Stephanie Homan completed her PhD at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2019, and currently works as a postdoc and psychologist at the University Hospital of Psychiatry in Zurich, Switzerland. As a clinician researcher, she is interested in the question of whether or not patients respond differently to interventions (psychopharmacology, brain stimulation, psychotherapy). She has been managing the Swiss National Science project “SIMON - Suicide Ideation Monitoring”. The study’s aim is to test the feasibility of a digital protocol to monitor and predict suicidal ideation in patients after hospital discharge. Currently, she is the senior postdoc fellow in the SNF project "MULTICAST - A MULTIdisCiplinary Approach to predict and treat SuicidaliTy" that aims to (1) identify novel ways to predict suicidal ideations (SI), (2) investigate SI mechanisms, and (3) develop smartphone-based treatment modules.

Selected Publications

Munkholm, K., Winkelbeiner, S., & Homan, P. (2019, September 25). Individual response to antidepressants for depression in adults – a simulation study and meta-analysis. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m4aqc

Marzouk, T.*, Winkelbeiner, S.*, Azizi, H., Malhotra, A. K. & Homan, P. (2019) The effects of rTMS on positive symptoms: A systematic review. Neuropsychobiology, 1-13.

Grieder, M., Morishima, Y., Winkelbeiner, S., Mueller, S. M., Feher, K., Mueller, S. V., & Dierks, T. (2019, June 17). Bi-temporal anodal tDCS during slow-wave sleep boosts episodic memory consolidation in high performers. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jb9f4

Winkelbeiner, S., Leucht, S., Kane, J.M., Homan, P. (2019) Evaluation of Differences in Individual Treatment Response in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.1530

Kunzelmann, K., Grieder, M., van Swam, C., Homan, P., Winkelbeiner, S., Hubl, D., & Dierks, T. (2019). Am I hallucinating or is my fusiform cortex activated? Functional activation differences in schizophrenia patients with and without hallucinations. The European Journal of Psychiatry, 33(1), 1-7.

Winkelbeiner, S., Cavelti, M., Federspiel, A., Kunzelmann, K., Dierks, T., Strik, W., ... & Homan, P. (2018). Decreased blood flow in the right insula and middle temporal gyrus predicts negative formal thought disorder in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 201, 432.

Cavelti, M.*, Winkelbeiner, S.*, Federspiel, A., Walther, S., Stegmayer, K., Giezendanner, S., ... & Homan, P. (2018). Formal thought disorder is related to aberrations in language-related white matter tracts in patients with schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 279, 40-50.

Kornfeld, S., Studer, M., Winkelbeiner, S., Regényi, M., Boltshauser, E., & Steinlin, M. (2017). Quality of life after paediatric ischaemic stroke. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 59(1), 45-51.

Winkelbeiner, S., Suker, S., Bachofner, H., Eisenhardt, S., Steinau, S., Walther, S., ..., & Homan, P. (2017). Targeting Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms With rTMS and Perfusion Imaging. American Journal of Psychiatry, 175(1), 81-83.