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Dr. Lydia Kogler

Dr. Lydia Kogler

Research Associate

Clinical and Health Psychologist (according to Austrian law)
Deputy Head Women's Mental Health and Brain Function
Independent Project Leader on Positive Self-Instruction and Inner Speech
LydiaKogler & WombLab (LinkedIn)

Contact

Phone number: 07071 29-87030

E-mail address: lydia.kogler@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Clinic / Institute / Center

  • Affective psycho-endocrine neuroscience
  • Stress
  • Schizophrenia
  • Depression
  • Schizophrenia
  • Hormones
  • Assessment of stress reactions caused by various stressors (e.g. social, emotional, cognitive or physical) and the modulation of the stress reaction through cognitive interventions (such as cognitive regulation and positive-self instruction). Assessment of the relationship between hormones and affective reactions. Assessment of subjective reactions, behavior, physiology, hormones, functional neuronal activity and functional neuronal connectivity via experimental psychological designs and meta-analyses in affective psychoneuronendocrinology in healthy, subclinical populations and mental illness.
  • 2023-up to nowDeputy Head Women's Mental Health and Brain Function, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen
  • 2018-up to nowIndependent Project Leader (Positive Self-Instruction & Inner Speech in the Brain), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen
  • 2016-up to nowResearch associate, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen
  • 2019Psychotherapeutic propaedeutic course (according to Austrian law)
  • 2016Doctorate (Dr. rer. medic.), RWTH Aachen University
  • 2015Registered clinical and health psychologist (according to Austrian law)
  • 2013-2014Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • 2012-2015Research assistant at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University
  • 2011Psychology (Mag. rer. nat.), University of Vienna
  • 2009-2011Student Assistant, University of Vienna
  • 2008-2009Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (ERASMUS mobility scholarship)
  • DZPG-ECS-Independence Grant
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Prize, RWTH Aachen University
  • Borchers Plaque, RWTH Aachen University
  • fortüne funding, Faculty of Medicine, Tübingen
  • fortüne Promotion, Faculty of Medicine, Tübingen
  • Funding grant Initiative Gehirnforschung Steiermark (INGE)
  • Mentee, International Society for Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE), Montréal
  • Trainee Abstract Travel Award, Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OBHM)
  • Funding Program International Communication, Austrian Research Foundation (ÖFG)
  • Scholarship holder IRTG-1328 "Brain-behavior relationship of emotion and social cognition in schizophrenia and autism", RWTH Aachen University
  • Scholarship (StudFG), University of Vienna
  • Life Long Learning ERASMUS Mobility Scholarship
  • Weinmar, F., Kogler, L., Rehbein, E., Morawetz, C., Sundström-Poromaa, I., Skalkidou, A., Derntl, B. (accepted). Neural emotion regulation during pregnancy - a fMRI study investigating a transdiagnostic mental health factor in healthy first-time pregnant women. Imaging Neuroscience. doi: 10.1101/2024.09.13.24313410
  • Buerger, Z., Kordowich, C., Kübbeler, J., Müllerschön, C., Kimmig, A.-C.S., Su, M., Laemmerhofer, M., Sacher, J., Henes, M., Comasco, E., Derntl, B.*, Kogler, L*. (accepted). Subjective, behavioral and physiological correlates of stress in women using hormonal contraceptives. Br J Psychiatry. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.7 (*shared last-authorship)
  • Kogler, L.*, Wang, R.*, Luther, T., Hofer, A., Frajo-Apor, B., Derntl, B. (2025). Cortisol in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A comprehensive meta-analysis. Front Neuroendocrinol. 77:101186. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2025.101186. (*shared first-authorship)
  • Wang R, Kogler L*, Derntl B* (*contributed equally). (2024). Sex differences in cortisol levels in depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Neuroendocrinol. 72:101118. doi: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2023.101118.
  • Kogler L, Müller VI, Moser E, Windischberger C, Gur RC, Habel U, Eickhoff SB, Derntl B. (2023). Testosterone and the Amygdala's Functional Connectivity in Women and Men. J Clin Med. 12(20):6501. doi: 10.3390/jcm12206501.
  • Kogler L, Regenbogen C, Müller VI, Kohn N, Schneider F, Gur RC, Derntl B. (2023). Cognitive Stress Regulation in Schizophrenia Patients and Healthy Individuals: Brain and Behavior, J Clin Med. 12(7):2749. doi: 10.3390/jcm12072749.
  • Bürger Z, Müller VI, Hoffstaedter F, Habel U, Gur RC, Windischberger C, Moser E, Derntl B, Kogler L. (2023). Stressor-Specific Sex Differences in Amygdala-Frontal Cortex Network. J Clin Med. 12(3):865. doi: 10.3390/jcm12030865.
  • Kogler, L., Müller, M.I., Werminghausen, E., Eickhoff, S.B., Derntl, B. (2020). Do I feel or do I know? Neuroimaging meta-analyses on the multiple facets of empathy. Cortex, 129:341-355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.031
  • Kogler, L. (2020). Stress, gender and mental health in everyday (practice) life: Stress - what is it actually and what stresses whom? Plaque n care, 14(1):1-4.
  • Kogler, L., Seidel, E.M., Metzler, H., Thaler, H., Boubela, R.N., Pruessner, J.C., Kryspin-Exner, I., Gur, R.C., Windischberger, C., Moser, E., Habel, U., Derntl, B. (2017). Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions. Scientific Report, 7(1):17210. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17485-w
  • Kogler, L., Mueller, V.I., Seidel, E.M., Boubela, R., Kalcher, K., Habel, U., Moser, E., Gur, R.C., Eickhoff, S.B., Derntl, B. (2016). Sex differences in the functional connectivity of the amygdalae in association with cortisol. Neuroimage, 134:410-423, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.03.064
  • Kogler, L., Müller, V.I., Chang, A., Eickhoff, S.B., Fox, P.T., Gur, R.C., Derntl, B. (2015). Psychosocial versus physiological stress - meta-analyses on deactivations and activations of the neural correlates of stress reactions. NeuroImage, 119:235-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.059
  • Kogler, L., Gur, R.C., Derntl, B. (2015). Sex differences in cognitive regulation of psychosocial achievement stress: brain and behavior. Human Brain Mapping, 36(3):1028-1042. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22683
  • Complete publication list (Pubmed link) in addition to the selection above
  • Preprint "The Influence of Endogenous and Exogenous Sex Steroid Hormones and Social Hierarchy on Decision- Making: A Systematic Review"
  • Article Stress, gender and mental health in everyday practice
  • Master's theses and medical doctoral theses of the working group at the "Psycho-Neuro-Endocrinology" portal, Tübingen University Library
  • Current research topics and methods in affective psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Methods of affective psychoneuroendocrinology in psychiatry III
  • Seminar Psychiatry
  • Weekly internship in psychiatry
  • German Society for Psychology
  • Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists
  • Styrian regional association for psychotherapy
  • The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)