Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit

Post-doctoral scholar-  Social, Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience Unit

Research Interests 

• Social and Affective Neuroscience (e.g. social attribution, approach avoidance behavior, emotional face processing)
• Clinical Neuroscience (main research focus: affective disorders)

Teaching 

• PS Klinisch-psychologische Diagnostik und Differentialdiagnostik: Allgemeine und störungsspezifsiche Diagnostik
• SE Bachelorarbeit 1 (Empirisches Praktikum)

Curriculum Vitae 

• June 2010  RWTH Aachen University, Germany and University of Pennsylvania, USA ; Ph.D in Neuroscience (summa cum laude); Thesis Title: Neural and behavioral correlates of emotional and cognitive processes in social interaction
• October 2007 University of Vienna, Austria; Diploma in Psychology (with distinction); Thesis Title: Emotion recognition and memory for emotional faces in patients with bipolar disorder 

Peer-reviewed publications  (selection) 

• Seidel, E.M., Satterthwaite, T.D., Eickhoff, S.B., Schneider, F., Gur, R.C., Wolf, D.H., Habel, U., & Derntl, B. (2012). Neural correlates of depressive realism — An fMRI study on causal attribution in depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 138, 268–276 (PDF).
• Seidel, E., Habel, U., Finkelmeyer, A., Hasmann, A., Dobmeier, M., Derntl, B. (2012).  Risk or resilience? Empathic abilities in patients with bipolar disorders and their first-degree relatives. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46, 382-388.(PDF).
• Derntl, B., Seidel, E. M., Eickhoff, S. B., Kellermann, T., Gur, R. C., Schneider, F., & Habel, U. (2011). Neural correlates of social approach and withdrawal in patients with major depression. Social Neuroscience, 6, 482-501. (PDF)
• Seidel, E. M., Eickhoff, S. B., Kellermann, T., Schneider, F., Gur, R. C., Habel, U. & Derntl, B. (2010). Who is to blame? Neural correlates of causal attribution in social situations. Social Neuroscience, 5(4),335-350.
• Seidel, E. M., Habel, U., Finkelmeyer, A., Schneider, F., Gur, R. C. & Derntl, B. (2010). Implicit and explicit behavioral tendencies in male and female depression. Psychiatry Research, 177, 124–130.
• Seidel, E. M., Habel, U., Kirschner, M. & Derntl, B. (2010). The impact of facial emotional expressions on behavioral tendencies in females and males. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 36(2) 500-507.
• Derntl, B., Seidel, E. M., Kainz, E. & Carbon, C. C. (2009). Recognition of emotional expressions is affected by inversion and presentation time. Perception, 38, 1849-1862.
• Derntl, B., Seidel, E. M., Hasmann, A., Kryspin-Exner, I. & Dobmeier, M. (2009). Facial emotion recognition in bipolar I / II disorder. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 48, 363-375.

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