Prof. Dr Michèle Wessa
Research Group Leader LIR, Professor and Head Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1975
Research Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany
Professor and Head Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
Postgraduate Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, GAP Frankfurt/Main Germany, License to practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Approbation)
Dipl.-Psych.; Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Herta Flor)
Psychology; University of Mannheim, Germany
Habilitation for Clinical Psychology, Medical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Germany (supervisor: H. Flor, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim)
Dr. sc. hum.: Neuropsychology, Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Germany (supervisor: H. Flor, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim)
Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), Mainz, Germany
Research Group Leader at the German Resilience Center (DRZ) Mainz, Germany
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology (W3) and Head of the corresponding Department, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Professor for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging (W3), Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
DFG Emmy Noether research group leader, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Universiy of Heidelberg, Germany (director: H. Flor)
Assisstant Professor, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Postdoctoral researcher, CEA Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Orsay, France; Research group “Neuroimaging in Psychiatry” (supervisor: J.-L. Martinot)
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany (supervisor: H. Flor)
Doctoral student, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany (supervisor: H. Flor)
DFG Emmy Noether research group (We3638/3-1)
Lilly Travel Fellowship for 7th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
Ph.D. Scholarship from the Studientstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Study Scholarship from the Studientstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Kollmann B, Yuen K, Scholz V, Wessa M (2019) Cognitive variability in bipolar I disorder: A cluster-analytic approach informed by resting-state data. Neuropharmacol 156:1–14.
>> Link to PubmedZeier P, Sandner M, Wessa M (2019) Script-based Reappraisal Test introducing a new paradigm to investigate the effect of reappraisal inventiveness on reappraisal effectiveness. Cogn Emot. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2019.1663153.
>> Link to PubmedKaurin A, Schönfelder S, Wessa M (2018) Self-compassion buffers the link between self-criticism and depression in trauma-exposed firefighters. J Couns Psychol 65:453–462.
>> Link to PubmedLois G, Kirsch P, Sandner M, Plichta MM, Wessa M (2018) Experimental and methodological factors affecting test-retest reliability of amygdala BOLD responses. Psychophysiology 55(12):e13220. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13220.
>> Link to PubmedLinke J, Wessa M (2017) Mental imagery training increases wanting of rewards and reward sensitivity and reduces depressive symptoms. Behav Therapy 48:695–706.
>> Link to PubmedKanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M (2013) Neural correlates of emotional distractibility in Bipolar Disorder patients, unaffected Relatives, and individuals with hypomanic personality. Am J Psychiatry 170:1487–1496.
>> Link to PubmedLinke J, King AV, Poupon C, Hennerici MG, Gass A, Wessa M (2013) Impaired anatomical connectivity and related executive functions: differentiating vulnerability and disease marker in bipolar disorder. Biol Psychiatry 74:908–916.
>> Link to PubmedLinke J, King AV, Rietschel M, Strohmaier J, Hennerici MG, Gass A, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Wessa M (2012) Increased medial orbitofrontal and amygdala activation: evidence for a systems-level endophenotype of bipolar I disorder. Am J Psychiatry 169:316–325.
>> Link to PubmedKanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Bongers A, Wessa M (2011) How to regulate emotion? Neural networks for reappraisal and distraction. Cereb Cortex 21:1379–1388.
>> Link to PubmedWessa M, Linke J, Witt S, Nieratschker V, Esslinger C, Kirsch P, Grimm O, Hennerici MG, Gass A, King AV, Rietschel M (2010) The CACNA1C risk variant for bipolar disorder influences limbic activity. Mol Psychiatry 15:1126–1127.
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