• Pan, D., Jentsch, V.L., Langer, K., Hagedorn, B., Höffken, O., Wolf, O.T. & Merz, C.J. (2023). What a difference timing makes: Cortisol effects on neural underpinnings of emotion regulation. Neurobiology of Stress, 25, 100544.
• Jentsch, V.L., Wolf. O.T., Otto, T., Merz, C.J. (2023). The impact of physical exercise on the consolidation of fear extinction memories. Psychophysiology, e14373.
• Langer, K., Jentsch, V.L., Wolf, O.T. (2023). Rapid effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 151, 106054.
• Jentsch, V.L., Pötzl, L., Wolf, O.T., Merz, C.J. (2022). Hormonal contraceptive usage influences stress hormone effects on cognition and emotion. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 67, 101012.
• Langer, K., Jentsch, V.L., Wolf, O.T. (2022). Acute stress influences strategy preference when dealing with high intensity emotions in men. Biological Psychology. 169: 108264.
• Langer, K., Jentsch, V.L., Wolf, O.T. (2021). Cortisol promotes the cognitive regulation of high intensive emotions independent of timing. European Journal of Neuroscience. 00, 1-15.
• Langer, K., Wolf, O.T., Jentsch, V.L. (2021). Delayed effects of acute stress on cognitive emotion regulation. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 125, 105101.
• Langer, K., Hagedorn, B., Stock, L.-M., Otto, T., Wolf, O.T. & Jentsch, V.L. (2020). Acute stress improves the effectivity of cognitive emotion regulation in men. Scientific Reports. 10, 11571.
• Meir Drexler, S., Merz, C.J., Jentsch, V.L. & Wolf, O.T. (2020). Stress modulation of fear and extinction in psychopathology and treatment. Neuroforum, 26, 133-141.
• Jentsch, V.L. & Wolf, O.T. (2020). Acute physical exercise promotes the consolidation of emotional material. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 173, 107252.
• Jentsch, V.L. & Wolf, O.T. (2020). The impact of emotion regulation on cardiovascular, neuroendocrine and psychological stress responses. Biological Psychology, 154, 107893.
• Lonsdorf, T., Klingelhöfer-Jens, M., Andreatta, M., Chalkia, A., Gerlicher, A. Jentsch, V.L., Meir Drexler, S., Mertens, G., Richter, J., Sjouwerman, R., Wendt, J., Merz, C.J. (2019). Navigating the garden of forking paths for data exclusions in fear conditioning research. eLife, 8, e52465.
• Jentsch, V.L., Wolf, O.T., Merz, C.M. (2020). Temporal dynamics of conditioned skin conductance and pupillary responses during fear acquisition and extinction. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 147, 93-99.
• Jentsch, V.L, Merz, C.J., Wolf, O.T. (2019). Restoring emotional stability: Cortisol effects on the neural network of cognitive emotion regulation. Behavioural Brain Research. 374, 111880.
• Meir Drexler, S., Merz, C.J., Jentsch, V.L., Wolf, O.T. (2019). How stress and glucocorticoids timing-dependently affect extinction and relapse. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 98:145-153.
• Kinner, V.L., Wolf, O.T., Merz, C.J. (2018). Cortisol increases the return of fear by strengthening amygdala signaling in men. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 91, 79-85.
• Merz, C.J., Kinner, V.L., Wolf, O.T. (2018). Let’s talk about sex… differences in human fear conditioning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 23, 7-12.
• Kinner, V.L., Kuchinke, L., Dierolf, A.M., Merz, C.J., Otto, T., Wolf, O.T. (2017). What our eyes tell us about feelings: Tracking pupillary responses during emotion regulation processes. Psychophysiology, 54, 508-518.
• Kinner, V.L., Wolf, O.T. & Merz, C.J. (2016). Cortisol alters reward processing in the human brain. Hormones and Behavior, 84, 75-83.
• Kinner, V.L., Merz, C.J., Lissek, S., Wolf, O.T. (2016). Cortisol disrupts the neural correlates of extinction recall. NeuroImage, 133, 233-243.
• Kinner, V.L., Het, S. & Wolf, O.T. (2014). Emotion regulation: exploring the impact of stress and sex. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8, 397.

• 2021: DFG Research Grant, Subproject of CRC 1280 Extinction Learning
  “Stress hormone effects on contextualized extinction memories”, Joint Application with C.J. Merz & O.T. Wolf
• 2018: Travel Grant for Conference Participation (DAAD)
  48th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in San Diego, USA.
• 2018: Research Grant (“exploratory treasure”, CRC 1280 “Extinction Learning”)
• 2016: Travel Grant for Conference Participation (DAAD)
  46th annual ISPNE conference in Miami, USA.

• German Psychological Society (DGPs)
  Section Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
  Interest Group Open and Reproducible Research in the Section Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology (IGOR)
• German Society for Psychophysiology and its Applications (DGPA)
• International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Psychoneuroendocrinology
• International Journal of Psychophysiology
• Scientific Reports
• Human Brain Mapping
• PLOS ONE
• Psychophysiology
• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• Biological Psychiatry CNNI
• Chronic Stress
• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
• European Journal of Neuroscience
• Cognition & Emotion
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Motivation and Emotion
• Translational Psychiatry
• Neuroimage Reports
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Research Funding Programs

• Swiss National Science Foundation

Current Teaching Activities

• Seminar „Project-related Seminar for preparing a Bachelor Thesis”
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Lecture “Psychology Lecture Series”; selected session
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Lecture “Stress”; selected sessions
  M.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Lecture “Cognition I: Perception, Attention, Memory”; selected sessions
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum

Past Teaching Activities

• Seminar "Cognition I: Perception, Attention, Memory"
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Seminar "Cognition II: Language, Thinking, Problem Solving"
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Seminar "Stress and Cognition"
  M.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Seminar “The power of emotions and how we regulate them – foundations and applications of cognitive emotion regulation”
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Seminar „Journal Club, Stress and the Brain”
  M.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Seminar „Project-related Seminar for preparing a Bachelor Thesis”
  B.Sc. Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum

Interviews

• Interview series “Why I do research”, Neuroscience;
  https://news.rub.de/english/2023-09-07-why-i-do-research-valerie-jentsch-investigates-our-reactions-stress

Podcast appearances

• “Kannste Vergessen?” Der Podcast vom Lernen, Vergessen und Erinnern; Season 2, Episode 1, April: Auf Anfang;
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Ing3LDnbDlyrj579oy3jO

Vidcast appearances

• Vidcasts of the early career researchers of the CRC1280 “Extinction Learning”; Subproject A09
  https://sfb1280.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/videogalerie/
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKxjmVZZb4