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Sinha Engel
@sinhaengel.bsky.social
Postdoc at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Psychoneuroendocrinolgy of (traumatic) stress, reproductive mental health, sex and gender differences in mental disorders
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🚨Our new systematic review identifies diversity data gaps in PTSD research.

🔹 Middle-aged, well-educated, and non-marginalized groups were overrepresented. - Although marginalized groups and those with lower SES are at increased risk for PTSD.

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Moving beyond gender: a systematic review of diversity data gaps in prospective trauma research
Background: To better understand heterogeneity in PTSD development and to ensure that knowledge of risk and intervention mechanisms is available for a diverse group of trauma exposed individuals, p...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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We are excited to share our contribution to a study with @talkywalky.bsky.social, @sinhaengel.bsky.social & colleagues on how an internet-based CBT intervention for MDD impacts sleep quality and stress markers.

Read about the results here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cp...
August 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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We were happy to contribute to a project exploring how childhood maltreatment affects postpartum depression, using both subjective and objective measures of chronic stress, together with @meikeb.bsky.social @sinhaengel.bsky.social @shaering.bsky.social & collaborators!

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
August 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Three days left to participate in round one of our Delphi study. 🔥

For more infos, follow the link! #hormones #psychoneuroendocrinology 🧪
June 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Late to the party, but couldn’t miss to congratulate @shaering.bsky.social on very successfully defending her PhD thesis and to shortly summarize her excellent work here.
Stephanie’s thesis is a comprehensive overview of the sex and gender data gap in psychotraumatology, absolutely worth a read.
May 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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* Bridging the Gender Data Gap in Mental Health * - This Summer School focuses on bridging the gender data gap in preclinical and clinical research, with an emphasis on mental health and neuroscience. >>> Please share! :-)

www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/de/female-br...
Fe/male Brain Summer School 2025 | Universitätsklinikum Tübingen
www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de
May 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
All (German-speaking) psychotherapists who would like to support PMDD patients and provide treatment: please register on the PMDS Hilfe e.V. Website and subscribe to the new newsletter for service providers pmds-hilfe.de/fachinfo/
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April 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It was such an honor to chair the symposium on reproductive mental disorders at #DPK2025 yesterday. We brought together perspectives from science, practitioners and experts by experience. So thankful for the valuable contributions.
April 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Join our symposium on socio-affective mechanisms and trauma: I‘ll share some preliminary results from our new fMRI study on the influence of empathy on witnessed trauma 🧠🎉: today, 1pm, Room II (sorry only in German) @dpk-kongress.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Menstrual cycle research lunch #DPK2025 @celinebencker.bsky.social @sibelnayman.bsky.social Great to experience how this group of researchers is growing and connecting
April 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Congratulations Hannah Klusmann on the DGVT award and thanks for inviting @sibelnayman.bsky.social and me to join you for the symposium on the menstrual cycle and mental health
March 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Daily depressive symptom ratings across the menstrual cycle show individual differences in cyclicity and differential patterns for different symptoms, highlighting the need for individualization in assessment and treatment. Happy to share our new paper led by Hannah Klusmann. doi.org/10.1186/s129...
Menstrual cycle related depressive symptoms and their diurnal fluctuations – an ambulatory assessment study - BMC Women's Health
Background Reproductive mood disorders indicate that within-person variation in depressive symptoms across the menstrual cycle can be related to ovarian hormone changes. Until now, such cycle-related ...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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Very nice! @mathiasharrer.bsky.social et al.'s metapsy now has a data base of PTSD studies: www.metapsy.org/database/ptsd
November 2, 2023 at 4:41 PM
I’m very happy to share the preprint of our most recent meta-analysis on sex/gender differences in PTSD risk factors.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Most importantly, our results suggest that women’s increased risk for PTSD is due to their higher immediate psychological stress responses to trauma.
October 30, 2023 at 8:56 AM
„Wir konzentrieren uns unter anderem auf hochschulpolitische Forderungen, weil Ratschläge an Mütter zu verteilen vermitteln würde, dass die strukturellen Probleme auf individueller Basis gelöst werden könnten.“ sehr lesenswertes Interview zur Arbeit des Netzwerks Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft
October 25, 2023 at 7:39 PM
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1/6 🚀Meet ARIADNE!

Whether you're beginning your PhD journey or you are a senior researcher, it's your go-to resource collection to simplify academic life, just like we wished for during our PhDs. It's also a dynamic, ever-evolving, community-driven resource! 📚
October 19, 2023 at 1:00 PM
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warum machen männer seltener therapie?
(1) annehmen von hilfe = bedroht identität (!) als stark, autonom etc.
(2) therapie gilt als „feminin“
(3) dysfunktionale strategien zur stressbewältigung (zB „mit sich allein ausmachen“)
… rigide gendernormen schaden

www.spektrum.de/news/was-mae...
Psychische Störungen: Was Männer davon abhält, eine Therapie zu machen
Männer begeben sich seltener in psychotherapeutische Behandlung als Frauen. Aber warum eigentlich?
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October 18, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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Es wurde politisch versäumt eine Finanzierung der Weiterbildung für Psychotherapeut:innen zu regeln. Viele angehende Psychotherapeut:innen können ihre Weiterbildung deshalb nicht beginnen. Ein Fachkräftemangel droht dadurch. www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...
"Wir rennen sehenden Auges in einen Fachkräftemangel"
Der Ausbildungsweg für angehende Psychotherapeut:innen wurde mit einer Reform geändert. Im Gesetz fehlt aber eine klare Regelung zur Finanzierung. Student:innen der Psychotherapie wissen nun nicht, ...
www.rbb24.de
October 11, 2023 at 5:18 AM
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32% of Black adults worry every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity. So do 21% of Asian adults & 14% of Hispanic adults. Many have changed their daily schedules and routines because of these threats.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
October 10, 2023 at 1:05 PM
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Publicly sharing data is rad, but sharing demographic data can increase the risk of identifying your participants. These tools can help you assess that risk and mitigate it. osf.io/preprints/me...
September 25, 2023 at 7:53 PM
Hey everyone, time to introduce myself: I’m a postdoc researcher at Uni Hildesheim, studying the biological underpinnings of PTSD and the impact of sex, gender and other diversity domains on mental health.
September 25, 2023 at 1:30 PM