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Nikolaus Kleindienst

Nikolaus Kleindienst

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Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
11162
World Ranking
5192
National Ranking
239

Overview

Nikolaus Kleindienst is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has a research focus primarily on psychology and medicine. Their scholarly contributions span several subfields of study, including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, general health professions, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics centered around personality disorders and psychopathology, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, child abuse and trauma, psychotherapy techniques and applications, posttraumatic stress disorder research, suicide and self-harm studies, and psychosomatic disorders and their treatments.

Among recent publications are:

  • 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
  • A proposed severity classification of borderline symptoms using the borderline symptom list (BSL-23), 2020, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Digital phenotyping: towards replicable findings with comprehensive assessments and integrative models in bipolar disorders, 2020, International Journal of Bipolar Disorders
  • Health-Oriented Leadership and Mental Health From Supervisor and Employee Perspectives: A Multilevel and Multisource Approach, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Socio-economic consequences of mental distress: quantifying the impact of self-reported mental distress on the days of incapacity to work and medical costs in a two-year period: a longitudinal study in Germany, 2021, BMC Public Health

Frequent co-authors with whom Nikolaus Kleindienst has collaborated include:

  • Martin Bohus
  • Christian Schmahl
  • Kathlen Priebe
  • Ruben Vonderlin
  • Meike Müller-Engelmann

The scientist has published multiple articles in recurring venues such as:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • European Journal of Psychotraumatology
  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Nikolaus Kleindienst's research contributions focus extensively on clinical examinations and empirical studies within mental health disciplines, addressing complex psychological conditions and their treatments. The combination of clinical psychology, psychiatry, and psychosocial development underlines the interdisciplinary nature of their work.

Best Publications

  • The cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib has therapeutic effects in major depression: results of a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, add-on pilot study to reboxetine.

    N. Müller;M. J. Schwarz;S. Dehning;A. Douhe

  • 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

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

    Lisa Lyssenko;Christian Schmahl;Laura Bockhacker;Ruben Vonderlin

  • 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

  • Analytic strategies for understanding affective (in)stability and other dynamic processes in psychopathology.

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Michael Eid;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Simon Stabenow

  • 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

  • Dissociation in victims of childhood abuse or neglect: a meta-analytic review.

    Ruben Vonderlin;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Georg W. Alpers;Martin Bohus

  • Dissociative symptoms are positively related to stress in borderline personality disorder

    C. E. Stiglmayr;U. W. Ebner-Priemer;J. Bretz;R. Behm

  • 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: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Martin Bohus;Martin Bohus;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Christopher Hahn;Meike Müller-Engelmann

  • Dissociation predicts poor response to Dialectial Behavioral Therapy in female patients with Borderline Personality Disorder.

    Nikolaus Kleindienst;Matthias F Limberger;Ulrich W Ebner-Priemer;Jana Keibel-Mauchnik

  • Emotional learning during dissociative states in borderline personality disorder

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Jana Mauchnik;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Christian Schmahl

  • Which clinical factors predict response to prophylactic lithium? A systematic review for bipolar disorders

    N Kleindienst;RR Engel;W Greil

  • Unraveling Affective Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Marlies Houben;Philip Santangelo;Nikolaus Kleindienst

  • Syndromes and phenomenological subtypes underlying acute mania: a factor analytic study of 576 manic patients.

    Tetsuya Sato;Ronald Bottlender;Nikolaus Kleindienst;Hans-Jürgen Möller

  • Impulsivity and Aggression in Female BPD and ADHD Patients: Association with ACC Glutamate and GABA Concentrations

    Gabriele Ende;Sylvia Cackowski;Julia Van Eijk;Markus Sack

  • Distress and affective dysregulation in patients with borderline personality disorder: a psychophysiological ambulatory monitoring study

    Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer;Janice Kuo;Wolff Schlotz;Nikolaus Kleindienst

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer
Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Regina Steil
Regina Steil Goethe University Frankfurt
Stefanie Lis
Stefanie Lis Heidelberg University
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Katja Bertsch
Katja Bertsch Heidelberg University
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz University of Basel

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