Dr. Miriam Kampa

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10H
35394 Gießen
Raum 103 (BION)
Telefon: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26340
Telefax: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26309

Email: miriam.kampa 

Aktuelle Forschungsbereiche

• Furchtkonditionierung und Extinktion
• Appetitive Lernprozesse
• Resilienz und Stress
• Internetbezogene Verhaltenssüchte
• Replikation und open science
• fMRT 

Akademischer Werdegang

Lehre

Gutachtertätigkeit

• Addictive Behaviors Reports
• Journal of Neuroscience
• Journal of Behavioral Addictions
• Journal of Clinical Medicine
• Learning and Motivation
• Neuroimage
• Trials
• Mitarbeit in Ethik-Kommission

 Publikationen

2025

Kampa, M., Krikova, K., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (submitted). Persistent appetitive memory in pathological pornography users. Journal of Behavioral Addictions.

Müller, S. M., Antons, S., Schmid, A. M., Thomas, T. A., Kessling, A., Joshi, M., Krikova, K., Kampa, M., Mallon, L., Schmidt, L. D., Klein, L., Dominick, N., Büsche, K., Oelker, A., Brandtner, A., Montag, C., Wölfling, K., Wolf, O. T., Diers, M., … Brand, M. (2025). Self-Control Abilities in Specific Types of Problematic Usage of the Internet: Findings From Clinically Validated Samples With Neurocognitive Tasks. American Journal of Psychiatry, 182(7), 660–670. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240486

Krikova, K., Kampa, M., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (under review). Neural Correlates of Appetitive Learning and Extinction in Individuals with Risky Gaming Use and Gaming Disorder. Brain and Behavior.

2024

Kampa, M., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2024). The impact of extinction timing on pre-extinction arousal and subsequent return of fear. Learning & Memory, 31(4), a053902. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053902.123

Krikova, K., Klein, S., Kampa, M., Walter, B., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2024). Appetitive conditioning with pornographic stimuli elicits stronger activation in reward regions than monetary and gaming‐related stimuli. Human Brain Mapping, 45(8), e26711. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26711

2023

Kampa, M., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2023). The impact of past childhood adversity and recent life events on neural responses during fear conditioning. Journal of Neuroimaging, jon.13174. https://doi.org/10.1111/jon.13174

Kampa, M., Hermann, A., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2023). Neural correlates of immediate versus delayed extinction when simultaneously varying the time of the test in humans. Cerebral Cortex, bhad205. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad205

Kampa, M., Sebastian, A., Tüscher, O., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2023). Refocus on stopping! Replication of reduced right amygdala reactivity to negative, visual primes during inhibition of motor responses. Neuroimage: Reports, 3(1), 100151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ynirp.2022.100151

Exner, A., Kampa, M. [shared first authorship], Finke, J. B., Stalder, T., Klapperich, H., Hassenzahl, M., Kleinke, K., & Klucken, T. (2023). Repressive and vigilant coping styles in stress and relaxation: Evidence for physiological and subjective differences at baseline, but not for differential stress or relaxation responses. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1196481. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196481

2022

Kampa, M., Finke, J., Stalder, T., Bucher, L., Klapperich, H., Mertl, F., Zimmer, C., Geiger, C., Hassenzahl, M., & Klucken, T. (2022). Facilitating relaxation and stress reduction in healthy participants through a virtual reality intervention: Study protocol for a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial. Trials, 23(1), 380. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06307-8

Köber, G., Pooseh, S., Engen, H., Chmitorz, A., Kampa, M., Schick, A., Sebastian, A., Tüscher, O., Wessa, M., Yuen, K. S. L., Walter, H., Kalisch, R., Timmer, J., & Binder, H. (2022). Individualizing deep dynamic models for psychological resilience data. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 8061. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11650-6

2021

Kalisch, R., Köber, G., Binder, H., Ahrens, K. F., Basten, U., Chmitorz, A., Choi, K. W., Fiebach, C. J., Goldbach, N., Neumann, R. J., Kampa, M., Kollmann, B., Lieb, K., Plichta, M. M., Reif, A., Schick, A., Sebastian, A., Walter, H., Wessa, M., … Engen, H. (2021). The Frequent Stressor and Mental Health Monitoring-Paradigm: A Proposal for the Operationalization and Measurement of Resilience and the Identification of Resilience Processes in Longitudinal Observational Studies. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 710493. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710493

2020

Kampa, M., Schick, A., Sebastian, A., Wessa, M., Tüscher, O., Kalisch, R., & Yuen, K. (2020). Replication of fMRI group activations in the neuroimaging battery for the Mainz Resilience Project (MARP). NeuroImage, 204, 116223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116223

2019

Klucken, T., Kruse, O., Klein, S., Kampa, M., Tapia León, I., & Stark, R. (2019). The relationship between neuroticism and appetitive conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 164, 107068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107068

2018

Kampa, M., Schick, A., Yuen, K., Sebastian, A., Chmitorz, A., Saase, V., Wessa, M., Tüscher, O., & Kalisch, R. (2018). A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies [Preprint]. Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1101/470435

Chmitorz, A., Wenzel, M., Stieglitz, R.-D., Kunzler, A., Bagusat, C., Helmreich, I., Gerlicher, A., Kampa, M., Kubiak, T., Kalisch, R., Lieb, K., & Tüscher, O. (2018). Population-based validation of a German version of the Brief Resilience Scale. PLOS ONE, 13(2), e0192761. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192761

 Ausgewählte Kongressbeiträge

Kampa, M. (2025, April). Veränderungen in Belohnungslernen und –gedächtnis bei pathologischen Pornographie-Nutzern. [Changes in reward learning and memory in pathological pornography users]. Co-Chair Symposium und Vortrag auf Deutschem Suchtkongress [Co-chair symposium and talk at German Psychotherapy Congress], Berlin.

Kampa, M. (2023, September). Konditionierung und Extinktion in riskanten und pathologischen Pornographie-Nutzern [Conditioning and extinction in risky and pathological pornography users]. Vortrag auf Deutschem Suchtkongress [Talk given at German Addiction Congress], Berlin.

Kampa, M., Tapia León, I., Kruse, O., Stark, R., Klucken, T. (2019, May). Study design to test neural correlates of immediate vs. delayed extinction when varying the extinction-test interval in humans. Poster presented at the annual European Meeting on Human Fear Conditioning (EMHFC), Würzburg, Germany.

Kampa, M., Yuen, K., Sebastian, A., Wessa, M., Tüscher O., Kalisch, R. (2016, June). Design and validation of a human fMRI battery for longitudinal stress resilience studies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Geneva, Switzerland.