Antonie Louise Bierling

Friedrich Schiller University Jena | FSU · Department of Psychology

A growing body of research aims at solving what is often referred to as the stimulus-percept problem in olfactory perception. Although computational efforts have made it possible to predict perceptual impressions from the physicochemical space of odors, studies with large psychophysical datasets from non-experts remain scarce. Following previous ap...

Objective Traumatic childhood experiences and psychosocial stress may predispose the evolvement of somatic diseases. Psoriasis is a multifactorial chronic inflammatory skin disease that often associates with current and past stress. Both may entail pathological alterations in major stress axes and a balance shift in the level of T helper type 1 (Th...

Zusammenfassung Für viele Spezies ist der Geruchssinn das bedeutsamste Sinnessystem, um mit der Umwelt und Artgenossen zu interagieren. Demgegenüber wurde die Rolle der Wahrnehmung und Kommunikation chemosensorischer Informationen beim Menschen lange Zeit unterschätzt. Der menschliche Geruchssinn galt als weniger zuverlässig, sodass diesem im Vergl...

Many studies have investigated the perception of tactile pleasantness over a range of stroking velocities. On average, pleasantness is low at slow (e.g. 0.3 cm/s) and fast (e.g. 30 cm/s) stroking velocities, but is rated highest at velocities between 1-10 cm/s. On a group level, this results in an inverted-U shape pleasantness ratings curve, which...

Burnout refers to characteristic stress symptoms resulting from chronic overload at the workplace. However, increased stress and strain are observed already in adolescents in the context of school. Previous work shows that school burnout is associated with female gender, immigration background, higher academic achievement, and increasing grade leve...

The sense of smell is based on sensory detection of the molecule(s), which is then further perceptually interpreted. A possible measure of olfactory perception is an odor independent olfactory perceptual fingerprint (OPF) defined by Snitz et al. We aimed to investigate, whether OPF can distinguish patients with olfactory dysfunction due to COVID-19...

Background Reliable outcome data of psychosomatic inpatient and day hospital treatment with a focus on psychotherapy are important to strengthen ecological validity by assessing the reality of mental health care in the field. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of inpatient and day hospital treatment in German university departments of Ps...

Psoriasis is a chronic-inflammatory, immune-mediated disease leading to a state of increased systemic inflammation. Mental comorbidities often occur in the patients and may additionally affect the therapy outcome. Currently, it is unknown whether the disease severity, psychosocial stress or health-related quality of life determines the manifestatio...

Olfaction is an evolutionary old sensory system, which provides sophisticated access to information about our surroundings. In particular, detecting the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted during natural and artificial processes can be used as characteristic fingerprints and help to identify their source. Inspired by the biological example, a...

Objectives: As part of the quality assurance of inpatient treatment, the severity of the disease and the course of therapy must be mapped. However, there is a high degree of heterogeneity in the implementation of basic diagnostics in psychosomatic facilities.There is a lack of scientifically based standardisation in determining the quality of outco...

C-tactile fibers moderate affective touch perception, and intuitive maternal stroking is a fine-tuned mechanism that may stimulate those fibers optimally in the child. This study aimed to replicate previous findings in a more ecologically valid environment and examine factors that relate to stroking velocity. We hypothesized an impact of maternal h...