Publikationen

Wissenschaftliche Beiträge

2025

Eder, J., David, F. S., Illius, S., Rothe, N., Wekenborg, M. K., Walther, A., Penz, M., Jylhävä, J., Miller, R., Kirschbaum, C., & Alexander, N. (2025). Work-related stress and burnout: Is epigenetic aging the missing link? Clinical Epigenetics, 17, 148. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-025-01968-z

2024

Eder, J., Kräter, M., Kirschbaum, C., Gao, W., Wekenborg, M., Penz, M., Rothe, N., Guck, J., Wittwer, L. D., & Walther, A. (2024). Longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and cell deformability: do glucocorticoids play a role? European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 275, 1075–1085. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-024-01902-z

Matti, N., Mauczok, C., Eder, J., Wekenborg, M. K., Penz, M., Walther, A., Kirschbaum, C., Specht, M. B., & Rothe, N. (2024). Work-related stress and sleep quality – the mediating role of rumination: a longitudinal analysis. Somnologie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11818-024-00481-4

 

2023

Verkuil, B., & Wekenborg, M. K. (2023). A first examination of the link between heart rate variability and networks of anxiety and depression symptoms. Journal of Psychophysiology, 37(4), 204–214. https://doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803/a000322

Walther, A., Kirschbaum, C., Wehrli, S., Rothe, N., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M., & Gao, W. (2023). Depressive symptoms are negatively associated with hair N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide) levels: A cross-lagged panel analysis of four annual assessment waves examining hair endocannabinoids and cortisol. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 121, Article 110658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2022.110658

Wekenborg, M. K., Künzel, R. G., Rothe, N., Penz, M., Walther, A., Kirschbaum, C., Thayer, J. F., & Hill, L. K. (2023). Exhaustion and cardiovascular risk factors: the role of vagally-mediated heart rate variability. Annals of Epidemiology, 87, 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.09.008

 

2022

Aust, F., Beneke, T., Peifer, C., & Wekenborg, M. K. (2022). The relationship between flow experience and burnout symptoms: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), 3865. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073865

Walther, A., Mackens-Kiani, A., Eder, J., Herbig, M., Herold, C., Kirschbaum, C., Guck, J., Wittwer, L. D., Beesdo-Baum, K., & Kräter, M. (2022). Depressive disorders are associated with increased peripheral blood cell deformability: A cross-sectional case-control study (Mood-Morph). Translational Psychiatry, 12(1), Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01911-3

Wekenborg, M. K., Schwerdtfeger, A., Rothe, N., Penz, M., Walther, A., Kirschbaum, C., Thayer, J. F., Wittling, R. A., & Hill, L. K. (2022). Determining the direction of prediction of the association between parasympathetic dysregulation and exhaustion symptoms. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 10648. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14743-4

Wekenborg, M. K., Hill, L. K., Grabbe, P., Thayer, J. F., Kirschbaum, C., Lindenlaub, S., Arne Wittling, R., & von Dawans, B. (2022). Associations between burnout symptoms and social behaviour: Exploring the role of acute stress and vagal function. BMC Public Health, 22(1), 892. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13333-3

Wekenborg, M. K., Schwerdtfeger, A., Aust, F., & Verkuil, B. (2022). High-frequency variability in heart rate is related to COVID-19-associated worries six years later. Biological Psychology, 173, 108404. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108404

 

 

2021

Rothe, N., Vogel, S., Schmelzer, K., Kirschbaum, C., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M. K., Gao, W., Walther, A. (2021). The moderating effect of cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone on the relation between sleep and depression or burnout. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 100051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpnec.2021.100051

Walther, A., Wehrli, S., Kische, H., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M. K., Gao, W., Rothe, N., Beesdo-Baum, K., & Kirschbaum, C. (2021). Depressive symptoms are not associated with long-term integrated testosterone concentrations in hair. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 22(4), 288–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/15622975.2020.1795253

 

2020

Buruck, G., Pfarr, A. L., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M., Rothe, N., & Walther, A. (2020). The Influence of Workload and Work Flexibility on Work-Life Conflict and the Role of Emotional Exhaustion. Behavioral Sciences, 10(11), 174. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs10110174

Gao, W., Walther, A., Wekenborg, M., Penz, M., & Kirschbaum, C. (2020). Determination of endocannabinoids and N-acylethanolamines in human hair with LC-MS/MS and their relation to symptoms of depression, burnout, and anxiety. Talanta, 217, 121006. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2020.121006

Rothe, N., Steffen, J., Penz, M., Kirschbaum, C., Walther, A. (2020). Examination of peripheral basal and reactive cortisol levels in major depressive disorder and the burnout syndrome: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 114, 232–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.024

Rothe, N., Schulze, J., Kirschbaum, C., Buske-Kirschbaum, A., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M. K., & Walther, A. (2020). Sleep disturbances in major depressive and burnout syndrome: A longitudinal analysis. Psychiatry Research, 286, 112868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112868

Stächele, T., Domes, G., Wekenborg, M. K., Penz, M., Kirschbaum, C., & Heinrichs, M. (2020). Effects of a 6-week internet-based stress management program on perceived stress, subjective coping skills, and sleep quality. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11(463). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00463

 

2019

Fleischhauer, M., Miller, R., Wekenborg, M. K., Penz, M., Kirschbaum, C., & Enge, S. (2019). Thinking against burnout? An individual’s tendency to engage in and enjoy thinking as a potential resilience factor of burnout symptoms and burnout-related impairment in executive functioning. Frontiers in Psychology,10(420). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00420

Gao, W., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M., Walther, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Determination of thyroid hormones in human hair with online SPE LC–MS/MS: Analytical protocol and application in study of burnout. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106, 129–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.03.032

Penz, M., Siegrist, J., Wekenborg, M. K., Rothe, N., Walther, A., & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Effort-reward imbalance at work is associated with hair cortisol concentrations: Prospective evidence from the Dresden Burnout Study. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 109, 104399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104399

Penz, M., Miller, R. A., Wekenborg, M. K., Walther, A., Rothe, N., Buske‐Kirschbaum, A. & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Chronic stress exposure and altered leukocyte subsets: A shift model towards increased disease vulnerability. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.07.026

Penz, M., Miller, R. A., Wekenborg, M. K., Buske‐Kirschbaum, A. & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Neutrophils and mediating glucocorticoids as potential link between adverse life events and increased risk for disease. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 100, 38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.134

Rothe, N., Schulze, J., Penz, M., Wekenborg, M. K., Walther, A. & Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Do burnout and depression show different sleep quality patterns and how does cortisol influence this association? Psychoneuroendocrinology, 100, 37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.12.132

Wekenborg, M.K., Hill, L.K., Thayer, J.F., Penz, M., Wittling, R.A., Kirschbaum, C. (2019). The Longitudinal Association of Reduced Vagal Tone with Burnout. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81(9), 791–798. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000750.

Wekenborg, M.K., von Dawans, B., Hill, L.K., Thayer, J.F., Penz, M., Kirschbaum, C. (2019). Examining reactivity patterns in burnout and other indicators of chronic stress. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 106, 195–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.04.002

 

2018

Penz, M., Wekenborg, M. K., Pieper, L., Beesdo-Baum, K., Walther, A., Miller, R., Stalder, T., & Kirschbaum, C. (2018). The Dresden Burnout Study: Protocol of a prospective cohort study for the bio-psychological investigation of burnout. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1613. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1613

Penz, M., Kirschbaum, C., Buske-Kirschbaum, A., Wekenborg, M. K., & Miller, R. (2018). Stressful life events predict one-year change of leukocyte composition in peripheral blood. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 94, 17–24. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.05.006

Wekenborg, M. K., Hill, L. K., Miller, R., Stalder, T., Thayer, J. F., Sophie Penz, M., & Kirschbaum, C. (2018). Reduced self-regulation mirrors the distorting effects of burnout symptomatology on task difficulty perception during an inhibition task. Stress, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2018.1479393

 

2017

Kanthak, M. K., Stalder, T., Hill, L. K., Thayer, J., Penz, M., & Kirschbaum, C. (2017). Autonomic dysregulation in burnout and depression: evidence for the central role of exhaustion. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 43(5), 475–484. https://doi.org/10.5271/sjweh.3647

Penz, M., Stalder, T., Miller, R., Vera, M., Kanthak, M. K., & Kirschbaum, C. (2017). Hair cortisol as a biological marker for burnout symptomatology. Psychoneuroendocrinology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.07.485

Penz, M., & Walther, A. (2017). Wie gelangt Burnout in den Körper? - Mögliche Wege zur Somatisierung eines ursprünglich psychologischen Phänomens. Psychologie in Österreich, 242–250. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-223751

 

 

 

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Bigalke, K. (2020). Burnout – Im Leerlauf auf dem Gaspedal [Audio Podcast Episode]. In Echtzeit. Deutschlandradio. https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/burnout-im-leerlauf-auf-dem-gaspedal-100.html

Honnigfort, B. (2019). Ausgebrannt, leer, kaputt. Frankfurter Rundschau. https://www.fr.de/ratgeber/gesundheit/ausgebrannt-leer-kaputt-11177964.html

Schumacher, H. (2016). Stressforscher: „Ein Burn-out lauert überall“. Berliner Morgenpost. https://www.morgenpost.de/web-wissen/article208225083/Stressforscher-Ein-Burn-out-lauert-ueberall.html