Publications of the Centre

Abir, Y., Mok, J., Baldassano, C. A., Marvin, C. B., & Shohamy, D. (2026). Learning reinforces curiosity for related information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(17), Article e2529176123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2529176123

Aigner, C. S., Forlim, C. G., Santoro, D., Bodammer, N., Brühl, R., Sudimac, S., Schmalen, K., Schröder, S., Mohammadi, S., & Kühn, S. (in press). MRI goes mobile: Assessing the reliability and repeatability of a mobile vs. stationary 1.5T MRI for functional neuroscience studies. NMR in Biomedicine.

Algermissen, J., Rascu, M., Weber, L. A., den Boer, T., Martin, E., Treeby, B., Gray, M. D., Cleveland, R. O., Wittmann, M. K., Clarke, W. T., Fouragnan, E., Rushworth, M. F. S., & Klein-Flügge, M. C. (2026). Low-intensity focused ultrasound to human amygdala reveals a causal role in ambiguous emotion processing and alters local and network activity. Neuron, 114(7), 1269–1289.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.03.009

Ascone, L., Mahlke, C., Tawil, N., Samaan, L., Frisch, M., Nugent, L., Nixdorf, R., Börncke, F., Lüdecke, D., Fischer, R., Bach, N., Hackbarth, C., McCall, T., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Informing the redesign of psychiatric seclusion rooms: A mixed-methods pre-evaluation with individuals with lived experience. BMC Psychiatry, 26, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07780-0

Ascone, L., Mostajeran, F., Hagen, H., Börncke, F., Klock, L., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Compassion-focused virtual reality for individuals with a psychotic disorder: A randomized-controlled pilot study. Psychosis, 18(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2025.2545769

Beyer, M., Kuznetsov, D., & Kühn, S. (2026). The German Twin Registry (GERTRUD): Towards harmonized, multisource twin research. Twin Research and Human Genetics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2026.10057

Beyer, M., Quinones, J., Stanojlovic, A., & Kühn, S. (2026). Das Gehirn ist keine Insel: Umweltneurowissenschaften. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8354

Brandt, L., Böge, G., Hahn, E., Bajbouj, M., & Kühn, S. (2026). Klima und psychische Gesundheit. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 25–26. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8394

Brandt, L., De Prisco, M., Nocera, D., Rehm, M. C., Cohen, S., Kosker, D. N., von Luxburg, S., Ori, D., Pinzón-Espinosa, J., Scheuber, P., Sonntag, N., Radua, J., Hasan, A., Luykx, J. J., & the Global Evidence on Planetary Mental Health Study Group [Member of the MPIB: Simone Kühn]. (2026). Climate-related and nature-based interventions for mental health: An umbrella review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 83(5), 499–509. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0037

Buchberger, E., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered Report]. Developmental Science.

Chen, H., Kuitunen-Paul, S., Garbusow, M., Lukezic, M., Huys, Q. J. M., Rapp, M. A., Heinz, A., & Smolka, M. N. (2026). Changes in model-based and model-free control prospectively predict drinking trajectories in young men. Biological Psychiatry, 99(1), 57–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.06.028

Chen, Z., Zheng, H., Zhou, J., Zheng, L., Lin, P., Wang, H., Busche, M. A., Behrens, T., Dolan, R., & Liu, Y. (2026). Interpreting human sleep activity through neural contrastive learning. Neuron. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.03.028

Colombatto, C., & Fleming, S. M. (2026). Beliefs about accuracy shape confidence attributions to humans and artificial agents. Communications Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00445-4

Dohnány, S., Kurth-Nelson, Z., Spens, E., Luettgau, L., Reid, A., Gabriel, I., Summerfield, C., Shanahan, M., & Nour, M. M. (2026). Technological folie à deux: Feedback loops between AI chatbots and mental health. Nature Mental Health, 4, 336–345. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-026-00595-8

Ellingford, R., Harris, S. S., Kehring, M., Rajani, R. M., Lam, F. K. W., Graykowski, D., Böken, D., Welikovitch, L. A., Khasnavis, A., Laban, R., Heslegrave, A., Yaman, U., Mate de Gerando, A., Bond, S. A., Wray, S., Salih, D. A., Dupret, D., Dolan, R. J., Klenerman, D., Zetterberg, H., Hyman, B. T., & Busche, M. A. (2026). Alzheimer’s disease pathology degrades an NMDA receptor-dependent spontaneous activity pattern in cortico-hippocampal circuits. Neuron. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2026.02.027

Fischer, D. J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Scent of trees: Investigating the short-term effects of two tree essential oils on mood, psychological stress, and cognition. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110, Article 102962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102962

Fritsch, M., Michely, J., Jaeckel, L., Rangus, I., Riegler, C., Scheitz, J. F., Nolte, C., Sterzer, P., & Weilnhammer, V. (2026). Ischemic lesions to the inferior frontal cortex slow perceptual switching. iScience, 29(3), Article 114943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2026.114943

Grødem, E. O. S., Vidal-Pineiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Garrido, P. F., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., MacIntosh, B. J., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Smith, S. M., Solé-Padullés, C., Solana-Sánchez, J., Watne, L. O., Walhovd, K. B., Bjørnerud, A., & Fjell, A. M. (2026). Stable individual differences dominate adult brain volume variation until later life. Imaging Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242

Hall-McMaster, S., Wittkuhn, L., Verra, L., Hedrich, N. L., Irie, K., Dayan, P., Gershman, S. J., & Schuck, N. W. (2026). Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment. The Journal of Neuroscience, 46(7), Article e1492252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025

Huys, Q. J. M., & Corlett, P. R. (2026). IMPACT-ing the practice of computational psychiatry. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.03.007