Simone Kühn

• Dipl.-psych, 2006, University of Potsdam
  
• Dr. rer. nat., 2009, University of Leipzig
• Habilitation in Psychology, 2012, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Professor of Neural Plasticity, 2016, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
  

Research interests

• Environmental psychology
• Environmental neuroscience
• Behavioural and neural plasticity
  

Selected publications

Ascone, L., Kling, C., Wieczorek, J., Koch, C., & Kühn, S. (2021). A longitudinal, randomized experimental pilot study to investigate the effects of airborne infrasound on human mental health, cognition, and brain structure. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 3190. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82203-6

Ascone, L., Kling, C., Wieczorek, J., Koch, C., & Kühn, S. (2021). A longitudinal, randomized experimental pilot study to investigate the effects of airborne ultrasound on human mental health, cognition, and brain structure. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 5814. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83527-z

Drewelies, J., Eibich, P., Düzel, S., Kühn, S., Krekel, C., Goebel, J., Kolbe, J., Demuth, I., Lindenberger, U., Wagner, G. G., & Gerstorf, D. (2021). Location, location, location: The role of objective neighborhood characteristics for perceptions of control. Gerontology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1159/000515634

Kühn, S., Butler, O., Willmund, G., Wesemann, U., Zimmermann, P., & Gallinat, J. (2021). The brain at war: Effects of stress on brain structure in soldiers deployed to a war zone. Translational Psychiatry, 11, Article 247. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01356-0

Kühn, S., Garcia Forlim, C., Lender, A., Wirtz, J., & Gallinat, J. (2021). Brain functional connectivity differs when viewing pictures from natural and built environments using fMRI resting state analysis. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 4110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83246-5

Kühn, S., Banaschewski, T., Bokde, A. L. W., Büchel, C., Quinlan, E. B., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Grigits, A., Garavan, H., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Ittermann, B., Martinot, J.-L., Paillère Martinot, M. L., Nees, F., Papadopoulos Orfanos, D., Paus, T., Poustka, L., Millenet, S., Fröhner, J. H., Smolka, M. N., Walter, H., Whelan, R., Schumann, G., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Gallinat, J. (2020). Brain structure and habitat: Do the brains of our children tell us where they have been brought up? NeuroImage, 222, Article 117225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117225

Stahn, A. C., Gunga, H.-C., Kohlberg, E., Gallinat, J., Dinges, D. F., & Kühn, S. (2019). Brain changes in response to long-duration Antarctic expeditions. The New England Journal of Medicine, 381(23), 2273–2275. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc1904905