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James Kenneth Moran
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Moran J. K. & Senkowski D. (2025). Intersensory attention deficits in schizophrenia relate to ongoing sensorimotor beta oscillations. NPJ Schizophrenia
Senkowski, D., & Moran, J. K. (2022). Early evoked brain activity underlies auditory and audiovisual speech recognition deficits in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102909
Keil, J., Senkowski, D., & Moran, J. K. (2022). Early and late evoked brain responses differentially reflect feature encoding and perception in the flash-lag illusion. NeuroImage, 246, 118787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118787.
Moran, J. K., Keil, J., Masurovsky, A., Gutwinski, S., Montag, C., & Senkowski, D., (2021). Multisensory Processing can compensate for top-down attention deficits in Schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex, 31(12), 5536–5548, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab177
Speer, L., Schuler, M., Keil, J., Moran, J. K., Pantazidis, P., Amelung, T., ... & Senkowski, D. (2020). Sexual preference for prepubescent children is associated with enhanced processing of child faces in juveniles. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-14.
Moran, J. K., Michail, G., Heinz, A., Keil, J., & Senkowski, D. (2019). Long-range temporal correlations in resting state beta oscillations are reduced in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 517. [shared first author]
Social Psychiatry
Schouler-Ocak, M., & Moran, J. K. (2024). Anxiety and mood disorders in forcibly displaced people across the world. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 37(1), 18-22.
Moran, J. K., Jesuthasan, J., Schalinski, I., Kurmeyer, C., Oertelt-Prigione, S., Abels, I., ... & Schouler-Ocak, M. (2023). Traumatic life events and association with depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in female refugees. JAMA Network Open, 6(7), e2324511-e2324511.
Mylord, M., Moran, J. K., Özler, G., Nassar, R., Anwarzay, S., Hintz, S. J., & Schouler-Ocak, M. (2023). The dynamics of discrimination, resilience, and social support in the mental health of migrants with and without citizenship. International Review of Psychiatry, 35(3-4), 352-361. [shared first author]
Schouler-Ocak, M., & Moran, J. K. (2023). Racial discrimination and its impact on mental health. International Review of Psychiatry, 35(3-4), 268-276.
Kippe, Y. D., Adam, M., Finck, A., Moran, J. K., Schouler-Ocak, M., Bermpohl, F., ... & Goldschmidt, T. (2023). Suicidality in psychiatric emergency department situations during the first and the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 273(2), 311-323.
Gutwinski, S., Westerbarkey, E., Schouler-Ocak, M., Moran, J. K., & Schreiter, S. (2021) Housing Satisfaction of Psychiatric Patients in Different Forms of Housing-A Cross-Sectional Study in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.
Moran, J. K., Bretz, J., Winkler, J., Gutwinski, S., Brandl, E. J., & Schouler-Ocak, M. (2021) The Differential Impact of Lockdown Measures Upon Migrant and Female Psychiatric Patients – A Cross-Sectional Survey in a Psychiatric Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.642784
Winkler, J. G., Masah, D. J., Moran, J. K., Bretz, J., Tsagkas, I., Goldschmidt, T., & Schouler-Ocak, M. (2021). Psychische Belastung während der COVID-19-Pandemie: Konsequenzen für psychiatrisch Erkrankte und therapeutische Implikationen. Der Nervenarzt, 1-9.
Trauma & Aggression
Orang, T, Ayoughi, S., Moran, J. K., Ghaffari, H., Mostafavi, S., Rasoulian, M., & Elbert, T. (2018). The efficacy of Narrative Exposure Thereapy (NET) in a sample of Iranian women exposed to ongoing intimate partner violence (IPV); A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 25(6), 827-841.
Elbert, T., Schauer, M., & Moran, J. K. (2018). Two pedals drive the bi-cycle of violence: reactive and appetitive aggression. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.03.016
Moran, J. K., Crombach, A., Elbert, T., Nandi, C., Bambonyé, M., Wienbruch, C., Lommen, U., Weierstall, R. (2017). The individual contribution of DSM 5 symptom clusters of PTSD, life events, and childhood adversity to frontal oscillatory brain asymmetry in a large sample of active combatants. Biological Psychology, 129, 305-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.09.014
Haer, R., Hermenau, K., Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Hecker, T. (2017). The role of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in committing violence during combat: A cross-sectional study with former combatants in the DR Congo. Aggressive Behavior.
Schalinski, I., Moran, J. K., Elbert, T., Reindl, V., & Wienbruch, C. (2017). Oscillatory Magnetic Brain Activity is Related to Dissociative Symptoms and Childhood Adversities–A Study in Women with Multiple Trauma. Journal of Affective Disorders. 218, 428-436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.05.009
Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Schauer, M. (2017). Lust an Gewalt: appetitive Aggression als Teil der menschlichen Natur. e-Neuroforum, 23(2), 96-104. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2016-0056
Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Schauer, M. (2016). Appetitive Aggression, in B. J. Bushman (Ed.) "Agression and Violence: A Social Psychological Perspective (Frontiers of Social Psychology)", Routledge: New York.
Moran, J. K., Dietrich, D. R., Elbert, T., Pause, B. M., Kübler, L., & Weierstall, R. (2015). The Scent of Blood: A Driver of Human Behavior?. PloS one. 10(9), e137777.
Moran, J., Weierstall, R., & Elbert, T. (2014). Differences in brain circuitry for appetitive and reactive aggression as revealed by realistic auditory scripts. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8. 425.
Schalinski, I., Moran, J., Schauer, M., & Elbert, T. (2014). Rapid emotional processing in relation to trauma-related symptoms as revealed by magnetic source imaging. BMC Psychiatry, 14(1), 193.
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Daniel Senkowski
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Academic background
2020: | Approbation in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Berliner Fortbildungsakademie | |
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Supervision of Neuropsychological Assessments, Charité Berlin
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2015 - : | Head of the Computational Neuroimaging Division, Charité Berlin | |
2012 - : | Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, Charité Berlin | |
2011 - : | Head of the Research Group Multisensory Integration, Charité Berlin | |
2010: | Habilitation and venia legendi in Psychology, University of Hamburg | |
2006-2011: | Head of the Research Group Elektroencephalography, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf | |
2005-2006: | Adjunct Professorship, Department of Psychology, City College of New York, USA | |
2004-2006: |
Postdoctoral fellow, Nathan S. Kline Institute für Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY |
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2004: | Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig | |
2002-2003: | Visiting researcher, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, North Carolina | |
2000: | Diploma in Psychology, Free University Berlin |
Grants
Principle Investigator
Since 2023: | "Working memory dysfunction in schizophrenia: an investigation of multivariate activation pattern and neural synchrony", Co-Investigators: Paul Sauseng (LMU Munich) and Radoslaw Cichy (FU Berlin); German Research Foundation | |
Since 2022: | "Examining the neural network dynamics underlying the temporal window of crossmodal perception", Co-Investigator: Tim Rohe (FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg); German Research Foundation | |
2016 -2020: | "Role of aberrant neural oscillations for multisensory processing deficits in schizophrenia"; German Research Foundation | |
2014-2017: | "Neural signatures of intersensory selective attention: investigating the role of neural synchrony and functional network properties", Co-Investigator: Julian Keil (Kiel University); German Research Foundation | |
2014-2016: | "Analysis and Visualization of Neural Oscillations in Electrocorticographic Singals", Co-PI: Thomas Thesen (NYU); National Institute of Health and Federal Ministry of Education and Research | |
2011-2016: | "The multisensory mind: from neural mechanisms to cognition", ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council. | |
2008-2013: | "Multisensory processing of pain: An investigation of neural binding mechanisms in electrophysiological and hemodynamic brain responses", Co-Investigators: Michael Hauck, Andreas K. Engel (UKE Hamburg), German Research Foundation | |
2010: | "Examining speech processing in bilateral cochlear implant users", Young Investigator Research Fund of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
Co-Investigator
Since 2022: | "Neural signatures of contextual memory in post-traumatic stress disorder", PI: James Moran (Charite Berlin), German Research Foundation | |
2014-2016: | "Predicting the multisensory future: Role of neuronal connectivity for integrative information processing across modalities", PI: Julian Keil (University Kiel), German Research Foundation | |
2011-2012: | "Multisensory form processing in extrastriate visual cortex", PI: John J. Foxe (University of Rochester), RO1, National Science Foundation | |
2004-2008: | "The neurophysiology of multisensory integration", PI: John J. Foxe, RO1 National Institute of Mental Health | |
2004-2007: | "Electrophysiological correlates of cognitive processes: ERP and fMRI studies of the early pre-attentive mechanisms by which the auditory system organizes auditory information", Co-Applicant: John J. Foxe, RO1, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
Awards
2017: | Replication Study Award of the Berlin Institute of Health, Multiensory Research article "Individual alpha frequency relates to the sound-induced flash illusion" by Keil and Senkowski | |
2010: | Best Paper of the Year, Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology, TICS article: "The multifaceted interplay between attention and multisensory integration" by Talsma, Senkowski, Soto-Faraco, Woldorff | |
2006: | NARSAD Young Investigator Award, Project: The Cocktail Party Phenomenon in Schizophrenia. Brain & Behavior Research Foundation |
Teaching
Since 2011: | Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - University Medicine Berlin |
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2012-2015: | Department of Psychology, Free University of Berlin |
Practical Course: Empirical Practicum
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Department of Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology, University Hamburg | Lectures: Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience; Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
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Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf |
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2005-2006: | Department of Psychology, City College of New York, USA | Seminar: Advanced Experimental Design; The Synaptic Self |
Publications
N = 62 peer review articles (21 first author, 24 senior author)
Google Scholar (08/24): > 5400 citations, h-index = 35
Representative articles
Senkowski D and Engel AK. 2024. Multi-timescale neural dynamics for multisensory integration. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 25:625-642 (Abstract) |
Michail G, Senkowski D, Holtkamp M, Wachter B, Keil J. 2022. Early beta oscillations in multisensory association areas underlie crossmodal performance enhancement. Neuroimage 257:119307 (PDF) |
Michail G, Senkowski D, Niedeggen M, Keil J (2021). Memory load alters perception-related oscillations during multisensory integration. Journal of Neuroscience. 41: 1505-1515 (Abstract) |
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Balz J, Keil J, Roa Romero Y, Mekle R, Schubert F, Aydin S, Ittermann B, Gallinat J, Senkowski D. 2016. GABA concentration in superior temporal sulcus predicts gamma power and perception in the sound-induced flash illusion. Neuroimage 125: 724-730. (Abstract) |
Schneider TR, Lorenz S, Senkowski D, Engel AK. 2011. Gamma-band activity as a signature for cross-modal priming of auditory object recognition by active haptic exploration. Journal of Neuroscience. 2011. 31:2502-2510 (Abstract) |
Talsma D, Senkowski D, Soto-Faraco S, Woldorff MG. 2010. The multifaceted interplay between attention and multisensory integration. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14: 400-410. (Abstract) |
Senkowski D, Schneider TR, Foxe JJ, Engel AK. 2008. Crossmodal binding by neural coherence: Implications for multisensory processing. Trends in Neurosciences 31: 401-409. (Abstract)
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Cerebral Cortex. 16:1556-1565. (Abstract) | 2006. Oscillatory beta activity predicts response speed during a multisensory audiovisual reaction time task: a high-density electrical mapping study.
- Moran JK. 2025 and Senkowski D. Intersensory attention deficits in schizophrenia relate to ongoing sensorimotor beta oscillations. Schizophrenia 19 (PDF)
- Senkowski D, Ziegler T, Singh M, Heinz A, He J, Silk T, Lorenz RC. 2024. Assessing inhibitory control deficits in adult ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the stop-signal task. Neuropsychol Rev. 34:548-567 (PDF)
- Keil J, Senkowski D, Moran JK. 2022. Early and late evoked brain responses differentially reflect feature encoding and perception of the flash-lag illusion. Neuroimage. 246:118787 (PDF)
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Speer L, Schuler M, Keil J, Moran JK, Pantazidis P, Amelung T, Florack J, Beier KM, Senkowski D. 2022. Sexual preference for prepubescent children is associated with enhanced processing of child faces in juveniles. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. (Abstract)
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- Senkowski D, Pomper U, Fitzner I, Engel AK, Kral A. 2014. Beta-band activity in auditory pathways reflects speech localization and recognition in bilateral cochlear implant users. Hum Brain Mapp. 35:3107-3121. (PDF)
Books and book chapter
Editorial work
2013- : | Review Editor, Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation | |
2010- : | Scientific Review Associate, European Journal of Neuroscience | |
2009: | Guest Editor, Experimental Brain Research, Special issue on Crossmodal Processing Volume 198, Numbers 2-3 / September 2009 | |
2008- : | Review Editor, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience |
Ad hoc reviewer
Mathis Kaiser
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Now affiliated with Science of Intelligence
Academic Background:
10/2007 - 02/2014: Diploma in Psychology, University of Konstanz
01/2013 - 06/2014: Research assistance at the Neuroelectromagnetic Oscillations Lab, University of Konstanz
08/2012 - 10/2012: Internship at the MEG Lab, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
05/2011 - 07/2011: Internship at the Critical Hermeneutics Lab, York University, Toronto, Canada
09/2010 - 04/2011: Study Exchange at York University, Toronto, Canada
11/2008 - 06/2010: Research assistance at the Ongoing-Brain-Oscillations-and-Behavior Lab, University of Konstanz
Publications:
Peer-reviewed articles:
Kaiser, M., Senkowski, D., Busch, N. A., Balz, J., & Keil, J. (2019). Single trial prestimulus oscillations predict perception of the sound-induced flash illusion. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 5983. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42380-x
Kaiser, M., Senkowski, D., Roa Romero, Y., Riecke, L., & Keil, J. (2018). Reduced low-frequency power and phase locking reflect restoration in the auditory continuity illusion. European Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13861
Conference Papers and Presentations:
Kaiser, M., Senkowski, D., Keil, J. (2016, November). Oscillatory EEG activity in the ventriloquist illusion. Poster abstract presented at the 46th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California
Kaiser, M., Roa Romero, Y., Riecke, L., Senkowski, D., Keil, J. (2016, May). Filling-in: Interaction effect on delta brain oscillations in the auditory continuity illusion. Poster abstract presented at the 42nd Conference Psychologie & Gehirn, Berlin, Germany
Kaiser, M., Balz, J., Senkowski, D., Keil, J. (2015, June). The Role of prestimulus oscillatory power and functional connectivity in the sound-induced flash illusion. Poster presented at the 16th International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa, Italy
Kaiser, M., Popov, T. , & Dalal, SS. (2014, August). The electroretinogram exhibits eyes-closed alpha oscillations that couple with visual cortex. Poster presented at the 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism, Halifax, Canada
Book chapters:
Kaiser, M., & Cromby, J. (2014). Neuroscience. In T. Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology (pp. 1243–1248). New York, NY: Springer
Contact:
Dipl. Psych. Mathis Kaiser
Multisensory Integration Research Group
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
St. Hedwig Hospital
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Große Hamburger Str. 5-11
10115 Berlin
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