Dr. Dirk Adolph

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Experimentelle Psychopathologie

Gegenwärtige und frühere akademische Positionen

• Seit 2010: Leiter der Forschungslabore an den Lehrstühlen für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie und Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie der Ruhr-Univerität Bochum.
• 2006-2010: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Psychologie, Abteilung Biologische Psychologie und Sozialpsychologie
• 2005-2006: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Psychologie, Abteilung Biologische Psychologie, Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (Prof. P. Pauli)

Akademische und psychotherapeutische Qualifikationen | Weiterbildungen

• 2011: Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. an der Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
• 2005: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Diplomarbeit mit dem Thema "Physiologische Reaktionen auf emotionale Stimuli: Ein Vergleich zwischen Gesichtern und Szenen"
• 2003: Charité Berlin Praktikum an der Klinik und Poliklinik für Allgemeinmedizin, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Charité Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
• 1997-2005: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Studium der Psychologie (Dipl.)
• 1994-1997: Universität Bielefeld Studium der Pädagogik (Dipl.) an der Universität Bielefeld

Funktionen | Mitgliedschaften in Fachgesellschaften | Ehrenämter

• Seit 2013: Mitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
• Seit 2010: European Chemoreception Research Organisation (ECRO)
• Seit 2006: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung (DGPA)

Forschungsprojekte

• 2013-2014: Dreiebenen-Evaluation der Therapie psychischer Störungen" Gefördert durch das Rektoratsprogramm der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• 2013-2015: "Embodiment und Depression" in Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Johannes Michalak (Universität Hildesheim). Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

• 2024

  • Adolph, D., & Margraf, J. (2024). Differential effects of trait-like emotion regulation use and situational emotion regulation ability across the affective and anxiety disorders spectrum: a transdiagnostic examination, Scientific Reports , DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-76425-7
  • Hilbert, K., Böhnlein, J., Meinke, C., Chavanne, A.V., Langhammer, T., Stumpe, L., Winter, N., LeeningsR., Adolph, D., Arolt, V., Bischoff, S., Cwik; J.C., Deckert, J., Domschke, K., Fydrich, T., Gathmann, B., Hamm, A.O., Heinig, I., Herrmann, M.J., Hollandt, M., Hoyer, J., Junghöfer, M., Kircher, T., Koelkebeck, K., Lotze, M., Margraf, J., Mumm, J.L.M., Neudeck, P., Pauli, P., Pittig, A., Plag, J., Richter, J., Ridderbusch, I.C., Rief, W., Schneider, S., Schwarzmeier, H., Seeger, F.R., Siminski, N., Straube, B., Straube, T., Ströhle, A., Wittchen, H.-U., Wroblewski, A., Yang, Y., Roesmann, K., Leehr, E.J., Dannlowski, U., & Lueken, U. (2024). Lack of evidence for predictive utility from resting state fMRI data for individual exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy outcomes: a machine learning study in two large multi-site samples in anxiety disorders. Neuroimage, 295: 120639, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120639
  • Konrad, C., Neuhoff, L., Adolph, D., Goerigk, S., Herbert, J.S., Jagusch-Poirier, J., Weigelt, S., Seehagen, S. & Schneider, S. (2024). Associative learning via eyeblink conditioning differs by age from infancy to adulthood. Communications Psychololgy, 2: 118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00176-4
  • Langhammer,T., Hilbert, K., Adolph, D., Arolt, V., Bischoff, S., Böhnlein, J., Cwik, J.C., Dannlowski, U., Deckert, J. Domschke, K., Evens, R., Fydrich, T., Hamm, A.O., Heinig, I., Herrmann, M.J., Hollandt, M., Kircher, T., Koelkebeck, K., Leehr, E.J., Lotze, M., Margraf, J., Mumm, J.L.M., Pittig, A., Plag, J., Richter, J., Ridderbusch, I. C., Schneider, S., Ströhle, A., Szeska, C., Wittchen, H.-U., Wroblewski, A., Yang, Y., Straube, B, & Lueken, U. (2024). Resting-state Functional Connectivity in Anxiety Disorders: A Multicenter fMRI Study. Molecular Psychiatry, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02768-2

• 2023

  • Opdensteinen, K.D., Rach, H., Gruszka, P., Schaan, L., Adolph, D., Pané-Farré, C.A., Benke, C., Dierolf, A.M., Schneider, S. & Hechler, T. (2023). The mere imagination scares me – Evidence for fear responses during mental imagery of pain-associated interoceptive sensations in adolescents with chronic pain. Pain. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003041
  • Schopf, K., Schneider, S., Meyer, A. H., Lennertz, J., Humbel, N., Bürgy, N. M., Wyssen, A., Biedert, E., Isenschmidt, B., Milos, G., Trier, S., Whinyates, K., Adolph, D., Teismann, T., Margraf, J., Assion, H.-J-., Überberg, B., Juckel, G., Müller, J., Klauke, B. & Munsch, S. (2023). Eating disorder treatment in routine clinical care: A descriptive study examining treatment characteristics and short-term treatment outcomes among patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in Germany and Switzerland. Plos One, 18(6), e0280402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280402
  • Würtz, F., Steinman, S., Blackwell, S.E., Wilhelm, F.H., Reinecke, A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., & Woud, M.  (2023). Effects of Training Body-Related Interpretations on Panic-Related Cognitions and Symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Research. doi: /10.1007/s10608-023-10358-9
  • Adolph, D., Teismann, T., Wannemüller, A., & Margraf, J. (2023). Fear conditioning and extinction learning in the mood and anxiety disorders spectrum–Associations with the outcome of cognitive behavior therapy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 160, 104229. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2022.104229

  2022

  • Wroblewski, A., Hollandt, M., Yang, Y., Ridderbusch, I. C., Pietzner, A., Szeska, C., Lotze, M., Wittchen, H.-U., Heinig, I., Pittig, A., Arolt, V., Koelkebeck, K., Rothkopf, C.A., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., Lueken, U., Pauli, P., Herrmann, M.J., Winkler, M.H., Ströhle, A., Dannlowski, U., Kircher, T., Hamm, A.o., Straube, B.  & Richter, J. (2022). Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear: How Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety impact fear acquisition, extinction and the return of fear. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 181: 125-140. Doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.09.001
  • Flasinski, T., Sommer, K., Schneider, S., Margraf, J., Christiansen, H., Hamm, A.O., Knappe, S., Pauli, P., Richter, J., Tuschen-Caffier, B. & Adolph, D., (2022). Identifying characteristics of non-completers in fear conditioning paradigms with children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, April-June: 1-9. Doi: 10.1177/20438087221108291
  • Adolph, D., Flasinski, T., Lippert, M. W., Pflug, V., Hamm, A. O., Richter, J., Margraf, J. & Schneider, S. (2022). Measuring extinction learning across the lifespan – Adaptation of an optimized paradigm to closely match exposure treatment procedures. Biological Psychology, 170, 108311. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108311
  • Michalak, J., Niemeyer, H., Tschacher, W., Baumann, N. & Adolph, D. (2022). Subjective and objective measures of activity in depressed and non-depressed individuals in everyday life. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. Apri-June: 1-8. Doi: 10.1177/20438087221092582

  2021

  • Adolph, D., Margraf, J., & Schneider, S. (2021). Your Fear is My Fear: The Relationship Between Parental and Offspring Anxieties. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52(5), 772-781.DOI 10.1007/s10578-020-01060-y
  • Adolph, D., Tschacher, W., Niemeyer, H., & Michalak, J. (2021). Gait patterns and mood in everyday life: A comparison between depressed patients and non-depressed controls. Cognitive therapy and research, 45(6), 1128-1140.DOI:10.1007/s10608-021-10215-7
  • Munsch, S., Messerli-Bürgy, N., Meyer, A. H., Humbel, N., Schopf, K., Wyssen, A., Forrer, F., Biedert, E., Lennertz, J., Trier, S., Isenschmid, B., Milos, G., Claussen, M., Whinyates, K., Adolph, D., Margraf, J., Assion, H.-J., Teismann, T., Ueberberg, B., . . . Schneider, S. (2021). Consequences of exposure to the thin ideal in mass media depend on moderators in young women: An experimental study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 130(5), 498–511. Doi: org/10.1037/abn0000676

  2020

  • Konrad, C., Adolph, D., Herbert, J. S., Neuhoff, L., Mohr, C., Jagusch-Poirier, J., Seehagen, S., Weigelt, S., & Schneider, S. (2020). A new 3-day standardized Eyeblink Conditioning Protocol to Assess Extinction Learning from Infancy to Adulthood. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(135), 1–15.

  2019

  • Raeder, F. & Woud, M., Schneider, S. & Totzeck, T., Adolph, D., Margraf, J. & Zlomuzica, A. (2019). Reactivation and Evaluation of Mastery Experiences Promotes Exposure Benefit in Height Phobia. Cognitive Therapy and Research. 1-11. 10.1007/s10608-019-10018-x.

  2018

  • Adolph, D., Teismann, T., Forkmann, T., Wannemüller, A. & Margraf, J. (2018). High Frequency Heart Rate Variability: Evidence for a transdiagnostic association with suicidality. Biological Psychology, 138, 165-171. Doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.09.006
  • Gruszka, P., Schaan, L., Adolph, D., Pané-Farré, C.A., Benke, C., Schneider, S. & Hechler, T. (2018). Defence response mobilization in response to provocation or imagery of interoceptive sensations in adolescents with chronic pain: a study protocol Pain Reports, 3: e630. Doi: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000680
  • Humbel, N, Messerli-Bürgy, N., Schuck, K., Wyssen, A., Garcia-Burgos, D., Biedert, E., Lennertz, J., Meyer, A.H., Whinyates, K., Isenschmidt, B., Milos, G., Trier, S., Adolph, D., Cwik, J., Margraf, J., Assion, H.J., Teismann, T., Überberg, B., Juckel, G., Müller, J., Klauke, B., Schneider, S. & Munsch, S. (2018). Self-reported emotion regulation difficulties are associated with mood but not with the biological stress response to thin ideal exposure. PlosOne, 13, e0199769. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199769
  • Wannemüller, A., Moser, D., Kumsta, R., Jöhren, H.P., Adolph, D. & Margraf, J. (2018). Mechanisms, Genes and Treatment: Experimental Fear Conditioning, the Serotonin Transporter Gene, and the Outcome of a Highly Standardized Exposure-based Fear Treatment. Behavior Research and Therapy, Doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2018.06.003
  • Woud ML, Cwik JC, Blackwell SE, Kleim B, Holmes EA, Adolph D., Zhang, H. & Margraf, J. (2018) Does napping enhance the effects of Cognitive Bias Modification-Appraisal training? An experimental study. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0192837.

  2017

  • Adolph, D., von Glischinski, M., Wannemüller, A., & Margraf, J. (2017). The influence of frontal alpha-asymmetry on the processing of approach and withdrawal related stimuli – A multichannel psychophysiology study. Psychophysiology, 54, 1295-1310, doi: 10.1111/psyp.12878
  • Adolph, D., & Margraf, J. (2017). The differential relationship between Trait Anxiety, Depression and resting Frontal α-Asymmetry. Journal of Neural Transmission, 124, 379-386. doi: 10.1007/s00702-016-1664-9
  • Adolph, D., Schlacht, A., & Margraf, J. (2017). Predicting symptom severity and therapy outcome? An RDOC approach using high frequency heart rate variability and fear conditioning.Psychophysiology, 54, 138.
  • Bauer, A., Schneider, S., Waldorf, M., Adolph, D. & Vocks, S. (2017). Familial transmission of a body-related attentional bias - An eye-tracking study in a nonclinical sample of female adolescents and their mothers. PLoS ONE. 12(11): e0188186.
  • Bauer, A., Schneider, S., Waldorf, M., Braks, K., Huber, T. J., Adolph, D., & Vocks, S. (2017). Selective visual attention towards oneself and associated state body satisfaction: An eye-tracking study in adolescents with different types of eating disorders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, Doi: 10.1007/s10802-017-0263-z

  2016

  • Adolph, D., Schneider, S., & Margraf, J. (2016). German Anxiety Barometer - Clinical and Everyday-Life Anxieties in the General Population. Frontiers in Psychology. 7:1344. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01344
  • Herten, N., Otto, T., Adolph, D., Pause, B.M., Kumsta, R., & Wolf, O.T. (2016). Enhanced startle responsivity 24 hours after acute stress exposure. Behavioral Neuroscience. 130, 521-530. doi: 10.37/bne0000156
  • Velten, J., Scholten, S., Graham, C.A., Adolph, D., & Margraf, J. (2016). Investigating female sexual concordance: Do sexual excitation and sexual inhibition moderate the agreement of genital and subjective sexual arousal in women? Archives of Sexual Behavior. 45: 1957. doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0774-7
  • Wannemüller, A., Adolph, D., Blackwell, S. & Margraf, J. (2016). Psychophysiological reactivity of currently dental phobic-, remitted dental phobic- and never-dental phobic individuals during exposure to dental-related and other affect-inducing materials. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 90: 76-86. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2016.12.009
  • Wannemüller, A., Appelbaum, D., Küppers, M., Matten, A., Teismann, T., Adolph, D., & Margraf, J. (2016). Large Group Exposure Treatment: A feasability Study in High Spider Fearful Individuals. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 1183.

  2015

  • Machulska, A., Zlomuzica, A., Adolph, D., Rinck, M., & Margraf, J. (2015). A Cigarette a Day Keeps the Goodies Away: Smokers Show Automatic Approach Tendencies for Smoking But Not for Food-Related Stimuli. PLoS ONE 10,2, e0116464, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116464

  2014

  • Mosig, C., Merz, C., Mohr, C., Adolph, D., Wolf, O.T., Schneider, S., Margraf, J., & Zlomuzica, A. (2014). Enhanced discriminative fear learning of phobia-irrelevant stimuli in spider-fearful individuals. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8:328. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00328
  • Rohde, K., Adolph, D., Dietrich, D.E. & Michalak, J. (2014). Mindful Attention Regulation and Non-judgmental Orientation in Depression: A multi-method approach. Biological Psychology. 101, 36-43. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.06.009
  • Zlomuzica, A., Dere, D., Machulska, A., Adolph, D., Dere, E. & Margraf, J. (2014) Episodic memories in anxiety disorders: Clinical implications. Frontiers in Behavioral Neurosciences, doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00131

  2013

  • Adolph, D., Meister, L. & Pause, B.M. (2013). Context counts! Social anxiety modulates the processing of fearful faces in the context of chemosensory anxiety signals. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:283. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00283

  2012

  • Adolph, D. & Pause, B.M. (2012). Different time course of emotion regulation towards odors and pictures: Are odors more potent than pictures? Biological Psychology, 91, 65-73.

  2011

  • Alpers, G.W., Adolph, D., & Pauli, P. (2011). Emotional scenes and facial expressions elicit different psychophysiological responses. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 80, 173-181.

  2010

  • Adolph, D., Schlösser, S., Hawighorst, M. & Pause, B.M. (2010). Chemosensory signals of competition increase the skin conductance response in humans, Physiology & Behavior, 101, 666-671.
  • Adolph, D. & Alpers, G.W. (2010) Valence and arousal: A comparison of two sets of emotional facial expressions. American Journal of Psychology , 123(2), 209-219.
  • Pause, B.M., Jungbluth, C., Adolph, D., Pietrowsky, R. & Dere, E. (2010). Induction and measurement of episodic memories in healthy adults. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 189(1), 88-96.

  2009

  • Pause, B.M., Adolph, D., Prehn-Kristensen, A. & Ferstl, R. (2009). Startle response potentiation to chemosensory anxiety signals in socially anxious individuals. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 74(2), 88-92.

  2008

  • Alpers, G.W. & Adolph, D. (2008). Exposure to Heights in a Theme Park: Fear, Dizziness, and Body Sway. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22(4), 591-601.

  2007

  • Pause, B.M., Adolph, D., Prehn, A., Ohrt, A., Laudien, J.H., Sojka, B., Ferstl, R. (2007). Perception of chemosensory anxiety signals in socially anxious subjects. Chemical Senses, 32: A56

  2006

  • Alpers, G. W., & Adolph, D. (2006). Startle and autonomic nervous system modulation while viewing emotional scenes or emotional facial expressions. Psychophysiology, 43: S7.

  2004

  • Deter, H.-C., Weber, C., Adolph, D., Stehle, S., Blum, B., Martienssen, R. & Kallenbach, B. (2004). From Applied Psychosomatic Medicine to Integrated Medicine – Experiences with the Steglitz Allocated Bed Model. Psychotherapie Psychosomatik medizinische Psychologie, 54, 161-164.

   

  Buchbeiträge

  2012

  • Adolph, D. (2012). Begriffsdefinitionen. In J. Margraf & W. Maier (Hrsg.). Pschyrembel Psychiatrie, Klinische Psychologie, Psychotherapie (2. Aufl.), Berlin: DeGruyter.