Publications

Publications authored by our team are published in prestigious textbooks, peer reviewed journals in medicine, psychology, and physiology.

Original articles – peer reviewed

  1. Griese, M; Perlitz, V.; Juengling, E; Kammermeier, H (1988): Myocardial performance and free energy of ATP-hydrolysis in isolated rat hearts during graded hypoxia reoxygenation and high K+-perfusion. J. Mol. Cell. Cardiol. 20, 1189-1201.
  2. Nosek, T.M.; Leal-Cardoso, J.H.; Perlitz, V.; Sloop, S.; Godt, R.E. (1992): Technical problems related to the analysis of the effects of inorganic phosphate on cardiac muscle. Brazilian J. of Medical and Biol. Res. 25: 727-743.
  3. Flatten, G., Schiepek, G., Hansch, D., Perlitz, V.; Petzold, E.R. (2003): Die Wirkung von traumatischem Stress auf biopsychische Selbstorganisationsprozesse; Ein Beitrag zum Verständnis der Posttraumatischen Belastungsstörung aus der Perspektive der Synergetik. Psychotherapeut 48: 31-39
  4. Perlitz, V.; Cotuk, B., Schiepek, G.; Sen, A.; Haberstock, S.; Schmid-Schönbein, H.; Petzold, E.R.; Flatten, G. (2004): Synergetik der hypnoiden Relaxation.
    Psychother. Psych. Med. 54: 250-258, DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-814877
  5. Perlitz, V.; Cotuk, B.; Lambertz, M.; Grebe, R.; Schiepek, G.; Petzold, E.R.; Schmid-Schönbein, H.; Flatten, G. (2004): Coordination dynamics of circulatory and respiratory rhythms during psychomotor relaxation. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 115, 1-2, 82-93.
  6. Flatten, G.; Perlitz, V.; Pestinger, M.; Arin, T.; Kohl, B.; Kastrau, K.; Schnitker, R.; Vohn, R.; Weber, J.; Ohnhaus, M.; Petzold, E.R.; Erli, H.J. (2004): Neural Processing of Traumatic Events in Subjects suffering PTSD: a Case Study of Two Surgical Patients with Severe Accident Trauma. German Medical Science. http://www.egms.de/en/journals/psm/2004-1/psm000006.shtml
  7. Perlitz, V.; Lambertz, M.; Cotuk, B.; Grebe, R.; Vandenhouten, R.; Flatten, G.; Petzold, E.R.; Schmid-Schönbein, H.; Langhorst, P. (2004): Cardiovascular rhythms in the 0.15 Hz band: Common origin of identical phenomena in man and canine in the reticular formation of the brain stem? Pflügers Archiv – European Journal of Physiology, 448, 6: 579-592.
  8. Pruvost, M.; Zaaimi, B.; Grebe, R.; Wallois, F.; Berquin, P.; Perlitz, V. (2006): Cardiorespiratory effects induced by vagus nerve stimulations in epileptic children.
    Med Biol Eng Comput, DOI 10.1007/s11517-006-0041-5
  9. Perlitz, V.; Petzold, Ernst Richard: Vom Gestaltkreis zur Synergetik: Die Bedeutung irreversibel-struktureller und dynamisch-funktioneller Kopplungen. From the Gestaltkreis to Synergetics: Irreversible Structural and Dynamic Functional Couplings. Psychother Psych Med 2007; 57: 197-205
  10. Piefke, M.; Pestinger, M.; Arin, T.; Kohl, B.; Kastrau, F.; Schnitker, R.; Vohn, R.; Weber, J.; Ohnhaus, M.; Erli, H.J.; Perlitz, V.; Paar, O.; Petzold, E.R.; Flatten. G. (2008): The Neurofunctional Mechanisms of Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Memory in Patients with Acute PTSD Following Accident Trauma. Neurocase, DOI: 10.1080/13554790701851494, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554790701851494
  11. Flatten, G.; Wälte, D.; Perlitz, V. (2008): Self-efficacy in acutely traumatized patients and the risk of developing posttraumatic stress syndrome. GMS Psychosoc Med. 2008;5:Doc05
  12. Alizai, PH.; Akkerman, M.; Kaemmer, D.; Ulmer, F.; Klink, CD.; Ernst, S.; Mathiak, K.; Neumann, UP.; Perlitz, V.: Presurgical psychometric assessment of bariatric patients with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) – A screening of the prevalence of psychosocial comorbidity. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2015, 13:80 doi:10.1186/s12955-015-0278-5
  13. Petzold, E.R.; Flatten, G.; Altmeyer, S.; Perlitz, V.; Schiepek, G. (2004): Psychotraumatologie – die Negation des Tetralemmas. Balint 5: 1-7.
  14. Keller M, Pelz H, Perlitz V, Zweerings J, Röcher E, Baqapuri HI, Mathiak K. Neural correlates of fluctuations in the intermediate band for heart rate and respiration are related to interoceptive perception. Psychophysiology. 2020;00:e13594. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13594

Original articles published in textbooks (selected)

  1. Perlitz, V., Cotuk, B., Lambertz, M., Haken, H., Schiepek, G. (2005): Die dynamische Koordination zentraler und vegetativer Prozesse bei Entspannung und Autogenem Training. In: Synergetik in der Psychologie. (Hrsg. H. Haken und G. Schiepek). 343-355. Hogrefe, Göttingen.
  2. Schiepek, G., Perlitz, V. (2009). Self-organization in clinical psychology. In R.A. Meyers (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp. 7991-8009). Heidelberg New York: Springer DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_472
  3. Perlitz, V., Cotuk, B., (2010): Selbstorganisation kutaner Perfusionsrhythmik bei therapeutisch induzierter psychovegetativer Entspannung. In: Neurobiologie der Psychotherapie (Hrsg. G. Schiepek). S. 211-227, Schattauer, Stuttgart-New York
  4. Cotuk HB, Müller G, Pelz H, Duru AD, Perlitz V. (2020): Synergetic brainstem consensualization at the 0.15 Hz intermediary rhythm is the genuine marker of the trophotropic state. In: Viol, K., Schöller, H., & Aichhorn, W. (Eds.). Selbstorganisation – ein Paradigma für die Humanwissenschaften: Zu Ehren von Günter Schiepek und seiner Forschung zu Komplexität und Dynamik in der Psychologie. Springer Nature, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29906-4
  5. Perlitz V. (2021): A Self-Organized Rhythm in Peripheral Effectors: The Intermediary Rhythm Appears as 0.15 Hz-Band Activity. In: Vladimir Blazek, Jagadeesh Kumar V., Steffen Leonhardt, Mandavilli Mukunda Rao (eds) Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Studies in Skin Perfusion Dynamics. Photoplethysmography and its Application in Medical Diagnostics. Springer Nature, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5449-0

Master thesis or Dissertations (selected)

  1. Besting A.: Waveletbasierte Methoden zur physiologischen Frequenz- und Synchronisationsanalyse. Dipl.-Arbeit RWTH Aachen, 2008 (Note: Summa cum laude).
  2. Ernst J.-P.: Dynamik des 0,15-Hz-Rhythmusbandes in der Hautdurchblutung bei Musikexposition. Dissertation Med. Fakultät RWTH Aachen, 2012 (Note: Magna cum laude).
  3. Lampmann M.: Kryodentalstimulation zur Objektivierung kältereizinduzierter, psychovegetativer Reaktionen. Dissertation Med. Fakultät RWTH Aachen, 2007 (Note: Magna cum laude).
  4. Kahn N.: Blutbewegungen im menschlichen materno-fetalen Kreislaufsystem insbesondere der Plazenta als synergetischer Informationsträger für Stofftransfer in einer Schwangerschaft, Dissertation Med. Fakultät RWTH Aachen, 2004 (Note: Magna cum laude).