2023

• Golde, S., Ludwig, S., Lippoldt, S., Rimpel, J., Schulze, L., Haucke, M., Renneberg, B., & Heinzel, S. (2023). Negative and positive self-beliefs in social anxiety: The strength of believing mediates the affective response. PLoS ONE 18(3), e0281387. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281387

2022

• Brahms, M., Heinzel, S., Rapp, M., Mückstein, M., Hortobágyi, T., Stelzel, C., & Granacher, U. (2022). The acute effects of mental fatigue on balance performance in healthy young and older adults - A systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta psychologica, 225, 103540. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103540

• Eichinger, M., Bechtoldt, M., Bui, I. T. M., Grund, J., Keller, J., Lau, A. G., Liu, S., Neuber, M., Peter, F., Pohle, C., Reese, G., Schäfer, F., & Heinzel, S. (2022). Evaluating the Public Climate School-A School-Based Programme to Promote Climate Awareness and Action in Students: Protocol of a Cluster-Controlled Pilot Study. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(13), 8039. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138039

• Grützmann, R., Kathmann, N., & Heinzel, S. (2022). Effects of a three-week executive control training on adaptation to task difficulty and emotional interference. PloS one, 17(11), e0276994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276994

• Grützmann, R., Kaufmann, C., Wudarczyk, O. A., Balzus, L., Klawohn, J., Riesel, A., Bey, K., Wagner, M., Heinzel, S., & Kathmann, N. (2021). Error-Related Brain Activity in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Unaffected First-Degree Relatives: Evidence for Protective Patterns. Biological psychiatry global open science, 2(1), 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2021.07.001

• Grützmann, R., Klawohn, J., Elsner, B., Reuter, B., Kaufmann, C., Riesel, A., Bey, K., Heinzel, S., & Kathmann, N. (2022). Error-related activity of the sensorimotor network contributes to the prediction of response to cognitive-behavioral therapy in obsessive-compulsive disorder. NeuroImage. Clinical, 36, 103216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103216

• Haucke, M., Heinz, A., Liu, S., & Heinzel, S. (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Daily Activities, Cognitions, and Stress in a Lonely and Distressed Population: Temporal Dynamic Network Analysis. Journal of medical Internet research, 24(3), e32598. https://doi.org/10.2196/32598

• Haucke, M., Golde, S., Saft, S., Hellweg, R., Liu, S., & Heinzel, S. (2022). The effects of momentary loneliness and COVID-19 stressors on hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis functioning: A lockdown stage changes the association between loneliness and salivary cortisol. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 145, 105894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105894

• Heinzel, S. (2022). Klima-Angst – Eine angemessene Reaktion auf eine maßlose Krise? In: K.v. Bronswijk, C. Hausmann (Hrsg.) Climate Emotions - Klimakrise und psychische Gesundheit. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag (S. 129-143).

• Heinzel, S., Schwefel, M., Sanchez, A., Heinen, D., Fehm, L., Henze, R., Terán, C., Kallies, G., Rapp, M. A., Fydrich, T., Ströhle, A., & Heissel, A. (2022). Physical exercise training as preceding treatment to cognitive behavioral therapy in mild to moderate major depressive disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of affective disorders, 319, 90–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.024

• Mueckstein, M., Heinzel, S., Granacher, U., Brahms, M., Rapp, M. A., & Stelzel, C. (2022). Modality-specific effects of mental fatigue in multitasking. Acta Psychologica, 230, 103766. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103766

• Pietrek, A., Kangas, M., Kliegl, R., Rapp, M. A., Heinzel, S., van der Kaap-Deeder, J., & Heissel, A. (2022). Basic psychological need satisfaction and frustration in major depressive disorder. Frontiers in psychiatry, 13, 962501. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.962501

• Wegner, L., Haucke, M. N., Heinzel, S., & Liu, S. (2022). Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment of Coping with Loneliness amid COVID-19 in Germany. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(7), 3946. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073946

2021:

• Brahms, M., Heinzel, S., Rapp, M., Reisner, V., Wahmkow, G., Rimpel, J., Schauenburg, G., Stelzel, C., & Granacher, U. (2021). Cognitive-Postural Multitasking Training in Older Adults – Effects of Input-Output Modality Mappings on Cognitive Performance and Postural Control. Journal of Cognition, 4(1): 20, pp. 1–25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.146    

• Grützmann, R., Kathmann, N., Gutmann, G., & Heinzel, S. (2021). Effects of adaptive and non-adaptive three-week executive control training on interference control: evidence from the N2, CRN, and ERN. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 162, 8-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.01.011    

• Heinzel, S. & Lippoldt, S. (2021). Biologische und konstitutionelle Parameter. In: B. Strauß, M. Galliker, M. Linden, J. Schweitzer (Hrsg.) Ideengeschichte der Psychotherapie – Theorien, Konzepte, Methoden. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (S. 197-202).

• Liu, S., Heinzel, S., Haucke, M. N., & Heinz, A. (2021). Increased psychological distress, loneliness and unemployment in the spread of COVID-19 over 6 months in Germany. Medicina, 57(1), 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina57010053 

• Liu, S., Heinz, A., Haucke, M. N., & Heinzel, S. (2021). Globale Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Versorgung von Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen. Der Nervenarzt [Februar 2021 Epub ahead of print]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00115-021-01068-2 

2020

• Bey, K., Weinhold, L., Grützmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Klawohn, J., … Wagner, M. (2020). The polygenic risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder is associated with harm avoidance in a sample of OCD patients, unaffected relatives and controls. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica [August 2020, Epub ahead of print]. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13226

• Heinzel, S. (2020). Antidepressive effects of physical exercise interventions - Review of potential mechanisms of action [Antidepressive Effekte von Sportinterventionen – Übersicht zu potentiellen Wirkmechanismen]. Psychotherapeut, 65(3), 143-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-020-00418-w

• Heissel, A., Pietrek, A., Rapp, M. A., Heinzel, S., & Williams, G. (2020). Perceived Health Care Climate of Older People Attending an Exercise Program: Validation of the German Short Version of the Health Care Climate Questionnaire. Journal of aging and physical activity, 28, 276-286. https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2018-0350

• Heissel, A., Pietrek, A., Schwefel, M., Abula, K., Wilbertz, G., Heinzel, S., & Rapp, M. (2020). STEP. De study—a multicentre cluster-randomised effectiveness trial of exercise therapy for patients with depressive symptoms in healthcare services: study protocol. BMJ open, 10(4), e036287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036287

2019

• Bey, K., Weinhold, L., Grützmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Klawohn, J., ... & Kathmann, N. (2019). M62 The polygenic risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder is associated with harm avoidance in a sample of OCD patients, unaffected relatives and controls. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 29, S199-S200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.08.162
• Bohle, H., Rimpel, J., Schauenburg, G., Stelzel, C., Heinzel, S., Rapp, M. A., & Granacher, G. (2019). Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Cognitive-Motor Interference during Multitasking in Young and Old Adults. Neural Plasticity, ID 9478656. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9478656  
• Grützmann, R., Riesel, A., Kaufmann, C., Kathmann, N., & Heinzel, S. (2019). Emotional interference under low vs. high executive control. Psychophysiology, 56(8), e13380. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13380
• Heissel, A., Zech, P., Rapp, M. A., Schuch, F. B., Lawrence, J. B., Kangas, M., & Heinzel, S. (2019). Effects of exercise on depression and anxiety in persons living with HIV: A meta-analysis. Journal of psychosomatic research, 109823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109823

• Kallies, G., Rapp, M.A., Fydrich, T., Fehm, L., Tschorn, M., Terán, C., Schwefel, M., Pietrek, A., Henze, R., Hellweg, R., Ströhle, A.*, Heinzel, S.*, & Heissel, A.* (2019).Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) at rest and after acute aerobic exercise in major depressive disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 102, 212-215.  *equal contribution
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.015
• Liu, S., Kaufmann, C., Labadie, C., Ströhle, A., Kuschpel, M. S., Garbusow, M., ... & Heinzel, S. (2019). Short-term effects of video gaming on brain response during working memory performance. PloS one, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223666
• Paul, S., Beucke, J. C., Kaufmann, C., Mersov, A., Heinzel, S., Kathmann, N., & Simon, D. (2019). Amygdala–prefrontal connectivity during appraisal of symptom-related stimuli in obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychological Medicine 49(2), 278-286. https://doi.org/10.1017/S003329171800079X
• Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Grützmann, R., Kaufmann, C., Heinzel, S., … Kathmann, N. (2019). Error-related brain activity as a transdiagnostic endophenotype for obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and substance use disorder. Psychological Medicine, 49(7), 1207-1217. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000199

2018

• Bey, K., Lennertz, L., Grützmann, R., Heinzel, S., Christian Kaufmann, C., Klawohn, J., Riesel, A., Meyhöfer, I., Ettinger, U., Kathmann, N., & Wagner, M. (2018). Impaired antisaccades in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from meta-analysis and a large empirical study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9:284. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00284

• Bey, K., Kaufmann, C., Lennertz, L., Riesel, A. Klawohn, J., Heinzel, S., Grützmann, R., Kathmann, N., & Wagner, M. (2018). Impaired planning in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and unaffected first-degree relatives: Evidence for a cognitive endophenotype. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 57, 24-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2018.05.009

•  Bey, K., Meyhöfer, I., Lennertz, L., Grützmann, R., Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., … Wagner, M. (2018). Schizotypy and smooth pursuit eye movements as potential endophenotypes of obsessive-compulsive disorder. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuropsychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-018-0899-x

•  Heinzel, S., Kaufmann, C., Grützmann, 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: Clinical, 17, 426-434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.10.039

•  Heinzel, S., Rapp, M.A., Fydrich, T., Ströhle A., Terán, C., Kallies G., Schwefel, M., & Heissel, A. (2018). Neurobiological mechanisms of exercise and psychotherapy in depression: The SPeED study – rationale, design, and methodological issues. Clinical Trials, 15 (1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774517729161

•  Liu, S., Kuschpel, M.S., Schad, D.J., Heinzel, S., Rapp, M.A., & Heinz, A. Effects of rest on learning processes (2018). European Neuropsychopharmacology, 28, Supplement 1, S70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.12.099

•  Paul, S., Beucke, J. C., Kaufmann, C., Mersov, A., Heinzel, S., Kathmann, N., & Simon, D. (2018). Amygdala–prefrontal connectivity during appraisal of symptom-related stimuli in obsessive–compulsive disorder. Psychological Medicine 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/s003329171800079x

•  Stelzel, C., Bohle, H., Schauenburg, G., Walter, H., Granacher, U., Rapp, M.A.*, Heinzel, S.* (2018). Contribution of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex to Cognitive-Postural Multitasking. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1075. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01075 *equal contribution.

2017

• Bey, K., Lennertz, L., Riesel, A., Klawohn, J., Kaufmann, C., Heinzel, S., Grützmann, R., Kathmann, N., & Wagner, M. (2017). Harm Avoidance And Childhood Adversities In Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder And Unaffected First-Degree Relatives: Evidence For A Diathesis-Stress Model. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 27: S444-S445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2016.09.509
• 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 Psychiatrica Scandinavica,135(4), 328-338. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12707
• Bey, K., Kloft, L., Lennertz, L., Grützmann, 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, 53(9), 1284-1294. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12884
• Grützmann, 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. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,126(6), 750-760. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000283
• Heinzel, S., Lorenz, R. C., Duong, Q.-L., Rapp, M. A., & Deserno, L. (2017). Prefrontal-parietal effective connectivity during working memory in older adults. Neurobiology of Aging, 57, 18–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.05.005
• Heinzel, S., Rapp, M.A., Fydrich, T., Ströhle A., Terán, C., Kallies G., Schwefel, M., & Heissel, A. (2017). Neurobiological mechanisms of exercise and psychotherapy in depression: The SPeED study – rationale, design, and methodological issues. Clinical Trials,15(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774517729161
• Heinzel, S., Rimpel, J., Stelzel, C., & Rapp, M. A. (2017). Transfer Effects to a Multimodal Dual-Task after Working Memory Training and Associated Neural Correlates in Older Adults – A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00085
• Stelzel, C*., Schauenburg, G.*, Rapp, M. A., Heinzel, S ^.‡, & Granacher, U. ^‡ (2017). Age-Related Interference between the Selection of Input-Output Modality Mappings and Postural Control-a Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 613. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00613 * equal contribution ^‡ shared senior authorship

2016

• Heinzel, S., Lorenz, R. C., Pelz, P., Heinz, A., Walter, H., Kathmann, N., Rapp, M. A.*, & Stelzel, C.* (2016). Neural correlates of training and transfer effects in working memory in older adults. NeuroImage, 134, 236-249.   *equal contribution
• Schiepek, G., Heinzel, S., Karch, S., Plöderl, M., & Strunk, G. (2016). Synergetics in psychology: patterns and pattern transitions in human change processes. In Selforganization in Complex Systems: The Past, Present, and Future of Synergetics (pp. 181-208). Springer, Cham.

2015

• Heinzel, S., Lawrence, J. B., Kallies, G., Rapp, M. A., & Heissel, A. (2015). Using exercise to fight depression in older adults - a systematic review and meta-analysis. GeroPsych The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(4), 149-162.
• Heissel, A., Vesterling, A., White, S. A., Kallies, G., Behr, D., Arafat, A. M., Reischies, F. M., Heinzel, S.*, & Budde, H.* (2015). Feasibility of an exercise program for older depressive inpatients - a pilot study. GeroPsych The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(4), 163-172. *equal contribution
• Kuschpel, M. S., Liu, S., Schad, D. J., Heinzel, S., Heinz, A., and Rapp, M. A. (2015) Differential effects of wakeful rest, music and video game playing on working memory performance in the n-back task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1683.

2014

• Heinzel, S., Lorenz, R. C., Brockhaus, W.-R., Wüstenberg, T., Kathmann, N., Heinz, A., & Rapp, M. A. (2014). Working memory load-dependent brain response predicts behavioral training gains in older adults. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 34(4), 1224–1233.
• Heinzel, S., Riemer, T. G., Schulte, S., Onken, J., Heinz, A., & Rapp, M. A. (2014). Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT) genotype affects age-related changes in plasticity in working memory: a pilot study. BioMed Research International, 2014, 414351.
• Heinzel, S., Schulte, S., Onken, J., Duong, Q.-L., Riemer, T. G., Heinz, A., Kathmann, N., & Rapp, M. A. (2014). Working memory training improvements and gains in non-trained cognitive tasks in young and older adults. Neuropsychology, Development, and Cognition. Section B, Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 21(2), 146–173.
• Heinzel, S., Tominschek, I., & Schiepek, G. (2014). Dynamic Patterns in Psychotherapy - Discontinuous Changes and Critical Instabili­ties during the Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 18(2), 155–176.
• Schiepek, G. K., Tominschek, I., & Heinzel, S. (2014). Self-organization in psychotherapy: testing the synergetic model of change processes. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1089.
• Schiepek, G., Heinzel, S., Karch, S. Aas, B., & Strunk, G. (2014). Chaos and self-organization in psychotherapy. Chaos & Complexity Letters, 8(2-3), 231-257.

2013

• Schiepek, G., Tominschek, I., Heinzel, S., Aigner, M., Dold, M., Unger, A., Lenz, G., Windischberger, C., Moser, E., Plöderl, M., Lutz, J., Meindl, T., Zaudig, M., Pogarell, O., & Karch, S. (2013). Discontinuous patterns of brain activation in the psychotherapy process of obsessive-compulsive disorder: converging results from repeated FMRI and daily self-reports. PloS One, 8(8), e71863.

2012

• Karch, S., Heinzel, S., Pogarell, O., & Schiepek, G. (2012). Neurobiologische Grundlagen psychotherapeutischer Verfahren: Methodische Anforderungen und Ergebnisse bei psychiatrischen Störungsbildern. Psychotherapeut, 57, 204-212.

2010

• Schiepek, G., Heinzel, S. & Karch, S. (2010). Die Neurowissenschaftliche Erforschung der Psychotherapie. In: G. Schiepek (Hrsg.). Neurobiologie der Psychotherapie, 2. Auflage. Stuttgart: Schattauer (S. 1-34).

2008

• Heinzel, S. (2008). Schmetterling und Stacheldraht – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen für einen globalen Bewusstseinswandel im Kampf gegen die Klimaerwärmung. In: P. Schönberger, S. M. Klose & C. Heitmann (Eds.). Energie, Klima & Politik – Gesellschaftliche Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin (p.178-188).
• Tominschek, I., Schiepek, G., Mehl, C., Maier, K., Heinzel. S., Bauhofer, C., Berbic, B.,& Zaudig, M. (2008). Real-Time Monitoring in der Behandlung von Zwangsstörungen: Technologie und Fallbeispiel. Verhaltenstherapie, 18, 146-152.

Heinzel, S., Schwefel, M., Sanchez, A., Heinen, D., Fehm, L., Henze, R., Terán, C., Kallies, G., Rapp, M. A., Fydrich, T., Ströhle, A., & Heissel, A. (2022). Physical exercise training as preceding treatment to cognitive behavioral therapy in mild to moderate major depressive disorder: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of affective disorders, 319, 90–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.024