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Context conditioning in virtual reality as a model for pathological anxiety

• E. Glotzbach-Schoon

  Is a PhD student in the Collaborative Research Centres (German: Sonderforschungsbereich, SFB) “Fear, Anxiety, and Anxiety Disorders” (SFB TRR 58) in subproject B01 with Prof. Dr. Paul Pauli and Prof. Dr. Andreas Mühlberger. She studied psychology at the University of Würzburg from 2003–2008.

  , M. Andreatta

  Is a postdoctoral fellow in the work group “Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy” of Prof. Dr. Paul Pauli. She studied psychology at the University of Padua (Italy) and acquired a doctoral degree in 2010 about associative learning in the Co-Tutela procedure at the University of Würzburg (Prof. Dr. P. Pauli) and University of Padua (Prof. Dr. A. Angrilli).

  , A. Mühlberger

  Is head of the newly founded Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at the University of Regensburg since 2012. He studied psychology and psychotherapy at the University of Würzburg and acquired a PhD at the Graduate School of Neurobiology, University of Tübingen. He returned to Würzburg in 2001 and finished his habilitation in 2007 at the Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy. His research focus is the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, especially using virtual reality. This comprises basic research questions, for example the study of interindividual differences in context conditioning, and applied questions, for example the evaluation and optimization of psychotherapeutic interventions.

  and P. Pauli

  Is head of the Department of Biological Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Psychotherapy at the University of Würzburg since 2001. He studied psychology at the University of Tübingen and received a research stipend at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich after that. After receiving his PhD in 1991, he became associate and then senior associate scientist with Prof. Birbaumer at the University of Tübingen, where he habilitated in 1997. In 2000, he became the Chair of Clinical Psychology Research at the University of Southampton, England. He is the speaker of the DFG Graduate School RTG 1253 “Processing of affective stimuli: from the molecular basis to the emotional experience”, vice speaker of the Section of Neuroscience of the Graduate School of Life Sciences at the University of Würzburg, and DFG-Liaison officer at the University of Würzburg.