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Ten selected Key Publications:

• Jentsch, V.L. & Wolf, O.T. (2020). The impact of emotion regulation on cardiovascular, neuro-endocrine and psychological stress responses. Biological Psychology. 154, 107893.
• 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.
• Wolf, O.T. (2017). Stress and Memory Retrieval: Mechanisms and Consequences. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 14, 40-46.
• Kinner, V.L., Merz, C.J., Lissek, S. & Wolf, O.T. (2016). Cortisol disrupts the neural correlates of extinction recall. Neuroimage, 133, 233-243.
• Meir Drexler, S., Merz, C.J., Hamacher-Dang, T.C., Tegenthoff, M., & Wolf, O.T. (2015). Effects of cortisol on reconsolidation of reactivated fear memories. Neuropsychopharmacology, 40, 3036-3043.
• Schwabe, L., Tegenthoff, M., Höffken, O. & Wolf, O.T. (2013). Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade prevents stress-induced modulation of multiple memory systems in the human brain. Biological Psychiatry, 74, 801-808.
• Schwabe, L. & Wolf, O.T. (2013). Stress and multiple memory systems: from ‘thinking’ to ‘doing’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 60-68.
• Wingenfeld, K., Driessen, M., Terfehr, K., Schlosser, N., Fernando, S.C., Otte, C., Beblo, T., Spitzer, C., Löwe, B. & Wolf, O.T. (2013). Effects of cortisol on memory in women with borderline personality disorder: role of comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and major depression. Psychological Medicine, 43, 495-505.
• Kuhlmann, S., Piel, M. & Wolf, O.T. (2005) Impaired memory retrieval after psychosocial stress in healthy young men. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 2977-2982.
• Convit, A., Wolf, O.T., Tarshish, C. & de Leon, M.J. (2003). Reduced glucose tolerance is associated with poor memory performance and hippocampal atrophy among normal elderly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 2019-2022.

Awards & Scholarships

• 2003: Heisenberg Scholarship (DFG)
• 2002: Habilitation Award (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
• 1998: Dissertation Award (Trier University)

Grants (within the last five years)

• 2022: DFG Research Grant, subproject 4 of FOR 2812 (2nd funding period)
  "The competition of semantic information and episodic experiences and its modulation by stress"
• 2021: DFG Research Grant, subproject A09 of SFB 1280 (2nd funding period)
  "Stress hormone effects on contexualized extinction memories", Joint Application with  Dr. Jentsch and PD. Dr. Merz
• 2020: DFG Research Grant, subproject 04 of FOR 2974
  "Cue reactivity in gaming disorder and pornography-use disorder: Behavioral and neural correlates and effects of acute stress", Joint Application with M. Brand and M. Diers
• 2018: DFG Research Grant, subproject of FOR 2812
  "The competition of semantic information and episodic experiences and its modulation by stress"
• 2018: DFG Research Grant (WO 733/17-1)
  "Stress effects on memory accuracy versus generalization", DFG-ORA Framework
• 2018: DFG Research Grant, subproject of SFB 874
  "Memories of a stressful episode: A special role of olfactory cues?"
• 2018: DFG Research Grant (WO 733/18-1)
  "The impact of stress on hemispheric asymmetries", Joint Application with S. Ocklenburg
• 2017: DFG Research Grant, subproject A09 of SFB 1280
  "The impact of stress and stress hormones on etinction, renewal, reinstatement and reconsolidation", Joint Application with C. J. Merz
• 2016: DFG Research Grant (WO 733/15-1)
  "Impact of stress on cognitive emotion regulation"

Research Funding Programs

• Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF))
• European Research Council (ERC)
• German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD))
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
• German Research Foundation (DGPs)
• National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Singapore
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Research into Aging (United Kingdom)
• Swiss National Foundation (SNF)
• Welcome Trust (United Kingdom)

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Acta Neuropsychiatrica; American Journal of Psychiatry; Anxiety, Stress & Coping; Archives of General Psychiatry; Behavior Therapy & Experimental Psychiatry; Behavioural Brain Research; Behavioural Neuroscience; Biological Psychiatry; Biological Psychology; Biology of Sex Differences; Brain; Brain & Cognition; Brain Research; Brain Research Protocols; Cerebral Cortex; Clinical Endocrinology; Cortex; Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders; Drugs & Aging; Emotion; European Journal of Neuroscience; European Journal of Pharmacology; Experimental Gerontology; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience; Gerontopsychologie & Gerontopsychiatrie; Health Psychology; European Neuropsychopharmacology; Human Brain Mapping; International Journal of Psychology; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Clinical Psychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Psychiatric Research; Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Journal of Research in Personality; Journal of Traumatic Stress; Learning & Memory; Maturitas; Menopause; Neuroimage; Neurobiology of Aging; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory; Nature Human Behavior; Neurocase; Neurology; Neuropharmacology; Neuropsychologia; Neuropsychopharmacology; Neuroscience Letters; Non-linearity in Biology; Toxicology and Medicine; Physiology & Behavior; PlosOne; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA; Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry; Psychological Science; Psychoneuroendocrinology; Psychonomic Bulletin and Review; Psychopharmacology; Psychophysiology; Psychosomatic Medicine; Science; Scientific Reports; Stress; Translational Psychiatry; The Open Aging Journal; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie.

• Lectures, Seminars, Lab Courses, Colloquia, Journal Clubs
• Topics cover the areas of Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrine Stress Research