Dr. Magdalena Stork (former Sandner)


Curriculum Vitae | Grants and awards | Publications | Posters and Talks| Current fields of research | Methods and Workshops | Teaching


Curriculum Vitae

10/2023 Licensed Psychotherapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Since 02/2022 Advanced training in clinical neuropsychology (LPK), Hochschulambulanz für Psychotherapie und Neuropsychologie Mainz
05/2021 PhD in neuropsychology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz; Thesis: Characterizing the Dynamic Multilevel Stress Response and its Influence on Cognitive Emotion Regulation
Since 10/2016 Research assistant, Department of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology,
Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
10/2014 – 09/2017 M. Sc. in Applied Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Master thesis: Characterizing the dynamic stress response on neuroendocrine and large-scale brain network level.
09/2013 – 02/2014 Semester abroad at the University of Haifa, Israel
Focus of research: Psychology of Conflict and Reconciliation, Terrorism and Responses

03/2011 – 09/2014

 

B. Sc. in Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Bachelor thesis (in collaboration with the Neuroimaging Center Mainz, AG ERIC): The influence of implicit emotional learning on motor inhibition. (Prof. Michèle Wessa, Dr. Alexandra Sebastian)

 


Grants and awards

Since 02/2017 Member of GRADE (Goethe Graduate Academy, Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Since 12/2016 Associated Fellow of TransMed (Graduate Academy, Mainz Research School of Translational Biomedicine)

 


Publications

Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2021). Cognitive emotion regulation withstands the stress test: An fMRI study on the effect of acute stress on distraction and reappraisal. Neuropsychologia, 157, 107876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107876

Sandner, M., Lois, G., Streit, F., Zeier, P., Kirsch, P., Wuest, S., & Wessa, M. (2020). Investigating individual stress reactivity: High hair cortisol predicts lower acute stress responses. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 118, 104660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104660

Zeier, P., Sandner, M., & Wessa, M. (2023). Regulating emotions with experience - The effectiveness of reappraisal inventiveness depends on situational familiarity. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, Published online: 19 Apr 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2200999.

Ochmann, D. T., Philippi, K. F. A, Zeier, P., Sandner, M. et al. (2021). Association of Innate and Acquired Aerobic Capacity With Resilience in Healthy Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of an 8-Week Web-Based Physical Exercise Intervention. JMIR Research Protocols, 10(11):e29712. https://doi.org/10.2196/29712

Sebastian, A., Schick, A., Sandner, M., Werzlau, R. M., Chmitorz, A., Lieb, K., & Tüscher, O. (2020). Perceived threat modulates inhibitory performance. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000746

Zeier, P., Sandner, M. & Wessa, M. (2019). Script-based Reappraisal Test - Introducing a new paradigm to investigate the effect of reappraisal inventiveness on reappraisal effectiveness. Cognition & Emotion, published online: 09 Sep 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2019.1663153#

Lois, G., Kirsch, P., Sandner, M., Plichta, M. M., & Wessa, M. (2018). Experimental and methodological factors affecting test‐retest reliability of amygdala BOLD responses. Psychophysiology, 55(12), e13220. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13220


Posters and Talks

­Sandner, M. E., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2017, September). Characterizing the dynamic stress response - Adaptation and validation of an in-MR paradigm to investigate various stress effects in humans. Poster at the 47th annual conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology (ISPNE), Zurich, Switzerland.
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Sandner, M. E., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2017, September). Characterizing the dynamic stress response - Adaptation and validation of an in-MR paradigm to investigate various stress effects in humans. Poster at the 3rd International Symposium on Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany.

Sandner, M., Lois, G., Zeier, P., & Wessa, M. (2018, July). Does chronic stress immunize against acute stress exposure? - Hair Cortisol predicts blunted reactivity to an acute stressor. Poster at the 11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany.

Sandner, M., Lois, G., Zeier, P., & Wessa, M. (2018, September). Does chronic stress immunize against acute stress exposure? - Hair Cortisol predicts blunted reactivity to an acute stressor. Poster at the 48th annual conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, ISPNE, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Sandner, M., Lois, G., Zeier, P., & Wessa, M. (2018, September). Does chronic stress immunize against acute stress exposure? - Hair Cortisol predicts blunted reactivity to an acute stressor. Poster at the 4th international resilience symposium, Mainz, Germany.

Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2019, August). Investigating Emotion Regulation under Stress. Talk at the 49th annual conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, ISPNE, Milan, Italy.

Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2019, August). Investigating Cognitive Emotion Regulation in the Face of Stress. Poster at the 49th annual conference of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology, ISPNE, Milan, Italy.

Sandner, M., Zeier, P., Lois, G., & Wessa, M. (2019, September). Investigating Cognitive Emotion Regulation in the Face of Stress. Poster at the 5th international resilience symposium, Mainz, Germany.


Current fields of research

  • Emotionregulation in the face of stress (Collaborative Research Center 1193 of the German Research Foundation „Neurobiology of Resilience to stress-related mental dysfunction: from understanding mechanisms to promoting prevention“)

 


Methods and Workshops

  • Behavioral data assessment
  • Development of psychological tests and questionnaires
  • Electroencephalography (EEG)
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
03/2017 Methods for designing and analyzing human MRI studies, Universitätsmedizin Mainz
10/2016 MathWorks Matlab Course, Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Mainz
09/2015 Functional and Clinical neuroanatomy, Department of Neurobiology, University Medical Center Mainz
06/2015 Neurobs Presentation Course, Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Mainz

 


Teaching

Winter 2023/24 Mechanismen psychischer Störungen (Msc)
Winter 2022/23 Mechanismen psychischer Störungen (Msc)
Winter 2020/21 Ausgewählte Störungsbilder und Interventionen (MSc)