Tina’s academic journey began with studies in Psychology at the University of Trier and Justus Liebig University Giessen with a minor in Medicine, followed by a PhD in Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She then moved to the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, where she worked as a postdoc and later led her own research group within the Collaborative Research Center CRC 58 “Fear, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders”. In 2013, Tina established the Emmy-Noether Research Group “Fear Profiles”, funded by the German Research Foundation. Since 2023, she has been Professor of Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Bielefeld University, while continuing her affiliation with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf as a guest researcher. Tina is also actively involved in several collaborative initiatives: she’s a PI in the RTG “Emotional Learning and Memory” at the University of Hamburg and serves on the program committee of the DFG Priority Program “META-REP”. In addition, she chairs the Division of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology within the German Psychological Society (DGPs).
Tina’s Papers:
2025
Assessing the Long-Term Stability of the Spielberger State-Trait Inventory Trait Scale over 3.5 Years
Journal of Personality Assessment
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24 Jun 2025
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doi:10.1080/00223891.2025.2513936
How Temporal Predictability of Threat and Action Preparation Affect Defensive Freezing Responses
Center for Open Science
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28 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/p84qz_v1
There is no research on a dead planet – Fostering ecologically sustainable open science practices in neuroscience
Center for Open Science
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08 Apr 2025
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doi:10.31219/osf.io/rju75_v1
2024
The many faces of early life adversity - Content overlap in validated assessment instruments as well as in fear and reward learning research
Meta-Psychology
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07 Aug 2024
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doi:10.15626/MP.2023.3958
How adverse childhood experiences get under the skin: A systematic review, integration and methodological discussion on threat and reward learning mechanisms
eLife
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16 Jul 2024
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doi:10.7554/eLife.92700
Neuropsychobiology of fear-induced bradycardia in humans: progress and pitfalls
Molecular Psychiatry
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11 Jun 2024
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doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02600-x
How to Measure Fear Generalization? Reliability and Validity of Commonly Used Indices
Center for Open Science
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17 May 2024
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/fk26y
2023
Bad days build better days: mental health improvement after the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with psychosocial distress
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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11 Oct 2023
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doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3410491/v1
Within-subject reliability, occasion specificity, and validity of fluctuations of the Stroop and Go/No-Go tasks in ecological momentary assessment
Center for Open Science
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18 Sep 2023
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/g6qku
Recent advances in studying brain‐behavior interactions using functional imaging: The primary startle response pathway and its affective modulation in humans
Psychophysiology
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04 Jul 2023
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14364
Prediction of Changes in Negative Affect During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Experimental Fear Conditioning and Generalization Measures
Zeitschrift für Psychologie
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01 May 2023
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doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000523
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Mar 2023
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2023.104256
Quality research needs good working conditions
Nature Human Behaviour
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08 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01508-2
Watching with Argus eyes: Characterization of emotional and physiological responding in adults exposed to childhood maltreatment and/or recent adversity
Psychophysiology
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02 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14253
2022
Robust group- but limited individual-level (longitudinal) reliability and insights into cross-phases response prediction of conditioned fear
eLife
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13 Sep 2022
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doi:10.7554/eLife.78717
Data sharing in experimental fear and anxiety research: From challenges to a dynamically growing database in 10 simple steps
Center for Open Science
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22 Jul 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/8crk3
A data multiverse analysis investigating non‐model based SCR quantification approaches
Psychophysiology
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02 Jul 2022
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14130
Multiverse analyses in fear conditioning research
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Jun 2022
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2022.104072
Recent advances in studying brain-behaviour interactions using functional imaging: The primary startle response pathway and its affective modulation in humans
Center for Open Science
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13 May 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/gtasm
Navigating the manyverse of skin conductance response quantification approaches – A direct comparison of trough‐to‐peak , baseline correction, and model‐based approaches in Ledalab and PsPM
Psychophysiology
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02 Apr 2022
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doi:10.1111/psyp.14058
Open and reproducible science practices in psychoneuroendocrinology: opportunities to foster scientific progress
Center for Open Science
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30 Mar 2022
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/d2zvc
2021
Effects of intolerance of uncertainty on subjective and psychophysiological measures during fear acquisition and delayed extinction
Center for Open Science
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25 Nov 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/hj5gt
Mehr als nur fragwürdig: Reproduzierbarkeit und Open Science in der Lehre aus Sicht der Biologischen Psychologie und Neuropsychologie
Center for Open Science
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08 Sep 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/cp52v
Navigating the manifold of skin conductance response quantification approaches – a direct comparison of Trough-to-Peak, Baseline-correction and model-based approaches in Ledalab and PsPM
Center for Open Science
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30 Apr 2021
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/9h2kd
2020
Revisiting potential associations between brain morphology, fear acquisition and extinction through new data and a literature review
Scientific Reports
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16 Nov 2020
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doi:10.1038/s41598-020-76683-1
Experimental boundary conditions of reinstatement‐induced return of fear in humans: Is reinstatement in humans what we think it is?
Psychophysiology
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19 Feb 2020
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doi:10.1111/psyp.13549
2019
Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research
eLife
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16 Dec 2019
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doi:10.7554/eLife.52465
Experimental boundary conditions of reinstatement induced return of fear in humans: Is reinstatement in humans what we think it is?
Center for Open Science
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03 Dec 2019
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doi:10.31234/osf.io/4myk8
Fear Extinction Retention: Is It What We Think It Is?
Biological Psychiatry
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01 Jun 2019
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doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.011
The neurofunctional basis of affective startle modulation in humans – evidence from combined facial EMG-fMRI
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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05 Mar 2019
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doi:10.1101/567032
Orexin in the anxiety spectrum: association of a HCRTR1 polymorphism with panic disorder/agoraphobia, CBT treatment response and fear-related intermediate phenotypes
Translational Psychiatry
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04 Feb 2019
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doi:10.1038/s41398-019-0415-8
2018
Latency of skin conductance responses across stimulus modalities
Psychophysiology
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21 Nov 2018
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doi:10.1111/psyp.13307
Does US expectancy mediate the additive effects of CS-US pairings on contingency instructions? Results from subjective, psychophysiological and neural measures
Behaviour Research and Therapy
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01 Nov 2018
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doi:10.1016/j.brat.2018.09.003
Visual Complexity and Affect: Ratings Reflect More Than Meets the Eye
Frontiers in Psychology
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18 Jan 2018
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doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02368
2017
An elevated plus-maze in mixed reality for studying human anxiety-related behavior
BMC Biology
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01 Dec 2017
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doi:10.1186/s12915-017-0463-6
Modulation of defensive reactivity by GLRB allelic variation: converging evidence from an intermediate phenotype approach.
Translational psychiatry
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05 Sep 2017
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pmid:28872638
More than just noise: Inter-individual differences in fear acquisition, extinction and return of fear in humans - Biological, experiential, temperamental factors, and methodological pitfalls.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
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29 Jul 2017
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pmid:28764976
Effects of an Anxiety-Specific Psychometric Factor on Fear Conditioning and Fear Generalization
Zeitschrift für Psychologie
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01 Jul 2017
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doi:10.1027/2151-2604/a000304
Don't fear 'fear conditioning': Methodological considerations for the design and analysis of studies on human fear acquisition, extinction, and return of fear.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
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03 Mar 2017
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pmid:28263758
GLRB allelic variation associated with agoraphobic cognitions, increased startle response and fear network activation: a potential neurogenetic pathway to panic disorder.
Molecular psychiatry
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07 Feb 2017
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pmid:28167838
Where There is Smoke There is Fear-Impaired Contextual Inhibition of Conditioned Fear in Smokers.
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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25 Jan 2017
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pmid:28120933
2016
Don't startle me-Interference of startle probe presentations and intermittent ratings with fear acquisition.
Psychophysiology
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15 Sep 2016
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pmid:27628268
State anxiety modulates the return of fear.
International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
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03 Aug 2016
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pmid:27496367
Adversity-induced relapse of fear: neural mechanisms and implications for relapse prevention from a study on experimentally induced return-of-fear following fear conditioning and extinction.
Translational psychiatry
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19 Jul 2016
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pmid:27434492
Converging evidence for an impact of a functional NOS gene variation on anxiety-related processes.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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08 Jan 2016
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pmid:26746182
2015
Contextual Change After Fear Acquisition Affects Conditioned Responding and the Time Course of Extinction Learning-Implications for Renewal Research.
Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience
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08 Dec 2015
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pmid:26696855
Neural correlates of and processes underlying generalized and differential return of fear.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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25 Nov 2015
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pmid:26612681
Mismatch or allostatic load? Timing of life adversity differentially shapes gray matter volume and anxious temperament.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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13 Nov 2015
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pmid:26568620
Sex differences in conditioned stimulus discrimination during context-dependent fear learning and its retrieval in humans: the role of biological sex, contraceptives and menstrual cycle phases.
Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN
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01 Nov 2015
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pmid:26107163
Deficient inhibitory processing in trait anxiety: Evidence from context-dependent fear learning, extinction recall and renewal.
Biological psychology
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26 Jul 2015
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pmid:26219601
Effects of post-extinction l-DOPA administration on the spontaneous recovery and reinstatement of fear in a human fMRI study.
European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology
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21 Jul 2015
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pmid:26238968
Fear expression and return of fear following threat instruction with or without direct contingency experience.
Cognition & emotion
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12 May 2015
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pmid:25966279
MicroRNA hsa-miR-4717-5p regulates RGS2 and may be a risk factor for anxiety-related traits.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
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02 Apr 2015
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pmid:25847876
2014
A review on human reinstatement studies: an overview and methodological challenges.
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)
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15 Aug 2014
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pmid:25128533
BDNFval66met affects neural activation pattern during fear conditioning and 24 h delayed fear recall.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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07 Aug 2014
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pmid:25103087
Attention biases and habituation of attention biases are associated with 5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met.
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
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01 Mar 2014
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pmid:23943515
Higher anxiety and larger amygdala volumes in carriers of a TMEM132D risk variant for panic disorder.
Translational psychiatry
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04 Feb 2014
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pmid:24495968
Long-term expression of human contextual fear and extinction memories involves amygdala, hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: a reinstatement study in two independent samples.
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
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03 Feb 2014
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pmid:24493848
2013
No evidence for enhanced extinction memory consolidation through noradrenergic reuptake inhibition-delayed memory test and reinstatement in human fMRI.
Psychopharmacology
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06 Nov 2013
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pmid:24193372
Multimodal assessment of long-term memory recall and reinstatement in a combined cue and context fear conditioning and extinction paradigm in humans.
PloS one
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07 Oct 2013
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pmid:24116095
Single dose of L-dopa makes extinction memories context-independent and prevents the return of fear.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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10 Jun 2013
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pmid:23754384
2012
Distinct contributions of the dorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex during emotion regulation.
PloS one
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07 Nov 2012
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pmid:23144849
2011
A review on experimental and clinical genetic associations studies on fear conditioning, extinction and cognitive-behavioral treatment.
Translational psychiatry
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20 Sep 2011
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pmid:22832657
Conditioned pain modulation is associated with common polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene.
PloS one
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28 Mar 2011
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pmid:21464942
Perception of thermal pain and the thermal grill illusion is associated with polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene.
PloS one
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15 Mar 2011
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pmid:21423614
5-HTTLPR and COMTval158met genotype gate amygdala reactivity and habituation.
Biological psychology
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26 Feb 2011
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pmid:21356267
2010
The COMTval158met polymorphism is associated with symptom relief during exposure-based cognitive-behavioral treatment in panic disorder.
BMC psychiatry
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26 Nov 2010
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pmid:21110842
Amygdala-dependent fear conditioning in humans is modulated by the BDNFval66met polymorphism.
Behavioral neuroscience
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01 Feb 2010
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pmid:20141276
2009
The symptomatic profile of panic disorder is shaped by the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry
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12 Aug 2009
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pmid:19683026
Genetic variation in the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR, rs25531) influences the analgesic response to the short acting opioid Remifentanil in humans.
Molecular pain
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01 Jul 2009
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pmid:19570226
Increased sensitivity to thermal pain following a single opiate dose is influenced by the COMT val(158)met polymorphism.
PloS one
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23 Jun 2009
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pmid:19547755
Genetic gating of human fear learning and extinction: possible implications for gene-environment interaction in anxiety disorder.
Psychological science
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23 Jan 2009
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pmid:19175757
2006
Imaging gene-substance interactions: the effect of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the dopamine agonist bromocriptine on the brain activation during the anticipation of reward.
Neuroscience letters
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08 Aug 2006
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pmid:16901644