Official position
Professor
Institution
Section of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, TU Dresden
Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden
Business address
Würzburger Straße 35
01187 Dresden, Germany
Academic education and degrees
1982 - 1984 | Physics, Universität Heidelberg |
1984 - 1992 | Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Staatsexamen 1992 |
1996 | Medical Dissertation, “Zur Evaluation der Bech-Rafaelsen Melancholie-Skala”, Freie Universität Berlin, thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. med. Helmchen & Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz |
2006 | Habilitation in Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg, mentor: Prof. Dr. med. Karl Mann |
Professional career
1994 - 2001 | Residency in Psychiatry and Neurology, Research fellow in Psychiatry, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
2001 - 2006 | Senior researcher, attending, Department of Addictive Behaviour and Addiction medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany |
Since 2007 | Head Section of Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Since 2009 | Full Professor (W2) for Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
Since 2010 | Co-opted Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden |
Honors, awards and positions
1996 | Medical doctor theses award of the W.E.-Heraeus Foundation |
2011 | Human Brain Mapping Editor's Choice Award for best paper published in 2010 |
Since 2012 | Member managing committee Collaborative Research Center (SFB 940): “Volition and Cognitive Control: Mechanisms, Modulators, Dysfunctions” |
Since 2016 | Deputy Spokesperson Collaborative Research Centre 940 (SFB 940) |
Since 2019 | Local Spokesperson Dresden Collaborative Research Center 265 (TRR 265):
“Losing and Regaining Control over Drug Intake: From Trajectories to Mechanisms to Interventions” |
Current journal editorial positions
Since 2008 | Addiction Biology |
Since 2009 | Sucht |
10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 320; h-index: 54, Scopus)
Bühler M, Vollstädt-Klein S, Kobiella A, Budde H, Reed LJ …
Smolka MN. Nicotine dependence is characterized by disordered reward processing in a network driving motivation. Biol Psychiatry. 2010;67(8):745-52.
Gan G, Guevara A, Marxen M, Schwarz D, Neumann M …
Smolka MN. Alcohol-induced impairment of inhibitory control is linked to attenuated brain responses in right fronto-temporal cortex. Biol Psychiatry. 2014;76(9):698-707.
Gan G, Sterzer P, Marxen M, Zimmermann US,
Smolka MN. Neural and behavioral correlates of alcohol-induced aggression under provocation. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015;40(13):2886-96.
Javadi AH, Schmidt DH,
Smolka MN. Adolescents adapt more slowly than adults to varying reward contingencies. J Cogn Neurosci. 2014;26(12):2670-81.
Kroemer NB, Guevara A, Teodorescu IC, Wuttig F, Kobiella A,
Smolka MN. Balancing reward and work: Anticipatory brain activation in nacc and vta predict effort differentially. NeuroImage. 2014;102:510-9.
Kroemer NB, Lee Y, Pooseh S, Eppinger B, Goschke T,
Smolka MN. L-dopa reduces model-free control of behavior by attenuating the transfer of value to action. NeuroImage. 2019;186:113-25.
Müller KU, Mennigen E, Ripke S, Banaschewski T, Barker GJ …
Smolka MN. Altered reward processing in adolescents with prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013;70(8):847-56.
Petzold J, Kienast A, Lee Y, Pooseh S, London ED …
Smolka MN. Baseline impulsivity may moderate l-dopa effects on value-based decision-making. Sci Rep. 2019;9(1):5652.
Pilhatsch M, Vetter N, Hübner T, Ripke S, Müller KU …
Smolka MN. Amygdala-function perturbations in healthy mid-adolescents with familial liability for depression. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2014;53(4):559-68.
Pooseh S, Bernhardt N, Guevara A, Huys QJM,
Smolka MN. Value-based decision-making battery: A bayesian adaptive approach to assess impulsive and risky behavior. Behavior Research Methods. 2018;50(1):236-49.
