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73
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1996
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116

Overview

Merel Kindt is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on neuroscience and psychology, encompassing extensive work in cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics, including:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy

Merel Kindt has published in numerous scientific venues, with frequent publications found in:

  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Merel Kindt include:

  • "A new science of mental disorders: Using personalised, transdiagnostic, dynamical systems to understand, model, diagnose and treat psychopathology" (2022), Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • "Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial" (2022), Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • "Reconsolidation-based treatment for fear of public speaking: a systematic pilot study using propranolol" (2020), Translational Psychiatry
  • "Episodic memory enhancement versus impairment is determined by contextual similarity across events" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pupil dilation and skin conductance as measures of prediction error in aversive learning" (2022), Behaviour Research and Therapy

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Kindt's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Renée M. Visser
  • Vanessa A. van Ast
  • Jacqueline Peters
  • James W. B. Elsey
  • Wouter R. Cox

Best Publications

  • Beyond extinction: erasing human fear responses and preventing the return of fear

    Merel Kindt;Marieke Soeter;Bram Vervliet

  • Treatment of PTSD: A comparison of imaginal exposure with and without imagery rescripting

    Arnoud Arntz;Meike Tiesema;Merel Kindt

  • Psychological and cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis.

    Petra A Karsdorp;Walter Everaerd;Merel Kindt;Barbara J M Mulder

  • Autobiographical memories become less vivid and emotional after eye movements

    Marcel van den Hout;Peter Muris;Elske Salemink;Merel Kindt

  • Repeated checking causes memory distrust.

    Marcel van den Hout;Merel Kindt

  • Selective attention and threat: quick orienting versus slow disengagement and two versions of the dot probe task.

    Elske Salemink;Marcel A. van den Hout;Merel Kindt

  • Avoidance Learning: A Review of Theoretical Models and Recent Developments

    Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos;Marieke Effting;Merel Kindt;Tom Beckers

  • Prediction Error Governs Pharmacologically Induced Amnesia for Learned Fear

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Dissociating response systems: Erasing fear from memory

    Marieke Soeter;Merel Kindt

  • What's wrong with fear conditioning?

    Tom Beckers;Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos;Yannick Boddez;Marieke Effting

  • Retrieval per se is not sufficient to trigger reconsolidation of human fear memory

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Salivary alpha amylase and cortisol responses to different stress tasks: Impact of sex

    Anda H. van Stegeren;Oliver T. Wolf;Merel Kindt

  • Disrupting reconsolidation: Pharmacological and behavioral manipulations

    Marieke Soeter;Merel Kindt

  • Reconsolidation in a human fear conditioning study: a test of extinction as updating mechanism.

    Merel Kindt;Marieke Soeter

  • An Abrupt Transformation of Phobic Behavior After a Post-Retrieval Amnesic Agent

    Marieke Soeter;Merel Kindt

  • Shifting the balance between goals and habits: Five failures in experimental habit induction.

    Sanne de Wit;Merel Kindt;Sarah L. Knot;Aukje A. C. Verhoeven

  • Deficient safety learning characterizes high trait anxious individuals.

    Femke J. Gazendam;Jan H. Kamphuis;Merel Kindt

  • Human memory reconsolidation: A guiding framework and critical review of the evidence.

    James W. B. Elsey;Vanessa A. Van Ast;Merel Kindt

  • Prediction error demarcates the transition from retrieval, to reconsolidation, to new learning.

    Dieuwke Sevenster;Tom Beckers;Merel Kindt

  • Interacting noradrenergic and corticosteroid systems shift human brain activation patterns during encoding

    Anda H. van Stegeren;Benno Roozendaal;Merel Kindt;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Stimulation of the noradrenergic system during memory formation impairs extinction learning but not the disruption of reconsolidation

    Marieke Soeter;Merel Kindt

  • Individual differences in heart rate variability predict the degree of slowing during response inhibition and initiation in the presence of emotional stimuli

    Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos;Sara Jahfari;Vanessa A. van Ast;Merel Kindt

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Beckers
Tom Beckers KU Leuven
Marcel A. van den Hout
Marcel A. van den Hout Utrecht University
Arnoud Arntz
Arnoud Arntz University of Amsterdam
Bram Vervliet
Bram Vervliet KU Leuven
Bruno Verschuere
Bruno Verschuere University of Amsterdam
Jos F. Brosschot
Jos F. Brosschot Leiden University
Peter Muris
Peter Muris Maastricht University
Gershon Ben-Shakhar
Gershon Ben-Shakhar Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elske Salemink
Elske Salemink Utrecht University
Marian Joëls
Marian Joëls University of Groningen

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