About the Authors

Carina Frick

Contributed equally to this work with: Carina Frick, Simone Lang

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Simone Lang

Contributed equally to this work with: Carina Frick, Simone Lang

simone.lang@googlemail.com

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Boris Kotchoubey

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Simkje Sieswerda

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Ramona Dinu-Biringer

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Moritz Berger

Affiliations Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Sandra Veser

Affiliation Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Marco Essig

Affiliations German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Neuroradiology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Sven Barnow

Affiliation Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CF SL. Performed the experiments: CF. Analyzed the data: CF SL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF RDB MB ME SV SB. Wrote the paper: SL CF BK. Lead study design: SL. Wrote the software program: RDB MB. Constructive discussion of the results: BK SS. Assisted in manuscript preparation: SS.