Ulrike Ehlert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 303396 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ulrike Ehlert |
| PRENOMES | Ulrike |
| SOBRENOME | Ehlert |
| ASSINATURA | EHLERT U |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1982-8321 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Problematic pornography use as an externalizing depression symptom in cisgender men
Psychological factors affecting breastfeeding during the perinatal period in the UK
This study extends previous findings about the importance of intention to breastfeed to breastfeeding behaviour and suggests that suffering from affective symptoms does not inhibit breastfeeding. Antenatal intention to breastfeed can play a crucial role in shaping both maternal and child health outcomes
Effects of diagnosing major depressive disorders in men on externalizing depression symptoms and conformity to traditional masculinity ideologies
Positive body perception and its link to sexual satisfaction in aging women - findings from the Women 40+ Healthy Aging Study
Research on the relation between physical appearance and sexual satisfaction in aging women is scarce. This study uniquely links attractiveness, body perception, and sexual satisfaction in 124 healthy aging women. Two-thirds reported being highly sexually satisfied. BMI and fat mass correlated significantly with sexual satisfaction. Weight and shape concerns moderated this relationship, affecting sexual satisfaction beyond the effect of body size…
Evaluation of a male-specific psychotherapeutic program for major depressive disorder compared to cognitive behavioral therapy and waitlist
ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier NCT05435222
The Effect of Intranasal Oxytocin on the Association Between Couple Interaction and Sleep
OBJECTIVE: Although most people in romantic relationships cosleep, biosocial modulators of sleep quality have only recently come into focus. Oxytocin (OT) might be one such modulator, as it had been shown to increase social attachment and safety. We investigated the association between everyday life couple interaction and sleep quality, as well as the effects of OT on this association. METHODS: Eighty heterosexual couples ( N = 160 individuals, m…
Resilience and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in the Swiss Alpine Rescue Association
The findings suggest that resilience and sense of coherence are indicative for the low prevalence of possible PTSD among mountain rescuers, and may therefore represent valuable screening and training parameters for mountain rescue personnel
Association between psychotherapy use, sexual orientation, and traditional masculinity among psychologically distressed men
Status loss due to Covid-19, traditional masculinity, and their association with recent suicide attempts and suicidal ideation
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing extensive job loss leading to a loss of social status in many men. Endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology may render some men particularly sensitive to status loss and thereby to an increased risk for suicidality. In this anonymous online survey conducted in German-speaking European countries, 490 men completed questionnaires regarding loss of social status due to the COVID-19 pandemic, past-month and lif…
Altered Experienced Thermoregulation in Depression—No Evidence for an Effect of Early Life Stress
Objectives: Accumulating evidence suggests that individuals with depression are characterised by difficulties in thermoregulatory cooling. The aim of this study was to investigate, for the first time, whether depressed individuals are aware of these alterations, what their physical consequences are and whether they may be rooted in early life stress. Methods: A total of N = 672 medically healthy individuals from the general population were recrui…
Age-Related Alterations in Endocrine Markers Do Not Match Changes in Psychosocial Measures
While life expectancy continues to increase, aging can bring several distinct endocrine and psychosocial changes. The study aimed to investigate the interplay between biopsychosocial factors of healthy aging in specifically healthy aging men. Ninety-seven healthy aging men were investigated at two time points spanning 4 years. Participants completed questionnaires measuring several psychosocial dimensions and gave saliva samples for hormone quant…
Different Forms of Biological Fatherhood and their Association with Symptoms of Psychopathology
While the effects of maternal psychopathology on children are well researched, few studies have addressed paternal psychopathology. We provide estimates of self-reported symptoms of psychopathology across different forms of biological fatherhood, and investigate the association between paternal psychopathology and children's mental health. In an online survey, N = 2,590 biological fathers living in stable or blended families as well as single or …
DNA Methylation in Healthy Older Adults With a History of Childhood Adversity—Findings From the Women 40+ Healthy Aging Study
Background: Adversity in early development seems to increase the risk of stress-related somatic disorders later in life. Physiologically, functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axes is often discussed as long-term mediators of risk. In particular, DNA methylation in the glucocorticoid receptor gene promoter ( NR3C1 ) has been associated with type and strength of early life adversity and subsequent eff…
Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine
The Role of Norepinephrine and α-Adrenergic Receptors in Acute Stress-Induced Changes in Granulocytes and Monocytes
OBJECTIVE: Acute stress induces redistribution of circulating leucocytes in humans. Although effects on lymphocytes as adaptive immune cells are well understood, the mechanisms underlying stress effects on granulocytes and monocytes as innate immune blood cells are still elusive. We investigated whether the stress hormone norepinephrine (NE) and α-adrenergic receptors (α-ADRs) may play a mediating role. METHODS: In a stress study, we cross-sectio…
Emotional eating is related with temperament but not with stress biomarkers in preschool children
Emotional eating (EE) corresponds to a change in eating behavior in response to distress and results in an increase of food intake (overeating (EOE)) or in food avoidance (undereating (EUE)). EE has been related to temperament (i.e. negative emotionality) and dysregulated stress biomarkers in school-aged children; parenting has been understood to influence this relationship in older children. The aim of the study was to investigate to which exten…
Gynecological Health
The Acute Autonomic Stress Response and Amniotic Fluid Glucocorticoids in Second-Trimester Pregnant Women
OBJECTIVE: The maternal autonomic nervous system (ANS) has received little attention in the investigation of biological mechanisms linking prenatal stress to fetal cortisol (F) excess. In vitro, norepinephrine and epinephrine inhibit placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2), which protects the fetus from F overexposure by inactivating it to cortisone (E). Here, we investigated the acute ANS stress response to an amniocentesis …
An In Vitro Method to Investigate the Microbicidal Potential of Human Macrophages for Use in Psychosomatic Research
OBJECTIVE: Psychological states relate to changes in circulating immune cells, but associations with immune cells in peripheral tissues such as macrophages have hardly been investigated. Here, we aimed to implement and validate a method for measuring the microbicidal potential of ex vivo isolated human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDMs) as an indicator of macrophage activation. METHODS: The method was implemented and validated for two blood sam…
Acute psychosocial stress
Altered Psychobiological Responsiveness in Women With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
OBJECTIVE: Although stress has been considered an important pathophysiological factor in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), there is incomplete understanding of its physiological mechanisms. The current study was designed to compare diurnal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in IBS patients and controls and their psychobiological response to a psychosocial stressor. METHODS: Basal and stimulated HPA axis activity was assessed in 57 w…
Psychobiological Effects of Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure in 10-Year-Old-Children
Background: Prenatal stress seems to have long-lasting effects on biological and psychological processes of the offspring. However, to date, there have been no studies investigating the effects of prenatal glucocorticoid exposure on psychological, endocrine, and autonomic responses to a standardized psychosocial stress test in children. Methods: A sample of 115 healthy, ten-year-old children was examined. The Glucocorticoids+Tocolytics group was …
Response
published
Independent Association Between Lower Level of Social Support and Higher Coagulation Activity Before and After Acute Psychosocial Stress
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between social support and coagulation parameter reactivity to mental stress in men and to determine if norepinephrine is involved. Lower social support is associated with higher basal coagulation activity and greater norepinephrine stress reactivity, which in turn, is linked with hypercoagulability. However, it is not known if low social support interacts with stress to further increase coagulation reac…
Coagulation Activity Before and After Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases With Age
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether stress further increases hypercoagulation in older individuals. We investigated whether acute stress-induced changes in coagulation parameters differ with age. It is known that hypercoagulation occurs in response to acute stress and that a shift in hemostasis toward a hypercoagulability state occurs with age. However, it is not yet known whether acute stress further increases hypercoagulation in older individuals, and…
Allostatic load and work conditions
Emotional eating is related with temperament but not with stress biomarkers in preschool children
Emotional eating (EE) corresponds to a change in eating behavior in response to distress and results in an increase of food intake (overeating (EOE)) or in food avoidance (undereating (EUE)). EE has been related to temperament (i.e. negative emotionality) and dysregulated stress biomarkers in school-aged children; parenting has been understood to influence this relationship in older children. The aim of the study was to investigate to which exten…
Association between psychotherapy use, sexual orientation, and traditional masculinity among psychologically distressed men
Status loss due to Covid-19, traditional masculinity, and their association with recent suicide attempts and suicidal ideation
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing extensive job loss leading to a loss of social status in many men. Endorsement of traditional masculinity ideology may render some men particularly sensitive to status loss and thereby to an increased risk for suicidality. In this anonymous online survey conducted in German-speaking European countries, 490 men completed questionnaires regarding loss of social status due to the COVID-19 pandemic, past-month and lif…
Abuse-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Alterations of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain
OBJECTIVE: Although numerous organic conditions may cause chronic pelvic pain (CPP), diagnostic laparoscopy reveals a normal pelvis in many patients with CPP. However, psychological studies yield a high frequency of psychopathology and increased prevalences of chronic stress and traumatic life events, ie, sexual and physical abuse, in women with CPP, suggesting a relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and CPP. As chronic stress…
The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders
Low-Dose Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Health
OBJECTIVE: Subtle dysregulations of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in chronic fatigue syndrome have been described. The aim of this study was to examine the negative feedback regulations of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in chronic fatigue syndrome. METHODS: In 21 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and 21 healthy control subjects, awakening and circadian salivary free cortisol profiles were assessed over 2 consecutive days a…
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Reactivity in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Health Under Psychological, Physiological, and Pharmacological Stimulation
Objectives Subtle alterations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have been proposed as a shared pathway linking numerous etiological and perpetuating processes with symptoms and observed physiological abnormalities. Because the HPA axis is involved in the adaptive responses to stress and CFS patients experience a worsening of symptoms after physical and psychological stress, we tested HPA axis funct…
Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress
Reduced Glucocorticoid Sensitivity of Monocyte Interleukin-6 Production in Male Industrial Employees who are Vitally Exhausted
OBJECTIVE: Proinflammatory changes are thought to link vital exhaustion with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Monocytes play a central role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic lesions and are a major source of circulating cytokines. We hypothesized that vital exhaustion may alter the regulation of monocyte activity, as measured by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated and glucocorticoid inhibited release of the proinflammatory cytokine interleuk…
Allostatic load and work conditions
Sensation Seeking, Music Preference, and Psychophysiological Reactivity to Music
The personality construct “sensation seeking” (SS), as defined by Zuckerman, can be used as an explanation for behavioural phenomena that are widespread but little understood, such as the preference for arousing music styles. Embedded in a psychobiological theory of personality, SS is closely related to a number of biological variables. We hypothesized that participants with high levels of SS would prefer aggressive and arousing music to peaceful…
Basal and Stimulated Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activity in Patients With Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Healthy Controls
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate alterations of pituitary-adrenal activity under both stimulated and unstimulated conditions in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders. Methods: Thirty subjects who fulfilled the Rome Diagnostic Criteria for either irritable bowel syndrome or nonulcer dyspepsia and 24 healthy controls took part in the study. Free salivary morning cortisol and diurnal cortisol profiles were obtained f…
Are Stress-Induced Cortisol Changes During Pregnancy Associated With Postpartum Depressive Symptoms
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between psychobiological stress reactivity during healthy pregnancy and depressive symptoms in the early puerperium. Methods: A sample of healthy nulliparous pregnant women (N = 57) between the ages of 21 and 35 years underwent a standardized psychosocial stress test during pregnancy. Within an average of 13 days after delivery, postpartum depressive symptoms were assessed using …
Anticipatory Cognitive Stress Appraisal and the Acute Procoagulant Stress Response in Men
OBJECTIVE: Acute mental stress elicits blood hypercoagulability. Following a transactional stress model, we investigated whether individuals who anticipate stress as more threatening, challenging, and as exceeding their coping skills show greater stress reactivity of the coagulation activation marker D-dimer, indicating fibrin generation in plasma. METHODS: Forty-seven men (mean age 44 +/- 14 years; mean blood pressure [MBP] 101 +/- 12 mm Hg; mea…
Effects of different kinds of couple interaction on cortisol and heart rate responses to stress in women
Perfectionism and the Cortisol Response to Psychosocial Stress in Men
OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that perfectionism is an important moderator of the neuroendocrine stress response, with higher perfectionism predicting increased neuroendocrine activation. METHODS: A total of 50 middle-aged men underwent an acute standardized psychosocial stress task (Trier Social Stress Test). Perfectionism, cognitive appraisal of the stressful situation, trait anxiety, and various personality characteristics were assessed wi…
Coagulation Activity Before and After Acute Psychosocial Stress Increases With Age
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether stress further increases hypercoagulation in older individuals. We investigated whether acute stress-induced changes in coagulation parameters differ with age. It is known that hypercoagulation occurs in response to acute stress and that a shift in hemostasis toward a hypercoagulability state occurs with age. However, it is not yet known whether acute stress further increases hypercoagulation in older individuals, and…
Response
published
Independent Association Between Lower Level of Social Support and Higher Coagulation Activity Before and After Acute Psychosocial Stress
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between social support and coagulation parameter reactivity to mental stress in men and to determine if norepinephrine is involved. Lower social support is associated with higher basal coagulation activity and greater norepinephrine stress reactivity, which in turn, is linked with hypercoagulability. However, it is not known if low social support interacts with stress to further increase coagulation reac…
Acute psychosocial stress
Altered Psychobiological Responsiveness in Women With Irritable Bowel Syndrome
OBJECTIVE: Although stress has been considered an important pathophysiological factor in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), there is incomplete understanding of its physiological mechanisms. The current study was designed to compare diurnal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in IBS patients and controls and their psychobiological response to a psychosocial stressor. METHODS: Basal and stimulated HPA axis activity was assessed in 57 w…
Psychobiological Effects of Prenatal Glucocorticoid Exposure in 10-Year-Old-Children
Background: Prenatal stress seems to have long-lasting effects on biological and psychological processes of the offspring. However, to date, there have been no studies investigating the effects of prenatal glucocorticoid exposure on psychological, endocrine, and autonomic responses to a standardized psychosocial stress test in children. Methods: A sample of 115 healthy, ten-year-old children was examined. The Glucocorticoids+Tocolytics group was …
An In Vitro Method to Investigate the Microbicidal Potential of Human Macrophages for Use in Psychosomatic Research
OBJECTIVE: Psychological states relate to changes in circulating immune cells, but associations with immune cells in peripheral tissues such as macrophages have hardly been investigated. Here, we aimed to implement and validate a method for measuring the microbicidal potential of ex vivo isolated human monocyte-derived macrophages (HMDMs) as an indicator of macrophage activation. METHODS: The method was implemented and validated for two blood sam…
Gynecological Health
The Acute Autonomic Stress Response and Amniotic Fluid Glucocorticoids in Second-Trimester Pregnant Women
OBJECTIVE: The maternal autonomic nervous system (ANS) has received little attention in the investigation of biological mechanisms linking prenatal stress to fetal cortisol (F) excess. In vitro, norepinephrine and epinephrine inhibit placental 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11β-HSD2), which protects the fetus from F overexposure by inactivating it to cortisone (E). Here, we investigated the acute ANS stress response to an amniocentesis …
Principles and Concepts of Behavioral Medicine
The Role of Norepinephrine and α-Adrenergic Receptors in Acute Stress-Induced Changes in Granulocytes and Monocytes
OBJECTIVE: Acute stress induces redistribution of circulating leucocytes in humans. Although effects on lymphocytes as adaptive immune cells are well understood, the mechanisms underlying stress effects on granulocytes and monocytes as innate immune blood cells are still elusive. We investigated whether the stress hormone norepinephrine (NE) and α-adrenergic receptors (α-ADRs) may play a mediating role. METHODS: In a stress study, we cross-sectio…
Emotional eating is related with temperament but not with stress biomarkers in preschool children
Emotional eating (EE) corresponds to a change in eating behavior in response to distress and results in an increase of food intake (overeating (EOE)) or in food avoidance (undereating (EUE)). EE has been related to temperament (i.e. negative emotionality) and dysregulated stress biomarkers in school-aged children; parenting has been understood to influence this relationship in older children. The aim of the study was to investigate to which exten…
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