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Thomas Suslow

Thomas Suslow

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Psychology

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Overview

Thomas Suslow is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on specialized subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Social Psychology.

The main topics covered in Suslow's research include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other focal areas are face recognition and perception, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, neural and behavioral psychology studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and various mental health research topics.

Suslow has a substantial publication record, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Behavioral Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Suslow include:

  • Attentional biases to emotional information in clinical depression: A systematic and meta-analytic review of eye tracking findings, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders

The research topics addressed in the above paper involve emotional information processing and clinical depression, approached through eye-tracking methodologies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Suslow are:

  • Anette Kersting
  • Charlott Maria Bodenschatz
  • Vivien Günther
  • Dennis Hoepfel
  • Carolin Webelhorst

Through collaborations and publications, Thomas Suslow has contributed to understanding attentional mechanisms and emotional face perception, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses on social anxiety disorder and automatic processing of facial emotions.

Other notable papers in closely related fields, though not solely authored by Suslow, include:

  • Attentional processes during emotional face perception in social anxiety disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of eye-tracking findings, 2021, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Alexithymia and automatic processing of facial emotions: behavioral and neural findings, 2020, BMC Neuroscience
  • Alexithymia and interpersonal problems in healthy young individuals, 2023, BMC Psychiatry
  • Individual differences in anxiety and automatic amygdala response to fearful faces: A replication and extension of Etkin et al. (2004), 2020, NeuroImage Clinical

The scope and focus of this body of work reflect interdisciplinary approaches integrating cognitive and clinical psychological perspectives with neuroimaging and behavioral assessments.

Best Publications

  • Limbic Scars: Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Revealed by Functional and Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Udo Dannlowski;Anja Stuhrmann;Victoria Beutelmann;Peter Zwanzger

  • Facial emotion processing in major depression: a systematic review of neuroimaging findings

    Anja Stuhrmann;Thomas Suslow;Thomas Suslow;Udo Dannlowski

  • Automatic mood-congruent amygdala responses to masked facial expressions in major depression.

    Thomas Suslow;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Daniel Rumstadt

  • Childhood maltreatment is associated with an automatic negative emotion processing bias in the amygdala.

    Udo Dannlowski;Udo Dannlowski;Harald Kugel;Franziska Huber;Anja Stuhrmann

  • Identification of a Biological Signature for Schizophrenia in Serum

    E Schwarz;P C Guest;H Rahmoune;L W Harris

  • Reduced amygdala-prefrontal coupling in major depression: association with MAOA genotype and illness severity.

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Carsten Konrad;Katharina Domschke

  • Detection of Facial Expressions of Emotions in Depression

    Thomas Suslow;Klaus Junghanns;Volker Arolt

  • Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) gene: impact on antidepressant treatment response and emotion processing in major depression.

    Katharina Domschke;Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Bruce Lawford

  • The Interleukin 1 Beta (IL1B) Gene Is Associated with Failure to Achieve Remission and Impaired Emotion Processing in Major Depression

    Bernhard T. Baune;Udo Dannlowski;Katharina Domschke;Debbie G.A. Janssen

  • Individual differences in alexithymia and brain response to masked emotion faces.

    Maraike Reker;Patricia Ohrmann;Astrid V. Rauch;Harald Kugel

  • Neuropeptide S receptor gene -- converging evidence for a role in panic disorder.

    Katharina Domschke;Andreas Reif;Heike Weber;Jan Richter

  • Validation of a Blood-Based Laboratory Test to Aid in the Confirmation of a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

    Emanuel Schwarz;Rauf Izmailov;Michael Spain;Anthony Barnes

  • Theory of Mind in first-episode schizophrenia patients: Correlations with cognition and personality traits

    Katja Koelkebeck;Anya Pedersen;Thomas Suslow;Kerstin Annika Kueppers

  • 5-HTTLPR Biases Amygdala Activity in Response to Masked Facial Expressions in Major Depression

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Jochen Bauer;Jurgen Deckert;Jurgen Deckert

  • Amygdala reactivity to masked negative faces is associated with automatic judgmental bias in major depression: a 3 T fMRI study

    Udo Dannlowski;Patricia Ohrmann;Jochen Bauer;Harald Kugel

  • Women's greater ability to perceive happy facial emotion automatically: gender differences in affective priming.

    Uta-Susan Donges;Anette Kersting;Thomas Suslow;Thomas Suslow

  • Glial cell dysfunction in schizophrenia indicated by increased S100B in the CSF.

    M Rothermundt;P Falkai;G Ponath;S Abel

  • Insular and hippocampal gray matter volume reductions in patients with major depressive disorder.

    Mirjam Stratmann;Carsten Konrad;Harald Kugel;Axel Krug

  • Cognitive impairment and in vivo metabolites in first-episode neuroleptic-naive and chronic medicated schizophrenic patients: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

    Patricia Ohrmann;Ansgar Siegmund;Thomas Suslow;Anya Pedersen

  • Serotonergic genes modulate amygdala activity in major depression

    U. Dannlowski;P. Ohrmann;J. Bauer;H. Kugel

  • Association of the functional -1019C/G 5-HT1A polymorphism with prefrontal cortex and amygdala activation measured with 3 T fMRI in panic disorder.

    Katharina Domschke;Katharina Domschke;Miriam Braun;Patricia Ohrmann;Thomas Suslow

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Udo Dannlowski
Udo Dannlowski University of Münster
Anette Kersting
Anette Kersting Leipzig University
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Pienie Zwitserlood
Pienie Zwitserlood University of Münster
Ronny Redlich
Ronny Redlich University of Münster
Boris Egloff
Boris Egloff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Michael Rufer
Michael Rufer University of Zurich
Peter Zwanzger
Peter Zwanzger Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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