Mana Ehlers | Lonsdorf Lab

Mana Ehlers Postdoctoral Researcher Bielefeld University

Bio

Mana studied Biology and Neuroscience in Oldenburg and Bremen before completing her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She joined the team as Post-Doc in 2019 working on the Emmy-Noether funded project “Fear Profiles” before her posititon at Bielefeld University. Her work focuses on (individual differences in) fear conditioning and meta-scientific projects like the fearbase.

Projects

Publications

2026

Neural and Multimodal Signatures of Threat Learning, Generalization, and Return of Fear linked to Adverse Childhood Experiences

Julia Ruge , Mana Ehlers , Tobias Sommer, Anja Riesel, Tania M. Lincoln, Tina Lonsdorf

Springer Science and Business Media LLC · 20 Oct 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hcpvwn

Fear Conditioning Research Through the Lens of Meta-Analyses: A Systematic Methodological Review

Maria Bruntsch , Mana R. Ehlers , Annalena Witte , Fritz Becker , Samuel E. Cooper, Tina B. Lonsdorf

Behaviour Research and Therapy · 01 Oct 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hcn9nm

Mana R. Ehlers , Hannah Stiffel, Alexandros Kastrinogiannis , Alina Koppold , Tina B. Lonsdorf

openRxiv · 01 Sep 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hchtvv

The Fearbase: a dynamically growing database and collaborative consortium for experimental work on human fear conditioning research

Maria Bruntsch , Tina B. Lonsdorf , Fritz Becker , Annalena Witte , Conrad Alting , Joel Beckmann, Katarina Blask, Mana R. Ehlers , the Fearbase Consortium

PsyArXiv · 25 Jun 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hb9kcf

Neural and multimodal signatures of Threat Learning, Generalization, and Return of Fear linked to Adverse Childhood Experiences

Julia Ruge , Mana R Ehlers , Tobias Sommer, Anja Riesel, Tania Marie Lincoln, Tina B Lonsdorf

PsyArXiv · 15 Mar 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hbsppw

How Temporal Predictability of Threat and Action Preparation Affect Defensive Freezing Responses

Alina Koppold , Mana R. Ehlers , Alexandros Kastrinogiannis , Felix H. Klaassen, Karin Roelofs, Tina B. Lonsdorf

Psychophysiology · 01 Mar 2026 · doi: https://doi.org/hbtf4v

2025

Navigating the approach-avoidance matrix: A novel foraging task in virtual reality

Alexandros Kastrinogiannis , Alina Koppold , Mana R Ehlers , Tina B Lonsdorf

PsyArXiv · 04 Dec 2025 · doi: https://doi.org/hbdnnq

2024

How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms

Julia Ruge , Mana R Ehlers , Alexandros Kastrinogiannis , Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Alina Koppold , Rany Abend, Tina B Lonsdorf

eLife · 16 Jul 2024 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qqz

2022

Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear

Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Mana R Ehlers , Manuel Kuhn , Vincent Keyaniyan, Tina B Lonsdorf

eLife · 13 Sep 2022 · doi: https://doi.org/g36c9v

Data sharing in experimental fear and anxiety research: From challenges to a dynamically growing database in 10 simple steps

Mana R Ehlers , Tina B Lonsdorf

PsyArXiv · 22 Jul 2022 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qrc

2020

Revisiting potential associations between brain morphology, fear acquisition and extinction through new data and a literature review

Mana R. Ehlers , Janne Nold, Manuel Kuhn , Maren Klingelhöfer-Jens , Tina B. Lonsdorf

Scientific Reports · 16 Nov 2020 · doi: https://doi.org/g84qrr

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