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member portrait Mana Ehlers Postdoctoral Researcher Bielefeld University
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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.

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2026

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
PsyArXiv  ·  20 Feb 2026  ·  doi: https://doi.org/hbqgvz

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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