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Overview

Michèle Wessa is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans various areas within psychology, focusing primarily on resilience and mental health, stress responses, and clinical psychology.

Their work is concentrated in the field of Psychology, with significant contributions also in the subfields of Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wessa include:

  • Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare professionals (2020), published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Measuring stress in clinical and nonclinical subjects using a German adaptation of the Perceived Stress Scale (2020), published in International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
  • Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare students (2020), published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health in Germany: longitudinal observation of different mental health trajectories and protective factors (2021), published in Translational Psychiatry
  • The Frequent Stressor and Mental Health Monitoring-Paradigm: A Proposal for the Operationalization and Measurement of Resilience and the Identification of Resilience Processes in Longitudinal Observational Studies (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wessa include:

  • Klaus Lieb
  • Raffaël Kalisch
  • Andrea Chmitorz
  • Oliver Tüscher
  • Kira F. Ahrens

Key publication venues for their work are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The resilience framework as a strategy to combat stress-related disorders

    Raffael Kalisch;Dewleen G. Baker;Dewleen G. Baker;Ulrike Basten;Ulrike Basten;Marco P. Boks

  • Intervention studies to foster resilience - A systematic review and proposal for a resilience framework in future intervention studies.

    A. Chmitorz;A. Kunzler;I. Helmreich;O. Tüscher

  • How to Regulate Emotion? Neural Networks for Reappraisal and Distraction

    Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Sandra Schönfelder;André Bongers

  • A meta-analysis of neurofunctional imaging studies of emotion and cognition in major depression

    Carsten Diener;Christine Kuehner;Wencke Brusniak;Bettina Ubl

  • Failure of extinction of fear responses in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence from second-order conditioning.

    Michèle Wessa;Herta Flor

  • Altered cortisol awakening response in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Michèle Wessa;Nicolas Rohleder;Clemens Kirschbaum;Herta Flor

  • Psychological interventions to foster resilience in healthcare professionals

    Angela M Kunzler;Isabella Helmreich;Andrea Chmitorz;Jochem König

  • Neuroimaging-based markers of bipolar disorder: evidence from two meta-analyses.

    Josselin Houenou;Juliane Frommberger;Soufiane Carde;Manuela Glasbrenner

  • Psychological interventions for resilience enhancement in adults

    Isabella Helmreich;Angela Kunzler;Andrea Chmitorz;Jochem König

  • Fronto-Striatal Overactivation in Euthymic Bipolar Patients During an Emotional Go/NoGo Task

    Michèle Wessa;Josselin Houenou;Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot;Sylvie Berthoz

  • Psychometric qualities of the German version of the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PTDS).

    Dorothee Griesel;Michèle Wessa;Herta Flor

  • Widespread white matter microstructural abnormalities in bipolar disorder: evidence from mega- and meta-analyses across 3033 individuals

    Pauline Favre;Pauline Favre;Melissa Pauling;Melissa Pauling;Jacques Stout;Franz Hozer

  • A meta-analysis of whole-brain diffusion tensor imaging studies in bipolar disorder.

    François-Eric Vederine;Michèle Wessa;Marion Leboyer;Josselin Houenou

  • Neural correlates of emotion regulation deficits in remitted depression: The influence of regulation strategy, habitual regulation use, and emotional valence

    Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Sandra Schönfelder;Michèle Wessa

  • Context conditioning and extinction in humans: differential contribution of the hippocampus, amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

    Simone Lang;Alexander Kroll;Slawomira J. Lipinski;Michèle Wessa

  • Increased white matter connectivity in euthymic bipolar patients: diffusion tensor tractography between the subgenual cingulate and the amygdalo-hippocampal complex.

    J Houenou;M Wessa;G Douaud;M Leboyer

  • Cross-cultural validation of the empathy quotient in a French-speaking sample.

    Sylvie Berthoz;Michele Wessa;Gayannee Kedia;Bruno Wicker

  • Measuring stress in clinical and nonclinical subjects using a German adaptation of the Perceived Stress Scale.

    Eva Elisa Schneider;Sandra Schönfelder;Mila Domke-Wolf;Michèle Wessa;Michèle Wessa

  • Time course of emotion-related responding during distraction and reappraisal

    Sandra Schönfelder;Sandra Schönfelder;Philipp Kanske;Philipp Kanske;Janine Heissler;Michèle Wessa;Michèle Wessa

  • Hippocampal volume in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): MRI study using two different evaluation methods.

    A. Jatzko;S. Rothenhöfer;A. Schmitt;C. Gaser

  • A multicenter tractography study of deep white matter tracts in bipolar I disorder: psychotic features and interhemispheric disconnectivity.

    Samuel Sarrazin;Cyril Poupon;Julia Linke;Michèle Wessa

Frequent Co-Authors

Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Marion Leboyer
Marion Leboyer Paris-Est Créteil University
Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Cyril Poupon
Cyril Poupon University of Paris-Saclay
Mary L. Phillips
Mary L. Phillips University of Pittsburgh
Achim Gass
Achim Gass Heidelberg University
Paolo Brambilla
Paolo Brambilla University of Milan
Jean-François Mangin
Jean-François Mangin University of Paris-Saclay
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Oliver Tüscher
Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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