Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Health: Science, Society, and Policy
Neuroscience
Psychology
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Awards and Honors

Trainee Travel Award; Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (2008)

German Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2007)

Michael Smith Foundation of Health Research Postdoctoral Trainee Fellowship (2007)

NARSAD Young Investigator Award (2007)

Scholar Award, American Psychosomatic Society (2007)

Travel Scholarship; Gesellschaft von Freunden und Foerderen der TU Dresden (2005)

Trainee Travel Award, Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (2004)

Scholar Award, American Psychosomatic Society (2003)

Young Investigator Award, German Society of Psychophysiology and its Application (2003)

Courses Taught

PSYC	38a	Health Psychology
PSYC	52a	Research Methods and Laboratory in Psychology
PSYC	142a	Sport Psychology: A Health Psychology Perspective
PSYC	211a	Graduate Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC	302a	Proseminar in Brain, Body, and Behavior II

Scholarship

Rene, K., Wolf, J.M., M.D. Gellman, J.R. Turner. "Psychoneuroimmunology." Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. 2012. (forthcoming)

Rohleder, N, Wolf, J.M., M.D. Gellman, J.R. Turner. "Inflammation." Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. 2012. (forthcoming)

Saucier, E., Wolf, J.M., M.D. Gellman, J.R. Turner. "Psychoneuroendocrinology." Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. 2012. (forthcoming)

Thoma, M.V., Joksimovic, L.L., Kirschbaum, C., Wolf, J.M., Rohleder, N.. "Altered salivary alpha-amylase awakening response in Bosnian War refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder." Psychoneuroendocrinology 37. 6 (2012): 810-817.

Thoma, M.V., Kirschbaum, C., Wolf, J.M., Rohleder, N.. "Acute stress responses in salivary alpha-amylase predict increases of plasma norepinephrine." Biol Psychol 91. 3 (2012): 342-348.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J.M., Wolf, O.T.. "Glucocorticoid sensitivity of cognitive and inflammatory processes in depression and posttraumatic stress disorder." Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 35. (2010): 104-114.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J. M., Kirschbaum, C., Wolf, O. T.. "Effects of cortisol on emotional but not on neutral memory are correlated with peripheral glucocorticoid sensitivity of inflammatory cytokine production." Int J Psychophysiol 72. 1 (2009): 74-80.

Wolf, J.M., Rohleder, N., Bierhaus, A., Petrov, D., Nawroth, P.P., Kirschbaum, C.. "Determinants of the NF-kappaB response to acute psychosocial stress in humans." Brain Behav Immun 23. 6 (2009): 742-749.

Rohleder, N., Chen, E., Wolf, J. M., Miller, G. E.. "The psychobiology of trait shame in young women: extending the social self preservation theory." Health Psychol 27. 5 (2008): 523-32.

Wolf, J. M., Miller, G. E., Chen, E.. "Parent psychological states predict changes in inflammatory markers in children with asthma and healthy children." Brain Behav Immun 22. 4 (2008): 433-41.

Wolf, J. M., Nicholls, E., Chen, E.. "Chronic stress, salivary cortisol, and alpha-amylase in children with asthma and healthy children." Biol Psychol 78. 1 (2008): 20-8.

Rohleder, N., Beulen, S. E., Chen, E., Wolf, J. M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Stress on the dance floor: the cortisol stress response to social-evaluative threat in competitive ballroom dancers." Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33. 1 (2007): 69-84.

Rohleder, N., Otto, B., Wolf, J. M., Klose, J., Kirschbaum, C., Enck, P., Klosterhalfen, S.. "Sex-specific adaptation of endocrine and inflammatory responses to repeated nauseogenic body rotation." Psychoneuroendocrinology 31. 2 (2006): 226-36.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J. M., Herpfer, I., Fiebich, B. L., Kirschbaum, C., Lieb, K.. "No response of plasma substance P, but delayed increase of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist to acute psychosocial stress." Life Sci 78. 26 (2006): 3082-9.

Wolf, J.M.. Psychosocial Stress and Addison's Disease - A New Approach to Evaluate the Relevance of Endocrine Stress Responses for Health and Disease. Diss. URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1142418669410-00716, 2006.

Klosterhalfen, S., Kellermann, S., Stockhorst, U., Wolf, J., Kirschbaum, C., Hall, G., Enck, P.. "Latent inhibition of rotation chair-induced nausea in healthy male and female volunteers." Psychosom Med 67. 2 (2005): 335-40.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J.M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Psychoneuroimmunologie." Enzyklopaedie der Psychologie, XXIX Gesundheitspsychology. vol. 1 Ed. Schwarzer, R.. Goettingen: Hogrefe Verlag, 2005

Rohleder, N., Joksimovic, L., Wolf, J. M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Hypocortisolism and increased glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-Inflammatory cytokine production in Bosnian war refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder." Biol Psychiatry 55. 7 (2004): 745-51.

Rohleder, N., Nater, U. M., Wolf, J. M., Ehlert, U., Kirschbaum, C.. "Psychosocial stress-induced activation of salivary alpha-amylase: an indicator of sympathetic activity?." Ann N Y Acad Sci 1032. (2004): 258-63.

Bierhaus, A., Wolf, J., Andrassy, M., Rohleder, N., Humpert, P. M., Petrov, D., Ferstl, R., von Eynatten, M., Wendt, T., Rudofsky, G., Joswig, M., Morcos, M., Schwaninger, M., McEwen, B., Kirschbaum, C., Nawroth, P. P.. "A mechanism converting psychosocial stress into mononuclear cell activation." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100. 4 (2003): 1920-5.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J. M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Glucocorticoid sensitivity in humans-interindividual differences and acute stress effects." Stress 6. 3 (2003): 207-22.

Rohleder, N., Wolf, J. M., Piel, M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Impact of oral contraceptive use on glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-inflammatory cytokine production after psychosocial stress." Psychoneuroendocrinology 28. 3 (2003): 261-73.

Rohleder, N., Kudielka, B. M., Hellhammer, D. H., Wolf, J. M., Kirschbaum, C.. "Age and sex steroid-related changes in glucocorticoid sensitivity of pro-inflammatory cytokine production after psychosocial stress." J Neuroimmunol 126. 1-2 (2002): 69-77.

Schulz, P., Schlotz, W., Wolf, J., Wuest, S.. "Gender differences in stress-related variables: The influence of worry-disposition.." Zeitschrift fuer Differentielle und Diagnostische Psychologie 23. 3 (2002): 305-326.

Wust, S., Wolf, J., Hellhammer, D. H., Federenko, I., Schommer, N., Kirschbaum, C.. "The cortisol awakening response - normal values and confounds." Noise Health 2. 7 (2000): 79-88.