Birgit Kleim's research while affiliated with University of Zurich and other places

... These dynamic patterns of specific brain connectivity known as spatiotemporal measures have already been shown to be associated with thought processing, and specific cognitive and affective states [27,[30][31][32][33]. Moreover, alterations of brain dynamics patterns have been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer's disease [34][35][36]. ...

... Considering the possible explanation, the resulting insecure attachment to parents may reduce the emotional security in children, probably making them more easy to worry that something negative will happen to them, while without the ability to control it [50]. Additionally, the previous study has shown that being raised by con ictive or abusive parents was strongly associated with various mental disorders, especially internalizing anxiety disorders [51], which was in line with the evidence showing domestic violence and childhood abuse as the two most important risk factors for anxiety disorders [52], further supporting that certain co-occurrence of ACEs were critical for speci c mental problems [53]. ...

... Two special issues appeared in 2019, the first on adjustment to chronic illness (see Figueiras & Neto, 2019) and the second on human rights and psychology (see Söderström et al., 2019). Others that have appeared this year or are in the pipeline include: understanding, predicting and preventing violence (issue 2, edited by Carlo Garofalo and Rannveig Sigurvinsdóttir, see Garofalo & Sigurvinsdóttir, 2020), the psychology of aging (issue 3, edited by Frieder Lang, Matthias Kliegl, and Isabelle Albert; see Lang et al., 2020), early responses to trauma (edited by Birgit Kleim, see Kleim, 2020) political extremist identification (edited by Catarina Kinnvall, in progress), climate change (Tony Wainwright and Katariina Salmela-Aro, in progress), creativity (Todd Lubart, in progress), and now also of course psychology and the COVID-19 pandemic (Berndt Roehrle and Nicola Gale, in progress). ...

... This behavioral intervention consists of personalized "push" notifications that are provided in the form of tips or life insight messages via the app. Tips, consistent with cognitive behavioral theory [28,29], are nondata-based statements that are motivational-focused (why change) or ability-focused (how to change) to promote healthy behaviors. Life insights, targeting enhanced self-monitoring and self-management as a tool of behavior change, include push notifications that summarize personalized data. ...

... In den Feldern Psychologie, Pädagogik und Psychotherapie ist ‚Resilienz' in den letzten Jahren zu einem absoluten Modebegriff geworden. Und spätestens mit der Corona-Krise wird der Begriff in Diskursen zum Umgang mit der Pandemie, sei es mit psychologischem (Veer et al. 2020) oder politischem Fokus (Reckwitz 2020), stark strapaziert. Der Begriff wird dabei durchgehend in einer affirmativen Art und Weise gebraucht. ...

... One way to conceptualize the impact of environmental risk factors and related psychopathological conditions in terms of pp is the way our internal models shape with exposure to environmental factors. In other words, environmental risk factors, such as trauma, chronic stress, or adverse childhood experiences, can shape our internal models and lead to maladaptive predictions and perceptual biases [173][174][175]. For instance, Wilkinson et al., 2017 try to explain the effects of various psychological trauma (e.g., type 1 vs. type 2 trauma) on the human nervous system with the PP framework [175]. ...

... Therefore, proline is stored in the ECM as collagen, which can serve both as a reservoir and dump for proline (Phang et al., 2010). Of note, components of the ECM such as matrix metalloproteinases, which degrade collagen and release proline, and perineuronal nets have been recently suggested as new key players in the development of psychiatric disorders (Bach et al., 2019). Strikingly, microbiota transfer from humans to mice highlighted a strong upregulation of pathways associated with the ECM and collagen homeostasis as well as GABA-and proline-dependent neurotransmission in the mPFC of mice that received microbiota from human donors with high depression scores. ...

... Existing systematic reviews on neurobiological mechanisms of resilience focus on adult populations, or pool findings across age groups (Bolsinger et al., 2018;Galatzer-Levy et al., 2018;Moreno-López et al., 2020;Roeckner et al., 2021). Given that childhood and adolescence are periods of dynamic brain development, it is important to examine them separately from adults as neurobiological resilience mechanisms could differ (Fuhrmann et al., 2015). ...

... For this reason, the finding should be interpreted with caution. Taken together, all demographic and job-related predictors only seem to account only for a small amount of variance in resilience levels as measured by the RS-5 in HCW, a fact that has already been noted by other authors [57]. ...

... Intratraumatic factors, defined as trauma-related factors, include the severity of trauma and subsequent dissociation symptoms. [11][12][13][14] With regard to posttraumatic factors, comorbid depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and feelings of shame after trauma have been studied, and all these factors were known to be associated with chronic PTSD. Particularly, the relations between the chronicity of PTSD and social reactions to survivors after trauma, from positive support to negative stigmatization, have been examined. ...