Maria Walt­mann

Maria Waltmann

PhD can­di­date

Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive & Brain Sci­ences
Stephanstraße 1A
04103 Leipzig
Ger­many

Profile

Dur­ing her under­grad­u­ate years at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg (B.A. Phi­los­o­phy and Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture, B.Sc. Psy­chol­o­gy), Maria acquired a taste for neu­rocog­ni­tive research in psy­chi­a­try. For her under­grad­u­ate dis­ser­ta­tion, she worked on the effects of SSRIs on emo­tion­al pro­cess­ing in a healthy vol­un­teer mod­el of depres­sion at the Psy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy and Emo­tion Research Lab (PERL) in Oxford. She fol­lowed this up with a degree in Neu­ro­science at King’s Col­lege Lon­don, where she worked with Dr. Gem­ma Modi­nos on func­tion­al con­nec­tiv­i­ty of the stria­tum in schizo­typy using mul­ti-echo rest­ing-state data. In Novem­ber 2017, Maria joined our Lab to inves­ti­gate the shared and dif­fer­en­tial neu­rocog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms of obe­si­ty and binge eat­ing dis­or­der, employ­ing behav­iour­al and MR imag­ing tech­niques informed by com­pu­ta­tion­al mod­el­ling.

Curriculum Vitae

2017— PhD Stu­dent, “Shared and dif­fer­en­tial neu­ro-cog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms of obe­si­ty and binge eat­ing dis­or­der in ado­les­cence and adult­hood”, Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences
2016–2017 King’s Col­lege Lon­don, MSc Neu­ro­science (pass with dis­tinc­tion) Dis­ser­ta­tion: Func­tion­al Con­nec­tiv­i­ty of the Stria­tum in Psy­cho­me­t­ric Schizo­typy – Insights from Muli_echo Rest­ing-State fMRI. Super­vi­sor: Dr. Gem­ma Modi­nos (KCL)
2013–2014 Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge. Pol­i­tics, Psy­chol­o­gy, and Soci­ol­o­gy (PPS) Year abroad at St. John’s Col­lege Cam­bridge
2012–2016 Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg, BSc Psy­chol­o­gy (1,3) Dis­ser­ta­tion: The Effects of 4 Weeks SSRI Admin­is­tra­tion on Emo­tion­al Pro­cess­ing in High and Low Neu­rot­ic Healthy Vol­un­teers. Super­vi­sors: Prof. Cather­ine Harmer (Oxford), Dr. Susan­nah Mur­phy (Oxford), Dr. Katrin Schulze (Hei­del­berg)
2011–2016 Uni­ver­si­ty of Hei­del­berg, BA in Phi­los­o­phy and Eng­lish Lit­er­a­ture Dis­ser­ta­tion: Phe­nom­e­nal­i­ty and the Ontol­ogy of Prop­er­ties. Super­vi­sors: PD Dr. Oliv­er Schlaudt (Hei­del­berg), Prof. Peter McLaugh­lin (Hei­del­berg)

Publications

Posters

Walt­mann, M., Her­zog, N., Vill­ringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deser­no, L. (2019). Does enhanced switch­ing between poten­tial­ly pun­ish­ing option con­tribute to mal­adap­tive deci­sion-mak­ing in binge-eat­ing dis­or­der?. Poster pre­sent­ed at IMPRS Sum­mer School 2019, Max Planck Insti­tute for Human Cog­ni­tive and Brain Sci­ences, Leipzig.
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Breuer, N., Poes­sel, M., Walt­mann, M., Hum­mel, T., & Horstmann, A. (2019). Neur­al respons­es to food odors in obe­si­ty: Pro­pos­al of an fMRI study. Poster pre­sent­ed at 3rd Nordic Neu­ro­science Meet­ing, Helsin­ki, Fin­land.
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Walt­mann, M., Her­zog, N., Vill­ringer, A., Horstmann, A., & Deser­no, L. (2019). Does enhanced switch­ing between poten­tial­ly pun­ish­ing option con­tribute to mal­adap­tive deci­sion-mak­ing in binge-eat­ing dis­or­der?. Poster pre­sent­ed at 3rd Nordic Neu­ro­science Meet­ing, Helsin­ki, Fin­land.
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Walt­mann, M., War­ren, M. B., Mur­phy, S. E., Di Sim­p­li­cio, M., & Harmer, C. J. (2016). The effect of four weeks SSRI admin­is­tra­tion on facial emo­tion recog­ni­tion in high and low neu­rot­ic healthy vol­un­teers. Poster pre­sent­ed at British Asso­ci­a­tion for Psy­chophar­ma­col­o­gy Sum­mer Meet­ing, Brighton, Unit­ed King­dom.
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