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Ulrike Lueken is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on both experimental and clinical psychology. They have contributed extensively to subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and applied psychology.

The main topics of Ulrike Lueken's work include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Additionally, they explore mental health research topics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, functional brain connectivity studies, the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, digital mental health interventions, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Their publication record features frequent contributions to several notable venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Psychologische Rundschau
  • Neuroscience Applied

Recent scholarly articles by Ulrike Lueken include the following:

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • Die COVID-19-Pandemie als Herausforderung für die psychische Gesundheit, 2020, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
  • Personalization strategies in digital mental health interventions: a systematic review and conceptual framework for depressive symptoms, 2023, Frontiers in Digital Health
  • Mega-analysis methods in ENIGMA: The experience of the generalized anxiety disorder working group, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Change of Threat Expectancy as Mechanism of Exposure-Based Psychotherapy for Anxiety Disorders: Evidence From 8,484 Exposure Exercises of 605 Patients, 2022, Clinical Psychological Science

Ulrike Lueken has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kevin Hilbert
  • Udo Dannlowski
  • Elisabeth J. Leehr
  • Katharina Domschke
  • Joscha Böhnlein

Best Publications

  • ENIGMA and global neuroscience: A decade of large-scale studies of the brain in health and disease across more than 40 countries

    Paul M Thompson;Neda Jahanshad;Christopher R K Ching;Lauren E Salminen

  • Effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on neural correlates of fear conditioning in panic disorder.

    Tilo Kircher;Volker Arolt;Andreas Jansen;Martin Pyka

  • Avoidance, safety behavior, and reassurance seeking in generalized anxiety disorder.

    Katja Beesdo-Baum;Elsa Jenjahn;Michael Höfler;Ulrike Lueken

  • Neural structures, functioning and connectivity in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and interaction with neuroendocrine systems: a systematic review.

    Kevin Hilbert;Ulrike Lueken;Katja Beesdo-Baum

  • Predicting treatment response to cognitive behavioral therapy in panic disorder with agoraphobia by integrating local neural information.

    Tim Hahn;Tilo Kircher;Benjamin Straube;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Neural Substrates of Treatment Response to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Panic Disorder With Agoraphobia

    Ulrike Lueken;Benjamin Straube;Carsten Konrad;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen

  • Neurobiological markers predicting treatment response in anxiety disorders: A systematic review and implications for clinical application.

    Ulrike Lueken;Kathrin C. Zierhut;Tim Hahn;Benjamin Straube

  • The scanner as a stressor: evidence from subjective and neuroendocrine stress parameters in the time course of a functional magnetic resonance imaging session.

    Markus Muehlhan;Ulrike Lueken;Hans-Ulrich Wittchen;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • MAOA and mechanisms of panic disorder revisited: from bench to molecular psychotherapy

    Andreas Reif;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Michael Höfler

  • Handedness, dichotic-listening ear advantage, and gender effects on planum temporale asymmetry—A volumetric investigation using structural magnetic resonance imaging

    Sarah Dos Santos Sequeira;Wolfgang Woerner;Christof Walter;Frank Kreuder

  • How specific is specific phobia? Different neural response patterns in two subtypes of specific phobia.

    Ulrike Lueken;Johann Daniel Kruschwitz;Markus Muehlhan;Jens Siegert

  • Personalization strategies in digital mental health interventions: a systematic review and conceptual framework for depressive symptoms

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  • Hair cortisol concentrations and cortisol stress reactivity in generalized anxiety disorder, major depression and their comorbidity.

    Susann Steudte-Schmiedgen;Susann Wichmann;Tobias Stalder;Tobias Stalder;Kevin Hilbert

  • Die Apathy Evaluation Scale: Erste Ergebnisse zu den psychometrischen Eigenschaften einer deutschsprachigen Übersetzung der Skala.

    U. Lueken;U. Seidl;M. Schwarz;L. Völker

  • Development of a Short Version of the Apathy Evaluation Scale Specifically Adapted for Demented Nursing Home Residents

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  • Die COVID-19-Pandemie als Herausforderung für die psychische Gesundheit

    Eva-Lotta Brakemeier;Eva-Lotta Brakemeier;Janine Wirkner;Christine Knaevelsrud;Susanne Wurm

  • Autobiographical memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease.

    Ulrich Seidl;Ulrike Lueken;Philipp A. Thomann;Josef Geider

  • Gray and white matter volume abnormalities in generalized anxiety disorder by categorical and dimensional characterization.

    Kevin Hilbert;Daniel S. Pine;Markus Muehlhan;Ulrike Lueken

  • Altered top-down and bottom-up processing of fear conditioning in panic disorder with agoraphobia.

    U. Lueken;B. Straube;I. Reinhardt;N. I. Maslowski

  • Separating generalized anxiety disorder from major depression using clinical, hormonal, and structural MRI data: A multimodal machine learning study.

    Kevin Hilbert;Ulrike Lueken;Markus Muehlhan;Katja Beesdo-Baum

  • Allelic variation in CRHR1 predisposes to panic disorder : evidence for biased fear processing

    Heike Weber;Heike Weber;Jan Richter;Benjamin Straube;Ulrike Lueken;Ulrike Lueken

  • Translational machine learning for psychiatric neuroimaging.

    Martin Walter;Sarah Alizadeh;Hamidreza Jamalabadi;Ulrike Lueken

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Ströhle
Andreas Ströhle Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Volker Arolt
Volker Arolt University of Münster
Alexander L. Gerlach
Alexander L. Gerlach University of Cologne
Alfons O. Hamm
Alfons O. Hamm University of Greifswald
Jürgen Deckert
Jürgen Deckert University of Würzburg
Katharina Domschke
Katharina Domschke University of Freiburg
Thomas Fydrich
Thomas Fydrich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Paul Pauli
Paul Pauli University of Würzburg

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