- Position : Professor, Head of Clinical and Physiological Psychology
- Institution : University of Trier
- Department : Physiological and Clinical Psychology
- Location : Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Website : http://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=5677
Dr. Dirk H. Hellhammer PhD
Main Research Focus
Stress research, stress diagnostics. Main research areas are brain mechanisms participating in stress related bodily disorders, prenatal programming of stress vulnerability and hypocortisolemic disorders, such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel disease, burnout, etc. and the development of Neuropattern, the first translational diagnostic tool for the assessment of stress-related disorders.
Career
Awards
German Psychology Award (Germany)
Publication Highlights
Hellhammer, D. H. & Hellhammer, J. (Hrsg.). (2008). Stress: The Brain-Body Connection (Bd. 174). Basel: Karger
Kirschbaum C, Hellhammer DH. (1989). Salivary cortisol in psychobiological research: an overview. Neuropsychobiology;22, 150-169.
Kirschbaum C, Pirke KM, Hellhammer DH. (1993). The 'Trier Social Stress Test'--a tool for investigating psychobiological stress responses in a laboratory setting. Neuropsychobiology;28(1-2), 76-81.
Kirschbaum C, Hellhammer DH. (1994). Salivary cortisol in psychoneuroendocrine research - recent developments and applications. Psychoneuroendocrinology;19(4), 313-333.
Heim, C., Ehlert, U., & Hellhammer, D. H. (2000). The potential role of hypocortisolism in the pathophysiology of stress- related bodily disorders. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 25(1), 1-35.
Kirschbaum, C., Kudielka, B. M., Gaab, J., Schommer, N. C., & Hellhammer, D. H. (1999). The Impact of gender, menstrual cycle phase, and oral contraceptives on the activity of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis. Psychosom Med, 61(2), 154-162.
