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Overview

Martin Brüne is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where their research spans the fields of psychology and medicine. Within these broad domains, their work focuses significantly on clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and social psychology.

The main topics addressed in Martin Brüne's publications include personality disorders and psychopathology, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, schizophrenia research and treatment, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, tryptophan and brain disorders, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Recently, Martin Brüne has contributed to multiple papers, such as:

  • "Altered interoception in patients with borderline personality disorder: a study using heartbeat-evoked potentials," 2020, published in Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • "Lateralization of increased density of Iba1-immunopositive microglial cells in the anterior midcingulate cortex of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder," 2020, published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Targeted bisulfite sequencing: A novel tool for the assessment of DNA methylation with high sensitivity and increased coverage," 2020, published in Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • "Evolutionary perspectives on human behavior during the coronavirus pandemic," 2020, published in Evolution Medicine and Public Health
  • "Association between childhood maltreatment, psychopathology and DNA methylation of genes involved in stress regulation: Evidence from a study in Borderline Personality Disorder," 2021, published in PLoS ONE

Martin Brüne collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Vera Flasbeck, Georg Juckel, Riadh Abed, Fabian Ramseyer, and Christiane Völter.

Their work appears regularly in notable publication venues such as Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie, Frontiers in Psychiatry, PTT - Persönlichkeitsstörungen Theorie und Therapie, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, and European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

In addition to articles, Martin Brüne has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored "Evolutionary Psychiatry," published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric disorders: characteristics, causes and the quest for improved therapy

    Mark J. Millan;Yves Agid;Martin Brüne;Edward T. Bullmore

  • “Theory of Mind” in Schizophrenia: A Review of the Literature

    Martin Brüne

  • Emotion recognition, 'theory of mind,' and social behavior in schizophrenia.

    Martin Brüne

  • Theory of mind--evolution, ontogeny, brain mechanisms and psychopathology.

    Martin Brüne;Ute Brüne-Cohrs

  • Towards a neuroscience of empathy: Ontogeny, phylogeny, brain mechanisms, context and psychopathology

    Cristina Gonzalez-Liencres;Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory;Martin Brüne

  • Mental state attribution, neurocognitive functioning, and psychopathology: what predicts poor social competence in schizophrenia best?

    Martin Brüne;Mona Abdel-Hamid;Caroline Lehmkämper;Claudia Sonntag

  • Theory of mind and the role of IQ in chronic disorganized schizophrenia.

    Martin Brüne

  • Proverb comprehension reconsidered—‘theory of mind’ and the pragmatic use of language in schizophrenia

    Martin Brüne;Luise Bodenstein

  • The role of prediction in social neuroscience.

    Elliot Clayton Brown;Martin Brüne

  • Microglial activation in a neuroinflammational animal model of schizophrenia — a pilot study

    Georg Juckel;Marie Pierre Manitz;Martin Brüne;Astrid Friebe

  • An fMRI study of theory of mind in schizophrenic patients with "passivity" symptoms.

    Martin Brüne;Silke Lissek;Nina Fuchs;Henning Witthaus

  • Theory of mind in schizophrenia: The role of clinical symptomatology and neurocognition in understanding other people's thoughts and intentions

    Mona Abdel-Hamid;Caroline Lehmkämper;Claudia Sonntag;Georg Juckel

  • Gray matter abnormalities in subjects at ultra-high risk for schizophrenia and first-episode schizophrenic patients compared to healthy controls.

    Henning Witthaus;Christian Kaufmann;Georg Bohner;Seza Özgürdal

  • DSM-5: a collection of psychiatrist views on the changes, controversies, and future directions

    Charles B Nemeroff;Daniel Weinberger;Michael Rutter;Harriet L MacMillan

  • Oxytocin and psychotherapy: a pilot study of its physiological, behavioral and subjective effects in males with depression.

    Kai MacDonald;Tina Marie MacDonald;Martin Brüne;Kristi Lamb

  • Psychopathology in great apes: concepts, treatment options and possible homologies to human psychiatric disorders.

    Martin Brüne;Ute Brüne-Cohrs;William C. McGrew;Signe Preuschoft

  • Validation of the Personal and Social Performance (PSP) Scale in a German sample of acutely ill patients with schizophrenia.

    Georg Juckel;Daniela Schaub;Nina Fuchs;Ute Naumann

  • Does the oxytocin receptor polymorphism (rs2254298) confer 'vulnerability' for psychopathology or 'differential susceptibility'? insights from evolution

    Martin Brüne

  • Modulation of interpersonal trust in borderline personality disorder by intranasal oxytocin and childhood trauma.

    Andreas Ebert;Meike Kolb;Jörg Heller;Marc-Andreas Edel

  • Social skills and behavioral problems in schizophrenia: The role of mental state attribution, neurocognition and clinical symptomatology

    Martin Brüne;Daniela Schaub;Georg Juckel;Robyn Langdon

  • Borderline Personality Disorder Why ‘fast and furious’?

    Martin Brüne

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Paul H. Lysaker
Paul H. Lysaker Indiana University
Giancarlo Dimaggio
Giancarlo Dimaggio Centro di Terapia Metacognitiva Interpersonale - Rome
Robyn Langdon
Robyn Langdon Macquarie University
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Robert Kumsta
Robert Kumsta Ruhr University Bochum
Paul Gilbert
Paul Gilbert University of Derby
Irene Daum
Irene Daum Ruhr University Bochum
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Andreas J. Fallgatter University of Tübingen
Kelly D. Buck
Kelly D. Buck Veterans Health Administration

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