Completed Research Project

Title / Titel
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Psychosocial and neurobiological mechanisms of social phobia
Summary / Zusammenfassung
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Publications / Publikationen
Heinrichs, M. & Domes, G. (2008). Neuropeptides and social behavior: Effects of oxytocin and vasopressin in humans. Progress in Brain Research, in press.

Ditzen, B., Schmidt, S., Strauss, B., Nater, U. M., Ehlert, U. & Heinrichs, M. (2008). Adult attachment and social support interact to reduce psychological but not cortisol responses to stress. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, in press.

Heinrichs, M. & Gaab, J. (2007). Neuroendocrine mechanisms of stress and social interaction: Implications for mental disorders. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 20, 158-162.

Domes, G., Heinrichs, M., Gläscher, J., Büchel, C., Braus, D. F. & Herpertz, S. C. (2007). Oxytocin attenuates amygdala responses to emotional faces regardless of valence. Biological Psychiatry, 62, 1187-1190.

Domes, G., Heinrichs, M., Michel, A., Berger, C. & Herpertz, S. C. (2007). Oxytocin improves „mind-reading“ in humans (Priority Communication). Biological Psychiatry, 61, 731-733.

Soravia, L. M., Heinrichs, M., Aerni, A., Maroni, C., Schelling, G., Ehlert, U., Roozendaal, B. & de Quervain, D. J.-F. (2006). Glucocorticoids reduce phobic fear in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103, 5585-5590.

Kosfeld, M.*, Heinrichs, M.*, Zak, P., Fischbacher, U. & Fehr, E. (2005). Oxytocin increases trust in humans. Nature, 435, 673-676. (* shared first authorship)

Heinrichs, M., Baumgartner, T., Kirschbaum, C. & Ehlert, U. (2003). Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress. Biological Psychiatry, 54, 1389-1398.

Ehlert, U., Gaab, J. & Heinrichs, M. (2001). Psychoneuroendocrinological contributions to the etiology of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and stress-related bodily disorders: The role of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. Biological Psychology, 57, 141-152.

Keywords / Suchbegriffe
Social phobia, anxiety disorder, psychosocial stress, social support, oxytocin, cortisol, catecholamines, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
Project Leadership and Contacts /
Projektleitung und Kontakte
Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs (Project Leader)m.heinrichs@psychologie.uzh.ch
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ehlert 
Dr. Leila M. Soravia 
Dipl.-Psych. Bernadette von Dawans 
Funding Source(s) /
Unterstützt durch
SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung)
Amount granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation: CHF 331'465
In Collaboration with /
In Zusammenarbeit mit
Prof. Dr. Dominique J.-F. de Quervain (Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich)Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Stangier (Department of Psychology, University of Frankfurt)

Germany

Duration of Project / Projektdauer
May 2003 to Feb 2006