A
Alexander L. Gerlach
Researcher at University of Cologne
Publications - 178
Citations - 5610
Alexander L. Gerlach is an academic researcher from University of Cologne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anxiety & Panic disorder. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 162 publications receiving 4748 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander L. Gerlach include Stanford University & University of Marburg.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Superior perception of phasic physiological arousal and the detrimental consequences of the conviction to be aroused on worrying and metacognitions in GAD.
TL;DR: It is suggested that superior perception of phasic arousal cues and their catastrophic misinterpretation increases worrying, negative metacognitive beliefs about worrying, and anxious mood in GAD.
Journal ArticleDOI
Panic disorder with agoraphobia from a behavioral neuroscience perspective: Applying the research principles formulated by the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative
Alfons O. Hamm,Jan Richter,Christiane A. Pané-Farré,Dorte Westphal,Hans-Ulrich Wittchen,Anna N. Vossbeck-Elsebusch,Alexander L. Gerlach,Andrew T. Gloster,Andreas Ströhle,Thomas Lang,Tilo Kircher,Antje B. M. Gerdes,Georg W. Alpers,Andreas Reif,Jürgen Deckert +14 more
TL;DR: This review reconceptualizes a categorical diagnosis-panic disorder and agoraphobia-in terms of two constructs within the domain "negative valence systems" suggested by the Research Domain Criteria initiative and finds evidence that panic attacks are indeed instances of circa strike defense.
Journal ArticleDOI
N-acetylaspartate levels of left frontal cortex are associated with verbal intelligence in women but not in men: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.
Bettina Pfleiderer,Patricia Ohrmann,Thomas Suslow,M Wolgast,Alexander L. Gerlach,Walter Heindel,Nikolaus Michael +6 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis of existing gender differences regarding the involvement of the left frontal cortex in verbal processing as reflected in different correlations of specific metabolites with verbal scores is supported.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dynamics of defensive reactivity in patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia: implications for the etiology of panic disorder
Jan Richter,Alfons O. Hamm,Christiane A. Pané-Farré,Alexander L. Gerlach,Andrew T. Gloster,Hans-Ulrich Wittchen,Thomas Lang,Georg W. Alpers,Georg W. Alpers,Sylvia Helbig-Lang,Jürgen Deckert,Thomas Fydrich,Lydia Fehm,Andreas Ströhle,Tilo Kircher,Volker Arolt +15 more
TL;DR: Evidence is found that defensive reactivity in PD/AG patients is dynamically organized ranging from anxious apprehension to panic with increasing proximity of interoceptive threat.
Journal ArticleDOI
Selective attention, memory bias, and symptom perception in idiopathic environmental intolerance and somatoform disorders.
TL;DR: Only the IEI group rated trigger words as more unpleasant and more arousing, and participants remembered them better in a recognition task, suggesting implicit and explicit cognitive abnormalities in IEI and SFD may maintain processes of somatosensory amplification.