Liane Schmidt

Prefrontal cortex resting-state connectivity is moderated by hunger expectations induced by a placebo intervention in healthy female participants.

The paper examines how placebo-induced hunger expectations alter prefrontal cortex resting-state connectivity in healthy females.

When body mass index and listening to reasons for behavioral change make food choices healthier: Behavioral and neural mediators linking BMI and change interventions to healthier dietary decision making.

The paper investigates how BMI and change talk influence healthier food choices by examining neural and behavioral mediators.

A structural MRI marker predicts individual differences in impulsivity and classifies patients with behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia from matched controls

The paper develops a structural MRI signature of impulsivity using machine learning, validates it across multiple samples, and shows its diagnostic value in behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia.

High delay discounting relates to core symptoms and to pulvinar atrophy in frontotemporal dementia

This study finds that frontotemporal dementia patients show higher delay discounting, linked to impulsivity symptoms and pulvinar atrophy.

How motivational interviewing shifts food choices and craving-related brain responses to healthier options

This study shows that motivational interviewing shifts food choices and reduces craving-related brain responses to healthier options by altering value-based decision-making.

Taste matters: Mapping expectancy-based appetitive placebo effects onto the brain

This study maps how expectancy-based appetitive placebo effects influence brain activity and decision-making related to hunger and food value.

Investigation of whether oxytocin and trust play a role in placebo effects of marketing actions

This study investigates whether oxytocin and trust influence placebo effects in marketing actions but finds no evidence supporting their role.

Multiple brain networks mediating stimulus-pain relationships in humans

The paper identifies brain networks mediating stimulus-pain relationships using high-dimensional mediation analysis in fMRI data from 284 humans.

The brain's hedonic valuation system's resting-state connectivity predicts weight loss and correlates with leptin

The paper examines how resting-state connectivity in the brain's hedonic valuation system predicts weight loss and correlates with leptin levels after gastric bypass surgery.

How context alters value: Price information recruits the brain’s valuation and affective regulation system for shaping experienced taste pleasantness

The paper shows that price cues influence taste pleasantness by engaging the brain's valuation system and affective regulation networks.