Franziska Schutzeichel's scientific contributions

Publications (2)

Article
Promising new approach to discover causal factors that drive mental disorders Franzi Schutzeichel used a relatively new approach that is thus far underused in clinical psychology to examine what factors are causally involved in the development of mental disorders such as eating disorders and the frequently co-occurring symptoms of depression and a...
Article
The restriction of energy intake is a central and persistent symptom of anorexia nervosa. Recent models of the disorder suggest that food restrictions are learned avoidance behaviours, which are acquired and maintained by classical and operant conditioning. The present study aims to test this learning model of food restriction. It investigates whet...

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... Participants' diagnostic status (patients vs. healthy controls), the presence of safety behaviors in the situation (SB vs. no SB) and their interaction served as fixed effects. We used LMMs for the analysis of the present data as they are a powerful and flexible tool for analyzing repeated measures data [45,46] and have been successfully employed in other studies on fear and avoidance in eating disorders [47,48]. ...