Karin Roelofs

Karin Roelofs
Karin Roelofs in 2016 bij Universiteit van Nederland
Born
Karin Roelofs

1972[citation needed]
NationalityDutch
Alma materRadboud University
Scientific career
Fields
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychopathology
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Emotion regulation
  • Defensive threat responses
  • Decisions under threat
Institutions
ThesisDisturbed information processing in conversation disorder. An empirical evaluation of dissociation theory (2002)
Doctoral advisorProf. dr. C.A.L. Hoogduin & Prof. dr. G.P. Van Galen
Websitehttps://www.epanlab.nl/people/karin-roelofs/

Karin Roelofs (1972[citation needed]} is a cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist known for her contributions in the fields of stress resilience.,[1] defensive freeze reactions in humans,[2] neurocognitive mechanisms of emotion regulation in health,[3] professionals at risk[4] and patients with stress-related disorders.[5] Currently she holds the position of Professor of Experimental Psychopathology at the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI) and is chair of the Affective Neuroscience group at the Donders Institute for Brain Cognition and Behaviour (DI), Radboud University Nijmegen (RU) in The Netherlands. Roelofs is a member of the Dutch Royal Academy for Sciences.[6]

  1. ^ Foundation, Evens. "The Evens Science Prize 2020". Evens Foundation. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
  2. ^ Roelofs, Karin; Dayan, Peter (2022). "Freezing revisited: coordinated autonomic and central optimization of threat coping". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 23 (9): 568–580. doi:10.1038/s41583-022-00608-2. ISSN 1471-003X. PMID 35760906.
  3. ^ Roelofs, Karin; Bramson, Bob; Toni, Ivan (2023). "A neurocognitive theory of flexible emotion control: The role of the lateral frontal pole in emotion regulation". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1525 (1): 28–40. Bibcode:2023NYASA1525...28R. doi:10.1111/nyas.15003. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 37170478.
  4. ^ Kaldewaij, Reinoud; Koch, Saskia B. J.; Hashemi, Mahur M.; Zhang, Wei; Klumpers, Floris; Roelofs, Karin (2021). "Anterior prefrontal brain activity during emotion control predicts resilience to post-traumatic stress symptoms". Nature Human Behaviour. 5 (8): 1055–1064. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01055-2. ISSN 2397-3374. PMC 7611547. PMID 33603200.
  5. ^ Bramson, Bob; Meijer, Sjoerd; van Nuland, Annelies; Toni, Ivan; Roelofs, Karin (2023-08-12). "Anxious individuals shift emotion control from lateral frontal pole to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex". Nature Communications. 14 (1): 4880. Bibcode:2023NatCo..14.4880B. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40666-3. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 10423291. PMID 37573436.
  6. ^ "Karin Roelofs - KNAW - KNAW". knaw.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-05-30.