Publications of Pascal Vrticka

Vrticka, P., Simioni, S., Fornari, E., Schluep, M., Vuilleumier, P., & Sander, D. (2013). Neural substrates of social emotion regulation: A fMRI study on imitation and expressive suppression to dynamic facial signals. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00095

Vrticka, P., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2013). Lateralized interactive social content and valence processing within the human amygdala. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00358

Vrticka, P. (2012). Interpersonal closeness and social reward processing. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 12649–12650.

Vrticka, P., Bondolfi, G., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2012). The neural substrates of social emotion perception and regulation are modulated by adult attachment style. Social Neuroscience, 7, 473–493.

Vrticka, P., & Vuilleumier, P. (2012). Neuroscience of human social interactions and adult attachement style. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00212

Vrticka, P., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2012). Influence of adult attachment style on the perception of social and non-social emotional scenes. Journal of Social & Personal Relationships, 29, 530–544.

Vrticka, P., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2011). Effects of emotion regulation strategy on brain responses to the valence and social content of visual scenes. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1067–1082.

Vrticka, P., Andersson, F., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2009). Memory for friends and foes: The social context of past encounters with faces modulates their subsequent neural traces in the brain. Social Neuroscience, 4, 384–401.

Vrticka, P., Andersson, F., Grandjean, D., Sander, D., & Vuilleumier, P. (2008). Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisal. PLoS One, 3. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002868

Buchmann, A., Mondadori, C. R., Hänggi, J., Aerni, A., Vrticka, P., Luechinger, R., … Henke, K. (2008). Prion protein M129V polymorphism affects retrieval-related brain activity. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2389–2402.

Vrticka, P. (2017). The social neuroscience of attachment. In A. Ibáñez, L. Sedeño, & A. M. García (Eds.), Neuroscience and social science (pp. 95–119). Cham: Springer.

Vrticka, P., Favre, P., & Singer, T. (2017). Compassion and the brain. In P. Gilbert (Ed.), Compassion: Concepts, research and applications (pp. 135–150). London, UK: Routledge.

Vrticka, P. (2011). Stigmata: Their origin, purpose, and power. In N. Herschdorfer (Ed.), Afterwards. Contemporary photography confronting the past. London: Thames and Hudson. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-001A-1FEB-9

Puhlmann, L. M., Vrticka, P., Linz, R., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2021). Serum BDNF increase and the role of cortisol reduction following contemplative mental training. In Psychoneuroendocrinology (Vol. 131). Oxford: Pergamon. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105510

Puhlmann, L. M., Engert, V., Linz, R., Papassotiriou, I., Chrousos, G. P., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2020). Contemplative mental training increases serum BDNF levels with differing success depending on practice type and training sequence. In Psychoneuroendocrinology (Vol. 119). Oxford: Pergamon. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.105010

Engert, V., Vrticka, P., & Singer, T. (2019). No effect of distinct mental training types on basal or stress-induced plasma oxytocin levels. In Psychoneuroendocrinology (Vol. 107, pp. 54–54). Oxford: Pergamon.

Puhlmann, L. M., Vrticka, P., Linz, R., Stalder, T., Kirschbaum, C., Engert, V., & Singer, T. (2019). Different types of mental practice unspecifically reduce cortisol and cortisone exposure in hair. In Psychoneuroendocrinology (Vol. 107, pp. 22–22). Oxford: Pergamon.

Nguyen , Q. T., Schleihauf, H., Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Vrticka, P., & Hoehl, S. Neural synchrony in caregiver-child interactions: The role of interaction quality. Talk_at_event presented at the PaEpsy 2019: Gemeinsame Tagung der Fachgruppen Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, Leipzig, Germany. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-D6D6-9

Puhlmann, L. M., Valk, S. L., Engert, V., Bernhardt, B. C., Lin, J., Epel, E., … Singer, T. Telomere length change over nine months relates to cortical thickness change. Talk_at_event presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Rome, Italy. Retrieved from https://www.pathlms.com/ohbm/courses/12238/sections/15845/video_presentations/137966

Nguyen, T., Kayhan, E., Schleihauf, H., Matthes, D., Vrticka, P., & Hoehl, S. Neural synchrony in caregiver-child interactions: The role of attachment and sensitivity. Talk_at_event presented at the 2019 SRCD Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0004-D6F0-B