Dr. Maren Prignitz (she/her)
School of Social Science
Willy-Brandt-Platz 1 – Room 5–07
68161 Mannheim
by arrangement
Research Interests
- Intra- and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
- Risk and Resilience Factors for (Adolescent) Alcohol Use
- Interoception
- Empathy
- Bullying
- Mindfulness
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health
- Developmental Trajectories of the Above-Mentioned Aspects in Adolescence
Academic and Professional Background
Academic Background
Since 2025 Research Associate at the University of Mannheim, Department of Clinical Psychology, Interaction and Psychotherapy Research 2018–2025 Research Associate at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim, Department Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience 2018–2024 Ph.D. (Dr. sc. hum., Psychology) from the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim (affiliated with Heidelberg University) 2009–2016 Degree in Psychology (B.Sc.: University of Technology Chemnitz; M.Sc.: Wuppertal University) Professional Career
Since 2025 Research Associate at the University of Mannheim, Department of Clinical Psychology, Interaction and Psychotherapy Research 2018–2025 Research Associate at the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim, Department Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience 2016–2018 Educational Specialist in Child and Youth Services 2009–2016 Degree in Psychology (B.Sc.: University of Technology Chemnitz; M.Sc.: Wuppertal University) 2009 High School Diploma Publications and Conference Papers
Publications
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., Lehmler, S. J., Aggensteiner, P.-M., Nees, F. and the IMAC-Mind Consortium (2024). An Ecological Momentary Assessment Approach of Environmental Triggers in the Role of Daily Affect, Rumination, and Movement Patterns in Early Alcohol Use Among Healthy Adolescents: Exploratory Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 12, e53401. doi: 10.2196/53401
Guldner, S., Prignitz, M., Nees, F. and the IMAC-Mind Consortium (2024). Mindfulness facets are differentially related with reward processing stages in striatum and alcohol use in adolescence. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 135, 111113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2024.111113
Prignitz, M., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Grigis, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M.-L., Artiges, E., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Poustka, L., Hohmann, S., Fröhner, J. H., Robinson, L., Smolka, M. N., Walter, H., … Winterer, J. M. (2023). The Role of Empathy in Alcohol Use of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims: Lower Personal Empathic Distress Makes Male Perpetrators of Bullying More Vulnerable to Alcohol Use. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(13), 6286. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20136286
Lenz, B., Gerhardt, S., Boroumand-Jazi, R., Eichler, A., Buchholz, V. N., Fasching, P. A., Kornhuber, J., Banaschewski, T., Flor, H., Guldner, S., Prignitz, M., Nees, F. & IMAC-Mind Consortium (2023). Sex-specific association between prenatal androgenization (second-tofourth digit length ratio) and frontal brain volumes in adolescents. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 273, 1243–1254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-022-01515-4
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., & Nees, F. (2021). Jugendliches Alkoholkonsumverhalten während der COVID-19-Pandemie und die Bedeutung von Achtsamkeit. Sucht, 67(6), 287–297. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000734
Conference Papers
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., Nees, F. (2023) Emotionsregulation und Interozeption, aber nicht Empathie, beeinflussen den Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen [Emotion regulation and interoception—but not empathy—influence adolescents' alcohol consumption]. Deutscher Suchtkongress, Berlin.
Prignitz, M., Janson, K., Guldner, S., Flor, H., Nees, F. (2022). Achsamkeitsorientierte und neuropsychobiologische Strategien und Befunde aus Kohortenauswertungen und einer subklinischen Jugendstichprobe (IMAC-Mind Teilprojekte 1 und 2) [Mindfulness-Based and Neuropsychobiological Strategies and Findings from Cohort Analyses and a Subclinical Adolescent Sample (IMAC-Mind Subprojects 1 and 2)]. Deutscher Suchtkongress, München.
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., Flor, H., Nees, F. (2021). Jugendliches Alkoholkonsumverhalten während der COVID-19-Pandemie und die Bedeutung von Achtsamkeit [Adolescent Alcohol Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Importance of Mindfulness]. Deutscher Suchtkongress, online.
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., Ruttorf, M., Flor, H., Nees, F. & IMAC-Mind Consortium (2021). Translation of neurobehavioral risk profiles for adolescents' alcohol (ab)use into screeing/
prevention tools. International Conference of European Sosciety for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Budapest. Prignitz, M. & IMAC-Mind-Consortium (2021). Is there an interaction between bullying, empathy and alcohol use in adolescents?. International Conference of European Sosciety for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Budapest.
Prignitz, M., Guldner, S., Ruttorf, M., Flor, H., Nees, F. (2019). Is there an interaction between states of empathy, brain circuits and alcohol use in adolescents?. International Congress of European Society For Child And Adolescent Psychiatry, Wien.