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Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Department Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Leopoldstr. 13
D-80802 Munich
Department Psychology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Leopoldstr. 13
D-80802 Munich
Phone:
+49 89 2180 5002
Fax:
+49 89 21805224
Email:
sekretariat-bertsch@lmu.de
Website:
http://www.psy.lmu.de/klin/
Further Information
Keywords: Personality disorders, Social Cognition, Oxytocin, fMRI, EEG, Eyetracking
Research Focus:
- Emotions and social interactions: anger and aggression, social anxiety, neurobiological underpinning of emotions
- Psychoneuroendocrinology: Effects of stress, sex and bonding hormones on social cognition and interaction
- InteroceptionPersonality traits and disorders: Borderline, antisocial and avoidant personality disorder
- Methods: experimental psychopathology, functional and structural imaging, psychophysiology, eyetracking, endocrinology
Publications:
- Bertsch, K., Gamer, M., Schmidt, B., Schmidinger, I., Walther, S., Kaestel, T., Schnell, K., Büchel, C., & Herpertz, S. C. (2013). Oxytocin reduces social threat hypersensitivity in females with borderline personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170, 1169– 1177.
- Bertsch, K., Roelofs, K., Roch, P. J., Ma, B., Hensel, S., Herpertz, S. C., & Volman, I. (2018). Neural correlates of emotional action control in anger-prone women with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, 43, 161-70.
- Herpertz, S. C. & Bertsch, K. (2015). A new perspective on the pathophysiology of borderline personality disorder: a model of the role of oxytocin. American Journal of Psychiatry, 172, 840–851.
- Herpertz, S. C., Nagy, K., Schmitt, R., Mancke, F., Schmahl, C., & Bertsch, K. (2017). Brain mechanisms underlying reactive aggression in borderline personality disorder – sex matters. Biological Psychiatry, 82, 257–266.
- Müller, L. E., Schulz, A., Andermann, M., Gäbel, A., Gescher, D. M., Spohn, A., Herpertz, S. C., & Bertsch, K. (2015). Cortical representation of afferent bodily signals in borderline personality disorder: Neural correlates and relationship to emotional dysregulation. JAMA Psychiatry, 72, 1077–1086.