Research Areas
- Psychophysiology of attention and emotion
- Temporal dynamics of brain and behavior
- Psychophysiology of anxiety and mood disorders
- Signal processing of high density EEG and MEG data
- Methods: MEG, EEG, combined fMRI / EEG, TMS, tDSC, tSMS,performance measures
Selected Publications
Ligeza T, Vens MJ., Bluemer T & Junghöfer M (2023) Acute aerobic exercise benefits allocation of neural resources related to selective attention. Nature Scientific Reports, 13:8624, doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35534-5
Kroker T, Wyczesany M, Rehbein M, Roesmann K, Wessing I, Wiegand A, Bölte J & Junghöfer M (2023) Excitatory stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces cognitive gambling biases via improved feedback learning. Nature Scientific Reports, 13:17984, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43264-x
Roesmann K, Leehr EJ, Böhnlein J, Steinberg C, Seeger F, Schwarzmeier H, Gathmann B, Siminski N, Herrmann MJ, Dannlowski U, Lueken U, Klucken T, Straube T & Junghöfer M (2022) Behavioral and Magnetoencephalographic Correlates of Fear Generalization are associated with responses to later Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy in Spider Phobia, Biological Psychiatry-CNNI; 7(2) (221-230) doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.07.006
Roesmann K, Wiens N, Winker C, Rehbein MA, Wessing I & Junghöfer M (2020) Fear generalization of implicit conditioned facial features – Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic correlates, NeuroImage, 205:116302.
Notzon S, Steinberg C, Zwanzger P & Junghöfer M (2018) Shifting emotion regulation – opposite effects of inhibitory and excitatory prefrontal cortex stimulation. Biological Psychiatry-CNNI 3(4):329-336. doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2017.12.007
Wessing I, Romer G & Junghöfer M (2017) Hypervigilance-Avoidance in Children with Anxiety Disorders: Magnetoencephalographic Evidence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 58(1):103-112
Klinkenberg AG, Rehbein MA, Steinberg C, Klahn AL, Zwanzger Z, Zwitserlood P & Junghöfer M (2016) Healthy individuals maintain adaptive stimulus evaluation under predictable and unpredictable threat. NeuroImage; S1053-8119(16)30161-6
Junghöfer M, Bröckelmann AK, Küppers K, Ohrmann P & Pedersen A (2015) Abnormal affect-specific modulatory effects on early auditory processing of emotion-associated tones in schizophrenia: magnetoencephalographic evidence. Schizophrenia Research, 161(2-3), 308-313.
Zwanzger P, Steinberg C, Rehbein MA, Bröckelmann AK, Dobel C, Zavorotnyy M, Domschke K, & Junghöfer M (2014) Inhibitory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates early affective processing. Neuroimage. 101:193-203
Steinberg C, Dobel Ch, Schupp H, Kissler J, Elling L, Pantev C, & Junghöfer M (2012) Rapid and highly resolving: affective evaluation of olfactory conditioned faces. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(1), 17-27.
Bröckelmann AK, Steinberg C, Elling L, Zwanzger P, Pantev C, & Junghöfer M (2011) Emotion-associated tones attract enhanced attention at early auditory processing: magnetoencephalographic correlates. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(21), 7801-7810.
Academic CV
| 1985-1987 | Civil Service: Medical outpatient service, (replaces military service, 20 months) Caritas Society |
| 1991 | Diploma Geophysics, University of Münster, Department of Geophysics |
| 1991-1993 | Degree Physics, Siemens AG, Erlangen, dissertation Department of Medical Engineering |
| 1991-1993 | Assistant Research Scientist Siemens AG, Erlangen, Magnetoencephalography Research Group |
| 1994 | Diploma Physics, University of Münster, Department of Physics |
| 1995-1999 | Ph.D. Student University of Konstanz, Department of Clinical Psychology |
| 1999 | Ph.D. Dr. rer. nat., Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Konstanz, Department of Clinical Psychology |
| 1999-2000 | Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Florida, National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) Center for the study of Emotion and Attention |
| 2000-2003 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Konstanz, Department of Clinical Psychology |
| 2003-2004 | Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz, Department of General Psychology |
| 2004 | Junior-Professor, University of Konstanz, Department of General Psychology |
| 2005-2010 | Senior Research Scientist, Münster University Hospital, Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis |
| 2010 | Habilitation (Priv.-Doz.) for „Cognitive and affective Neuroscience“, University of Münster |
| 2013 | Professor (apl.), University of Münster |
| 2018 | Visiting Professor; University of Georgia; Department of Psychology |
Honours and Special Recognitions
| 1995 | Lienert Award for Methods in Biological Psychology of the University of Giessen, Germany |
| 1999 | Young Scientist Award of the German Society for Psychophysiological Research |
| 2000 | “Best dissertation of the Academic Year 1999” by the Foundation Science and Society of the University of Konstanz, Germany |
| 2010 | Poster Award, Steinberg & Junghöfer; Gesellschaft für Angstforschung, Berlin |
| 2012 | Poster Award, Bröckelmann & Junghöfer, NeuroVisionen, Bochum |
| 2013 | Poster Award, Klinkenberg & Junghöfer, Society for Psychophysiological Research, FlorencePoster Award, Klinkenberg & Junghöfer, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence |
| 2014 | Best Poster Award, Rehbein & Junghöfer, European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Dortmund |
| 2017 | Poster Award, Winker, Rehbein, … & Junghöfer, Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vienna |