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Overview

Raffael Kalisch is affiliated with the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a substantial body of work in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology.

The main topics covered by Kalisch's research include:

  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Kalisch has coauthored extensively with several researchers, forming frequent collaborations with Lara Puhlmann, Oliver Tüscher, Henrik Walter, Kenneth S.L. Yuen, and Andreas Reif.

The venue landscape for Kalisch's publications consists prominently of journals including:

  • Translational Psychiatry
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent research papers demonstrate a focus on mental resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and related psychological mechanisms. Selected publications include:

  • Psycho-social factors associated with mental resilience in the Corona lockdown, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Positive Cognitive Reappraisal in Stress Resilience, Mental Health, and Well-Being: A Comprehensive Systematic Review, 2022, Emotion Review
  • Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on mental health in Germany: longitudinal observation of different mental health trajectories and protective factors, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • 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, Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

    Amit Etkin;Tobias Egner;Raffael Kalisch

  • How the Brain Translates Money into Force: A Neuroimaging Study of Subliminal Motivation

    Mathias Pessiglione;Liane Schmidt;Liane Schmidt;Bogdan Draganski;Bogdan Draganski;Raffael Kalisch;Raffael Kalisch

  • 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

  • A conceptual framework for the neurobiological study of resilience

    Raffael Kalisch;Marianne B. Müller;Oliver Tüscher

  • 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

  • Context-Dependent Human Extinction Memory is Mediated by a Ventromedial Prefrontal and Hippocampal Network.

    Raffael Kalisch;Elian Korenfeld;Klaas Enno Stephan;Nikolaus Weiskopf

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Affective Evaluations of Conditioned Faces and Amygdala Activity

    Predrag Petrovic;Raffael Kalisch;Tania Singer;Raymond J. Dolan

  • The functional neuroanatomy of reappraisal: time matters.

    Raffael Kalisch

  • A meta-analysis of instructed fear studies: Implications for conscious appraisal of threat

    Marie-Luise Mechias;Amit Etkin;Raffael Kalisch

  • Anxiety Reduction through Detachment: Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Effects

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Hugo D. Critchley;Ben Seymour

  • Anterolateral Prefrontal Cortex Mediates the Analgesic Effect of Expected and Perceived Control over Pain

    Katja Wiech;Raffael Kalisch;Nikolaus Weiskopf;Burkhard Pleger

  • Gene–gene interaction associated with neural reward sensitivity

    Juliana Yacubian;Tobias Sommer;Katrin Schroeder;Jan Gläscher

  • Levels of appraisal: a medial prefrontal role in high-level appraisal of emotional material.

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Hugo D. Critchley;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Deconstructing and Reconstructing Resilience: A Dynamic Network Approach:

    Raffael Kalisch;Angélique O J Cramer;Harald Binder;Jessica Fritz

  • Dissociable Roles for the Hippocampus and the Amygdala in Human Cued versus Context Fear Conditioning

    Andreas Marschner;Raffael Kalisch;Bram Vervliet;Debora Vansteenwegen

  • Neural Correlates of Self-distraction from Anxiety and a Process Model of Cognitive Emotion Regulation

    Raffael Kalisch;Katja Wiech;Katrin Herrmann;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Single dose of l-dopa makes extinction memories context-independent and prevents the return of fear

    Jan Haaker;Stefano Gaburro;Anupam Sah;Nina Gartmann

  • Population-based validation of a German version of the Brief Resilience Scale.

    Andrea Chmitorz;Mario Wenzel;Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz;Angela Kunzler

  • Psycho-social factors associated with mental resilience in the Corona lockdown.

    Ilya M Veer;Antje Riepenhausen;Matthias Zerban;Carolin Wackerhagen

  • The common and distinct neural bases of affect labeling and reappraisal in healthy adults

    Lisa J. Burklund;J. David Creswell;Michael R. Irwin;Matthew D. Lieberman

  • Modulation of pain processing in hyperalgesia by cognitive demand.

    Katja Wiech;Ben Seymour;Raffael Kalisch;Klaas Enno Stephan

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Tüscher
Oliver Tüscher Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Andreas Reif
Andreas Reif Goethe University Frankfurt
Christian Büchel
Christian Büchel University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Michèle Wessa
Michèle Wessa Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg

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