Professor (W3), Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology
Institute for Psychology
Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Wallstraße 3
55122 Mainz
+49 (0) 6131 39 39256
Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology
Neural and behavioral correlates of emotion regulation
Explicit and implicit cognitive biases and their implication in mental health and illness
Emotional processing in bipolar disorder and its neurobiological underpinnings
Professor for Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology (W3) and Head of the corresponding Department, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Professor for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging (W3), Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg
DFG Emmy Noether research group leader, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Postdoctoral researcher, CEA Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Research group “Neuroimaging in Psychiatry”
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim (supervisor: H. Flor)
Doctoral student, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
Wessa M, King AV, Meyer P, Frölich L, Flor H, Poupon C, Hoppstädter M, Linke J (2016) Impaired and preserved aspects of feedback learning in aMCI: contributions of structural connectivity. Brain Struct Funct 221(5):2831-46.
>> Link to PubMedKanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M (2013) Neural correlates of emotional distractibility in bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and individuals with hypomanic personality. Am J Psychiatry 170:1487-1496
>> Link to PubMedKanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Bongers A, Wessa M (2011) How to Regulate Emotion? Neural Networks for Reappraisal and Distraction. Cereb Cortex 21:1379-88.
>> Link to PubMedLinke J, King AV, Poupon C, Hennerici MG, Gass P, Wessa M (2013) Impaired anatomical connectivity and related executive functions: Differentiating vulnerability and disease marker in bipolar disorder. Biol Psychiatry 74:908-916.
>> Link to PubMedWessa M, Linke J, Witt S, Nieratschker V, Esslinger C, Kirsch P, Grimm O, Hennerici MG, Gass A, King AV, Rietschel M (2010) The CACNA1C risk variant for bipolar disorder influences limbic activity. Mol Psychiatry 15:1126-1127.
>> Link to PubMedDeputy spokesperson of CRC 1193
Deputy Director of the ‚Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers’ (Gutenberg Nachwuchskolleg), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Lilly Travel Fellowship for 7th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
DFG Emmy Noether research group (We3638/3-1)
Ph.D. Scholarship from the Studientstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Study Scholarship from the Studientstiftung des Deutschen Volkes