Daniela Melitta Pfabigan
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
- daniela.pfabigan@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55586281
- Visitor address
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Jonas Lies vei 91
5009 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7807NO-5020 BergenNorway
Daniela Melitta Pfabigan
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
Short info
I am interested in how our brains process error signals and external feedback information (such as a "thumbs up" or a red traffic light). Brain-gut interactions are another research focus of mine. I am using mostly EEG, brain imaging, and behaviour in my research.
Teaching
PSYK140 "Behaviour, Health, and Nutrition": course coordinator and main lecturer
PRPSYK303 & PRPSYK304: lectures on selected topics and psychophysiological methods (including EEG) and associated lab exercises
MAPSYK336: lecture and EEG lab exercises
IGSIN913: lecture and EEG lab exercises
Publications
2025
- Paul, Katharina; Angus, Douglas J.; Bublatzky, Florian et al. (2025). Revisiting the electrophysiological correlates of valence and expectancy in reward processing – A multi-lab replication. (external link)
- Lundervold, Arvid; Bjørsvik, Ben René; Billing, Julie Eirin et al. (2025). Brain Morphometry and Cognitive Features in the Prediction of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. (external link)
2024
- Lichtensztejn, Marcela; Cui, Anja-Xiaoxing; Geretsegger, Monika et al. (2024). Memory for Music (M4M) protocol for an international randomized controlled trial: Effects of individual intensive musical training based on singing in non-musicians with Alzheimer’s disease. (external link)
- Seeger, Natalia A.; Brackmann, Nathalia; Lamm, Claus et al. (2024). Social exclusion evokes different psychophysiological responses in individuals high on the psychopathy facets fearless dominance and self-centered impulsivity. (external link)
2023
- Dambrun, Michaël; Bonetto, Eric; Motak, Ladislav et al. (2023). Perceived discrimination based on the symptoms of covid-19, mental health, and emotional responses–the international online COVISTRESS survey. (external link)
- Sailer, Uta; Wurm, Franz; Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta (2023). Social and non-social feedback stimuli lead to comparable levels of reward learning and reward responsiveness in an online probabilistic reward task. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Frogner, Erik Rimestad; Schéle, Erik et al. (2023). Ghrelin is related to lower brain reward activation during touch. (external link)
- Sailer, Uta; Riva, Federica; Lieberz, Jana et al. (2023). Hungry for compliments? Ghrelin is not associated with neural responses to social rewards or their pleasantness. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta; Hertel, Jens Kristoffer; Svanevik, Marius et al. (2023). Single-centre, non-randomised clinical trial at a tertiary care centre to investigate 1-year changes in social experiences and biomarkers of well-being after bariatric surgery in individuals with severe obesity: protocol for the Bariatric Surgery and Social Experiences (BaSES) study. (external link)
- Sailer, Uta; Wurm, Franz; Pfabigan, Daniela M. (2023). Social and non-social feedback stimuli lead to comparable levels of reward learning and reward responsiveness in an online probabilistic reward task. (external link)
2022
- Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta; Rütgen, Markus; Kroll, Sara Liane et al. (2022). DIVERGING EFFECTS OF THE OPIOID SYSTEM ON ERROR PROCESSING. (external link)
- Sailer, Uta; Riva, Federica; Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta (2022). DOES THE HUNGER HORMONE GHRELIN INFLUENCE THE BRAIN'S RESPONSE TO SOCIAL RECOGNITION?. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta; Hertel, Jens Kristoffer; Svanevik, Marius et al. (2022). Single-centre, non-randomised clinical trial to investigate the effects of bariatric surgery on social experiences and biomarkers of well-being one year after surgery in individuals with severe obesity: a protocol for the Bariatric Surgery and Social Experiences (BaSES) study. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta; Frogner, Erik Rimestad; Erik, Schéle et al. (2022). The “hunger” hormone ghrelin is associated with neural activation during touch, but not its affective experience. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Vezzani, Cecilia; Thorsby, Per Medbøe et al. (2022). Sex difference in human olfactory sensitivity is associated with plasma adiponectin. (external link)
2021
- Couarraze, Sébastien; Delamarre, Louis; Marhar, Fouad et al. (2021). The major worldwide stress of healthcare professionals during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – the international COVISTRESS survey. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Sailer, Uta (2021). BEING FASTED REDUCES TOUCH REWARD. (external link)
- Sladky, Ronald; Hahn, Andreas; Karl, Inga-Lisa et al. (2021). Dynamic causal modeling of the prefrontal-amygdala network during processing of emotional faces. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Ree, Anbjørn; Sailer, Uta (2021). Being hungry decreases the pleasantness of touch. (external link)
- Paul, Katharina; Tik, Martin; Hahn, Andreas et al. (2021). Give me a pain that I am used to: distinct habituation patterns to painful and non‑painful stimulation. (external link)
- Rütgen, Markus; Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Tik, Martin et al. (2021). Detached empathic experience of others’ pain in remitted states of depression – An fMRI study. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Rütgen, Markus; Kroll, Sara Liane et al. (2021). The administration of the opioid buprenorphine decreases motivational error signals.. (external link)
- Rauchbauer, Birgit; Lorenz, Corinna; Lamm, Claus et al. (2021). Interplay of self-other distinction and cognitive control mechanisms in a social automatic imitation task. An ERP study.. (external link)
- Kroll, Sara Liane; Thayer, Julian F.; Williams, DeWayne P. et al. (2021). Chronic non-medical prescription opioid use and empathy for pain: Does pain make the difference?. (external link)
- Salles, Juliette; Yrondi, Antoine; Marhar, Fouad et al. (2021). Changes in Cannabis Consumption During the Global COVID-19 Lockdown: The International COVISTRESS Study. (external link)
2020
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Mielacher, Clemens; Dutheil, Frédéric et al. (2020). ERP evidence suggests that confrontation with deterministic statements aligns subsequent other- and self-relevant error processing. (external link)
- Schéle, Erik; Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Simrén, Joel et al. (2020). Ghrelin Induces Place Preference for Social Interaction in the Larger Peer of a Male Rat Pair. (external link)
- Zheng, Ya; Gu, Ruolei; Pfabigan, Daniela M. (2020). Editorial: Temporal Dynamics of Reward Processing in Humans: From Anticipation to Consummation. (external link)
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Rütgen, Markus; Lamm, Claus (2020). Buprenorphine dampens motivational significance of errors. (external link)
- Gao, Tianyu; Zhou, Yuqing; Li, Wenxin et al. (2020). Neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning under mortality threat. (external link)
- Riečanský, Igor; Lengersdorff, Lukas L; Pfabigan, Daniela M. et al. (2020). Increasing self-other bodily overlap increases sensorimotor resonance to others' pain. (external link)
2019
- Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Han, Shihui (2019). Converging electrophysiological evidence for a processing advantage of social over nonsocial feedback. (external link)
- Rosenberger, Lisa Anna; Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Lehner, Benjamin et al. (2019). Fairness norm violations in anti-social psychopathic offenders in a repeated trust game. (external link)
- Dutheil, Frédéric; Chaplais, Elodie; Vilmant, Audrey et al. (2019). Stress management in obesity during a thermal spa residential programme (ObesiStress): protocol for a randomised controlled trial study. (external link)
- Kraus, Christoph; Seiger, Rene; Pfabigan, Daniela M. et al. (2019). Hippocampal Subfields in Acute and Remitted Depression-an Ultra-High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. (external link)
- Dutheil, Frédéric; Chaplais, Elodie; Vilmant, Audrey et al. (2019). Effects of a short residential thermal spa program to prevent work-related stress/burnout on stress biomarkers: the ThermStress proof of concept study . (external link)
- Rütgen, Markus; Pletti, Carolina; Tik, Martin et al. (2019). Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. (external link)