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Axel Schäfer, PhD

 

 

Axel Schäfer, PhD

Lab Manager

Bender Institute of Neuroimaging

Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10H

35394 Giessen, Germany

Room 22

Phone: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26302

Fax: +49 (0) 641 / 99 - 26309

Email:


DFG Core Facility

  • Scientific  data management
  • Quality assurance and management
  • Development of (new) quality assessment- and analysis pipelines

  • Creation of a code library and Wiki

  • Development of support model for users

 

Selected Publications

  • Braun, U., Schäfer, A., Betzel, R. F., Tost, H., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Bassett, D. S. (2017). From maps to multidimensional network mechanisms of mental disorders. Neuron, 97, 14-31.
  • Akdeniz, C., Schäfer, A., Streit, F., Haller, L., Wüst, S., Kirsch, P., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). Sex-Dependent Association of Perigenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex Volume and Migration Background, an Environmental Risk Factor for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 925-934. [divided first authorship]
  • Bilek, E., Stößel, G., Schäfer, A., Clement, L., Ruf, M., Robnik, L., Neukel, C., Tost, H., Kirsch, P. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). State-dependent cross-brain information flow in Borderline Personality Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry, 74, 949-957.
  • Moessnang, C., Otto, K., Bilek, E., Schäfer, A., Baumeister, S., Hohmann, S., Poustka, L., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2017). Differential responses of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and right posterior superior temporal sulcus to spontaneous mentalizing. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 3791-3803.
  • Schneider, M., Walter, H., Moessnang, C., Schäfer, A., Erk, S., Mohnke, S., Romund, L., Garbusow, M., Dixson, L., Heinz, A., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2017). Altered DLPFC-Hippocampus Connectivity During Working Memory: Independent Replication and Disorder Specificity of a Putative Genetic Risk Phenotype for Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 43, 1114-1122.
  • Braun, U., Schäfer, A., Bassett, D.S., Rausch, F., Schweiger, J.I., Bilek, E., Erk, S., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Grimm, O., Geiger, L.S., Haddad, L., Otto, K., Mohnke, S., Heinz, A., Zink, M., Walter, H., Schwarz, E., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2016). Dynamic brain network reconfiguration as a potential schizophrenia genetic risk mechanism modulated by NMDA receptor function. PNAS, 113, 12568-12573. [divided first authorship]
  • Cao, H., Bertolinio, A., Walter, H., Schneider, M., Schäfer, A., Taurisano, P., Blasi, G., Haddad, L,. Grimm, O., Otto, K., Dixson, L., Erk, S., Mohnke, S., Heinz, A., Romanczuk-Seiferth, N., Mühleisen, T.W., Mattheisen, M., Witt, S.H., Cichon, S., Noethen, M., Rietschel, M., Tost, H. & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2016). Altered functional subnetwork during emotional face processing: a potential intermediate phenotype for schizophrenia. JAMA Psychiatry, 73, 598-605.
  • Moessnang, C., Schäfer, A., Bilek, E., Roux, P., Otto, K., Baumeister, S., Hohmann, S., Poustka, L., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., Meyer-Lindenberg, A. & Tost, H. (2016). Specificity, reliability and sensitivity of social brain responses during spontaneous mentalizing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 11, 1687-1697.

Complete list of publications: download (PDF)

 

Curriculum vitae

Education

Time
October 1994 –
October 2001
Studies of Psychology at University of Giessen, Germany (Diploma)
April 2002 –
March 2004
Supplement studies „Applied Mathematics and Informatics“ at University of Giessen, Germany
June 2006 PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at University of Giessen, Germany

Occupations

Time
November 2001 –
December 2006
Research assistant at the Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology and Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION) (University of Giessen)
January 2007 –
December 2010
Post-Doc at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Graz, Austria
January 2011 –
December 2017
Post-Doc at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH), Mannheim, Germany. Assistant head of the Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry (SNiP) group
Since January
2018
Post-Doc at the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging (BION), University of Giessen