Conny Quaedflieg (C.W.E.M.)
Everyone knows how it feels to be stressed. The ability to cope with stress has become more important over the years. Impaired stress regulation can have profound effects on health, cognition, and behaviour via its impact on the brain.
An immense curiosity for the effects of stress on the brain initialised my scientific career in 2010. To directly investigate the effects of stress on the brain the iMAST was developed. With this task we stressed people in a neuroimaging environment and investigated connectivity changes in the brain under acute stress and the recovery of it. I also became intrigued by the idea that neurofeedback can be used to change brain activity to make people more stress resilience. So we experimentally validated a paradigm in which participants learn to regulate their brain activity measured with EEG.
The effects of stress, especially the time-dependent physiological reaction to a stressor, on memory and the control of memory is my third research interest. During my postdoctoral research period, the NWO Rubicon provided me with the exceptional opportunity to work together with internationally leading (neuro)scientist Prof. Schwabe at Hamburg University, to enriched my experimental research background in the field of stress-timing and habitual behaviour.
I am now working as an assistant professor at the department of Clinical Psychological Science.
- The role of the brain in stress resilience
- Effects of stress timing on memory and learning
- Memory control
- Intentional fear control
- Goal-directed / habitual behaviour
- EEG - Electroencephalography
- MEG-Magnetoencephalography
09/2019 – present
Assistant professor, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology
12/2017 – 09/2019
Assistant professor, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, department of Clinical Psychological Science
12/2015-11/2017
Post-doc at the Department of Cognitive Psychology,University of Hamburg
12/2010 -11/2015
PhD student at Maastricht university Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, department of Clinical Psychological Science - Forensic Psychology
Dissertation: Stress resilience: learning from imaging the brain.
09/2010-11/2010
Research Assistant: Pain clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
2008 – 08/2010
Research Master Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, specialization Neuropsychology, Maastricht University. Graduated with distinction
Title Master’s thesis: Effects of Remifentanil on processing of auditory stimuli (A combined MEG and EEG Study)
2005 - 2008
Bachelor in Psychology, Maastricht University
Title Bachelor’s thesis: Effects of Cholinergic manipulation on EEG in spatial memory (Biperiden and Rivastigmine in healthy volunteers)
Conny Quaedflieg (C.W.E.M.)
Assistant Professor