Cooperating Researchers - Henrik Walter

POSITION AT CILS

PI, Project Coordinator

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Psychiatry, Neuroimaging, Social Cognition and Affective Neuroscience, Volition and Motivation, Clinical Neuroscience and Imaging Genetics, Neurophilosophy and Neuroethics

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Charité, Campus Mitte

Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universitätsklinikum Bonn

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Nominee for the Teacher of the Year Award, Medicine Faculty Bonn (2008)
  • Research Fellowship, Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies (2004)
  • Poster Prize, DGPPN (2003, 2004)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Associative Editor, Nervenheilkunde
  • Editorial Board, Frontiers in Affective Neuroscience
  • Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Project 1: Quantifying Willpower

 

In our research project “Quantifying Willpower” we identify willpower     sub-functions and test their neural substrates in the fMRI scanner.

 

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Project 2: Neurobiology of Human Aggression

 

In three related fields we will examine the theoretical foundations and the ethical implications of current neurobiological research on aggression. We expect to increase insight in social preconditions and neuroethical as well as practical implications of neurobiological research on determinants of aggressive human behaviour.

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Erk S, Mikschl A, Stier S, Ciaramidaro A, Gapp V, Weber B, Walter H (2010) Acute and sustained effects of cognitive emotion regulation in major depression. J Neuroscience, in press.
  • Walter H, Schnell K, Erk S, Arnold C, Kirsch P, Esslinger C, Mier D, Schmittgen MM, Rietschel M, Witt SH, Möthen MM, Cichon S, Meyer-Lindenberg A (2010) Effects of a Genome-Wide Supported Psychosis Risk Variant on Neural Activation during a Theory-of-Mind Task. Molecular Psychiatry, 2010 Mar 16.
  • Schnell K, Bluschke S, Konradt B, Walter H (2010) Functional relations of empathy and mentalizing: an fMRI study on the neural basis of cognitive empathy. Neuroimage, in press.
  • Erk S, Meyer-Lindenberg A, Schnell K, Opitz von Boberfeld C, Esslinger Ch, Kirsch P, Grimm O, Arnold C, Haddad L, Witt SH, Cichon S, Noethen MM, Rietschel M, Walter H. Altered neural function in carriers of a genome-wide significant bipolar disorder variant. Archives of General Psychiatry, 2010;67(8):803-811.
  • Schleim S, Spranger T, Erk S, Walter H (2010) From moral to legal judgment: The influence of context in lawyers and other academics. SCAN, Advance Access published March 1, 2010, doi:10.1093/scan/nsq010.
  • Müller S, Walter H (2010) Implications of the neurosciences and the free will debate for the principle of respect for the patient's autonomy. Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 19(2):205-17.
  • Schardt DM, Erk S, Nüsser C, Nöthen MM, Cichon S, Rietschel M, Treutlein J, Goschke T, Walter H (2010) Volition diminishes genetically mediated amygdala hyperreactivity. NeuroImage 15;53(3):943-51. (Epub 2009 Dec 5)
  • Walter H, Kammerer H, Frasch K, Spitzer M, Abler B (2009) Altered reward functions in patients on atpycial antipsychotic mediation in line with the revised dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia. Psychopharmacology 206(1): 121-132
  • Walter H, Ciaramidaro A, Adenzato M, Vasic N, Arditto RB, Erk S, Bara BG (2009) Dysfunction of the social brain in schizophrenia is modulated by intention type: an fMRI study. SCAN 4(2): 166 – 176
  • Esslinger C, Walter H, Kirsch P, Erk S, Schnell K, Arnold C, Haddad L, Mier D, Opitz von Boberfeld C, Raab K, Witt SH, Rietschel M, Cichon S, Meyer-Lindenberg A (2009) Neural Mechanisms of a Genome-Wide Supported Psychosis Variant. Science 324: 605.