Claus Lamb

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Claus Lamm (* 1973 in Lustenau , Austria ) is an Austrian neuropsychologist.

He is Professor of Biological Psychology and Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit (SCAN-Unit) at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Vienna . In his research Lamm deals with the psychological and biological mechanisms that underlie social cognition , affects and behavior. His research focus is the neuroscience of empathy , to the understanding of which he made fundamental contributions.

Academic career and achievements

Claus Lamm completed his diploma and Ph.D. studies in psychology at the University of Vienna . He then joined Jean Decety's research group, first at the French Institute national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) in Bron , France (2005), and then at the University of Chicago (2006–2008). He then joined Tania Singer's research group in the Laboratory of Social and Neural Systems Research (SNS Lab, founded by Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich ).

In 2010 Lamm returned to the University of Vienna as Professor of Biological Psychology, where he became the founder and head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Psychology in the following years. In addition, Claus Lamm is one of the two directors of the Multimodal Neuroimaging Research Cluster in cooperation with the Medical University of Vienna and the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and a member of the advisory board of the research platform Cognitive Sciences .

In 2014 he was elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and received the Elisabeth Lutz Prize of the ÖAW in recognition of his research achievements in the field of neuroscientific and biological mechanisms of human social behavior.

Claus Lamm researches human social behavior through an interdisciplinary, multi-level analysis approach that combines the disciplines of experimental psychology and behavioral psychology and uses methods such as imaging , electroencephalography , transcranial magnetic stimulation , psychopharmacology and psychoneuroendocrinology . Claus Lamm actively cooperates with researchers from the clinical field as well as from cognitive biology. In various publications that appeared in scientific journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B , Journal of Neuroscience and NeuroImage , Claus Lamm and his co-authors were able to show that two factors are particularly important for the complex construct of Empathy is: shared affective representation and the distinction between self and others. Lately he has been able to show through the phenomenon of placebo analgesia that empathy for the pain of others is anchored in one's own pain experience. In addition, Claus Lamm has recently turned increasingly to comparative research in order to develop a deeper understanding of the convergent development of empathy and related processes with the aid of behavioral research and neuroscientific methods.

Selected publications

  • C. Lamm, CD Batson, J. Decety : The neural substrate of human empathy: Effects of perspective-taking and cognitive appraisal. In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Volume 19, No. 1, 2007, pp. 42-58. doi: 10.1162 / jocn.2007.19.1.42
  • J. Decety, C. Lamm: The role of the right temporoparietal junction in social interaction: How low-level computational processes contribute to meta-cognition. In: The Neuroscientist. Volume 13, No. 6, 2007, pp. 580-593. doi: 10.1177 / 1073858407304654
  • T. Singer, C. Lamm: The social neuroscience of empathy. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Science. Volume 1156, 2009, pp. 81-96. doi: 10.1111 / j.1749-6632.2009.04418.x
  • C. Lamm, J. Decety, T. Singer: Meta-analytic evidence for common and distinct neural networks associated with directly experienced pain and empathy for pain. In: NeuroImage. Volume 54, No. 3, 2011, pp. 2492-2502. doi: 10.1016 / j.neuroimage.2010.10.014
  • L. Tomova, B. von Dawans, M. Heinrichs, G. Silani, C. Lamm: Is stress affecting our ability to tune into others? Evidence for gender differences in the effects of stress on self-other distinction. In: Psychoneuroendocrinology. Volume 43, 2014, pp. 95-104. doi: 10.1016 / j.psyneuen.2014.02.006
  • C. Lamm, Y. Majdandžić: The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy - A critical comment. In: Neuroscience Research. Volume 90, 2015, pp. 15-24. doi: 10.1016 / j.neures.2014.10.008
  • M. Rütgen, EM Seidel, I. Riecansky, C. Lamm: Reduction of empathy for pain by placebo analgesia suggests functional equivalence of empathy and first-hand emotion experience. In: Journal of Neuroscience. Volume 35, No. 23, 2015, pp. 8938-8947. doi: 10.1523 / JNEUROSCI.3936-14.2015
  • M. Rütgen, EM Seidel, G. Silani, G. Riecansky, A. Hummer, C. Windischberger, P. Petrovic, C. Lamm: Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Volume 112, No. 41, 2015, pp. E5638 – E5646. doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1511269112
  • C. Lamm, G. Silani, T. Singer: Distinct neural networks underlying empathy for pleasant and unpleasant touch. In: Cortex. Volume 70, 2015, pp. 79-89. doi: 10.1016 / j.cortex.2015.01.021
  • C. Lamm, H. Bukowski, G. Silani: From shared to distinct self – other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Volume 371, 2016, Article 20150083. doi: 10.1098 / rstb.2015.0083
  • L. Tomova, J. Majdandzic, A. Hummer, C. Windischberger, M. Heinrichs, C. Lamm: Increased neural responses to empathy for pain might explain how acute stress increases prosociality. In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2016. doi: 10.1093 / scan / nsw146

* = Authors contributed equally to the work

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SCAN unit »Home. In: biol-psy.univie.ac.at. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  2. ^ Claus Lamm, C. Daniel Batson, Jean Decety: The Neural Substrate of Human Empathy: Effects of Perspective-taking and Cognitive Appraisal . In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience . tape 19 , no. 1 , 2007, ISSN  0898-929X , p. 42-58 , doi : 10.1162 / jocn.2007.19.1.42 .
  3. ↑ a b c MMI-CNS. In: forschungscluster.meduniwien.ac.at. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Faculty of Psychology »Faculty Management. (No longer available online.) In: psychologie.univie.ac.at. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016 ; accessed on October 27, 2016 .
  5. ^ Research Platform Cognitive Science. In: cognitivescience.univie.ac.at. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Claus Lamm, 2014 | stipendien.at. (No longer available online.) In: stipendien.oeaw.ac.at. Archived from the original on October 27, 2016 ; accessed on October 27, 2016 .
  7. ↑ WWTF - Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund: Like me: The evolutionary and neuro-cognitive basis of the link between imitation, empathy and… - Research Projects. In: www.wwtf.at. Retrieved October 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Claus Lamm, Jasminka Majdandžić: The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy - A critical comment . In: Neuroscience Research (=  Social Neuroscience ). tape 90 , January 1, 2015, p. 15–24 , doi : 10.1016 / j.neures.2014.10.008 .
  9. ^ Jean Decety, Claus Lamm: The Role of the Right Temporoparietal Junction in Social Interaction: How Low-Level Computational Processes Contribute to Meta-Cognition . In: The Neuroscientist . tape 13 , no. 6 , December 1, 2007, ISSN  1073-8584 , p. 580-593 , doi : 10.1177 / 1073858407304654 , PMID 17911216 ( sagepub.com [accessed October 27, 2016]).
  10. ↑ M. Rütgen, EM Seidel, I. Riecansky, C. Lamm: Reduction of Empathy for Pain by Placebo Analgesia Suggests Functional Equivalence of Empathy and First-Hand Emotion Experience . In: Journal of Neuroscience . tape 35 , no. 23 , p. 8938–8947 , doi : 10.1523 / jneurosci.3936-14.2015 .
  11. ↑ Jessie EC Adriaense, Jordan S. Martin, Martina Schiestl, Claus Lamm, Thomas Bugnyar: Negative emotional contagion and cognitive bias in common ravens (Corvus corax) . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 116 , no. 23 , June 4, 2019, ISSN  0027-8424 , p. 11547–11552 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1817066116 , PMID 31110007 , PMC 6561263 (free full text) - ( pnas.org [accessed October 17, 2019]).
  12. ^ Comparative Canine Neuroimaging Unit. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .

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SURNAME Lamb, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist and university professor (biological psychology)
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Lustenau , Austria