Publications

Publication list of Prof. Dr. Rudolf Stark

I. Articles in Professional Journals

1. Vaitl, D., Stark, R. & Gruppe, H. (1992). Biofeedback: a methodology for changing cardiorespiratory coupling. Journal of Ambulatory Monitoring, 5, 175-186.

2. Hamm, A.O. & Stark, R. (1993). Sensitization and aversive conditioning: effects on the startle reflex and electrodermal responding. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science, 28, 171-176.

3. Schienle, A., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (1996). Covariation bias and paranormal belief. Psychological Reports, 78, 291-295.

4. Schienle, A., Stark, R., Kulzer, R., Klöpper, R. & Vaitl, D. (1996). Atmospheric electromagnetism: Individual differences in brain electrical response to simulated sferics. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 21, 177-188.

5. Vaitl, D., Gruppe, H., Stark, R. & Pössel, P. (1996). Simulated micro-gravity and cortical inhibition: a study of the hemodynamic-brain interaction. Biological Psychology, 42, 87-103.

6. Schienle, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., Vaitl, D. & Kulzer, R. (1997). Effects of low-frequency magnetic fields on electrocortical activity in humans: a sferics simulation study. International Journal of Neuroscience, 90, 21-36.

7. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Klöpper, R. & Vaitl, D. (1998). Effects of magnetic stimulation through VLF-Sferics on reaction time. Perception and Motor Skills, 86, 808-810.

8. Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1998). Biological effects of very low frequency (VLF) atmospherics: A review. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 12, 455-469.

9. Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1999). EEG-Veränderungen durch Sferics. Fortschritte der Medizin, 117, 41-42.

10. Stark, R., Hamm, A., Schienle, A., Walter, B. & Vaitl, D. (1999) Effects of fear induction on heart period variability. Journal of Psychophysiology, 13, 18-26.

11. Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1999). Electrocortical responses of headache patients to the stimulation of 10 kHz sferics. International Journal of Neuroscience, 97, 211-224.

12. Houtkooper, J.M., Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1999). Geophysical variables and behavior: Atmospheric electromagnetism: the possible disturbing influence of natural sferics on ESP. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 89, 1179-1192.

13. Houtkooper, J.M., Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1999). Atmospheric electromagnetism: an attempt at replicating the correlation between natural sferics and ESP. The Journal of Parapsychology, 63, 206-207.

14. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Walter, B. & Vaitl, D. (2000). Effects of paced respiration on heart period and heart period variability. Psychophysiology, 37, 302-309.

15. Klöpper, R., Stark, R., Schienle, A. & Vaitl, D. (2001). Perceptibility of simulated VLF-sferics. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 92, 1109-1121.

16. Vaitl, D., Propson, N., Stark, R. & Schienle, A. (2001). Natural very low frequency (VLF) sferics and headache. International Journal of Biometerology, 45, 115-123.

17. Vaitl, D., Propson, N., Stark, R. & Schienle, A. (2001). Headache and sferics. Headache, 41, 845-853.

18. Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2001). Evaluative conditioning: a possible explanation for the acquisition of disgust responses? Learning and Motivation, 32, 63-85.

19. Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2001). Sferics provoke changes in EEG power. International Journal of Neuroscience, 107, 87-102.

20. Houtkooper, J.M., Schienle, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2001). Atmosheric elektromagnetism: attempted replication of the correlation between natural sferics and ESP. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 93, 754-756.

21. Vaitl, D., Mittelstaedt, H., Saborovski, R., Stark, R. & Baisch, F. (2002). Shifts in blood volume alter the perception of posture: Further evidence of somatic graviception. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 44, 1-11.

22. Saborowski, R., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2002). Perception of posture and cerebral blood flow. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 43, 167-175

23. Schienle, A., Walter, B., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2002). Ein Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Ekelempfindlichkeit (FEE). Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 31, 110-120.

24. Vaitl, D., Lipp, O., Bauer, U., Schüler, G., Stark, R., Zimmermann, M. & Kirsch, P. (2002). Latent inhibition and schizophrenia: Pavlovian conditioning of autonomic responses. Schizophrenia Research, 55, 147-158

25. Schienle, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., Blecker, C., Ott, U., Kirsch, P., Sammer, G. & Vaitl, D. (2002). The insula is not specifically involved in disgust processing: an fMRI study. NeuroReport, 13, 2023-2026.

26. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Kirsch, P., Sammer, G., Ott, U., Blecker, C. & Vaitl, D. (2003). Hemodynamic responses to fear- and disgust-inducing pictures. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 50, 225-234.

27. Schienle, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., & Vaitl, D. (2003). The connection between disgust sensitivity and blood-related fears, faintness symptoms, and obsessive-compulsiveness in a non-clinical sample. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 16, 185-193.

28. Schienle, A., Walter, B., Schäfer, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2003). Ekelempfindlichkeit: ein Vulnerabilitätsfaktor für essgestörtes Verhalten. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 32, 295-302.

29. Kirsch, P., Schienle, A., Stark, R., Sammer, G., Blecker, C., Walter, B., Ott, U., Burkart, J. & Vaitl, D. (2003). Anticipation of reward in a non-aversive differential conditioning paradigm and the brain reward system: an event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 20, 1086-1095.

30. Schienle, A., Schaefer, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., Kirsch, P. & Vaitl, D. (2003). Disgust processing in phobia of blood-injection-injury: An fMRI study. Journal of Psychophysiology, 17, 87-93.

31. Schienle, A., Walter, B., Schäfer, A., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2003). Disgust sensitivity in psychiatric disorders: a questionnaire study. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191, 831-834.

32. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Kirsch, P., Blecker, C., Ott, U., Schäfer, A., Sammer, G., Zimmermann, M. & Vaitl, D. (2004). The hemodynamic effects of negative emotional pictures - a test-retest analysis. Neuropsychobiology, 50, 108-118.

33. Schienle, A., Walter, B., Schäfer, A., Stark, R., Kirsch, P., & Vaitl, D. (2004). Disgust and disgust sensitivity in bulimia nervosa: an fMRI study. European Eating Disorders Review, 12, 42-50.

34. Reuter, M., Stark, R., Hennig, J., Walter, B., Kirsch, P., Schienle, A. & Vaitl, D. (2004). Personality and emotion: Test of Gray's personality theory by means of an fMRI study. Behavioral Neuroscience, 118, 462-469.

35. Leweke, F., Stark, R., Milch, W., Kurth, R., Schienle, A., Kirsch, P., Stingl, M., Reimer, C., & Vaitl, D. (2004). Neuronale Aktivitätsmuster auf affektinduktive Reize bei Alexithymie. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, Medizinische Psychologie, 54, 437-444.

36. Beutel, M. E., Dietrich, S., Stark, R., Brendel, G., & Silberzweig, D. (2004). Pursuit of the emerging dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience: Clinical and research perspectives. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85, 1493-1496.

37. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Walter, B. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Psychophysiological correlates of disgust and disgust sensitivity. Journal of Psychophysiology, 19, 50-60.

38. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Girod, C., Walter, B., Kirsch, P., Blecker, C., Ott, U., Schäfer, A., Sammer, G., Zimmermann, M. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Erotic and disgust-inducing pictures - Differences in the hemodynamic responses of the brain. Biological Psychology, 70, 19-29.

39. Zentgraf, K., Stark, R., Reiser, M., Kuenzell, S., Schienle, A., Kirsch, P., Walter, B., Vaitl, D. & Munzert, J. (2005). Differential Activation of pre-SMA and SMA proper during action observation: Effects of Instructions. NeuroImage, 26, 662-672.

40. Walter, B., Sadlo, M. N., Kupfer, J., Niemeier, V., Brosig, B., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., & Gieler, U. (2005). Itch and Brain - Brain activation by itch sensation induced by histamine prick test. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 125, 380-382.

41. Junghöfer, M., Schupp, H., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Neuroimaging of emotion: empirical effects of proportional global signal scaling in fMRI data analysis. NeuroImage, 25, 520-526.

42. Sammer, G., Blecker, C., Gebhardt, H., Kirsch, P., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Acquisition of typical EEG waveforms during fMRI: SSVEP, LRP and frontal Theta. NeuroImage, 24, 1012-1024.

43. Vaitl, D., Schiele, A., & Stark, R. (2005) Neurobiology of fear and disgust. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 57, 1-4.

44. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R., & Vaitl, D. (2005). Elevated disgust sensitivity in blood phobia. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 1229-1241.

45. Stark, R., Schienle, A., Sarlo, M., Palomba, D., Walter, B. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Influences of disgust sensitivity on hemodynamic responses towards a disgust-inducing film clip. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 57, 61-67.

46. Tabbert, K., Stark, R., Kirsch, P. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Hemodynamic responses of the amygdala, the orbitofrontal cortex and the visual cortex during a fear conditioning paradigm. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 57, 15-23.

47. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Stark, R., Walter, B., & Vaitl, D. (2005). Neural responses of OCD patients towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust-inducing and fear-inducing pictures. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 57, 69-77.

48. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Relationship between disgust sensitivity, trait anxiety and brain activity during disgust induction. Neuropsychobiology, 51, 86-92.

49. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Stark, R., Walter, B. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Gender differences in the processing of disgusting and fear-inducing pictures: an fMRI study. Neuroreport, 16, 277-280.

50. Zimmermann, M., Stark, R., Hach, G., Adams, T., Walter, B., Rauber, K., & Vaitl, D. (2005). Angst während Computertomographie- und Magnetresonanztomographie-Untersuchungen. Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie, 14, 101-109.

51. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2005). Brain activation of spider phobics towards disorder-relevant, generally disgust- and fear-inducing pictures. Neuroscience Letters, 388, 1-6.

52. Zimmermann, M., Stark, R., Kern, G., Laiacker, M., Kirsch, P. & Vaitl, D. (2006). Positive and negative spatial priming in schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 706-720.

53. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Hermann, A., Walter, B., Stark, R., & Vaitl, D. (2006). fMRI responses to pictures of mutilation and contamination. Neuroscience Letters, 393, 174-178.

54. Windmann, S., Kirsch, P., Mier, D., Stark, R., Walter, B., Güntürkün, O., & Vaitl, D. (2006). On framing effects in decision-making: Linking lateral versus medial OFC activation to choice outcome processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1198-1211.

55. Stark, R., Wolf, O.T., Tabbert, K., Kagerer, S., Zimmermann, M., Kirsch, P., Schienle, A., & Vaitl, D. (2006). Influence of the stress hormone cortisol on fear conditioning in humans: evidence for sex differences in the response of the prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 32, 1290-1298.

56. Tabbert, K., Stark, R., Kirsch, P., & Vaitl, D. (2006). Dissociation of neural responses and skin conductance reactions during fear conditioning with and without awareness of stimulus contingencies. NeuroImage, 32, 761-770.

57. Kirsch, P., Reuter, M., Mier, D., Lonsdorf, T., Stark, R., Gallhofer, B., Vaitl, D., & Hennig, J. (2006). Imaging gene-substance interactions: The effect of the DRD2 TaqIA polymorphism and the dopamine agonist bromocriptine on brain activation during the anticipation of reward. Neuroscience Letters, 405, 196-201.

58. Sammer, G., Blecker, C., Gebhardt, H., Bischoff, M., Stark, R., Morgen, K., & Vaitl, D. (2007). The relationship between regional hemodynamic activity and simultaneously recorded EEG-theta associated with mental arithmetic-induced workload. Human Brain Mapping, 28, 793-803.

59. Hermann, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., & Schienle, A. (2007). Diminished medial prefrontal cortex activity in blood-injection-injury phobia. Biological Psychology, 75, 124-130.

60. Hölzel, B. K., Ott, U., Hempel, H., Hackl, A., Wolf, K., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2007). Differential engagement of anterior cingulate and adjacent medial frontal cortex in adept mediators and non-mediators. Neuroscience Letters, 421, 16-21.

61. Stark, R., Zimmermann, M., Kagerer, S., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Weygandt, M. & Vaitl, D. (2007). Hemodynamic brain correlates of disgust and fear ratings. NeuroImage, 37, 663-673.

62. Ambach, W., Stark, R., Peper, M. & Vaitl, D. (2008). An interfering Go/No-go task does not affect accuracy in a Concealed Information Test. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 68, 6-16.

63. Munzert, J., Zentgraf, K., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2008). Neural Activation in Cognitive Motor Processes: Comparing Motor Imagery and Observation of Gymnastic Movements. Experimental Brain Research, 188, 437-444.

64. Ambach, W., Stark, R., Peper, M. & Vaitl, D. (2008). Separating deceptive and orienting components in a concealed information test. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 70, 95-104.

65. Alpers, G. W., Gerdes, A. B. M., Lagari, B., Tabbert, K., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2009). Attention and amygdala activity: an fMRI study with spider pictures in spider phobia. Journal of Neural Transmission, 116, 747-757.

66. Klucken, T., Kagerer, S., Schweckendiek, J., Tabbert, K., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2009). Neural, electrodermal and behavioral response patterns in contingency aware and unaware subjects during a picture-picture conditioning paradigm. Neuroscience, 158, 721-731.

67. Lorey, B., Bischoff, M., Pilgramm, S., Stark, R., Munzert, J. & Zentgraf, K. (2009). The embodied nature of motor imagery: the influence of posture and perspective. Experimental Brain Research, 194, 233-243

68. Klucken, T., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C. J., Kagerer, S., Vaitl, D., & Stark, R. (2009). Contingency learning in human fear conditioning involves the ventral striatum. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3636-3644.

69. Hermann, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., & Schienle, A. (2009). Emotion regulation in spider phobia: role of the medial prefrontal cortex. Social Cognition and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 257-267.

70. Pilgramm, S., Lorey, B., Stark, R., Munzert, J., & Zentgraf, K. (2009). The role of own-body representations in action observation: an fMRI study. Neuroreport, 20, 997-1001.

71. Schienle, A., Schäfer, A., Stark, R., & Vaitl, D. (2009). Long-term effects of cognitive behavior therapy on brain activation in spider phobia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 172, 99-102.

72. Zentgraf, K.*, Lorey, B.*, Bischoff, M., Stark, R., & Munzert, J. (2009). Neural Correlates of Attentional Focusing during Finger Movements: An fMRI study. Journal of Motor Behavior, 41, 535-541.

73. Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C.J., Tabbert, K., Walter, B., Kagerer, S., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2009). Neural activations of the acquisition of conditioned sexual arousal: effects of contingency awareness and sex. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 6, 3071-3085.

74. Merz, C.J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R., & Wolf, O.T. (2010). Investigation the impact of sex and cortisol on implicit fear conditioning with fMRI. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35, 33-46.

75. Lorey, B., Pilgramm, S., Walter, B., Stark, R., Munzert, J., & Zentgraf, K. (2010). Your’s mind hand: Motor imagery of pointing movements with different accuracy. NeuroImage, 49, 3239-3247.

76. Kagerer, S. & Stark, R. (2010): Emotions in neuroscience. Mind & Matter, 7, 177-202.

77. Ambach, W., Bursch, S., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2010). A Concealed Information Test with multimodal measurement. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 75, 258-267.

78. Stippekohl, B., Winkler, M., Mucha, R.F., Pauli, P., Walter, B., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2010). Neural responses to BEGIN- and END-stimuli of the smoking-ritual in non-smokers, non-deprived smokers, and deprived smokers. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, 1209-1225.

79. Beutel, M.E, Stark, R., Pan, H., Silbersweig, D. & Dietrichs, S. (2010). Changes in brain activation pre-post short-term psychodynamic inpatient psychotherapy: An fMRI study of panic disorder patients. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 184, 96-104.

80. Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Merz, C.J., Tabert, K., Walter, B., Ambach, W., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2011). Weaving the (neural) web: fear learning in spider phobia. NeuroImage, 54, 681-688.

81. Pilgramm, S., Lorey, B., Stark, R., Munzert, J., Vaitl, D. & Zentgraf, K. (2010). Differential acitivation of the lateral premotor cortex during action observation. BMC Neuroscience, 11, 89.

82. Tabbert, K., Merz, C.J., Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J, Vaitl, D., Wolf, O.T. & Stark, R. (2010). Cortisol enhances neural differentiation during fear acquisition and extinction in contingency aware young women. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 94, 392-401.

83. Tabbert, K, Merz, C.J., Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Vaitl, D., Wolf, O. & Stark, R. (2011). Influence of continency awareness on neural, electrodermal, and evaluative responses during fear conditioning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 495-506.

84. Bausch, S., Stingl, M., Hartmann, L.C., Leibing, E., Leichsenring, F., Kruse, J., Stark, R. & Leweke, F. (2011). Alexithymia and script-driven emotional imagery in healthy female subjects: no support for deficiencies in imagination. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 52, 179-184.

85. Winkler, M., Weyers, P., Mucha, R., Stippekohl, B., Stark, R. & Pauli, P. (2011). Conditioned cues for smoking elicit preparatory responses in healthy smokers. Psychopharmacology, 213, 781-789.

86. Fiehler, K., Bannert, M.M., Bischoff, M., Blecker, C., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., Franz, V.H., Rösler, F. (2011). Working memory maintenance of grasp-target Information in the human posterior parietal Cortex. NeuroImage, 54, 2401-2411.

87. Stark, R., Bauer, E., Merz, C.J., Zimmermann, M., Reuter, M., Plichta, M.M., Kirsch, P., Lesch, K.P., Fallgatter, A.J., Vaitl, D. & Hermann, M.J. (2011). ADHD related behaviors are associated with brain activation in the reward system. Neuropsychologia, 49, 426-434.

88. Schwabe, L., Merz, C.J., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Wolf, O.T. & Stark, R. (2011). Emotional modulation of attentional blink: The neutral structures involved in capturing and holding attention. Neuropsychologia, 49, 416-425.

89. Ambach, W., Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (2011). An interfering n-back task facilitates the detection of concealed information with EDA but impedes it with cardiopulmonary physiology. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, 217-226.

90. Lorey, B., Pilgramm, S., Bischoff, M., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., Kindermann, S., Munzert, J., Zentgraf, K. (2011). Activation of the parieto-premotor network is associated with vivid motor imagery - a parametric fMRI study. PLoS ONE, 6,  e20368.

91. Wehrum, S., Degé, F., Ott, U., Walter, B., Stippekohl, B., Kagerer, S., Schwarzer, G., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. (2011). Can you hear a difference? Neuronal correlates of melodic deviance processing in children. Brain Research, 1402, 80-92.

92. Kagerer, S., Klucken, T., Wehrum, S., Zimmermann, M., Schienle, A., Walter, B., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2011). Neural activation towards erotic stimuli in homosexual and heterosexual males. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 3132–3143.

93. Degé, F., Wehrum, S., Stark, R. & Schwarzer, G. (2011). The influence of two years of school music training in secondary school on visual and auditory memory. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 608-623.

94. Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. & Wolf, T.W. (2011). Neural correlates of extinction learning are modulated by sex hormones. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, online, doi: 10.1093/scan/nsr063.

95. Klucken, T., Schweckendiek, J., Koppe, G., Merz, C.J., Kagerer, S., Walter, B, Sammer, G., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. (2012). Neural correlates of disgust and fear conditioned responses. Neuroscience, 201, 209-218

96. Rutter, B., Kröger, S., Stark, R., Schweckendiek, J., Windmann, S., Hermann, C. & Abraham, A. (2012). Can clouds dance? Neural correlates of passive conceptual expansion using a metaphor processing task: Implications for creative cognition. Brain and Cognition, 78, 114-122.

97. Pejic, T., Hermann, A., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (2011). Social anxiety modulates amygdala activation during social conditioning. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, online, doi:10.1093/scan/nsr095.

98. Kröger, S., Rutter, B., Stark, R., Windmann, S., Hermann, C. & Abraham, A. (2012). Using a shoe as a plant pot: Neural correlates of passive conceptual expansion. Brain Research, 1430, 52-61.

99. Weigandt, M., Blecker, B., Schäfer, A., Hackmack, K., Haynes, J.-D., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. & Schienle, A. (2012). fMRI pattern recognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder. NeuroImage, 60, 1186-1193.

100. Klucken, T., Alexander, N., Schweckendiek, J. , Merz, C.J., Kagerer, S., Osinsky, R., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Hennig, J. & Stark, R. (accepted). Individual differences in neural correlates of fear conditioning as a function of 5-HTTLPR and stressful life events. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

101. Alexander, N., Klucken, T., Koppe, G., Osinsky, R., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Sammer, G., Stark, R. & Hennig, J. (2012). Interaction of 5-HTTLPR and environmental adversity: increased amygdala-hypothalamus connectivity as a potential mechanism linking neural and endocrine hyper-reactivity. Biological Psychiatry, 72, 49-56.

102. Stippekohl, B., Walter, B., Winkler, M., Mucha, R., Pauli, P., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (accepted).  An early attentional bias to BEGIN-stimuli of the smoking ritual is accompanied with mesocorticolimbic deactivations in smokers. Psychopharmacology.

103. Klucken, T., Wehrum, S., Schweckendiek, J., Merz, C.J., Hennig, J., Vaitl, D. & Stark, R. (accepted). The 5-HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with altered haemodynamic responses during appetitive conditioning. Human Brain Mapping.

104. Abraham, A., Pieritz, K., Thybusch, K., Rutter, B., Kroeger, S., Schweckendiek, J., Stark, R., Windmann, S. & Hermann, C. (2012). Creativity and the brain: Uncovering the neural signature of conceptual expansion. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1906-1917.

105. Bischoff, M., Zentgraf, K., Pilgramm, S., Lorey, B., Balser, N., Baumgartner, E., Hohmann, T., Stark, R., Vaitl, D. & Munzert, J. (2012). Brain activation when watching kinematic displays of one's own movements. Neuropsychologia, 50, 2085-2092.

106. Beutel, M.E., Stark, R., Pan, H., Silberzweig, D.A. & Dietrich, S. (2012). Langzeitergebnisse einer funktionellen Magnetresonanztomographie-Studie. Psychotherapeut, 57, 227-233.

107. Abraham, A., Kaufmann, C., Redlich, R., Hermann, A., Stark, R., Stevens, S. & Hermann, C. (in press). Self-referential and anxiety-relevant information processing in subclinical social anxiety: An fMRI study. Brain Imaging & Behavior.

108. Lorey, B., Kaletsch, M., Pilgramm, S., Bischoff, M., Kindermann, S., Sauerbier, I., Stark, R., Zentgraf, K. & Munzert, J. (2012). Confidence in Emotion Perception in Point-Light Displays Varies With the Ability to Perceive Own Emotions. PLoS ONE, 7, e42169.

109. Hermann, A., Küpper, Y., Schmitz, A., Walter, B., Vaitl, D., Hennig, J., Stark, R. & Tabbert, K. (2012). Functional gene polymorphisms in the serotonin system and traumatic life events modulate in the neural basis of fear acquisition and extinction. PLoS ONE, 7, e44352

110. Schienle, A., Scharmüller, W., Leutgeb, V., Schäfer, A. & Stark, R. (2012). Sex differences in the functional and structural neuroanatomy of dental phobia. Brain Structure and Function. DOI 10.1007/s00429-012-0428-z

111. Merz, C. J., Tabbert, K., Schweckendiek, J., Klucken, T., Vaitl, D., Stark, R. & Wolf, O.T. (accepted). Oral contraceptive usage alters the effects of cortisol on implicit fear learning. Hormones and Behavior.

112. Lorey, B., Naumann, T., Pilgramm, S., Petermann, C., Bischoff, M., Zentgraf, K., Stark, R., Vaitl, D. & Munzert, J. (accepted). How equivalent are action execution, imagery, and observation of intransitive movements? Revisiting the concept of somatotopy during action simulation. Brain and Cognition.

 

II. Book Contributions/ Monographs

1. Stark, R. & Vaitl, D. (1991). Spectral analysis as an assessment of the neural control of the heart: a methodological comparison. In H. Haken & H. P. Koepchen (Eds.): Rhythms in physiological systems (pp. 127-138). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

2. Stark, R. (1994). Erfassung der Herzperiodenvariabilität - Spektralanalytische Verfahren im Vergleich. Dissertation. Gießen.

3. Vaitl, D., Schienle, A. & Stark, R. (2003). Emotionen in der Psychotherapie: Beiträge des Neuroimaging, In G. Schiepeck (Ed.): Neurobiologie der Psychotherapie (pp. 158-185). Stuttgart: Schattauer Verlag.

4. Stark, R. & Kagerer, K. (2007). Neuronale Grundlage positiver Emotionen. In R. Frank (Ed.): Therapieziel Wohlbefinden (pp. 263-272). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

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