• Auswirkungen von Stress und belastenden Kindheitserfahrungen auf zellbiologische, immunologische und endokrine Marker traumaassoziierter Störungen wie Depression und PTSD
• Berufliche Traumatisierung in Rettungsdienst und Feuerwehr
• Emotionsregulation in der Ätiologie traumaassoziierter Störungen

• Psychische Belastungen und Schutzfaktoren bei Rettungsdienstmitarbeitern
• Inflammatorische und endokrine Veränderungen bei Major Depression
• Biologische Mechanismen der Depression und deren Bedeutung für den Therapieerfolg
• Zellmetabolische Veränderungen bei Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung

• 01/22–12/22: Zellmetabolische Veränderungen bei Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung: Veränderung der mitochondrialen Bioenergetik und ihre Reversibilität durch Psychotherapie (10.000 EUR, Anschubfinanzierung, Professional Graduate and Training Center Ulm, ProTrainU)
• 02/20: Travel Award der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Psychotraumatologie (DeGPT)
• 04/17–04/10: Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 02/09–09/15: Studienstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Behnke, A., Gumpp, A. M., Rojas, R., Sänger, T., Lutz-Bonengel, S., Moser, D. A., Krumbholz, A., & Kolassa, I.-T. (in press). Circulating inflammatory markers, cell-free mitochondrial DNA, cortisol, endocannabinoids, and N-acylethanolamines in female depressed outpatients. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry. doi: 10.1080/15622975.2022.2070666

Varadarajan, S., Behnke, A., Gumpp, A. M., Mavioglu, R. N., Fissler, P., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2022). An integrative view on the biopsychology of stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. In U. Schnyder & M. Cloitre (Eds.), Evidence Based Treatments for Trauma-Related Psychological Disorders (2nd ed.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Gumpp, A. M., Behnke, A., Ramo-Fernández, L., Radermacher, P., Gündel, H., Ziegenhain, U., … Kolassa, I.-T. (2022). Investigating mitochondrial bioenergetics in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of women with childhood maltreatment from post-parturition period to one-year follow-up. Psychological Medicine, 1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0033291722000411

Rojas, R., Hickmann, M., Wolff, S., Kolassa, I.-T., & Behnke, A. (2022). Coping in the Emergency Medical Services: Associations with the personnel’s stress, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and health. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 4(1), e6133. doi: 10.32872/cpe.6133

Rojas, R., Behnke, A., & Hautzinger, M. (2021). Stress events and changes in dysfunctional attitudes and automatic thoughts following recovery from depression in inpatient psychotherapy: Mediation analyses with longitudinal data. Cognitive Therapy and Research. doi: 10.1007/s10608-021-10280-y

Mavioglu, R. N., Mack, M., Behnke, A., & Kolassa, I. (2021, November 30). Oxygen - Mitochondrial fuel as a missing link in depressive pathophysiology. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/m5t3h

Mischler, C., Hofmann, A., Behnke, A., Matits, L., Lehnung, M., Varadarajan, S., … Tumani, V. (2021). Therapists’ experiences with the effectiveness and feasibility of videoconference-based eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 748712. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.748712

Behnke, A. (2021). Psychotraumatic Stress Among Emergency Medical Services Personnel: Its Psychological and Biological Correlates and Implications for Health Management (Doctoral Dissertation). Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. doi: 10.18725/OPARU-38418

Behnke, A., Gumpp, A. M., Krumbholz, A., Bach, A. M., Schelling, G., Kolassa, I.-T., & Rojas, R. (2021). Hair-based biomarkers in women with major depressive disorder: Glucocorticoids, endocannabinoids, N-acylethanolamines, and testosterone. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 7, 100068. doi: 10.1016/j.cpnec.2021.100068
Gumpp, A. M., Behnke, A., Bach, A. M., Piller, S., Boeck, C., Rojas, R., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2021). Mitochondrial bioenergetics in leukocytes and oxidative stress in blood serum of mild to moderately depressed women. Mitochondrion, 58, 14–23. doi: 10.1016/j.mito.2020.12.009

Behnke, A., Rojas, R., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2021). Stressbelastungen im Rettungsdienst: Widerstandsfähigkeit und Anfälligkeit für berufsbedingte Psychotraumata. NeuroTransmitter, 32(3), 36–41. doi: 10.1007/s15016-021-9072-2

Behnke, A., Rojas, R., & Gärtner, A. (2021). Emotionsregulation im Rettungsdienst: Zusammenhänge mit beruflichem Stress, Belastungssymptomatik und Arbeitszufriedenheit von Beschäftigten im Rettungsdienst. Prävention Und Gesundheitsförderung, 16(3), 188–192. doi: 10.1007/s11553-021-00836-x

Behnke, A., Karabatsiakis, A., Krumbholz, A., Karrasch, S., Schelling, G., Kolassa, I.-T., & Rojas, R. (2020). Associating Emergency Medical Services personnel’s workload, trauma exposure, and health with the cortisol, endocannabinoid, and N-acylethanolamine concentrations in their hair. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 22403. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79859-x

Gumpp, A. M., Boeck, C., Behnke, A., Bach, A. M., Ramo-Fernández, L., Welz, T., … Karabatsiakis, A. (2020). Childhood maltreatment is associated with changes in mitochondrial bioenergetics in maternal, but not in neonatal immune cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(40), 24778–24784. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2005885117

Karrasch, S., Hitzler, M., Behnke, A., Tumani, V., Kolassa, I.-T., & Rojas, R. (2020). Chronic and traumatic stress among Emergency Medical Services personnel: A narrative review on vulnerability factors, resilience, and intervention. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 49(4), 204–217. doi: 10.1026/1616-3443/a000600

Behnke*, A., Armbruster*, D., & Strobel, A. (2020). The needs of the many: Influence of personality on third-party judgments of utilitarian rule violations [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/b3hcv

Zeller, A. C., Conrad, D., Schneider, A., Behnke, A., Pfeiffer, A., Blum, G. F., Wilker, S., Elbert, T., & Kolassa, I. (2020). A combination of combat experience, early abduction, and severe traumatization fuels appetitive aggression and violence among abductees of rebel war in Northern Uganda. Aggressive Behavior, 1–11. doi: 10.1002/ab.21914

Karabatsiakis, A., Woike, K., Behnke, A., Kolassa, I.-T., Schönfeldt-Lecuona, C., Kiefer, M., & Sim, E. (2020). Testing the reversibility of impaired mitochondrial bioenergetic functioning in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from depressed patients by clinical-routine antidepressant treatment. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 133, 110086. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2020.110086

Behnke, A., Rojas, R., Karabatsiakis, A., & Kolassa, I.-T. (2020). Childhood maltreatment compromises resilience against occupational trauma exposure: A retrospective study among emergency medical service personnel. Child Abuse & Neglect, 99, 104248. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104248

Behnke, A., Strobel, A., & Armbruster, D. (2020). When the killing has been done: Exploring associations of personality with third-party judgment and punishment of homicides in moral dilemma scenarios. PLOS ONE, 15(6), e0235253. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235253

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. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02305

Behnke*, A., Conrad*, D., Kolassa, I.-T., & Rojas, R. (2019). Higher sense of coherence is associated with better mental and physical health in emergency medical services: results from investigations on the revised sense of coherence scale (SOC-R) in rescue workers. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1606628. doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1606628 [pdf]

Gärtner*, A., Behnke*, A., Conrad, D., Kolassa, I.-T., Rojas, R. (2019). Emotion regulation in rescue workers: Differential relationship with perceived work-related stress and stress-related symptoms. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, e2744. [pdf]

Strobel*, A., Behnke*, A., Gärtner, A., & Strobel, A. (2019). The interplay of intelligence and need for cognition in predicting school grades: A retrospective study. Personality and Individual Differences, 144, 147–152. doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.041

Enge, S., Behnke, A., Fleischhauer, M., Küttler, L., Kliegel, M., & Strobel, A. (2014). No evidence for true training and transfer effects after inhibitory control training in young healthy adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40(4), 987-1001. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0036165.

* geteilte Erstautorschaft / shared first authorship

• WiSe 21/22: Chronischer und traumatischer Stress und seine Konsequenzen über die Lebensspanne (Seminar)
• SoSe 21: Traumatischer Stress und Stressbewältigung bei Beschäftigten in Rettungsdienst und Feuerwehr (Projektseminar)
• WiSe 20/21: Biomolekulare Klinische Psychologie (Seminar, mit Dr. Matthias Mack