Prof. Dr.
Michèle Wessa
Professor (W3), Head of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology
Contact
Institute for Psychology
Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Wallstraße 3
55122 Mainz
+49 (0) 6131 39 39256
CRC 1193 PROJECTS
Expertise
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
Vita
Research Group Leader at Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) gGmbH, Mainz
Research Group Leader at German Resilience Center (DRZ), Mainz
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
Publications
Kollmann B, Yuen K, Scholz V, Wessa M (2019) Cognitive variability in bipolar I disorder: A cluster-analytic approach informed by resting-state data. Neuropharmacol 156:1–14.
>> Link to PubMedZeier P, Sandner M, Wessa M (2019) Script-based Reappraisal Test introducing a new paradigm to investigate the effect of reappraisal inventiveness on reappraisal effectiveness. Cogn Emot. :1-7.
>> Link to PubMedWessa 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 PubMedCoordinating Functions
Deputy spokesperson of CRC 1193
Deputy Director of the ‚Gutenberg Council for Young Researchers’ (Gutenberg Nachwuchskolleg), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Awards, Grants and Honor
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
