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Lydia Fehm is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, psychiatry, and mental health.

Their work spans several main topics including anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, psychotherapy techniques and applications, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health treatment and access, as well as psychology, coaching, and therapy.

Among recent publications are:

  • Change of Threat Expectancy as Mechanism of Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders: Evidence From 8,484 Exposure Exercises of 605 Patients, 2022, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Efficacy of temporally intensified exposure for anxiety disorders: A multicenter randomized clinical trial, 2021, Depression and Anxiety
  • Behavioural and functional evidence revealing the role of RBFOX1 variation in multiple psychiatric disorders and traits, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Genome-wide association study of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifies 58 loci and highlights GABAergic signaling, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Prevalence of suicidal ideation in German psychotherapy outpatients: A large multicenter assessment, 2024, Journal of Affective Disorders

Lydia Fehm has frequently collaborated with researchers including Andreas Ströhle, Jürgen Margraf, Tilo Kircher, Thomas Fydrich, and Jürgen Hoyer. These collaborations have contributed to a substantial number of publications over time.

The scientist has published in various academic journals, among the most common being Journal of Affective Disorders, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Behaviour Research and Therapy, Psychological Medicine, and PPmP - Psychotherapie · Psychosomatik · Medizinische Psychologie.

Fehm's published books, released through Hogrefe Verlag, include:

  • Auftrittsängste bei Musikerinnen und Musikern, 2020
  • Prüfungsangst, 2022
  • Selbstwertbezogene Interventionen, 2023

Best Publications

  • Epidemiology and natural course of social fears and social phobia

    H.-U. Wittchen;L. Fehm

  • Size and burden of social phobia in Europe

    Lydia Fehm;Antoine Pelissolo;Thomas Furmark;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Social anxiety disorder above and below the diagnostic threshold: prevalence, comorbidity and impairment in the general population

    Lydia Fehm;Katja Beesdo;Frank Jacobi;Agnes Fiedler

  • Age of traumatisation as a predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression in young women.

    Andreas Maercker;Tanja Michael;Lydia Fehm;Eni S. Becker

  • Psychological Treatment for Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Role of Therapist-Guided Exposure In Situ in CBT

    Andrew T. Gloster;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Franziska Einsle;Thomas Lang

  • The natural course of social anxiety disorder among adolescents and young adults.

    Katja Beesdo-Baum;Susanne Knappe;Lydia Fehm;Michael Höfler

  • EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATTERNS OF COMORBIDITY, AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITIES OF SOCIAL PHOBIA

    Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Lydia Fehm

  • Performance anxiety in gifted adolescent musicians

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  • PROBLEMS WITH HOMEWORK IN CBT: RARE EXCEPTION OR RATHER FREQUENT?

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  • Genome-wide association study of panic disorder reveals genetic overlap with neuroticism and depression.

    Andreas J. Forstner;Swapnil Awasthi;Christiane Wolf;Eduard Maron;Eduard Maron

  • Is post-event processing specific for social anxiety?

    Lydia Fehm;Gesine Schneider;Jürgen Hoyer

  • The role of parental psychopathology and family environment for social phobia in the first three decades of life.

    Susanne Knappe;Roselind Lieb;Katja Beesdo;Lydia Fehm

  • Social fear and social phobia types among community youth: Differential clinical features and vulnerability factors

    Susanne Knappe;Katja Beesdo-Baum;Lydia Fehm;Murray B. Stein

  • MAOA and mechanisms of panic disorder revisited: from bench to molecular psychotherapy

    Andreas Reif;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Michael Höfler

  • Mechanism of action in CBT (MAC): methods of a multi-center randomized controlled trial in 369 patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia

    Andrew T. Gloster;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Franziska Einsle;Michael Höfler

  • Using stressful films to analyze risk factors for PTSD in analogue experimental studies – which film works best?

    Anke Weidmann;Ania Conradi;Kathrin Gröger;Lydia Fehm

  • Covering the tsunami disaster : subsequent post-traumatic and depressive symptoms and associated social factors

    Anke Weidmann;Lydia Fehm;Thomas Fydrich

  • Characterizing the association between parenting and adolescent social phobia.

    Susanne Knappe;Katja Beesdo-Baum;Lydia Fehm;Roselind Lieb;Roselind Lieb

  • Dynamics of defensive reactivity in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia: implications for the etiology of panic disorder

    Jan Richter;Alfons O. Hamm;Christiane A. Pané-Farré;Alexander L. Gerlach

  • Associations of familial risk factors with social fears and social phobia: evidence for the continuum hypothesis in social anxiety disorder?

    Susanne Knappe;Katja Beesdo;Lydia Fehm;Roselind Lieb

  • Do parental psychopathology and unfavorable family environment predict the persistence of social phobia

    Susanne Knappe;Katja Beesdo;Lydia Fehm;Michael Höfler

  • Allelic variation in CRHR1 predisposes to panic disorder : evidence for biased fear processing

    Heike Weber;Heike Weber;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Ulrike Lueken;Ulrike Lueken

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Georg W. Alpers
Georg W. Alpers University of Mannheim
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg

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