Vanessa is a postdoctoral research fellow and is interested in how individual behaviour and mental health fluctuate over time in states of disease and health. She is currently holding a MSCA NeuroAdapt fellowship (co-hosted by Prof. Tobias Hauser, Developmental Computational Psychiatry Lab in Tübingen, Germany) with the goal of understanding when, how and for whom cognitive behavioural therapy in depression works. Vanessa is very interested in the scalability of research but also access to therapy. Thus, her current project uses remote smartphone-based assessments and follows individuals through eight weeks of an internet-based CBT programme for depression to learn more about what drives deteriorations or improvements in mental health on an individual level.
Vanessa’s research is multidisciplinary by design and spans neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology. She uses non-invasive brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation and transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation, imaging methods including EEG and fMRI, as well as computational modelling to build more appropriate models of individual behaviour, cognition, and the underlying neural signalling pathways.
Vanessa has previously been awarded the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (Irish Research Council, now Research Ireland) and several travel awards to present her work at international conferences including the Computational Psychiatry Conference and Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference.
Contact: vanessa.teckentrup@tcd.ie
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Selected Peer-reviewed publications
- Teckentrup V, Fox CA, Donegan KR, Gallagher E, Hanlon A, Fineberg N, Pampaloni I, Berner L, Gillan CM. (2026). Experience sampling reveals habitual and transdiagnostic properties of compulsivity. In press at Translational Psychiatry; preprint available at PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/yvhua_v1
- Teckentrup V. (2026). Metabolic Contributions to Learning and Feeling: Why They Matter and How to Make the Most of Them. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 6(3), 100691. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsgos.2026.100691
- Fittipaldi S*, Teckentrup V*, Kelley SW, Fox CA, Kelly JR, Rosická AM, Fisher AJ, O’Sullivan R, Leavey G, Lawlor B, Gillan CM. (2025). Daily life fluctuations in affect predict within-person changes in a real-world measure of cognitive processing speed. eLife 14:RP108521. doi: 10.7554/elife.108521.1; preprint on PsyArXiv.
- Teckentrup V, Ludwig M, Seibt J, Hartig R, Preissl H, Schuppert M, Avdievich NI, Scheffler K, Priovoulos N, Ehses M, Poser BA, Wiggins CJ, Trautner P, Honerbach W, Jacobs HIL, Speck O, Hämmerer D, Kroemer NB. (2025). Assessing a Stimulator Modification for Simultaneous Noninvasive Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation and MRI. Journal of Neuroimaging, 35(6). doi: 10.1111/jon.70098; preprint on PsyArXiv.
- Teckentrup V, Rosická AM, Donegan KR, Gallagher E, Hanlon AK, Gillan CM (2025). Digital questionnaire response time (DQRT): A ubiquitous and low-cost digital assay of cognitive processing speed. Behavior Research Methods, 57(7). doi: 10.3758/s13428-025-02727-x; preprint on PsyArXiv.
- Teckentrup V & Kroemer NB (2024). Mechanisms for survival: vagal control of goal-directed behavior. Trends Cogn Sci, 28(3):237-251. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.11.001
- Teckentrup V, Krylova M, Jamalabadi H, Neubert S, Neuser MP, Hartig R, Fallgatter A, Walter M, & Kroemer NB (2021). Brain signaling dynamics after vagus nerve stimulation. NeuroImage, doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118679; preprint on bioRxiv
Selected preprints
- Teckentrup V*, Neubert S*, Kircher T, Stein F, Thomas-Odenthal F, Usemann P, Teutenberg L, Nenadić I, Straube B, Alexander N, Jamalabadi H, Jansen A, Krug A, Grotegerd D, Flinkenflügel K, Borgers T, Meinert S, Leehr E, Hahn T, … Kroemer NB. (2025). Reduced functional segregation of insular connectivity profiles in depression. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.31234/osf.io/2cjxv_v1
* denotes equal first author contribution
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