Curriculum Vitae - Gregor Kohls, PD Dr. rer. medic.

Professional Experience

since 06/2022	Privatdozent (PD) Medical Faculty, TU Dresden, Germany
since 03/2021	Postdoctoral Research Felllow Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
01/2021-06/2022	Privatdozent (PD) Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen, Germany
09/2013-02/2021	Postdoctoral Research Felllow Child Neuropsychology Section, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Germany
04/2009-06/2013	Pre- and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Center for Autism Research, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania, USA
04/2006-11/2009	PhD student International Research Training Group 1328 “Brain-behavior relationship of emotion and social cognition in schizophrenia and autism” (DFG), RWTH Aachen and University of Pennsylvania
11/2001-03/2006	Research assistant Neurolinguistics Laboratory, University of Freiburg, Germany

Education & Training

01/2021	Habilitation with Venia Legendi for Cognitive Neuroscience Thesis title: „Neurobiological mechanisms of reward processing in neurodevelopmental disorders: A multi-methodological and transdiagnostic approach“ Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen, Germany
11/2009	PhD degree (Dr. rer. medic.) Thesis title: „The effect of social and non-social rewards on cognitive control abilities in children and adolescents with and without ADHD“ Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen, Germany
10/2008-12/2008	Visiting Scholar Department of Psychiatry (UPENN) and Center for Autism Research (CHOP), Philadelphia, USA
01/2006	Magister Artium (BSc & MSc equivalent) Thesis title: „Executive functions and language development: The relation between central-auditory deficits, processing capacity and grammar acquisition in language-impaired children“ University of Freiburg, Germany
09/2002-10/2002	Research Internship Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

Selected Publications (first and senior authorships)

McDonald M*, Kohls G*, Henke N, Wahl H, Backhausen LL, Roessner V, Buse J: Altered neural anticipation of reward and loss but not receipt in adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder. BMC Psychiatry, 24(1):362, 2024. *shared first authorship

Elster EM, Pauli R, Baumann S, de Brito SA , Fairchild G, Freitag CM, Konrad K, Roessner V, Brazil IA, Lockwood PL, Kohls G: Impaired Punishment Learning in Conduct Disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 3;S0890-8567(23)00374-X, doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.05.032, 2023.

Wolff N*, Kohls G*, et al.: A data driven machine learning approach to differentiate between autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder based on the best-practice diagnostic instruments for autism. Scientific Reports, 12: 18744, 2022. *shared first authorship

Kohls G, Roessner V: Editorial Perspective: Medical body modification in youth with gender dysphoria or body dysmorphic disorder – is current practice coherent and evidence-based? Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, doi:10.1111/jcpp.13717, 2022.

Baumann S, Bernhard A, Martinelli A, Ackermann K, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Freitag C, Konrad K, Kohls G: Perpetrators and victims of cyberbullying among youth with conduct disorder. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01973-0, 2022

Baumann S, Hartz A, Scharke W, De Brito S, Fairchild G, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Konrad K, Kohls G: Differentiating brain function of punishment versus reward processing in conduct disorder with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 23, 349-360, 2022.

Konrad K*, Kohls G*, et al.: Sex differences in psychiatric comorbidity and clinical presentation in youths with Conduct Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63, 218-228, 2022. *shared first authorship

Konrad K, Kohls G: Neuroanatomie. In Steinhausen H-C, Döpfner M, Holtmann M, Philipsen A, Rothenberger A (Hrsg.), Handbuch ADHS. Grundlagen, Klinik, Therapie und Verlauf der Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung (S. 54-68), 2020. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Kohls G, Fairchild G, Bernhard A, …Konrad K: Neuropsychological subgroups of emotion processing in youths with conduct disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11: 585052, 2020.

Kohls G, Baumann S, Gundlach M, Scharke W, Bernhard A, Martinelli A, … Konrad K: Investigating sex differences in emotion recognition, learning, and regulation among youths with conduct disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 59, 263-273, 2020.

Kohls G, Antezana L, Mosner MG, Schultz RT, & Yerys BE: Altered reward system reactivity for personalized circumscribed interests in autism. Molecular Autism, 9, 9, 2018.

Maxwell CR, Villalobos ME, Schultz RT, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Konrad K, & Kohls G: Atypical laterality of resting gamma oscillations in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 292–297, 2015.

Kohls G, Thönessen H, Bartley GK, Grossheinrich N, Fink GR, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, & Konrad K: Differentiating neural reward responsiveness in autism versus ADHD. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 104–116, 2014.

Pankert A, Pankert K, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Konrad K, & Kohls G: Responsivity to familiar versus unfamiliar social reward in children with autism. Journal of Neural Transmission, 121, 1199–1210, 2014.

Kohls G, Perino MT, Taylor JM, Madva EN, Cayless SJ, Troiani V, … Schultz RT: The nucleus accumbens is involved in both the pursuit of social reward and the avoidance of social punishment. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2062–2069, 2013.

Kohls G, Schulte-Rüther M, Nehrkorn B, Müller K, Fink GR, Kamp-Becker I, … Konrad K: Reward system dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8, 565–572, 2013.

Vloet TD, Konrad K, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, & Kohls G: [The effect of social and monetary reward on inhibitory control in boys with hyperkinetic conduct disorder]. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 39, 341–349, 2011

Kohls G, Peltzer J, Schulte-Rüther M, Kamp-Becker I, Remschmidt H, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, & Konrad K: Atypical brain responses to reward cues in autism as revealed by event-related potentials. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41, 1523–1533, 2011.

Kohls G, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, & Konrad K: Hyperresponsiveness to social rewards in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Behavioral and Brain Functions, 5, 20, 2009.

Kohls G, Peltzer J, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, & Konrad K: Differential effects of social and non-social reward on response inhibition in children and adolescents. Developmental Science, 12, 614–625, 2009.

Kohls G, Yerys BE, & Schultz RT: Striatal development in autism: Repetitive behaviors and the reward circuitry. Biological Psychiatry, 76, 358–359, 2014.

Kohls G, Chevallier C, Troiani V, & Schultz RT: Social “wanting” dysfunction in autism: neurobiological underpinnings and treatment implications. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 4, 10, 2012.

Kohls G, Schultz RT: Computerized health games to promote social perceptual learning in autism. Autism Spectrum News, Summer: 18-31, 2011

Kohls G, Körner B, Maas V, Rinker T, Zachau S, Jaremkiewicz A, & Christmann G: Aufmerksamkeit und die Spezifische Sprachentwicklungsstörung. In G. Kochendörfer (Hrsg.), Sprache – interdisziplinär. Beiträge zur Kognitiven Linguistik, Neurolinguistik und Neuropsychologie (S. 133-162), 2007. Frankfurt/M.: Lang.

Schecker M & Kohls G: Der Infinitiv als Default-Form bei aphasischem Agrammatismus. In J.-F. Marillier & C. Rozier (Hrsg.), Der Infinitiv im Deutschen (S. 1-8), 2005. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.

Schecker M & Kohls G: Über die Kasus – am Beispiel des Deutschen. In Baudot D & Behr I (Hrsg.), Funktion und Bedeutung. Modelle einer syntaktischen Semantik des Deutschen (S. 227-240), 2003. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.

Current Responsibilities

CoMoCD: Computational modeling of punishment insensitivity in female conduct disorder (supported by a 2023 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation; www.bbrfoundation.org)
IRTG 2773: Risks and Pathomechanisms of Affective Disorders
ADOPT: Affektive Dysregulation in der Kindheit - Optimierung von Prävention und Behandlung

ASDnet: Autism Spectrum Disorder across the lifespan: From a better etiological understanding, through valid diagnosis, to more effective health care

Contact

Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden