Official position
Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Director of the Psychotherapy Outpatient Clinics
Institution
Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Business address
Neumarkt 9-19
04109 Leipzig
Academic education and degrees
1990 - 1996 | Diploma in Psychology,
Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen, Germany |
1994 - 1995 | M.Sc. in Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry,
King’s College, London, UK |
2000 | PhD in Psychology, University of Göttingen,
Germany |
1997 - 2001 | Postgraduate training in psychotherapy, Board
License |
2007 | Postdoctoral lecture qualification (venia
legendi) in Psychology, University of Marburg, Germany |
Professional career
1996 - 2001 | Research
Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Göttingen, Germany |
2001 - 2008 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology,
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Unit, University of Marburg, Germany |
2008 - 2009 | Acting Director and Chair of Medical Psychology,
Department of Medicine, University of Marburg, Germany |
2009 - 2011 | Heisenberg Fellow, Department of Psychology,
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Unit, University of Marburg, Germany |
Since 2011 | Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy,
Institute of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany |
Honors, awards and positions
1994 - 1995 | DAAD Scholarship, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s
College, London, UK |
2009 - 2011 | Heisenberg Scholarship |
Since 2012 | Scientific Board, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neuropsychologie e. V. (GNP) |
Since 2018 | Associated Member Scientific Board Psychotherapy, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Psychotherapie nach § 11 PsychThG |
Current Journal Editorial positions
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 75, Scopus h-index: 22)
Kallweit C, Paucke M, Strauss M, Exner C. Cognitive deficits and psychosocial functioning in adult ADHD: Bridging the gap between objective test measures and subjective reports. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2020;42(6):569-83.
Fink J, Pflugradt E, Stierle C, Exner C. Changing disgust through imagery rescripting and cognitive reappraisal in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 2018;54:36-48.
Fink J, Hendrikx F, Stierle C, Stengler K, Jahn I, Exner C. The impact of attentional and emotional demands on memory performance in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. 2017;50:60-8.
Exner C, Zetsche U, Lincoln TM, Rief W. Imminent danger? Probabilistic classification learning of threat-related information in obsessive-compulsive disorder Behav Ther. 2014;45:157-67.
Conrad N, Doering BK, Rief W, Exner C. Looking beyond the importance of life goals. The personal goal model of subjective well-being in neuropsychological rehabilitation. Clin Rehabil. 2010;24 431-43.
Exner C, Martin V, Rief W. Self-focused ruminations and memory deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cogn Ther Res. 2009;33(2):163-74.
Exner C, Lange C, Irle E. Impaired implicit learning and reduced pre-supplementary motor cortex size in early-onset major depression with melancholic features. J Affect Disord. 2009;119:156-62.
Exner C, Weniger G, Schmidt-Samoa C, Irle I. Reduced size of the pre-supplementary motor cortex and impaired motor sequence learning in first-episode-schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2006;84:386-96.
Exner C, Weniger G, Irle I. Cerebellar lesions in the PICA but not SCA territory impair cognition. Neurology. 2004;63:2132-5.
Exner C, Koschack J, Irle E. The differential role of premotor frontal cortex and basal ganglia in motor sequence learning: evidence from focal basal ganglia lesions. Lear Mem. 2002;9(6):376-86.
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