Anja Riesel

Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty Difficulties in adapting learning to meet the challenges of uncertain and changing environments are widely thought to play a central role in internalizing psychopathology, including anxiety and depres...

🚨 New preprint alert!

Our project investigating the effects of internalizing and trait anxiety on learning under uncertainty is finally online 🐆🐅

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌟 YAY! Congratulations to @kimsobania.bsky.social for winning the poster price for her work on fear and safety learning in OCD, at-risk participants and healthy controls at the European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning. Funded by @rtg2753.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de, #emhfc2025 🌟

Had a fantastic time with more than 100 colleagues from across the world at the European Meeting for Human Fear Conditioning we organized in Egmond aan Zee. #emhfc2025

Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive–Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions In this preregistered study, we investigated the relationship between neural correlates of performance monitoring and disorders of the anxiety and obsessive–compulsive spectrum. Specifically, we aime...

A new paper on neural error signals in OCD & anxiety, by Kai Härpfer, @hpcrstn.bsky.social, Franzi Kausche & @anjariesel.bsky.social. We explore how disorder type, transdiagnostic dimensions, clinical status & familial risk influence error signatures. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Here are some insights from our concept days @uni-hamburg.de. Together with therapists & researchers from our lab, we brainstormed new projects, discussed data, explored ways to improve connections & translation from research to therapy & back, enjoyed some table tennis, dancing, & great exchanges!

Exciting news! @kimsobania.bsky.social from our lab submitted her first first-author PhD paper on the neural correlates of fear learning in OCD and anxiety. Yay, congratulations!

Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

(1/5) Poster (and Faces of the Future talks) and Big Idea symposia submissions for #2025SPR are now open!

come work with @stresscognition.bsky.social , @anjariesel.bsky.social , @nicoschuck.bsky.social @christianbuchel.bsky.social, @janhaaker.bsky.social as well as Tania Lincoln, Tobias Donner, Sarah Hohmann, Simone Kühn, Jürgen Gallinat and a bunch of brilliant students!

YAY! We are celebrating Kai‘s PhD! Congratulation Dr. Kai Härpfer on a fantastic dissertation and a stellar defense!

Fear and safety learning in anxiety- and stress-related disorders: An updated meta-analysis Fear learning processes are believed to play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of anxiety and stress-related disorders. To integrate r…

Curious about how altered fear & safety learning contribute to anxiety, OCD, and PTSD? Check out our new meta-analysis on startle response, self-report, and SCR in fear conditioning! Together with Franziska Kausche, @hpcrstn.bsky.social & Kim Sobania.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If that sounds interesting and you'd like to work in beautiful Hamburg as part of an interdisciplinary team, apply here and feel free to get in touch for more information.

www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

YouTube video by RTG 2753 Image film of the Research Training Group 2753 "Emotional learning and memory"

Here is an image film about the research training group on emotional learning and memory, focusing on translational research at the intersection of basic and clinical science.

We had a wonderful time at the #2024SPR annual meeting @therealspr.bsky.social! In addition to 4 great poster presentations, I was voted onto the board of directors, and @hpcrstn.bsky.social won a SciComm video award sprweb.org/page/Video_Con…

SPR received many terrific submissions to the first ever #2024SPR "Psychophys Is" video contest. Thank you to all who submitted. Congratulations to the contest winners!! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

New preprint on intolerance of uncertainty and the error-related negativity: Together with Kai Härpfer,
Marcelo Malbec, @mwieser.bsky.social and @anjariesel.bsky.social we investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal effects in a preregistered RCT (1/3)
osf.io/preprints/ps...

We had a beautiful afternoon at the Elbe. Many thanks to this great team for their support in research, teaching, and therapy, and for all the laughs and chats in between! @unihh

We had a wonderful PUG 2024!

Happy to share a podcast with Martin from OCD Land! We discuss the research from our lab on error sensitivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder and how brain activity during error processing can help us understand the development of OCD.

www.ocdland.com/podcast/30

Im Rahmen der Psychologie und Gehirn Tagung 2024 in Hamburg schreiben die bioDGPs sowie die DGPA drei Förderpreise für Wissenschaftskommunikation aus.

Einreichungen könnt ihr bis zum 31. März 2024 per E-Mail an juliane.nagel@zi-mannheim.de senden.

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🚨BREAKING 🚨 Abstract submission for the 2024 Psychology and Brain (PuG) conference is open (registration is expected to open next week) via pug2024.de. Deadline for symposia/panel discussions: 29.2, poster: 31.3. See you in Hamburg!

Wie hier in Hamburg demonstrieren deutschlandweit Menschen gegen Rechtsextremismus und die AFD. Wir sind mehr!

It is widely hoped that statistical models can improve decision-making related to medical treatments. Because of the cost and scarcity of medical outcomes data, this hope is typically based on investigators observing a model’s success in one or two datasets or clinical contexts. We scrutinized this optimism by examining how well a machine learning model performed across several independent clinical trials of antipsychotic medication for schizophrenia. Models predicted patient outcomes with high accuracy within the trial in which the model was developed but performed no better than chance when applied out-of-sample. Pooling data across trials to predict outcomes in the trial left out did not improve predictions. These results suggest that models predicting treatment outcomes in schizophrenia are highly context-dependent and may have limited generalizability.

Illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - very important work showing poor generalizability of prediction models for schizophrenia

New paper out— registered report replicating our 2013 study on neural error signals' construct validity across tasks. Happy to contribute to this project led by Peter Clayson, Michal Larson and colleagues.

doi.org/10.1111/psyp...

Open post-doc position in neuroimaging, pharmacology and dynamic learning!
@christianbuchel.bsky.social & myself seek candidates for a 3-4 year post-doc that is available in early 2024.

sites.google.com/view/systems...

Feel free to contact me for more infos

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Hello bluesky. We are happy to join this community. Our lab's research combines clinical approaches with neuroscientific and psychophysiological methods to investigate the mechanisms that lead to or are associated with OCD and anxiety disorders.