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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Aug 2

Two more weeks to apply 🚀

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jul 15

JOB ALERT 🚀

I am looking for a clinical psychologist to supervise my clinical team at uni hamburg.

Please dm me if you have any questions and please share!

Ich suche eine Forschungsambulanzleitung (E14, entfristet) an der Uni Hamburg.

Job Ad:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · Jul 19

A scoping review of Longitudinal Neuroimaging Studies:
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Longitudinal fMRI studies of CBIs in healthy participants and clinical populations showed increased prefrontomesolimbic activity, altered occipital and posterior parietal activity, and increased fronto-striatal connectivity.
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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jul 15

JOB ALERT 🚀

I am looking for a clinical psychologist to supervise my clinical team at uni hamburg.

Please dm me if you have any questions and please share!

Ich suche eine Forschungsambulanzleitung (E14, entfristet) an der Uni Hamburg.

Job Ad:
www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jun 18

Incredibly proud that @annimekelburg.bsky.social published her bachelor thesis uniting two of the coolest topics longitudinal neuroimaging and compassion interventions 💫

Check it out 🙌

Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Jun 18

Interested in #compassion based interventions? Learn all about their effects on #brain
Big congrats & thx to @annimekelburg.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social @laramaliske.bsky.social @jameskirby.bsky.social

@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social
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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to be at @pug2025.bsky.social ✨

Kanske Lab @kanskelab.bsky.social · Jun 17

Our team is excited to be part of @pug2025.bsky.social [email protected] and @dgps.bsky.social in Würzburg this week! Please reach out and approach us if you want to chat or meet! We look forward to an inspiring conference! ✨

News entry with list of our contributions: tud.link/39nus1

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations ✨⭐️💫🌟

Susanne Meinert @smeinert.bsky.social · May 9

I’m deeply honoured (and still a bit stunned) to receive the #ECNP2025 Rising Star Award.

This recognition means a lot - but it also reflects the incredible people I’ve been lucky to work with.

@uni-muenster.de @dgps.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social @trr393.bsky.social @traplabms.bsky.social

TraPLab @traplabms.bsky.social · May 8

🌟 Rising Star Award 2025 🌟

Congratulations to @smeinert.bsky.social , honoured with the #ECPN Rising Star Award for her outstanding early-career research in applied and translational neuroscience!

The whole TraP-family is proud! 🫶

@uni-muenster.de @trr393.bsky.social
@dgps.bsky.social

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

We hope that our results on brain aging in the course of affective disorders will make it through peer-review this year! Our preprint also comes with open materials and open data: osf.io/qadxz/

Please share @traplabms.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

We then decided to explore wether the brain age gap at baseline was also predictive of future worse outcomes, for example, wether a patient is hospitalized or not. However, the cross-validation of our prediction with an accuracy of 64.3% was not significant.

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

Patients were consistently estimated with an older brain age resulting in a larger brain age gap than healthy participants, confirming previous results on brain aging. However, we also found that patients with a worse outcome during follow up already had a larger brain age gap at baseline.

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

... and how the longitudinal course of affective disorder relates to the brain age gap. We found something that we did not expect. 😱

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

We investigated the "brain age gap" - thedifference between actual and estimated age derived from MRI scans - in patients with affective disorders in a long-term prospective design. Our research question was wether the brain age gap differs between patients and healthy participants ....

ALT: a woman in a purple shirt says age is just a number on netflix

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MRI-derived estimation of biological aging in patients with affective disorders in a 9-year follow-up - a prospective marker of future recurrence

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 30

🧠 Excited to share our preprint "MRI derived estimation of biological patients with affective disorders in a 9-year follow up - a prospective marker of future recurrence" with Nils Winter
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

After being under review for <400days we can't wait to share our results.

Background: We investigated associations of the brain age gap (BAG), the difference between actual and estimated age derived from MRI scans, with disease course over nine years in patients with affect...

www.medrxiv.org

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congrats to all #DPK2025 awardees including @annikakonrad.bsky.social @katfoerster.bsky.social Julia Martini & Daniel Badeja from @tudresden.bsky.social for excellent #supervision, #openscience & posters

@dgps.bsky.social @kanskelab.bsky.social

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come and chat with us #DPK2025

TraPLab @traplabms.bsky.social · Apr 10

TraP goes DPK feat. Dr. Tiana Borgers🧠

🎤 Title: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen bei der Identifikation bildgebender Prädiktoren für den psychotherapeutischen Behandlungserfolg (mit @katfoerster.bsky.social)
📅 When: Thursday, April 10th | 15:00 PM – 16:30 PM
📍 Where: Cube 3
#DPK2025 #KVT

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Apr 9

Such a great symposium - Thank you for having me ✨

SobraLab @sobralab.bsky.social · Apr 9

We had a wonderful symposium on emotion regulation at the #DPK2025! Thanks to the great speakers Alexander Sahm, Stephanie Schmidt, Ann-Kathrin Noll and @katfoerster.bsky.social! The symposium was at the same time as the keynote and still, the room was full. 🤩

Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse - National Elf Service

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Kanske Lab @kanskelab.bsky.social · Apr 7

We'll be @DPK2025 - check out the fantastic talks by @katfoerster.bsky.social @annikakonrad.bsky.social @ingmarheinig.bsky.social @larapuhlmann.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social & more
@dpk-kongress.bsky.social @dgps.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Mar 11

Very important work!

The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · Mar 11

Continuing antipsychotic medication during pregnancy associated with reduced risk of schizophrenia relapse www.nationalelfservice.net?p=214633

🧵 THREAD

Analyses of a national database adds to the case that antipsychotic continuation during pregnancy is associated with a reduced risk of postpartum relapse.

www.nationalelfservice.net

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Feb 28

Thank you!! Could not have done it without you as my mentor 😊

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Feb 28

Very happy to join the newest class of rising stars 💫⭐️ of @psychscience.bsky.social

Thank you @drlambchop.bsky.social
Stefan Hofmann
@kanske.bsky.social for your your support ✨

Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

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Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Feb 6

Only one week left to apply ✨🚀

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

I am looking for a postdoc for my new lab @uni-hamburg.de, we will closely collaborate with the CRC TRR 393 Trajectories of affective disorders.

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

DM me if you have questions!

Please share ✨

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jan 30

Less than two weeks to apply ✨🚀

Katharina Förster @katfoerster.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚨 Job Alert 🚨

I am looking for a postdoc for my new lab @uni-hamburg.de, we will closely collaborate with the CRC TRR 393 Trajectories of affective disorders.

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

DM me if you have questions!

Please share ✨