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View article: Positive appraisal style predicts long-term stress resilience and mediates the effect of a pro-resilience intervention
Positive appraisal style predicts long-term stress resilience and mediates the effect of a pro-resilience intervention Open
View article: Ten Concerns About Personality Change Interventions—and How to Address Them
Ten Concerns About Personality Change Interventions—and How to Address Them Open
Many people want to change their personality in some way and personality traits have been found to predict various important aspects of life including well-being, health, relationship quality, and work success. As a result, personality cha…
View article: Positive appraisal style predicts long - term stress resilience and mediates the effect of a pro-resilience intervention
Positive appraisal style predicts long - term stress resilience and mediates the effect of a pro-resilience intervention Open
Stress resilience is the maintenance of mental health despite adversity. We have predicted that a tendency to appraise stressors in a realistic to slightly unrealistically positive fashion (positive appraisal style, PAS) is prospectively a…
View article: Resilience changes and occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A 2-year prospective cohort study
Resilience changes and occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A 2-year prospective cohort study Open
Healthcare workers (HCWs) in COVID-19 pandemic hotspots were exposed to heightened workplace stressor load. Structural occupational resilience factors could prevent work-related stressor exposure from translating into mental health problem…
View article: A multi-site comparison of the multimodal response to an acute social stressor in the MRI environment
A multi-site comparison of the multimodal response to an acute social stressor in the MRI environment Open
Understanding the mechanisms behind (mal)adaptive stress responses is crucial for addressing stress-related mental disorders, which remain leading contributors to global disability and mortality. However, individual differences in stress r…
View article: How mindfulness-based training improves stress-related health: a selective review of randomized clinical trials comparing psychological mechanisms of action
How mindfulness-based training improves stress-related health: a selective review of randomized clinical trials comparing psychological mechanisms of action Open
Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been shown to reduce both subjective experiences and physiological markers of stress, a central pathway to improving health and wellbeing. Yet, understanding of the causal mechanism through which…
View article: Occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2-year prospective cohort study
Occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2-year prospective cohort study Open
Background. Healthcare workers (HCWs) in COVID-19 pandemic hotspots were exposed to workplace stressors. Structural occupational factors that prevent stressor exposure from translating into mental health problems (i.e., resilience factors)…
View article: There is no research on a dead planet – Fostering ecologically sustainable open science practices in neuroscience
There is no research on a dead planet – Fostering ecologically sustainable open science practices in neuroscience Open
The rapidly escalating climate crisis poses an existential threat to human wellbeing. Reducing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions must therefore become a primary goal of humanity. At the same time, advancing knowledge on human experien…
View article: Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers’ and mothers’ brain responses to ball-play with children
Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers’ and mothers’ brain responses to ball-play with children Open
Parents and children often engage in joint play—a domain where mothers and fathers are thought to exhibit disparate behaviors and impact child development via distinct mechanisms. However, little is known about the neural substrates of mot…
View article: Serum BDNF Increase After 9-Month Contemplative Mental Training Is Associated With Decreased Cortisol Secretion and Increased Dentate Gyrus Volume: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial
Serum BDNF Increase After 9-Month Contemplative Mental Training Is Associated With Decreased Cortisol Secretion and Increased Dentate Gyrus Volume: Evidence From a Randomized Clinical Trial Open
Longitudinal contemplative training may promote a neurobiological pathway from stress reduction to increased BDNF levels to enhanced hippocampal volume. However, single serum BDNF measurements can be unreliable for assessing long-term neur…
View article: Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Dynamic Associations Among Big Five Personality Traits and Resilience in Primarily Female, Upper-Middle Class, Ethnically Diverse U.S. Adolescents
Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Dynamic Associations Among Big Five Personality Traits and Resilience in Primarily Female, Upper-Middle Class, Ethnically Diverse U.S. Adolescents Open
In this study, we examined how Big Five personality traits relate to outcome-based resilience in primarily female, upper-middle class, ethnically diverse U.S. adolescents (baseline N = 535; age range = 15–17) oversampled on elevated neurot…
View article: Triggering just-in-time adaptive interventions based on real-time detection of daily-life stress
Triggering just-in-time adaptive interventions based on real-time detection of daily-life stress Open
Background: Stress-related disorders present a significant global burden. There is great need for effective, preventive measures. Mobile just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) have the potential to be applied in real time and context-…
View article: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol
Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol Open
The hippocampus is a central modulator of the HPA-axis, impacting the regulation of stress on brain structure, function, and behavior. The current study assessed whether three different types of 3 months mental Training Modules geared towa…
View article: Author response: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol
Author response: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol Open
View article: Longitudinal variation in resilient psychosocial functioning is associated with ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence
Longitudinal variation in resilient psychosocial functioning is associated with ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence Open
View article: Reviewer #1 (Public Review): Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol
Reviewer #1 (Public Review): Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol Open
The hippocampus is a central modulator of the HPA-axis, impacting the regulation of stress on brain structure, function, and behavior. The current study assessed whether three different types of 3-months mental Training Modules geared towa…
View article: Author Correction: Predictors of stress resilience in Parkinson’s disease and associations with symptom progression
Author Correction: Predictors of stress resilience in Parkinson’s disease and associations with symptom progression Open
View article: Evidence for a causal-mechanistic role for positive appraisal style in stress resilience
Evidence for a causal-mechanistic role for positive appraisal style in stress resilience Open
Stress resilience is the maintenance of mental health despite adversity. We have predicted that a tendency to appraise stressors in a realistic to slightly unrealistically positive fashion (positive appraisal style, PAS) is prospectively a…
View article: Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration?
Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? Open
Growing evidence implicates systemic inflammation in the loss of structural brain integrity in natural ageing and disorder development. Chronic stress and glucocorticoid exposure can potentiate inflammatory processes and may also be linked…
View article: Evidence for differential associations of distinct trait mindfulness facets with acute and chronic stress
Evidence for differential associations of distinct trait mindfulness facets with acute and chronic stress Open
Stress and stress-associated disease are considered the health epidemic of the 21st century. Interestingly, despite experiencing similar amounts of stress than those falling ill, some individuals are protected against the "wear and tear of…
View article: Predictors of stress resilience in Parkinson’s disease and associations with symptom progression
Predictors of stress resilience in Parkinson’s disease and associations with symptom progression Open
People with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are sensitive to effects of long-term stress, but might differ in stress resilience, i.e. the ability to maintain mental health despite adversity. It is unclear whether stress resilience in PD is predom…
View article: Comparative investigation of appraisal style measures in their predictive potential for stress resilience and implications for predictive modeling of resilience
Comparative investigation of appraisal style measures in their predictive potential for stress resilience and implications for predictive modeling of resilience Open
Appraisal refers to the evaluation of stimuli or situations with respect to an individual’s goals and needs. Stimuli or situations that are appraised as a threat to one’ goals and needs (‘stressors’) induce stress responses (‘stress’). Str…
View article: Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers’ and mothers’ brain responses to ball-play with children
Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers’ and mothers’ brain responses to ball-play with children Open
Parents and children often engage in joint play - a domain where mothers and fathers are thought to exhibit disparate behaviors and impact child development via distinct mechanisms. However, little is known about the neural substrates of m…
View article: Resilience and Mentalizing in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic: A moderated network analysis
Resilience and Mentalizing in psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic: A moderated network analysis Open
Objective: This study examines whether resilience and mentalizing capacities affect the network constellation of various protective and risk factors among psychotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: A multinational sample of N =…
View article: Self-report assessment of Positive Appraisal Style (PAS): Development of a process-focused and a content-focused questionnaire for use in mental health and resilience research
Self-report assessment of Positive Appraisal Style (PAS): Development of a process-focused and a content-focused questionnaire for use in mental health and resilience research Open
Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience posits that a person’s general style of evaluating stressors plays a central role in mental health and resilience. Specifically, a tendency to appraise stressors positively (positive appraisal …
View article: Longitudinal trajectories of resilient psychosocial functioning link to ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence
Longitudinal trajectories of resilient psychosocial functioning link to ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence Open
Adolescence is a period of dynamic brain remodeling and susceptibility to psychiatric risk factors, mediated by the protracted consolidation of association cortices. Here, we investigated whether intra-individual trajectories of psychosoci…
View article: An fMRI study on alexithymia and affective state recognition in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test
An fMRI study on alexithymia and affective state recognition in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Open
Recognizing others’ affective states is essential for successful social interactions. Alexithymia, characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing one’s own emotions, has been linked to deficits in recognizing emotions and ment…
View article: Mapping Pathways to Neuronal Atrophy in Healthy, Mid-aged Adults: From Chronic Stress to Systemic Inflammation to Neurodegeneration?
Mapping Pathways to Neuronal Atrophy in Healthy, Mid-aged Adults: From Chronic Stress to Systemic Inflammation to Neurodegeneration? Open
Growing evidence implicates systemic inflammation in the loss of structural brain integrity in natural ageing and disorder development. Chronic stress and glucocorticoid exposure can potentiate inflammatory processes and have also been lin…
View article: Psychological Resilience Factors and Their Association With Weekly Stressor Reactivity During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Europe: Prospective Longitudinal Study
Psychological Resilience Factors and Their Association With Weekly Stressor Reactivity During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Europe: Prospective Longitudinal Study Open
Background Cross-sectional relationships between psychosocial resilience factors (RFs) and resilience, operationalized as the outcome of low mental health reactivity to stressor exposure (low “stressor reactivity” [SR]), were reported duri…
View article: Occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2-year prospective cohort study
Occupational resilience factors among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a 2-year prospective cohort study Open
Background. Healthcare workers (HCWs) in COVID-19 pandemic hotspots were exposed to workplace stressors. Structural occupational factors that prevent stressor exposure from translating into mental health problems (i.e., resilience factors)…