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Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
5341
World Ranking
8927
National Ranking
419

Overview

Sabine Vollstädt-Klein is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their work spans a range of topics, particularly focusing on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology related to substance use disorders and behavioral control mechanisms.

Their research topics include:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Their subfields of study cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Epidemiology

Representative recent papers authored by Sabine Vollstädt-Klein include:

  • Exenatide once weekly for alcohol use disorder investigated in a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial, 2022, JCI Insight
  • A methodological checklist for fMRI drug cue reactivity studies: development and expert consensus, 2022, Nature Protocols
  • International Consensus Statement for the Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Adolescents with Concurrent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorder, 2020, European Addiction Research
  • Investigation of brain functional connectivity to assess cognitive control over cue-processing in Alcohol Use Disorder, 2020, Addiction Biology
  • Stress-Induced Sensitization of Insula Activation Predicts Alcohol Craving and Alcohol Use in Alcohol Use Disorder, 2023, Biological Psychiatry

Sabine Vollstädt-Klein has frequently collaborated with researchers such as Falk Kiefer, Patrick Bach, Sarah Gerhardt, Sabine Hoffmann, and Anne Koopmann.

Their work has been published in multiple venues with recurring contributions to:

  • Addiction Biology
  • Suchttherapie
  • Psychopharmacology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuroscience Applied

Best Publications

  • Initial, habitual and compulsive alcohol use is characterized by a shift of cue processing from ventral to dorsal striatum

    Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Svenja Wichert;Juri Rabinstein;Mira Bühler

  • Effects of cue-exposure treatment on neural cue reactivity in alcohol dependence: a randomized trial

    Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Sabine Loeber;Martina Kirsch;Patrick Bach

  • Nicotine Dependence Is Characterized by Disordered Reward Processing in a Network Driving Motivation

    Mira Bühler;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Andrea Kobiella;Andrea Kobiella;Henning Budde

  • Impairment of inhibitory control in response to food-associated cues and attentional bias of obese participants and normal-weight controls

    S Loeber;M Grosshans;O Korucuoglu;C Vollmert

  • Addiction Research Consortium: Losing and regaining control over drug intake (ReCoDe)-From trajectories to mechanisms and interventions.

    Andreas Heinz;Falk Kiefer;Michael N. Smolka;Tanja Endrass

  • Determinants of Early Alcohol Use In Healthy Adolescents: The Differential Contribution of Neuroimaging and Psychological Factors

    Frauke Nees;Jelka Tzschoppe;Christopher J Patrick;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

  • Cerebral processing of social rejection in patients with borderline personality disorder

    Melanie Domsalla;Georgia Koppe;Inga Niedtfeld;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein

  • Validating incentive salience with functional magnetic resonance imaging: association between mesolimbic cue reactivity and attentional bias in alcohol-dependent patients.

    Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Sabine Loeber;Anne Richter;Martina Kirsch

  • How the serotonin transporter 5-HTTLPR polymorphism influences amygdala function: the roles of in vivo serotonin transporter expression and amygdala structure

    A Kobiella;M Reimold;D E Ulshöfer;V N Ikonomidou

  • Predicting naltrexone response in alcohol-dependent patients: the contribution of functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Karl Mann;Sabine Vollstädt‐Klein;Iris Reinhard;Tagrid Leménager

  • Avoidance of alcohol-related stimuli increases during the early stage of abstinence in alcohol-dependent patients.

    Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Sabine Loeber;Christoph von der Goltz;Karl Mann

  • Association of Leptin With Food Cue–Induced Activation in Human Reward Pathways

    Martin Grosshans;Christian Vollmert;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Heike Tost

  • (Still) longing for food: insulin reactivity modulates response to food pictures.

    Nils B. Kroemer;Lena Krebs;Andrea Kobiella;Oliver Grimm

  • Severity of dependence modulates smokers' neuronal cue reactivity and cigarette craving elicited by tobacco advertisement

    Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Andrea Kobiella;Mira Bühler;Caroline Graf

  • Oxytocin Reduces Alcohol Cue-Reactivity in Alcohol-Dependent Rats and Humans

    Anita C Hansson;Anne Koopmann;Stefanie Uhrig;Sina Bühler

  • Attentional bias in alcohol-dependent patients: the role of chronicity and executive functioning.

    Sabine Loeber;Sabine Vollstädt-Klein;Christoph von der Goltz;Herta Flor

  • Increased neural activity during high working memory load predicts low relapse risk in alcohol dependence.

    Katrin Charlet;Anne Beck;Anne Jorde;Lioba Wimmer

  • Neurobiological correlates of physical self-concept and self-identification with avatars in addicted players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)

    Tagrid Leménager;Julia Dieter;Holger Hill;Anne Koopmann

  • Effects of d -cycloserine on extinction of mesolimbic cue reactivity in alcoholism: a randomized placebo-controlled trial

    Falk Kiefer;Martina Kirsch;Patrick Bach;Sabine Hoffmann

  • Avatar's neurobiological traces in the self-concept of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) addicts.

    Julia Dieter;Holger Hill;Madlen Sell;Iris Reinhard

Frequent Co-Authors

Falk Kiefer
Falk Kiefer Heidelberg University
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Anne Beck
Anne Beck Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Henrik Walter
Henrik Walter Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Patricia J. Conrod
Patricia J. Conrod University of Montreal
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London

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