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Schnitzspahn KM, Plessow F, Kirschbaum C, Wong YH, Kliegel M. Acute psychosocial stress impairs intention initiation in young but not older adults. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2022 Jan;135:105593. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105593. Epub 2021 Nov 16. PubMed PMID: 34823141.
Becker KR, Mancuso C, Dreier MJ, Asanza E, Breithaupt L, Slattery M, Plessow F, Micali N, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT, Misra M, Lawson EA. Ghrelin and PYY in low-weight females with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder compared to anorexia nervosa and healthy controls. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2021 Jul;129:105243. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105243. Epub 2021 Apr 28. PubMed PMID: 34049199; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8363304.
Begin AS, Hata S, Berkowitz LR, Plessow F, Lawson EA, Emptage N, Armstrong K. Biomarkers of Clinician Burnout. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Feb;37(2):478-479. doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06757-x. Epub 2021 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 33904028; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8810959.
Baskaran C, Animashaun A, Rickard F, Toth AT, Eddy KT, Plessow F, Bredella MA, Misra M. Memory and Executive Function in Adolescent and Young Adult Females with Moderate to Severe Obesity Before and After Weight Loss Surgery. Obes Surg. 2021 Jul;31(7):3372-3378. doi: 10.1007/s11695-021-05386-x. Epub 2021 Apr 7. PubMed PMID: 33826084; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8725619.
Santarnecchi E, Momi D, Mencarelli L, Plessow F, Saxena S, Rossi S, Rossi A, Mathan S, Pascual-Leone A. Overlapping and dissociable brain activations for fluid intelligence and executive functions. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2021 Apr;21(2):327-346. doi: 10.3758/s13415-021-00870-4. Epub 2021 Apr 26. PubMed PMID: 33900569; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9094637.
Borgers T, Krüger N, Vocks S, Thomas JJ, Plessow F, Hartmann AS. Overcoming limitations of self-report: an assessment of fear of weight gain in anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using implicit association tests. J Eat Disord. 2021 Feb 18;9(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s40337-021-00379-8. PubMed PMID: 33602332; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7890975.
Plessow F, Marengi DA, Perry SK, Lawson EA. Oxytocin Administration Increases Proactive Control in Men with Overweight or Obesity: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Study. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Jan;29(1):56-61. doi: 10.1002/oby.23010. Epub 2020 Nov 22. PubMed PMID: 33225615; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8695366.
Baskaran C, Bose A, Plessow F, Torre Flores L, Toth AT, Eddy KT, Bredella MA, Misra M. Depressive and anxiety symptoms and suicidality in adolescent and young adult females with moderate to severe obesity before and after weight loss surgery. Clin Obes. 2020 Oct;10(5):e12381. doi: 10.1111/cob.12381. Epub 2020 Jun 18. PubMed PMID: 32558297; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8678933.
Breithaupt L, Chunga-Iturry N, Lyall AE, Cetin-Karayumak S, Becker KR, Thomas JJ, Slattery M, Makris N, Plessow F, Pasternak O, Holsen LM, Kubicki M, Misra M, Lawson EA, Eddy KT. Developmental stage-dependent relationships between ghrelin levels and hippocampal white matter connections in low-weight anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020 Sep;119:104722. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104722. Epub 2020 May 23. PubMed PMID: 32512249; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8629489.
Wang SB, Mancuso CJ, Jo J, Keshishian AC, Becker KR, Plessow F, Izquierdo AM, Slattery M, Franko DL, Misra M, Lawson EA, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT. Restrictive eating, but not binge eating or purging, predicts suicidal ideation in adolescents and young adults with low-weight eating disorders. Int J Eat Disord. 2020 Mar;53(3):472-477. doi: 10.1002/eat.23210. Epub 2019 Dec 30. PubMed PMID: 31886575; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7413067.
Mancuso C, Izquierdo A, Slattery M, Becker KR, Plessow F, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT, Lawson EA, Misra M. Changes in appetite-regulating hormones following food intake are associated with changes in reported appetite and a measure of hedonic eating in girls and young women with anorexia nervosa. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020 Mar;113:104556. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104556. Epub 2019 Dec 23. PubMed PMID: 31918391; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7080573.
Plessow F, Pascual-Leone A, McCracken CM, Baker J, Krishnan S, Baggish A, Connor A, Courtney TK, Nadler LM, Speizer FE, Taylor HA, Weisskopf MG, Zafonte RD, Meehan WP , III. Self-Reported Cognitive Function and Mental Health Diagnoses among Former Professional American-Style Football Players. J Neurotrauma. 2020 Apr 15;37(8):1021-1028. doi: 10.1089/neu.2019.6661. Epub 2019 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 31672091; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7185350.
Fang A, Jacoby RJ, Beatty C, Germine L, Plessow F, Wilhelm S, Lawson EA. Serum oxytocin levels are elevated in body dysmorphic disorder and related to severity of psychopathology. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2020 Mar;113:104541. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104541. Epub 2019 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 31862613; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6939310.
Kerem L, Hadjikhani N, Holsen L, Lawson EA, Plessow F. Oxytocin reduces the functional connectivity between brain regions involved in eating behavior in men with overweight and obesity. Int J Obes (Lond). 2020 May;44(5):980-989. doi: 10.1038/s41366-019-0489-7. Epub 2019 Nov 18. PubMed PMID: 31740723; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7192759.
Aulinas A, Plessow F, Pulumo RL, Asanza E, Mancuso CJ, Slattery M, Tolley C, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT, Miller KK, Klibanski A, Misra M, Lawson EA. Disrupted Oxytocin-Appetite Signaling in Females With Anorexia Nervosa. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Oct 1;104(10):4931-4940. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00926. PubMed PMID: 31251345; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6734487.
Almquist JN, Mathan S, Brem AK, Plessow F, McKanna J, Santarnecchi E, Pascual-Leone A, Cohen Kadosh R, Pavel M, Yeung N. FAST: A Novel, Executive Function-Based Approach to Cognitive Enhancement. Front Hum Neurosci. 2019;13:235. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00235. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31427935; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6687878.
Aulinas A, Plessow F, Asanza E, Silva L, Marengi DA, Fan W, Abedi P, Verbalis J, Tritos NA, Nachtigall L, Faje AT, Miller KK, Lawson EA. Low Plasma Oxytocin Levels and Increased Psychopathology in Hypopituitary Men With Diabetes Insipidus. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Aug 1;104(8):3181-3191. doi: 10.1210/jc.2018-02608. PubMed PMID: 30882859; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6570634.
Aulinas A, Pulumo RL, Asanza E, Mancuso CJ, Slattery M, Tolley C, Plessow F, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT, Miller KK, Klibanski A, Misra M, Lawson EA. Endogenous Oxytocin Levels in Relation to Food Intake, Menstrual Phase, and Age in Females. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2019 Apr 1;104(4):1348-1356. doi: 10.1210/jc.2018-02036. PubMed PMID: 30445502; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6408871.
Izquierdo A, Plessow F, Becker KR, Mancuso CJ, Slattery M, Murray HB, Hartmann AS, Misra M, Lawson EA, Eddy KT, Thomas JJ. Implicit attitudes toward dieting and thinness distinguish fat-phobic and non-fat-phobic anorexia nervosa from avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in adolescents. Int J Eat Disord. 2019 Apr;52(4):419-427. doi: 10.1002/eat.22981. Epub 2018 Dec 31. PubMed PMID: 30597579; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6485241.
Buske-Kirschbaum A, Trikojat K, Tesch F, Schmitt J, Roessner V, Luksch H, Rösen-Wolff A, Plessow F. Altered hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis function: A relevant factor in the comorbidity of atopic eczema and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder?. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 Jul;105:178-186. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.005. Epub 2018 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 30583940.
Plessow F, Singhal V, Toth AT, Micali N, Eddy KT, Misra M. Estrogen administration improves the trajectory of eating disorder pathology in oligo-amenorrheic athletes: A randomized controlled trial. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2019 Apr;102:273-280. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.11.013. Epub 2018 Nov 16. PubMed PMID: 30639922; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6664444.
Plessow F, Eddy KT, Lawson EA. The Neuropeptide Hormone Oxytocin in Eating Disorders. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2018 Sep 4;20(10):91. doi: 10.1007/s11920-018-0957-0. Review. PubMed PMID: 30178087; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6903388.
Brem AK, Almquist JN, Mansfield K, Plessow F, Sella F, Santarnecchi E, Orhan U, McKanna J, Pavel M, Mathan S, Yeung N, Pascual-Leone A, Kadosh RC, Honeywell SHARP Team authors. Modulating fluid intelligence performance through combined cognitive training and brain stimulation. Neuropsychologia. 2018 Sep;118(Pt A):107-114. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.04.008. Epub 2018 Apr 9. PubMed PMID: 29649503.
Plessow F, Fischer R. Multitasking. In: Zeigler-Hill V, Shackelford TK, editors. Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences New York, NY: Springer; 2017. p.1-4.
Plessow F, Eddy KT. Diagnostic crossover. In: Wade T, editor. Encyclopedia of feeding and eating disorders New York, NY: Springer; 2017. p.1-5.
Schmitt J, Buske-Kirschbaum A, Tesch F, Trikojat K, Stephan V, Abraham S, Bauer A, Nemat K, Plessow F, Roessner V. Increased attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms in atopic dermatitis are associated with history of antihistamine use. Allergy. 2018 Mar;73(3):615-626. doi: 10.1111/all.13326. Epub 2017 Nov 20. PubMed PMID: 28975640.
Schmelkin C, Plessow F, Thomas JJ, Gray EK, Marengi DA, Pulumo R, Silva L, Miller KK, Hadjikhani N, Franko DL, Eddy KT, Lawson EA. Low oxytocin levels are related to alexithymia in anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 2017 Nov;50(11):1332-1338. doi: 10.1002/eat.22784. Epub 2017 Oct 16. PubMed PMID: 29044580; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5772992.
Becker KR, Plessow F, Coniglio KA, Tabri N, Franko DL, Zayas LV, Germine L, Thomas JJ, Eddy KT. Global/local processing style: Explaining the relationship between trait anxiety and binge eating. Int J Eat Disord. 2017 Nov;50(11):1264-1272. doi: 10.1002/eat.22772. Epub 2017 Sep 30. PubMed PMID: 28963792; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5766013.
Plessow F, Marengi DA, Perry SK, Felicione JM, Franklin R, Holmes TM, Holsen LM, Makris N, Deckersbach T, Lawson EA. Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on the Blood Oxygenation Level-Dependent Signal in Food Motivation and Cognitive Control Pathways in Overweight and Obese Men. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2018 Feb;43(3):638-645. doi: 10.1038/npp.2017.226. Epub 2017 Sep 20. PubMed PMID: 28930284; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5770767.
Baskaran C, Plessow F, Silva L, Asanza E, Marengi D, Eddy KT, Sluss PM, Johnson ML, Misra M, Lawson EA. Oxytocin secretion is pulsatile in men and is related to social-emotional functioning. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2017 Nov;85:28-34. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.07.486. Epub 2017 Jul 24. PubMed PMID: 28800490; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5636187.
Plessow F, Schade S, Kirschbaum C, Fischer R. Successful voluntary recruitment of cognitive control under acute stress. Cognition. 2017 Nov;168:182-190. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.06.016. Epub 2017 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 28704735.
Möschl M, Walser M, Plessow F, Goschke T, Fischer R. Acute stress shifts the balance between controlled and automatic processes in prospective memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2017 Oct;144:53-67. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.06.002. Epub 2017 Jun 15. PubMed PMID: 28625494.
Eddy KT, Plessow F. The Paradoxes of Unexpected Reward in Anorexia Nervosa. Am J Psychiatry. 2017 Jun 1;174(6):508-509. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17030333. PubMed PMID: 28565954.
Santarnecchi E, Khanna AR, Musaeus CS, Benwell CSY, Davila P, Farzan F, Matham S, Pascual-Leone A, Shafi MM, Honeywell SHARP Team authors. EEG Microstate Correlates of Fluid Intelligence and Response to Cognitive Training. Brain Topogr. 2017 Jul;30(4):502-520. doi: 10.1007/s10548-017-0565-z. Epub 2017 May 10. PubMed PMID: 28493012.
Trikojat K, Luksch H, Rösen-Wolff A, Plessow F, Schmitt J, Buske-Kirschbaum A. "Allergic mood" - Depressive and anxiety symptoms in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) and their association to inflammatory, endocrine, and allergic markers. Brain Behav Immun. 2017 Oct;65:202-209. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2017.05.005. Epub 2017 May 8. PubMed PMID: 28495610.
Baskaran C, Cunningham B, Plessow F, Singhal V, Woolley R, Ackerman KE, Slattery M, Lee H, Lawson EA, Eddy K, Misra M. Estrogen Replacement Improves Verbal Memory and Executive Control in Oligomenorrheic/Amenorrheic Athletes in a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017 May;78(5):e490-e497. doi: 10.4088/JCP.15m10544. PubMed PMID: 28297591; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6445541.
Coniglio KA, Becker KR, Franko DL, Zayas LV, Plessow F, Eddy KT, Thomas JJ. Won't stop or can't stop? Food restriction as a habitual behavior among individuals with anorexia nervosa or atypical anorexia nervosa. Eat Behav. 2017 Aug;26:144-147. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2017.03.005. Epub 2017 Mar 22. PubMed PMID: 28388511.
Trikojat K, Buske-Kirschbaum A, Plessow F, Schmitt J, Fischer R. Memory and multitasking performance during acute allergic inflammation in seasonal allergic rhinitis. Clin Exp Allergy. 2017 Apr;47(4):479-487. doi: 10.1111/cea.12893. Epub 2017 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 28122395.
Baskaran C, Plessow F, Ackerman KE, Singhal V, Eddy KT, Misra M. A cross-sectional analysis of verbal memory and executive control across athletes with varying menstrual status and non-athletes. Psychiatry Res. 2017 Dec;258:605-606. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.12.054. Epub 2017 Jan 20. PubMed PMID: 28159335; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6529361.
Afinogenova Y, Schmelkin C, Plessow F, Thomas JJ, Pulumo R, Micali N, Miller KK, Eddy KT, Lawson EA. Low Fasting Oxytocin Levels Are Associated With Psychopathology in Anorexia Nervosa in Partial Recovery. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016 Nov;77(11):e1483-e1490. doi: 10.4088/JCP.15m10217. PubMed PMID: 28076675; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6124659.
Anderson CJ, Bahník Š, Barnett-Cowan M, Bosco FA, Chandler J, Chartier CR, Cheung F, Christopherson CD, Cordes A, Cremata EJ, Della Penna N, Estel V, Fedor A, Fitneva SA, Frank MC, Grange JA, Hartshorne JK, Hasselman F, Henninger F, van der Hulst M, Jonas KJ, Lai CK, Levitan CA, Miller JK, Moore KS, Meixner JM, Munafò MR, Neijenhuijs KI, Nilsonne G, Nosek BA, Plessow F, Prenoveau JM, Ricker AA, Schmidt K, Spies JR, Stieger S, Strohminger N, Sullivan GB, van Aert RC, van Assen MA, Vanpaemel W, Vianello M, Voracek M, Zuni K. Response to Comment on "Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science". Science. 2016 Mar 4;351(6277):1037. doi: 10.1126/science.aad9163. PubMed PMID: 26941312.
Fischer R, Plessow F. Efficient multitasking: parallel versus serial processing of multiple tasks. Front Psychol. 2015;6:1366. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01366. eCollection 2015. Review. PubMed PMID: 26441742; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4561751.
Open Science Collaboration. PSYCHOLOGY. Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science. 2015 Aug 28;349(6251):aac4716. doi: 10.1126/science.aac4716. PubMed PMID: 26315443.
Miller R, Weckesser LJ, Smolka MN, Kirschbaum C, Plessow F. Hydrocortisone accelerates the decay of iconic memory traces: on the modulation of executive and stimulus-driven constituents of sensory information maintenance. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2015 Mar;53:148-58. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.12.016. Epub 2015 Jan 3. PubMed PMID: 25618593.
Privitera MR, Rosenstein AH, Plessow F, LoCastro TM. Physician burnout and occupational stress: An inconvenient truth with unintended consequences. Journal of Hospital Administration. 2015; 4(1):27-35. doi: 10.5430/jha.v4n1p27.
Steudte-Schmiedgen S, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Weber F, Hoyer J, Plessow F. Trauma exposure is associated with increased context-dependent adjustments of cognitive control in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy controls. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2014 Dec;14(4):1310-9. doi: 10.3758/s13415-014-0299-2. PubMed PMID: 24888985.
Fischer R, Plessow F, Dreisbach G, Goschke T. Individual Differences in the Context-Dependent Recruitment of Cognitive Control: Evidence From Action Versus State Orientation. J Pers. 2015 Oct;83(5):575-83. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12140. Epub 2014 Nov 21. PubMed PMID: 25297472.
Trikojat K, Buske-Kirschbaum A, Schmitt J, Plessow F. Altered performance in attention tasks in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis: seasonal dependency and association with disease characteristics. Psychol Med. 2015 Apr;45(6):1289-99. doi: 10.1017/S0033291714002384. Epub 2014 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 25273694.
Weckesser LJ, Plessow F, Pilhatsch M, Muehlhan M, Kirschbaum C, Miller R. Do venepuncture procedures induce cortisol responses? A review, study, and synthesis for stress research. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 Aug;46:88-99. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.012. Epub 2014 Apr 24. PubMed PMID: 24882161.
Engert V, Plessow F, Miller R, Kirschbaum C, Singer T. Cortisol increase in empathic stress is modulated by emotional closeness and observation modality. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2014 Jul;45:192-201. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.04.005. Epub 2014 Apr 16. PubMed PMID: 24845190.
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