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Overview

Thomas Straube is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has a substantial body of research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their work primarily contributes to cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology, with additional involvement in radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, clinical psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research topics show a strong focus on neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and face recognition and perception. Other key areas include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Among recent publications, Thomas Straube has co-authored notable papers such as:

  • "Cortical volume abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: an ENIGMA-psychiatric genomics consortium PTSD workgroup mega-analysis" (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "Effects of low-level visual information and perceptual load on P1 and N170 responses to emotional expressions" (2020), published in Cortex
  • "Differential Effects of Awareness and Task Relevance on Early and Late ERPs in a No-Report Visual Oddball Paradigm" (2020), published in the Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Attentional conditions differentially affect early, intermediate and late neural responses to fearful and neutral faces" (2020), published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Dissociating the Neural Correlates of Consciousness and Task Relevance in Face Perception Using Simultaneous EEG-fMRI" (2021), published in the Journal of Neuroscience

Thomas Straube collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Maximilian Bruchmann, Sebastian Schindler, David Hofmann, Robert Moeck, and Insa Schloßmacher. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers contributing to related domains within neuroscience and psychology.

The scientist's work appears regularly in prominent venues, with the most frequent being bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, Psychophysiology, and Cortex. These journals and repositories highlight a consistent engagement with current trends and developments in neuroscience and allied disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain activation in specific phobia.

    Thomas Straube;Madlen Glauer;Stefan Dilger;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Waiting for spiders: brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in spider phobics.

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Effect of task conditions on brain responses to threatening faces in social phobics: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Thomas Straube;Iris-Tatjana Kolassa;Madlen Glauer;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • A Single-Trial Estimation of the Feedback-Related Negativity and Its Relation to BOLD Responses in a Time-Estimation Task

    Michael P. I. Becker;Alexander M. Nitsch;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Thomas Straube

  • Brain activation to phobia-related pictures in spider phobic humans: an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

    Stefan Dilger;Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Clemens Fitzek

  • Neural Mechanisms of Automatic and Direct Processing of Phobogenic Stimuli in Specific Phobia

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Common and distinct brain activation to threat and safety signals in social phobia.

    Thomas Straube;Hans-Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Association between therapy outcome and right-hemispheric activation in chronic aphasia

    Maria Richter;Wolfgang H. R. Miltner;Thomas Straube

  • Requirement of β-adrenergic receptor activation and protein synthesis for LTP-reinforcement by novelty in rat dentate gyrus

    Thomas Straube;Volker Korz;Detlef Balschun;Julietta Uta Frey

  • Dynamic activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during anticipatory anxiety.

    Thomas Straube;Stephanie Schmidt;Thomas Weiss;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Gender Differences for Specific Body Regions When Looking at Men and Women

    Johannes Hewig;Ralf H. Trippe;Holger Hecht;Thomas Straube

  • Bidirectional modulation of long-term potentiation by novelty-exploration in rat dentate gyrus

    Thomas Straube;Volker Korz;Julietta U. Frey

  • Attention to aversive emotion and specific activation of the right insula and right somatosensory cortex.

    Thomas Straube;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Do words hurt? Brain activation during the processing of pain-related words.

    Maria Richter;Judith Eck;Thomas Straube;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

  • Sex differences in brain activation to anticipated and experienced pain in the medial prefrontal cortex.

    Thomas Straube;Stephanie Schmidt;Thomas Weiss;Hans-Joachim Mentzel

  • Modulation of the neural network involved in the processing of anger prosody: the role of task-relevance and social phobia.

    Susanne Quadflieg;Alexander Mohr;Hans Joachim Mentzel;Wolfgang H R Miltner

  • Brain activation during anticipatory anxiety in social anxiety disorder

    Stephanie Boehme;Viktoria Ritter;Susan Tefikow;Ulrich Stangier

  • Altered white matter microstructural organization in posttraumatic stress disorder across 3047 adults: results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD consortium

    Emily L Dennis;Seth G Disner;Seth G Disner;Negar Fani;Lauren E Salminen

  • Phasic and sustained brain responses in the amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during threat anticipation

    Martin J. Herrmann;Stephanie Boehme;Michael P.I. Becker;Sara V. Tupak

  • Neural correlates of self-focused attention in social anxiety

    Stephanie Boehme;Stephanie Boehme;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Thomas Straube

  • Vigilance for threat interacts with amygdala responses to subliminal threat cues in specific phobia.

    Judith Lipka;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner;Thomas Straube

  • Affective brain regions are activated during the processing of pain-related words in migraine patients

    Judith Eck;Maria Richter;Thomas Straube;Wolfgang H.R. Miltner

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang H. R. Miltner
Wolfgang H. R. Miltner Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Martin J. Herrmann
Martin J. Herrmann University of Würzburg
Nic J.A. van der Wee
Nic J.A. van der Wee Leiden University Medical Center
Thomas Weiss
Thomas Weiss Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Gina L. Forster
Gina L. Forster University of South Dakota
Kerry J. Ressler
Kerry J. Ressler Harvard University
K. Luan Phan
K. Luan Phan The Ohio State University
Rajendra A. Morey
Rajendra A. Morey Duke University
Tanja Jovanovic
Tanja Jovanovic Wayne State University
Martha E. Shenton
Martha E. Shenton Harvard University

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