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In addition to the core symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, some people with ADHD also show symptoms of emotional dysregulation. Problems in emotion regulation in people with ADHD are closely linked to maladaptive behavior, e.g. with increased aggressive behavior or (violent) crimes. Despite the significant importance of emotion regulation with regard to the general level of functioning of people with ADHD, the psychological, behavioral and neurobiological correlates of emotion regulation have so far only been inadequately investigated in people with ADHD. Therefore, the current project plans to close this gap. For this purpose, 40 adults with ADHD will be examined with 40 non-affected adults from the general population with regard to their emotion regulation skills and the activation patterns in the brain during active emotion regulation will be compared between the two groups. In addition, the connection between deficits in emotion regulation and impulsive-aggressive behavior will be investigated. Dr. rer. biol. hum., Dr. med. Daniel Turner (Dipl.-Psych., assistant doctor) studied psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 2003 to 2009 and then medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf from 2008 to 2016. Since August 2016, he has been an assistant doctor and research associate at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz. His scientific focus is on risk factors in sex offenders, the drug treatment of paraphilic and hypersexual disorders, neuropsychological deficits in people with mental illnesses and criminals with a focus on emotion regulation and inhibition, and comorbid sexual disorders in psychiatric illnesses.

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Assistant Doctor and Research Associate

University medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

Feb-2016 to Present

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The World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry guidelines on the assessment and pharmacological treatment of compulsive sexual behaviour d...

Objectives The current guidelines aim to evaluate the role of pharmacological agents in the treatment of patients with compulsive sexual behaviour disorder (CSBD). They are intended for use...

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What does “Sexual” mean in compulsive sexual behavior disorder?

This paper comments three recent publications in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions (Brand et al., 2022; Gola et al., 2022; Sassover & Weinstein, 2022). It shortly discusses (1) the role o...

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Sexuality in autism: hypersexual and paraphilic behavior in women and men with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder

Like nonaffected adults, individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) show the entire range of sexual behaviors. However, due to the core symptoms of the disorder spectrum, including de...

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Gender Incongruence, Gender Dysphoria and Trans Health

The diagnosis and treatment of people who do not feel that they belong to the gender assigned to them at birth and who have often been described in medical terminology using the term “tran...

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Testosterone-Lowering Medication and Its Association With Recidivism Risk in Individuals Convicted of Sexual Offenses

For a particular subgroup of individuals with severe paraphilic disorders and a high risk of sexual recidivism, the combination of sex drive–reducing medications and psychotherapy is a pro...

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Sexual narcissism and its association with sexual and well-being outcomes

Theories on narcissism are traditionally closely related to sexuality. Most research on the association between narcissism and sexual behavior, however, has focused on harmful/maladaptive ou...

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A Validation Study of the German Version of the Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Excitation Scales-Short Form

The dual control model of human sexual behavior proposes that sexual responses involve an interaction between sexual excitatory and sexual inhibitory systems. The Sexual Inhibition/Sexual Ex...

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Sexual Dysfunctions and Their Association with the Dual Control Model of Sexual Response in Men and Women with High-Functioning Autism

Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, repetitive and stereotyped interests and behaviours as well as hyper- ...

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Validation of the Change or Stop Testosterone-Lowering Medication (COSTLow) Scale Using the Delphi Method Among Clinical Experts

Guidelines for pharmacological treatment of patients with paraphilic disorders have been developed by a working group of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (Thibaut e...

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Pharmacological treatment of sexual offenders in German outpatient treatment centers

In Germany, depending on a sexual offender’s culpability and the severity of the offence, he/she can be placed either in the forensic-psychiatric or the correctional system. Numbers relate...