Dr. Philipp Bierwirth

Research Topics

• Neurobiological foundations of fear and memory extinction
• Sleep and fear memory
• Neurobiological foundations of neuroticism and anxiety
• Brain-heart coupling

Education

08/2022
Post-doctoral researcher in the research group differential psychology and personality research, Philipps University Marburg

2016-2022 
Researcher in the field of general psychology and biological psychology with promotion to Dr. rer. nat (summa cum laude), University of Osnabrück

2010-2013
B.Sc. Psychology, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

Publications

Bierwirth P, Stockhorst U. Role of noradrenergic arousal for fear extinction processes in rodents and humans. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 2022 Oct; 194:107660. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107660.

Plog, E., Antov, M. I., Bierwirth, P., Keil, A., and Stockhorst, U. (2022). Phase-synchronized stimulus presentation augments contingency knowledge and affective evaluation in a fear-conditioning task. eNeuro, 9(1)

Bierwirth, P., Sperl, M. F. J., Antov, M. I., and Stockhorst, U. (2021). Prefrontal theta oscillations are modulated by estradiol status during fear recall and extinction recall. Biological psychiatry.Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 6(11):1071–1080

Antov, M. I., Plog, E., Bierwirth, P., Keil, A., and Stockhorst, U. (2020). Visuocortical tuning to a threat-related feature persists after extinction and consolidation of conditioned fear. Scientificreports, 10(1):3926