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Thorsten Barnhofer is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on psychology and medicine, with a pronounced focus on clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional subfields include social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and rehabilitation.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, notably mindfulness and compassion interventions, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Further research interests extend to dementia and cognitive impairment, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, COVID-19 and mental health, sleep and related disorders, and mental health treatment and access.

Frequent publication venues reflect these interests and include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Mindfulness
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Neuropsychology Review

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Barnhofer are:

  • The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, 2021, Neuropsychology Review
  • Decentering as a core component in the psychological treatment and prevention of youth anxiety and depression: a narrative review and insight report, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention versus Health Self-Management on Subclinical Anxiety in Older Adults with Subjective Cognitive Decline: The SCD-Well Randomized Superiority Trial, 2021, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Dynamic functional connectivity patterns associated with dementia risk, 2022, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • Effects of a mindfulness-based versus a health self-management intervention on objective cognitive performance in older adults with subjective cognitive decline (SCD): a secondary analysis of the SCD-Well randomized controlled trial, 2022, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy

Barnhofer's collaborations reveal multiple frequent coauthors, including:

  • Gaël Chételat
  • Antoine Lutz
  • Natalie L. Marchant
  • Olga Klimecki
  • Marco Schlosser

Best Publications

  • Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorder.

    J. Mark G. Williams;Thorsten Barnhofer;Catherine Crane;Dirk Hermans

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a treatment for chronic depression: A preliminary study.

    Thorsten Barnhofer;Catherine Crane;Emily Hargus;Myanthi Amarasinghe

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Preventing Relapse in Recurrent Depression: A Randomized Dismantling Trial

    J. Mark G. Williams;Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer;Kate Brennan

  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in bipolar disorder: Preliminary evaluation of immediate effects on between-episode functioning

    J. M. G. Williams;Y. Alatiq;C. Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer

  • Examining the factor structure of the 39-item and 15-item versions of the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire before and after mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for people with recurrent depression.

    Jenny Gu;Clara Strauss;Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer

  • Problem solving deteriorates following mood challenge in formerly depressed patients with a history of suicidal ideation.

    J. Mark G. Williams;Thorsten Barnhofer;Catherine Crane;A. T. Beck

  • Effects of mindfulness on meta-awareness and specificity of describing prodromal symptoms in suicidal depression

    Emily Hargus;Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer;J. Mark G. Williams

  • Dispositional mindfulness moderates the relation between neuroticism and depressive symptoms.

    Thorsten Barnhofer;Danielle S. Duggan;James W. Griffith

  • The effects of amount of home meditation practice in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy on hazard of relapse to depression in the Staying Well after Depression Trial

    Catherine Crane;Rebecca S. Crane;Catrin Eames;Melanie J.V. Fennell

  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: A new approach for preventing relapse

    Thorsten Barnhofer

  • Cognitive reactivity, suicidal ideation and future fluency: Preliminary investigation of a differential activation theory of hopelessness/suicidality

    J. M. G. Williams;A. J. W. Van der Does;T. Barnhofer;C. Crane

  • The Effect of Mindfulness-based Programs on Cognitive Function in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Tim Whitfield;Thorsten Barnhofer;Rebecca Acabchuk;Avi Cohen

  • Effects of meditation on frontal alpha-asymmetry in previously suicidal individuals.

    Thorsten Barnhofer;Danielle Duggan;Catherine Crane;Silvia Hepburn

  • Recurrence of suicidal ideation across depressive episodes

    J.M.G. Williams;C. Crane;T. Barnhofer;A.J.W. Van der Does

  • Retrieval of autobiographical memories: the mechanisms and consequences of truncated search

    Jess Eade;Helen Healy;J. Mark G. Williams;Stella Chan

  • Current psychometric and methodological issues in the measurement of overgeneral autobiographical memory.

    James W. Griffith;Jennifer A. Sumner;Filip Raes;Thorsten Barnhofer

  • Psychology and suicidal behaviour: elaborating the entrapment model

    J. Mark G. Williams;Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer;Danielle Duggan

  • Cognitive reactivity mediates the relationship between neuroticism and depression.

    Thorsten Barnhofer;Tobias Chittka

  • An investigation of the effects of brief mindfulness training on self-reported interoceptive awareness, the ability to decenter, and their role in the reduction of depressive symptoms

    Maria Fissler;Emilia Winnebeck;Titus Schroeter;Marie Gummersbach

  • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Self-Discrepancy in Recovered Depressed Patients with a History of Depression and Suicidality

    Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer;Danielle S. Duggan;Silvia Hepburn

  • Cue self-relevance affects autobiographical memory specificity in individuals with a history of major depression.

    Catherine Crane;Thorsten Barnhofer;J Mark;G Williams

  • Suicidal imagery in a previously depressed community sample.

    Catherine Crane;Dhruvi Shah;Thorsten Barnhofer;Emily A. Holmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Crane
Catherine Crane University of Oxford
J. Mark G. Williams
J. Mark G. Williams University of Oxford
Fabienne Collette
Fabienne Collette University of Liège
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge
Rebecca Elliott
Rebecca Elliott University of Manchester
David R. Vago
David R. Vago Vanderbilt University
Willem Kuyken
Willem Kuyken University of Oxford
Ian M. Anderson
Ian M. Anderson University of Manchester
Roland Zahn
Roland Zahn King's College London

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