JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN

Prof. Dr. Brigitte M. Kudielka

   
Professor of Health Psychology
Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development


Street Address:
Jacobs University Bremen
Research V
College Ring 2
D-28759 Bremen (Schönebeck /Grohn)
Mailing Address:
Jacobs University Bremen
Jacobs Center
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen

Telephone:    +49 421 200-4730
E-Mail:    b.kudielka@jacobs-university.de
Office:    Research V, Room 34


Link to Homepage : http://www.jacobs-university.de/schools/jacobscenter/bkudielka/index.php

University Education:


07/2006
Venia legendi for Psychology

Habilitation thesis: ‘Determinanten der Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrinden-Achsen-Regulation: Empirische Untersuchungen zu Personenvariablen, Methodischen Aspekten und Stress am Arbeitsplatz’

Habilitation colloquium: ‘Erfassung psychosozialer Arbeitsplatz-Charakteristiken am Beispiel des Lehrerberufes’
University of Trier
Germany
02/2000
Dr. rer. nat. (PhD)

Doctoral thesis: ‘Empirische Untersuchungen zur Regulation der Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrindenachse: Der Einfluss von Alter, Geschlecht und Sexualsteroiden’
University of Trier
Germany
10/1996
Dipl. Psych. (MA in Psychology)

Diploma thesis: ‘Zeigt DHEA bei älteren Menschen unter akuter psychischer Belastung eine protektive Wirkung? Endokrine und psychische Effekte einer physiologischen DHEA-Substitution’
University of Trier
Germany

Fellowships & Awards:
2009
Bruno Heck Science Award 2008 to Dr. Silja Bellingrath of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung e.V. (KAS) for the contribution: “The trials and tribulations of teaching - a psychobiological perspective on chronic work stress in school teachers” (dissertation in the Emmy-Noether Project; Principal Investigator: Brigitte M. Kudielka)
2009
Travel grant for the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) in San Francisco, USA, to Dr. Silja Bellingrath awarded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
2009
Herbert Weiner Early Career Award of the American Psychosomatic
Society (APS)
2008
Elsevier Author Award for the Top Cited Paper in 2006 & 2007 in Journal Biological Psychology
2008
Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE) to Silja Bellingrath (doctoral student in the Emmy-Noether Project)
2008
Charlotte-und-Karl-Bühler-Preis for Scientific Achievement from the German Association of Psychology (DGPs)
2007
Scholar Award of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) to Silja Bellingrath (doctoral student in the Emmy-Noether Project)
2006
Peter-Jacobi-Award of the German Society for Medical Psychology (DGMP)
2004
Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
2004
Scholar Award of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS)
2001
Dissertation Award 2000 of the ‘Freundeskreis Trierer Universität e.V.’
1998
Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)
1998 – 1999
Postgraduate Scholarship of the Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research
1996 – 1998
Postgraduate Scholarship of the State Scholarship Program Rheinland Pfalz (Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland Pfalz)
1994 – 1996
Student Scholarship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

Research and Teaching Positions:


since 06/2008
Professor of Health Psychology
Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development
Jacobs University Bremen
Germany
2004 - 2010
Head of an Emmy-Noether Research Group (DFG),
Lecturer
Department of Theoretical and Clinical Psychobiology
University of Trier
Germany
2002 - 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Behavioural Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Switzerland
2001 - 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow
(funded by DFG)
Institute for Mind & Biology
University of Chicago
USA
1999 - 2001
Scientific Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Experimental Psychology
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Germany
1996 - 1999
Doctoral Scholarship
Scientific Assistant
Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research
University of Trier
Germany
1994 - 1996
Research Assistant Positions
Department of Developmental Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences
University of Trier
Germany

Main Research Interests:


Main research topics: health psychology, psychoneuroendocrinology, psychological and biological determinants of individual stress regulation, parameters of HPA axis activity and reactivity, stress at work: biopsychological perspectives

Aim: (a) to identify mechanisms explaining how stress-related health disturbances develop (b) to identify psychological and biological factors of inter- and intraindividual stress vulnerability

Emmy-Noether-Project on Stress and Burnout: integration of work psychological and psychobiological research methods for the assessment of differential stress patterns in chronic work stress

Related to: Work- & Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology, Personality Psychology, Psychosomatic Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Physiology

Funded Projects:


2006 – 2010
DFG: Co-applicant / member of the International Research Training Group (‘Internationales Graduiertenkolleg’) of Trier (GER) and Leiden (NL)
‘Psychoneuroendocrinology of stress: from molecules and genes to affect and cognition’
2004 – 2006
2006 – 2008
2009
DFG: Emmy-Noether Research Group
‘Stressbelastung und Burnout im Lehrerberuf - Integration arbeitspsychologischer und psychobiologischer Forschungsmethoden zur Erfassung differentieller Stressmuster bei chronischem Arbeitsstress’
2001 – 2002
DFG: Foreign Exchange Research Grant
‘Psychological and biological determinants of loneliness in elderly adults’

Membership in Professional Organizations:

American Psychosomatic Society (APS)

Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)

European Network of Ambulatory Assessment

German Society for Medical Psychology (DGMP)

German Society for Psychology (DGP)

- Section Biological Psychology of the DGP

- Section Work- & Organizational Psychology of the DGP

International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE)

Young Research - active - of the German Society for Endocrinology (DGE)

‘Netzwerkstatt Wissenschaft Kultur Wirtschaft’ (sponsored by the ‘Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung, Forschung und Kultur Rheinland Pfalz’ within the Project ‘Kultur der Innovation’)

Other Professional Activities:


2009
Member of the Ethics Committee of the German Society of Psychology (DGPs)
2009
Member of the Faculty Council (FC) at Jacobs University Bremen
1999 - 2001
Trainer for ’Stress Management in Service Companies’, Berufsförderungswerk des Saarlands (BFW), Saarbrücken
1998 - 1999
Training in Gestalt-Psychotherapy
1996
Ausbildung zum Ausbilder, AdA-degree (Course for instructors in companies), Trier Chamber of Commerce in Cooperation with the University of Trier
1995 - 1997
“Lebenslust statt Alltagsfrust”: Conception, implementation and evaluation of a training program to improve psychological well-being, University of Trier
1995
Kursleiterschein: Moderation von Problemlöseprozessen (Training in moderation of problem solving processes), University of Trier
1994 - 1995
Kursleiterschein: Autogenes Training (Course on teaching relaxation techniques), University of Trier
1992 - 1996
Conception, implementation and evaluation of the therapy program for infertile couples
Center for Psychobiological and Psychosomatic Research, University of Trier

Academic Publications:

For PDF copies of the above listed publications please e-mail Prof. Kudielka.


In Press

Kudielka B.M. & Wüst S. (in press). Human models in acute and chronic stress research - assessing determinants of the individual stress response. Stress.

Stamov Roßnagel C., Baron S., B.M. Kudielka & Schömann K. (in press). A competence perspective on lifelong workplace learning. In: M.P. Caltone (Ed.), Handbook of Lifelong Learning Developments. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

2009

Bellingrath S., Weigl T. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Chronic work stress and exhaustion is associated with higher allostatic load in female school teachers. Stress, 12:37-48.

Fischer J.C., Kudielka B.M., von Känel R., Siegrist J., Thayer J.F. & Fischer J.E. (2009). Bone-marrow derived progenitor cells are associated with psychosocial determinants of health after controlling for classical biological and behavioral cardiovascular risk factors. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 23:419-426.

Hellhammer D.H., Wüst S & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Salivary cortisol as a biomarker in stress research. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34:163-171.

Kudielka B.M. & Wüst S. (2009). Grundlagen und Modelle der psychobiologischen Stressforschung. In: P.-M. Wippert & J. Beckmann (Eds.), Stress- und Schmerzursachen verstehen. Gesundheitspsychologie und -soziologie in Prävention und Rehabilitation, chapter 7, 105-112. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag.

Kudielka B.M., Wüst S. & Hellhammer D.H. (2009). Why do we respond so differently? Reviewing determinants of human salivary cortisol responses to challenge. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34:2-18.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Association between longitudinal changes in depressive symptoms and plasma fibrinogen levels in school teachers. Psychophysiology, 46:473-480.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Association of vital exhaustion and depressive symptoms with changes in fibrin D-dimer to acute psychosocial stress. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 67:93-101.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2009). Overcommitment but not effort-reward-imbalance relates to stress-induced coagulation changes in teachers. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37:20-28.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Haeberli A., Stutz M., Fischer J.E. & Patterson S.M. (2009). Prothrombotic changes with acute psychological stress: combined effect of hemoconcentration and genuine coagulation activation. Thrombosis Research, 123:622-630.

2008

Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Effort-reward-imbalance and overcommitment are associated with hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to acute psychosocial stress in healthy working school teachers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 33:1335-1343.

Bellingrath S., Weigl T. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Cortisol dysregulation in school teachers in relation to burnout, vital exhaustion, and effort-reward-imbalance. Biological Psychology, 78:104-113.

Klingmann P.O., Kugler I., Steffke T.S., Bellingrath S., Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H. (2008). Sex-specific prenatal programming: A risk for fibromyalgia? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1148: 446-455.

Kudielka B.M. & Bellingrath S. (2008). The Trier Teacher Stress Study: a psychobiological perspective. In: L.N. Piccard (Ed.), Biological psychology: new research. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & von Känel R. (2008). Circulating fibrinogen but not D-dimer level is associated with vital exhaustion in school teachers. Stress, 11:250-258.

Kudielka B.M. & Wüst S. (2008). The cortisol awakening response (CAR): a useful tool for ambulant assessment of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity. In: A.-L. Léglise (Ed.), Progress in circadian rhythm research, chapter XI, 223-234. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

von Känel R., Bellingrath S. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Association between burnout and circulating levels of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines in school teachers. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 65:51-59.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Helfricht S., Metzenthin P., Preckel D., Haeberli A., Stutz M., Cung T. & Fischer J.E. (2008). Effect of aspirin and propranolol on the acute response in coagulation factor VIII to psychosocial stress: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experimental study. Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis, 19:75-81.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Metzenthin P., Helfricht S., Preckel D., Haeberli A., Stutz M. & Fischer J.E. (2008). Aspirin, but not propranolol, attenuates the acute stress-induced increase in circulating levels of interleukin-6: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 22:150-157.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Helfricht S., Metzenthin P., Preckel D., Haeberli A., Cung T. & Fischer J.E. (2008). The effect of aspirin and non-selective beta blockade on the acute prothrombotic response to psychosocial stress in apparently healthy subjects. The Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 51:231-238.

von Känel R., Mausbach B.T., Kudielka B.M. & Orth-Gomér K. (2008). Relation of morning serum cortisol to prothrombotic activity in women with stable coronary artery disease. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, 25:165-172.

Wolf O.T. & Kudielka B.M. (2008). Stress, health and aging: a focus on postmenopausal women. Menopause International, 14:129-133.


2007

Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2007). Biological bases of the stress response. In: M. Al’Absi (Ed.), Stress and addiction: biological and psychological mechanisms, chapter 1, 3-19. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & Hellhammer D.H. (2007). Further support for higher salivary cortisol levels in “morning” compared to “evening persons”. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 62:595-596.

Kudielka B.M., Buchtal J., Uhde A. & Wüst S. (2007). Circadian cortisol profiles and psychological self-reports in shift workers with and without recent change in the shift rotation system. Biological Psychology, 74:92-103.

Kudielka B.M., Fischer J.E., Metzenthin P., Helfricht S., Preckel D. & von Känel R. (2007). No effect of 5-day treatment with acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) or the beta-blocker propranolol (inderal) on free cortisol responses to acute psychosocial stress: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Neuropsychobiology, 56:159-166.

Kudielka B.M., Hawkley L.C., Adam E.K. & Cacioppo J.T. (2007). Compliance with ambulatory saliva sampling in the chicago health, aging, and social relations study and associations with social support. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 34:209-216.

Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2007). Sex differences in human stress response. In: G. Fink (Ed.), G. Chrousos, I. Craig, E.R. de Kloet, G. Feuerstein, B.S. McEwen, N.R. Rose, R.T. Rubin, A. Steptoe (associate Eds.), Encyclopedia of stress, 469-473, 2. revised edition. Oxford: Academic Press.

Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2007). Ten years of research with the Trier Social Stress Test – revisited. In: E. Harmon-Jones & P. Winkielman (Eds.), Social neuroscience: integrating biological and psychological explanations of social behavior, chapter 4, pp. 56-83. New York: The Guilford Press.

Kudielka B.M., Wüst S., Kirschbaum C. & Hellhammer D.H. (2007). Trier Social Stress Test. In: G. Fink (Ed.), G. Chrousos, I. Craig, E.R. de Kloet, G. Feuerstein, B.S. McEwen, N.R. Rose, R.T. Rubin, A. Steptoe (associate Eds.), Encyclopedia of stress, , 776-781, 2. revised edition. Oxford: Academic Press.

Preckel D., Meinel M., Kudielka B.M., Haug H.-J. & Fischer J.E. (2007). Effort-reward-imbalance, overcommitment and self-reported health: is it the interaction that matters? Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 80:91-107.

von Känel, R., Preckel, D., Kudielka, B.M. & Fischer, J.E. (2007). Responsiveness and habituation of soluble ICAM-1 to acute psychosocial stress in men: determinants and effect of stress-hemoconcentration. Physiological Research, 56:627-639.

Wilhelm I., Born J., Kudielka B.M., Schlotz W. & Wüst S. (2007). Is the cortisol awakening rise a response to awakening? Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32:358-366.


2006

Adam E.K., Hawkley L.C., Kudielka B.M. & Cacioppo J.T. (2006). Day-to-day dynamics of experience--cortisol associations in a population-based sample of older adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103:17058-17063.

[German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG). (2006). Das Emmy Noether-Programm. Beihefter Spektrum der Wissenschaft, 1:12-13.] PDF

Federenko I.S., Wolf J.M., Wüst S., Schlotz W., Hellhammer J., Kudielka B.M., Kirschbaum C., Hellhammer D.H. & Wadhwa P.D. (2006). Parity does not alter baseline or stimulated activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in women. Developmental Psycholoy, 48:703-711.

Kudielka B.M., Bellingrath S. & Hellhammer D.H. (2006). Cortisol in burnout and vital exhaustion: an overview. Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia [Applied Psychology to Work and Rehabilitation Medicine], 28 Suppl.1:34-42.

Kudielka B.M., Federenko I.S., Hellhammer D.H. & Wüst S. (2006). Morningness and eveningness: the free cortisol rise after awakening in “early birds” and “night owls”. Biological Psychology, 72:141-6.

Kudielka B.M., von Känel R., Preckel D., Zgraggen L., Mischler, K. & Fischer J.E. (2006). Exhaustion is associated with reduced habituation of cortisol stress responses to repeated acute psychosocial stress. Biological Psychology, 72:147-53.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Preckel D., Hanebuth D. & Fischer J.E. (2006). Delayed response and lack of habituation in plasma interleukin-6 to acute mental stress in men. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 20:40-48.


2005

Kirschbaum C., Kudielka B.M., Wolf O.T. & Rohleder, N. (2005). Endokrinologie und Immunologie des höheren Lebensalters. In: S.-H. Filipp & U.M. Staudinger (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Themenbereich C Theorie und Forschung, Serie V Entwicklungspsychologie, Band 6 Entwicklungspsychologie des mittleren und höheren Erwachsenenalters, 173-208. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Kudielka, B.M. (2005). „Die Balance muss stimmen”. Interview. In: O.ton Das O2 Mitarbeitermagazin, 2:21.

Kudielka B.M., Hanebuth D., von Känel R., Gander M.-L., Grande G. & Fischer J.E. (2005). Health-related quality of life measured by the SF12 in working populations: Associations with psychosocial work characteristics. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 10(4):429-440.

Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2005). Sex differences in HPA axis responses to stress: a review. Biological Psychology, 69:113-132.

Mischler K., Fischer J.E., Zgraggen L., Kudielka B.M., Preckel D. & von Känel R. (2005). The effect of repeated acute mental stress on habituation and recovery responses in hemoconcentration and blood cells in healthy men. Life Sciences, 77:1166-1179.

Preckel D., von Känel R., Kudielka B.M. & Fischer J.E. (2005). Overcommitment to work is associated with vital exhaustion. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 78:117-22.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Hanebuth D., Preckel D. & Fischer J.E. (2005). Different contribution of interleukin-6 and cortisol activity to total plasma fibrin concentration and to acute mental stress-induced fibrin formation. Clinical Science, 109:61-67.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Preckel D., Hanebuth D., Herrmann-Lingen C., Frey K. & Fischer J.E. (2005). Opposite effect of negative affect and positive affect on stress procoagulant reactivity. Physiology & Behavior, 86:61-68.

Zgraggen L., Fischer J.E., Mischler, K., Preckel D., Kudielka B.M. & von Känel R. (2005). Relationship between hemoconcentration and blood coagulation responses to acute mental stress. Thrombosis Research, 115:175-83.


2004

Broderick J.E., Arnold D., Kudielka B.M., Kirschbaum C. & Stone A.A. (2004). Salivary cortisol sampling compliance: comparison of patients and healthy volunteers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29:636-650.

Grande G., Jordan J., Kümmel M., Struwe C., Schubmann R., Schulze F., Unterberg C., von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Fischer J.E. & Herrmann-Lingen C. (2004). [Evaluation of the German Type D Scale (DS14) and Prevalence of the Type D Personality Pattern in Cardiological and Psychosomatic Patients and Healthy Subjects.] Evaluation der deutschen Typ-D-Skala (DS14) und Prävalenz der Typ-D-Persönlichkeit bei kardiologischen und psychosomatischen Patienten sowie Gesunden. Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie, 54:413-422.

Kudielka B.M., Buske-Kirschbaum A., Hellhammer, D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2004). Differential heart rate reactivity and recovery after psychosocial stress in healthy children, younger adults, and elderly adults: the impact of age and gender. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 11:116-121.

Kudielka B.M., Buske-Kirschbaum A., Hellhammer, D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2004). HPA axis responses to laboratory psychosocial stress in healthy elderly adults, younger adults, and children: impact of age and gender. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29:83-98.

Kudielka B.M. & Kern S. (2004). Cortisol day profiles in victims of Mobbing (bullying at the work place): preliminary results of a first psychobiological field study. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 56:149-150.

Kudielka B.M., Schommer N.C., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2004). Acute HPA axis responses, heart rate, and mood changes to psychosocial stress (TSST) in humans at different times of day. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29:983-992.

Kudielka B.M., von Känel R., Gander M.-L. & Fischer J.E. (2004). Effort-reward imbalance, overcommitment and sleep in a working population. Work and Stress, 18:167-178.

Kudielka B.M., von Känel R., Gander M.-L. & Fischer J.E. (2004). The interrelationship of psychosocial risk factors related to coronary artery disease in a working population: do we measure distinct or overlapping psychological concepts? Behavioral Medicine, 30:35-43.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Abd-el-Razik A., Frey K. & Fischer J.E. (2004). Relationship between overnight neuroendocrine activity and morning haemostasis in working men. Clinical Science, 107:89-95.

von Känel R., Kudielka B.M., Schulze R., Gander M.-L. & Fischer J.E. (2004). Hypercoagulability in working men and women with high levels of panic-like anxiety. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 73:353-360.

von Känel R., Preckel D., Zgraggen L., Mischler, K., Kudielka B.M., Haeberli A. & Fischer J.E. (2004). The effect of natural habituation on coagulation responses to acute mental stress and recovery in men. Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 92:1327-1335.


2003

Kudielka B.M., Broderick, J.E. & Kirschbaum C. (2003). Compliance with saliva sampling protocols: electronic monitoring reveals invalid cortisol daytime profiles in noncompliant subjects. Psychosomatic Medicine, 65:313-319.

Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2003). Awakening cortisol responses are influenced by health status and awakening time but not by menstrual cycle phase. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 28:35-47.


2002

Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2002). Stress und Gesundheit. In: R. Schwarzer, M. Jerusalem & H. Weber (Eds.), Gesundheitspsychologie von A bis Z. Ein Handwörterbuch, pp. 562-564. Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Rohleder N., Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H., Engel R. & Kirschbaum C. (2002). Age and sex steroid-related changes in glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-inflammatory cytokine production after psychosocial stress. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 26:69-77.


2001

Kirschbaum C. & Kudielka B.M. (2001). Psychischer Stress und Cortisol – Was folgt aus der Wechselwirkung für die Behandlung von Addison-Patienten? Glandula, 14:25-27.

Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2001). Stress and health research. In: N.J. Smelser & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, Vol. 22, pp. 15170-15175. Oxford, England: Elsevier.

Kudielka B.M. & Wolf O.T. (2001). Östrogene unter der Lupe: Beeinflusst das „weibliche“ Geschlechtshormon die menschliche Stressreaktion und das verbale Gedächtnis? Menopause Praxis, 6:80-83.


2000

Kudielka B.M. (2000). Empirische Untersuchungen zur Regulation der Hypothalamus-Hypophysen-Nebennierenrindenachse: Der Einfluss von Alter, Geschlecht und Sexualsteroiden. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag. ISBN/ISSN 3897128160.

Kudielka B.M. (2000). Hormonpillen: Der Traum von Jugend und Glück. UGB-Forum. Fachzeitschrift für Gesundheitsförderung, 6:296-298.

Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2000). Sex differences in human stress response. In: G. Fink (Ed.), T. Cox, E.R. de Kloet, B.S. McEwen, N.R. Rose, N.J. Rothwell, R.T. Rubin, A. Steptoe, L. Swanson (associate Eds.), Encyclopedia of stress, 1st edition, vol. 3, pp. 424-429. San Diego: Academic Press.

Kudielka B.M., Schmidt-Reinwald A.K., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (2000). Psychosocial stress and HPA functioning: no evidence for a reduced resilience in elderly men. Stress, 3:229-240.

Wolf O.T., Preut R., Hellhammer D.H., Kudielka B.M. & Kirschbaum C. (2000). Testosterone and cognition in elderly men: a single testosterone injection blocks the practice effect in verbal fluency, but has no effect on spatial or verbal memory. Biological Psychiatry, 47:650-654.


1999

Kirschbaum C., Kudielka B.M., Gaab J., Schommer N.C. & Hellhammer D.H. (1999). Impact of gender, menstrual cycle phase, and oral contraceptives on the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 61:154-162.

Kudielka B.M., Schmidt-Reinwald A.K., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (1999). Psychological and endocrine responses to psychosocial stress and dexamethasone/corticotropin-releasing hormone in healthy postmenopausal women and young controls: The impact of age and a two-week estradiol treatment. Neuroendocrinology, 70:422-430.

Schommer N.C., Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H. & Kirschbaum C. (1999). No evidence for a close relationship between personality traits and circadian cortisol rhythm or a single cortisol stress response. Psychological Reports, 84:840-842.

Wolf O.T., Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H., Törber S., McEwen B.S. & Kirschbaum C. (1999). Two weeks of transdermal estradiol treatment in postmenopausal women and its effect on memory and mood: verbal memory changes are associated with the treatment induced estradiol increase. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 24:727-741.


1998

Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer J., Hellhammer D.H., Wolf O.T., Varadi E., Pilz J. & Kirschbaum C. (1998). Sex differences in endocrine and psychological responses to psychosocial stress in healthy elderly subjects and the impact of a 2-week dehydroepiandrosterone treatment. Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 83:1756-1761.

Wolf O.T., Kudielka B.M., Hellhammer D.H., Hellhammer J. & Kirschbaum C. (1998). Opposing effects of DHEA replacement in elderly subjects on declarative memory and attention after exposure to a laboratory stressor. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 23:617-629.


1997

Roth W.L., Klusemann J. & Kudielka B.M. (1997). „Lebenslust statt Alltagsfrust“ - Konzeption, Beschreibung und erste Evaluation eines Trainings zur Steigerung des psychischen Wohlbefindens. Report Psychologie, 22:858-871.



 


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