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Overview

Matthias Brand is affiliated with the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Their work spans multiple fields within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on areas related to technology's impact on human behavior.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several main fields of study, including:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, their research covers a range of subfields, such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Marketing
  • Education
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Their main research topics include:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Matthias Brand has published a number of papers in various scientific journals. Some recent notable papers are:

  • Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of "other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors"? (2020) - Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance (2020) - Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review (2020) - Clinical Psychology Review
  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study (2021) - Addiction
  • Advances in problematic usage of the internet research - A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the internet (2022) - Comprehensive Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Elisa Wegmann
  • Stephanie Antons
  • Astrid Müller
  • Silke M. Müller
  • Annika Brandtner

Matthias Brand regularly publishes in specific academic journals. These frequent publication venues are:

  • Suchttherapie
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Current Addiction Reports
  • SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice
  • Comprehensive Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model.

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Kimberly S. Young;Christian Laier;Klaus Wölfling

  • The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the process character of addictive behaviors.

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Elisa Wegmann;Rudolf Stark;Astrid Müller

  • Decision making under stress: A selective review

    Katrin Starcke;Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand

  • Introducing MASC: a movie for the assessment of social cognition.

    Isabel Dziobek;Stefan Fleck;Elke Kalbe;Kimberley Rogers

  • Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out

    Ursula Oberst;Elisa Wegmann;Benjamin Stodt;Matthias Brand

  • DemTect: a new, sensitive cognitive screening test to support the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and early dementia

    E Kalbe;J Kessler;P Calabrese;R Smith

  • Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic: Consensus guidance.

    Orsolya Király;Marc N. Potenza;Dan J. Stein;Daniel L. King

  • Decisions under ambiguity and decisions under risk: correlations with executive functions and comparisons of two different gambling tasks with implicit and explicit rules.

    Matthias Brand;Emily C Recknor;Fabian Grabenhorst;Antoine Bechara

  • Decision-making deficits of Korsakoff patients in a new gambling task with explicit rules: Associations with executive functions

    Matthias Brand;Esther Fujiwara;Sabine Borsutzky;Elke Kalbe

  • Neuropsychological correlates of decision-making in ambiguous and risky situations

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Hans J. Markowitsch

  • Prefrontal control and Internet addiction: a theoretical model and review of neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings

    Matthias Brand;Kimberley S. Young;Christian Laier

  • Validation and psychometric properties of a short version of Young's Internet Addiction Test

    Mirko Pawlikowski;Christine Altstötter-Gleich;Matthias Brand

  • Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: A TMS study

    Elke Kalbe;Marius Schlegel;Alexander T. Sack;Dennis A. Nowak

  • Online-specific fear of missing out and Internet-use expectancies contribute to symptoms of Internet-communication disorder.

    Elisa Wegmann;Ursula Oberst;Benjamin Stodt;Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with pathological gambling.

    Matthias Brand;Elke Kalbe;Kirsten Labudda;Esther Fujiwara

  • Anticipatory stress influences decision making under explicit risk conditions.

    Katrin Starcke;Oliver T. Wolf;Hans J. Markowitsch;Matthias Brand

  • Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”?

    Matthias Brand;Matthias Brand;Hans-JÜrgen Rumpf;Zsolt Demetrovics;Astrid MÜller

  • How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with "smartphone addiction"?

    Christian Montag;Christian Montag;Elisa Wegmann;Rayna Sariyska;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review.

    Daniel L. King;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Natacha Carragher;Joel Billieux

  • Manifesto for a European research network into Problematic Usage of the Internet.

    N A Fineberg;N A Fineberg;N A Fineberg;Z Demetrovics;D J Stein;K Ioannidis

  • Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective.

    Hans Jürgen Rumpf;Sophia Achab;Sophia Achab;Joël Billieux;Henrietta Bowden-Jones

  • Internet addiction: coping styles, expectancies, and treatment implications.

    Matthias Brand;Christian Laier;Kimberly S. Young

  • Decision-making impairments in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Matthias Brand;Kirsten Labudda;Elke Kalbe;Rüdiger Hilker

Frequent Co-Authors

Elke Kalbe
Elke Kalbe University of Vechta
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum
Daniel King
Daniel King Flinders University
Christian Montag
Christian Montag University of Macau
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf University of Lübeck
Zsolt Demetrovics
Zsolt Demetrovics Flinders University
Samuel R. Chamberlain
Samuel R. Chamberlain University of Southampton
Klaus Wölfling
Klaus Wölfling Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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