I am currently Principal Investigator for the DFG-funded project (GEPRISlooking at the way memory is processed in people with PTSD. Specifically, I use EEG and tACS to examine potential neurophysiological correlates of contextual memory dysfunction in people with traumatic life experiences.
 
My work in a previous project lead by Daniel Senkowski examined multisensory processing in Schizophrenia, using EEG.
  
I have also been active more directly in social psychiatry research in collaboration with Prof. Meryam Schouler-Ocak, as well as being in the advanced stages of my training as a psychotherapist (Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapy). 
 
Education:
 
Dr. rer. nat. (University of Konstanz);
Master of Science (Psychology), University of Konstanz
B. Psych (Hons) (Macquarie University, Sydney)
 
Clinical Work: 
 
Candidate Psychotherapist (Psychoanalyse & Tiefenpsychologie - ongoing, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie, Berlin, APB)
Internships completed at Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic at St Hedwig Hospital, Berlin
 
Teaching:
 
Since 2017: Charité Medical School Berlin; Learning and Memory; M24 Course Neuroimaging of Affective Disorders
SS 2016 Uni Konstanz: "Diagnostic Assessment of PTSD" (Master) (2SWS)
WS 2015-2016: "Brain Development across the Lifespan and Plasticity" (Bachelor) (2SWS)
"PTSD Diagnostics" (Master)
 
Selected publications: 
 
Schizophrenia & Multisensory processing
 

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: Clinicalhttps://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 Psychiatry10, 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 Psychiatry37(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 Open6(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 Psychiatry35(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 Psychiatry35(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 neuroscience273(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 Psychologyhttps://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-Neuroforum23(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.

 

 

Contact:

Dr. James Moran, M.Sc. (Psychology)
AG Multisensory Integration
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
Campus Charité Mitte
Chariteplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Telefon: +49-30-450 517 029

 

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