Almut Zeeck

Biographic Data

ID7957170
NAMEAlmut Zeeck
GIVEN NAMESAlmut
FAMILY NAMEZeeck
SIGNATUREZEECK A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity Medical Center Freiburg
ORCID0000-0002-8593-1175
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Mentalizing in psychotherapeutic processes of patients with eating disorders

    Open AccessAlmut Zeeck, Inga Lau et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2024

    Results suggest that in-session mentalizing can be stimulated by MBT-typical interventions. RF seems to be more impaired when disorder-specific issues are addressed. Further studies have to show if improving a patient ́s ability to mentalize their own symptoms is related to better outcomes

  • Typical disease courses of patients with unipolar depressive disorder after in-patient treatments–results of a cluster analysis of the INDDEP project

    Open AccessTheresa Martinek, Marc N Jarczok et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2023

    The disease courses of many patients diagnosed with a unipolar depression do not match with the historically developed categories such as relapse, remission, and recovery. Given this context, the introduction of disease course trajectories seems helpful. These findings may promote the implementation of new therapy options, adapted to the disease courses

  • In-Session-Reflective-Functioning in Anorexia Nervosa: An Analysis of Psychotherapeutic Sessions of the Antop Study

    Open AccessAlmut Zeeck, Svenja Taubner et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Patients with AN show a low capacity to mentalize in sessions, which seems to be at least partly dependent on the degree of starvation. The results suggest a possible relationship between an increase in in-session RF and outcome, which has to be replicated by further studies

  • A Neglected Topic in Neuroscience: Replicability of fMRI Results With Specific Reference to Anorexia Nervosa

    Open AccessIsabelle Horster, Kathrin Nickel et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies report impaired functional correlates of cognition and emotion in mental disorders. The validity of preexisting studies needs to be confirmed through replication studies, which there is a lack of. So far, most replication studies have been conducted on non-patients (NP) and primarily investigated cognitive and motor tasks. To fill this gap, we conducted the first fMRI replication study to inves…

  • Self-Criticism and Personality Functioning Predict Patterns of Symptom Change in Major Depressive Disorder

    Open AccessAlmut Zeeck, Jörn von Wietersheim et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Aim of the study was to identify patient variables that predict specific patterns of symptom course during and after hospital treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). In a sample of 518 patients, four pairs of clinically relevant patterns of symptom change were contrasted. The time points of measurement were admission, discharge, 3 and 12 month after discharge. CATREG was used to identify the best sets of predictors from 28 variables. A gre…

  • Follow-Up Treatment After Inpatient Therapy of Patients With Unipolar Depression—Compliance With the Guidelines

    Open AccessLukas Weiß, Almut Zeeck et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    Objective: Until now, there is only a limited number of studies on the implementation of guidelines. Consequently, it was the objective of this study to determine how many patients with a major depression after hospital treatment were treated in compliance with the German treatment guideline and whether a deviation from the guideline resulted in a less favorable development. Methods: 502 patients were included; data was collected at admission and…

  • Association of Leptin Gene DNA Methylation With Diagnosis and Treatment Outcome of Anorexia Nervosa

    Open AccessAlexandra Neyazi, Vanessa Buchholz et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Epigenetic alterations are increasingly implicated in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa (AN) but are as yet poorly understood. We investigated possible associations between the leptin gene ( LEP ) and the leptin receptor gene ( LEPR ) DNA promoter methylation and (1) a diagnosis of AN and (2) outcome after a 10 months psychotherapeutic outpatient treatment. 129 ( LEPR : n = 135) patients with AN were investigated during the large scale psyc…

  • White Matter Abnormalities in the Corpus Callosum in Acute and Recovered Anorexia Nervosa Patients—A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Open AccessKathrin Nickel, Ludger Tebartz van Elst et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Objective: Severe malnutrition in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) as well as possible trait-related aberrations lead to pronounced structural brain changes whose reversibility after recovery is currently unclear. Previous diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies investigating white matter (WM) microstructure alterations in AN are inconsistent. Methods: In this so far largest DTI study in adults, we investigated 33 AN patients, 20 recovered (REC…

  • Electrocortical Processing of Food and Emotional Pictures in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

    Jens Blechert, Bernd Feige et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2011

    Objective: To compare the electrocortical processing of food pictures in participants with anorexia nervosa (n = 21), bulimia nervosa (n = 22), and healthy controls (HCs) (n = 32) by measuring the early posterior negativity, an event-related potential that reflects stimulus salience and selective attention. Methods: We exposed these three groups to a rapid stream of high- and low-calorie food pictures, as well as standard emotional and neutral pi…