• Skip navigation
  • Skip to navigation
  • Skip to the bottom
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Chair of Health Psychology
  • FAUTo the central FAU website
  1. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
  2. Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie
  3. Department Psychologie
Suche öffnen
  • en
  • de
  • Campo
  • StudOn
  • FAUdir
  • Jobs
  • Map
  • Help
  1. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
  2. Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie
  3. Department Psychologie
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Chair of Health Psychology
Navigation close
  • Team
  • Research
    • Stress Response Patterns and Health
      • IMMERSE: Cognitive performance in acute stress
      • COST: Role of Coping Strategies in physiological Responses to acute psychosocial Stress
      • Modification of Biological Stress Response Patterns through Experimental Manipulation of Cognitive Coping Strategies
      • HABIT: Role of Anxiety and Coping Strategies in the Habituation to repeated acute Stress
    • Chronic Stress and Health
      • IMMUNE: Immune against stress? – Validation of the German version of the STRAIN
      • Chronic stress level and functional health in older adults: the impact and role of fear of falling
      • PFCS: Protective Factors in chronically stressed Caregivers
      • STING: German Translation and Evaluation of the Stress and Adversity Inventory (STRAIN)
    • Traumatic Stress and Health
      • POSTRES: Characterization of Acute Stress Responses in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
      • Psychobiologische Behandlungseffekte traumafokussierter Maltherapie bei Patienten mit psychischen und physischen Traumafolgestörungen
    • Anxiety and Coping in the Healthcare System
      • ABI-MS: Coping with Medical Procedures – Development of an Inventory
      • VARD: Repressive Coping and the Verbal Autonomic Response Dissociation in a Simulated Medical Stress Situation
    • Digital Stress
      • Gesund Digital Leben – Der bayerische Forschungsverbund forDigitHealth
      • Teamwork Performance: Effects of Tracking Based Feedback Mechanisms on Performance and Health Biomarkers
    • Stress and Health in the Context of Migration
      • Verbal Violence against Migrants in Institutions (VIOLIN)
    Portal Research
  • Publications
  • Biomarker Assay Service
  1. Home
  2. Research
  3. Traumatic Stress and Health

Traumatic Stress and Health

In page navigation: Research
  • Stress Response Patterns and Health
  • Chronic Stress and Health
  • Traumatic Stress and Health
    • POSTRES: Characterization of Acute Stress Responses in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
    • Psychobiologische Behandlungseffekte traumafokussierter Maltherapie bei Patienten mit psychischen und physischen Traumafolgestörungen
  • Anxiety and Coping in the Healthcare System
  • Teamwork Performance: Effects of Tracking Based Feedback Mechanisms on Performance and Health Biomarkers
  • Digital Stress
  • Stress and Health in the Context of Migration

Traumatic Stress and Health

Kontakt

Nicolas Rohleder

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder

Department of Psychology
Lehrstuhl für Gesundheitspsychologie

Room: Room 3.114
Nägelsbachstr. 49a
91052 Erlangen
Germany
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-20887
  • Email: nicolas.rohleder@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.gesundheitspsychologie.phil.fau.de
Traumatic experiences often come with biological consequences in the human organism. Patients suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for example have a higher riks for many diseases, in particular cardiovascular disease. In our research focus "Traumatic Stress and Health", we aim to understand the biological pathways between trauma and psychological response to trauma and pathophysiological changes in the organism's periphery that might explain higher rates of morbidity and mortality in PTSD.

Projects:

Term: since 01/01/2017
Project leader: Nicolas Rohleder, Yesim Erim
Nicolas Rohleder

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder

Posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with an altered psychological and physiological stress reaction. These biological changes are in relationship with psychological symptoms in PTSD and related with changes of the Central Nervous System (CNS) in PTSD. However, while psychiatric / psychological symptoms of PTSD can be treated somewhat successfully, it is currently not well understood how well successful treatment of psychiatric symptoms can also lead to the normalization of the acute stress reaction in PTSD. Thus, the aim of our work is to investigate the acute physiological stress reaction of PTSD patients towards a stressor and compare it with a parallelized healthy control group in Body-Mass-Index, age, sex and smoking behavior. Both groups are requested to take part in a satandardized stress-test and before and afterwards to donate multiple samplers of blood and saliva and fill out some questionnaires about their symptoms. They are agian asked to fill out the same questionnäires and donate one samle of plasma and serum blood seven weeks later. With this study we hope to be able to drive new conclusions about specifics of the stress reaction of PTSD patients. We furthermore hope to find reliable parameters for the prediction of therapy succes of PTSD while a standardized eight-week long hospitalization in a day care hospital.

→ More information

Term: since 02/01/2019
Funding source: Staedtler-Stiftung
Project leader: Nicolas Rohleder
Nicolas Rohleder

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder

→ More information

Contact Persons:

  • Nicolas Rohleder

Participating Scientists:

  • Nicolas Rohleder
  • Yesim Erim
  • Luis Gerber

Publications:

  • Pitts KP., Joksimovic L., Steudte-Schmiedgen S., Rohleder N., Wolf J.:
    Determinants of altered intracellular endocrine-immune interplay in Bosnian war refugees suffering from PTSD.
    In: Biological Psychology 118 (2016), p. 1-7
    ISSN: 0301-0511
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.04.005
  • Kuras Y., McInnis C., Thoma M., Chen X., Hanlin L., Gianferante D., Rohleder N.:
    Increased alpha-amylase response to an acute psychosocial stress challenge in healthy adults with childhood adversity
    In: Developmental Psychobiology (2017)
    ISSN: 0012-1630
  • Rohleder N., Karl A.:
    Role of endocrine and inflammatory alterations in comorbid somatic diseases of post-traumatic stress disorder.
    In: Minerva Endocrinologica 31 (2006), p. 273-288
    ISSN: 0391-1977
    URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-34249733009&partnerID=MN8TOARS
  • Rohleder N.:
    Stress system regulation of chronic low-grade inflammation
    In: Advances in Neuroimmune Biology 3 (2012), p. 265-276
    ISSN: 1878-948X
    DOI: 10.3233/NIB-012904
Chair of Health Psychology
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Rohleder

Nägelsbachstr. 49a
91052 Erlangen
Germany
  • Imprint
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Facebook
  • RSS Feed
  • Twitter
  • Xing
Up
Privacy Settings

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies.

Some cookies are necessary for visiting this website, i.e. essential. Otherwise, without these cookies, your end device would not be able to remember your privacy choices, for example.

If you agree, we also use cookies and data to measure your interactions with our website or to integrate external media (e.g. videos).

You can view and withdraw your consent at any time at Privacy policy. On the site you will also find additional information about the cookies and technologies used.

Privacy Settings

Accept all

Save

Accept only essential cookies

Individual privacy settings

Imprint Privacy policy Accessibility

Privacy Settings

Here you will find an overview of all cookies used. You can give your consent to whole categories or display further information and select certain cookies.

Accept all Save Accept only essential cookies

Back

Privacy Settings

Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.

Show Cookie Information Hide Cookie Information

Name
Provider Owner of this website
Purpose Saves the visitors preferences selected in the Consent Banner.
Privacy Policy https://www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu/privacy/
Hosts www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu
Cookie Name rrze-legal-consent
Cookie Expiry 1 Year
Name
Provider No transmission to third parties
Purpose Test if cookie can be set. Remember User session.
Privacy Policy https://www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu/privacy/
Hosts .www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu
Cookie Name wordpress_[*]
Cookie Expiry Session
Name
Provider No transmission to third parties
Purpose Used to manage WebSSO session state.
Privacy Policy https://www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu/privacy/
Hosts www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu
Cookie Name SimpleSAMLSessionID,SimpleSAMLAuthToken
Cookie Expiry Session
Name
Provider No transmission to third parties
Purpose Preserves user session state across page requests.
Privacy Policy https://www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu/privacy/
Hosts www.healthpsych.phil.fau.eu
Cookie Name PHPSESSID
Cookie Expiry Session

Content from video platforms and social media platforms is blocked by default. If External Media cookies are accepted, access to those contents no longer requires manual consent.

Show Cookie Information Hide Cookie Information

Accept
Name
Provider Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland
Purpose Used to unblock Twitter content.
Privacy Policy https://twitter.com/privacy
Hosts twimg.com, twitter.com
Cookie Name __widgetsettings, local_storage_support_test
Cookie Expiry Unlimited
Accept
Name
Provider Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose Used to unblock YouTube content.
Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en
Hosts google.com, youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com
Cookie Name NID
Cookie Expiry 6 Months
Accept
Name
Provider Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA
Purpose Used to unblock Vimeo content.
Privacy Policy https://vimeo.com/privacy
Hosts player.vimeo.com
Cookie Name vuid
Cookie Expiry 2 Years
Accept
Name
Provider Scribd, Inc., 460 Bryant St, 100, San Francisco, CA 94107-2594 USA
Purpose Used to unblock Slideshare content.
Privacy Policy https://www.slideshare.net/privacy
Hosts www.slideshare.net
Cookie Name __utma
Cookie Expiry 2 Years

Imprint Privacy policy Accessibility