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Dr. Lydia Kogler
Research Associate
Clinical and Health Psychologist (according to Austrian law)
Deputy Head Women's Mental Health and Brain Function
Psychotherapist in Training (TAVT)
Independent Project Leader on Positive Self-Instruction and Inner Speech
Lydia-Kogler (LinkedIn)
Contact
Phone number: 07071 29-87030
E-mail address: lydia.kogler@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Clinic / Institute / Center
Clinical focus
About the person
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Scientific profile
Orcid profile -
Article on stress research in the university magazine Attempto! from May 2024
Hormones and the female brain -
Interviewed in the podcast "Let's talk about women": Invited guest on the topics of stress regulation, gender, the brain and how we experimentally trigger stress
Podcast episode "Let's talk about women - Let's talk about stress regulation" from 18.01.2024 (in English) -
Podcast host in the ECS strand "Inside DZPG MindMatters" of the DZPG Academy
The podcast Inside DZPG MindMatters is a podcast of the DZPG Academy of the German Center for Mental Health (DZPG). In the ECS strand of the podcast, I, together with Dr. Simone Behrens (Department of Psychosomatics, University Hospital Tübingen), talk to DZPG Early Career Scientists (ECS) about their scientific, professional and DZPG-related projects. The podcast serves to promote exchange and networking within the DZPG and its six locations across Germany.
Inside DZPG MindMatters -
Interview on the topics of mental health, women, gender and a demanding everyday life
Strengthening mental health: self-care for women in a demanding everyday life
Current research projects / third-party funding
- Estradiol in connection with affective regulation and the brain
- Gender differences in brain anatomy
- Inner speech and functional networks
- Cortisol in mental illnesses (depression, schizophrenia)
- Stress and hormonal contraceptives
- Positive self-instruction: social evaluation and neuronal activation
- The influence of positive self-instruction on functional networks
Education & professional career
- 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)
Prizes & Awards
- DZPG-ECS-Independence Grant
- DZPG-ECS-Independence Grant
- Friedrich Wilhelm Prize, RWTH Aachen University
- fortüne funding, Faculty of Medicine, Tübingen
- Admission "Junior Academy", Faculty of Medicine, University of 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
Publications
- Weinmar, F., Kogler, L., Rehbein, E., Morawetz, C., Sundström-Poromaa, I., Skalkidou, A., Derntl, B. (2025). Neural emotion regulation during pregnancy - a fMRI study investigating a transdiagnostic mental health factor in healthy first-time pregnant women. Imaging Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00529
- 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*. (2025). 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. (*contributed equally) (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 on 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
Events / Lectures
- Current research topics and methods in affective psychoneuroendocrinology
- Methods of affective psychoneuroendocrinology in psychiatry IV
- Seminar Psychiatry
- Weekly internship in psychiatry
Memberships
- German Society for Psychology (DGPs)
- Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists (BÖP)
- Styrian regional association for psychotherapy
- The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN)
- German Center for Mental Health (DZPG)