Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Interests: - Effects of stress and emotion on memory in health and disease - Genetic basis of human memory Selected publications: Papassotiropoulos A, Stephan DA, Huentelman MJ, Hoerndli FJ, Craig DW, Pearson JV, Huynh KD, Brunner F, Corneveaux J, Osborne D, Wollmer MA, Aerni A, Coluccia D, Hänggi J, Mondadori CR, Buchmann A, Reiman EM, Caselli RJ, Henke K, de Quervain DJ. Common Kibra alleles are associated with human memory performance. Science 2006;314(5798):475-8. de Quervain, D. J.-F., Roozendaal, B., and McGaugh, J. L. Stress and glucocorticoids impair retrieval of long-term spatial memory. Nature, 1998, 394, 787-790 de Quervain, D. J.-F., Fischbacher U., Treyer, V., Schellhammer M., Schnyder, U., Buck, A., Fehr, E. The neural basis of altruistic punishment. Science, 305, 1254-1258 (2004). de Quervain, D. J.-F., Roozendaal, B., Nitsch, R. M., McGaugh, J. L., and Hock, C. Acute cortisone administration impairs retrieval of long-term declarative memory in humans. Nature Neuroscience, 2000, 3, 313-314 de Quervain DJ, Kolassa IT, Ertl V, Onyut PL, Neuner F, Elbert T, Papassotiropoulos A. A deletion variant of the alpha2b-adrenoceptor is related to emotional memory in Europeans and Africans. Nature Neuroscience 2007;10(9):1137-9. de Quervain D. J.-F., Bentz D, Michael T, Bolt O.C., Wiederhold B.K., Margraf J, Wilhelm F.H. From the Cover: Glucocorticoids enhance extinction-based psychotherapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:6621-6625 (2011) Papassotiropoulos A, Gerhards C, Heck A, Ackermann S, Aerni A, Schicktanz N, Auschra B, Demougin P, Mumme E, Elbert T, Ertl V, Gschwind L, Hanser E, Huynh KD, Jessen F, Kolassa IT, Milnik A, Paganetti P, Spalek K, Vogler C, Muhs A, Pfeifer A, de Quervain DJ. Human genome-guided identification of memory-modulating drugs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 12;110(46):E4369-74. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1314478110. Epub 2013 Oct 21.