Psychologie

• Applicant: Dr. Thorsten Barnhofer
• Subject Area: Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: from 2011 to 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 195172572

• Final Report Year: 2016

Final Report Abstract

Die im Förderzeitraum des Heisenberg-Stipendiums erstellten Arbeiten dienten der Untersuchung der Effekte von Achtsamkeitstraining auf Mechanismen der Aufrechterhaltung von chronischen Depressionen. Die Studien zeigen Effekte der Intervention auf neurale Faktoren in frühen Stadien der Informationsverarbeitung sowie im Ruhezustand. Der Nachweis von differentiellen Effekten auf Parameter wie die Error-Related Negativity und Central Alpha Frequency trägt zur weiteren Charakterisierung des Wirkungsprofils von Achtsamkeitstrainings bei und legt nahe, dass sich durch solche Trainings Effekte erzielen lassen, die durch pharmakologische und psychotherapeutische Interventionen nur schwer zu erzielen sind. Das Wissen über solche Effekte ist insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund derzeitiger Bemühungen um die Charakterisierung von Endophänotypen für depressive Störungen von Bedeutung und trägt in bedeutsamer Weise zum Bemühen um den spezifischeren Einsatz von psychologischen Interventionen bei.

Publications

• (2014). A comparison of vulnerability factors in patients with persistent and remitting lifetime symptom course of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 152 - 154 (1), 155-161
  Barnhofer, T., Brennan, K., Crane, C., Duggan, D., & Williams, J. M. G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2013.09.001)
• (2014). Comfort from suicidal cognition in recurrently depressed patients. Journal of Affective Disorders, 155 (1), 241-246
  Crane, C., Barnhofer, T., Duggan, D. S., Eames, C., Hepburn, S., Shah, D., & Williams, J. M. G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2013.11.006)
• (2014). Differential correlates of autobiographical memory specificity to affective and self-discrepant cues. Memory, 22 (6), 665-668
  Wessel, I., Postma, I.R., Huntjens, R.J.C., Crane, C., Smets, J., Zeeman, G.G., & Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2013.811255)
• (2014). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for preventing relapse in recurrent depression: a randomized dismantling trial. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82 (2), 275-286
  Williams, J. M. G., Crane, C., Barnhofer, T., Brennan, K., Duggan, D. S., Fennell, M. J. V., Hackmann, A., Krusche, A., Muse, K., Von Rohr, I. R., Shah, D., Crane, R. S., Eames, C., Jones, M., Radford, S., Silverton, S., Sun, Y., Weatherley-Jones, E., Whitaker, C. J., Russell, D., Russell, I. T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035036)
• (2014). The effects of amount of practice on hazard of relapse to depression in the Staying Well After Depression trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 63, 17-24
  Crane, C., Crane, R., Eames, C., Fennell, M., Silverton, S., Williams, J. M. G., Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2014.08.015)
• (2014). Trait mindfulness as a limiting factor for residual depressive symptoms: an explorative study using quantile regression, PLoS ONE, 9 (7), e100022
  Radford, S., Eames, C., Brennan, K., Lambert, D., Crane, C., Williams, J.M.G., Duggan, D., & Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100022)
• (2014). ‘She called her partner – hence she is needy’: depressed patients show increased tendencies to make spontaneous trait inferences. Psychological Medicine, 44 (14), 2995-3006
  Boecking, B. & Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291714000622)
• (2015). Gradually getting better: trajectories of change in rumination and anxious worry in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for prevention of relapse to recurrent depression. Mindfulness, 6, 1088-1094
  Ietsugu, T., Crane, C., Hackmann, A., Brennan, K., Gross, M., Crane, R. S., Silverton, S., Radford, S., Eames, C., Fennell, M. J. V., Williams, J. M. G., & Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-014-0358-3)
• (2015). Memory specificity and mindfulness jointly moderate the effect of reflective pondering on depressive symptoms in individuals with a history of recurrent depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 124 (2), 246-255
  Brennan, K., Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., & Williams, J. M. G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000027)
• (2015). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) reduces the association between depressive symptoms and suicidal cognitions in patients with a history of suicidal depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 83 (6), 1013-1020
  Barnhofer, T., Crane, C., Brennan, K., Crane, R., Fennell, M. J. V., & Williams, J. M. G.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000027)
• (2015). Updating versus habituation to prevent consolidation of conditioned fear. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0122971
  Pile, V, Barnhofer, T., & Wild, J.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122971)
• (2016). Turning towards or turning away: the relative benefits of mindfulness and distraction in patients with acute depression. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 44, 410-419
  Costa, A., & Barnhofer, T.
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465815000387)