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Overview

Ulrike Ehlert is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive research portfolio spanning medicine and psychology. Their work integrates various subfields such as public health, behavioral neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their research primarily covers topics related to stress responses and cortisol, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, gender roles and identity studies, menopause health impacts and treatments, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Key papers authored or coauthored by Ulrike Ehlert include:

  • "Real-world stress resilience is associated with the responsivity of the locus coeruleus," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Steroid Hormone Sensitivity in Reproductive Mood Disorders: On the Role of the GABAA Receptor Complex and Stress During Hormonal Transitions," 2021, Frontiers in Medicine
  • "Improved storage mitigates vulnerability to food-supply shocks in smallholder agriculture during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Global Food Security
  • "Genes and hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in post-traumatic stress disorder. What is their role in symptom expression and treatment response?," 2021, Journal of Neural Transmission
  • "Male depression risk, psychological distress, and psychotherapy uptake: Validation of the German version of the male depression risk scale," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders Reports

Frequently collaborating researchers include:

  • Andreas Walther
  • Rita T. Amiel Castro
  • Susanne Fischer
  • Jessica Grub
  • J Willi

Publication venues where Ulrike Ehlert has frequently contributed are:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Psychology of Men & Masculinity
  • Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Psychology

In addition to journal articles, Ulrike Ehlert has published books, including "Ratgeber Wechseljahre" in 2023 with Hogrefe Verlag.

Best Publications

  • Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress

    Markus Heinrichs;Thomas Baumgartner;Clemens Kirschbaum;Clemens Kirschbaum;Ulrike Ehlert

  • The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders.

    Christine Heim;Ulrike Ehlert;Dirk H Hellhammer

  • Intranasal Oxytocin Increases Positive Communication and Reduces Cortisol Levels During Couple Conflict

    Beate Ditzen;Beate Ditzen;Marcel Schaer;Barbara Gabriel;Guy Bodenmann

  • Discriminating Stress From Cognitive Load Using a Wearable EDA Device

    C. Setz;B. Arnrich;J. Schumm;R. La Marca

  • Stress-induced changes in human salivary alpha-amylase activity -- associations with adrenergic activity.

    Urs Markus Nater;Roberto La Marca;Ladina Florin;Anthony Moses

  • Human salivary alpha-amylase reactivity in a psychosocial stress paradigm

    Urs M. Nater;Nicolas Rohleder;Jens Gaab;Simona Berger

  • Determinants of the diurnal course of salivary alpha-amylase

    Urs M. Nater;Urs M. Nater;Nicholas Rohleder;Nicholas Rohleder;Wolff Schlotz;Ulrike Ehlert

  • Acute psychosocial stress: Does the emotional stress response correspond with physiological responses?

    Jana Campbell;Ulrike Ehlert

  • Psychoneuroendocrinological contributions to the etiology of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and stress-related bodily disorders: the role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis.

    Ulrike Ehlert;Jens Gaab;Markus Heinrichs

  • Psychosocial stress-induced activation of salivary alpha-amylase: an indicator of sympathetic activity?

    Nicolas Rohleder;Urs M. Nater;Jutta M. Wolf;Ulrike Ehlert

  • Effects of different kinds of couple interaction on cortisol and heart rate responses to stress in women

    Beate Ditzen;Inga D. Neumann;Guy Bodenmann;Bernadette von Dawans

  • Psychological determinants of the cortisol stress response: the role of anticipatory cognitive appraisal

    Jens Gaab;N Rohleder;Urs M Nater;Ulrike Ehlert

  • The Effect of Music on the Human Stress Response

    Myriam V. Thoma;Myriam V. Thoma;Roberto La Marca;Rebecca Brönnimann;Linda Finkel

  • Prevalence of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder in German professional firefighters

    Dieter Wagner;Markus Heinrichs;Ulrike Ehlert

  • Effects of suckling on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to psychosocial stress in postpartum lactating women.

    Markus Heinrichs;Markus Heinrichs;Gunther Meinlschmidt;Inga D. Neumann;Sabine Wagner

  • Glucocorticoids reduce phobic fear in humans

    Leila M. Soravia;Markus Heinrichs;Amanda Aerni;Caroline Maroni

  • Predicting posttraumatic stress symptoms from pretraumatic risk factors : A 2-year prospective follow-up study in firefighters

    Markus Heinrichs;Dieter Wagner;Walter Schoch;Leila M. Soravia

  • Trained men show lower cortisol, heart rate and psychological responses to psychosocial stress compared with untrained men

    Ulrike Rimmele;Bea Costa Zellweger;Bernhard Marti;Roland Seiler

  • Abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder and alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in women with chronic pelvic pain.

    Christine Heim;Ulrike Ehlert;Jurgen P. Hanker;Dirk H. Hellhammer

  • Randomized controlled evaluation of the effects of cognitive–behavioral stress management on cortisol responses to acute stress in healthy subjects

    J. Gaab;N. Blättler;T. Menzi;B. Pabst

Frequent Co-Authors

Urs M. Nater
Urs M. Nater University of Vienna
Jens Gaab
Jens Gaab University of Basel
Markus Heinrichs
Markus Heinrichs University of Freiburg
Christine Heim
Christine Heim Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Winfried Rief
Winfried Rief Philipp University of Marburg
Andreas Maercker
Andreas Maercker University of Zurich
Guy Bodenmann
Guy Bodenmann University of Zurich
Martina de Zwaan
Martina de Zwaan Hannover Medical School
Birgit Kleim
Birgit Kleim University of Zurich

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