Projects

This project investigates how early adversity—an important risk factor for a range of mental health disorders—affects fear learning, generalization and return of fear processes. While patients with anxiety disorders typically show heightened responses to safety cues, previous work suggests that individuals exposed to early adversity may instead be characterized by... see more→

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Dysregulated processing of fear and safety has been linked to anxiety symptoms and related traits, e.g., neuroticism, intolerance of uncertainty or negative emotionality. Yet, different studies focus on different aspects of fear acquisition and extinction, outcome measures, and anxiety-related traits, making an integrative approach to the association of anxiety-related traits... see more→

The FEAR PROFILES projects suggests a paradigm shift in fear and anxiety research by focusing on individual differences—often overlooked as residual variance—as key to advancing mechanistic understanding. We use systematic, multi-method studies combining established experimental paradigms with a wide array of methods (fMRI, psychophysiology, VR, freezing platform) designed specifically to... see more→

It is our vision to facilitate cumulative science in the field of human fear conditioning research by gathering datasets and hence generating new information while at the same time ensure sustainability of research investments.To achieve this aim, we are developing a cooperative, sustainable, living and dynamically growing database with living... see more→

The EIFEL-ROF network, for which Tina was the spokesperson, aimed to increase communication and coordination through tutorial/research guidelines papers, joint publication of review articles, coordination of cross-laboratory replication tests and data pooling. The discussion in the EIFEL-ROF network have generated many new (meta-) research ideas to answer questions on the... see more→

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