Curriculum Vitae - Nora Vetter, Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dipl.-Psych.
Professional Experience
| since 2016 | Postdoc |
| 2015-2016 | Interim professor (W2) |
| 2012-2015 | Post-Doc |
| 2009-2012 | Phd student and lecturer |
Education & Training
07/2020 | Habilitation and venia legendi for Psychology (academic degree: particular competence to do research and independent teaching, granted the right to teach in the professional field psychology) Habilitation title: Neurocognitive mechanisms of typical and atypical socio-emotional development in adolescence |
04/2020 | Board certification in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (behavioral psychotherapy) Training 2014-2020 at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (DGVT), Dresden |
2013 | PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) |
2011 | Visiting Scholar |
2008 | Diploma in Psychology (MSc equivalent) |
2007 | Visiting scholar |
2004 | Vordiplom in Psychology (BSc equivalent) |
Teaching Experience
University Wuppertal, Germany (Interim Professor) | Target group | ||
| WS 2015/16 | Lecture | Experimental design and data assessment | Psychology Bachelor |
| WS 2015/16 | Seminar | Experimental design and data assessment (2x) | Psychology Bachelor |
| WS 2015/16 | Seminar | Developmental interventions | Psychology Master |
| SS 2015 | Lecture | Neuro- und developmental basics | Special needs education Bachelor |
| SS 2015 | Seminar | Development and developmental trajectories in areas of | Special needs education Bachelor |
Technische Universität Dresden | |||
| SS 2009-13 | Supervisor | Students‘ research projects, “Forschungsorientierte Vertiefung“ | Psychology Diploma (Graduate) |
| SS 2012 | Seminar | Selected topics of social-cognitive development (2 x) | Psychology Bachelor |
| WS 2011/12 | Seminar | Educational Psychology: Selected topics of social-cognitive development | teacher’s education Master |
| SS 2011 | Seminar | Selected topics of social-cognitive development across the lifespan | Psychology Bachelor |
| WS 2010/11 | Seminar | Introduction to neuroimaging: typical and atypical development | Psychology Diploma (Undergraduate) |
| SS 2010 | Lecture | Devlopmental Psychology I | Psychology Diploma (Undergraduate) |
| SS 2010 | Seminar | Selected topics of social-cognitive development | Psychology minor, Nebenfach, teachers education |
| WS 2009/10 | Seminar | Introduction to neuroimaging: typical and atypical development | Psychology Diploma (Undergraduate) |
| SS 2009 | Seminar | Selected topics of social-cognitive development | Psychology minor, Nebenfach, teachers education |
Teaching Award and teaching qualification
| 2011 | Karl-und-Charlotte-Bühler-award for excellent teaching Department of Psychology, TU Dresden, seminar “Introduction to neuroimaging“ |
| since 2011 | Certificate for university teaching, university didactics, HDS Leipzig 3 Modules: Module 1 completed, Module 2 almost completed, workshops and supervision |
Acquisition of third-party funding
| 300.000 Euro | in 2016: PI and applicant for Sachbeihilfe DFG |
| 30.000 Euro | in 2013: PI and applicant: MedDrive Funding |
Honors and Awards
| since 2011 | Several travel awards |
| 07/2011-10/2011 | Research fellowship |
| 07/2011-10/2011 | Research fellowship, |
| 2011 | Karl and Charlotte Bühler award for excellent teaching |
| 06/2007-08/2007 | Research fellowship “JSPS Summer Program“ |
Research Interests
- Psychopathological mechanisms in disorders of emotion regulation and social cognition (e.g. ADHD, ODD/CD, autism spectrum disorders, OCD) in childhood, adolescence and young adulthood
- Risk- and resilience factors (stress, trauma, family history)
- Socio-emotional development in childhood, adolescence, and across the lifespan (Theory of Mind, emotion recognition and – regulation, empathy) and underlying brain development -> longitudinal studies
- Improving methods and approaches in (Clinical) Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- (neuroscientific) metaanalyses
- Intervention studies (mindfulness based training, telemedicine, app-based approaches)
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Journals
Addiction Biology
Autism Research
Autism Research and Treatment
Brain and Behavior
Brain and Cognition
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Behavior Research Methods
Child Development Perspectives
Child Neuropsychology
Cognition and Emotion
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Science
Developmental Review
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology
International Journal of Developmental Disabilities
Human Brain Mapping
Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
NeuroImage
Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
Psychiatry Research
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
The Journal of Early Adolescence
Organisations
The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Belgium
Selected Publications
Backhausen LL, Herting M, Tamnes CK, Vetter NC: Best practices in structural neuroimaging of neurodevelopmental disorders. Accepted in Neuropsychology Review 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/br38j (Link für preprint PsyArXiv)
Holl AK, Vetter NC, Elsner B: Disentangling the relations of theory of mind, executive function and conduct problems. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 72, 101233, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101233
Vetter NC, Backhausen LL, Buse J, Roessner V, Smolka MN: Altered brain morphology in boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with and without comorbid conduct disorder/ oppositional defiant disorder. Human Brain Mapping, 41(4), 973-983, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24853
Vetter NC, Oosterman JM, Mühlbach J, Wolff S, Altgassen M:The Impact of Emotional Congruent and Emotional Neutral Context on Recognizing Complex Emotions in Older Adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 27(5), 677-692, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2019.1665164
Vetter NC, Drauschke M, Thieme J, Altgassen M: Adolescent Basic Facial Emotion Recognition is Not Influenced by Puberty or Own-Age Bias. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 9:956, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00956
Vetter NC, Buse J, Backhausen LL, Rubia K, Smolka MN, Roessner V: Anterior insula hyperactivation in ADHD when faced with distracting negative stimuli. Hum Brain Map, 39(7):2972-86, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24053
Vetter NC, Steding J, Jurk S, Ripke S, Mennigen E, Smolka MN: Reliability in adolescent fMRI within two years – a comparison of three tasks. Sci Rep, 7(1):2287, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02334-7
Herting MM, Gautam P, Chen Z, Mezher A, Vetter NC: Test-retest reliability of longitudinal task-based fMRI – implications for developmental studies. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 33:17-26, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.07.001
Backhausen LL, Herting MM, Buse J, Roessner V, Smolka MN, Vetter NC: Quality Control of Structural MRI Images Applied Using FreeSurfer - A Hands-On Workflow to Rate Motion Artifacts. Front Neurosci, 10:558, 2016. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00558
Vetter NC*, Pilhatsch M*, Weigelt S, Ripke S, Smolka MN: Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli. Dev Cogn Neurosci, 4:23-31, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2015.05.001
Pilhatsch M*, Vetter NC*, Hübner T, Ripke S, Müller U, Marxen M, Rodehacke S, Mennigen E, Schmidt D, Smolka MN: Amygdala perturbations as neural risk markers for depression in healthy mid-adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 53(5):559-68, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.02.010
Vetter NC, Weigelt S, Döhnel K, Smolka MN, Kliegel M: Ongoing neural development of affective theory of mind in adolescence. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci Jul;9(7):1022-9, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nst081
Vetter NC, Altgassen M, Phillips LH, Mahy C, Kliegel M: Development of affective theory of mind across adolescence: disentangling the role of executive functions. Dev Neuropsychol, 38(2):114-25, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/87565641.2012.733786
Vetter NC, Leipold K, Kliegel M, Phillips LH, Altgassen M: Ongoing development of social cognition in adolescence. Child Neuropsychol, 19(6):615-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2012.718324
*shared first authorship.
See also:
Supervision PhD, Master’s, Bachelor students
Reviewer since 2013 - Several theses in Psychology (Bachelor BA, Master MA, Diploma DA)
Current supervisor of PhD students (Psychology, Medicine)
Current supervisor of Master’s and Bachelor students (supervision of 14 students completed)
Current Responsibilities
- REDO - Dopaminergic modulation of processing rewards and losses in children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder
- INSSYDE - Der Einfluss von belastenden Lebensereignissen auf den Verlauf der Hirnentwicklung und psychopathologische Symptome im Jugendalter
- ASS & Q10 - Verbesserung des Wohlbefindens mit Coenzym Q10-angereicherter Ernährung bei Kindern mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störung
- Emotion & Lernen - Emotionsverarbeitung und Lernprozesse im jugendlichen Gehirn, eine fMRT-Studie an Jugendlichen mit ADHD und Störung des Sozialverhaltens
Contact
Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden
0351 458-7166
E-Mail