• Funktionelle und strukturelle Hirnbildgebung
• Darm-Gehirn-Achse
• Viszeraler Schmerz
• Bio-psycho-soziale Mechanismen
• Schmerzbezogene Lern- und Gedächtnisprozesse
• Furchtvermeidung und -extinktion

Benson S, Labrenz F, Kotulla S, Brotte L, Rödder P, Tebbe B, Theysohn N, Engler H, Elsenbruch S (2023). Amplified gut feelings under inflammation and depressed mood: A randomized fMRI trial on interoceptive pain in healthy volunteers. Brain Behav Immun. 112: 132-137. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2023.06.005

Labrenz F, Merz CJ, Icenhour A (2023). Connecting dots in disorders of gut-brain interaction: the interplay of stress and sex hormones in shaping visceral pain. Front Psychiatry. 14: 1204136. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1204136

Labrenz F, Spisák T, Ernst TM, Gomes CA, Quick HH, Axmacher N, Elsenbruch S, Timmann D (2022). Temporal dynamics of fMRI signal changes during conditioned interoceptive pain-related fear and safety acquisition and extinction. Behav Brain Res. 427: 113868. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113868

Labrenz F, Woud ML, Elsenbruch S, Icenhour A (2022). The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly-Chances, Challenges, and Clinical Implications of Avoidance Research in Psychosomatic Medicine. Front Psychiatry. 13: 841734. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.841734

Labrenz F, Knuf-Rtveliashvili S, Elsenbruch S (2020). Sex Differences Linking Pain-Related Fear and Interoceptive Hypervigilance: Attentional Biases to Conditioned Threat and Safety Signals in a Visceral Pain Model. Front Psychiatry. 11: 197. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00197

Elsenbruch S, Labrenz F (2018). Nocebo Effects and Experimental Models in Visceral Pain. Int Rev Neurobiol. 138: 285-306. doi.org/10.1016/bs.irn.2018.01.010

Labrenz F, Wrede K, Forsting M, Engler H, Schedlowski M, Elsenbruch S, Benson S (2016). Alterations in functional connectivity of resting state networks during experimental endotoxemia - An exploratory study in healthy men. Brain Behav Immun.  54: 17-26. doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2015.11.010

Labrenz F, Icenhour A, Schlamann M, Forsting M, Bingel U, Elsenbruch S (2016). From Pavlov to pain: How predictability affects the anticipation and processing of visceral pain in a fear conditioning paradigm. Neuroimage. 130: 104-114. doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.01.064

Labrenz F, Icenhour A, Benson S, Elsenbruch S (2015). Contingency Awareness Shapes Acquisition and Extinction of Emotional Responses in a Conditioning Model of Pain-Related Fear. Front Behav Neurosci. 9: 318. doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00318

Labrenz F, Icenhour A, Thürling M, Schlamann M, Forsting M, Timmann D, Elsenbruch S (2015). Sex differences in cerebellar mechanisms involved in pain-related safety learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem. 123: 92-9. doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2015.05.006