Publications

Schulz, C.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Folkens, L.; von Klitzing, K.; Deserno, L.; Vrticka, P.; White, L. O.: Subcortical brain structures among maltreated youth with high and low externalizing problems. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (2025)

Kungl, M. T.; Gabler, S.; White, L. O.; Spangler, G.; Vrticka, P.: Precursors and effects of self-reported parental reflective functioning: Links to parental attachment representations and behavioral sensitivity. Child Psychiatry & Human Development 56 (6), pp. 1598 - 1613 (2025)

Gallistl, M.; Handke, L.; Kungl, M.; Gabler, S.; Croy, I.; Vrticka, P.; Engert, V.: Securely stressed: Association between attachment and empathic stress in romantic couples. Scientific Reports 15 (1), 32420 (2025)

Gallistl, M.; Hamann, J. E.; Croy, I.; Vrticka, P.; Engert, V.: Support or stress? How attachment and relationship dynamics associate with acute psychosocial stress in the presence of the romantic partner. Social Science & Medicine 381, 118275 (2025)

Wesarg-Menzel, C.; Lashani, E.; Gallistl, M.; Engert, V.: Cumulative hardship: The role of perceived injustice in linking war-related trauma and discrimination with mental health. Journal of Neural Transmission 132 (9), pp. 1445 - 1456 (2025)

Wesarg-Menzel, C.; Gallistl, M.; Niconchuk, M.; Engert, V.: Adding to the burden: The tendency to resonate with others' stress is linked to higher PTSD symptom severity in individuals with war-related trauma. Translational Psychiatry 15 (1), 331 (2025)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Engert, V.: How mindfulness-based training improves stress-related health: A selective review of randomized clinical trials comparing psychological mechanisms of action. Frontiers in Endocrinology 16, 1415081 (2025)

Acil, D.; Puhlmann, L. M.; White, L. O.; Vrticka, P.: Caregiver or playmate? Fathers' and mothers' brain responses to ball-play with children. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 25 (2), pp. 434 - 453 (2025)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Vrticka, P.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Serum BDNF increase after 9-month contemplative mental training is associated with decreased cortisol secretion and increased dentate gyrus volume: Evidence from a randomized clinical trial. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 5 (2), 100414 (2025)

Marheinecke, R.; Strauss, B.; Engert, V.: Visible wounds of invisible repression: A perspective on the importance of investigating the biological and psychological impact of political repression. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 16 (8), pp. 1242 - 1251 (2024)

Nguyen, T.; Kungl, M. T.; Hoehl, S.; White, L. O.; Vrticka, P.: Visualizing the invisible tie: Linking parent–child neural synchrony to parents' and children's attachment representations. Developmental Science 27 (6), e13504 (2024)

Lashani, E.; Larsen, I. G.; Kanske, P.; Rosendahl, J.; Blasberg, J. U.; Engert, V.: Witnessing their mother's acute and prolonged stress affects executive functioning in children. Communications Psychology 2 (1), 98 (2024)

Gosch, S.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Lauckner, M.; Förster, K.; Kanske, P.; Grosse Wiesmann, C.; Preckel, K.: An fMRI study on alexithymia and affective state recognition in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 19 (1), nsae058 (2024)

Valk, S. L.; Engert, V.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Caldairou, B.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. eLife 12, RP87634 (2024)

Gallistl, M.; Kungl, M.; Gabler, S.; Kanske, P.; Vrticka, P.; Engert, V.: Attachment and inter-individual differences in empathy, compassion, and theory of mind abilities. Attachment & Human Development 26 (4), pp. 350 - 365 (2024)

Gallistl, M.; Linz, R.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Singer, T.; Engert, V.: Evidence for differential associations of distinct trait mindfulness facets with acute and chronic stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology 166, 107051 (2024)

Wesarg-Menzel, C.; Gallistl, M.; Niconchuk, M.; Engert, V.: Reflections on the study of empathy in a sample of refugees and migrants from arabic-speaking countries with diverse experiences of war-related trauma. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology 19, 100253 (2024)

Hettwer, M.; Dorfschmidt, L.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Jacob, L. M.; Paquola, C.; Bethlehem, R. A. I.; NSPN Consortium; Bullmore, E. T.; Eickhoff, S. B.; Valk, S. L.: Longitudinal variation in resilient psychosocial functioning is associated with ongoing cortical myelination and functional reorganization during adolescence. Nature Communications 15 (1), 6283 (2024)

Schaefer, J. K.; Engert, V.; Valk, S. L.; Singer, T.; Puhlmann, L. M.: Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 38, 100781 (2024)

Wesarg-Menzel , C.; Gallistl, M.; Niconchuk, M.; Böckler, A.; O'Malley, B.; Engert, V.: Compassion buffers the association between trauma exposure and PTSD symptom severity: Findings of a cross-sectional study. Psychoneuroendocrinology 165, 107036 (2024)