Kandsperger, Stephanie

Bildungsweg

Habilitation im Fachgebiet Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und –psychotherapie

Thema der Habilitation: ?Psychiatrische Notfallversorgung bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Ergebnisse aus der klinischen Versorgungsforschung“

Universit?t Regensburg

Promotion zum Dr. med. in der Abteilung für H?matologie und Internistische Onkologie des Universit?tsklinikums Regensburg

Thema der Dissertation: Modulation der Differenzierung von dendritischen Zellen durch Melanomzellen

Universit?t Regensburg

Humanmedizin

Universit?t Regensburg

Berufliche T?tigkeit

?rztliche Direktorin (komm.)
Chef?rztin Zentrum Tageskliniken & Psychiatrische Institutsambulanz
Chef?rztin (komm.) Zentrum Station?re Versorgung
der Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik & Psychotherapie der Universit?t Regensburg

Bezirksklinikum Regensburg

Leitende Ober?rztin der Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universit?t Regensburg

Bezirksklinikum Regensburg

Weiterbildung zur Fach?rztin in der Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universit?t Regensburg sowie in der Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik im Bezirksklinikum Mainkofen

Bezirksklinikum Regensburg und Mainkofen

Mitgliedschaften

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie

INSA - International Network for School Attendance

Forschungsinteressen

Publikationen

Jarvers, I., Degmayr, R., Otto, A., Jacob, R., Malloni, W., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wiesinger, I., Wendl, C., Greenlee, M., & Brunner, R. (2025). The relationship between precuneus thickness and psychopathology in adolescent females with anorexia nervosa. International Journal of Eating Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24591

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Hornstein, L., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Dark Triad traits, alexithymia, and emotion regulation as predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress in clinical and non-clinical samples. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1674630. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1674630

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Ecker, A., Jarvers, I., Jacob, R., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Schleicher, D. (2025). Temperament and personality: Preliminary evidence of possible relationships with multifactorial stress reactivity in healthy adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1613000. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1613000

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Niebler, M., Jarvers, I., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2025). Short-chain carnitines in adolescent major depressive disorder: Associations and biomarker potential. Journal of Affective Disorders, 390, 119832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.119832

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Rodríguez-Toscano, E., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Kandsperger, S., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2025). Exploring the mental health impact of COVID-19 on parents of young children: Anxiety, depression, and contributing factors. BMC Public Health, 25, 2174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23467-9

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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., With, M., Brunner, R., & Jarvers, I. (2023). Emergency-related inpatient admissions in child and adolescent psychiatry: comparison of clinical characteristics of involuntary and voluntar admissions from a survey in Bavaria, Germany. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02154-3

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Schleicher, D., Heidingsfelder, E., Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., & Brunner, R. (2023). Non-suicidal self-injury and emotional burden among university students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Cross-sectional online survey. BJPsych Open, 9(1), E1.
www.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.616

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Kandsperger, S., Madurkay, J., Schleicher, D., Otto, A., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., Jarvers, I.: Treatment Motivation and Burden of Stress among Parents of Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service. Psychopathology 2022.
doi.org/10.1159/000526611

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Schleicher, D.*, Ecker, A.*, Kocur, M., Jarvers, I., Nash, C., G?tz, L., Otto, A. H., Kandsperger, S. and Brunner, R. (2020). Psychosocial stress induction in vivo vs. in virtuo and the influence of a health app on the acute stress reaction in youths: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 23, 847 (2022).
doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06758-z

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Jarvers, I., Kandsperger, S., Schleicher, D., Ando, A., Resch, F., Koenig, J., ... & Brunner, R. (2022). The relationship between adolescents' externalizing and internalizing symptoms and brain development over a period of three years. NeuroImage: Clinical, 36, 103195.
doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103195

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Ecker A., Jarvers I., Schleicher D., Kandsperger S., Schelhorn I., Meyer M., Borchert T., Lüdtke M. and Shiban Y. (2022). Problems or prospects? Being a parent in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.?Front. Psychol.?13:901249.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.901249

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Kandsperger S., Schleicher D., Ecker A., Keck F., Bentheimer S., Brunner R. and Jarvers I. (2022) Emotional Reactivity in Adolescents With Non-suicidal Self-injury and Its Predictors: A Longitudinal Study.?Front. Psychiatry?13:902964.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.902964

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Krempel, R., Schleicher, D., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Brunner, R., & Kandsperger, S. (2022). Sleep quality and neurohormonal and psychophysiological accompanying factors in adolescents with depressive disorders: Study protocol.?BJPsych Open,?8(2), E57.
doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.29 ;

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Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Schleicher, D., Ecker, A., Wirth, M., & Brunner, R. (2021). Suicidality presented to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry emergency service: Increasing rate and changing characteristics.?Frontiers in Psychiatry,?12, 1195.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

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Kandsperger, S., Jarvers, I., Ecker, A., Schleicher, D., Madurkay, J., Otto, A., & Brunner, R. (2021). Emotional Reactivity and Family-Related Factors Associated With Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents Presenting to a Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency Service.?Frontiers in Psychiatry,?12, 913.
doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.708208

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