I am a Principal Investigator of a DFG-funded project examining how memory is processed in people with PTSD. Specifically, I use EEG and tACS to investigate the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying contextual memory dysfunction in individuals with traumatic life experiences. Previously, I worked with Prof. Senkowski to examine multisensory processing in schizophrenia using EEG. Beyond this research, I am actively involved in social psychiatry research with Prof. Schouler-Ocak and maintain a practice in psychotherapy.

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Clinical Work

Grants as Principal Investigator

Teaching

Schizophrenia & Multisensory processing

Moran J. K. & Senkowski D. 2025. Intersensory attention deficits in schizophrenia relate to ongoing sensorimotor beta oscillations. NPJ Schizophrenia.

Senkowski, D., & Moran, J. K. 2022. Early evoked brain activity underlies auditory and audiovisual speech recognition deficits in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical. (📥)

Keil, J., Senkowski, D., & Moran, J. K. 2022. Early and late evoked brain responses differentially reflect feature encoding and perception in the flash-lag illusion. NeuroImage, 246, 118787. (📥)

Moran, J. K., Keil, J., Masurovsky, A., Gutwinski, S., Montag, C., & Senkowski, D. 2021. Multisensory Processing can compensate for top-down attention deficits in Schizophrenia. Cerebral Cortex, 31(12), 5536–5548. (📥)

Speer, L., Schuler, M., Keil, J., Moran, J. K., Pantazidis, P., Amelung, T., … & Senkowski, D. 2020. Sexual preference for prepubescent children is associated with enhanced processing of child faces in juveniles. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-14.

Moran, J. K., Michail, G., Heinz, A., Keil, J., & Senkowski, D. 2019. Long-range temporal correlations in resting state beta oscillations are reduced in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 517. [shared first author]

Social Psychiatry

Schouler-Ocak, M., & Moran, J. K. 2024. Anxiety and mood disorders in forcibly displaced people across the world. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 37(1), 18-22.

Moran, J. K., Jesuthasan, J., Schalinski, I., Kurmeyer, C., Oertelt-Prigione, S., Abels, I., … & Schouler-Ocak, M. 2023. Traumatic life events and association with depression, anxiety, and somatization symptoms in female refugees. JAMA Network Open, 6(7), e2324511-e2324511.

Mylord, M., Moran, J. K., Özler, G., Nassar, R., Anwarzay, S., Hintz, S. J., & Schouler-Ocak, M. 2023. The dynamics of discrimination, resilience, and social support in the mental health of migrants with and without citizenship. International Review of Psychiatry, 35(3-4), 352-361. [shared first author]

Schouler-Ocak, M., & Moran, J. K. 2023. Racial discrimination and its impact on mental health. International Review of Psychiatry, 35(3-4), 268-276.

Kippe, Y. D., Adam, M., Finck, A., Moran, J. K., Schouler-Ocak, M., Bermpohl, F., … & Goldschmidt, T. 2023. Suicidality in psychiatric emergency department situations during the first and the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic. European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience, 273(2), 311-323.

Gutwinski, S., Westerbarkey, E., Schouler-Ocak, M., Moran, J. K., & Schreiter, S. 2021. Housing Satisfaction of Psychiatric Patients in Different Forms of Housing-A Cross-Sectional Survey in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12.

Moran, J. K., Bretz, J., Winkler, J., Gutwinski, S., Brandl, E. J., & Schouler-Ocak, M. 2021. The Differential Impact of Lockdown Measures Upon Migrant and Female Psychiatric Patients – A Cross-Sectional Survey in a Psychiatric Hospital in Berlin, Germany. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12. (📥)

Winkler, J. G., Masah, D. J., Moran, J. K., Bretz, J., Tsagkas, I., Goldschmidt, T., & Schouler-Ocak, M. 2021. Psychische Belastung während der COVID-19-Pandemie: Konsequenzen für psychiatrisch Erkrankte und therapeutische Implikationen. Der Nervenarzt, 1-9.

Orang, T, Ayoughi, S., Moran, J. K., Ghaffari, H., Mostafavi, S., Rasoulian, M., & Elbert, T. 2018. The efficacy of Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) in a sample of Iranian women exposed to ongoing intimate partner violence (IPV); A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 25(6), 827-841.

Elbert, T., Schauer, M., & Moran, J. K. 2018. Two pedals drive the bi-cycle of violence: reactive and appetitive aggression. Current Opinion in Psychology. (📥)

Moran, J. K., Crombach, A., Elbert, T., Nandi, C., Bambonyé, M., Wienbruch, C., Lommen, U., Weierstall, R. 2017. The individual contribution of DSM 5 symptom clusters of PTSD, life events, and childhood adversity to frontal oscillatory brain asymmetry in a large sample of active combatants. Biological Psychology, 129, 305-313. (📥)

Haer, R., Hermenau, K., Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Hecker, T. 2017. The role of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in committing violence during combat: A cross-sectional study with former combatants in the DR Congo. Aggressive Behavior.

Schalinski, I., Moran, J. K., Elbert, T., Reindl, V., & Wienbruch, C. 2017. Oscillatory Magnetic Brain Activity is Related to Dissociative Symptoms and Childhood Adversities–A Study in Women with Multiple Trauma. Journal of Affective Disorders. 218, 428-436. (📥)

Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Schauer, M. 2017. Lust an Gewalt: appetitive Aggression als Teil der menschlichen Natur. e-Neuroforum, 23(2), 96-104. (📥)

Elbert, T., Moran, J. K., & Schauer, M. 2016. Appetitive Aggression, in B. J. Bushman (Ed.) „Aggression and Violence: A Social Psychological Perspective (Frontiers of Social Psychology)“, Routledge: New York.

Moran, J. K., Dietrich, D. R., Elbert, T., Pause, B. M., Kübler, L., & Weierstall, R. 2015. The Scent of Blood: A Driver of Human Behavior?. PloS one. 10(9), e137777.

Moran, J., Weierstall, R., & Elbert, T. 2014. Differences in brain circuitry for appetitive and reactive aggression as revealed by realistic auditory scripts. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8. 425.

Schalinski, I., Moran, J., Schauer, M., & Elbert, T. 2014. Rapid emotional processing in relation to trauma-related symptoms as revealed by magnetic source imaging. BMC Psychiatry, 14(1), 193.

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