumatic stress disorder, 2020, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Patients' Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Dentistry: A Controlled Study, 2022, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Brain mineralocorticoid receptor in health and disease: From molecular signalling to cognitive and emotional function, 2022, British Journal of Pharmacology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Katja Wingenfeld include:

  • Christian Otte
  • Christian Eric Deuter
  • Stefan Roepke
  • Julian Hellmann-Regen
  • Sophie Metz

Best Publications

  • A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population.

    Bernd Löwe;Inka Wahl;Matthias Rose;Carsten Spitzer

  • Sensitivity to change and minimal clinically important difference of the 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7)

    Anne Toussaint;Paul Hüsing;Antje Gumz;Katja Wingenfeld

  • [The German version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ): preliminary psychometric properties].

    Katja Wingenfeld;Carsten Spitzer;Christoph Mensebach;Hans Jörgen Grabe

  • Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential: results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire

    Kai MacDonald;Michael L. Thomas;Andres F. Sciolla;Beacher Schneider

  • [The short version of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI -18): preliminary psychometric properties of the German translation].

    Carsten Spitzer;S Hammer;Bernd Löwe;H J Grabe

  • [The reliable, valid and economic assessment of early traumatization: first psychometric characteristics of the German version of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE)].

    Katja Wingenfeld;Ingo Schäfer;Kirsten Terfehr;Heike Grabski

  • Increased peripheral NF-κB pathway activity in women with childhood abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder ☆

    Thaddeus W.W. Pace;Katja Wingenfeld;Iris Schmidt;Gunther Meinlschmidt

  • The Impact of Self-Reported Childhood Trauma on Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder and Major Depression

    Silvia Carvalho Fernando;Thomas Beblo;Nicole Schlosser;Kirsten Terfehr

  • [A brief instrument for the assessment of childhood abuse and neglect: the childhood trauma screener (CTS)].

    Hans Jörgen Grabe;Andrea Schulz;Carsten Oliver Schmidt;Katja Appel

  • Effort-reward imbalance and burnout among German nurses in medical compared with psychiatric hospital settings.

    M. Schulz;A. Damkröger;C. Heins;L. Wehlitz

  • Stress, Memory, and the Hippocampus

    Katja Wingenfeld;Oliver T Wolf

  • Neural correlates of the individual emotional Stroop in borderline personality disorder.

    Katja Wingenfeld;Nina Rullkoetter;Nina Rullkoetter;Christoph Mensebach;Thomas Beblo

  • Borderline personality disorder: Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis and findings from neuroimaging studies

    Katja Wingenfeld;Carsten Spitzer;Nina Rullkötter;Bernd Löwe

  • HPA axis reactivity and lymphocyte glucocorticoid sensitivity in fibromyalgia syndrome and chronic pelvic pain.

    Katja Wingenfeld;Christine Marcelle Heim;Iris Schmidt;Dieter Wagner

  • HPA axis alterations in mental disorders: impact on memory and its relevance for therapeutic interventions.

    Katja Wingenfeld;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Functional MRI correlates of the recall of unresolved life events in borderline personality disorder

    Thomas Beblo;Martin Driessen;Markus Mertens;Katja Wingenfeld

  • Normal mind-reading capacity but higher response confidence in borderline personality disorder patients

    Lisa Schilling;Katja Wingenfeld;Bernd Löwe;Steffen Moritz

  • Association Between Childhood Trauma and Low Hair Cortisol in Depressed Patients and Healthy Control Subjects

    Kim Hinkelmann;Christoph Muhtz;Lucia Dettenborn;Agorastos Agorastos

  • Associations of childhood trauma with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function in borderline personality disorder and major depression.

    Silvia Carvalho Fernando;Thomas Beblo;Nicole Schlosser;Kirsten Terfehr

  • Early life stress modulates oxytocin effects on limbic system during acute psychosocial stress

    Simone Grimm;Simone Grimm;Karin Pestke;Melanie Feeser;Sabine Aust;Sabine Aust

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Martin Driessen
Martin Driessen Bielefeld University
Carsten Spitzer
Carsten Spitzer University of Rostock
Bernd Löwe
Bernd Löwe Universität Hamburg
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Christine Heim
Christine Heim Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Gunther Meinlschmidt
Gunther Meinlschmidt University Hospital of Basel
Sven Barnow
Sven Barnow Heidelberg University
Steffen Moritz
Steffen Moritz University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Isabel Dziobek
Isabel Dziobek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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