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Overview

René Hurlemann is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected fields and topics within psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, with particular emphasis on social and cognitive processes.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Hurlemann's work addresses specialized subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main research topics covered in Hurlemann's publications involve:

  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

René Hurlemann frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports
  • Der Nervenarzt
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Recent publications include:

  • "Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Prosocial Behavior" (2020), The Neuroscientist
  • "Loneliness and the Social Brain: How Perceived Social Isolation Impairs Human Interactions" (2021), Advanced Science
  • "Evidence of Neuroplastic Changes after Transcranial Magnetic, Electric, and Deep Brain Stimulation" (2022), Brain Sciences
  • "Opposing Association of Situational and Chronic Loneliness with Interpersonal Distance" (2021), Brain Sciences
  • "Molecular and neurocircuitry mechanisms of social avoidance" (2020), Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Hurlemann's frequent co-authors include:

  • Dirk Scheele
  • Alexandra Philipsen
  • Maximilian Kiebs
  • Jana Lieberz
  • Simone Shamay-Tsoory

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

    René Hurlemann;Alexandra Patin;Oezguer A. Onur;Michael X. Cohen

  • Nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation decreases ratings of depression and anxiety in treatment-resistant depression.

    Bettina H. Bewernick;René Hurlemann;Andreas Matusch;Sarah Kayser

  • Elevated cerebrospinal fluid and blood concentrations of oxytocin following its intranasal administration in humans

    Nadine Striepens;Keith M. Kendrick;Vanessa Hanking;Rainer Landgraf

  • Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage.

    Justin S Feinstein;Colin Buzza;Rene Hurlemann;Rene Hurlemann;Robin L Follmer

  • Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner

    Dirk Scheele;Andrea Wille;Keith M. Kendrick;Birgit Stoffel-Wagner

  • Prosocial effects of oxytocin and clinical evidence for its therapeutic potential.

    Nadine Striepens;Keith M. Kendrick;Wolfgang Maier;Wolfgang Maier;René Hurlemann

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of non-surgical brain stimulation for the acute treatment of major depressive episodes in adults: systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Julian Mutz;Vijeinika Vipulananthan;Benjamin Richard Carter;René Hurlemann

  • An emotion-induced retrograde amnesia in humans is amygdala- and beta-adrenergic-dependent.

    B. A. Strange;R. Hurlemann;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Oxytocin Modulates Social Distance between Males and Females

    Dirk Scheele;Nadine Striepens;Onur Güntürkün;Sandra Deutschländer

  • Oxytocin facilitates protective responses to aversive social stimuli in males.

    Nadine Striepens;Dirk Scheele;Keith M. Kendrick;Benjamin Becker

  • Oxytocin Facilitates the Extinction of Conditioned Fear in Humans

    Monika Eckstein;Benjamin Becker;Dirk Scheele;Claudia Scholz

  • Kinetics and Dose Dependency of Intranasal Oxytocin Effects on Amygdala Reactivity

    Franny B. Spengler;Johannes Schultz;Dirk Scheele;Maximiliane Essel

  • An oxytocin-induced facilitation of neural and emotional responses to social touch correlates inversely with autism traits

    Dirk Scheele;Keith M Kendrick;Christoph Khouri;Elisa Kretzer

  • Ambiguous-Cue Interpretation is Biased Under Stress- and Depression-Like States in Rats

    Thomas Enkel;Donya Gholizadeh;Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach;Carles Sanchis-Segura

  • Noradrenergic Modulation of Emotion-Induced Forgetting and Remembering

    René Hurlemann;Barbara Hawellek;Andreas Matusch;Heike Kolsch

  • Integrative approaches utilizing oxytocin to enhance prosocial behavior: From animal and human social behavior to autistic social dysfunction

    Hidenori Yamasue;Jason R. Yee;Rene Hurlemann;James K Rilling

  • Dissecting the Role of Oxytocin in the Formation and Loss of Social Relationships.

    René Hurlemann;Dirk Scheele

  • Oxytocin Receptor Gene Methylation: Converging Multilevel Evidence for a Role in Social Anxiety

    Christiane Ziegler;Udo Dannlowski;David Bräuer;Stephan Stevens

  • Opposing Effects of Oxytocin on Moral Judgment in Males and Females

    Dirk Scheele;Nadine Striepens;Keith M. Kendrick;Christine Schwering

  • Noradrenergic enhancement of amygdala responses to fear

    Oezguer A. Onur;Henrik Walter;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Thomas E. Schlaepfer;Anne K. Rehme

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Becker
Benjamin Becker University of Hong Kong
Bernd Weber
Bernd Weber University of Bonn
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Dominik R. Bach
Dominik R. Bach University of Bonn
Koen Schruers
Koen Schruers Maastricht University
Ulrich Ettinger
Ulrich Ettinger University of Bonn
Sahib S. Khalsa
Sahib S. Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research
Georg Juckel
Georg Juckel Ruhr University Bochum
Per Hoffmann
Per Hoffmann University of Bonn

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