Dr. Axel Schäfer

Dr. Axel Schäfer

Bender Institute of Neuroimaging

Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10H

35394 Gießen

Raum 22

Telefon: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26302

Telefax: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26309

E-Mail: Axel.Schaefer

Core Unit BION

• Wissenschaftliches Datenmanagement
• Qualitätssicherung und -management
• Entwicklung (neuer) Quality Assessment- und Analyse-Pipelines
• Aufbau einer Code-Bibliothek und des Wiki

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Hilbert, K., Boeken, O. J., Langhammer, T., Groenewold, N. A., Bas-Hoogendam, J. M., Aghajani, M., Zugman, A., Åhs, F., Arolt, V., Beesdo-Baum, K., Björkstrand, J., Blackford, J. U., Blanco-Hinojo, L., Böhnlein, J., Bülow, R., Cano, M., Cardoner, N., Caseras, X., Dannlowski, U., Domschke, K., … Lueken, U. (2024). Cortical and Subcortical Brain Alterations in Specific Phobia and Its Animal and Blood-Injection-Injury Subtypes: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA Anxiety Working Group. The American journal of psychiatry, 181(8), 728–740. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230032

Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Stark, R., & Hermann, A. (2024). Neural correlates of context-dependent extinction recall in social anxiety disorder: relevance of intrusions in response to aversive social experiences. Psychological medicine, 54(3), 548–557. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723002179

Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., Stark, R., & Hermann, A. (2024). Decontextualized fear memories? Stronger conditioned fear responses during extinction learning and extinction recall in a safe context predict the development of long-term analog intrusions. Psychological Medicine, 54(1), 159–168.

Neudert, M. K., Schäfer, A., Zehtner, R. I., Fricke, S., Seinsche, R. J., Kruse, O., Stark, R., & Hermann, A. (2023). Pattern separation is associated with hippocampal dentate gyrus activation during extinction learning and fear renewal. Scientific Reports, 13:5577.

Braun, U., Harneit, A., Pergola, G., Menara, T., Schäfer, A., Betzel, R. F., Zang, Z., Schweiger, J. I., Zhang, X., Schwarz, K., Chen, J., Blasi, G., Bertolino, A., Durstewitz, D., Pasqualetti, F., Schwarz, E., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Bassett, D. S., & Tost, H. (2021). Brain network dynamics during working memory are modulated by dopamine and diminished in schizophrenia. Nature communications, 12(1), 3478. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23694-9

Braun, U., Schäfer, A., Betzel, R. F., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Bassett, D. S. (2018). From maps to multidimensional network mechanisms of mental disorders. Neuron, 97, 14-31.

Akdeniz, C., Schäfer, A., Streit, F., Haller, L., Wüst, S., Kirsch, P., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). Sex-Dependent Association of Perigenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume and Migration Background, an Environmental Risk Factor for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 925-934. [geteilte Erstautorenschaft]

Bilek, E., Stößel, G., Schäfer, A., Clement, L., Ruf, M., Robnik, L., Neukel, C., Tost, H., Kirsch, P. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). State-dependent cross-brain information flow in Borderline Personality Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry, 74, 949-957.

Moessnang, C., Otto, K., Bilek, E., Schäfer, A., Baumeister, S., Hohmann, S., Poustka, L., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). Differential responses of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and right posterior superior temporal sulcus to spontaneous mentalizing. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 3791-3803.

Schneider, M., Walter, H., Moessnang, C., Schäfer, A., Erk, S., Mohnke, S., Romund, L., Garbusow, M., Dixson, L., Heinz, A., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2017). Altered DLPFC-Hippocampus Connectivity During Working Memory: Independent Replication and Disorder Specificity of a Putative Genetic Risk Phenotype for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 1114-1122.

Braun, U., Schäfer, A., Bassett, D.S., Rausch, F., Schweiger, J.I., Bilek, E., Erk, S., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Grimm, O., Geiger, L.S., Haddad, L., Otto, K., Mohnke, S., Heinz, A., Zink, M., Walter, H., Schwarz, E., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2016). Dynamic brain network reconfiguration as a potential schizophrenia genetic risk mechanism modulated by NMDA receptor function. PNAS, 113, 12568-12573. [geteilte Erstautorenschaft]

Cao, H., Bertolinio, A., Walter, H., Schneider, M., Schäfer, A., Taurisano, P., Blasi, G., Haddad, L,. Grimm, O., Otto, K., Dixson, L., Erk, S., Mohnke, S., Heinz, A., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Mühleisen, T.W., Mattheisen, M., Witt, S.H., Cichon, S., Noethen, M., Rietschel, M., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2016). Altered functional subnetwork during emotional face processing: a potential intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia. JAMA Psychiatry, 73, 598-605.

Moessnang, C., Schäfer, A., Bilek, E., Roux, P., Otto, K., Baumeister, S., Hohmann, S., Poustka, L., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2016). Specificity, reliability and sensitivity of social brain responses during spontaneous mentalizing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 11, 1687-1697.

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