Erik Mueller, Dipl.-Psych.
Address
Gutenbergstraße 18 35032 Marburg
erik.mueller@staff.uni-marburg.de
Education
Since 10/09 Qualification training as clinical psychotherapist (Institut für Psychotherapie Ausbildung, Marburg)
Since 10/08 Doctoral candidate at Philipps-Universität Marburg (supervisor: Dr. J.
Wacker)
2008 Diplom at Philipps-Universität Marburg (overall grade: „sehr gut“) 2008 Diplomarbeit at Harvard University: Attentional shifts in Social Anxiety
Disorder. An electrophysiological source localization study. Supervised by D.
Santesso, Harvard University and W. Rief, Philipps-Universität Marburg (grade: A/„sehr gut“)
2006-2007 Graduate student at the Pennsylvania State University (overall GPA: 4.0) 2005 Vordiplom at Philipps-Universität Marburg (overall grade: „sehr gut“) 2002 Abitur at Prälat-Diehl-Schule in Groß-Gerau, Germany
Occupations
Since 04/11 One Semester temporary replacement for Assistant Professor Dr. J. Wacker (Division for Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics) Since 10/09 University teaching assignment at Philipps-Universität Marburg (cognitive
neuroscience)
Since 10/09 Psychotherapist at Psychotherapie Ambulanz Marburg Since 10/08 Project leader of research project funded by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG WA 2593/2-1 and DFG WA 2593/2-2 (Personality and action monitoring: Molecular genetics and pharmacological investigation of dopaminergic mechanisms, Principal Investigator: Dr. Jan Wacker)
Internships & Work Experience
2010 University of California, San Diego: three month research fellowship at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience (supervisor: Dr. S. Makeig)
2007 Harvard University: three month research internship at the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory (supervisor: Dr. D. Pizzagalli)
2007 Boston University: two month research internship at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (director: Dr. D. Barlow)
2006 Salus Klinik Lindow, Lindow, Germany: Clinical internship
2002-2003 Sozialpsychiatrischer Verein in Groß-Gerau, Germany: Community Service
Awards
2011 DGPA Spring School 2011 stipend (Genes, Brain and Behavior) 2010 Jena Autumn School 2010 stipend (Anterior cingulate cortex) 2010 Society for Psychophysiological Research 2010 student poster award 2010 Dresden Spring School 2010 stipend (Molecular Genetics)
2010 Cover illustration for the journal Neuroscience (Vol. 166, 2)
2009 SPR Research-Training Award 2009 (Society for Psychophysiological Research) (covers 3 month fellowship in UCSD, San Diego, CA) 2009 fMRI-Spring School 2009 stipend (Section Biological Psychology and
Neuropsychology of the German Psychological Association)
2007 “Outstanding Academic Achievement“ (Pennsylvania State University International Program)
2006 “Exceptional Academic Achievement” (Pennsylvania State University International Program)
2006 Scholarship from the Marburg Pennsylvania State University-Exchange program
2006 Stipend from the German Academic Exchange Service for one semester study abroad (DAAD)
Publications
Mueller, E.M., Makeig, S., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J.,& Wacker, J. (submitted). Dopamine effects on human error processing depend on COMT VAL158MET genotype.
Mueller, E. M.*, Hofmann, S.G., & Cherry, J. (2010). The type IV phosphodiesterase inhibitor rolipram disturbs expression and extinction of conditioned fear in mice.
Neuropharmacology, 59, 1 – 8.
Mueller, E. M., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (2010). Single-trial EEG predicts cardiac acceleration: A time-lagged P-correlation approach for studying neurovisceral connectivity. Neuroscience, 166, 491-500.
Mueller, E. M., Nguyen, J., Ray, W., & Borkovec, T. D. (2010). Future oriented decision-making in Generalized Anxiety Disorder is evident across different versions of the Iowa Gambling Task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41,
165-171.
Mueller, E. M., Hofmann, S. G., Santesso, D. L., Meuret, A. E., Bitran, S., & Pizzagalli, D.
A. (2009). Electrophysiological evidence of attentional biases in social anxiety disorder. Psychological Medicine, 39, 1141-1152.
Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., Hennig, J., & Stemmler, G. (under revision). How to consistently link extraversion and intelligence to the Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Gene: On defining and measuring psychological phenotypes in neurogenetic research. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Santesso, D. L., Meuret, A. E., Hofmann, S. G., Mueller, E. M., Ratner, K. G., Roesch, E.
B., & Pizzagalli, D.A. (2008). Electrophysiological correlates of spatial orienting towards angry faces: A source localization study. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1338-1348.
Published Abstracts & Conference Presentations
Mueller, E. M., Makeig, S., Delorme, A., Stemmler, G., & Wacker, J. (submitted).
Interindividual differences in independent brain components - methodological considerations. Psychologie und Gehirn, June, 23 – 25, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany.
Panitz, C.**, Wacker, J., Stemmler, G., & Mueller, E. M. (submitted). Temporal coupling of cortical and cardiac activity: Testing the CECT-approach. Psychologie und
Gehirn, June, 23 – 25, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mayer, I.**, Wacker, J., Stemmler, G., & Mueller E. M. (submitted). Anxiety predicts neurovisceral coupling – a CECT study. Psychologie und Gehirn, June, 23 – 25, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany.
Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., & Stemmler, G. (submitted). Umkehrung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Trait BAS und frontaler Asymmetrie durch Gabe eines Dopamin-D2-Rezeptorblockers. Psychologie und Gehirn, June, 23 – 25, 2011, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mueller, E. M., Mayer, I., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J., & Wacker, J. (submitted) Neurovisceral connectivity and brain activity following negative feedback – Two
COMT-Val158Met dependent intermediate phenotypes for trait anxiety. Society for Psychophysiological Research, September, 13 – 18, 2011, Boston, USA.
Wacker, J., Mueller, E. M., & Stemmler, G. Dopamine D2 receptor blockade reverses the association between trait BAS and frontal asymmetry. Society for
Psychophysiological Research, September, 13 – 18, 2011, Boston, USA.
Mueller, E.M., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J., Wacker, J. (2011). 5HTTLPR and general condition influence experimentally induced negative affect and trait worry in healthy individuals – evidence for a diathesis-stress interaction. 7.
Workshopkongress der DGPs-Fachgruppe Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie. June 2 – 4, 2011, Berlin, Germany.
Mueller, E.M., Hennig, J., Stemmler, G., Wacker, J. (2011). Dopaminergic polymorphisms
COMT and DRD2TaqIa predict learning from gains and losses, respectively.
Poster presentation at DGPA Spring School 2011: Genes, Brain and Behavior, March 23 – 26, 2011, St. Goar, Germany.
Mueller, E.M., Makeig, S., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J.,& Wacker, J. (2010). Both trait anxiety associations and dopamine antagonist-induced reductions of the error-related negativity are moderated by the D2 receptor gene. Psychophysiology, 47, S47-S48.
Mueller, E.M., Makeig, S., Stemmler, G., Hennig, J.,& Wacker, J. (2010). The dopamine-antagonist sulpiride modulates frontomedial error signals depending on
dopaminergic genotypes. Oral and poster presentation at Autumn School Jena 2010: Cognitive, Affective, and Nociceptive Functioning of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex", November 25-28, 2010, Jena, Germany.
Mueller, E.M. & Wacker, J. (2010). Sulpiride modulates the association of negative affect and error-related brain potentials depending on DRD2taq1 A polymorphism.
Poster presentation at "Dresden Spring School 2010: From vulnerability to resilience: Molecular genetic persepctives", March 17-20, 2010, Dresden, Germany.
Mueller, E. M., Stemmler, G., Wacker, J. (2010). Studying the brain with the heart cardio-electroencephalographic covariance traces as an alternative to the event-related potential technique? Oral presentation at "52. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP)", March 22-25, 2010, Saarbruecken, Germany.
Mueller, E. M., Nguyen, J., Ray, W., & Borkovec, T. D. (2009). Entscheidungsverhalten bei Generalisierter Angststoerung: Erhoehte Sensitivitaet fuer zukuenftige Verluste.
Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 38, S50.
Mueller, E. M., Ahrens, B., Stemmler, G., Zangl, M., & Wacker, J. (2009). Single trial EEG amplitude predicts subsequent changes in heart rate within individuals – the cardio electroencephalographic covariance trace. Psychophysiology, 46, S85.
Mueller, E. M., Ahrens, B., Stemmler, G., Zangl, M., Wacker, J. (2009). Vorhersage intraindividueller Herzratenveränderungen durch Einzeltrial-ERP-Magnituden:
Kardio-Elektroenzephalographische Kovarianz-Spuren. Poster presentation at "35.
Arbeitstagung Psychophysiologie und Methodik (APM 2009)", June 11- June 13, 2009, Leipzig, Germany.
Mueller, E. M., Nguyen, J., Ray, W. J., Borkovec, T.D. (2009). The Iowa Gambling Task – Decision-making or punishment-learning? Poster presentation at "51. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP)", March 29- April 01, 2009, Jena, Germany.
Mueller, E. M., Hofmann, S. G., Santesso, D. L., Meuret, A. E., Bitran, S., Pizzagalli, D. A.
(2008). Attentional Shifts in Social Anxiety Disorder: An electrophysiological source localization study. Oral presentation at "50. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP)", March 03-05, 2008, Marburg, Germany.
* article was re-published in Neuropharmacology, Virtual Special Issue of 4/6/2011 on Anxiety and Depression enclosing “outstanding contributions on the topic”.
** student first author was supervised by E. M.
Supervised Theses
EEG-based prediction of heart rate in Panic Disorder and Depression (Christian Panitz, ongoing Diploma thesis)
Effects on dopamine antagonist on neurovisceral connectivity (Isabella Meyer, ongoing Diploma thesis)
Decision making after worry induction (Maja Erkic and Berta Skip, Bachelor thesis) Personality and Feedback – an EEG investigation (Alexandra Hofmann, Christian Panitz and Sarah Utke, Bachelor thesis)
Invited to Review for
• Psychophysiology
• Biological Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychopathology
• Brain and Cognition