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  • 2019 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Overview

Oliver T. Wolf is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work encompasses a broad array of topics, with a particular focus on stress responses, memory mechanisms, and neuroendocrine regulation of behavior.

The main fields of study for this researcher include Neuroscience and Psychology, with notable subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research covers several key topics, including:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience

Oliver T. Wolf has contributed to multiple publications, frequently publishing in journals such as Psychoneuroendocrinology, Scientific Reports, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Atypical lateralization in neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders: What is the role of stress?" (2020, Cortex)
  • "The effects of a music and singing intervention during pregnancy on maternal well-being and mother-infant bonding: a randomised, controlled study" (2020, Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics)
  • "The brain under stress-A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of changes in BOLD signal associated with acute stress exposure" (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • "The impact of emotion regulation on cardiovascular, neuroendocrine and psychological stress responses" (2020, Biological Psychology)
  • "Stress research during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond" (2021, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)

Their work includes collaboration with several frequent coauthors, notably:

  • Christian J. Merz
  • Valerie L. Jentsch
  • Sebastian Ocklenburg
  • Lena Sophie Pfeifer
  • Matthias Brand

Oliver T. Wolf received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2019 within the domain of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Free Cortisol Levels after Awakening: A Reliable Biological Marker for the Assessment of Adrenocortical Activity

    J.C. Pruessner;O.T. Wolf;D.H. Hellhammer;A. Buske-Kirschbaum

  • Stress- and treatment-induced elevations of cortisol levels associated with impaired declarative memory in healthy adults.

    C Kirschbaum;O.T Wolf;M May;W Wippich

  • Dissociation of Cognitive and Emotional Empathy in Adults with Asperger Syndrome Using the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET)

    Isabel Dziobek;Kimberley Rogers;Kimberley Rogers;Stefan Fleck;Markus Bahnemann

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

    Isabel Dziobek;Stefan Fleck;Elke Kalbe;Kimberley Rogers

  • Impaired Memory Retrieval after Psychosocial Stress in Healthy Young Men

    Sabrina Kuhlmann;Marcel Piel;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Stress effects on memory: an update and integration

    Lars Schwabe;Marian Joëls;Benno Roozendaal;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Prediction of cognitive decline in normal elderly subjects with 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose/positron-emission tomography (FDG/PET)

    M. J. De Leon;A. Convit;A. Convit;O. T. Wolf;O. T. Wolf;C. Y. Tarshish

  • Stress Prompts Habit Behavior in Humans

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Psychosocial stress induces working memory impairments in an n-back paradigm

    Daniela Schoofs;Diana Preuß;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Who cares? Revisiting empathy in asperger syndrome

    Kimberley Rogers;Isabel Dziobek;Jason Hassenstab;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Stress and memory in humans: Twelve years of progress?

    Oliver T. Wolf

  • A meta-analytic review of the effects of acute cortisol administration on human memory

    S. Het;G. Ramlow;O.T. Wolf

  • Salivary alpha amylase as marker for adrenergic activity during stress: effect of betablockade.

    Anda van Stegeren;Nicolas Rohleder;Walter Everaerd;Oliver T. Wolf

  • The relationship between stress induced cortisol levels and memory differs between men and women.

    Oliver T. Wolf;Nicole C. Schommer;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Bruce S. McEwen

  • Neuroendocrine and psychometric evaluation of a placebo version of the ‘Trier Social Stress Test’

    S. Het;N. Rohleder;D. Schoofs;C. Kirschbaum

  • Reduced glucose tolerance is associated with poor memory performance and hippocampal atrophy among normal elderly

    Antonio Convit;Oliver T. Wolf;Chaim Tarshish;Mony J. de Leon

  • Stress and multiple memory systems: from ‘thinking’ to ‘doing’

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Learning under stress impairs memory formation.

    Lars Schwabe;Oliver T. Wolf

  • True or false? Memory is differentially affected by stress-induced cortisol elevations and sympathetic activity at consolidation and retrieval.

    Tom Smeets;Henry Otgaar;Ingrid Candel;Oliver T. Wolf

  • Effects of a Two-Week Physiological Dehydroepiandrosterone Substitution on Cognitive Performance and Well-Being in Healthy Elderly Women and Men

    Oliver T. Wolf;Oliver Neumann;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Andrea C. Geiben

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian J. Merz
Christian J. Merz Ruhr University Bochum
Antonio Convit
Antonio Convit New York University
Lars Schwabe
Lars Schwabe Universität Hamburg
Katja Wingenfeld
Katja Wingenfeld Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Matthias Brand
Matthias Brand University of Duisburg-Essen
Christian Otte
Christian Otte Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Isabel Dziobek
Isabel Dziobek Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mony J. de Leon
Mony J. de Leon Cornell University
Rudolf Stark
Rudolf Stark University of Giessen

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