Antons, S., Yip, S. W., Lacadie, C. M., Dadashkarimi, J., Scheinost, D., Brand, M., & Potenza, M. N. (2024). Prediction of craving across studies: A commentary on conceptual and methodological considerations when using data-driven methods. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 13(3), 695-701. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00050

Brand, M., Antons, S., Bőthe, B., Demetrovics, Z., Fineberg, N.A., Jimenez Murcia, S., King, D.L., Mestre-Bach, G., Moretta, T., Müller, A., Wegmann, E., Potenza, M.N. (2024). Current advances in behavioral addictions: From fundamental research to clinical practice. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.20240092

Brandtner, A., Müller, S. M., Behrens, S., Oelker, A. & Brand, M. (2024). Permissive beliefs in the context of gaming, online shopping and alcohol drinking – Systematic development of a self-report measure. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 134, 152507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152507

Düll, L., Müller, A., & Steins-Loeber, S. (2024). Negative Consequences experienced by Individuals with Gaming Disorder Symptoms: A systematic review of available longitudinal studies. Current Addiction Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-024-00554-2

Fendel, J. C., Vogt, A., Brandtner, A., & Schmidt, S. (2024). Mindfulness programs for problematic usage of the internet: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions (2024). https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00024

Krikova, K., Klein, S., Kampa, M., Walter, B., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2024). Appetitive conditioning with pornographic stimuli elicits stronger activation in reward regions than monetary and gaming‐related stimuli. Human Brain Mapping, 45(8), e26711. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26711

Liebherr, M., Brandtner, A., Brand, M., & Tang, Y.-Y. (2024). Digital mindfulness training and cognitive functions: A preregistered systematic review of neuropsychological findings. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1-13 (online first). 

Lörsch, F., Schmid, A. M., Thomas, T. A. , Brand, M., Müller, A., & Steins-Loeber, S. (in press). The effect of individual differences on Pavlovian conditioning in specific Internet-use disorders. Behavior Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115254

Oelker, A., Rumpf, H. J., Brand, M., & Müller, S. M. (2024). Validation of the ACSID-11 for consistent screening of specific Internet-use disorders based on ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder: A multitrait-multimethod approach. Comprehensive psychiatry, 132, 152470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152470

Schmid, A.M., Thomas, T.A., Blümel, S., Erdal, N. K., Müller, S.M., Merz, C.J., Wolf, O.T., Brand, M., Müller, A. & Steins-Loeber S. (2024). Transfer from goal-directed behavior to stimulus-response habits and its modulation by acute stress in individuals with risky gaming behavior. Scientific Reports, 14, 26015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73899-3

Stark, R., Markert, C., Golder, S., Psarros, R., Discher, J. P., Khatib, S., Metzger, J., Palmer, S., Rechmann, J., Storz, F., Walter, B., Allard, S., Antons, S., Bledzka, M., Brand, M., Dörrenbächer, S., Englisch, J., Friehs, T., Da Cunha Gonçalves, K.,…Heinz, C. (2024). The PornLoS Treatment Program: Study protocol of a new psychotherapeutic approach for treating pornography use disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2024.00046

Thomas, T.A., Laskowski, N.M., Lesener, T., Gusy, B., de Zwaan, M., & Müller, A. (2024). Prevention approaches for compulsive buying-shopping disorder. SUCHT.

Thomas, T.A., Schmid, A.M., Kessling, A., Wolf, O.T., Brand, M., Steins-Loeber, S., & Müller, A. (2024). Stress and compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A scoping review. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 132, 152482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2024.152482

Antons, S., Büsche, K., Mallon, L., Wolf, O. T., Diers, M., & Brand, M. (2023). Stress susceptibility, affective responses toward acute stressors and emotion regulation strategies in the context of problematic pornography use. Sexual Health & Compulsivity, 30(3), 231-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/26929953.2023.2220003

Antons, S., Liebherr, M., Brand, M., & Brandtner, A. (2023). From game engagement to craving responses – The role of gratification and compensation experiences during video-gaming in casual and at-risk gamers. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 18, 100520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2023.100520

Antons, S., Müller, S.M., Neumann, P., Müller, A., & Steins-Loeber, S. (2023). Stimuli-specific inhibitory control in disorders due to addictive behaviours: A review of current evidence and discussion of methodological challenges. Current Addiction Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-023-00517-z

Antons, S., Yip, S. W., Lacadie, C. M., Dadashkarimi, J., Scheinost, D., Brand, M., & Potenza, M. N. (2023). Connectome-based prediction of craving in gambling disorder and cocaine use disorder. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience, 25(1), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/19585969.2023.2208586

Brand, M. & Müller, A. (2023). Addictive behaviors in the context of buying-shopping and hoarding disorders: Integrating components and psychological processes. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 30, 83-87. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cps0000128

Brand, M., & Potenza, M. N. (2023). Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11: An important debate that is anticipated to continue for some time: Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(3), 585-589. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00042

Brandtner, A., Müller, S. M., Behrens, S., Oelker, A., & Brand, M. (under review). Permissive beliefs in the context of addictive behaviors - systematic development of a self-report measure. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

Brandtner, A., Müller, S.M. & Brand, M. (2023). How expected and experienced reward and relief contribute to gaming-related mental imagery and gaming frequency in daily life: Testing a dual pathway hypothesis. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(3), 775-785. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00050 

Brandtner, A. & Wegmann, E. (2023). The fear in desire: Linking desire thinking and fear of missing out in the social media context. BMC Psychology, 11, 176. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01216-0

Demling, J. & Müller, A. (2023). Oniomanie: Eine psychiatriehistorische Perspektive. SUCHT. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000826

Diers, M., Müller, S. M., Mallon, L., Schmid, A. M., Thomas, T. A., Klein, L., Krikova, K., Stark, R., Wegmann, E., Steins-Loeber, S., Brand, M. & Antons, S. (2023). Cue-reactivity to distal cues in individuals at risk for gaming disorder. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 125, 152399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152399

Golder, S., Markert, C., Psarros, R., Discher, J. P., Walter, B. & Stark, R. (2023). Two subtypes of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry 14:1248900. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1248900

Kessling, A., Schmidt, L. D., Brand, M., & Wegmann, E. (2023). Implicit cognitions in problematic social network use. Viewpoint Article. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(3), 590-598. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00035

Laskowski, N. M., Trotzke, P., Ali, K., Fassnacht, D.B., Kyrios, M., Häder, M. & Müller, A. (2023). Comparison of clinicians’ and researchers’ ratings of proposed diagnostic criteria for compulsive buying-shopping disorder within a Delphi study. PLoS ONE 18(4): e0283978. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283978

Montag, C., Wegmann, E., Schmidt, L. D., Klein, L., Rozgonjuk, D., & Rumpf, H.-J. (2023). Associations between smoking status and social networks use disorder tendencies. Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 100054. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etdah.2023.100054

Müller, A., Laskowski, N. M., Thomas, T.A., Antons, S., Tahmassebi, N., Steins-Loeber, S., Brand, M., & Georgiadou, E. (2023). Update on treatment studies for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 12(3), 631-651. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2023.00033

Müller, S.M. & Antons, S. (2023). Decision making and executive functions in problematic pornography use. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1191297. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1191297

Müller, S. M., Antons, S., & Brand, M. (2023). Facets of impulsivity in gaming disorder: A narrative review. Current Addiction Reports (published online ahead of print 2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-023-00522-2

Müller, S. M., Antons, S., Wegmann, E., Ioannidis, K., King, D. L., Potenza, M. N., Chamberlain, S. R., & Brand, M. (2023). A systematic review and meta-analysis of risky decision-making in specific domains of problematic use of the internet: Evidence across different decision-making tasks. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 152, 105271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105271 

Thomas, T. A., Joshi, M., Trotzke, P., Steins-Loeber, S. & Müller, A. (2023). Cognitive functions in compulsive buying-shopping disorder: a systematic review. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, 10, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40473-023-00255-6

Wegmann, E., Müller, S.M., Kessling, A., Joshi, M., Ihle, E., Wolf, O.T. & Müller, A. (2023). Online compulsive buying-shopping disorder and social networks-use disorder: More similarities than differences?, Comprehensive Psychiatry, 124, 2023, 152392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152392

Antons, S., Engel, J., Briken, P., Krüger, T. H. C., Brand, M., & Stark, R. (2022). Treatments and interventions for compulsive sexual behavior disorder with a focus on problematic pornography use: A preregistered systematic review. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(3), 643-666. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00061

Brand, M. (2022). Can internet use become addictive? Science, 376, 798-799. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn4189
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Brand, M., Potenza, M. N. & Stark, R. (2022). Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 45, 101119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101119

Brandtner, A., Antons, S., King, D. L., Potenza, M. N., Tang, Y. Y., Blycker, G. R., ... & Liebherr, M. (2022). A preregistered, systematic review considering mindfulness-based interventions and neurofeedback for targeting affective and cognitive processes in behavioral addictions. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 29(4), 379-392. https://doi.org/10.1037/cps0000075

Brandtner, A., Antons, S., Liebherr, M., & Brand, M. (2022). How different gaming genres can be described by required skills and motives for playing. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 25(9), 613-619. https://doi:10.1089/cyber.2022.0019

Brandtner, A., Verduyn, P., Behrens, S., Spada, M. M., & Antons, S. (2022). License to look? The role of permissive beliefs, desire thinking, and self-control in predicting the use of social networking sites. Addictive Behaviors, 107573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107573 

Büsche, K., Stark, R., Brand, M. & Antons, S. (2022). Self-regulatory processes in problematic pornography use. Current Addiction Reports, 9, 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-022-00447-2

Fineberg, N. A., Menchó, J. S., Hall, N., Dell’Osso, B. O., Brand, M., Potenza, M. N., Chamberlain, S. R., Cirnigliaro, G., Lochner, C., Billieux, J., Demetrovics, Z., Rumpf, H. J., Müller, A., Castro-Calvo, J., Hollander, E., Burkauskas, J., Grünblatt, E., Walitza, S., Corazza, O., King, D. L., Stein, D. J., Grant, J. E., Pallanti, S., Bowden-Jones, H., Van Ameringen, M., Ioannidis, K., Carmi, L., Goudriaan, A. E., Martinotti, G., Sales, C .M. D., Jones, J., Gjoneska, B., Király, O., Benatti, B., Vismara, M., Pellegrini, L.,  Conti, D.,  Cataldo, I., Riva, G. M., Yücel, M., Flayelle, M., Hall, T., Griffiths, M., & Zohar, J. (2022). Advances in problematic usage of the Internet research – A narrative review by experts from the European network for problematic usage of the Internet. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 118, 152346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152346

Klein, S., Krikova, K., Antons, S., Brand, M., Klucken, T., & Stark, R. (2022). Reward responsiveness, learning, and valuation implicated in problematic pornography use — A research domain criteria perspective. Current Addiction Reports, 9, 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-022-00423-w

Laskowski, N.M. & Müller, A. (2022). Wenn Alltägliches zur Sucht wird - Symptomatik, Diagnostik und Therapie der Kauf-Shopping-Störung. Report Psychologie, 47, 30-33.

Liebherr, M., Kohler, M., Brand, M., Antons, S. (2022). Effects of digital media use on attention subdomains in children aged 6 to 10 years (Basel). Children, 9(9), 1393. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9091393

Markert, C., Müller, A. & Stark, R. (2022). Definition, Klassifikation und Diagnostik verschiedener Verhaltenssüchte. Psychotherapie Aktuell, 2.2022.

Müller, A. & Brand, M. (2022). Verhaltenssüchte – Ein aktuelles und wichtiges Thema [Editorial]. SUCHT, 68(5). https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000779

Müller, A., Georgiadou, E., Birlin, A., Laskowski, N.M., Juménez-Murcia, S., Fernández-Aranda, F., Hillemacher, T., de Zwaan, M., Brand, M. & Steins-Loeber, S. (2022). The relationship of shopping-related decisions with materialistic values endorsement, compulsive buying-shopping disorder symptoms and everyday moral decision making. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19 (7), 4376. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074376

Müller, A., Joshi, M. & Thomas, T.A. (2022). Excessive shopping on the internet: recent trends in compulsive buying-shopping disorder. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44, 101116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101116.

Müller, S.M., Wegmann, E., Oelker, A., Stark, R., Müller, A., Montag, C., Wölfling, K., Rumpf, H.-J., & Brand, M. (2022). Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11): Introduction of a new screening instrument capturing ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder and other potential Internet-use disorders. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(2), 427-450. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00013

Reichl, D., Enewoldsen, N., Müller, A. et al. Pilot testing of an adaptive, individualized inhibitory control training for binge drinking: first evidence on feasibility, acceptance, and efficacy. Psychological Research (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01725-4

Rumpf, H.J., Effertz, T. & Montag, C. (2022). The cost burden of problematic internet usage. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 44, 101107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101107

Rumpf, H., & Montag, C. (2022). Where to put Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)? Phenomenology matters: Commentary to the debate: “Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11”. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 11(2), 230-233. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2022.00039

Schmidt, L. D., Wegmann, E., Bischof, A., Klein, L., Zhou, C., Rozgonjuk, D., Kannen, C., Borgwardt, S., Brand, M., Montag, C., & Rumpf, H.-J. (2022). Implicit cognitions, use expectancies and gratification in social-networks-use disorder and tobacco use disorder. SUCHT, 68(5), 279-291. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000782

Wegmann, E., Antons, S., & Brand, M. (2022). The experience of gratification and compensation in addictive behaviors: How can these experiences be measured systematically within and across disorders due to addictive behaviors? Comprehensive Psychiatry, 117, 152336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2022.152336

Wölfling, K. & Dominick, N. (2022). Using cognitive behavioral therapy as the select treatment approach for problematic Internet usage. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 45, 101121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101121

Antons, S., & Brand, M. (2021). Diagnostic and classification considerations related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use. Current Addiction Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-021-00383-7

Brand, M., Müller, A., Stark, R., Steins‐Loeber, S., Klucken, T., Montag, C., Diers, M., Wolf, O., Rumpf, H.-J., Wölfling, K., & Wegmann, E. (2021). Addiction research unit: Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet‐use disorders. Addiction Biology, e13087. https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.13087

Brand, M. & Potenza, M.N. (2021). How theoretical models can inspire advances in research and clinical practice: The example of behavioral addictions. SUCHT, 67, 187-194. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000721

Brand, M., Stark, R., & Klucken, T. (2021). DFG-Research Unit (FOR) 2974 “Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders (ACSID)”. Neuroforum. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2021-0024

Brandtner, A., Antons, S., Cornil, A., & Brand M. (2021). Integrating desire thinking into the I-PACE model: A special focus on Internet-use disorders. Current Addiction Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-021-00400-9 

Müller A., Laskowski, N.M., Wegmann, E., Steins‑Loeber, S., & Brand, M. (2021). Problematic online buying‑shopping: Is it time to considering the concept of an online subtype of compulsive buying‑shopping disorder or a specific internet‑use disorder? Current Addiction Reports, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-021-00395-3

Müller, A. & Rumpf, H.-J. (2021). Covid-19: Ein Nährboden für Internetnutzungsstörungen? 
Covid-19: A breeding ground for internet-use disorders? [Editorial], SUCHT, 67(5), 231–233. https://doi.org/10.1024/0939-5911/a000727

Wegmann, E., Müller, S. M., Trotzke, P., & Brand, M. (2021). Social-networks-related stimuli interferes decision making under ambiguity: Interactions with cue-induced craving and problematic social-networks use. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10(2), 291-301. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2021.00036

Brand, M., Snagowski, J., Laier, C., & Maderwald, S. (2016). Ventral striatum activity when watching preferred pornographic pictures is correlated with symptoms of Internet pornography addiction. NeuroImage, 129, 224-232.

Brand, M., Wegmann, E., Stark, R., Müller, A., Wölfling, K., Robbins, T. W., & Potenza, M. N. (2019). The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond Internet-use disorders, and specification of the process character of addictive behaviors. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 104, 1-10.

Brand, M., Young, K. S., Laier, C., Wölfling, K., & Potenza, M. N. (2016). Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 71, 252-266.

Fineberg, N. A., Demetrovics, Z., Stein, D.J., Ioannidis, K., Potenza, M. N., ...Brand, M., ... Rumpf, H. J., COST Action Network & Chamberlain, S. R. (2018). Manifesto for a European research network into problematic usage of the internet. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 28, 1232-1246.

Montag, C., Wegmann, E., Sariyska, R., Demetrovics, Z. & Brand, M. (2019). How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet Use Disorders and what to do with “smartphone addiction”? Journal of Behavioral Addictions [EPub ahead of print].

Müller, A., Brand, M., Claes, L., Demetrovics, Z., de Zwaan, M., Fernández-Aranda, F., ... Kyrios, M. (2019). Buying-shopping disorder – Is there enough evidence to support its inclusion in ICD-11? CNS Spectrums, 1-6.

Rumpf, H.-J., Achab, S., Billieux, J., Bowden-Jones, H., Carragher, N., Demetrovics, Z., ... Brand, M... Poznyak, V. (2018). Including gaming disorder in the ICD-11: The need to do so from a clinical and public health perspective. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7, 556-561.

Starcke, K., Antons, S., Trotzke, P. & Brand, M. (2018). Cue-reactivity in behavioral addictions: A meta-analysis
and methodological considerations. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7, 227-238.

Stark, R., Kruse, O., Wehrum-Osinsky, S., Snagowski, J., Brand, M., Walter, B., & Klucken, T. (2017). Predictors for (problematic) use of Internet sexually explicit material: Role of trait sexual motivation and implicit approach tendencies towards sexual explicit material. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 24(3), 180-202.

Wegmann, E., Stodt, B., & Brand, M. (2015). Addictive use of social networking sites can be explained by the interaction of Internet use expectancies, Internet literacy, and psychopathological symptoms. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 4, 155-162.