Research Areas

• Executive functioning and learning in neuropsychiatric disorders
• Functional MRI of emotional and cognitive processes in neuropsychiatric disorders
• 1H-MR spectroscopy in neuropsychiatric disorders with a focus on the glutamatergic/ GABAergic system

Selected Publications

Stroux D, Shushakova A, Geburek-Höfer AJ, Ohrmann P, Rist F, Pedersen A (2016). Deficient interference control during working memory updating in adults with ADHD: An event-related potential study. Clin Neurophysiol. 127(1):452-63

Bauer J, Pedersen A, Scherbaum N, Bening J, Patschke J, Kugel H, Heindel W, Arolt V, Ohrmann P (2013). Craving in alcohol-dependent patients after detoxification is related to glutamatergic dysfunction in the nucleus accumbens and the anterior cingulate cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology 38(8):1401-8.

Wilmsmeier A, Ohrmann P, Suslow T, Siegmund A, Koelkebeck K, Rothermundt M, Kugel H, Arolt V, Bauer J, Pedersen A (2010). Neural correlates of set-shifting: decomposing executive functions in schizophrenia. J Psychiatry Neurosci. 35(5):321-9.

Kersting A#, Ohrmann P#, Pedersen A, Kroker K, Samberg D, Bauer J, Kugel H, Koelkebeck K, Steinhard J, Heindel W, Arolt V, Suslow T (2009). Neural activation underlying acute grief in women after the loss of an unborn child. Am J Psychiatry 166(12):1402-10. # shared first authorship

Ohrmann P, Kugel H, Bauer J, Siegmund A, Kölkebeck K, Suslow T, Wiedl KH, Rothermundt M, Arolt V, Pedersen A (2008). Learning potential on the WCST in schizophrenia is related to the neuronal integrity of the anterior cingulate cortex as measured by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Schizophr Res. 106(2-3):156-63.

Academic CV