Publications
2025
Härpfer, K., Jelinek, L., Leicht, G., Miegel, F., Yassari, A. H., & Riesel, A. (2025). Exploring potential neural correlates of treatment response in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder. Journal of Psychophysiology, 39(2), 59–73. https://doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803/a000347
Pillny, M., Härpfer, K., Carsten, H., Lincoln, T. M., & Riesel, A. (2025). With the power of the inner eyes: The late positive potential during mental time travel through positive and negative experiences. An event-related potential study. Memory, 1-18. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2025.2554283
Stegmann, Y., Battaglia, S., Carsten, H., Folta-Schoofs, K., Kroczek, L. O. H., Lam, C., Mühlberger, A., Reicherts, P., Richter, J., Riesel, A., Starita, F., Szeska, C., Weymar, M., Wieser, M., Wong, A., Yang, Y., Mushtaq, F., Pavlov, Y., & Gamer, M. (2025). Coherence of Gamma-Band EEG Activity as a Basis for Associative Threat Learning [Registered Report Stage 1 protocol] (Version 1). figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29447501.v1
Riesel, A., Härpfer, K., Hansen, K. B., & Carsten, H. P. (2025, July 31). A Systematic Integration of Current Evidence on the Role of Error-Related Negativity as a Biomarker in Psychopathology using Pairwise and Network Meta-Analyses. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mbzha_v1
Holbrook, A., Park, B., Baldwin, S.A., Riesel, A., Larson, M.J. and Clayson, P. (2025), Psychometric Reliability of ERN and Pe Across Flanker, Stroop, and Go/No-Go Tasks: A Direct and Conceptual Replication. Psychophysiology, 62: e70042. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70042
Sobania, K. M., Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Lincoln, T. M., Kausche, F. M., & Riesel, A. (2025, March 25). Are Fear Learning Processes Altered in Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Insights from the Late Positive Potential, Fear-Potentiated Startle, and Ratings. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ethqc_v1
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Kausche, F. M., & Riesel, A. (2025). Enhanced performance monitoring as a transdiagnostic risk marker of the anxiety and obsessive–compulsive spectrum: The role of disorder category, clinical status, family risk, and anxiety dimensions. Depression and Anxiety, 2025(1), 9505414. https://doi.org/10.1155/da/9505414
2024
Paul K, Beauducel A, Hennig J, Hewig J, Hildebrandt A, Kührt C, Lange L, Mueller EM, Osinsky R, Porth E, Riesel A, Rodrigues J, Scheffel C, Short CA, Stahl J, Strobel A, Wacker J. Frontal alpha asymmetry as a marker of approach motivation? Insights from a cooperative forking path analysis. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2024 Nov 21. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000503.
Kausche, F. M., Carsten, H. P., Sobania, K. M., Riesel, A. (2024). Fear and Safety Learning in Anxiety- and Stress-Related Disorders: An Updated Meta-Analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105983
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Malbec, M., Wieser, M. J., & Riesel, A. (2024). Are errors more aversive in an uncertain world? Testing the influence of uncertainty on the error-related negativity in a randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 112480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112480
Beauducel A, Scheuble-Cabrera V, Hennig J, Hewig J, Hildebrandt A, Kührt C, Lange L, Mueller EM, Osinsky R, Paul K, Porth E, Riesel A, Rodrigues J, Scheffel C, Short C, Stahl J, Strobel A, Wacker J. The association of dispositional anxiety with the NoGo N2 under relaxation instruction vs. speed/accuracy instruction. Biol Psychol. 2024 Jul 28;192:108850. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108850. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39074541.
Jüres F., Kaufmann C., Riesel A., Grützmann R., Heinzel S., Elsner B., Bey K., Wagner M., Kathmann N., Klawohn J. Heart rate and heart rate variability in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Evidence from patients and unaffected first-degree relatives. Biol Psychol. 2024 Mar 24:108786. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108786. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38531496.
2023
Clayson, P. E., McDonald, J. B., Park, B., Holbrook, A., Baldwin, S., Riesel, A., & Larson, M. J. (2023). Registered Replication Report of the Construct Validity of the Error-Related Negativity (ERN): A Multi-Site Study of Task-Specific ERN Correlations with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms .Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14496.
Riesel A, Härpfer K, Thoma L, Kathmann N, Klawohn J. (2023). Associations of neural error-processing with symptoms and traits in a dimensional sample recruited across the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Psychophysiology, 60(2):e14164. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14164.
Endrass, T. & Riesel, A. (2022). Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Was ist eigentlich …?. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65740-9_4
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Nelson, B. D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2023). Don’t worry, it won’t be fine. Contributions of worry and anxious arousal to startle responses and event-related potentials in threat anticipation. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01094-4
2022
Grützmann R., Klawohn J., Elsner B., Reuter B., Kaufmann C., Riesel A., Bey K., Heinzel S., Kathmann N. (2022 Sep 30) Error-related activity of the sensorimotor network contributes to the prediction of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neuroimage Clin, 36:103216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103216.
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Nelson, B., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2022, November 3). Don't worry, it won't be fine. Contributions of anxious apprehension and anxious arousal to startle responses and event-related potentials in threat anticipation. psyarxiv.com/yvd5n
Kausche, F.M., Härpfer, K., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2022). Early hypervigilance and later avoidance: Event-related potentials track the processing of threatening stimuli in anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104181.
Riesel, A., Härpfer, K., Thoma, L., Kathmann. N., Klawohn, J. (2022). Associations of neural error-processing with symptoms and traits in a dimensional sample recruited across the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Psychophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14164.
Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., & Riesel, A. (2022). A rare scare: The role of intolerance of uncertainty in startle responses and event-related potentials in anticipation of unpredictable threat. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 179, 56-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.06.018
Paul, K., Short, C.A., Beauducel, A., Carsten, H.P., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., Hewig, J., Hildebrandt, A., Kührt, C., Mueller, E.M., Osinsky, R., Porth, E., Riesel, A., Rodrigues, J., Scheffel, C., Stahl, J., Strobel, A., Wacker, J. (2022). The Methodology and Dataset of the CoScience EEG-Personality Project - A Large-Scale, Multi-Laboratory Project Grounded in Cooperative Forking Paths Analysis. Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7177
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Löwisch, K., Westermann, N., & Riesel, A. (2022). Disentangling the effects of trait and state worry on error‐related brain activity: Results from a randomized controlled trial using worry manipulations. Psychophysiology, e14055. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14055
Weinberg A., Kujawa A., Riesel A. Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events. Current Directions in Psychological Science. February 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214211049228
Jelinek, L., Röhrig, G., Moritz, S., Göritz, A.S., Voderholzer, U., Riesel, A., Yassari, A.H. and Miegel, F. (2022), Unrealistic pessimism and obsessive-compulsive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Two longitudinal studies. Br J Clin Psychol. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12362
2021
Heinzel, S., Bey, K., Grützmann, R., Klawohn, J., Kaufmann, C., Lennertz, L., Wagner, M., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2021). Spatial working memory performance in people with obsessive–compulsive disorder, their unaffected first-degree relatives and healthy controls. BJPsych Open, 7(6), E208. doi:10.1192/bjo.2021.1052
Jelinek, L., Voderholzer, U., Moritz, S., Carsten, H. P., Riesel, A., & Miegel, F. (2021). When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 102493.
Heinzel S., Kaufmann C., Grützmann R., Klawohn J., Riesel A., Bey K., Heilmann-Heimbach S., Weinhold L., Ramirez A., Wagner M., Kathmann N. Polygenic risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) predicts brain response during working memory task in OCD, unaffected relatives, and healthy controls. Sci Rep. 2021 Sep 23;11(1):18914. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98333-w. PMID: 34556731; PMCID: PMC8460640.
Riesel, A., Härpfer, K., Kathmann, N., & Klawohn, J. (2021). In the Face of Potential Harm – The Predictive Validity of Neural Correlates of Performance Monitoring for Perceived Risk, Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.08.004
Bey K., Campos-Martin R., Klawohn J., Reuter B., Grützmann R., Riesel A., Wagner M., Ramirez A., Kathmann N. Hypermethylation of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) in obsessive-compulsive disorder: further evidence for a biomarker of disease and treatment response. Epigenetics. 2021 Jul 16:1-11. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2021.1943864. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34269138.
Riesel, A., Endrass, T., & Weinberg, A. (2021). Biomarkers of mental disorders: Psychophysiological measures as indicators of mechanisms, risk, and outcome prediction. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 168, 21-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.06.014
Grützmann, R., Kaufmann, C., Wudarczyk, O. A., Balzus, L., Klawohn, J., Riesel, A., . . . Kathmann, N. (2021). Error-Related Brain Activity in OCD Patients and Unaffected First-Degree Relatives: Evidence for Protective Patterns. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.07.001
Härpfer, K., Spychalski, D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2021). Diverging patterns of EEG alpha asymmetry in anxious apprehension and anxious arousal. Biological Psychology, 162, 108111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108111
Kausche, F. M., Zerbes, G., Kampermann, L., Büchel, C., & Schwabe, L. (2021). Neural signature of delayed fear generalization under stress. Psychophysiology, 58, e13917. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13917
Kausche, F. M., Zerbes, G., Kampermann, L., Müller, J. C., Wiedemann, K., Büchel, C., & Schwabe, L. (2021). Noradrenergic stimulation increases fear memory expression. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2020.11.015
Kausche, F. M., Zerbes, G., Kampermann, L., Müller, J. C., Wiedemann, K., Büchel, C., & Schwabe, L. (2021). Acute stress leaves fear generalization in healthy individuals intact. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 21, 372-381. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-021-00874-0
2020
Härpfer, K., Carsten, H. P., Spychalski, D., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2020). Were we erring? The impact of worry and arousal on error-related negativity in a non-clinical sample. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13661
Klawohn J., Hajcak G., Amir N., Kathmann N., Riesel A. (2020). Application of attentional bias modification training to modulate hyperactive error-monitoring in OCD. Int J Psychophysiol. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.07.005
Sandre A., Banica I., Riesel A., Flake J., Klawohn J., Weinberg A. (2020). Comparing the effects of different methodological decisions on the error-related negativity and its association with behaviour and gender. Int J Psychophysiol. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.06.016
Kausche, F. M., & Schwabe, L. (2020). Blocking under stress: sustained attention to stimuli without predictive value? Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 168, 107158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107158
2019
Kloft, L., Riesel, A., & Kathmann, N. (2019). Inhibition-related differences between tic-free and tic-related obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from the N2 and P3. Exp Brain Res. doi:10.1007/s00221-019-05688-8
Riesel, A., Kathmann, N., Wullhorst, V., Banica, I., & Weinberg, A. (2019). Punishment has a persistent effect on error-related brain activity in highly anxious individuals twenty-four hours after conditioning. Int J Psychophysiol, 146, 63-72. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2019.09.014
Bey, K., Meyhofer, I., Lennertz, L., Grutzmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., . . . Wagner, M. (2019). Schizotypy and smooth pursuit eye movements as potential endophenotypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 269(2), 235-243. doi:10.1007/s00406-018-0899-x
Grutzmann, R., Riesel, A., Kaufmann, C., Kathmann, N., & Heinzel, S. (2019). Emotional interference under low versus high executive control. Psychophysiology, 56(8), e13380. doi:10.1111/psyp.13380
Riesel, A. (2019). The erring brain: Error-related negativity as an endophenotype for OCD-A review and meta-analysis. Psychophysiology, 56(4), e13348. doi:10.1111/psyp.13348
Riesel, A., Kathmann, N., & Klawohn, J. (2019). Flexibility of error-monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder under speed and accuracy instructions. J Abnorm Psychol. doi:10.1037/abn0000463
Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Grutzmann, R., Kaufmann, C., Heinzel, S., Bey, K., . . . Kathmann, N. (2019). Error-related brain activity as a transdiagnostic endophenotype for obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and substance use disorder. Psychol Med, 49(7), 1207-1217. doi:10.1017/S0033291719000199
2018
Bey, K., Kaufmann, C., Lennertz, L., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Heinzel, S., . . . Wagner, M. (2018). Impaired planning in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and unaffected first-degree relatives: Evidence for a cognitive endophenotype. J Anxiety Disord, 57, 24-30. doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.05.009
Bey, K., Lennertz, L., Grutzmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Klawohn, J., . . . Wagner, M. (2018). Impaired Antisaccades in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Evidence From Meta-Analysis and a Large Empirical Study. Front Psychiatry, 9, 284. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00284
Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Grutzmann, R., Hummel, R., Klawohn, J., Riesel, A., . . . Kathmann, N. (2018). Neural correlates of working memory deficits and associations to response inhibition in obsessive compulsive disorder. Neuroimage Clin, 17, 426-434. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2017.10.039
Saunders, B., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., & Inzlicht, M. (2018). Interpersonal touch enhances cognitive control: A neurophysiological investigation. J Exp Psychol Gen, 147(7), 1066-1077. doi:10.1037/xge0000412
2017
Bey, K., Kloft, L., Lennertz, L., Grutzmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., . . . Wagner, M. (2017). Volitional saccade performance in a large sample of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and unaffected first-degree relatives. Psychophysiology, 54(9), 1284-1294. doi:10.1111/psyp.12884
Bey, K., Lennertz, L., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Kaufmann, C., Heinzel, S., . . . Wagner, M. (2017). Harm avoidance and childhood adversities in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their unaffected first-degree relatives. Acta Psychiatr Scand, 135(4), 328-338. doi:10.1111/acps.12707
Grutzmann, R., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Bey, K., . . . Kathmann, N. (2017). Frontal alpha asymmetry in OCD patients and unaffected first-degree relatives. J Abnorm Psychol, 126(6), 750-760. doi:10.1037/abn0000283
Riesel, A., Goldhahn, S., & Kathmann, N. (2017). Hyperactive performance monitoring as a transdiagnostic marker: Results from health anxiety in comparison to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Neuropsychologia, 96, 1-8. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.029
Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Kathmann, N., & Endrass, T. (2017). Conflict monitoring and adaptation as reflected by N2 amplitude in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychol Med, 47(8), 1379-1388. doi:10.1017/S0033291716003597
2016
Klawohn, J., Endrass, T., Preuss, J., Riesel, A., & Kathmann, N. (2016). Modulation of hyperactive error signals in obsessive-compulsive disorder by dual-task demands. J Abnorm Psychol, 125(2), 292-298. doi:10.1037/abn0000134
Paul, S., Kathmann, N., & Riesel, A. (2016). The costs of distraction: The effect of distraction during repeated picture processing on the LPP. Biol Psychol, 117, 225-234. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.04.002
2015
Riesel, A., Endrass, T., Auerbach, L. A., & Kathmann, N. (2015). Overactive Performance Monitoring as an Endophenotype for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Evidence From a Treatment Study. Am J Psychiatry, 172(7), 665-673. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14070886
Riesel, A., Richter, A., Kaufmann, C., Kathmann, N., & Endrass, T. (2015). Performance monitoring in obsessive-compulsive undergraduates: Effects of task difficulty. Brain Cogn, 98, 35-42. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2015.05.002
Weinberg, A., Dieterich, R., & Riesel, A. (2015). Error-related brain activity in the age of RDoC: A review of the literature. Int J Psychophysiol, 98(2 Pt 2), 276-299. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2015.02.029
2014
Endrass, T., Riesel, A., Kathmann, N., & Buhlmann, U. (2014). Performance monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety disorder. J Abnorm Psychol, 123(4), 705-714. doi:10.1037/abn0000012
Grutzmann, R., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Kathmann, N., & Endrass, T. (2014). Complementary modulation of N2 and CRN by conflict frequency. Psychophysiology, 51(8), 761-772. doi:10.1111/psyp.12222
Klawohn, J., Riesel, A., Grutzmann, R., Kathmann, N., & Endrass, T. (2014). Performance monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a temporo-spatial principal component analysis. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 14(3), 983-995. doi:10.3758/s13415-014-0248-0
Riesel, A., Kathmann, N., & Endrass, T. (2014). Overactive performance monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder is independent of symptom expression. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 264(8), 707-717. doi:10.1007/s00406-014-0499-3
Weinberg, A., Riesel, A., & Proudfit, G. H. (2014). Show me the Money: the impact of actual rewards and losses on the feedback negativity. Brain Cogn, 87, 134-139. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2014.03.015
2013
Endrass, T., Koehne, S., Riesel, A., & Kathmann, N. (2013). Neural correlates of feedback processing in obsessive-compulsive disorder. J Abnorm Psychol, 122(2), 387-396. doi:10.1037/a0031496
Kloft, L., Reuter, B., Riesel, A., & Kathmann, N. (2013). Impaired volitional saccade control: first evidence for a new candidate endophenotype in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 263(3), 215-222. doi:10.1007/s00406-012-0331-x
Meyer, A., Riesel, A., & Hajcak Proudfit, G. (2013). Reliability of the ERN across multiple tasks as a function of increasing errors. Psychophysiology, 50(12), 1220-1225.
Riesel, A., Weinberg, A., Endrass, T., Meyer, A., & Hajcak, G. (2013). The ERN is the ERN is the ERN? Convergent validity of error-related brain activity across different tasks. Biol Psychol, 93(3), 377-385. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.04.007
Endrass, T., & Riesel, A. (2013). Endophänotypen der Zwangsstörung. Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, Psychologie und Psychotherapie, 61, 155-165. doi:10.1024/1661-4747/a000154
2012
Riesel, A., Weinberg, A., Endrass, T., Kathmann, N., & Hajcak, G. (2012). Punishment has a lasting impact on error-related brain activity. Psychophysiology, 49(2), 239-247. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01298.x
2011
Riesel, A., Endrass, T., Kaufmann, C., & Kathmann, N. (2011). Overactive error-related brain activity as a candidate endophenotype for obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from unaffected first-degree relatives. Am J Psychiatry, 168(3), 317-324. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10030416