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Lars Schwabe is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and specializes in fields spanning Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work primarily focuses on cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, with notable contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology as well as social psychology. Schwabe's research covers wide-ranging topics related to memory mechanisms, stress responses, neuroendocrine regulation, and neural dynamics.

Their expertise extends to several main research themes, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Schwabe's recent publications reflect these thematic areas. Key papers include:

  • Mechanisms of memory under stress, 2022, Neuron
  • Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains, 2020, eLife
  • Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation, 2021, Learning & Memory
  • How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants, 2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events, 2023, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

They have frequently published in a range of academic journals including:

  • eLife
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Schwabe collaborates extensively with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Felix Kalbe
  • Hendrik Heinbockel
  • Gundula Zerbes
  • Franziska Magdalena Kausche
  • Anna-Maria Grob

Best Publications

  • Stress effects on memory: an update and integration

    Lars Schwabe;Marian Joëls;Benno Roozendaal;Oliver T. Wolf

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

    Lars Schwabe;Leila Haddad;Hartmut Schachinger

  • Stress Prompts Habit Behavior in Humans

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Stress, glucocorticoids and memory: implications for treating fear-related disorders

    Dominique de Quervain;Lars Schwabe;Benno Roozendaal

  • Learning and memory under stress: implications for the classroom

    Susanne Vogel;Lars Schwabe

  • Stress and multiple memory systems: from ‘thinking’ to ‘doing’

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Learning under stress impairs memory formation.

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Reconsolidation of Human Memory: Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Relevance

    Lars Schwabe;Karim Nader;Jens C. Pruessner

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

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

  • Memory formation under stress: Quantity and quality

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf;Melly S. Oitzl

  • Stress-induced modulation of instrumental behavior: from goal-directed to habitual control of action.

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • 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

  • Stress, habits, and drug addiction: a psychoneuroendocrinological perspective.

    Lars Schwabe;Anthony Dickinson;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Cognitive Adaptation under Stress : A Case for the Mineralocorticoid Receptor

    Susanne Vogel;Guillén Fernández;Marian Joëls;Lars Schwabe

  • Corticosteroids operate as a switch between memory systems

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

  • Socially evaluated cold pressor stress after instrumental learning favors habits over goal-directed action.

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Stress Modulates the Engagement of Multiple Memory Systems in Classification Learning

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T Wolf

  • Neural signature of reconsolidation impairments by propranolol in humans.

    Lars Schwabe;Lars Schwabe;Karim Nader;Oliver T. Wolf;Thomas Beaudry

  • 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

  • Simultaneous Glucocorticoid and Noradrenergic Activity Disrupts the Neural Basis of Goal-Directed Action in the Human Brain

    Lars Schwabe;Martin Tegenthoff;Oliver Höffken;Oliver T Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Hartmut Schächinger
Hartmut Schächinger University of Trier
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Marian Joëls
Marian Joëls University of Groningen
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Christian J. Merz
Christian J. Merz Ruhr University Bochum
Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Jan Wacker
Jan Wacker Universität Hamburg
Tom Smeets
Tom Smeets Tilburg University

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