Welcome to the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Since July 2018 Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and Medical Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy of the University of Regensburg at the Regensburg District Hospital (medbo).

2008-2018 Head of the Section "Disorders of Personality Development", Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital

2014-2018 Head of the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA)

2013-2014 Fellow of the Marsilius-Kolleg at the University of Heidelberg, Cluster of Excellence of the German Government

2005-2018 Supervising physician and deputy medical director, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital

2009 Professor (apl) of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg

2005 Habilitation (venia legendi), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Center for Psychosocial Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital

1998-2004 Supervising physician

1990-1998 Residencies at the Universities of Vienna, Göttingen and Heidelberg

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Prevention and treatment research in adolescents with self-injurious and suicidal behaviors, neurobiological correlates of stress-reactive disorders in children and adolescents (dissociative and conversion disorders, borderline personality disorder); imaging studies of brain maturation in childhood/adolescence and circumscribed clinical presentations (borderline personality disorder, schizophrenic disorders), cross-generational transmission factors of mental disorders.

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2009 - 2012 7th EU Framework Program: Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe (SEYLE): Promoting health through the prevention of risk-taking and self-destructive behaviors. Joint project of 11 European countries. Principal investigator for Germany: Brunner

2010 - 2013 7th EU Framework Program: Working in Europe to Stop Truancy Among Youth (WE-STAY). Joint project of 5 European countries. Principal investigator for Germany: Brunner

2012 - 2015 DFG, Clinical Research Group 256: Pathomechanisms of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder; co-principal investigator in central project: Brunner.

2013 - 2018 NHMRC Victoria, Australia: The role of the neuroendocrinological stress response system in the development of stress vulnerability among youth with first-presenting borderline personality disorders, Orygen Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne. Co-principal investigator: Brunner

2012 - 2016 BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Understanding and Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Abuse (UBICA): Understanding and Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Traumatization - Neurobiological Mechanisms and Psychotherapeutic Interventions in Mothers with Traumatic Life Experiences and their Children; Brunner (Coordinator).

2013 - 2017 Dietmar Hopp Foundation: Brain development during puberty - development of neural networks and social-emotional development in adolescence; principal investigator: Brunner.

2015 Minerva Foundation of the Max Planck Society: International Summer School "The intergenerational transmission of childhood adversity" (Minerva-Gentner Symposium) Brunner

2015 Excellence Initiative II of the Federal Government of Germany: Heidelberg University: Excellence Initiative II / Measure 7 / International. Visiting Scientist Prof. Catherine J. Harmer, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford, England; Brunner

2016 - 2019 Dietmar Hopp Foundation: Neurobiogenetic predictors of the development of self-injurious and risk behavior among adolescents. Co-principal investigator: Brunner

2018 - 2020 Dietmar Hopp Foundation: On the influence of physical activities in childhood on brain development and function: perspectives for a and function: Perspectives for a neurobiologically based health promotion health promotion; Head of study: Brunner

2017 - 2021 BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research: STAR - Self-injurious behavior: Mechanisms, Intervention, Cessation. TP4: Diagnostics, predictors of progression, Co-principal investigator: Brunner

2019 - 2023 BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Understanding and breaking the intergenerational cycle of abuse in families enrolled in routine mental health and welfare services (UBICA-II): Brunner (Co-Coordinator)

2020 - 2021 Follow-up of coronavirus infections in children in Bavaria for the detection and early treatment of Pediatric Multiorgan Immunosydrome (PMIS) (Follow CoKiBa), overall management: Univ. Prof. Dr. med. univ. M. Kabesch, KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig, KH Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg; subproject Neuropsychology: Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Dr. med. S. Kandsperger) Funding: Bavarian State Ministry of Science and Art 

2021 - 2023 Long-term effects of coronavirus infections in children and adolescents in Bavaria: Detection and early treatment of secondary diseases (Post Covid Kids Bavaria Study, PoCO), overall direction: Univ. Prof. Dr. med. univ. M. Kabesch, KUNO Klinik St. Hedwig, KH Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg; subproject Neuropsychiatry Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Dr. med. S. Kandsperger); Funding: Bavarian State Ministry for Health and Care 

2022 International Presidential Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Ass. Professor Jonathan Levy, Ph.D., Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC), Israel & Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, Neural correlates of empathy capacity. Funding: University of Regensburg

WS 22/23 Construction of a chatbot to assess depressiveness and suicidality in children and adolescents. (Dr. I. Jarvers, Dr. med. Kandsperger, Prof. R. Brunner, Prof. Ludwig, Chair of Information Science, A.Ecker, M.Sc); Internal research funding of the University of Regensburg: Funding program "UR Fellows".

2023 - 2026 Research Training Group 2174.2: "Neurobiology of Social and Emotional Dysfunction" (Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Inga. D. Neumann; Chair of Neurobiology and Animal Physiology, University of Regensburg) Subproject: Identification of adolescents at high versus low risk for anxiety and depressive disorders using neuroendocrine and imaging connectome markers (Prof. Dr. med. R. Brunner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. I. D. Neumann; Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
 

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2024

1. Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R. & Schleicher, D. (2024). Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C.
   Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106681.
   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106681
2. Hammann, N., Kaess, M., Rujescu, D., Brunner, R., Hartmann, A., & Reichl, C. (2024). Methylation of the Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) in Adolescents with a History of Childhood Adversity Engaging in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury. Psychopathology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1159/000531253
3. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Donabauer, P., Kampa, K., Weißenbacher, M., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ludwig, B. (2024). M.I.N.I.-KID interviews with adolescents: A corpus-based language analysis of adolescents with depressive disorders and the possibilities of continuation using Chat GPT. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1425820
4. Jarvers I., Kormann E., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Kandsperger, S. & Brunner, R. (2024). Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0310244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310244
5. Jarvers, I., Pfisterer, J., Döhnel, K., Blaas, L., Ullmann, M., Langguth, B., Rupprecht, R., & Sommer, M. (2024). Short Report: Specificity of the Short-Story Task for autism diagnosis when controlling for depression. Autism Research, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3191
6. Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Brandstetter, S., Kabesch, M., Köninger, A., Melter, M., Kerzel, S., Kittel, J., Apfelbacher, C., & Brunner, R. (2024). Longitudinal predictors for internalizing and externalizing symptomatology at age 4: KUNO-Kids cohort study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1449108
7. Kick, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2024). Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a metaanalysis. Front. Psychiatry, 15:1412229. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1412229
8. Krempel, R., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2024). Sleep quality and the cortisol and alpha-amylase awakening responses in adolescents with depressive disorders. BJPsych Open, 10(5), e140. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.730
9. Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ecker, A. (2024). Does it need an app?–Differences between app-guided breathing and natural relaxation in adolescents after acute stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107148

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2023

1. Gaertner, V. D., Malfertheiner, S. F., Postpischil, J., Brandstetter, S., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Apfelbacher, C., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., KUNO-Kids study group & Kerzel, S. (2023). Implementation of safe infant sleep recommendations during night-time sleep in the first year of life in a German birth cohort. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 875. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28008-1

2. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2023). Impact of preschool attendance, parental stress and parental mental health on internalizing and externalizing problems during COVID-19 lockdown measures in preschool children. PLoS One 8(2).
   doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281627

3. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., & Otto, A. (2023). The German COVID-19 Questionnaire for Anorexia Nervosa (COV-AN). 

4. Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Wirth, M., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: comparison of clinical characteristics of involuntary and voluntary admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02154-3

5. Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Josi, J., Koenig, J., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2023). Resting-state functional connectivity predicting clinical improvement following treatment in female adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of affective disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.01.117

6. Schleicher, D., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Non-suicidal self-injury and emotional burden among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional online survey. BJPsych Open, 9(1), E1. https://www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

7. Otto, A., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Reichl, C., Ando, A., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2023). Stress-induced alterations in resting-state functional connectivity among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 162-171. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.032

8. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Anorexia nervosa during COVID-19: loss of personal control and alexithymia as important contributors to symptomatology in adolescent girls. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11, 180. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00905-w

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2022

1. Brunner, R. (2022). Rezension: Adolescent Risk Behavior and Self-Regulation. A Cybernetic Perspective. Zeitschrift für Kinder - und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 50(6), 506-507. https://doi.org/10.1024/1422-4917/a000878

2. Brunner, R., & Resch, F. (2022). Diätverhalten und Körperbild im gesellschaftlichen Wandel. In Handbuch Essstörungen und Adipositas (pp. 9-15). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63544-5_2

3. Cavelti, M., Rinnewitz, L., Walter, M., van der Venne, P., Parzer, P., Josi, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., & Kaess, M. (2022). Psychobiological Correlates of Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychopathology, 55(1), 37-48.
   doi.org/10.1159/000520228

4. Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Schelhorn, I., Meyer, M., Borchert, T., Lüdtke, M., & Shiban, Y. (2022) Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901249

5. Frank, S. M., Otto, A., Volberg, G., Peter, U. T., Watanabe, T., & Greenlee, M. W. (2022). Transfer of tactile learning from trained to untrained body parts supported by cortical coactivation in primary somatosensory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.
   doi.org/doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0301-22.2022

6. Jarvers, I., Döhnel, K., Blaas, L., Ullmann, M., Langguth, B., Rupprecht, R., &  Sommer, M. (2022). "Why do they do it?": The short-story task for measuring fiction-based mentalizing in autistic and non-autistic individuals. Autism Research, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2871

7. Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ando, A., Resch, F., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2022) The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years. NeuroImage: Clinical, 103195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103195

8. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., & Jarvers, C. (2022, April 26). The Alexithymia Questionnaire for Children – German version (AQC-G).
   doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ra65t

9. Kaess, M., Schnyder, N., Michel, C., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Sarchiapone, N., Hoven, C. W., Wasserman, C., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Varnik, A., Resch, F., ... Wasserman, D. (2022) . Zwelve-month service use, suicidality and mental health problems of European adolescents after a school-based screening for current suicidality. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 31(2), 229-238.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01681-7

10. Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Keck, F., Bentheimer, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2022) Emotional reactivity in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury and its predctors: a longitudinal study. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

11. Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner R., & Jarvers, I. (2022). Treatment motivation and burden of stress among parents of adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury presenting to a child and adolescent psychiatric emergency service. Psychopathology, 1-14.
    doi.org/10.1159/000526611

12. Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological acompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: study protocol. BJPsych Open, 8(2), e57. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29

13. Lustig, S., Kaess, M., Schnyder, N., Michel, C., Brunner, R., Tubiana, A., Kahn, J., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cozman, D., Cotter, P., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, T., ... & Wasserman, D. (2022). The impact of school-based screening on service use in adolescents at risk for mental health problems and risk-behaviour. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-01990-z

14. Mayer, J., Brandstetter, S., Tischer, C., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Malfertheiner, S. F., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2022). Utilisation of supplementary prenatal screening and diagnostics in Germany; cross-sectional study using data from the KUNO Kids Health Study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 22(1), 1-11.
    doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04692-1

15. Meier, S. A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Zimmermann, P. (2022). Persönlichkeitsmodelle im Kontext der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie - Entwicklung, Veränderung, Stabilität und Forschungsperspektiven. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 71(1), 2-22.
    doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2022.71.1.2

16. Moehler, E., Brunner, R., & Sharp, C. (2022). Editorial Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 601.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.883753

17. Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Koenig, J., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2022). Altered Resting-State Networks in Adolescent Non-Suicidal Self-Injury - A Graph Therory Analysis. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, nsac007. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac007

18. Schär, S., Mürner-Lavanchy, I., Slavova, N., Lerch, S., Reichl, C., Brunner, R., Koenig, J., & Kaess, M. (2022). Pituitary volume in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: Preliminary evidence for alterations in pituitary maturation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 138, 105662.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105662

19. Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., Götz, L., Otto, A., Kandsperger, S., & Brunner, R. (2022). Psychosocial stress induction in vivo vs. in virtuo and the influence of a health app on the acute stress reaction in youths: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 23(1), 1-15.
    doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06758-z

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 2021

1. Ando, A., Parzer, P., Kaess, M., Schell, S., Henze, R., Delorme, S., Stieltjes, B., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Koenig, J. (2021). Calendar age and pubertyrelated development of regional gray matter volume and white matter tracts during adolescence. Brain Structure and Function, 226(3), 927-937.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00429-020-02208-1

2. Brandstetter, S:, Böhmer, M. M., Pawellek, M., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2021). Parents' intention to get vaccinated and to have their child vaccinated against COVID-19: cross-sectional analyses using data from the KUNO-Kids health study. European journal of pediatrics, 180(11), 3405-3410. doi.org/10.1007/s00431-021-04094-z

3. Brunner, R., Jägle, H., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). Dissociative Visual Loss in Children and Adolescents. Dissoziative Sehstörungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 238(10), 1084-1091.
   doi.org/10.1055/a-1617-3193

4. Brunner, R., Mikan, K., Niebler, M., & Kandsperger, S. (2021). International perspectives on non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). In D. Wasserman (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention (2nd ed., pp. 105-112). Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry.
   doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198834441.003.0015

5. Cavelti, M., Rinnewitz, L., Walter, M., van der Venne, P., Parzer, P., Josi, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., Kaess, M. (2022). Psychobiological Correlates of Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder. Psychopathology, 55(1), 37-48. doi.org/10.1159/000520228

6. Götz, L., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Mikan, K., Brunner, R., Kandsperger, S., (2021). The role of the endogenous oxytocin system under psychosocial stress conditions in adolescents suffering from anxiety disorder: study protocol for a parallel group controlled trial. BMC Psychology 9(1):61.
   doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00564-z.d

7. Jarvers, Irina (2021): Language, cognition and theory of mind: the emergence of mental state language and mental state understanding in the third year of life. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Psychologie und Pädagogik. doi.org/10.5282/edoc.28282

8. Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Kaemmerer, M., & Grüning, D. J. (2021). German Version of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire Adapted for Children. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/yd5kv. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yd5kv

9. Kaess, M., Klar, J., Kindler, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Barzilay, S., Bobes, J., Cozman, D., Gomboc, V., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., Meszaros, G., Musa, G. J., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P., Sisak, M., Varnik, P., Resch, F., Wasserman, D. (2021). Excessive and pathological Internet use - Risk behavior or psychopathology? Addictive behaviors, 123, 107045. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107045

10. Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Madurkay, J., Otto, A., Brunner, R., (2021). Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 913.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

11. Kandsperger, S., Jarver, I., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wirth, M., Brunner, R., (2021). Suicidality Presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Emergency Service: Increasing Rate and Changing Characteristics. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 1195.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

12. Kaltefleiter, L. J., Schuwerk, T., Wiesmann, C. G., Kristen‐Antonow, S., Jarvers, I., & Sodian, B. (2021). Evidence for goal‐and mixed evidence for false belief‐based action prediction in two‐to four‐year‐old children: A large‐scale longitudinal anticipatory looking replication study. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13224

13. Koenig, J., Abler, B., Agartz, I., Akerstedt, T., Andreassen, O. A., Anthony, M., Bär, K. J., Bertsch, K., Brown, R. C., Brunner, R., Varnevali, L., Vritchley, H. D., Cullen, K. R., de Geus, E. J. C., de la Cruz, F., Dziobek, I., Ferger, M. D., Fischer, H., Flor, H., Gaebler, M., Gianaros, P. J., Giummarra, M. J., Greening, S. G., Guendelman, S., Heathers, J. A. J., Herpertz, S. C., Hu, M. X., Jentschke, S., Kaess, M., Kaufmann, T., ... Quintana, D. S. (2021). Corticsl thickness and resting-state cardiac function across the lifespan: A cross-sectional pooled mega-analysis.Psychophysiology, 58(7). doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13688

14. Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accopanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: Study protocol. BJPsych Open, 8(2). https://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29

15. Neukel, C., Bermpohl, F., Kaess, M., Taubner, S:, Boedeker, K., Williams, K., Dempfle, A., & Herpertz, S.C. (2021). Unterstanding and breaking the intergenerational cycle of abuse in families enrolled in routine mental health services: study protocol for a randomized controlled trail and two non-interventional trials investigating mechanisms of change within the UBICA II consortium. Trials, 22(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05653-3

16. Pinker, V., Brandstetter, S., Tischer, C., Seelbach-Göbel, B., Melter, M., Kabesch, M., & Apfelbacher, C. (2021). Determinants of maternal health four weeks after delivery: cross-sectional findings from the KUNO-kids health study. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-18. doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11667-y

17. Rausch, J., Flach, E., Panizza, A., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C., Kaess, M., Bertsch, K. (2021). Associations between age and cortisol awakening response in patients with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Neural Transmission, 128(9), 1425-1432. doi.org/10.1007/s00702-021-02402-3

18. Schelhorn I., Ecker A., Lüdtke M. N., Rehm S., Tran T., Bereznai J. L., Meyer M. L., Sütterlin S., Kinateder M., Lugo R. G. and Shiban Y. (2021) Psychological Burden During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology. 12:640518. 
    https://doi.org/doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640518

19. Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Raine, A., & Brunner, R. (2021). The Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales – German version (CASES-G). Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/e9vdj. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/e9vdj

20. Schneider, I., Neukel, C., Bertsch, K., Fuchs, A., Möhler, E., Zietlow, A. L., Brunner, R., Wolf, R. C., Herpertz, S. C. (2021) Early life maltreatment affects intrinsic neural function in mothers. Journal of Psychiatric research, 142, 176-182.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.09.004

21. Sigrist, C., Reichl, C., Schmidt, S. J., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., & Koenig, J. (2021). Cardiac autonomic functioning and clinical outcome in adolescent borderline personality disorder over two years. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 111, 110336. doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110336

22. Thieme, D. T., Brunner, R., Kandsperger, S., Jägle, H. (2021). Colour Vision Disorder due to Conversion Disorders in Childhood. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, 238(10), 1077-1083. doi.org/10.1055/a-1645-1616

23. Wartberg, L., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Kriston, L., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Carli, C., Wasserman, D., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Kaess, M. (2021). Longitudinal predictors of problematic alcohol use in adolescence: A 2-year follow-up study. Addictive Behaviors,120, 106952. doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106952

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2020

1. Benatov, J., Klomek, A. B., Apter, A., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hoven, S. WW., Sarchiapone, M., Balazs, J., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran, P., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J., Keeley, H., Kereszteny, A., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Sisask, M., Varnik, A., & Wasserman, D. (2020). Doing nothing is sometimes worse: Comparing avoidant versus approach coping strategies with peer victimization and their association to depression and suicide ideation. Journal of school violence, 19(4), 456-469.
   doi.org/10.1080/15388220.2020.1738941

2. Edinger, A., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Resch, R., & Kaess, M. (2020). The impact of adverse childhood experiences on therapy outcome in adolescents engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11.
   doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.505661 ;

3. Kahn, J. P., Cohen, R. F., Tubiana, A., Legrand, K., Wasserman, ., Carli, V., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Baralla, F., Barzilai, S., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran, R., Cosman, D., Guillemin, F., Haring, C., Kaess, M., Bitenc, U. M., Mészaros, G., McMahon, E., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P., Varnik, A., Varnik, P., Sarchiapone,m., Hoven, Wasserman, D. (2020). Influence of coping strategies on the efficacy of YAM (Youth Aware of Mental Health): a universal school-based suicide preventive program. European child & adolescent psychiatry 29(12), 1-11.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01476-w

4. Kluczniok, D., Bertsch, K., Attar, C. H., Neukel, C., Fuchs, A., Jaite, C., Dittrich, K., Bödeker, K., Heinz, A., Winter, S., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C., Bermpohl, F. (2020). Early life maltreatment and depression_ mediating effect of maternal hair cortisol concentration on child abuse potential. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 120, 104791.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104791

5. Mürner-Lavanchy, I. M., Koenig, J., Ando, A., Henze, R., Schell, S., Resch, F., Brunner, R., Kaess, M. (2020). Neuropsychological development in adolescents: Longitudinal associations with white matter microstructure. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 45, 100812. doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100812

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2019

1. Baldofski, S., Kohls, E., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Bilic, S., Eschenbeck, H., Kaess, M., Moessner, M., Salize, H. J., Diestelkamp, S., Voß, E., & Rummel-Kluge, C. (2019). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of two online interventions for children and adolescents at risk for depression (E. motion trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3156-8

2. Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Snir, A., Carli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, m., Hadlaczky, G., Balazs, J., Kereszteny, A., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Baner, R., McMahon, E., Keeley, H., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Podlogar, T., Sisask, M., Varnik, A., Wasserman, D. (2019): A longitudinal examination of the interpersonal theory of suicide and effects of school-based suicide prevention interventions in a multinational study of adolescents. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 60(10), 1104-111.
   doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13119

3. Bauer, S., Bilic, S., Reetz, C., Ozer, F., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Kaess, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H., Diestelkamp, S., & Moessner, M. (2019). Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of Internet-based selective eating disorder prevention: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11. doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3161-y

4. Bödeker, K., Fuchs, A., Führer, D., Kluczniok, D., Dittrich, K., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, e., Neukel, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Lehmkuhl, U., WInter, S. M., Herpertz, S., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., Resch, F. (2019). Impact of Maternal Early Life Maltreatment and Maternal Hisotry of Depression on Child Psychopathology: Mediating Role of Maternal Sensitivity? Child Psychiatry & Human development, 50(2), 278-290.
   doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0839-z

5. Brunstein Klomek, A., Barzilay, S., Apter, A., Varli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Hadlaczky, G., Balazs, J., Kereszteny, AA., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Bobes, J., Saiz, P. A., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Banzer, R., McMahon, E., Keeley, H., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Podlogar, T., Sisadk, M., Varnik A., Wasserman, D. (2019). Bi-directional longitudinal associations between different types of bullying victimization, suicide ideation / attempts, and depression among a large sample of European adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 60(2), 209-215. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12951

6. Diestelkamp, S., Wartberg, L., Kaess, M., Bauer, S., Rummel-Kluge, C., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Salize, H., Moessner, M., Baldus, C., Arnaud, N., Thomasius, R., & ProHEAD consortium (2019). Effectiveness of a web-based screening and brief intervention with weekly text-message-initiated individualised prompts for reducing risky alcohol use among teenagers: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-14.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3160-z

7. Dittrich, K., Bermpohl, F., Kluczniok, D., Hindi Attar, C., Jaite, C., Fuchs, A., Neukel, C., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S. M., Roepke, S., Kaess, M. Heim, C., Boedeker, K. (2019): Alterations of empathy in mothers with a hisotry of early life maltreatment, depression and borderline personality disorder and their effects on child psychopathology. Psychological Medicine, 50(7), 1182-1190.
   doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719001107

8. Eschenbeck, H., Lehner, L., Hofmann, H., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Diestelkamp, S., Kaess, M., Moessner, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H. J., & ProHEAD Consortium (2019). School-based mental health promotion in children and adolescents with StresSOS using online or face-to-face interventions: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial within the ProHEAD consortium. Trials 20(1), 1-12.
   doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3159-5

9. Ghinea, D., Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Carli, V., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Wasserman, D., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Longitudinal development of risk-taking and self-injurious behavior in association with late adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms. Psychiatry Research 273, 127-133.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2019.01.010

10. Kaess, M., Edinger, A., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Parzer, R., Brunner, R., Resch, F. (2019). Effectiveness of a brief psychotherapeutic intervention compared with treatment as usual for adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury: a single-centre, randomised controlled trial. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 29(6), 881-891. doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01399-1

11. Kaess, M., eppelmann, L., Brunner, R., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Sarchiapone, M., Hoven, C. W., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Barzilay, S., Bobes, J., Cosman, D., Horvath, L. O., Kahn, J. P., Keeley, H., McMahon, E., Podlogar, T., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Tubiana, A.,Varnik, A., Wasserman, D. (2019). Life events predicting the first onset of adolescent direct self-injurious behavior - a prospective multicenter study. Journal of adolescent health, 66(2), 195-201.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.08.018

12. Kaess, M., Ritter, S., Lustig, S., Bauer, S., Becker, K., Eschenbeck, H., Moessner, M., Rummel-Kluge, C., Salize, H., Thomasius, R., Resch, F., Koenig, J., & ProHEAD consortium (2019). Promoting Help-seeking using E-technology for adolescents with mental health problems: study protocol for a randomized controlled trail within the ProHEAD Consortium. Trials, 20(1), 1-11.
    doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-3157-7

13. Kästner, D., Buchholz, I., Weigel, A., Brunner, R., Voderholzer, U., Gumz, A., & Löwe, B. (2019). Facilitators and barriers in anorexia nervosa treatment initiation (FABIANA): study protocol for a mixed-methods and multicentre study. BJPsych open, 5(6). doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2019.77

14. Klar, J., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Fischer-Waldschmidt, G., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Relationship between (pathological) Internet Use and Sleep Problems in a Longitudinal Study. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie 68(2), 146-159. doi.org/10.13109/prkk.2019.68.2.146

15. Neukel, C., Hillmann, K., Bertsch, K., Bermphl, G., Kluczniok, D., Möhler, E., Reck, V., Resch, F., Kaess, M., Brunner, R., Herpertz, S. C. (2019). Impact of early life maltreatment of women on the mother-child relationship: Data from mother-child dyads from Heidelberg and Berlin. Nervenarzt 90(3), 235-242.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-018-0662-6

16. Kristen-Antonow, S., Jarvers, I., & Sodian, B. (2019). Preschoolers’ Developing Understanding of Factivity in Mental Verb Comprehension and Its Relation to First-and Second-Order False Belief Understanding: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1-16.
    doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2019.1586710

17. Reichl, C., Brunner, R., Bender, N., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). Adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury and cortisol response to the retrieval of adversity: A sibling study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 110, 104460.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104460

18. Reichl, C., Kaess, M., Fuchs, A., Bertsch, K., Bödeker, K., Zietlow, A. L., Dittrich, K., Hartmann, A. M., Rujescu, D., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Bermpohl, F., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R. (2019). Childhood adversity and parenting behavior: the role of oxytocin receptor gene polymorphisms. Journal of Neural Transmission, 126(6), 777-787. doi.org/10.1007/s00702-019-02009-9

19. Rinnewitz, L., Parzer, P., Koenig, J., Bertsch, K., Brunner, R., Resch, F., Kaess, M. (2019). A Biobehavioral Validation of the Taylor Aggression Paradigm in Female Adolescents. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 7036. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43456-4

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2018

1. Ahern, S., Burke, J. A., McElroy, B., Corcoran, P., McMahon, R. M., Keeley, H., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hoven, C. W., Sarchiapone, M., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kaess, M., Kahn, J. P., Kereszteny, A., Postuvan, V., Saiz, P. A., Varnik, P., & Wasserman, D. (2018). A cost-effectiveness analysis of school-based suicide prevention prgrammes. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 27(10), 1295-1304.
   doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1120-5

2. Ando, A., Reichl, C., Scheu, F., Bykova, A., Parzer, P., Resch, F., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2018). Regional grey matter volume reduction in adolescents engaging in non-suicidal self-injury. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 280, 48-55.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.08.005 ;

3. Balasz, J., Miklósi, M., Kereszteny, A., Hoven, C. W., Carli, V., Wasserman, C., Hadlaczky, G., Apter, A., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Corcoran P., Cosman, D., Haring, C., Kahn, J. P., Postuvan, V., Kaess, M., Varnik, A., Sarchiapone, M., & Wasserman, D. (2018). Comorbidity of Physical and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescent: Functional Impairment, Self-Rated Health and Subjective Well-being. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(8), 1698.
   doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081698

4. Bödeker, K., Fuchs, A., Führer, D., Kluczniok, D., Dittrich, K., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, E., Neukel, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Lehmkuhl, U., Winter, S. M., Herpertz, S., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., & Resch, F. (2018). Impact of Maternal Early Life Maltreatment and Maternal History of Depression on Child Psychopathology: Mediating Role of Maternal Sensitivity? Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 50(2), 278-290.
   doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0839-z

5. Dittrich, K., Boedeker, K., Kluczniok, D., Jaite, C., Hindi Attar, C., Führer, D., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S. M., Heinz, A., Roepe, S., Heim, S., & Bermpohl, F. (2018). Child abuse potential in mothers with early life maltreatment, borderline personality disorder and depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 213(1), 412-418. doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.74

6. Dittrich, K., Fuchs, A., Bermpohl, F., Meyer, J., Führer, D., Reichl, C., Reck, C., Kluczniok, D., Kaess, M., Hindi Attar, C., Möhler, E., Bierbaum, A. L., Zietlow, A. L., Jaite, C., Winter, S. M., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Bödeker, K., & Resch, F. (2018). Effects of maternal history of depression and early life maltreatment on children's health-related quality of life. Journal of Affective Disorders, 225, 280-288.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.08.053

7. Fuchs, A., Jaite, C., Neukel, C., Dittrich, K., Bertsch, K., Kluczniok, D., Möhler, E., Attar, C. H., Brunner, R., Bödeker, K., Resch, F., Bermpohl, F., & Kaess, M. (2018). Link between children's hair cortisol and psychopathology or quality of life moderated by childhood adversity risk. Psychoneuroendocrinology 90, 52-60.
   doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.003

8. Gambadauro, P., Carli, V., Hadlaczky, G., Sarchiapone, M., Apter, A., Balazs, J., Banzer, R., Bobes, J., Brunner, R., Cosman, D., Farkas, L., Haring, C., Hoven, C. W., Kaess, M., Kahn, J. P., McMahon, E., Postuvan, V., Sisask, M., Värnik, A., Zadravec Sedivy, N., & Wasserman, D. (2018). Correlates of sexual initiation among European adolescents. PLoS One 13(2), e0191451. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191451

9. Klusczniok, D., Bödeker, K., Hindi Attar, C., Jaite, C., Bierbaum, A. L., Führer, D., Pätz, L., Dittrich, K., Herpertz, S. C., Brunner, R., Winter, S., Heinz, A., Roepke, S., Heim, C., & Bermpohl, F. (2018). Emotional availability in mothers with borderline personality disorder and mothers with remitted major depression is differently associated with psychopathology among school-aged children. Journal of Affective Disorders, 231, 63-73. doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.02.001

10. Koenig, J., Brunner, R., Parzer, P., Resch, F., & Kaess, M. (2018a). Tphysiological orienting response in female adolescents with borderline personality disorder. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 86, 287-293.
    doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.04.012

11. Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Reichl, C., Ando, A., Thayer, J. F., Brunner, R., & Kaess, M. (2018b). Cortical thickness, resting state heart rate, and heart rate variability in female adolescents. Psychophysiology, 55(5), e13043. doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13043

12. Krauch, M., Ueltzhöffer, K., Brunner, R., Kaess, M., Hensel, S., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K. (2018). Heightened Salience of Anger and Aggression in Female Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder - A Script-based fMRI Study. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 57. doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00057

13. Neukel, C., Bertsch, K., Fuchs, A., Zietlow, A. L., Reck, C., Möhler, E., Brunner, R., Bermpohl, F., & Herpertz, S. C. (2018). The maternal barin in women with a history of early-life maltreatment: an imagination-based fMRI study of conflictual versus pleasant interactions with children. Journal of Psychiatry and  Neuroscience, 43(4), 273-282. https://doi.org/10.1503/jpn.170026

14. Rinnewitz, L., Koenig, J., Parzer, P., Brunner, R., Resch, F., & Kaess, M. (2018): Childhood Adversity and Psychophysiological Reactivity to Pain in Adolescent Nonduicidal Self-Injury. Psychopathology 51(5), 346-352.
    doi.org/10.1159/000491702

15. Sommer, M., Döhnel, K., Jarvers, I., Blaas, L., Singer, M., Nöth, V., ... & Rupprecht, R. (2018). False belief reasoning in adults with and without autistic spectrum disorder: similarities and differences. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:183.
    doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00183

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