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Robert Kumsta is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions to subfields including Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers a range of topics such as Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, and Cognitive Abilities and Testing.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Kumsta are:

  • Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 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
  • Polygenic Scores for Cognitive Abilities and Their Association with Different Aspects of General Intelligence-A Deep Phenotyping Approach, 2021, Molecular Neurobiology
  • Why does early childhood deprivation increase the risk for depression and anxiety in adulthood? A developmental cascade model, 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Polygenic Scores for Cognitive Abilities and their Association with Different Aspects of General Intelligence - a Deep Phenotyping Approach, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Dirk Moser
  • Erhan Genç
  • Christoph Fraenz
  • Dorothea Metzen
  • Fabian Streit

Robert Kumsta's work has been published regularly in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

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

Best Publications

  • Stress exposure in intrauterine life is associated with shorter telomere length in young adulthood

    Sonja Entringer;Elissa S. Epel;Robert Kumsta;Jue Lin

  • Common polymorphisms in the glucocorticoid receptor gene are associated with adrenocortical responses to psychosocial stress.

    Stephan Wüst;Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum;Ilona S. Federenko;Jan W. Koper

  • Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study

    Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke;Mark Kennedy;Robert Kumsta;Nicky Knights

  • Prenatal exposure to maternal psychosocial stress and HPA axis regulation in young adults

    Sonja Entringer;Robert Kumsta;Robert Kumsta;Robert Kumsta;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Pathik D. Wadhwa;Pathik D. Wadhwa

  • Oxytocin, stress and social behavior: neurogenetics of the human oxytocin system.

    Robert Kumsta;Markus Heinrichs

  • Common oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) polymorphism and social support interact to reduce stress in humans.

    Frances S. Chen;Robert Kumsta;Bernadette von Dawans;Mikhail Monakhov

  • Covariance between psychological and endocrine responses to pharmacological challenge and psychosocial stress: a question of timing.

    Wolff Schlotz;Robert Kumsta;Irmgard Layes;Sonja Entringer

  • Free cortisol awakening responses are influenced by awakening time

    Ilona Federenko;Stefan Wüst;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Ralph Dechoux

  • Sex specific associations between common glucocorticoid receptor gene variants and hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to psychosocial stress

    Robert Kumsta;Sonja Entringer;Jan W. Koper;Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum

  • Deprivation-Specific Psychological Patterns: Effects of Institutional Deprivation

    M. Rutter;E. Sonuga-Barke;C. Beckett;J. Castle

  • Epigenetic regulation of the oxytocin receptor gene: Implications for behavioral neuroscience

    Robert Kumsta;Elisabeth Hummel;Frances S. Chen;Markus Heinrichs

  • Early childhood deprivation is associated with alterations in adult brain structure despite subsequent environmental enrichment.

    Nuria K Mackes;Dennis Golm;Sagari Sarkar;Robert Kumsta

  • PRENATAL PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS EXPOSURE IS ASSOCIATED WITH INSULIN RESISTANCE IN YOUNG ADULTS

    Sonja Entringer;Stefan Wüst;Robert Kumsta;Irmgard M. Layes

  • Stress and Depression: a Crucial Role of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor

    E. R. de Kloet;C. Otte;Robert Kumsta;L. Kok

  • Cell-free DNA release under psychosocial and physical stress conditions.

    E. M. Hummel;E. Hessas;S. Müller;T. Beiter

  • A Psychobiological Perspective on Genetic Determinants of Hypothalamus‐Pituitary‐Adrenal Axis Activity

    Stefan Wüst;Ilona S. Federenko;Elisabeth F.C. van Rossum;Jan W. Koper

  • Influence of prenatal psychosocial stress on cytokine production in adult women

    Sonja Entringer;Robert Kumsta;Edward L. Nelson;Dirk H. Hellhammer

  • Epigenetic regulation of lateralized fetal spinal gene expression underlies hemispheric asymmetries.

    Sebastian Ocklenburg;Judith Schmitz;Zahra Moinfar;Dirk Moser

  • Altered Stress-Induced Regulation of Genes in Monocytes in Adults with a History of Childhood Adversity.

    Marion Schwaiger;Marianna Grinberg;Dirk Moser;Johannes C S Zang

  • Cortisol and ACTH responses to psychosocial stress are modulated by corticosteroid binding globulin levels

    Robert Kumsta;Sonja Entringer;Dirk H. Hellhammer;Stefan Wüst

  • Sex-specific association between the 5-HTT gene-linked polymorphic region and basal cortisol secretion.

    Stefan Wüst;Robert Kumsta;Jens Treutlein;Josef Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke
Edmund J.S. Sonuga-Barke King's College London
Stefan Wüst
Stefan Wüst University of Regensburg
Wolff Schlotz
Wolff Schlotz Max Planck Society
Michael Rutter
Michael Rutter King's College London
Jana Kreppner
Jana Kreppner University of Southampton
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Fabian Streit
Fabian Streit Heidelberg University
Barbara Maughan
Barbara Maughan King's College London
Martin Brüne
Martin Brüne Ruhr University Bochum
Oliver T. Wolf
Oliver T. Wolf Ruhr University Bochum

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