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Academic and Professional Career
Professional Career
Since 09/ 2023 Scientific Staff Member (Postdoc), Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Mannheim 2022 Postgraduate fellow, Harpaz-Rotem PTSD Treatment and Research Lab, Yale University, Connecticut, USA 2019–2023 Scientific Staff Member (PhD student), Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria 2017–2019 Student Assistant, Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, LMU Munich, Germany 2015–2016 Student Assistant, Chair of Business and Organizational Psychology, LMU Munich, Germany Academic Career
Since 10/ 2023 Training as a psychological psychotherapist, ZPP Mannheim, Germany 2019–2023 Doctorate (Dr.rer.nat), Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind”, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Austria; Topic:“Unraveling Acute Trauma-Related Dissociation in the Body, Brain, and Mind: Novel Evidence from Trauma-Analogue and Clinical Studies” 2016–2019 Studied M.Sc. Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, LMU Munich, Germany 2013–2016 Studied B.Sc. Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, LMU Munich, Germany 2013 Abitur, Gabelsberger Gymnasium Mainburg Publications and Conference Contributions
- Ben-Zion, Z., Korem, N., Fine, N. B., Katz, S., Siddhanta, M., Funaro, M. C., Duek, O., Spiller, T. R., Danböck, S. K., Levy, I. and Harpaz-Rotem, I. (2024). Structural neuroimaging of hippocampus and amygdala subregions in posttraumatic stress disorder: A scoping review. Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, 4, 120–134.
- Danböck, S. K., Liedlgruber, M., Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Hettegger, S. E., Weber, R.-C. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2024). Acute dissociation as part of the defense cascade: Associations with behavioral, autonomic, and experiential threat responses in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133, 76–89.
- Danböck, S. K., Duek, O., Ben-Zion, Z., Korem, N., Amen, S. L., Kelmendi, B., Wilhelm, F. H., Levy, I. and Harpaz-Rotem, I. (2023). Effects of a dissociative drug on fronto‑limbic resting‑state functional connectivity in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled pilot study. Psychopharmacology, 1–10 (forthcoming).
- Danböck, S. K., Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Liedlgruber, M., Bürkner, P.-C. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2023). Experimental induction of peritraumatic dissociation: The role of negative affect and pain and their psychophysiological and neural correlates. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 164, 1–10.
- Danböck, S. K., Hettegger, S. E., Anders, S., Franke, L. K., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S. F., Gashi, A., Kurapov, A., Weber, R.-C., Ehring, T. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2023). Psychometric properties of the dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder scale: replication and extension in two German-speaking samples. European Journal of Psychotraumatology : EJPT, 14, 1–16.
- Schenkel, S., Emmerich, L., Arzapalo, H., Danböck, S. K., Dietiker, L., El-Haj-Mohamad, R., Meyer, C., Sperl, M. F. J., von Wendorff, C., Wallimann, M., Windhorst, P., Glaesmer, H. and Schäfer, I. (2023). Selbst- und Fremdaggression bei Frauen mit Posttramatischer Belastungsstörung und substanzbezogenen Störungen. Trauma & Gewalt, 17, 296–311.
- Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Danböck, S. K., Grill, M., Liedlgruber, M., Kronbichler, M., Flor, H. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2022). Neuroscientific evidence for pain being a classically conditioned response to trauma- and pain-related cues in humans. Pain : Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain, 163, 2118-2137.
- Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Danböck, S. K., Liedlgruber, M., Grill, M., Kronbichler, M., Flor, H. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2022). Reply to Quintner. Pain : Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain, 163, e1217-e1219.
- Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Danböck, S. K., Lohse, J., Liedlgruber, M., Bürkner, P.-C., Pletzer, B. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2022). Estradiol during (analogue-)trauma: Risk- or protective factor for intrusive re-experiencing? Psychoneuroendocrinology, 143, 1–12.
- Danböck, S. K., Rattel, J., Franke, L. K., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S. F. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2021). Peritraumatic dissociation revisited: associations with autonomic activation, facial movements, staring, and intrusion formation. European Journal of Psychotraumatology : EJPT, 12, 1–12.
- Franke, L. K., Rattel, J., Miedl, S. F., Danböck, S. K., Bürkner, P.-C. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2021). Intrusive memories as conditioned responses to trauma cues: An empirically supported concept? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 143, 1–27.
- Werner, G. G., Danböck, S. K., Metodiev, S. and Kunze, A. E. (2020). Pre-sleep arousal and fear of sleep in trauma-related sleep disturbances: A cluster-analytic approach. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2, 1–20.
- Danböck, S. K. and Werner, G. G. (2019). Cardiac vagal control, regulatory processes and depressive symptoms: Re-investigating the moderating role of sleep quality. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health : IJERPH, 16, 1–14.
- Pfundmair, M., Danböck, S. K. and Agthe, M. (2019). Out of the dark, into the light : The impact of social exclusion on judgments of darkness and brightness. Acta Psychologica, 199.
- Danböck, S. (2023). Beyond analogue fear conditioning paradigms: The complex interplay between dissociation and other conditioned responses to trauma scripts in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. 14th European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning (EMHFC) 2023, Salzburg, Austria.
- Danböck, S. (2023). Fronto-limbische funktionelle Konnektivität während Ketamin-induzierter Dissoziation bei Personen mit Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT) 2023: Trauma in der digitalen Welt: Vom Cybertrauma bis zur Online-Therapie, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Danböck, S. K., Liedlgruber, M., Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Hettegger, S. E., Weber, R.-C. and Wilhelm, F. H. (2023). Does acute posttraumatic dissociation protect from negative sensations and autonomic hyperarousal?: Evidence from a pre-registered script-driven imagery study in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. 2. Deutscher Psychotherapie Kongress 2023, Berlin, Germany.
- Danböck, S. K., Liedlgruber, M., Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Wilhelm, F. H. and Weber, R.-C. (2023). Behaviorale, psychophysiologische, und subjektive Korrelate akuter Dissoziation während Traumaexposition bei Personen mit Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT) 2023: Trauma in der digitalen Welt: Vom Cybertrauma bis zur Online-Therapie, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Danböck, S. (2022). Eliciting peritraumatic dissociation using highly aversive films and pain stimulation: An experimental FMRI Study. Society of Biological Psychiatry 2022 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- Danböck, S. K., Duek, O., Ben-Zion, Z., Korem, N., Amen, S. L., Kelmendi, B., Wilhelm, F. H., Levy, I. and Harpaz-Rotem, I. (2022). Ketamine-induced dissociation does not increase fronto-limbic functional connectivity in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder. Salzburg Mind-Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA) 2022, Salzburg, Österreich.
- Danböck, S. (2021). Peritraumatic dissociation revisited : Associations with autonomic activation, facial movements, staring, and intrusion formation. Annual Congress of the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies 2021, Belfast, United Kingdom.
- Danböck, S. K., Rattel, J., Franke, L. K., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S. F. and Wilhelm, F. (2021). Innerlich ganz weit weg : Physiologische und behaviorale Korrelate peritraumatischer Dissoziation und deren Einfluss auf die Entstehung von Intrusionen. 38. Symposium der Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie der DGPs: Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand, Mannheim, Germany, Online.