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Stefanie Lis is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and specializes primarily in the field of psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology. Their research spans several subfields, including experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, and general health professions.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably in personality disorders and psychopathology, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, mental health research, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality traits, psychotherapy techniques, and studies of suicide and self-harm.

Stefanie Lis has contributed to academic journals extensively. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • PLoS ONE

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Stefanie Lis are:

  • "Influence of Severity of Type and Timing of Retrospectively Reported Childhood Maltreatment on Female Amygdala and Hippocampal Volume," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Trustworthiness appraisals of faces wearing a surgical mask during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany: An experimental study," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Depression and fatigue in active IBD from a microbiome perspective-a Bayesian approach to faecal metagenomics," 2022, BMC Medicine
  • "An fMRI investigation of the intention-outcome interactions in second- and third-party punishment," 2021, Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • "On the interplay of borderline personality features, childhood trauma severity, attachment types, and social support," 2022, Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as K Atanasova, Martin Bohus, Wolfgang Reindl, Anna Schulze, and Nikolaus Kleindienst, reflecting a network of researchers primarily engaged in related mental health and clinical psychology investigations.

Best Publications

  • Oxytocin Modulates Neural Circuitry for Social Cognition and Fear in Humans

    Peter Kirsch;Christine Esslinger;Qiang Chen;Daniela Mier

  • Beyond revenge: Neural and genetic bases of altruistic punishment

    Alexander Strobel;Jan Zimmermann;Anja Schmitz;Anja Schmitz;Martin Reuter

  • Superior ‘theory of mind’ in borderline personality disorder: An analysis of interaction behavior in a virtual trust game

    Nele Franzen;Meike Hagenhoff;Nina Baer;Ariane Schmidt

  • Mechanisms of disturbed emotion processing and social interaction in borderline personality disorder: state of knowledge and research agenda of the German Clinical Research Unit

    Christian Schmahl;Sabine C Herpertz;Katja Bertsch;Gabriele Ende

  • Cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: comparison of treatment with atypical antipsychotic agents and conventional neuroleptic drugs

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

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

  • The involvement of emotion recognition in affective theory of mind

    Daniela Mier;Stefanie Lis;Kerstin Neuthe;Carina Sauer

  • Incision and stress regulation in borderline personality disorder: neurobiological mechanisms of self-injurious behaviour

    Sarah Reitz;Rosemarie Kluetsch;Inga Niedtfeld;Teresa Knorz

  • Neuronal correlates of social cognition in borderline personality disorder

    Daniela Mier;Stefanie Lis;Christine Esslinger;Carina Sauer

  • Loneliness, social networks, and social functioning in borderline personality disorder.

    Lisa Liebke;Melanie Bungert;Janine Thome;Sophie Hauschild

  • Conventional versus atypical neuroleptics: subjective quality of life in schizophrenic patients.

    M. Franz;Stefanie Lis;K. Plüddemann;B. Gallhofer

  • Improvement of Cognitive Function in Schizophrenic Patients Receiving Clozapine or Zotepine: Results from a Double-Blind Study

    A. Meyer-Lindenberg;H. Gruppe;Ulrike Bauer;Stefanie Lis

  • Social interaction in borderline personality disorder.

    Stefanie Lis;Martin Bohus

  • Interleukin-6 serum levels in healthy persons correspond to the sleep-wake cycle.

    J Bauer;F Hohagen;T Ebert;J Timmer

  • Sleep EEG of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Fritz Hohagen;Stephanie Lis;Stephan Krieger;Gaby Winkelmann

  • Rejection sensitivity and symptom severity in patients with borderline personality disorder: effects of childhood maltreatment and self-esteem

    Melanie Bungert;Lisa Liebke;Janine Thome;Katrin Haeussler

  • Executive functions and cognitive subprocesses in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

    Stefanie Lis;Stephan Krieger;Dorothee Hennig;Christian Röder

  • Induction of cytokine synthesis and fever suppresses REM sleep and improves mood in patients with major depression.

    Joachim Bauer;Fritz Hohagen;Evi Gimmel;Friederike Bruns

  • Objective measurement of motor activity during cognitive performance in adults with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder

    Stefanie Lis;N Baer;C Stein-en-Nosse;B Gallhofer

  • Executive function and cognitive subprocesses in first-episode, drug-naive schizophrenia : An analysis of N-back performance

    Stephan Krieger;Stefanie Lis;Turan Cetin;Bernd Gallhofer

  • Neuronal correlates of affective theory of mind in schizophrenia out-patients : evidence for a baseline deficit

    Daniela Mier;Carina Sauer;Stefanie Lis;Christine Esslinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Schmahl
Christian Schmahl Heidelberg University
Peter Kirsch
Peter Kirsch Heidelberg University
Martin Bohus
Martin Bohus Central Institute of Mental Health
Daniela Mier
Daniela Mier University of Konstanz
Nikolaus Kleindienst
Nikolaus Kleindienst Heidelberg University
Fritz Hohagen
Fritz Hohagen University of Lübeck
Sabine Vollstädt-Klein
Sabine Vollstädt-Klein Heidelberg University
Regina Steil
Regina Steil Goethe University Frankfurt
Martin Reuter
Martin Reuter University of Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University

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