Philipp Kanske
Jahrgang 1980
Mitglied seit 2015
Fach: Psychologie/Neurowissenschaften
Kontakt
Technische Universität Dresden
Institut für Kinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie
01062 Dresden
Tel.: (0351) 463 42225
Fax: (0351) 463 36984
philipp.kanske@tu-dresden.de
Forschungsgebiete
Neuronale Grundlagen von Emotionsregulation und Emotionsverstehen
Emotionale Prozesse bei psychischen Störungen
Plastizität von Emotionserleben
Vita
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seit 2017
Professor für Klinische Psychologie und Behaviorale Neurowissenschaft an der Technischen Universität Dresden
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2017
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
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2014
Habilitation an der Universität Heidelberg
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2013
Lilly Young Investigator Fellowship in Bipolar Disorder der International Conference on Bipolar Disorder
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2013
Young Investigator Award der European Brain and Behaviour Society
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2012-2017
Forschungsgruppenleiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig
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2011
Approbation zum Psychologischen Psychotherapeuten
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2009-2011
Post-Doktorand am Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim
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2008
Otto-Hahn-Medaille der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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2008
Promotion an der Universität Leipzig (Dr. rer. nat.)
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2003-2004
Studium der Kognitiven Neurowissenschaften/Psychologie an der University of Oregon (M.Sc.) gefördert durch Fulbright
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1999-2005
Studium der Psychologie an der Technischen Universität Dresden (Dipl.-Psych.) gefördert durch das evangelische Studienwerk Villigst
Publikation im Fokus
Dissecting the Social Brain: Empathy, Compassion and Theory of Mind
Successful social interaction requires that we understand what our conspecifics think and feel. How does the brain accomplish this task that we, effortlessly it seems, perform everyday? In this study we tried to dissect the neural routes that enable the sharing of others’ emotions (empathy) and the reasoning about their thoughts and intentions (Theory of Mind). We presented short video clips to participants in which people talked about emotionally distressing or neutral events from their lives. Brain scans revealed that a specific neural network tracked, how much empathy participants felt, particularly during the distressing stories. Some of these stories were told in a way, that our participants had to infer what the other actually meant. Here, a separate neural network is activated and stronger activation in this network leads to better performance in questions about what the others were thinking. Interestingly, a third set of regions was activated, when participants reported to feel compassion, that is, a caring, warm feeling of loving-kindness, for the suffering of the other, in German maybe ‘Nächstenliebe’. These results show that related social functions are nevertheless separable on a brain level and, possibly need to be trained specifically. Kanske P*, Böckler A*, Trautwein F-M*, Singer T (2015) Dissecting the social brain: Introducing the EmpaToM to reveal distinct neural networks and brain-behavior relations for empathy and Theory of Mind. NeuroImage 122:6-19. *contributed equally
Aktivitäten
Publikationen
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Impaired regulation of emotion: Neural correlates of reappraisal and distraction in bipolar disorder and unaffected relatives
Kanske P, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M (2015). Translational Psychiatry 5:e497
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Neural correlates of emotional distractibility in bipolar disorder, unaffected relatives and individuals with hypomanic personality
Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Forneck J, Wessa M (2013). American Journal of Psychiatry 170:1487-1496
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Goal-directed behavior under emotional distraction is preserved by enhanced task-specific activation
Wessa M, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Kanske P (2013). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8:305-12
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Neural correlates of emotion regulation deficits in remitted depression: The influence of regulation strategy, habitual regulation use, and emotional valence
Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Wessa M (2012). NeuroImage 61:686-93
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How to regulate emotion? Neural networks for reappraisal and distraction
Kanske P, Heissler J, Schönfelder S, Bongers A, Wessa M (2011). Cerebral Cortex 21:1379-1388
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Emotion triggers executive attention: anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala responses to emotional words in a conflict task
Kanske P, Kotz SA (2011). Human Brain Mapping 32:198-208
