Dr. Christoph Benke

Seit 09/2019
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, AE Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie (Prof. Dr. Christiane Melzig), Philipps-Universität Marburg

01/2016-08/2019
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Lehrstuhl für Physiologische und Klinische Psychologie/Psychotherapie, Universität Greifswald

06/2016-05/2017
Diplom-Psychologe an der Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (Prof. H. Grabe)

10/2013-12/2015
Promotionsstipendium, Landesgraduiertenförderung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

10/2019
Approbation zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten (Fachkunde: Verhaltenstherapie)

02/2018
Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.): „Threat from the inside: Determinants of defensive responses to body sensations and clinical implications"

07/2013
Diplomarbeit: „Interozeptive Bedrohung und die Schwere der Panikstörung mit Agoraphobie: Eine psychophysiologische Untersuchung"

10/2008-07/2013
Studium der Psychologie, Universität Greifswald

Experimentelle Psychophathologie

Ätiologie, Prävention und Therapie von Panikstörung

Interozeption und interozeptives Lernen

Symptomprovokation und Reaktion auf Körpersymptome

Benke, C., Autenrieth, L. K., Asselmann, E., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2020). Stay-at-home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic are associated with elevated depression and anxiety in younger, but not older adults: results from a nationwide community sample of adults from Germany. Psychological medicine, 1–2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720003438

Benke, C., Autenrieth, L. K., Asselmann, E., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2020). Lockdown, quarantine measures, and social distancing: Associations with depression, anxiety and distress at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic among adults from Germany. Psychiatry research, 293, 113462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113462

Benke, C., Krause, E., Hamm, A.O., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2019). Predictors of behavioral avoidance during respiratory symptom provocation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 112, 63-67.

Benke, C., Alius, M. G., Hamm, A. O., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2018). Cue and context conditioning to respiratory threat: Effects of suffocation fear and implications for the etiology of panic disorder. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 124, 33-42.

Krause, E., Benke, C., Koenig, J., Thayer, J. F., Hamm, A. O., & Pané-Farré, C. (2018). Dynamics of defensive response mobilization to approaching external vs. interoceptive threat. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3, 525-538.

Gruszka, P., Schaan, L., Adolph, D., Pané-Farré, C. A., Benke, C., Schneider, S., & Hechler, T. (2018). Defence response mobilization in response to provocation or imagery of interoceptive sensations in adolescents with chronic pain. PAIN Reports, 3, e680.

Khalsa SS, Adolphs R, Cameron OG, Critchley HD, Davenport PW, …, Paulus MP, and the Interoception Summit 2016 participants (2018). Interoception and Mental Health: a Roadmap. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3:501-513.

Benke, C., Krause, E., Hamm, A. O., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2017). Dynamics of defensive response mobilization during repeated terminations of exposure to increasing interoceptive threat. Int J Psychophysiol. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.09.013

Benke, C., Hamm, A. O., & Pané-Farré, C. A. (2017). When dyspnea gets worse: Suffocation fear and the dynamics of defensive respiratory responses to increasing interoceptive threat. Psychophysiology, 43(1), 174. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12881

Benke, C., Blumenthal, T., Modeß, C., Hamm, A., & Pané-Farré, C. (2015). Effects of anxiety sensitivity and expectations on the modulation of the startle eyeblink response during a caffeine challenge. Psychopharmacology, 232(18), 3403–3416. doi: 10.1007/s00213-015-3996-9