Simone Kühn - Publications

Barth, L. L., Mostajeran, F., Steinicke, F., Riecke, B. E., & Kühn, S. (in press). Immersive videos of natural and urban environments can enhance awe and psychological well-being. Frontiers in Virtual Reality.

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

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

Miegel, F., Lohse, L., Jelinek, L., Scheunemann, J., Gabbert, T., Schauenburg, G., Bittner, L., Mostajeran, F., Kühn, S., Gallinat, J., & Yassari, A. (2025). Digital nature: Unveiling the impact and safety of FlowVR group intervention for depression in a feasibility trial. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 151(3), 304–316. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13731

Motka, F., Kühn, S., & Wittekind, C. E. (2025). Deficits in general and smoking-specific response inhibition in the Go/No-Go task in individuals who smoke: A cross-sectional analysis. Addiction, 120(7), 1402–1412. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70003

Motka, F., Wittekind, C. E., Ascone, L., & Kühn, S. (2025). Efficacy and working mechanisms of a go/no-go task-based inhibition training in smoking: A randomized-controlled trial. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 185, Article 104672. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2024.104672

Sander, M., Klimesch, A., Samaan, L., Kühn, S., Augustin, J., & Ascone, L. (2025). Natural vs. built visual urban landscape elements around the home and their associations with mental and brain health of residents: A narrative review. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 104, Article 102559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102559

Steininger, M. O., White, M. P., Lengersdorff, L., Zhang, L., Smalley, A. J., Kühn, S., & Lamm, C. (2025). Nature exposure induces analgesic effects by acting on nociception-related neural processing. Nature Communications, 16, Article 2037. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56870-2

Sztuka, I. M., Becker, M., & Kühn, S. (2025). Neural representations underlying psychological responses to natural and artificial features in indoor architecture. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 103, Article 102553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102553

Sztuka, I. M., & Kühn, S. (2025). Neurocognitive dynamics and behavioral differences of symmetry and asymmetry processing in working memory: Insights from fNIRS. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 4740. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84988-8

Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Strømstad, M., Amlien, I. K., Anderson, M., Baaré, W. F. C., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Bråthen, A. C., Garrido, P., Ghisletta, P., Grydeland, H., Henson, R. N., Kievit, R. A., Korbmacher, M., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Roe, J. M., Sneve, M. H., Sole-Padulles, C., Watne, L.-O., Walhovd, K. B., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Reliability of structural brain change in cognitively healthy adult samples. Imaging Neuroscience, 3, Article imag_a_00547. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00547

Vilela Komatsu, A., & Kühn, S. (2025). The effect of the physical environment on adolescents' sense of justice. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 103, Article 102582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102582

Falkenstein, K., Pauley, C., & Kühn, S. (2025). Investigating effects of day-to-day variations in environmental exposure on the human brain: The Day2Day Environment project. PsyArXiv, February 27, 2025. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wt5zs_v1

Fjell, A. M., Røgeberg, 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., the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, Walhovd, K. B., & Vidal-Piñeiro, D. (2025). Reevaluating the role of education in cognitive decline and brain aging: Insights from large-scale longitudinal cohorts across 33 countries. MedRxiv, January 29, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.29.25321305

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., the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA), Walhovd, K. B., Bjørnerud, A., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Distinguishing lifelong individual differences from divergent aging trajectories of adult brain volumes. BioRxiv, May 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.26.655710

Petersen, M., Walther, C., Borof, K., Heydecke, G., Beikler, T., Alawi, M., Müller, C., Nägele, F. L., Zyriax, B.-C., Fiehler, J., Gallinat, J., Kühn, S., Twerenbold, R., Bang, C., Thomalla, G., Cheng, B., & Aarabi, G. (2025). Oral microbiome profiles relate to periodontal disease and brain health: A microbiome network analysis in the Hamburg City Health Study. MedRxiv, February 23, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.22.25322702

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. (2025). Comprehensive comparison of sixteen markers of biological aging: Cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). MedRxiv, April 10, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.09.25325514

Vidal-Piñeiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Strømstrad, M., Amlien, I. K., Baaré, W., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Düzel, S., Ghisletta, P., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., Mowinckel, A. M., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Roe, J. M., Solana-Sánchez, J., Solé-Padullés, C., Watne, L. O., Wolfers, T., the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA), the Australian Imaging Biomarkers and Lifestyle flagship study of ageing (AIBL), the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Walhovd, K. B., & Fjell, A. M. (2025). Vulnerability to memory decline in aging: A mega-analysis of structural brain change. BioRxiv, March 28, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.27.642988