Simone Kühn - Publikationen

Ascone, L., Mahlke, C., Tawil, N., Samaan, L., Frisch, M., Nugent, L., Nixdorf, R., Börncke, F., Lüdecke, D., Fischer, R., Bach, N., Hackbarth, C., McCall, T., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Informing the redesign of psychiatric seclusion rooms: A mixed-methods pre-evaluation with individuals with lived experience. BMC Psychiatry, 26, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-026-07780-0

Ascone, L., Mostajeran, F., Hagen, H., Börncke, F., Klock, L., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Compassion-focused virtual reality for individuals with a psychotic disorder: A randomized-controlled pilot study. Psychosis, 18(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2025.2545769

Beyer, M., Quinones, J., Stanojlovic, A., & Kühn, S. (2026). Das Gehirn ist keine Insel: Umweltneurowissenschaften. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 23–24. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8354

Brandt, L., Böge, G., Hahn, E., Bajbouj, M., & Kühn, S. (2026). Klima und psychische Gesundheit. Nervenheilkunde, 45(1-2), 25–26. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-2727-8394

Brandt, L., De Prisco, M., Nocera, D., Rehm, M. C., Cohen, S., Kosker, D. N., von Luxburg, S., Ori, D., Pinzón-Espinosa, J., Scheuber, P., Sonntag, N., Radua, J., Hasan, A., Luykx, J. J., & the Global Evidence on Planetary Mental Health Study Group [Member of the MPIB: Simone Kühn]. (in press). Climate-related and nature-based interventions for mental health: An umbrella review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry.

Fischer, D. J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Scent of trees: Investigating the short-term effects of two tree essential oils on mood, psychological stress, and cognition. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 110, Article 102962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2026.102962

Kalc, P., ter Veer, M., Dahnke, R., Ziegler, G., & Kühn, S. (in press). Factors contributing to short-term structural variability in a longitudinal MRI dataset. Human Brain Mapping.

Klimesch, A., Ascone, L., Thomalla, G., Cheng, B., Petersen, M., Schäfer, I., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Echoes of childhood trauma: The relationship between adverse childhood experiences, brain structure, and mental health in aging adults. Translational Psychiatry, 16, Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-026-03811-2

Koops, T. U., Reidick, M. C., Ascone, L., Mordvintsev, M., Gallinat, J., Briken, P., & Kühn, S. (2026). Association of sexual dysfunctions according to DSM-5 criteria with structural brain differences in women and men from the Hamburg City Health Study. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 28(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/19585969.2026.2617046

Pohlmann, K., Tawil, N., Brick, T. R., & Kühn, S. (2026). Style mixing houses: The role of high- and low-level visual features in human house facade evaluation. Acta Psychologica, 262, Article 106126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.106126

Quinones, J. F., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Grigis, A., Heinz, A., Lemaitre, H., Martinot, J.-L., Martinot, M.-L. P., Artiges, E., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Poustka, L., Smolka, M. N., Hohmann, S., Holz, N., Vaidya, N., Walter, H., Whelan, R., Wirsching, P., Schumann, G., Gallinat, J., & Kühn, S. (2026). Developing brains and changing worlds: Macroenvironmental changes and their association with brain development. Environmental Research, 293, Article 123624. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.123624

Rolvien, L., Jelinek, L., Lohse, L., Moritz, S., Borgmann, L., Gallinat, J., Kühn, S., & Miegel, F. (in press). Exposure with response prevention in virtual reality for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Vetter, V. M., Drewelies, J., Homann, J., Düzel, S., Deecke, L., Jawinski, P., Kühn, S., Kubala, E., Markett, S., Mülleder, M., Ralser, M., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Gerstorf, D., Bertram, L., & Demuth, I. (in press). Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal comparison of sixteen markers of biological aging from the Berlin Aging Study II. Communications Medicine.

Ascone, L., Mostajeran, F., Mascherek, A., Tawil, N., Knaust, T., Samaan, L., & Kühn, S. (2025). Multi- vs. unimodal forest-bathing in VR to enhance affective and cognitive recovery after acute stress. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 105, Article 102637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102637

Barth, L. L., Mostajeran, F., Steinicke, F., Riecke, B. E., & Kühn, S. (2025). Immersive videos of natural and urban environments can enhance awe and psychological well-being. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 6, Article 1532991. https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.2025.1532991

Drewelies, J., Fiedler, A., Brick, T. R., & Kühn, S. (2025). Investigating associations between the physical living environment and hippocampus in adulthood and older age. Environmental Research, 267, Article 120728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.120728

Drewelies, J., Homann, J., Vetter, V. M., Duezel, S., Kühn, S., Deecke, L., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Jawinski, P., Markett, S., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Bertram, L., Demuth, I., & Gerstorf, D. (2025). There are multiple clocks that time us: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among 14 alternative indicators of age and aging. The Journals of Gerontology: A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 80(6), Article glae244. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae244

Fjell, A. M., Rogeberg, O., Sørensen, Ø., Amlien, I. K., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Düzel, S., Grydeland, H., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Lyngstad, T. H., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Solé-Padullés, C., Sneve, M. H., Solana, J., Strømstad, M., Watne, L. O., Walhovd, K. B., & Vidal-Piñeiro, D. (2025). Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries. Nature Medicine, 31, 2967–2976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03828-y

Hischke, S., Kühn, S., Matthias, V., Ramacher, M., Schulze, K., & Augustin, J. (2025). Räumliche Assoziation zwischen Luftschadstoffen und Erkrankungen des Atemwegs- sowie des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems in Hamburg. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 68, 1155–1162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-025-04122-5

Lohse, L., Rolvien, L., Borsutzky, S., Kühn, S., Miegel, F., & Jelinek, L. (2025). Examining the safety and side effects of exposure therapy in virtual reality for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neuropsychiatrie, 39, 55–67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40211-025-00518-6