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Overview

Veronika Engert is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology and behavioral neuroscience. The scientist's work covers various subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics addressed in their research include stress responses and cortisol, mindfulness and compassion interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes, resilience and mental health, tryptophan and brain disorders, as well as migration, health, and trauma.

Frequent publication venues for Engert's work are:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Translational Psychiatry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Engert include:

  • Resilience and personality as predictors of the biological stress load during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany, 2021, Translational Psychiatry
  • Psychosocial Factors in Disease and Treatment-A Call for the Biopsychosocial Model, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors associated with Engert are:

  • Tania Singer
  • Roman Linz
  • Pascal Vrtička
  • Lara Puhlmann
  • Mathilde Gallistl

Best Publications

  • The Montreal Imaging Stress Task : using functional imaging to investigate the effects of perceiving and processing psychosocial stress in the human brain

    Katarina Dedovic;Robert Renwick;Najmeh Khalili Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • The brain and the stress axis: the neural correlates of cortisol regulation in response to stress.

    Katarina Dedovic;Annie Duchesne;Julie Andrews;Veronika Engert;Veronika Engert

  • Deactivation of the Limbic System During Acute Psychosocial Stress: Evidence from Positron Emission Tomography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies

    Jens C. Pruessner;Katarina Dedovic;Najmeh Khalili-Mahani;Veronika Engert

  • Investigation into the cross-correlation of salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase responses to psychological stress.

    Veronika Engert;Veronika Engert;Susanne Vogel;Simona I. Efanov;Annie Duchesne

  • Neural correlates of processing stressful information: an event-related fMRI study.

    Katarina Dedovic;Miriam Rexroth;Elisabeth Wolff;Annie Duchesne

  • The Role of Sex and Gender Socialization in Stress Reactivity

    Katarina Dedovic;Mehereen Wadiwalla;Veronika Engert;Jens C. Pruessner

  • Cortisol increase in empathic stress is modulated by emotional closeness and observation modality

    Veronika Engert;Franziska Plessow;Franziska Plessow;Robert Miller;Clemens Kirschbaum

  • Stress-induced changes in LPS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine production in chronic fatigue syndrome.

    Jens Gaab;Nicolas Rohleder;Vera Heitz;Veronika Engert

  • It matters what you practice: differential training effects on subjective experience, behavior, brain and body in the ReSource Project.

    Tania Singer;Veronika Engert

  • Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity in chronic fatigue syndrome and health under psychological, physiological, and pharmacological stimulation.

    Jens Gaab;Dominik Hüster;Renate Peisen;Veronika Engert

  • Dopaminergic and noradrenergic contributions to functionality in ADHD: the role of methylphenidate.

    Veronika Engert;Jens C Pruessner

  • Specific reduction in cortisol stress reactivity after social but not attention-based mental training

    Veronika Engert;Bethany E. Kok;Ioannis Papassotiriou;George P. Chrousos

  • Stress-induced reduction in hippocampal volume and connectivity with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex are related to maladaptive responses to stressful military service

    Roee Admon;Roee Admon;Dmitry Leykin;Dmitry Leykin;Gad Lubin;Veronika Engert

  • Exploring the Use of Thermal Infrared Imaging in Human Stress Research

    Veronika Engert;Arcangelo Merla;Joshua A. Grant;Daniela Cardone

  • Effects of Soy Lecithin Phosphatidic Acid and Phosphatidylserine Complex (PAS) on the Endocrine and Psychological Responses to Mental Stress

    J. Hellhammer;E. Fries;C. Buss;Veronika Engert

  • Low-dose dexamethasone suppression test in chronic fatigue syndrome and health.

    Jens Gaab;Dominik Hüster;Renate Peisen;Veronika Engert

  • The interaction of acute and chronic stress impairs model-based behavioral control

    Christoph Radenbach;Andrea M.F. Reiter;Veronika Engert;Zsuzsika Sjoerds

  • Differentiating anticipatory from reactive cortisol responses to psychosocial stress

    Veronika Engert;Veronika Engert;Simona I. Efanov;Annie Duchesne;Susanne Vogel

  • Boosting recovery rather than buffering reactivity: Higher stress-induced oxytocin secretion is associated with increased cortisol reactivity and faster vagal recovery after acute psychosocial stress

    Veronika Engert;Anna M. Koester;Antje Riepenhausen;Tania Singer

  • Perceived early-life maternal care and the cortisol response to repeated psychosocial stress

    Veronika Engert;Simona I. Efanov;Katarina Dedovic;Annie Duchesne

  • Cortisol Awakening Response and Hippocampal Volume: Vulnerability for Major Depressive Disorder?

    Katarina Dedovic;Veronika Engert;Annie Duchesne;Sonja Damika Lue

Frequent Co-Authors

Tania Singer
Tania Singer Max Planck Society
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Ulrike Ehlert
Ulrike Ehlert University of Zurich
Jens Gaab
Jens Gaab University of Basel
Philipp Kanske
Philipp Kanske TU Dresden
Tobias Stalder
Tobias Stalder University of Siegen
Claudia Buss
Claudia Buss University of California, Irvine
Sonia J. Lupien
Sonia J. Lupien University of Montreal
Elissa S. Epel
Elissa S. Epel University of California, San Francisco

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