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Jarvers, Irina

Education

02/2023 - 04/2025

Habilitation in the field of clinical cognitive neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine

Habilitation topic: “Risk factors for the development of internalizing and externalizing disorders”

University of Regensburg

08/2017 - 10/2017

Research Residency

Harvard, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MS, USA

04/2016 - 06/2021

PhD in the "Doctoral Training Program in the Learning Sciences”

Dissertation title: "Language, Cognition and Theory of Mind:
The Emergence of Mental State Language and Mental State Understanding in the Third Year of Life".

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

10/2014 - 03/2016? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

Elite Master of Science in "Experimental and Clinical Neurosciences"

University of Regensburg

Sponsored by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk

10/2013 - 03/2014

Semester abroad

Durham University, United Kingdom

09/2011 - 08/2014

Bachelor of Science in "Cognitive Science

University of Osnabrück

Sponsored by the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk

Professional?Activity

since 10/2019

Research associate (postdoctoral fellow) at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

University Hospital Regensburg

04/2016 - 09/2019

Research associate (doctoral candidate) at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

06/2015 - 03/2016

Research assistant at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

09/2012 - 03/2014

Student assistant at the Institute of Cognitive Science in the Department of Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science

University of Osnabrück

09/2012 - 03/2014

Student assistant at the Institute of Cognitive Science in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognition Group

University of Osnabrück

Research Interests

Alexithymia, risk factors for the development of internalizing and externalizing disorders, autism, anorexia nervosa, Theory of Mind

Other activities

since 09/2024 Spokesperson for the YouCap? young professionals' organization of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy Adolescent Psychiatry

Publications

Baumann, N., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Preece, D. A., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The relationship between alexithymia, non-suicidal self-injury, and emotion regulation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 384, 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.05.009

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Hauke-Glei?ner, J., Jarvers, I., Jordan, S., Gerling, S., Kabesch, M., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2025). Neurocognitive and emotional long-term effects of COVID-19 infections in children and adolescents: Results from a clinical survey in Bavaria, Germany. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25, 411. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-025-10813-w

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Jarvers, I., Heidingsfelder, E., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Characteristics of self-injurious behaviour and early traumatic experiences: Associations with emotional reactivity, depression and aggression in university students. BJPsych Open, 11(2), e45. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.862

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Jarvers, I., Sommer, M., Ullmann, M., Simmel, V., Blaas, L., Gorski, S., Krüger-Lassen, S., Vogel, M., & Langguth, B. (2025). Reading between the lines: Exploring the discriminative ability of the Short-Story Task in identifying autistic individuals within autism outpatient services. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1500396. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1500396

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Ecker, A., Fritsch, C., Schleicher, D., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). The effect of a one-time mindfulness intervention on body and mind in healthy adolescents using multimodal measurements. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1503379. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1503379

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Otto, A., Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Bosek, R., Schwarzbach, J., Brunner, R., & Volberg, G. (2024). Altered emotion regulation at the earliest stage of visual perception in adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury. Journal of Affective Disorders, 372, 572–581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.12.055

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Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Donabauer, P., Kampa, K., Wei?enbacher, M., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Ludwig, B. (2024). M.I.N.I.-KID interviews with adolescents: A corpus-based language analysis of adolescents with depressive disorders and the possibilities of continuation using Chat GPT. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1425820

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Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Brandstetter, S., Kabesch, M., K?ninger, A., Melter, M., Kerzel, S., Kittel, J., Apfelbacher, C., & Brunner, R. (2024). Longitudinal predictors for internalizing and externalizing symptomatology at age 4: KUNO-Kids cohort study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1449108

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Jarvers I., Kormann E., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Kandsperger, S. & Brunner, R. (2024). Impact of alexithymia, speech problems and parental emotion recognition on internalizing and externalizing problems in preschoolers. PLoS ONE, 19(9): e0310244. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310244

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Ecker, A.,?Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R. & Schleicher, D. (2024). Multifactorial stress reactivity to virtual TSST-C in healthy children and adolescents—It works, but not as well as a real TSST-C.?Psychoneuroendocrinology, 160, 106681.
doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106681
(EDITOR’S CHOICE ARTICLE)

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Jarvers, I.,?Pfisterer, J., D?hnel, K., Blaas, L., Ullmann, M., Langguth, B., Rupprecht, R., & Sommer, M. (2024). Short Report: Specificity of the Short-Story Task for autism diagnosis when controlling for depression.?Autism Research,?1–6.
https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3191

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Kick, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., &?Jarvers, I.?(2024). Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a metaanalysis.?Front. Psychiatry,?15:1412229.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1412229

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Krempel, R., Jarvers, I.,?Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2024). Sleep quality and the cortisol and alpha-amylase awakening responses in adolescents with depressive disorders.?BJPsych Open, 10(5), e140.?https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2024.730

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Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Kocur, M., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., &?Ecker, A.?(2024). Does it need an app?–Differences between app-guided breathing and natural relaxation in adolescents after acute stress.?Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107148.?https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107148


Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Kandsperger, S., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2023).?Anorexia nervosa during COVID-19: loss of personal control and alexithymia as important contributors to symptomatology in adolescent girls.?Journal of Eating Disorders,?11, 180.
doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00905-w


Otto, A.,?Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Reichl, C., Ando, A., Koenig, J., Kaess, M., & Brunner, R. (2023).?Stress-induced alterations in resting-state functional connectivity among adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury.?Journal of Affective Disorders, 339, 162-171.?doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.032


Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., & Otto, A. (2023). The German COVID-19 Questionnaire for Anorexia Nervosa (COV-AN).?

Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2023). Impact of preschool attendance, parental stress and parental mental health on internalizing and externalizing problems during COVID-19 lockdown measures in preschool children. PLoS One?8(2).?https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281627

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Kandsperger, S., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Wirth, M., Brunner, R., &?Jarvers, I.?(2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: compa