Publications of Sofie L. Valk

Puhlmann, L. M.; Vrticka, P.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P.; Engert, V.; Singer, T.: Serum brain-derived-neurotrophic factor increase after 9-month contemplative mental training is associated with decreased cortisol secretion and increased dentate gyrus volume. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 100414 (2024)

Valk, S. L.; Engert, V.; Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Caldairou, B.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.: Differential increase of hippocampal subfield volume after socio-affective mental training relates to reductions in diurnal cortisol. eLife 12, RP87634 (2024)

Schaefer, J. K.; Engert, V.; Valk, S. L.; Singer, T.; Puhlmann, L. M.: Mapping pathways to neuronal atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: From chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 38, 100781 (2024)

Schäfer, . J.K.; Engert, V.; Valk, S. L.; Singer, T.; Puhlmann, L. M.: Mapping pathways to neural atrophy in healthy, mid-aged adults: from chronic stress to systemic inflammation to neurodegeneration? Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health 38, 100781 (2024)

Valk, S. L.; Kanske, P.; Park, B.-y.; Hong, S.-J.; Böckler, A.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.: Functional and microstructural plasticity following social and interoceptive mental training. eLife 12, e85188 (2023)

Puhlmann, L. M.; Linz, R.; Valk, S. L.; Vrticka, P.; Vos de Wael, R.; Bernasconi, A.; Bernasconi, N.; Caldairou, B.; Papassotiriou, I.; Chrousos, G. P. et al.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Singer, T.; Engert, V.: Association between hippocampal structure and serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in healthy adults: A registered report. NeuroImage 236, 118011 (2021)

Lumma, A.-L.; Valk, S. L.; Böckler, A.; Vrticka, P.; Singer, T.: Change in emotional self-concept following socio-cognitive training relates to structural plasticity of the prefrontal cortex. Brain and Behavior 8 (4), e00940 (2018)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Trautwein, M.; Böckler, A.; Kanske, P.; Guizard, N.; Collins, D. L.; Singer, T.: Structural plasticity of the social brain: Differential change after socio-affective and cognitive mental training. Science Advances 3 (10), e1700489 (2017)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: Socio-cognitive phenotypes differentially modulate large-scale structural covariance networks. Cerebral Cortex 27 (2), pp. 1358 - 1368 (2017)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Kanske, P.; Singer, T.: Substrates of metacognition on perception and metacognition on higher-order cognition relate to different subsystems of the mentalizing network. Human Brain Mapping 37 (10), pp. 3388 - 3399 (2016)

Bernhardt, B. C.; Valk, S. L.; Silani, G.; Bird, G.; Frith, U.; Singer, T.: Selective disruption of sociocognitive structural brain networks in autism and alexithymia. Cerebral Cortex 24 (12), pp. 3258 - 3267 (2014)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Kanske, P.; Trautwein, F.-M.; Singer, T.: Divergent network substrates of individual differences in empathy and mentalizing. 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Honolulu, HI, USA (2015)

Valk, S. L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Böckler, A.; Singer, T.: Perceptual and cognitive metacognition have divergent structural substrates: A multi-modal MRI study. 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Honolulu, HI, USA (2015)

Skottnik, L.; Bernhardt, B. C.; Engen, H. G.; Valk, S. L.; Cordemans, B.; Ricard, M.; Singer, T.: Expert compassion meditators show cortical thickness increases in socio-affective brain networks. 20th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Hamburg, Germany (2014)