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Dr. Karina De Santis



University Lecturer in Statistics and Methods
School of Humanities & Social Sciences - SHSS
http://shss.jacobs-university.de/shss
Mailing Address:

Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
Germany

Email: k.desantis@jacobs-university.de
Telephone: +49 421 200-3011
Fax: +49 421 200-3303
Office: Research IV, Room 110
Research Interests:
  • Prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex (PPI)
  • Association between cannabis use, schizophrenia and PPI
  • Neuroelectrophysiology- electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
  • Cannabis use and depression
 
University Education:
2000-2004 PhD (clinical neuroscience)
School of Medicine and Pharmacology University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
2001-2002 Graduate Diploma in Education (Tertiary and Adult)
Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
1999 Postgraduate Diploma in Physiology (with distinction)
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
1996-1998 Bachelor of Science (Physiology)
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Fellowships and Awards:
2004-2005 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroscience Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Delmenhorst, and University of Bremen
2003 Best Postgraduate Student Poster Presentation School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia
2002 BAP/ASTRAZENECA Best Clinical Poster Prize, Best Abstract and Travel Grant British Association for Psychopharmacology Conference (BAP), UK
2000-2003 PhD Scholarship School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia
Other Professional Activities:
2011-now Reader, Undergraduate Admissions Committee, Jacobs University Bremen
2010- now Board Member of the HWK Alumni Club, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany
2007-2009 Jacobs University Bremen
• Equal Opportunity Committee member and co-chair
2007-2009 Family-Friendly University Certificate and Work and Family
• Audit Coordinator
• Board member, Kids at Jacobs e.V. Nursery and Kindergarten
2006-now Journal reviewer:
• Schizophrenia Research
• Australian Journal of Psychology
• Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
• Clinical Neurophysiology
• Clinical Psychologist
Research and Teaching Positions:
2007-now University Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen

2006 Parental break
2004-2005 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (HWK Fellow)

Institute of Psychology and Cognition Research and Center for Cognitive Sciences, University Bremen

Project title: "Prepulse inhibition of the EEG-oscillations in healthy humans"

2000-2004 PhD Fellow

School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Australia

Thesis title: "Chronic cannabis use ad attention-modulated prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in humans"

Publications:

(using a publishing name Karina Karolina Kedzior)
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS (article links in brackets)

 

Kedzior, K., Kochhar, S., Eich, H., Rajput, V., & Martin-Iverson, M. T. (2011). Practice effects on the modified Concept Shifting Task (mCST): A convenient assessment for treatment effects on prefrontal cognitive function. BMC Neuroscience, 12, 101. .
 

Kedzior, K.Martin-Iverson, M. (2010). Association between severity of cannabis dependence and depression.Psychology, 1, 233-237.
 

Large, M., Smith, G., Sara, G., Paton, M., Kedzior, K., & Nielssen, O. (2010). Meta-analysis of self-reported substance use compared with laboratory substance assay in general adult metal health settings. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (in press).
 

Kedzior KK, Koch M, Basar-Eroglu C. (2007) Auditory-evoked EEG oscillations associated with prepulse inhibition (PPI) of auditory startle reflex in healthy humans. Brain Research, 1163, 111-118 (http://dx.doi.org/110.1016/j.brainres.2007.1006.1026).
 

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2007) Attention-dependent reduction in prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in cannabis users and schizophrenia patients- a pilot study. European Journal of Pharmacology 560: 176-182 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejphar.2007.01.032)

Kedzior K, Martin-Iverson M. (2007) Concurrent validity of cannabis misuse diagnoses on CIDI-Auto 2.1 in low-level cannabis users from the general population. Australian Journal of Psychology 59, 169-175 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049530701519729)

Basar-Eroglu C, Brand A, Hildebrandt H, Kedzior KK, Mathes B, Schmiedt C. (2007) Working memory related gamma oscillations in schizophrenia patients. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 64: 39-45 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.07.007).

Isoglu-Alkac U, Kedzior K, Karamursel S, Ermutlu N. (2007) Event-related potentials during auditory oddball, and combined auditory oddball-visual paradigms. International Journal of Neuroscience, 117: 487-506.

Isoglu-Alkac U, Kedzior K, Keskindemirci G, Ermutlu N, & Karamursel S. (2007) Event-related potentials to visual, auditory, and bimodal (combined auditory-visual) stimuli. International Journal of Neuroscience, 117: 259-273 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00207450500534118)

Kedzior KK, Badcock J, Martin-Iverson MT. (2006) Validity and consistency of self-reports regarding substance use in general research volunteers, including regular cannabis users and schizophrenia patients. Substance Use and Misuse 41(5): 743-750 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826080500411502).

Kedzior KK, Koch M, Basar-Eroglu C. (2006) Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of auditory startle reflex is associated with PPI of auditory-evoked theta oscillations in healthy humans. Neuroscience Letters 400(3): 246-251 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.048).

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2006) Chronic cannabis use is associated with attention-modulated reduction in prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in healthy humans. Journal of Psychopharmacology 20(4): 471-484 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269881105057516).

SELECTED ABSTRACTS


Kedzior KK, Koch M, Basar-Eroglu C. (2005) Event-related oscillations associated with prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex (PPI).  Psychophysiology 42 (Supplement 1): S72

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2004) Cannabis use and attention-modulated reduction in PPI in healthy humans.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 34: Program No. 708

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2004) Biological evidence for association between chronic cannabis use and schizophrenia. The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 5 (Supplement 1): 65

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2003) Effects of chronic cannabis use, attention and habituation on prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in healthy humans. Australian Journal of Psychology 55 (Supplement): 21

Kedzior KK, Martin-Iverson MT. (2002) Chronic cannabis use reduces prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex in healthy humans. Journal of Psychopharmacology 16 (Supplement 3): A57

Hyland BI, Pan W-X, Kedzior KK (2001) From where do dopamine neurons get information about rewards and reward predicting stimuli?  International Journal of Neuroscience 109: 209

Pan W-X, Kedzior KK, Hyland BI (2000) Different response latencies of rat pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus and midbrain dopamine neurons to reward predicting stimuli.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 26: Program No. 176.7

Kedzior KK, Hyland BI (1999) Activity of neurons in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus during conditioned behaviour in rats.  Proceedings of the Physiological Society of New Zealand 18: 52