• “My childhood – your childhood”: Intergenerational transmission of psychological and biological consequences of childhood maltreatment

• ENHANCE: Molecular, bioenergetic, and immunological effects of trauma-focused psychotherapy in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder and experiences of abuse, maltreatment and neglect in childhood and adolescence

• Risk- and resilience factors in emergency medical employees of the German red cross after critical mission events

• Transdisciplinary trauma research
• The role of adverse childhood and traumatic experiences in the etiology of mental disorders
• (Intergenerational) Consequences of stress, trauma and adverse childhood experiences with mitochondrial functioning, inflammation, oxidative stress and physiological stress regulation
• Reversibility of biomolecular consequences of chronic and traumatic Stress through trauma therapy within patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

• Winter term 18/19 „Nutrition and mental health“ (M.Sc. course)

• External:
  Summer term 2018 „Molecular psychotraumatology meets molecular nutrition science: Is healthy nutrition able to maintain our mental health?” Course, Summer School of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

11/2021	Project start-up funding, Support Programme for Female Researchers Ulm University
seit 11/2018	doctoral scholarship of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
02/2020	Poster Award of the German speaking Society of Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)
02/2020	Travel Award of the German speaking Society of Psychotraumatology (DeGPT)

 

 

 

Since 11/ 2018 doctoral scholarship of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

Sauer, K.S., Wendler-Bödicker, Boos, A., Niemeyer, H., Palmer, S., Rojas, R., Hoyer, J., & Hitzler, M. (submitted) Treatment of comorbidities of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder related to childhood maltreatment with STAIR-NT: Clinical recommendations and challenges. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie.

Köhler-Dauner, J., Mayer, I., Hitzler, M., Karabatsiakis, A., Matits, L., Bach, A.M., Fegert, J.M., Kolassa, I.-T., & Ziegenhain, U. (submitted). Atypical maternal interaction is associated with elevated levels of hair cortisol in children. Frontiers in Pediatrics.

Hitzler, M., Behnke, A., Gündel, H., Ziegenhain, U., Kindler, H., Kolassa. I.-T., & Zimmermann, J. (submitted). Sources of social support for postpartum women with a history of childhood maltreatment: Consequences for perceived stress and general mental health in the first year after birth. Child Abuse & Neglect.

Rojas, R. Hitzler, M., Palmer, S., Sauer, K.S., Wendler-Bödicker, C., Boos, A., Hoyer, J., & Niemeyer, H. (accepted). Complex trauma symptoms after childhood maltreatment: Strengths and challenges of the therapy program STAIR-NT. Verhaltenstherapie.

Hitzler, M., Bach, A. M., Köhler-Dauner, F., Gündel, H., & Kolassa, I. T. (2022). Long-Term Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment Among Postpartum Women—Prevalence of Psychosocial Risk Factors for Child Welfare: An Independent Replication Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.

Karrasch, S., Hitzler, M., Behnke, A., Tumani, V., Kolassa, I. T., & Rojas, R. (2020). Chronic and traumatic ttress among emergency medical services personnel: A narrative review on vulnerability factors, resilience, and intervention. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 49(4), 204-217.

Hitzler, M., Karrasch, S., Gumpp, A. M., Karabatsiakis, A., & Kolassa, I. T. (2020). Molecular-Toxic Consequences of Chronic and Traumatic Stress and Their Reversibility through Mind-Body Interventions. Verhaltenstherapie, 1-15.

Hitzler, M., Karabatsiakis, A., & Kolassa, I.T. (2019). Biomolecular vulnerability factors of mental disorders. Influence of chronic and traumatic stress on the immune system, free radicals and mitochondria. Psychotherapeut, 4.

Behnke, A., Rojas, R., Karrasch, S., Hitzler, M., & Kolassa, I. T. (2019). Deconstructing traumatic mission experiences: Identifying critical incidents and their relevance for the mental and physical health among emergency medical service personnel. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2305.

“Social Support for Mothers with a History of Childhood Maltreatment: Protective Effects on Stress Perception and Mental Health”. Poster & Short Talk presented at the annual Conference of the German speaking Society of Psychotraumatology, DeGPT, 2020, Berlin, Germany.

“Lifelong Consequences of Childhood Maltreatment: Psychosocial Risk Factors for Child Welfare”. Poster & Short Talk presented at the annual Conference of the German speaking Society of Psychotraumatology, DeGPT, 2020, Berlin, Germany.

“Alterations of the serum N-glycan profile in female patients with Major Depressive Disorder”. Talk at the Conference of the German Endocrine Brain Immune Network, GEBIN, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

“Alterations of the serum N-glycan profile in female patients with Major Depressive Disorder”. Poster presented at 26th Conference of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, PNIRS, 2019, Berlin, Germany.

“Investigating intergenerational gene × environment interaction of allelic variation in FKBP5 and childhood maltreatment on hair steroid levels in mother-infant dyads“. Talk at the Conference of „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik und Nervenheilkunde“, DGPPN, 2018, Berlin.

• Journal of Mental Health and Prevention

• Journal of Psychoneuroendocrinology