2021 - PHD Dr. rer. medic. at Charité

•  Dissertation thesis: Depression bei Patienten mit koronarer Herzkrankheit: neurobiologische Grundlagen und die Erkennungsgüte dreier Screeninginstrumente für Depression

2021 - Training as a psychological psychotherapist

• (adults, behavioral therapy) at ZPHU (Center for Psychotherapy at Humboldt University of Berlin). Practical work: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Academic Career

since June 2025: Postdoc and research assistant in the AMBER joint project “Active mobility to promote health and environmental protection” (project website: www.amber-forschung.de, information on the project's citizen science study “Mobil auf Deine Weise” (Mobile in Your Own Way): https://www.mobil-auf-deine-weise.de), Free University of Berlin

2016-2025: Postdoctoral researcher and research assistant at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Potsdam. Coordinating and management activities in projects including: environMENTAL (Reducing the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health, funded by EU Horizon), DZPG (German Center for Mental Health, funded by the BMBF/BMFTR), PD-CAN (Phenotypic, Diagnostic and Clinical Domain Assessment Network Germany, funded by the BMBF/BMFTR).

2021-2023: Postdoc and research assistant in Department 25 (Physical Health) in Division 2 of the Robert Koch Institute. Co-leader of the KIDA project (Current Child Health in Germany).

September 2020-December 2020: Research assistant at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Benjamin Franklin Campus) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Collaboration (primary data analysis) in the MEHIRA (Mental Health in Refugees and Asylum Seekers) project.

2012–2014: Doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Charité Mitte Campus) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in the CDCare project (Care for patients with coronary heart disease: a needs analysis for patients with and without depression)..

University of Potsdam:

„Demographie und Epidemiologie“ (Masterstudiengang Integrative Sport-, Bewegungs- und Gesundheitswissenschaften)

Angeboten: SoSe 2017

„Psychische Gesundheit über die Lebensspanne“ (Masterstudiengang Integrative Sport-, Bewegungs- und Gesundheitswissenschaften)

Angeboten: SoSe 2019, SoSe 2020, SoSe 2021, SoSe 2022, SoSe S 2024

„Psychische und psychosomatische Erkrankungen: Grundlagen“ (Bachelorstudiengang Sporttherapie & Prävention)

Angeboten: SoSe 2017, WS 217/2018, WS 2018/2918

„Klima und Gesundheit - Auswirkungen und Prävention“ (StudiumPlus)

Angeboten: SoSe 2022

„Interne Evidenz“ (Masterstudiengang Integrative Sport-, Bewegungs- und Gesundheitswissenschaften)

Angeboten: WS 2023/2024, WS 2024/2025

„Sportpsychiatrie“ (Bachelorstudiengang Sporttherapie & Prävention und Bachelorstudiengang Sportmanagement)

WS 2021/2022, WS 2022/2023, WS 2023/2024, WS 2024/2025

„Bevölkerungsbezogene Medizin“ (Vorlesung - Masterstudiengang Public Health, Exercise and Nutrition)

WS 2024/2025 (1 Termin)

external teaching assignments:

„Wissenschaftliche Grundbegriffe der Methode Verhaltenstherapie“ (Seminar, Bachelorstudiengang Psychotherapiewissenschaften, Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität)

Angeboten: WS 2024/2025

„Theorie-Entwicklung der psychotherapeutischen Schulen (VT)“ (Proseminar und Vorlesung, Bachelorstudiengang Psychotherapiewissenschaften, Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität)

Angeboten: SoSe 2025

„Somatoforme Störungen“ (Lehre in der Ausbildung für Psychologische Psychotherapie Fachkunde Verhaltenstherapie, Sigmund Freund Privatuniversität Berlin)

Angeboten: SoSe 2025

Peer-reviewed articles

2025

Tschorn, M., Koller-Schlaud, K., Heinen-Stach, D., Böttger, S.J., Seiffert, J., Esipova, V., Seegert, T., Voss, A., Förstner, B.R., Rapp, M.A., Zoellick, J.C. (2025) Social support, self-rated health and depressive symptoms in two samples of university students in Germany. BMC Public Health, 25, 2367. doi:10.1186/s12889-025-23362-3

Blume, M., Mauz, E., Tschorn, M., Manz, K., Schienkiewitz, A., Allen, J., Hoebel, J., Rattay, P. (2025) Armut und Gesundheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen zum Ende der COVID-19-Pandemie. Ergebnisse der KIDA-Studie. Journal of Health Monitoring, 10(2), 13185. doi: 10.25646/13185

Submitted:

Heinen-Stach, D., Herbold, E., Zuch, N., Hendricks, C. L., Birtel, M. D.*, & Tschorn, M.* The effectiveness of nature-based interventions on mental health: A systematic review. (Submission June 20th, Applied Psychologie - Health & Wellbeing) * geteilte Autorenschaft

Koller-Schlaud, K., Meixner, J., Jost, K., Waghals, F., Rentzsch, J., Foerstner, B., ... & Tschorn, M. (2025). Protocol for an Observational Prospective Study Linking RDoC-Based Phenotypes with Clinical and Care-Related Outcomes: The VeRDoC-Study. medRxiv, 2025-06. Submitted

Nees, F., Lehmler, S.J., Böttger, S.J., Tschorn, M., Hummer, P., Schumann, G., Rapp, M.A., Siehl, S. (2024). Digital Citizen Science for Precision Medicine with StreetMind: Multicohort integration at the interface between health and environment. Submitted

Metzen, D., Blumenschein, P., Peter, F., Bechtoldt, M., Frisch, A.L., Tschorn, M., Heinzel, S. (2024) Validation of the Inventory of Climate Emotions (ICE) in a German sample. Submitted

2024

Tschorn, M., Daedelow, L., Szalek, L., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A.L.W., Desrivières, S., …  & Rapp, M. A. (2024) Personality, Social factors, Brain Functioning, Familial Risk, and Trajectories of Alcohol Misuse in Adolescence. JAMA Network Open, 7(8):e2425114. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.25114

Kemna, S., Bringmann, M., Karnouk, C., Hoell, A., Tschorn, M., Kamp-Becker, I., ... & Böge, K. (2024). Predictors of symptom change in the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers (MEHIRA) study examining the effects of a stepped and collaborative care model–A multicentered rater-blinded randomized controlled trial. Journal of Affective Disorders, 370, 45-53. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.103

Kemna, S., Bringmann, M., Karnouk, C., Hoell, A., Tschorn, M., Kamp-Becker, I., ... & Böge, K. (2024). Characterizing of dropouts in the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers (MEHIRA) study examining the effects of a stepped and collaborative care model–a multicentered rater-blinded randomized controlled trial. Psychological Medicine, 54(16), 4868-4877. doi:10.1017/S0033291724003179

Voss, A., Dettmer, S., Tschorn, M., Zoellick, J. (2024) Study demands and health status among medical students in two German universities. Journal of Public Health, 1-9.doi:10.1007/s10389-024-02336-6

Hoffmann, S., Tschorn, M., Spallek, J. (2024). Social Inequalities in early early childhood language development during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive study with data from three consecutive school entry surveys in Germany. International Journal for Equity in Health, 23(1), 1–13. 
doi:10.1186/s12939-023-02079-y

Der Feltz-Cornelis, V., & Maria, C.; DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Collaboration (2024). Comparison of scores on Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Hospital Anxiety and Depression–Depression subscale scores by administration mode: An individual participant data differential item functioning meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 674-683. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.06.033

2023

Förstner, B. R., Böttger, S. J., Moldavski, A., Bajbouj, M., Pfennig, A., Manook, A., … & Tschorn, M. (2023). The associations of Positive and Negative Valence Systems, Cognitive Systems and Social Processes on disease severity in anxiety and depressive disorders. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1161097. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1161097

Förster, B. R., Tschorn, M., Reinoso-Schiller, N., Maričić, L. M., Roecher, E., Kalman, J. L., Stroth, S., Mayer, A. V., Schwarz, K., … & Rapp MA. (2023). Mapping Research Domain Criteria using a transdiagnostic mini-RDoC assessment in mental disorders: A confirmatory factor analysis. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 273(3), 527–539. doi:10.1007/s00406-022-01440-6

Heinzel, S., Tschorn, M., Schulte-Hutner, M., Schäfer, F., Reese, G., Pohle, C., Peter, F., Neuber, M., Liu, S., & Keller, J. (2023). Anxiety in response to the climate and environmental crises: Validation of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale in Germany. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1239425

Loss, J., Blume, M., Neuperdt, L., Flerlage, N., Weihrauch, T., Manz, K., ... & Tschorn, M. (2023). What is the health status of girls and boys in the COVID-19 pandemic? Selected results of the KIDA study. Journal of Health Monitoring, 8(2), 39. doi:10.25646/11436

Höhne, E., Böge, K., Karnouk, C., Tschorn, M., Banaschewski, T., Hoell, A., … & Kamp-Becker, I. (2023). Culturally sensitive stepped care for adolescent refugees: Efficacy and cost–utility of a multicentric randomized controlled trial. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1–13. 
doi:10.1007/s00787-023-02179-8

Böttger, S. J., Förstner, B. R., Szalek, L., Koller-Schlaud, K., Rapp, M. A., & Tschorn, M. (2023). Mood and anxiety disorders within the Research Domain Criteria framework of Positive and Negative Valence Systems: A scoping review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1184978. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2023.1184978

2022

Tschorn, M.*, Schulze, S.*, Förstner, B., Holmberg, C., Spallek, J., Heinz, A., Rapp, M. A. (2022). Predictors and Prevalence of hazardous alcohol use in middle-late to late adulthood in Europe. Aging & Mental Health, 27(5), 1001–1010. doi:10.1080/13607863.2022.2076208. * geteilte Autorenschaft

Rane, R. P., de Man, E. F., Kim, J., Görgen, K., Tschorn, M., Rapp, M. A., … & Ritter, H. (2022). Structural differences in adolescent brains can predict alcohol misuse. Elife, 11, e77545. doi:10.7554/eLife.77545

Hoffmann, S.*, Tschorn, M.*, Michalski, N., Hoebel, J., Förstner, B., Rapp, M. A., Spallek, J. (2022). Association of regional socioeconomic deprivation and rurality with global developmental delay in early childhood: data from mandatory school entry examinations in Germany. Health and Place, 75, 102794. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102794 * geteilte Autorenschaft

Böge, K., Karnouk, C., Hoell, A., Tschorn, M., Kamp-Becker, I., Padberg, F., … & Bajbouj, M. (2022). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness for the treatment of depressive symptoms in refugees and asylum seekers: A multi-centred randomized controlled trial. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 19. doi:10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100413

2021

Tschorn, M., Lorenz, R. C., O’Reilly, P. F., Reichenberg, A., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A.L., ... & Rapp, M. A. (2021). Differential predictors for alcohol use in adolescents as a function of familial risk. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41398-021-01260-7

Wu, Y., Levis, B., Sun, Y,. He, C., Krishnan, A., Neupane, D., Bhandari, P.M., Negeri, Z., Benedetti, A., Thombs, B.D.; DEPRESsion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) HADS Group. (2021). Accuracy of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression subscale (HADS-D) to screen for major depression: systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. BMJ.10;373:n972. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n972. Erratum in: BMJ. 2021 May 19;373:n1231. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n1231. PMID:

2020

Tschorn, M., Kuhlmann, S. L., Rieckmann, N., Beer, K., Grosse, L., Arolt, V., Waltenberger, J., Haverkamp, W., Müller-Nordhorn, J., Hellweg, R., Ströhle, A. (2020). Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor, Depressive Symptoms, and Somatic comorbidity in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. Acta Neuropsychiatrica, 33(1), 22-30. doi:10.1017/neu.2020.31

Beer, K., Kuhlmann, S. L., Tschorn, M., Arolt, V., Grosse, L., Haverkamp, W., Waltenberger, J., Strehle, J., Martus, P., & Müller-Nordhorn, J. (2020). Anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with coronary heart disease. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 1, 100009. doi:10.1016/j.jadr.2020.100009

Brandt, J., Warnke, K., Jörgens, S., Arolt, V., Beer, K., Domschke, … Tschorn, M., … & Grosse, L.(2020). Association of FKBP5 genotype with depressive symptoms in patients with coronary heart disease: A prospective study. Journal of Neural Transmission, 127, 1651–1662. doi:10.1007/s00702-020-02243-6

Warnke, K., Brandt, J., Jörgens, S., Arolt, V., Beer, K., Domschke, … Tschorn, M., … & Grosse, L. (2020). Association of 5-HTTLPR/rs25531 with depressive symptoms in patients with coronary heart disease: A prospective study. Journal of Affective Disorders, 277, 531–539. doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.08.046

2019

Tschorn, M.*, Rieckmann, N.*, Arolt, V., Beer, K., Haverkamp, W., Martus, P., Waltenberger, J., Müller-Nordhorn, J., Ströhle, A. (2019). Erkennungsgüte dreier deutschsprachiger Screeninginstrumente für Depression bei hospitalisierten Patienten mit koronarer Herzerkrankung. Psychiatrische Praxis, 46(1), 41–48. doi:10.1055/s-0042-123434 * geteilte Autorenschaft

Kallies, G., Rapp, M. A., Fydrich, T., Fehm, L., Tschorn, M., Terán, C., Schwefel, M., Pietrek, A., Henze, R., & Hellweg, R. (2019). Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) at rest and after acute aerobic exercise in major depressive disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 102, 212–215. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.015

2017

Kuhlmann, S. L., Tschorn, M., Arolt, V., Beer, K., Brandt, J., Grosse, L., Haverkamp, W., Müller-Nordhorn, J., Rieckmann, N., & Waltenberger, J. (2017). Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor and stability of depressive symptoms in coronary heart disease patients: A prospective study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 77, 196–202. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.12.015

Beer, K., Rieckmann, N., Ertl, M., Grosse, L., Zeidler, T., Arolt, V., ... & Ströhle, A. (2015). Assessment and follow-up of suicidal ideation when screening for depression in hospitalized coronary heart disease patients–development of a protocol. European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, 3(4), 523-528. doi:10.5750/ejpch.v3i4.1030

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Rapp, M.A., Tschorn, M., Supprian, T., Thomas, C., Kreisel, S., Benninghoff, J., Schumann, G., & Heinz, A. (2021). Potentials and limits of aging cohort studies for geriatric psychiatry. Der Nervenarzt, 92, 219–227. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-01035-3

Schumann, G., Tschorn, M., Heinz, A., & Rapp, M. (2021). IMAGEN and beyond: Novel population neuroscientific strategies for clinical and global cohorts in the STRATIFY and GIGA consortia. Der Nervenarzt, 92, 234–242. doi:10.1007/s00115-020-01059-9