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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · 19d

We mapped neural error processing across 7 major mental disorders using EEG data from over 10,000 participants.
A transdiagnostic network meta-analysis with @hpcrstn.bsky.social, Kai Härpfer & Kaja B. Hansen.
📖 find the preprint here:
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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · 24d

✨ 🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Hannes Per Carsten, Marina Dochtermann & @anjariesel.bsky.social.

🔗 Submit your video before October 1, 2025: sprweb.org/spr-video-co...

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Muhammad Hashim Satti @hashimsat.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 New preprint alert!

Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty

Difficulties in adapting learning to meet the challenges of uncertain and changing environments are widely thought to play a central role in internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depres...

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · May 14

🌟 YAY! Congratulations to @kimsobania.bsky.social for winning the poster price for her work on fear and safety learning in OCD, at-risk participants and healthy controls at the European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning. Funded by @rtg2753.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de, #emhfc2025 🌟

Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Congratulations @kimsobania.bsky.social (1st prize) and @jannateigeler.bsky.social (runner up) and @ecemtavacioglu.bsky.social (runner up) for winning the poster awards at the European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning. Great science, awesome presentations! #emhfc2025

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Matthias Wieser @mjwieser.bsky.social · May 14

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Apr 14

A new paper on neural error signals in OCD & anxiety, by Kai Härpfer, @hpcrstn.bsky.social, Franzi Kausche & @anjariesel.bsky.social. We explore how disorder type, transdiagnostic dimensions, clinical status & familial risk influence error signatures. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive–Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions

In this preregistered study, we investigated the relationship between neural correlates of performance monitoring and disorders of the anxiety and obsessive–compulsive spectrum. Specifically, we aime...

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Mar 26

Here are some insights from our concept days @uni-hamburg.de. Together with therapists & researchers from our lab, we brainstormed new projects, discussed data, explored ways to improve connections & translation from research to therapy & back, enjoyed some table tennis, dancing, & great exchanges!

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting news! @kimsobania.bsky.social from our lab submitted her first first-author PhD paper on the neural correlates of fear learning in OCD and anxiety. Yay, congratulations!

Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Mar 24

(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Jan 21

come work with @stresscognition.bsky.social , @anjariesel.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social, @janhaaker.bsky.social as well as Tania Lincoln, Tobias Donner, Sarah Hohmann, Simone Kühn, Jürgen Gallinat and a bunch of brilliant students!

Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Dec 18

The graduate programme on emotional memories at @uni-hamburg.de is looking for the next cohort of PhD students (11 positions).
Great programme with lots of interesting projects. Join us!

Deadline: 31.01.2025

The ad: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Graduate Programme: www.emotionalmemory.de

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jan 13

YAY! We are celebrating Kai‘s PhD! Congratulation Dr. Kai Härpfer on a fantastic dissertation and a stellar defense!

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Curious about how altered fear & safety learning contribute to anxiety, OCD, and PTSD? Check out our new meta-analysis on startle response, self-report, and SCR in fear conditioning! Together with Franziska Kausche, @hpcrstn.bsky.social & Kim Sobania.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fear and safety learning in anxiety- and stress-related disorders: An updated meta-analysis

Fear learning processes are believed to play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of anxiety and stress-related disorders. To integrate r…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Dec 19

If that sounds interesting and you'd like to work in beautiful Hamburg as part of an interdisciplinary team, apply here and feel free to get in touch for more information.

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Dec 19

Here is an image film about the research training group on emotional learning and memory, focusing on translational research at the intersection of basic and clinical science.

Image film of the Research Training Group 2753 "Emotional learning and memory"

YouTube video by RTG 2753

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Nov 23

We had a wonderful time at the #2024SPR annual meeting @therealspr.bsky.social! In addition to 4 great poster presentations, I was voted onto the board of directors, and @hpcrstn.bsky.social won a SciComm video award sprweb.org/page/Video_Con…

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Oct 26

SPR received many terrific submissions to the first ever #2024SPR "Psychophys Is" video contest. Thank you to all who submitted. Congratulations to the contest winners!! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Hannes Per Carsten @hpcrstn.bsky.social · Aug 7

New preprint on intolerance of uncertainty and the error-related negativity: Together with Kai Härpfer,
Marcelo Malbec, @mwieser.bsky.social and @anjariesel.bsky.social we investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal effects in a preregistered RCT (1/3)
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jul 16

We had a beautiful afternoon at the Elbe. Many thanks to this great team for their support in research, teaching, and therapy, and for all the laughs and chats in between! @unihh

Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jun 1

We had a wonderful PUG 2024!

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Apr 3

Happy to share a podcast with Martin from OCD Land! We discuss the research from our lab on error sensitivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and how brain activity during error processing can help us understand the development of OCD.

www.ocdland.com/podcast/30

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · Feb 5

Im Rahmen der Psychologie und Gehirn Tagung 2024 in Hamburg schreiben die bioDGPs sowie die DGPA drei Förderpreise für Wissenschaftskommunikation aus.

Einreichungen könnt ihr bis zum 31. März 2024 per E-Mail an [email protected] senden.

Mehr Infos folgen im🧵

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Tina Lonsdorf @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social · Feb 9

🚨BREAKING 🚨 Abstract submission for the 2024 Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference is open (registration is expected to open next week) via pug2024.de. Deadline for symposia/panel discussions: 29.2, poster: 31.3. See you in Hamburg!

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jan 22

Wie hier in Hamburg demonstrieren deutschlandweit Menschen gegen Rechtsextremismus und die AFD. Wir sind mehr!

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Jan 12

Illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - very important work showing poor generalizability of prediction models for schizophrenia

It is widely hoped that statistical models can improve decision-making related to medical treatments. Because of the cost and scarcity of medical outcomes data, this hope is typically based on investigators observing a model’s success in one or two datasets or clinical contexts. We scrutinized this optimism by examining how well a machine learning model performed across several independent clinical trials of antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia. Models predicted patient outcomes with high accuracy within the trial in which the model was developed but performed no better than chance when applied out-of-sample. Pooling data across trials to predict outcomes in the trial left out did not improve predictions. These results suggest that models predicting treatment outcomes in schizophrenia are highly context-dependent and may have limited generalizability.

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Anja Riesel @anjariesel.bsky.social · Jan 11

New paper out— registered report replicating our 2013 study on neural error signals' construct validity across tasks. Happy to contribute to this project led by Peter Clayson, Michal Larson and colleagues.

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

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