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Stefan Duschek is affiliated with UMIT Tirol - Private University for Health Sciences and Health Technology in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, with additional work in psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pharmacology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, heart rate variability and autonomic control, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, neural and behavioral psychology studies, pain management and placebo effects, reproductive health and technologies, and assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy.

Recent research publications include:

  • Depression and trait-anxiety mediate the influence of clinical pain on health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Pain catastrophizing mediates the negative influence of pain and trait-anxiety on health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia, 2020, Quality of Life Research
  • Reliability, Factor Structure and Predictive Validity of the Widespread Pain Index and Symptom Severity Scales of the 2010 American College of Rheumatology Criteria of Fibromyalgia, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Attentional function in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Features of autonomic cardiovascular control during cognition in major depressive disorder, 2020, Psychophysiology

Frequent co-authors include Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso, Casandra I. Montoro, Carmen M. Galvez-Sánchez, Angela Bair, and Pablo de la Coba.

The scientist's work is often published in the following venues:

  • Psychophysiology
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Biological Psychology

Stefan Duschek's scholarly contributions span 69 publications related to medicine and 20 related to neuroscience. Subfields of note within their research portfolio involve psychiatry and mental health (20 publications), cognitive neuroscience (17), cardiology and cardiovascular medicine (16), pharmacology (13), and experimental and cognitive psychology (6).

The topics addressed in their research emphasize fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (32 publications), heart rate variability and autonomic control (28), musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (26), as well as neural and behavioral psychology studies (12). Their investigations also encompass pain management and placebo effects (10), reproductive health and technologies (8), and assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy (8).

Best Publications

  • The utility of low frequency heart rate variability as an index of sympathetic cardiac tone: A review with emphasis on a reanalysis of previous studies

    Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso;Wolf Langewitz;Lambertus J. M. Mulder;Arie Van Roon

  • Psychological impact of fibromyalgia: current perspectives.

    Carmen M Galvez-Sánchez;Stefan Duschek;Gustavo A Reyes del Paso

  • Relationships between features of autonomic cardiovascular control and cognitive performance.

    Stefan Duschek;Magdalena Muckenthaler;Natalie Werner;Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso

  • Enhanced cardiac perception is associated with benefits in decision-making.

    Natalie S. Werner;Katharina Jung;Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Autonomic cardiovascular control and responses to experimental pain stimulation in fibromyalgia syndrome

    Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso;Sergio Garrido;Ángeles Pulgar;Stefan Duschek

  • Functional transcranial Doppler sonography as a tool in psychophysiological research

    Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Reduced brain perfusion and cognitive performance due to constitutional hypotension

    Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Aberrances in autonomic cardiovascular regulation in fibromyalgia syndrome and their relevance for clinical pain reports.

    Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso;Sergio Garrido;Ángeles Pulgar;María Martín-Vázquez

  • Cognitive Impairments in Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Associations With Positive and Negative Affect, Alexithymia, Pain Catastrophizing and Self-Esteem

    Carmen M. Galvez-Sánchez;Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso;Stefan Duschek

  • On the relationship between interoceptive awareness and the attentional processing of visual stimuli.

    Ellen Matthias;Rainer Schandry;Stefan Duschek;Olga Pollatos

  • The behavioral impact of baroreflex function: a review.

    Stefan Duschek;Natalie S. Werner;Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso

  • Relationships between affective states and decision-making.

    Natalie S. Werner;Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Cognitive impairment in fibromyalgia syndrome: the impact of cardiovascular regulation, pain, emotional disorders and medication.

    G.A. Reyes del Paso;Á. Pulgar;S. Duschek;S. Garrido

  • Cognitive performance and cerebral blood flow in essential hypotension

    Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Depression and trait-anxiety mediate the influence of clinical pain on health-related quality of life in fibromyalgia

    Carmen M. Galvez-Sánchez;Casandra I. Montoro;Stefan Duschek;Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso

  • Interoceptive awareness moderates neural activity during decision-making.

    Natalie S. Werner;Nicola Schweitzer;Thomas Meindl;Stefan Duschek

  • Differential effects of alexithymia subscales on autonomic reactivity and anxiety during social stress.

    Olga Pollatos;Natalie S. Werner;Stefan Duschek;Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Essential hypotension is accompanied by deficits in attention and working memory.

    Stefan Duschek;Ellen Matthias;Rainer Schandry

  • Implicit memory for emotional words is modulated by cardiac perception.

    Natalie S. Werner;Isabella Peres;Stefan Duschek;Rainer Schandry

  • Relationship between baroreceptor cardiac reflex sensitivity and pain experience in normotensive individuals.

    S. Duschek;I. Mück;G.A. Reyes del Paso

  • Increased sensitivity to heat pain in chronic low blood pressure.

    Stefan Duschek;Anja Dietel;Rainer Schandry;Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso

Frequent Co-Authors

Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso
Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso University of Jaén
Rainer Schandry
Rainer Schandry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stefan Sütterlin
Stefan Sütterlin Østfold University College
Olga Pollatos
Olga Pollatos University of Ulm
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Beate M. Herbert
Beate M. Herbert University of Tübingen
Erich Seifritz
Erich Seifritz University of Zurich
J. Richard Jennings
J. Richard Jennings University of Pittsburgh
Sabine C. Herpertz
Sabine C. Herpertz Heidelberg University

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