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1977
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Overview

Ute Habel is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research spans across several main fields including Psychology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Within these disciplines, Habel has contributed extensively to cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

Their work addresses diverse topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, mental health research topics, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, and neural dynamics and brain function.

Habel has authored papers published in a number of journals. Recent publications include:

  • Prevalence of depressive symptoms and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder among newly arrived refugees and asylum seekers in Germany: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, BJPsych Open
  • The Neuroanatomy of Transgender Identity: Mega-Analytic Findings From the ENIGMA Transgender Persons Working Group, 2021, The Journal of Sexual Medicine
  • Endometriosis, psychiatric comorbidities and neuroimaging: Estimating the odds of an endometriosis brain, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology
  • High-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) for the enhancement of working memory - A systematic review and meta-analysis of healthy adults, 2022, Brain Stimulation
  • Endocrine stress response in pregnancy and 12 weeks postpartum - Exploring risk factors for postpartum depression, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology

The frequent publication venues where Habel's research appears include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain Stimulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

The scientist collaborates with various coauthors, with the most frequent including:

  • Lisa Wagels
  • Mikhail Votinov
  • Birgit Derntl
  • Carmen Weidler
  • Simon B. Eickhoff

Best Publications

  • Cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human amygdala, hippocampal region and entorhinal cortex: intersubject variability and probability maps

    K. Amunts;O. Kedo;M. Kindler;P. Pieperhoff

  • Neural network of cognitive emotion regulation--an ALE meta-analysis and MACM analysis.

    Nils Kohn;Simon B. Eickhoff;M. Scheller;Angela R. Laird

  • Multidimensional assessment of empathic abilities: Neural correlates and gender differences.

    Birgit Derntl;Andreas Finkelmeyer;Simon Eickhoff;Simon Eickhoff;Thilo Kellermann

  • Subcortical Correlates of Craving in Recently Abstinent Alcoholic Patients

    Frank Schneider;Ute Habel;Michael Wagner;Petra Franke

  • Brain structure anomalies in autism spectrum disorder--a meta-analysis of VBM studies using anatomic likelihood estimation.

    Thomas Nickl-Jockschat;Ute Habel;Tanja Maria Michel;Janessa Manning

  • Real-time fMRI of temporolimbic regions detects amygdala activation during single-trial self-induced sadness

    Stefan Posse;Daniel Fitzgerald;Kunxiu Gao;Ute Habel

  • Gender differences in the cognitive control of emotion: An fMRI study

    Kathrin Koch;Katharina Pauly;Thilo Kellermann;Nina Y. Seiferth

  • Impairment in the Specificity of Emotion Processing in Schizophrenia

    Frank Schneider;Ruben C. Gur;Kathrin Koch;Volker Backes

  • Generalized deficit in all core components of empathy in schizophrenia.

    Birgit Derntl;Andreas Finkelmeyer;Timur K. Toygar;Anna Hülsmann

  • Same or different? Neural correlates of happy and sad mood in healthy males.

    Ute Habel;T Martina Klein;Thilo Kellermann;N. Jon Shah

  • Gender differences in regional cerebral activity during sadness.

    Frank Schneider;Ute Habel;Christoph Kessler;Jasmin B. Salloum

  • Emotion recognition accuracy in healthy young females is associated with cycle phase.

    Birgit Derntl;Ilse Kryspin-Exner;Eva Fernbach;Ewald Moser

  • The impact of facial emotional expressions on behavioral tendencies in women and men.

    Eva-Maria Seidel;Ute Habel;Michaela Kirschner;Ruben C. Gur

  • Amygdala activity to fear and anger in healthy young males is associated with testosterone

    Birgit Derntl;Christian Windischberger;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson;Ilse Kryspin-Exner

  • Structural brain abnormalities in psychopaths—a review

    Sabrina Weber;Ute Habel;Katrin Amunts;Frank Schneider M.D.

  • Facial emotion recognition and amygdala activation are associated with menstrual cycle phase.

    Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Christian Windischberger;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson;Elisabeth Lamplmayr

  • Functional imaging of conditioned aversive emotional responses in antisocial personality disorder.

    Frank Schneider;Ute Habel;Christoph Kessler;Stefan Posse

  • ALE meta-analysis on facial judgments of trustworthiness and attractiveness.

    Danilo Bzdok;Robert Langner;Robert Langner;Svenja Caspers;F Kurth

  • Amygdala activation and facial expressions: explicit emotion discrimination versus implicit emotion processing.

    Ute Habel;Christian Windischberger;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Birgit Derntl;Simon Robinson;Simon Robinson

  • Negative bias in fast emotion discrimination in borderline personality disorder.

    M. Dyck;U. Habel;J. Slodczyk;J. Schlummer

  • Predicting delirium after vascular surgery: a model based on pre- and intraoperative data.

    Hinrich Böhner;Thomas C. Hummel;Ute Habel;Caesar Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Schneider
Frank Schneider Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Birgit Derntl
Birgit Derntl University of Tübingen
Ruben C. Gur
Ruben C. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Ilse Kryspin-Exner
Ilse Kryspin-Exner University of Vienna
Raquel E. Gur
Raquel E. Gur University of Pennsylvania
Kerstin Konrad
Kerstin Konrad RWTH Aachen University
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann RWTH Aachen University
Jonathan Repple
Jonathan Repple University Hospital Frankfurt
Felix Hoffstaedter
Felix Hoffstaedter Forschungszentrum Jülich

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