Members - Norbert Kathmann

POSITION AT CILS

PI

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Psychology: psychological and neurobiological foundations of obsessive compulsive disorder, oculomotoric and electrophysiological indicators of cognitive and emotional processes, vulnerability for the development of psychic disorders, with the focus on schizophrenia, dysfunction of executive functions in several psychological illnesses, and in old age

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Institute of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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

Interdisciplinary Wolfgang Köhler Research Center Conflicts in Intelligent Systems


EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Editor, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie

 

  • President, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen (German Association for Psychophysiology and its Applications)
  • Spokesperson, Steering Committee of the Interdisciplinary Wolfgang Köhler Research Center Conflicts in Intelligent Systems
  • Member, Senate of Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Project: 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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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Kloft, L., Kischkel, E., Kathmann, N. & Reuter, B. (2010). Evidence for a deficit in volitional action generation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychophysiology (in press)
  • Pietschmann M, Endrass T, Kathmann N (in press). Age-related alterations in performance monitoring during and after learning. Neurobiol Aging. 2009 Aug 27. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Endrass T., Schuermann B., Kaufmann C., Spielberg R., Kniesche R. & Kathmann N. (2010). Performance Monitoring and Error Significance in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biological Psychology. 84, 257-263.
  • Rampacher, F., Lennertz, L., Vogeley, A., Schulze-Rauschenbach, S., Kathmann, N., Falkai, P., Wagner, M. (in press). Evidence for specific cognitive deficits in visual information processing in patients with OCD compared to patients with unipolar depression. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry [Epub ahead of print, May 18, 2010]
  • Reuter, B., Kaufmann, C., Bender, J., Pinkpank, T., & Kathmann, N. (2010). Distinct neural correlates for volitional generation and inhibition of saccades. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(4). 728-38.
  • Simon, D., Kaufmann, C., Müsch, K., Kischkel, E. and Kathmann, N. (2010). Fronto-striato-limbic hyperactivation in obsessive-compulsive disorder during individually tailored symptom provocation. Psychophysiology, 47 (4), 728-738.
  • Werheid, K., Gruno, M., Kathmann, N., Fischer, H., Almkvist, O., Winblad, B. (2010). Biased recognition of positive faces in aging and amnestic mild cognitive impairment. Psychology and Aging, 25 (1), 1-15.
  • Franke, C., Reuter, B., Breddin, A., & Kathmann, N. (2009). Response switching in schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects: effects of the inter-response interval. Experimental Brain Research, 196, 429-438.
  • Kehrer, S., Kraft, A., Irlbacher, K., Koch, S.P., Hagendorf, H., Kathmann, N., Brandt, S.A. (2009). Electrophysiological evidence for cognitive control during conflict processing in visual spatial attention. Psychological Research, 73(6), 751-61.