Department of eHealth and sports analytics
Faculty of Sports Science
Ruhr University Bochum
Gesundheitscampus-Nord 10
44801 Bochum
Phone:
+49 (0)234 32-27717
Email:
markus.reichert@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
The Department of eHealth and sports analytics at the Faculty of Sports Science is interested in the brain circuitry and neural mechanisms that are involved in humans’ everyday-life physical behavior (e.g., comprising sedentary behavior such as sitting, nonexercise activity such as stair-climbing, and exercise such as jogging), especially in the context of well-being and mental health. To research these domains, we draw from an interdisciplinary approach combining methods from systems neuroscience, sport science, ambulatory assessment, geoinformatics, and epidemiology. This enables us to both capture psychological mechanisms in real-life using an ecological valid assessment and taking contextual influences into account (e.g., via ecological momentary assessment such as electronic diaries on smartphones; via mobile accelerometers, electrocardiography, and glucose sensors; via smartphone sensing, including geolocation tracking), and to research the neurobiological underpinnings through laboratory neuroscience methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging. Examples comprise our research on structural neural underpinnings of nonexercise activity and its relationship to well-being in everyday life, as well as the neural correlates of the momentary effect of urban green-space exposure on affective valence.
Deeken, F., Reichert, M., Zech, H., Wenzel, J., Wedemeyer, F., Aguilera, A., Aslan, A., Bach, P., Bahr, N. S., Ebrahimi, C., Fischbach, P. C., Ganz, M., Garbusow, M., Großkopf, C. M., Heigert, M., Hentschel, A., Karl, D., Pelz, P., Pinger, M., . . . Rapp, M. A. (2022). Patterns of Alcohol Consumption Among Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdowns in Germany. JAMA Network Open, 5(8), e2224641. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.24641
Monninger, M., Aggensteiner, P.‑M., Pollok, T. M., Reinhard, I., Hall, A. S. M., Zillich, L., Streit, F., Witt, S.‑H., Reichert, M., Ebner-Priemer, U., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Tost, H., Brandeis, D., Banaschewski, T., & Holz, N. E. (2022). Real-time individual benefit from social interactions before and during the lockdown: The crucial role of personality, neurobiology and genes. Translational Psychiatry, 12(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-01799-z
Gan, G., Ma, R., Reichert, M., Giurgiu, M., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Tost, H. (2021). Neural Correlates of Affective Benefit From Real-life Social Contact and Implications for Psychiatric Resilience. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(7), 790–792. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.0560
Reichert, M., Gan, G., Renz, M., Braun, U., Brüßler, S., Timm, I., Ma, R., Berhe, O., Benedyk, A., Moldavski, A., Schweiger, J. I., Hennig, O., Zidda, F., Heim, C., Banaschewski, T., Tost, H., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2021). Ambulatory assessment for precision psychiatry: Foundations, current developments and future avenues. Experimental Neurology, 345, 113807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113807
Giurgiu, M., Koch, E. D., Plotnikoff, R. C., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., & Reichert, M. (2020). Breaking Up Sedentary Behavior Optimally to Enhance Mood. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 52(2), 457–465. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002132
Koch, E. D., Tost, H., Braun, U., Gan, G., Giurgiu, M., Reinhard, I., Zipf, A., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., & Reichert, M. (2020). Relationships between incidental physical activity, exercise, and sports with subsequent mood in adolescents. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 30(11), 2234–2250. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13774
Reichert, M., Braun, U., Gan, G., Reinhard, I., Giurgiu, M., Ma, R., Zang, Z., Hennig, O., Koch, E. D., Wieland, L., Schweiger, J., Inta, D., Hoell, A., Akdeniz, C., Zipf, A., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Tost, H., & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2020). A neural mechanism for affective well-being: Subgenual cingulate cortex mediates real-life effects of nonexercise activity on energy. Science Advances, 6(45). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz8934
Reichert, M., Schlegel, S., Jagau, F., Timm, I., Wieland, L., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Hartmann, A., & Zeeck, A. (2020). Mood and Dysfunctional Cognitions Constitute Within-Subject Antecedents and Consequences of Exercise in Eating Disorders. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 89(2), 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1159/000504061
Tost, H., Reichert, M., Braun, U., Reinhard, I., Peters, R., Lautenbach, S., Hoell, A., Schwarz, E., Ebner-Priemer, U., Zipf, A., & Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2019). Neural correlates of individual differences in affective benefit of real-life urban green space exposure. Nature Neuroscience, 22(9), 1389–1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0451-y
Reichert, M., Tost, H., Reinhard, I., Schlotz, W., Zipf, A., Salize, H.‑J., Meyer-Lindenberg, A., & Ebner-Priemer, U. W. (2017). Exercise versus Nonexercise Activity: E-diaries Unravel Distinct Effects on Mood. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 49(4), 763–773. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000001149
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