Dr Christoph Eisenegger

Christoph Eisenegger

University position

Visiting postdoctoral researcher

Departments

Department of Psychology

Institutes

Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute

Email

ce296@cam.ac.uk

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

My research focuses on human decision making on both the individual level as well as during social interaction. The main focus lies in how monoamines and hormones affect human decision making.

Research Focus

Keywords

dopamine

decision making

risk taking

sex hormones

social interaction

Clinical conditions

Addiction

Hormonal disorders

Parkinson's disease

Schizophrenia

Stress

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Hormone challenges

Neuropsychological testing

Psychopharmacology

Randomised control trials

Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Collaborators

Cambridge

Luke Clark

Ulrich Muller

Trevor Robbins

United Kingdom

Michael Naef

International

Ernst Fehr

Markus Heinrichs

Daria Knoch

Claus Lamm

Boris Quednow

Giorgia Silani

Jack van Honk

Sigrid von Eckardstein

Publications

2013

van Honk J, Eisenegger C, Terburg D, Stein DJ, Morgan B (2013), “Generous economic investments after basolateral amygdala damage.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(7):2506-10 Details

2012

Eisenegger C, Naef M, and Fehr, E (2012), “2D:4D moderates eff ects of testosterone on cooperation (reply)” Nature 458: E5-E6

Eisenegger C, von Eckardstein A, Fehr E, von Eckardstein S (2012), “Pharmacokinetics of testosterone and estradiol gel preparations in healthy young males” Psychoneuroendocrinology

2011

Baumgartner T, Knoch D, Hotz P, Eisenegger C, Fehr E (2011), “Dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex orchestrate normative choice.” Nat Neurosci 14(11):1468-74 Details

Eisenegger C, Haushofer J, Fehr E (2011), “The role of testosterone in social interaction.” Trends Cogn Sci 15(6):263-71 Details

Eisenegger C, Haushofer J, Fehr E (2011), “No sound evidence for a gender-specific effect of testosterone administration on aggressive motivation exists: reply to Josephs et al.” Trends Cogn Sci 15(11):510-1

Eisenegger C, Naef M (2011), “Combining behavioral endocrinology and experimental economics: testosterone and social decision making.” J Vis Exp (49) Details

2010

Eisenegger C, Knoch D, Ebstein RP, Gianotti LR, Sándor PS, Fehr E (2010), “Dopamine receptor D4 polymorphism predicts the effect of L-DOPA on gambling behavior.” Biol Psychiatry 67(8):702-6 Details

Eisenegger C, Naef M, Snozzi R, Heinrichs M, Fehr E (2010), “Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour.” Nature 463(7279):356-9 Details

2009

Gianotti LR, Knoch D, Faber PL, Lehmann D, Pascual-Marqui RD, Diezi C, Schoch C, Eisenegger C, Fehr E (2009), “Tonic activity level in the right prefrontal cortex predicts individuals' risk taking.” Psychol Sci 20(1):33-8 Details

2008

Eisenegger C, Treyer V, Fehr E, Knoch D (2008), “Time-course of "off-line" prefrontal rTMS effects--a PET study.” Neuroimage 42(1):379-84 Details

Knoch D, Nitsche MA, Fischbacher U, Eisenegger C, Pascual-Leone A, Fehr E (2008), “Studying the neurobiology of social interaction with transcranial direct current stimulation--the example of punishing unfairness.” Cereb Cortex 18(9):1987-90 Details

2007

Eisenegger C, Herwig U, Jäncke L (2007), “The involvement of primary motor cortex in mental rotation revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation.” Eur J Neurosci 25(4):1240-4 Details