About the Authors

Matthias Michal

michal@uni-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Ansgar Koechel

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Marco Canterino

Affiliation Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Julia Adler

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Iris Reiner

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Gerhard Vossel

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Department of General & Experimental Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

Manfred E. Beutel

Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany

Matthias Gamer

Affiliation Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MG. Performed the experiments: AK MC. Analyzed the data: MM MG JA GV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM JA IR GV MEB MG. Wrote the manuscript: MM GV MEB JA IR AK MG.