Main Focus
- Using feature selection methods to identify environmental aspects predicting brain structure and mental health.
- Investigating how the environmental exposome relates to brain structure, cognition and mental health in monozygotic twins.
- Disentangling environmental and genetic influences on affect and cognition using classical twin designs.
Projects
Curriculum Vitae
- present Predoctoral Fellow, Centre for Environmental Neuroscience
- present Fellow of the International Max Planck Research School on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research
- 2021 M.Sc. Cognitive Affective Neuroscience, Technical University of Dresden
- 2017 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Groningen
Selected Publication
Beyer, M., Sudimac, S., Steininger, M. O., & Kühn, S. (2024). Interplay between the physical environment and the human brain: A review of MRI research. In S. Kühn (Ed.), Environmental neuroscience (pp. 31–70). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64699-7_3
Beyer, M., Brick, T. R., & Kühn, S. (2024). Urbanicity and psychotic experiences: Social adversities, isolation and exposure to natural environments predict psychosis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 96, Article 102293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102293