Profile of the Leipzig Research Center
for Early Child Development (LFE)
Profile of the Leipzig Research Center
for Early Child Development (LFE)
Therapist in training – KJP
Practice for child and adolescent psychotherapy (IVT teaching practice)
2021 – | Practice for child and adolescent psychotherapy (IVT teaching practice) |
2020 – 2021 | Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Carl von Basedow Clinic Saale District |
2019 – 2021 | Psychotherapeutic university outpatient clinic Employee Research Group Schmitz |
01/2018 – 06/2020 | Study Coordinator Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development |
2015 – 2020 | Post-Doc Department of Early Child Development and Culture | Leipzig University Guest Scientist Research Group "Social Stress and Family Health" | Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences |
2010 – 2015 | PhD in Psychology Heidelberg University || Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences Thesis title: “Infant processing of emotional faces and bodies: Insights from event-related potentials and asymmetrical frontal brain activity” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tobias Grossmann |
2002 – 2010 | M.A. in Education Leipzig University Minor: Psychology, American Studies |
Puglia, M. H., Krol, K. M., Missana, M., Williams, C. L.,Lillard, T. S.,Morris, J. P.,Connelly, J. J. and Grossmann, T.(2020). Epigenetic tuning of brain signal entropy in emergent human social behavior, BMC Medicine, 18:244.
Grossmann, T., Missana, M., & Krol, K. M. (2018). The neurodevelopmental precursors of altruistic behavior in infancy. PLoS biology, 16(9), e2005281.
Missana, M., Altvater-Mackensen, N., & Grossmann, T. (2017). Neural correlates of infants’ sensitivity to vocal expressions in peers. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 39-44.
Rajhans, P., Jessen, S., Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2016). Putting the face in context: Body expressions impact facial emotion processing in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 115-121.
Rajhans, P., Missana, M., Krol, K. M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). The association of temperament and maternal empathy with individual differences in infants’ neural responses to emotional body expressions. Development and Psychopathology, 27(4pt1), 1205-1216
Missana, M., Atkinson, A. P., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Tuning the developing brain to emotional body expressions. Developmental Science, 18, 243-253.
Krol, K. M., Rajhans, P., Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants’ brain responses to emotional body expressions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8: 459.
Missana, M., & Grossmann, T. (2015). Infants’ emerging sensitivity to emotional body expressions: Insights from frontal asymmetrical brain activity. Developmental Psychology, 51, 151-160.
Missana, M., Rajhans, P., Atkinson, A. P., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Discrimination of fearful and happy body postures in 8-month-old infants: An event-related potential study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8: 531.
Missana, M., Grigutsch, M., & Grossmann, T. (2014). Developmental and individual differences in the neural processing of dynamic expressions of pain and anger. PLoS One, 9(4): e93728.
Grossmann, T., Missana, M., Friederici, A. D., & Ghazanfar, A. A. (2012). Neural correlates of perceptual narrowing in cross-species face-voice matching. Developmental Science, 15(6), 830-839.
Vaish, A., Missana, M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29(1), 124-130.