Kuhn
Biographic Data
| ID | 170576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuhn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuhn |
| SIGNATURE | KUHN |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6823-7969 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The differential role of socioeconomic status dimensions in depressive symptoms of aging adults
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has consistently been associated with depressive symptoms, however, it remains unclear which subset of SES variables is most relevant to the development of depressive symptoms. This study determined a standardized SES-Index to test the relationship of its sub-dimensions with depressive symptoms. Methods HCHS data ( N = 10,000; analysis sample n = 8,400), comprising participants 45+ years of age, was used. A s…
Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile
The tendency of falsely remembering events that did not happen in the past increases with age.This is particularly evident in cases in which features presented at study are re-presented at test in a recombined constellation (termed rearranged pairs).Interestingly, older adults also express high confidence in such false memories, a tendency that may indicate reduced metacognitive efficiency.Within an existing cohort study, we aimed at investigatin…
Low-Level Visual Features of Window Views Contribute to Perceived Naturalness and Mental Health Outcomes
Previous studies have shown that natural window views are beneficial for mental health, but it is still unclear which specific features constitute a 'natural' window view. On the other hand, studies on image analysis found that low-level visual features (LLVFs) are associated with perceived naturalness, but mainly conducted experiments with brief stimulus presentations. In this study, research on the effects of window views on mental health was c…
Infant Care
We identified associations of infant, maternal and environmental characteristics with outdoor time spent during infancy. These results lay the foundation for future research on the effects of the outdoors on child development as well as on facilitators and barriers for caregivers
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research
Green Is Not the Same as Green
There is accumulating evidence for positive effects of green spaces on mental and brain health. Here we investigated whether differentiating the types of green spaces may be relevant. On longitudinal data of children ( N = 95) from the Netherlands, we quantified the link between green space exposure at home from birth onwards and MRI brain structure at 12.5 years. We differentiated between green space resulting from trees versus open green spaces…
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
No phenotypic or genotypic evidence for a link between sleep duration and brain atrophy
Short sleep is held to cause poorer brain health, but is short sleep associated with higher rates of brain structural decline? Analysing 8,153 longitudinal MRIs from 3,893 healthy adults, we found no evidence for an association between sleep duration and brain atrophy. In contrast, cross-sectional analyses (51,295 observations) showed inverse U-shaped relationships, where a duration of 6.5 (95% confidence interval, (5.7, 7.3)) hours was associate…
Do I look like I'm sure
Personality-Related Factors and Depressive Symptomatology Predict Behavioral Control in Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders
In the face of increasing social, economic, and health consequences of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and limited effects of available treatment options, the search for novel prevention and management methods continues to remain a timely and valid endeavor. This, however, requires a better grasp of the theoretical framework underlying addiction mechanisms. With the goal to extend the existing body of evidence on AUDs, we set out to investigate the …
Associations between a Subjective Living Environment and Quality of Life among People with Arterial Hypertension—Results from the Hamburg City Health Study
Hypertension is a global public health concern and an important contributor to cardiovascular disease. It remains disputed how important life circumstances are for the etiology of hypertension. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the spatial variation of hypertension within an urban population and to investigate the association with the quality of life of city dwellers and their subjective evaluation of their residential district, as well as…
Urban green is more than the absence of city
The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and Urban Green) within a 1 km radius around the h…
The Living Space
There has been a recent interest in how architecture affects mental health and psychological well-being, motivated by the fact that we spend the majority of our waking time inside and interacting with built environments. Some studies have investigated the psychological responses to indoor design parameters; for instance, contours, and proposed that curved interiors, when compared to angular ones, were aesthetically preferred and induced higher po…
Comparison of different response devices to assess behavioral tendencies towards chocolate in the approach-avoidance task
Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults
Psychological and neural correlates of embitterment in old age
The precuneus and uncinate fasciculus are brain regions that have been related to episodic memory retrieval, matching well to the symptoms of intrusive thoughts and an overwhelming preoccupation with the event that caused the PTED. Further longitudinal research is needed to unravel whether these structural correlates represent preconditions or rather the consequence of embitterment. (PsycINFO Database Record
Explicit and implicit approach vs. avoidance tendencies towards high vs. low calorie food cues in patients with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls
Muslims Love Jesus, Too? Corrective Information Alters Prejudices Against Islam
"Just Another Tool for Online Studies” (Jatos)
We present here "Just Another Tool for Online Studies" (JATOS): an open source, cross-platform web application with a graphical user interface (GUI) that greatly simplifies setting up and communicating with a web server to host online studies that are written in JavaScript. JATOS is easy to install in all three major platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), and seamlessly pairs with a database for secure data storage. It can be install…
Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings
Journal Article Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings: A Critical Commentary Get access Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Christiane Sybille Schmidt * 1Centre of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research of Hamburg University (CIAR), University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany *Correspondence to Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychot…
Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice
The subjective feeling of free choice is an important feature of human experience. Experimental tasks have typically studied free choice by contrasting free and instructed selection of response alternatives. These tasks have been criticised, and it remains unclear how they relate to the subjective feeling of freely choosing. We replicated previous findings of the fMRI correlates of free choice, defined objectively. We introduced a novel task in w…
Reducing self-control by weakening belief in free will
Minimizing motor mimicry by myself
Retrospective construction of the judgement of free choice
The problem of free will lies at the heart of modern scientific studies of consciousness. Some authors propose that actions are unconsciously initiated and awareness of intention is referred retrospectively to the action after it has been performed [e.g. Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Wegner, D. M. (2005). On the inference of personal authorship: Enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information. Consciousness & Cognition, 14, 439-458]. This …
Early Man
Explicit and implicit approach vs. avoidance tendencies towards high vs. low calorie food cues in patients with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls
Muslims Love Jesus, Too? Corrective Information Alters Prejudices Against Islam
Comparison of different response devices to assess behavioral tendencies towards chocolate in the approach-avoidance task
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
No phenotypic or genotypic evidence for a link between sleep duration and brain atrophy
Short sleep is held to cause poorer brain health, but is short sleep associated with higher rates of brain structural decline? Analysing 8,153 longitudinal MRIs from 3,893 healthy adults, we found no evidence for an association between sleep duration and brain atrophy. In contrast, cross-sectional analyses (51,295 observations) showed inverse U-shaped relationships, where a duration of 6.5 (95% confidence interval, (5.7, 7.3)) hours was associate…
Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults
Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings
Journal Article Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings: A Critical Commentary Get access Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Christiane Sybille Schmidt * 1Centre of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research of Hamburg University (CIAR), University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany *Correspondence to Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychot…
Early Man
Early Man
Retrospective construction of the judgement of free choice
The problem of free will lies at the heart of modern scientific studies of consciousness. Some authors propose that actions are unconsciously initiated and awareness of intention is referred retrospectively to the action after it has been performed [e.g. Aarts, H., Custers, R., & Wegner, D. M. (2005). On the inference of personal authorship: Enhancing experienced agency by priming effect information. Consciousness & Cognition, 14, 439-458]. This …
Minimizing motor mimicry by myself
Reducing self-control by weakening belief in free will
Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice
The subjective feeling of free choice is an important feature of human experience. Experimental tasks have typically studied free choice by contrasting free and instructed selection of response alternatives. These tasks have been criticised, and it remains unclear how they relate to the subjective feeling of freely choosing. We replicated previous findings of the fMRI correlates of free choice, defined objectively. We introduced a novel task in w…
"Just Another Tool for Online Studies” (Jatos)
We present here "Just Another Tool for Online Studies" (JATOS): an open source, cross-platform web application with a graphical user interface (GUI) that greatly simplifies setting up and communicating with a web server to host online studies that are written in JavaScript. JATOS is easy to install in all three major platforms (Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux), and seamlessly pairs with a database for secure data storage. It can be install…
Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings
Journal Article Brief Alcohol Interventions in Social Service and Criminal Justice Settings: A Critical Commentary Get access Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Christiane Sybille Schmidt * 1Centre of Interdisciplinary Addiction Research of Hamburg University (CIAR), University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany *Correspondence to Christiane Sybille Schmidt, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychot…
Explicit and implicit approach vs. avoidance tendencies towards high vs. low calorie food cues in patients with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls
Muslims Love Jesus, Too? Corrective Information Alters Prejudices Against Islam
Psychological and neural correlates of embitterment in old age
The precuneus and uncinate fasciculus are brain regions that have been related to episodic memory retrieval, matching well to the symptoms of intrusive thoughts and an overwhelming preoccupation with the event that caused the PTED. Further longitudinal research is needed to unravel whether these structural correlates represent preconditions or rather the consequence of embitterment. (PsycINFO Database Record
Rostral locus coeruleus integrity is associated with better memory performance in older adults
Urban green is more than the absence of city
The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and Urban Green) within a 1 km radius around the h…
The Living Space
There has been a recent interest in how architecture affects mental health and psychological well-being, motivated by the fact that we spend the majority of our waking time inside and interacting with built environments. Some studies have investigated the psychological responses to indoor design parameters; for instance, contours, and proposed that curved interiors, when compared to angular ones, were aesthetically preferred and induced higher po…
Comparison of different response devices to assess behavioral tendencies towards chocolate in the approach-avoidance task
Do I look like I'm sure
Personality-Related Factors and Depressive Symptomatology Predict Behavioral Control in Patients With Alcohol Use Disorders
In the face of increasing social, economic, and health consequences of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and limited effects of available treatment options, the search for novel prevention and management methods continues to remain a timely and valid endeavor. This, however, requires a better grasp of the theoretical framework underlying addiction mechanisms. With the goal to extend the existing body of evidence on AUDs, we set out to investigate the …
Associations between a Subjective Living Environment and Quality of Life among People with Arterial Hypertension—Results from the Hamburg City Health Study
Hypertension is a global public health concern and an important contributor to cardiovascular disease. It remains disputed how important life circumstances are for the etiology of hypertension. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the spatial variation of hypertension within an urban population and to investigate the association with the quality of life of city dwellers and their subjective evaluation of their residential district, as well as…
Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research
Green Is Not the Same as Green
There is accumulating evidence for positive effects of green spaces on mental and brain health. Here we investigated whether differentiating the types of green spaces may be relevant. On longitudinal data of children ( N = 95) from the Netherlands, we quantified the link between green space exposure at home from birth onwards and MRI brain structure at 12.5 years. We differentiated between green space resulting from trees versus open green spaces…
Imaginal retraining reduces craving for high-calorie food
No phenotypic or genotypic evidence for a link between sleep duration and brain atrophy
Short sleep is held to cause poorer brain health, but is short sleep associated with higher rates of brain structural decline? Analysing 8,153 longitudinal MRIs from 3,893 healthy adults, we found no evidence for an association between sleep duration and brain atrophy. In contrast, cross-sectional analyses (51,295 observations) showed inverse U-shaped relationships, where a duration of 6.5 (95% confidence interval, (5.7, 7.3)) hours was associate…
The differential role of socioeconomic status dimensions in depressive symptoms of aging adults
Background Socioeconomic status (SES) has consistently been associated with depressive symptoms, however, it remains unclear which subset of SES variables is most relevant to the development of depressive symptoms. This study determined a standardized SES-Index to test the relationship of its sub-dimensions with depressive symptoms. Methods HCHS data ( N = 10,000; analysis sample n = 8,400), comprising participants 45+ years of age, was used. A s…
Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile
The tendency of falsely remembering events that did not happen in the past increases with age.This is particularly evident in cases in which features presented at study are re-presented at test in a recombined constellation (termed rearranged pairs).Interestingly, older adults also express high confidence in such false memories, a tendency that may indicate reduced metacognitive efficiency.Within an existing cohort study, we aimed at investigatin…
Low-Level Visual Features of Window Views Contribute to Perceived Naturalness and Mental Health Outcomes
Previous studies have shown that natural window views are beneficial for mental health, but it is still unclear which specific features constitute a 'natural' window view. On the other hand, studies on image analysis found that low-level visual features (LLVFs) are associated with perceived naturalness, but mainly conducted experiments with brief stimulus presentations. In this study, research on the effects of window views on mental health was c…
Infant Care
We identified associations of infant, maternal and environmental characteristics with outdoor time spent during infancy. These results lay the foundation for future research on the effects of the outdoors on child development as well as on facilitators and barriers for caregivers
Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Neuroscience (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)