Benjamin Straube

View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

A new publication, “Transdiagnostic alterations in white-matter microstructure associated with suicidal thoughts and behaviours in the ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours consortium”, by ENIGMA Suicidal Thoughts & Behaviours Consortium (Translational Psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

🧩 New article!
Same same but different: Threat expectancy change and fear reduction as readouts of exposure rationales are only weakly associated to treatment outcome in anxiety disorders

Now published in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #Expectancy

😊 New publication!
Joy Beyond Fear: Positive Emotions After Exposure in Patients with Anxiety Disorders and Their Link to Threat Expectancy and Treatment Outcome

Now out in Behaviour Research and Therapy:
🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...

#AnxietyDisorders #ExposureTherapy #PositiveEmotions #Expectancy

🧠 New paper investigated how childhood maltreatment shapes structural brain connectivity across affective and psychotic disorders.

Now out in European Neuropsychopharmacology:
🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

#Neuroscience #Psychiatry #BrainConnectivity #ChildhoodMaltreatment

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

The CRC/TRR 393 aims to unravel trajectories of depression & bipolar disorder by combining mobile assessments, neuroimaging, -omics & interventions in >1500 participants.

A 12-year effort to decode mechanisms of recurrence & remission.

Overview:
🔗 rdcu.be/eGtBy

🥳 Our study led by @edwardody.bsky.social from the @tnm-lab.bsky.social is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Take a look if you are interested in action-perception transition, readiness potential, and voluntariness of action!

📍https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.70236

🎥 LOEWE DYNAMIC in 2 ½ min

Not brand new, but still relevant: In this video introduction, Winfried Rief explains what the LOEWE Research Center DYNAMIC is all about – and how dynamic networks can help improve treatments.

▶️Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6F... (English subtitles available)

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals - Nature Communications A large brain imaging study of over 2000 people worldwide shows that fear conditioning engages brain regions linked to emotion and attention, with differences in individuals with anxiety or depression...

Neural correlates of human fear conditioning and sources of variability in 2199 individuals
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder - Schizophrenia Schizophrenia - Temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active and passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder

🧠 New paper out!
Rashid, Kircher & Straube (2025) investigate temporal characteristics of hemodynamic responses during active vs. passive hand movements in schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

📄 Schizophrenia:
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@tnm-lab.bsky.social Kausalitätswahrnehmung, Erwartungen & fMRT begeistern dich?
Bewirb dich auf die Promotionsstelle (3 Jahre, 75%) in Marburg (www.theadaptivemind.de) bis zum 17.08.:
stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...
#Job #Promotion #fMRI #Psychologie

🧠🗣️ I’m co-editing a Neuropsychologia Special Issue:
“Language in Psychosis – A Multidisciplinary Approach”

We welcome contributions on:
• neural mechanisms
• predictive processing
• cognitive, computational & clinical perspectives

📅 Deadline: Sept 30, 2025 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Transcranial direct current stimulation alleviates the negative impact of immediate and chronic social exclusion on intertemporal decision-making Abstract. Social exclusion impairs decision-making, affecting social functioning. This study examines how social exclusion, in both immediate, experimental

Feeling excluded can distort your decisions!

New study shows tDCS can buffer against the effects of social exclusion on decision-making.

🔗 academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
#neuroscience #tDCS #socialexclusion #mentalhealth

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S... When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas SA Wallis, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @tsawallis.bsky.social

New manuscript! Together with Junqing Huang & @straubeb.bsky.social, we used an innovative paradigm & DDM to show that gesture's processing hierarchy from a behavioral perspective!

Gestures are visual—but they’re also layered, structured, and unfold like language. 🧠🖐️

👇👇👇
osf.io/r5nb9_v1

#science #clustersofexcellence #exstra #excellence #germany #psychology… | Roland Fleming | 12 comments It's funded! 🎉 YES! Our proposal for an Excellence Cluster, "The Adaptive Mind" (TAM) is among 70 projects across all Germany and all disciplines that will receive funding for 7 years, ...

www.linkedin.com/posts/roland...

Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Aberrant preparation of hand movement in schizophrenia spectrum disorder: an fMRI study Rashid et al. investigated preparatory neural processes in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) during active and passive hand movements using functional

🧠✨ New publication in Brain Communications!
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders & motor preparation:
Aberrant pre-movement fMRI patterns in insula, putamen, cerebellum & angular gyrus
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
#Schizophrenia #fMRI #ActionAwareness #CognitiveNeuroscience #Psychiatry

Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Epigenetic markers of disease risk and psychotherapy response in anxiety disorders – a longitudinal analysis of the DNA methylome

🚨 New in Molecular Psychiatry 🚨
DNA methylation as a potential marker for anxiety disorders & psychotherapy response:
Longitudinal EWAS reveals epigenetic signatures linked to disease risk and CBT outcomes.
📖 doi.org/10.1038/s413...
#Anxiety #Epigenetics #CBT #Psychiatry #PrecisionMedicine

Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder - Schizophrenia Schizophrenia - Choice- and trial-history effects on causality perception in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder

How do patients with schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder perceive causality? We show altered reliance on spatial vs. temporal cues—and a growing bias to repeat prior choices over time.
➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Schizophrenia #Perception #Cognition #Neuroscience

Join the #SFBTRR393 in Marburg! Two open PhD positions (65%) in A04, investigating inflection signals in #depression using MRI, EMA & EEG. You’re passionate about translational #psychiatry and want to work in an interdisciplinary environment? Apply by April 27 via the official portal ⬇️ #ResearchJob

@trr393.bsky.social und @dpk-kongress.bsky.social
Herzliche Einladung zu unserem Symposium zu den Schlüsselmechanismen der Trajektorien affektiver Erkrankungen

When listening to a story, earlier parts of the story (context) and the speaker's gestures help us predict and understand what they are saying. In a new preprint we show context and gestures have a push-pull synergy on neural response to linguistic information 👇🧵

In the light of #worldbipolarday, Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Bauer, the #sfbtrr393 local spokesperson at @tudresden.bsky.social was interviewed about current developments in #bipolardisorder research:

www.uni-marburg.de/en/trr-393/n...

And here the poster!

If you are at #CNS2025, check out this brilliant poster #F98 from @edwardody.bsky.social @straubeb.bsky.social where we probed for action-specific "quasi-predictive" effect independent of probability-based expectations!

🚀 Excited to share our new preprint led by my brilliant colleague Anna Petukhova @tnm-lab.bsky.social! We used a drift-diffusion model to show how local semantic predictability rapidly enhances evidence accumulation during language processing. #priming #ddm #prediction

🔗 shorturl.at/lP10h

Group photo of the SFB/TRR 393 team in front of Rauischholzhausen Manor.

Hi! We are the SFB/TRR 393 "Trajectories of Affective Disorders: Cognitive-Emotional Mechanisms of Symptom Change" - a transregional @dfg.de collaborative research center & interdisciplinary team of researchers working together to better understand what influences the course of affective disorders👇🏻🧵

Predictive neural processing of self-generated hand and tool actions in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Predictive neural processing of self-generated hand and tool actions in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals

Patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders show reduced differentiation between self- and externally generated sensory input, particularly during tool use and bimodal feedback.
🔗Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroimaging #Schizophrenia #PredictiveCoding #fMRI @cschmitter.bsky.social