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Sabine C. Herpertz

Sabine C. Herpertz

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Psychology

D-Index
78
Citations
23827
World Ranking
1584
National Ranking
65

Overview

Sabine C. Herpertz is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research covers multiple subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics addressed in Sabine C. Herpertz's research include:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sabine C. Herpertz include:

  • "Understanding Brain Mechanisms of Reactive Aggression," 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • "Well-Being and Mental Health of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, Psychopathology
  • "Cortical thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis," 2020, Psychophysiology
  • "A Prospective Study of Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Childhood Trauma-Exposed Individuals: Social Support Matters," 2021, Journal of Traumatic Stress
  • "An analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray in rats," 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sabine C. Herpertz include:

  • Katja Bertsch
  • Corinne Neukel
  • Michael Kaess
  • Christian Schmahl
  • K. Seitz

The most common publication venues for Sabine C. Herpertz's work are:

  • Psychopathology
  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Der Nervenarzt

Sabine C. Herpertz has also contributed to book publications, notably with one book titled Persönlichkeitsstörungen published by Hogrefe Verlag in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans.

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Andre Michel;Christoph Berger

  • Oxytocin Attenuates Amygdala Responses to Emotional Faces Regardless of Valence

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Jan Gläscher;Christian Büchel

  • Evidence of abnormal amygdala functioning in borderline personality disorder: a functional MRI study

    Sabine C Herpertz;Thomas M Dietrich;Britta Wenning;Timo Krings

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on emotional face processing in women.

    Gregor Domes;Gregor Domes;Alexander Lischke;Christoph Berger;Annette Grossmann

  • Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder - a review of the literature

    Gregor Domes;Lars Schulze;Sabine C Herpertz

  • Emotion in Criminal Offenders With Psychopathy and Borderline Personality Disorder

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Ulrike Werth;Gerald Lukas;Mutaz Qunaibi

  • Does obesity surgery improve psychosocial functioning? A systematic review

    S Herpertz;R Kielmann;A M Wolf;M Langkafel

  • Self-injurious behaviour Psychopathological and nosological characteristics in subtypes of self-injurers

    S. Herpertz

  • Impulsivity in self-mutilative behavior: Psychometric and biological findings

    Sabine Herpertz;Henning Sass;Armando Favazza

  • The Neural Correlates of Sex Differences in Emotional Reactivity and Emotion Regulation

    Gregor Domes;Lars Schulze;Moritz Böttger;Annette Grossmann

  • Prospective 10-year follow-up in adolescent anorexia nervosa--course, outcome, psychiatric comorbidity, and psychosocial adaptation.

    Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann;Bodo Müller;Sabine Herpertz;Nicole Heussen

  • Recognition of facial affect in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Gregor Domes;Daniela Czieschnek;Franziska Weidler;Christoph Berger

  • Overweight and obesity in children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

    K Holtkamp;K Konrad;B Müller;N Heussen

  • Morphometric Brain Abnormalities in Boys With Conduct Disorder

    Thomas Huebner;Timo D. Vloet;Ivo Marx;Kerstin Konrad

  • Affective Responsiveness in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Psychophysiological Approach

    Sabine C. Herpertz;Hanns J. Kunert;Ulrich B. Schwenger;Henning Sass

  • Neuronal Correlates of Cognitive Reappraisal in Borderline Patients with Affective Instability

    Lars Schulze;Gregor Domes;Alexander Krüger;Christoph Berger

  • Leptin suppresses semi-starvation induced hyperactivity in rats: implications for anorexia nervosa.

    C Exner;J Hebebrand;H Remschmidt;C Wewetzer

  • Effects of intranasal oxytocin on the neural basis of face processing in autism spectrum disorder

    Gregor Domes;Markus Heinrichs;Ekkehardt Kumbier;Annette Grossmann

  • Affect Regulation and Pain in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Possible Link to the Understanding of Self-Injury

    Inga Niedtfeld;Lars Schulze;Peter Kirsch;Sabine C. Herpertz

  • Oxytocin and Reduction of Social Threat Hypersensitivity in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder

    Katja Bertsch;Matthias Gamer;Brigitte Schmidt;Ilinca Schmidinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Katja Bertsch
Katja Bertsch Heidelberg University
Gregor Domes
Gregor Domes University of Trier
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess University of Bern
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Felix Bermpohl
Felix Bermpohl Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Corinna Reck
Corinna Reck Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Romuald Brunner
Romuald Brunner Heidelberg University

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