Simone Kühn - Publications

Aigner, C. S., Forlim, C. G., Santoro, D., Bodammer, N., Brühl, R., Sudimac, S., Schmalen, K., Schröder, S., Mohammadi, S., & Kühn, S. (in press). MRI goes mobile: Assessing the reliability and repeatability of a mobile vs. stationary 1.5T MRI for functional neuroscience studies. NMR in Biomedicine.

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., Kuznetsov, D., & Kühn, S. (2026). The German Twin Registry (GERTRUD): Towards harmonized, multisource twin research. Twin Research and Human Genetics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/thg.2026.10057

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]. (2026). Climate-related and nature-based interventions for mental health: An umbrella review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry, 83(5), 499–509. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2026.0037

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

Grødem, E. O. S., Vidal-Pineiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Garrido, P. F., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., MacIntosh, B. J., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Smith, S. M., Solé-Padullés, C., Solana-Sánchez, J., Watne, L. O., Walhovd, K. B., Bjørnerud, A., & Fjell, A. M. (2026). Stable individual differences dominate adult brain volume variation until later life. Imaging Neuroscience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242

Kalc, P., ter Veer, M., Dahnke, R., Ziegler, G., Kühn, S., & Gaser, C. (2026). Factors contributing to short-term structural variability in a longitudinal MRI dataset. Human Brain Mapping, 47(4), Article e70500. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70500

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

Petersen, M., Link, M. A., Mayer, C., Nägele, F. L., Schell, M., Jensen, M., Schlemm, E., Fiehler, J., Gallinat, J., Kühn, S., Twerenbold, R., Omidvarnia, A., Hoffstaedter, F., Patil, K. R., Eickhoff, S. B., Thomalla, G., & Cheng, B. (2026). Biological brain aging, cognitive-motor decline and vascular risk: A multivariate imaging analysis of 40,579 individuals. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 18, Article 1789408. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2026.1789408

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.

Samaan, L., Tawil, N., Lustig, M., Rupp, S., Kühn, S., & Ascone, L. (in press). Towards a multi-theory understanding of the salutogenic potential of landscapes. Journal of Environmental Psychology.

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. (2026). Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal comparison of sixteen markers of biological aging from the Berlin Aging Study II. Communications Medicine, 6, Article 168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01233-7

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