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Overview

Martin Bohus is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and works primarily in psychology, with a strong focus on clinical psychology. Their research explores various subfields, including general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, genetics, and social psychology.

The scholar's research topics span several areas, notably:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology

Martin Bohus's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) Compared With Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) in Complex Presentations of PTSD in Women Survivors of Childhood Abuse, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Complex post-traumatic stress disorder, 2022, The Lancet
  • Mindfulness-Based Programs in the Workplace: a Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials, 2020, Mindfulness
  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • GWAS Meta-Analysis of Suicide Attempt: Identification of 12 Genome-Wide Significant Loci and Implication of Genetic Risks for Specific Health Factors, 2023, American Journal of Psychiatry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Nikolaus Kleindienst
  • Christian Schmahl
  • Ruben Vonderlin
  • Kathlen Priebe
  • Stefanie Lis

Martin Bohus publishes regularly in a number of academic venues, such as:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • PLoS ONE
  • Translational Psychiatry

In addition to journal publications, Martin Bohus has authored books, including a publication by Hogrefe Verlag titled Ratgeber Borderline-Störung, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Effectiveness of inpatient dialectical behavioral therapy for borderline personality disorder: a controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Brigitte Haaf;Timothy Simms;Matthias F. Limberger

  • The short version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23): development and initial data on psychometric properties.

    Martin Bohus;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Matthias F. Limberger;Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz

  • Frontolimbic brain abnormalities in patients with borderline personality disorder: a volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Ludger Tebartz van Elst;Bernd Hesslinger;Thorsten Thiel;Emanuel Geiger

  • Dissociation in Psychiatric Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Studies Using the Dissociative Experiences Scale

    Lisa Lyssenko;Christian Schmahl;Laura Bockhacker;Ruben Vonderlin

  • Evaluation of inpatient Dialectical-Behavioral Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder—A prospective study.

    Martin Bohus;Brigitte Haaf;Christian Stiglmayr;Ulrike Pohl

  • Shame and implicit self-concept in women with borderline personality disorder.

    Nicolas Rüsch;Klaus Lieb;Ines Göttler;Christiane Hermann

  • Pain perception during self-reported distress and calmness in patients with borderline personality disorder and self-mutilating behavior

    Martin Bohus;Matthias Limberger;Ulrich Ebner;Franz Xaver Glocker

  • Neural correlates of antinociception in borderline personality disorder.

    Christian Schmahl;Martin Bohus;Fabrizio Esposito;Rolf-Detlef Treede

  • Psychometric properties of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL).

    Martin Bohus;Matthias F. Limberger;Ulrike Frank;Alexander L. Chapman

  • Motives for nonsuicidal self-injury among women with borderline personality disorder.

    Nikolaus Kleindienst;Martin Bohus;Petra Ludäscher;Matthias F. Limberger

  • Dialectical behaviour therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual abuse in patients with and without borderline personality disorder: a randomised controlled trial.

    Martin Bohus;Anne S Dyer;Kathlen Priebe;Antje Krüger

  • Aversive tension in patients with borderline personality disorder: a computer-based controlled field study.

    C. E. Stiglmayr;T. Grathwol;M. M. Linehan;G. Ihorst

  • 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

  • Complex post-traumatic stress disorder

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  • Effects of a partly self-administered exercise program before, during, and after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

    Joachim Wiskemann;Peter Dreger;Rainer Schwerdtfeger;Andrea Bondong

  • State affective instability in borderline personality disorder assessed by ambulatory monitoring

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Janice Kuo;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Stacy S. Welch

  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a potentially aggravating factor in borderline personality disorder

    Alexandra Philipsen;Matthias F. Limberger;Klaus Lieb;Bernd Feige

  • Dialectical behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood sexual abuse: a pilot study of an intensive residential treatment program.

    Regina Steil;Anne Dyer;Kathlen Priebe;Nikolaus Kleindienst

  • Affect Regulation and Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Possible Link to the Understanding of Self-Injury

    Inga Niedtfeld;Lars Schulze;Peter Kirsch;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • Psychophysiological ambulatory assessment of affective dysregulation in borderline personality disorder.

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Stacy S. Welch;Paul Grossman;Thomas Reisch

  • Altered Pain Processing in Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Elbert Geuze;Herman G. M. Westenberg;Anja Jochims;Carien S. de Kloet

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
Stefanie Lis
Stefanie Lis Heidelberg University
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Regina Steil
Regina Steil Goethe University Frankfurt
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Katja Bertsch
Katja Bertsch Heidelberg University
Stephan Ripke
Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

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