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Prof. Cornelia Exner, PhD, Professor of Psychology

Research focus

  • Neuropsychology of mental disorders
  • Emotional and interpersonal mechanisms in mental disorders
  • Psychotherapy research in relation to efficacy and mechanisms of cognitive-behavioral
  • interventions, e.g. metacognitive therapy
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorders
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

​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 

Since 2015

Associate Editor, Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie  ​

​Since 2018

Editorial Board, Verhaltenstherapie ​​​

10 most important peer-reviewed papers (10 out of 75, Scopus h-index: 22)

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Exner C, Martin V, Rief W. Self-focused ruminations and memory deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cogn Ther Res. 2009;33(2):163-74.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Exner C, Weniger G, Irle I. Cerebellar lesions in the PICA but not SCA territory impair cognition. Neurology. 2004;63:2132-5.

  10. 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.​

Foto: Marco Weidner, Stilmoment

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